top 50% hacker news stories for 2010-09-15

Bill Gates, Hero

http://blog.redfin.com/blog/2010/09/bill_gates_hero.html

16 years ago

351 upvotes – 227 comments

Rate my startup: Make stupid simple websites for work, play and life.

http://orbs.com

16 years ago

178 upvotes – 155 comments

The Most Powerful Colors in the World ...And How You Make The Next Ones

http://www.colourlovers.com/business/blog/2010/09/15/the-most-powerful-colors-in-the-world

16 years ago

172 upvotes – 36 comments

Phusion Passenger 3.0 Public Beta 1 is out

http://blog.phusion.nl/2010/09/15/phusion-passenger-3-0-0-public-beta-1-is-out/

16 years ago

158 upvotes – 21 comments

Status Of CrunchPad Litigation

http://techcrunch.com/2010/09/15/status-of-crunchpad-litigation/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Techcrunch+%28TechCrunch%29&utm_content=Google+Reader

16 years ago

148 upvotes – 77 comments

'How piracy works' according to Minecraft creator

http://notch.tumblr.com/post/1121596044/how-piracy-works

16 years ago

148 upvotes – 97 comments

Please review my API for HackerNews

http://api.ihackernews.com/

16 years ago

104 upvotes – 52 comments

Do We Need a 37-Cent Coin?

http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/06/do-we-need-a-37-cent-coin/

16 years ago

98 upvotes – 137 comments

HTML5 video chat implemented in Webkit GTK

https://labs.ericsson.com/blog/beyond-html5-conversational-voice-and-video-implemented-webkit-gtk

16 years ago

94 upvotes – 13 comments

Revisiting Solid State Hard Drives

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2010/09/revisiting-solid-state-hard-drives.html

16 years ago

93 upvotes – 59 comments

Inside Internet Explorer 9: Redmond gets back in the game

http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2010/09/inside-internet-explorer-9-redmond-gets-back-in-the-game.ars

16 years ago

90 upvotes – 74 comments

Ask HN: Do you use programming tricks in real life too?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1695794

16 years ago

87 upvotes – 86 comments

Erlang/OTP R14B is now out

http://www.erlang.org/download/otp_src_R14B.readme

16 years ago

87 upvotes – 14 comments

Evaluating Amazon’s EC2 Micro Instances at DocumentCloud

http://blog.documentcloud.org/blog/2010/09/evaluating-amazons-ec2-micro-instances/

16 years ago

84 upvotes – 34 comments

What should every programmer know about programming?

http://programmers.stackexchange.com/q/1785/30

16 years ago

84 upvotes – 84 comments

Introducing The Amazon Linux AMI

http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2010/09/introducing-amazon-linux-ami.html

16 years ago

77 upvotes – 19 comments

The Myth of the Boy Wizard

http://blog.jgc.org/2010/09/myth-of-boy-wizard.html

16 years ago

74 upvotes – 7 comments

Confirmed: Google Me coming this Fall

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/google/confirmed-google-me-coming-this-fall/2458

16 years ago

73 upvotes – 66 comments

Google Fights Back In Battle For Talent

http://techcrunch.com/2010/09/15/google-fights-back-in-battle-for-talent-but-may-be-creating-a-worse-problem-for-itself/

16 years ago

65 upvotes – 61 comments

Ask HN: What % of Y Comb startups either become profitable or successfully exit?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1694832

16 years ago

62 upvotes – 42 comments

Mincemeat.py: a single-file Python implementation of MapReduce

http://mincemeatpy.com

16 years ago

59 upvotes – 14 comments

Babbage's Debugger

http://blog.jgc.org/2010/09/babbages-debugger.html

16 years ago

57 upvotes – 4 comments

The secret of Groupon’s success is … good writing & Email?

http://venturebeat.com/2010/09/15/demo-the-secret-of-groupons-success-is-good-writing/

16 years ago

54 upvotes – 32 comments

Back of the Envelope: How to Estimate the Annual Revenues of Any Private Company

http://ryanborn.net/revenue-estimates/

16 years ago

52 upvotes – 26 comments

How Startups Can Use Patron's Formula for Building a Successful Online Community

http://waynechang.com/2010/09/15/patrons-formula-for-building-a-successful-online-community/

16 years ago

46 upvotes – 20 comments

DuckDuckGo vs Goliath - An interview wth Gabriel Weinberg [audio]

http://techzinglive.com/?p=423

16 years ago

46 upvotes – 25 comments

Ask HN: How to monetize 5 million+ pageview Twitter widget?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1696119

16 years ago

45 upvotes – 57 comments

Anarchist Cookbook authors hopes for discontinuation (read the author review)

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0962303208/103-4939988-1526235

16 years ago

44 upvotes – 41 comments

Visual R

http://macmini.student.iastate.edu/screenshot_1.html

16 years ago

43 upvotes – 18 comments

The Fridge (YCS10): Private Mini-Facebooks that Put Social Networking in Context

http://www.xconomy.com/san-francisco/2010/09/15/the-fridge-private-mini-facebooks-that-put-social-networking-in-context/

16 years ago

43 upvotes – 10 comments

Usability Study Shows Kids Don’t Search

http://gigaom.com/2010/09/13/usability-study-shows-kids-dont-search/

16 years ago

40 upvotes – 20 comments

Treat Life As An Experiment - Tom Kelley

http://blog.sokanu.com/treat-life-as-an-experiment-tom-kelley

16 years ago

38 upvotes – 4 comments

Pricing is weird

http://www.positech.co.uk/gratuitousspacebattles/registernomads.php

16 years ago

37 upvotes – 48 comments

CoffeeScript - JavaScript the Good Parts

http://www.infoq.com/news/2010/08/coffeescript

16 years ago

36 upvotes – 8 comments

The 727 that Vanished

http://www.airspacemag.com/history-of-flight/The-727-that-Vanished.html

16 years ago

36 upvotes – 13 comments

O'Reilly Cookbook titles for only $9.99

http://oreilly.com/store/ddccc.html

16 years ago

35 upvotes – 13 comments
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