top 50% hacker news stories for 2010-09-17

A tale of two cultures

http://blog.jgc.org/2010/09/tale-of-two-cultures.html

16 years ago

242 upvotes – 45 comments

Review my weekend HTML5 project: DropMocks

http://www.dropmocks.com/

16 years ago

241 upvotes – 106 comments

Implementing Shazam with Java in a weekend

http://www.redcode.nl/blog/2010/06/creating-shazam-in-java/

16 years ago

175 upvotes – 23 comments

Ask HN: What do you want to tell Microsoft?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1700623

16 years ago

164 upvotes – 375 comments

Trouble with Diaspora

http://blog.steveklabnik.com/trouble-with-diaspora

16 years ago

153 upvotes – 161 comments

How To Go From Idea To Launching With Paying Customers In 8 Steps

http://jasonlbaptiste.com/featured-articles/how-to-go-from-idea-to-launching-with-paying-customers-in-8-steps/

16 years ago

153 upvotes – 41 comments

Confirmed: Intel says HDCP 'master key' crack is real

http://www.engadget.com/2010/09/16/confirmed-intel-says-hdcp-master-key-crack-is-real/

16 years ago

148 upvotes – 54 comments

Coding Horror: YouTube vs. Fair Use

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2010/09/youtube-vs-fair-use.html

16 years ago

147 upvotes – 100 comments

Want To Be A Freelancer? Just Punch Yourself In The Face, Instead

http://terribleminds.com/ramble/2010/09/07/want-to-be-a-freelancer-just-punch-yourself-in-the-face-instead/

16 years ago

137 upvotes – 61 comments

What is the best comment in source code you have ever encountered?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/184618/what-is-the-best-comment-in-source-code-you-have-ever-encountered

16 years ago

127 upvotes – 46 comments

6502 simulated at transistor level in Javascript

http://www.visual6502.org/JSSim/index.html

16 years ago

123 upvotes – 28 comments

Why most people don’t succeed – How you can be the exception

http://dontgetburnedblog.com/why-most-people-dont-succeed/

16 years ago

119 upvotes – 37 comments

Making Posterous faster with Varnish page caching

http://technology.posterous.com/making-posterous-faster-with-varnish

16 years ago

104 upvotes – 20 comments

Patrick's greatest hits

http://www.kalzumeus.com/greatest-hits/

16 years ago

99 upvotes – 20 comments

Logicly - the digital logic simulator

http://logic.ly/

16 years ago

98 upvotes – 45 comments

"50% of firm founders [in Silicon Valley] are foreign born"

http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2010/09/economic_growth

16 years ago

97 upvotes – 55 comments

Tumblr Leaves Posterous in the Dust

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/tumblr_leaves_posterous_in_the_dust.php#more

16 years ago

94 upvotes – 63 comments

My Experience as a Single Founder

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1703226

16 years ago

87 upvotes – 20 comments

Groupon Responds: Too much of a good thing?

http://groublogpon.com/cities/too-much-of-a-good-thing/

16 years ago

86 upvotes – 53 comments

Chrome 7 Will Get 60 Times Faster

http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/205550/chrome_7_will_get_60_times_faster_google_says.html

16 years ago

84 upvotes – 57 comments

Vaccines don't cause autism

http://kottke.org/10/09/vaccines-dont-cause-autism

16 years ago

80 upvotes – 109 comments

Then Welcome To Android

http://daringfireball.net/2010/09/the_welcome_to_android

16 years ago

79 upvotes – 69 comments

Why vertical farms are a crock.

http://www.monbiot.com/archives/2010/08/16/towering-lunacy/

16 years ago

74 upvotes – 94 comments

Polymaps - A JavaScript Library for Image and Vector-tiled Maps

http://www.polymaps.org/

16 years ago

72 upvotes – 25 comments

S3 glitch causes Tarsnap outage

http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2010-09-17-S3-glitch-causes-Tarsnap-outage.html

16 years ago

71 upvotes – 20 comments

Odd Comments and Strange Doings in Unix

http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/odd.html

16 years ago

67 upvotes – 2 comments

Details on the Oracle failure at JPMorgan Chase

http://www.dbms2.com/2010/09/17/jp-morgan-chase-oracle-database-outage/

16 years ago

66 upvotes – 24 comments

The 6502 microprocessor is 35 years old as of September 16th

http://leoville.com/6502-turns-35

16 years ago

66 upvotes – 48 comments

Clojure-conj speaker abstracts posted

http://first.clojure-conj.org/speakers

16 years ago

62 upvotes – 11 comments

Tumblr Doesn't Leave Posterous in the Dust

http://www.tonywright.com/2010/tumblr-doesnt-leave-posterous-in-the-dust-or-why-facebook-is-scared-of-twitter/

16 years ago

60 upvotes – 17 comments

Code for open-source Facebook riddled with landmines

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/09/16/diaspora_pre_alpha_landmines/

16 years ago

57 upvotes – 86 comments

How Diaspora killed itself before it even launched

http://jarinheit.posterous.com/diaspora-or-how-to-kill-your-facebook-killer

16 years ago

54 upvotes – 85 comments

Basel III: The good, the bad, and the ugly

http://banksimple.com/blog/2010/09/17/basel-iii-good-bad-and-ugly/

16 years ago

54 upvotes – 10 comments

Newton OS running on an iPad

http://www.panic.com/blog/2010/09/newton-never-dies/

16 years ago

53 upvotes – 6 comments

Mild Memory Loss Is Not a Part of Normal Aging, New Research Finds

http://www.sciencemagnews.com/mild-memory-loss-is-not-a-part-of-normal-aging-new-research-finds.html

16 years ago

52 upvotes – 24 comments

Security researchers 'destroy' Microsoft ASP.NET security

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1732956/security-researchers-destroy-microsoft-aspnet-security

16 years ago

52 upvotes – 58 comments

Apple Finally Approves A Native Google Voice Application (Again)

http://www.mobilecrunch.com/2010/09/17/apple-finally-approves-a-native-google-voice-application/

16 years ago

50 upvotes – 16 comments

Joel Spolsky: Merging Season

http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/09/merging-season/

16 years ago

48 upvotes – 15 comments

Vmware (A division of EMC) to buy Suse Linux from Novell

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN1620044120100916

16 years ago

47 upvotes – 34 comments

Falling in love will cost you two close friends

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-11321282

16 years ago

45 upvotes – 30 comments
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