top 20 hacker news stories for 2010-09-19

The Hardy Boys - The final chapter (1998)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/05/AR2005120501092_pf.html

16 years ago

192 upvotes – 91 comments

Using Zipcar may damage your credit

http://fstutzman.com/2009/03/29/using-zipcar-may-damage-your-credit/

16 years ago

140 upvotes – 94 comments

PostgreSQL 9.0 Is Now Available

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=ODYyMg

16 years ago

132 upvotes – 27 comments

Down with fun: The depressing vogue for having fun at work

http://www.economist.com/node/17035923/

16 years ago

112 upvotes – 74 comments

Thomas Jefferson's Letter to His Nephew Peter

http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/let31.asp

16 years ago

112 upvotes – 55 comments

Facebook Is Secretly Building A Phone

http://techcrunch.com/2010/09/19/facebook-is-secretly-building-a-phone/

16 years ago

102 upvotes – 96 comments

Ask HN: He stole my laptop, and sent me this, what would you do?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1705467

16 years ago

99 upvotes – 125 comments

Screenshot: "A Fire Upon the Deep" sequel (2011)

http://www.norwescon.org/archives/norwescon33/vingeinterview.htm

16 years ago

86 upvotes – 27 comments

Algorithms from the Book

http://cstheory.stackexchange.com/q/189/148

16 years ago

84 upvotes – 4 comments

My coffeehouse nightmare

http://www.slate.com/id/2132576/

16 years ago

82 upvotes – 59 comments

The Windows Shutdown crapfest

http://moishelettvin.blogspot.com/2006/11/windows-shutdown-crapfest.html

16 years ago

77 upvotes – 31 comments

New Twitter has Gist Support

http://thechangelog.com/post/1138803213/new-twitter-with-gist-support

16 years ago

76 upvotes – 24 comments

Making It Big In Software: Google's Peter Norvig

http://www.informationweek.com/news/hardware/utility_ondemand/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=DMDTK3VEZUHLNQE1GHPSKH4ATMY32JVN?articleID=224900261&pgno=1&queryText=&isPrev=

16 years ago

74 upvotes – 21 comments

The Permission We Already Have

http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2010/09/permission-we-already-have.html

16 years ago

71 upvotes – 13 comments

Hole in Linux kernel provides root rights

http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Hole-in-Linux-kernel-provides-root-rights-1081317.html

16 years ago

69 upvotes – 32 comments

GOG.com shut down

http://www.gog.com/

16 years ago

60 upvotes – 28 comments

Planning is overrated. The best performers seesaw between ideas and actions.

http://www.tompeters.com/dispatches/009986.php

16 years ago

58 upvotes – 34 comments

Pearls Before Breakfast

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/04/AR2007040401721.html

16 years ago

57 upvotes – 10 comments

This is Your Brain on Food

http://seedmagazine.com/content/article/this_is_your_brain_on_food/

16 years ago

56 upvotes – 9 comments

The Most Powerful Word In The Human Vocabulary: Perspective

http://blog.sokanu.com/the-most-powerful-word-in-the-human-vocabular

16 years ago

52 upvotes – 23 comments
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