top 50% hacker news stories for 2010-09-20

Scribd Puts My Old Uploads Behind a Paywall and Goes Onto My Shitlist

http://blog.ericgoldman.org/personal/archives/2010/09/scribd_puts_my.html

16 years ago

294 upvotes – 104 comments

Coming Home to Vim

http://stevelosh.com/blog/2010/09/coming-home-to-vim/

16 years ago

285 upvotes – 121 comments

So You Wanna Be a Chef - Anthony Bourdain

http://ruhlman.com/2010/09/so-you-wanna-be-a-chef%E2%80%94-by-bourdain-2.html

16 years ago

259 upvotes – 63 comments

The Way I Work: TechCrunch's Michael Arrington

http://www.inc.com/magazine/20101001/the-way-i-work-michael-arrington-techcrunch.html

16 years ago

227 upvotes – 68 comments

Tell HN: HNdroid, Hacker News android client

http://gluegadget.com/hndroid/

16 years ago

176 upvotes – 86 comments

Apple Approves VLC For iPad

http://appadvice.com/appnn/2010/09/apple-approves-vlc-ipad-anytime-app-store/

16 years ago

175 upvotes – 108 comments

Ask HN: What's the big deal with startups anyways...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1708413

16 years ago

154 upvotes – 155 comments

"We've read your code"

http://blog.jgc.org/2010/09/weve-read-your-code.html

16 years ago

153 upvotes – 82 comments

An obscure kernel feature to get more info about dying processes

http://timetobleed.com/an-obscure-kernel-feature-to-get-more-info-about-dying-processes/

16 years ago

132 upvotes – 28 comments

PostgreSQL 9.0 Final Release Available Now

http://www.postgresql.org/about/news.1235

16 years ago

121 upvotes – 23 comments

The Opinions of Attractive People

http://dilbert.com/blog/entry/the_opinions_of_attractive_people/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+typepad%2FihdT+%28The+Dilbert+Blog%29&utm_content=Google+Reader

16 years ago

116 upvotes – 63 comments

Chrome Binary Size

http://neugierig.org/software/chromium/bloat/

16 years ago

116 upvotes – 65 comments

Octobot - A Low-Latency, Highly Parallel Distributed Task Queue Worker

http://octobot.taco.cat

16 years ago

105 upvotes – 35 comments

Subways of the world, to scale

http://fakeisthenewreal.org/subway/

16 years ago

98 upvotes – 59 comments

Three.js: JavaScript 3D engine for canvas, svg, and WebGL

http://github.com/mrdoob/three.js#readme

16 years ago

★ 112.1k JavaScript MIT
93 upvotes – 25 comments

Spam unsubscribe links no longer considered harmful

http://essays.dayah.com/spam-unsubscribe-not-harmful

16 years ago

79 upvotes – 25 comments

Goodbye (Crummy) CAPTCHAs. Hello Ad Dollars?

http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/20100920/goodbye-crummy-captchas-hello-ad-dollars/

16 years ago

76 upvotes – 79 comments

InDinero’s Jessica Mah: This Is A 20-30 Year Company

http://techcrunch.com/2010/09/20/indinero-jessica-mah-tctv-intuit/

16 years ago

73 upvotes – 55 comments

The myth of razors and razor blades

http://www.techdirt.com/blog/entrepreneurs/articles/20100915/23234611035/the-myth-of-razors-and-razor-blades.shtml

16 years ago

65 upvotes – 63 comments

Learned helplessness

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learned_helplessness

16 years ago

63 upvotes – 11 comments

MacRuby releases ControlTower

http://www.macruby.org/blog/2010/09/20/announcing-control-tower.html

16 years ago

63 upvotes – 13 comments

Land of Lisp sample chapter available

http://nostarch.com/download/Lisp08.pdf

16 years ago

62 upvotes – 5 comments

JDK 7 Features

http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk7/features/

16 years ago

61 upvotes – 71 comments

The Angry Rich

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/20/opinion/20krugman.html?src=me&ref=general

16 years ago

61 upvotes – 77 comments

Businessing: The Kama Sutra of Success (parody)

http://getbusinessing.com/

16 years ago

58 upvotes – 14 comments

Power Posing: Fake It Until You Make It

http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/6461.html

16 years ago

58 upvotes – 38 comments

New EC2 Features: Tagging, Idempotency, Filtering, Bring Your Own Keys

http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2010/09/new-amazon-ec2-features-resource-tagging-idempotency-filtering.html

16 years ago

58 upvotes – 11 comments

Mr. 'Deling' Responds to 'I make 500K/yr and am not rich'

http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2010/09/in-which-mr-deling-responds-to-someone-who-might-be-professor-todd-henderson.html

16 years ago

58 upvotes – 87 comments

How-to get that guy as your mentor

http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/2010/09/how-to-get-that-guy-as-your-mentor.html

16 years ago

58 upvotes – 15 comments

I pushed 20 more of my projects to GitHub

http://www.catonmat.net/blog/i-pushed-20-more-of-my-projects-to-github

16 years ago

57 upvotes – 16 comments

Ask HN: What's Your Story?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1709074

16 years ago

57 upvotes – 64 comments

Terminal workflow automation with Terminitor

http://jeffkreeftmeijer.com/2010/terminitor-the-terminal-automator-from-the-future/

16 years ago

56 upvotes – 16 comments

The Oracle OpenWorld Keynote was the worst ever

http://rootwyrm.us.to/2010/09/oracle-openworld-keynote-worst-keynotes-evar/

16 years ago

50 upvotes – 40 comments

Be who you are

http://ryanwaggoner.com/2010/09/be-who-you-are/

16 years ago

50 upvotes – 37 comments

Ask HN: Are you saving for retirement?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1710337

16 years ago

47 upvotes – 80 comments

SproutCore 1.4 has been released

http://blog.sproutcore.com/post/1157172526/announcing-sproutcore-1-4

16 years ago

45 upvotes – 30 comments
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