top 50% hacker news stories for 2010-09-23

Leaving .net

http://whatupdave.tumblr.com/post/1170718843/leaving-net

16 years ago

355 upvotes – 213 comments

Facebook is not worth $33 billion

http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2585-facebook-is-not-worth-33000000000

16 years ago

315 upvotes – 245 comments

The Genius and Tragedy of Patrick McKenzie (patio11)

http://www.sebastianmarshall.com/?p=251

16 years ago

252 upvotes – 167 comments

Security Lessons Learned From The Diaspora Launch

http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/09/22/security-lessons-learned-from-the-diaspora-launch/

16 years ago

250 upvotes – 139 comments

Facebook Down, Like Buttons Vanish, Internet Implodes

http://techcrunch.com/2010/09/23/facebook-down/

16 years ago

162 upvotes – 105 comments

A blackhat social engineered me by posing as an early adopter of my startup

http://blog.codeboff.in/2010/09/23/social-engineering-attack/

16 years ago

137 upvotes – 58 comments

Instapaper Goes From Hobby To Startup

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/09/23/instapaper-goes-from-hobby-to-startup/

16 years ago

132 upvotes – 40 comments

Google Translate might not be as good as people thought

http://groups.google.com/group/shibboleth-users/browse_thread/thread/123bd2d82822a3a7?pli=1

16 years ago

109 upvotes – 55 comments

Challenge: Make a game, sell 1 copy by Oct 31st

http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/2010/09/22/povs-challenge-make-a-game-sell-1-copy/

16 years ago

101 upvotes – 56 comments

Can we trust Michael Arrington? (AngelGate)

http://derekandersen.me/2010/09/23/the-case-for-michael-arrington-angelgate/

16 years ago

101 upvotes – 40 comments

Rob Pike discovers sendfile(2)

http://groups.google.com/group/golang-nuts/msg/623dd6d97a9156b0

16 years ago

98 upvotes – 63 comments

Study: Traffic lights should respond to cars, not the other way around

http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/63481/title/To_tame_traffic,_go_with_the_flow

16 years ago

97 upvotes – 72 comments

Ask HN: Many quality articles don't go to the front page. What is the problem?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1720742

16 years ago

88 upvotes – 44 comments

Did Little Bobby Tables migrate to Sweden?

http://alicebobandmallory.com/articles/2010/09/23/did-little-bobby-tables-migrate-to-sweden

16 years ago

83 upvotes – 32 comments

Blockbuster files for bankruptcy

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE68M10320100923

16 years ago

81 upvotes – 72 comments

FCC votes unanimously in favor of using whitespace for 'super WiFi'

http://www.engadget.com/2010/09/23/fcc-votes-unanimously-in-favor-of-using-whitespace-for-super-wi/

16 years ago

77 upvotes – 24 comments

Ask PG: Polite ways to scrape HN?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1721105

16 years ago

71 upvotes – 29 comments

Amazing Community-driven Mobile Phone Concept by Mozilla [video]

http://mozillalabs.com/conceptseries/2010/09/23/seabird/

16 years ago

71 upvotes – 18 comments

Get email notifications of HN replies with Notifo (YC W10)

http://notifo.com/hackernews

16 years ago

69 upvotes – 33 comments

Native ZFS for Linux

http://zfsonlinux.org/

16 years ago

64 upvotes – 54 comments

Entrepreneurship in Italy from a non-Italian’s perspective

http://www.thestartup.eu/2010/09/entrepreneurship-in-italy-from-a-non-italians-perspective/

16 years ago

61 upvotes – 46 comments

Newark Public Schools To Get 100mm Donation.. Courtesy of Zuckerberg

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/23/education/23newark.html?hp

16 years ago

60 upvotes – 62 comments

Gmail Creator: Facebook Has The Potential To Be Worth More Than Google

http://techcrunch.com/2010/09/23/google-facebook/

16 years ago

60 upvotes – 81 comments

Ask HN: how to get "real" contracting gigs

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1720791

16 years ago

54 upvotes – 17 comments

Self-inlining anonymous closures in C++

http://matt.might.net/articles/static-closures-in-c-plus-plus/

16 years ago

52 upvotes – 8 comments

The High Cost of College - Megan McArdle

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2010/09/the-high-cost-of-college/63445/

16 years ago

52 upvotes – 36 comments

Tell HN: I got sick of people procrastinating. Now I tell them to Finish Shit.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1720962

16 years ago

52 upvotes – 25 comments

Facebook Sells Your Friends

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/10_40/b4197064860826.htm

16 years ago

49 upvotes – 20 comments

A Digg for Facebook Likes: My Experiment

http://thelikestream.com

16 years ago

49 upvotes – 14 comments

Tiny IP stack, small enough to fit in a "tweet"

http://www.sics.se/~adam/twip.html

16 years ago

46 upvotes – 16 comments

Shapeways, “the Kinko’s of 3-D Printing,” Scores $5m From Union Square Ventures

http://www.fastcodesign.com/1662361/exclusive-shapeway-scores-5m-from-union-square-ventures-aims-to-be-etsy-of-3-d-printing

16 years ago

45 upvotes – 6 comments

First, care.

http://www.43folders.com/2010/02/05/first-care

16 years ago

45 upvotes – 4 comments

Steve Blank: The Peter Pan Syndrome–The Startup to Company Transition

http://steveblank.com/2010/09/20/the-peter-pan-syndrome-%e2%80%93-the-startup-to-company-transition/

16 years ago

45 upvotes – 3 comments

I am a Crazy Person

http://inqk.net/weblog/2010/09/23/i-am-a-crazy-person/

16 years ago

44 upvotes – 25 comments

Announcing Twilio Fund for 500 Startups

http://blog.500startups.com/2010/09/23/twilio-fund-for-500-startups/

16 years ago

44 upvotes – 17 comments

How and Why Chrome Is Overtaking Firefox Among Power Users

http://lifehacker.com/5645038/how-and-why-chrome-is-overtaking-firefox-among-power-users

16 years ago

42 upvotes – 72 comments

Ask HN: What have you built? (not software related)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1720796

16 years ago

41 upvotes – 75 comments
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