top 50% hacker news stories for 2010-09-24

Ron Conway Drops A Nuclear Bomb On The Super Angels

http://techcrunch.com/2010/09/23/ron-conway-angel-email/

16 years ago

558 upvotes – 206 comments

Advice to Aimless, Excited Programmers

http://prog21.dadgum.com/80.html

16 years ago

244 upvotes – 55 comments

Ask HN: My startup failed. $9k in debt and need to pay most of it in 12 days.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1724247

16 years ago

180 upvotes – 157 comments

Is that Bill Gates staring back at you from Outlook 2010?

http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2010/09/bill-gates-staring-back-at-you-from-outlook-2010.ars

16 years ago

147 upvotes – 26 comments

Spoon.net runs any software without installing it (incl. IE6/7)

http://spoon.net

16 years ago

144 upvotes – 58 comments

How to Raise Boys Who Read

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704271804575405511702112290.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEFTTopOpinion

16 years ago

140 upvotes – 118 comments

Thanks for the feedback. I've closed the service

http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/default.asp?biz.5.829697.9

16 years ago

139 upvotes – 42 comments

Hey Twitter: Give us our Tweets

http://zachholman.com/2010/09/hey-twitter-give-us-our-tweets/

16 years ago

139 upvotes – 75 comments

Tell HN: An Observation

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1723734

16 years ago

123 upvotes – 92 comments

Encourage the USPTO to stop issuing software patents; deadline September 27

http://www.fsf.org/news/uspto-bilski-guidance

16 years ago

118 upvotes – 32 comments

Finger-Pointing, Emails, Deleted Tweets, Rage. AngelGate Is Far From Over

http://techcrunch.com/2010/09/23/angelgate/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Techcrunch+%28TechCrunch%29&utm_content=FaceBook

16 years ago

118 upvotes – 46 comments

Details on today's Facebook outage

http://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-engineering/more-details-on-todays-outage/431441338919

16 years ago

108 upvotes – 51 comments

Ubuntu - Getting physical

http://design.canonical.com/2010/09/getting-physical/

16 years ago

105 upvotes – 30 comments

If you put your hand in the Large Hadron Collider...

http://kottke.org/10/09/putting-your-hand-in-the-large-hadron-collider

16 years ago

101 upvotes – 39 comments

"Toxie," NPR's adopted 'toxic asset,' is dead

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=130079590&ps=cprs

16 years ago

101 upvotes – 38 comments

The Asian domain-name extortion scam

http://www.marco.org/1176211147

16 years ago

97 upvotes – 26 comments

Ubuntu Server tech lead: The real problem with Java in Linux distros

http://fnords.wordpress.com/2010/09/24/the-real-problem-with-java-in-linux-distros

16 years ago

85 upvotes – 79 comments

Zed Shaw is teaching two four-week Python classes (online)

http://codelesson.com/python

16 years ago

82 upvotes – 44 comments

Unofficial alternative UI of hackernews

http://hckrnews.com/

16 years ago

82 upvotes – 62 comments

YouTube Instant Creator Accepts Job At YouTube

http://techcrunch.com/2010/09/24/youtube-instant-instant/

16 years ago

73 upvotes – 59 comments

No company should ever have a noreply email address

http://ryanwaggoner.com/2010/09/no-company-should-ever-have-a-noreply-email-address/

16 years ago

72 upvotes – 25 comments

Stealth Y Combinator Opzi Gets Serious Angel Attention

http://techcrunch.com/2010/09/24/stealth-y-combinator-opzi-gets-serious-angel-attention/

16 years ago

71 upvotes – 17 comments

US busts Google, Apple, Intel over secret employee poaching pact

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/09/us-busts-google-apple-intel-over-secret-employee-poaching-pact.ars

16 years ago

69 upvotes – 21 comments

Harlan Ellison will say goodbye this weekend: he's dying

http://www.isthmus.com/isthmus/article.php?article=30610

16 years ago

68 upvotes – 16 comments

Who are you coding for?

http://journal.paul.querna.org/articles/2010/09/24/who-are-you-writing-code-for/

16 years ago

67 upvotes – 20 comments

Node.js: a short history

http://nodenode.com/post/1176414531/node-js-a-short-history

16 years ago

60 upvotes – 1 comments

Eric Schmidt: “Our competitor is Bing”

http://www.liveside.net/bingblog/archive/2010/09/24/google-s-eric-schmidt-our-competitor-is-bing.aspx

16 years ago

60 upvotes – 58 comments

$10 million for Project 10^100 winners

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/09/10-million-for-project-10100-winners.html

16 years ago

59 upvotes – 19 comments

How Many Words is Fair Use? Maybe More Than You and AP Thought

http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20100922113406655

16 years ago

57 upvotes – 3 comments

On being a nerd

http://blog.jgc.org/2010/09/on-being-nerd.html

16 years ago

56 upvotes – 30 comments

How Loneliness is Contagious

http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1943748,00.html

16 years ago

56 upvotes – 23 comments

Keyboard Layout Analyser - which layout is best for you?

http://patorjk.com/keyboard-layout-analyzer/

16 years ago

55 upvotes – 32 comments

Ask HN: Is it worthwhile for a startup to use a professional designer?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1724530

16 years ago

53 upvotes – 56 comments

Operations Research Tools developed at Google Open Sourced

https://code.google.com/p/or-tools/

16 years ago

49 upvotes – 14 comments

Rubinius 1.1 released

http://rubini.us/about/one_one

16 years ago

48 upvotes – 21 comments

Codec2: GNU low-bitrate speech codec (2400 bits/second)

http://www.rowetel.com/blog/?page_id=452

16 years ago

47 upvotes – 15 comments

Show HN: my regular expression example match generator

http://regexio.com/

16 years ago

46 upvotes – 33 comments

Ask HN: Building something the customers don't know they want

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1723140

16 years ago

42 upvotes – 27 comments

Twitter Removes “via {client}” Attribution in #newTwitter. Buh-Bye Developers

http://www.cristinajcordova.com/2010/09/twitter-removes-via-client-attribution-in-newtwitter/

16 years ago

40 upvotes – 34 comments

Ask HN: I have users, I have traction, How do I get paid?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1722591

16 years ago

39 upvotes – 39 comments
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