Top 50% Hacker News Stories for 2010-09-27

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143

What Happens At Y Combinator

http://ycombinator.com/atyc.html

16 years ago

549 upvotes – 143 comments

508

266

Start ups, please don't force me to log in with Facebook

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1732411

16 years ago

508 upvotes – 266 comments

348

I’m done building Facebook apps for clients

http://ryanwaggoner.com/2010/09/im-done-building-facebook-apps-for-clients/

16 years ago

348 upvotes – 76 comments

231

First improvement of fundamental algorithm in 10 years

http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2010/max-flow-speedup-0927.html

16 years ago

231 upvotes – 37 comments

201

108

End of the Road for Xmarks

http://blog.xmarks.com/?p=1886

16 years ago

201 upvotes – 108 comments

190

Going Freemium: One Year Later

http://www.mailchimp.com/blog/going-freemium-one-year-later/

16 years ago

190 upvotes – 32 comments

188

135

Intellectual hipsters and meta-contrarians

http://lesswrong.com/lw/2pv/intellectual_hipsters_and_metacontrarianism/

16 years ago

188 upvotes – 135 comments

188

AOL Close to Buying TechCrunch

http://gigaom.com/2010/09/27/aol-close-to-buying-techcrunch/

16 years ago

188 upvotes – 78 comments

172

Why Companies Should Insist that Employees Take Naps

http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2010/09/why_companies_should_insist_em.html?cm_mmc=email-_-newsletter-_-weekly_hotlist-_-hotlist092710&referral=00202&utm_source=newsletter_weekly_hotlist&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=hotlist092710

16 years ago

172 upvotes – 78 comments

139

AngelGate: Chris Sacca Responds To Ron Conway

http://techcrunch.com/2010/09/26/angelgate-chris-sacca-responds-to-ron-conway/

16 years ago

139 upvotes – 72 comments

130

Python idiom for taking the single item from a list

http://blog.garlicsim.org/post/1198230058/python-idiom-for-taking-the-single-item-from-a-list

16 years ago

130 upvotes – 93 comments

130

Segway boss Jimi Heselden dies in scooter cliff fall

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-11416654

16 years ago

130 upvotes – 46 comments

129

Newsflash: Founders Don't Really Care About AngelGate

http://blog.wepay.com/2010/09/newsflash-founders-don%E2%80%99t-really-care-about-angelgate/

16 years ago

129 upvotes – 26 comments

124

This is a news website article about a scientific paper

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/the-lay-scientist/2010/sep/24/1?CMP=twt_gu

16 years ago

124 upvotes – 21 comments

103

U.S. Is Working to Ease Wiretaps on the Internet

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/27/us/27wiretap.html?_r=1&emc=na&pagewanted=all

16 years ago

103 upvotes – 38 comments

Clojure++ (notes from Rich Hickey talk)

http://combinate.us/clojure/2010/09/27/clojure/

16 years ago

98 upvotes – 42 comments

Ask HN: Why isn't Plan9 popular?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1732404

16 years ago

96 upvotes – 80 comments

Microsoft Announces Partnership With WordPress.com

http://thenextweb.com/microsoft/2010/09/27/microsoft-announces-partnership-with-wordpress-com/

16 years ago

93 upvotes – 29 comments

Notch (the Minecraft Developer) Answers Your Questions

http://www.reddit.com/r/Minecraft/comments/djlsz/notchs_answers_to_your_questions/

16 years ago

89 upvotes – 11 comments

Stop the Internet Blacklist

http://demandprogress.org/blacklist/

16 years ago

83 upvotes – 20 comments

Why node.js excites me

http://www.gnegg.ch/2010/09/why-node-js-excites-me/

16 years ago

82 upvotes – 40 comments

Being a generalist requires more sleep than specialists

http://andymckenzie.blogspot.com/2010/09/trade-off-10-plasticity-vs.html

16 years ago

79 upvotes – 28 comments

106

RIM introduces PlayBook -- the BlackBerry tablet

http://www.engadget.com/2010/09/27/rim-introduces-playbook-the-blackberry-tablet/

16 years ago

78 upvotes – 106 comments

Reminder: Today is the deadline to tell USPTO to end software patents

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1732116

16 years ago

77 upvotes – 39 comments

Git-achievements: Earn geeky merit badges while learning Git

http://thechangelog.com/post/1200486354/git-achievements-aquire-achievements-while-using-git

16 years ago

77 upvotes – 10 comments

Why Every Entrepreneur Should Write and Tips To Get Started

http://onstartups.com/tabid/3339/bid/14208/Why-Every-Entrepreneur-Should-Write-and-9-Tips-To-Get-Started.aspx

16 years ago

76 upvotes – 23 comments

Detailed explanation of a recent privilege escalation bug in Linux

http://timetobleed.com/detailed-explanation-of-a-recent-privilege-escalation-bug-in-linux-cve-2010-3301/

16 years ago

75 upvotes – 8 comments

Brainfuck interpreter in 160 bytes of C

http://j.mearie.org/post/1181041789/brainfuck-interpreter-in-2-lines-of-c

16 years ago

70 upvotes – 8 comments

Justin.tv open sources iPhone push library (Ruby)

http://broadcast-tower.posterous.com/ruby-gem-for-iphone-push-notifications

16 years ago

69 upvotes – 5 comments

The day that changed the way we see software (1983)

http://www.gnu.org/gnu/initial-announcement.html

16 years ago

69 upvotes – 12 comments

Employee Equity

http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2010/09/employee-equity.html

16 years ago

68 upvotes – 20 comments

The Ironic Truth About Stupid People

http://www.kikabink.com/news/the-ironic-truth-about-stupid-people/

16 years ago

68 upvotes – 38 comments

Why node.js disappoints me

http://www.eflorenzano.com/blog/post/why-node-disappoints-me/

16 years ago

63 upvotes – 88 comments

DRM done right: Puppygames

http://www.puppygames.net/blog/?p=574

16 years ago

63 upvotes – 57 comments

Unwanted emergent behaviour in complex systems: Ant Death Spirals

http://theantroom.blogspot.com/2006/11/ant-death-spiral.html

16 years ago

60 upvotes – 11 comments

Peter Thiel Has New Initiative To Pay Kids To "Stop Out Of School"

http://techcrunch.com/2010/09/27/peter-thiel-drop-out-of-school/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Techcrunch+%28TechCrunch%29&utm_content=My+Yahoo

16 years ago

56 upvotes – 12 comments

Out Of the Tar Pit (2006) [pdf]