Top 50% Hacker News Stories for 2010-09-28

top 50% hacker news stories for 2010-09-28

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684

Asteroids JavaScript Bookmarklet to blow up any web site

http://erkie.github.com/

16 years ago

684 upvotes – 74 comments

428

Design for Hackers: Why Monet Never Used Black, & Why You Shouldn't Either

http://www.kadavy.net/blog/posts/d4h-color-theory/

16 years ago

428 upvotes – 76 comments

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135

Tim Armstrong: We Got TechCrunch

http://techcrunch.com/2010/09/28/tim-armstrong-we-got-techcrunch/

16 years ago

251 upvotes – 135 comments

137

An Open Letter From Internet Engineers to the Senate Judiciary Committee

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/09/open-letter

16 years ago

137 upvotes – 14 comments

133

Good, freely-available textbooks in machine learning

http://metaoptimize.com/qa/questions/186/

16 years ago

133 upvotes – 33 comments

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105

FBI drives for encryption backdoors

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/09/fbi-drive-for-encryption-backdoors-is-deja-vu-for-security-experts.ars

16 years ago

120 upvotes – 105 comments

117

Why We Sold TechCrunch To AOL, And Where We Go From Here

http://techcrunch.com/2010/09/28/why-we-sold-techcrunch-to-aol-and-where-we-go-from-here/

16 years ago

117 upvotes – 51 comments

100

LibreOffice - A fresh page for OpenOffice

http://www.h-online.com/open/features/LibreOffice-A-fresh-page-for-OpenOffice-1097358.html

16 years ago

100 upvotes – 55 comments

Creator of ZFS, Jeff Bonwick, leaves Oracle

http://blogs.sun.com/bonwick/en_US/entry/and_now_page_2

16 years ago

96 upvotes – 67 comments

Lessons of the Chewbacca Incident

http://binarybonsai.com/2010/09/27/chewie-stats/

16 years ago

86 upvotes – 30 comments

161

Making Debian Responsible For Its Actions

http://sheddingbikes.com/posts/1285659877.html

16 years ago

84 upvotes – 161 comments

Kindle for the Web

http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/?docId=1000579091

16 years ago

81 upvotes – 35 comments

What happens when it's all glass?

http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2588-what-happens-when-its-all-glass

16 years ago

78 upvotes – 86 comments

Re: Making Debian Responsible For Its Actions

http://sheddingbikes.com/posts/1285693551.html

16 years ago

76 upvotes – 61 comments

LibreOffice tells Oracle to fork off

http://www.documentfoundation.org/

16 years ago

74 upvotes – 25 comments

Young, Single, Childless Women Earn More Than Men

http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,2015274,00.html?xid=rss-fullnation-yahoo

16 years ago

70 upvotes – 74 comments

116

Real v. Imagined wealth distribution in the US

http://www.slate.com/id/2268872/

16 years ago

69 upvotes – 116 comments

Green Dot: The $2 Billion IPO You’ve Never Heard Of

http://techcrunch.com/2010/09/28/green-dot-the-2-billion-ipo-youve-never-heard-of/

16 years ago

68 upvotes – 23 comments

Language Construction Kit

http://www.zompist.com/kit.html

16 years ago

68 upvotes – 6 comments

Why Airbnb Failed To Gain Traction Twice Before Hitting It Big

http://www.beyondthepedway.com/why-airbnb-failed-to-gain-traction-twice-before-hitting-it-big

16 years ago

67 upvotes – 11 comments

So you think you know pointers?

http://stackoverflow.com/q/232303/184

16 years ago

62 upvotes – 37 comments

Adobe Installs 1.2 MW of Bloom Boxes—Cheaper Than Grid Power

http://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/adobe-installs-1.2-mw-of-bloom-boxes-cheaper-than-grid-power/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed:+greentechmedia-all-content+(Greentech+Media:+All+Content)&utm_content=Twitter

16 years ago

61 upvotes – 36 comments

How I handle my mail

http://blog.jgc.org/2010/09/how-i-handle-my-mail.html

16 years ago

59 upvotes – 17 comments

Quant Hedge Fund D.E. Shaw Fires 150; 10% of staff

http://dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/09/28/d-e-shaw-said-to-cut-10-percent-of-staff/

16 years ago

59 upvotes – 46 comments

What’s new in Perl 5, Version 13

http://www.dagolden.com/index.php/1068/whats-new-in-perl-5-version-13/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

16 years ago

59 upvotes – 35 comments

A product is not just about features. It's about experience.

http://sachin.posterous.com/you-cant-measure-a-product-in-features-you-ca

16 years ago

54 upvotes – 38 comments

Solar cells thinner than wavelengths of light hold huge power potential

http://news.stanford.edu/news/2010/september/nanoscale-solar-cells-092710.html

16 years ago

54 upvotes – 9 comments

Unpublished Iraq War Logs Trigger Internal WikiLeaks Revolt

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/09/wikileaks-revolt/

16 years ago

51 upvotes – 70 comments

A 909 drum machine in HTML5

http://hitode909.appspot.com/html909/

16 years ago

50 upvotes – 25 comments

Ubuntu Font By Daltoon Maag Is Out

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/09/new-ubuntu-font-lands-in-maverick-for-all-users/

16 years ago

47 upvotes – 21 comments

Gobolinux - the filesystem is the package manager

http://www.gobolinux.org/

16 years ago

45 upvotes – 22 comments

CACM Erlang article by Joe Armstrong

http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2010/9/98014-erlang/fulltext

16 years ago

42 upvotes – 9 comments

Internet Wiretapping Proposal Met With Silence

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/09/28/internet-wiretapping-proposal-met-with-silence/?src=twr

16 years ago

41 upvotes – 7 comments

AppleTV Runs iOS, Already Jailbroken

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/09/appletv-runs-ios-already-jailbroken/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+wired%2Findex+%28Wired%3A+Index+3+%28Top+Stories+2%29%29

16 years ago

41 upvotes – 22 comments

Australian footage of Neil Armstrong's moon walk