top 20 hacker news stories for 2010-09-29

Minecraft creator banks $350k a day, turns down job offers from Valve and Bungie

http://www.develop-online.net/news/35973/Minecraft-creator-banks-350k-a-day

16 years ago

317 upvotes – 239 comments

IE9 team responds to Reddit questions: reddit tl;dr version

http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/dk3s0/the_ie9_team_responds_to_your_questions/c10szx5

16 years ago

267 upvotes – 196 comments

A clever way to fight IE6

http://igorpartola.com/web-development/a-clever-way-to-fight-ie6

16 years ago

260 upvotes – 109 comments

Zed finishes Learn Python The Hard Way

http://sheddingbikes.com/posts/1285754959.html

16 years ago

206 upvotes – 111 comments

Maryland Judge finds that it is legal to record police in public

http://hellforleathermagazine.com/2010/09/squid-defeats-thug-cop-in-landmark-recording-case/

16 years ago

176 upvotes – 45 comments

Why you should learn at least a little bit of Awk

http://gregable.com/2010/09/why-you-should-know-just-little-awk.html

16 years ago

162 upvotes – 62 comments

Linux Kernel Tuning for C500k

http://blog.urbanairship.com/blog/2010/09/29/linux-kernel-tuning-for-c500k/

16 years ago

158 upvotes – 25 comments

Mathematics for computer science (Fall 2010, MIT)

http://courses.csail.mit.edu/6.042/fall10/mcs-ftl.pdf

16 years ago

145 upvotes – 13 comments

Why Germans have higher productivity and longer vacations

http://www.openforum.com/idea-hub/topics/lifestyle/article/why-germans-have-longer-vacation-times-and-more-productivity-glen-stansberry

16 years ago

144 upvotes – 129 comments

Rumpetroll - a new Websockets/HTML5/CSS3/JS experiment

http://rumpetroll.com/

16 years ago

142 upvotes – 56 comments

Mysql "Swap Insanity"

http://jcole.us/blog/archives/2010/09/28/mysql-swap-insanity-and-the-numa-architecture/

16 years ago

141 upvotes – 26 comments

Bitbucket Joins Atlassian

http://blog.bitbucket.org/2010/09/29/bitbucket-joins-atlassian/

16 years ago

136 upvotes – 82 comments

Working computer made out of Minecraft blocks

http://www.boingboing.net/2010/09/28/working-computer-mad.html

16 years ago

119 upvotes – 60 comments

Dropbox Startup Lessons Learned

http://www.slideshare.net/gueste94e4c/dropbox-startup-lessons-learned-3836587?from=ss_embed

16 years ago

108 upvotes – 26 comments

The BlackBerry PlayBook Doesn't Exist

http://www.singularityhacker.com/

16 years ago

108 upvotes – 36 comments

How to hit the Hacker News front page (and what it’s worth)

http://ryanwaggoner.com/2010/09/the-secret-to-hitting-the-hacker-news-front-page-and-what-its-worth/

16 years ago

105 upvotes – 56 comments

I'll Tell You What is Causing Pain for Almost Everyone in the Western World

http://chrishugh.blogspot.com/2010/09/article-improve-your-posture-and-reduce.html

16 years ago

95 upvotes – 40 comments

Dick is a bad manager

http://ieatpaste.com/2010/09/dick-is-a-bad-manager/

16 years ago

94 upvotes – 66 comments

Node.js memory benchmark confirms V8's GC may not be ready for the server

http://hns.github.com/2010/09/29/benchmark2.html

16 years ago

93 upvotes – 40 comments

US scientists find potentially habitable planet near Earth

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100929/sc_afp/usastronomyplanet_20100929210707

16 years ago

90 upvotes – 92 comments
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