top 50% 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

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

A clever way to fight IE6

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

16 years ago

Zed finishes Learn Python The Hard Way

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

16 years ago

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

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

Linux Kernel Tuning for C500k

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

16 years ago

Mathematics for computer science (Fall 2010, MIT)

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

16 years ago

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

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

http://rumpetroll.com/

16 years ago

Mysql "Swap Insanity"

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

16 years ago

Bitbucket Joins Atlassian

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

16 years ago

Working computer made out of Minecraft blocks

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

16 years ago

The BlackBerry PlayBook Doesn't Exist

http://www.singularityhacker.com/

16 years ago

Dropbox Startup Lessons Learned

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

16 years ago

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

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

Dick is a bad manager

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

16 years ago

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

US scientists find potentially habitable planet near Earth

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

16 years ago

Django core: Improving our decision-making and committer process

http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers/browse_thread/thread/9ebc3e57d539d1ff

16 years ago

Kevin Rose: Digg Turned Down $80 Million Acquisition Offer

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/kevin_rose_at_disrupt.php

16 years ago

How to Start a Hedge Fund

http://www.vanityfair.com/business/features/2010/09/hedge-funders-201009

16 years ago

Chromium OS ported to iPad

http://www.engadget.com/2010/09/29/chromium-os-infiltrates-ipad-makes-itself-comfortable/

16 years ago

Show HN: Koi - a programming language that teaches language implementation.

http://thingsaaronmade.com/blog/introducing-koi.html

16 years ago

Southwest's acquisition of AirTran: Why they're doing it and why you should care

http://blog.flightcaster.com/southwests-acquisition-of-airtran-why-theyre

16 years ago

The technical challenges of a successful marketplace

http://blog.airbnb.com/hard-problems-big-opportunity

16 years ago

Review my hackathon MVP - Amazon instant search

http://shelfluv.com/

16 years ago

How We Increased Conversion Actions 218% And Increased Sales 0%

http://georgesaines.com/2010/09/28/how-we-increased-conversion-actions-218-and-increased-sales-0/

16 years ago

Unix’s Revenge

http://www.asymco.com/2010/09/29/unixs-revenge/

16 years ago

Freakonomics: How to Avoid a Bad Apartment in New York City

http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/09/29/how-to-avoid-a-bad-apartment-in-new-york-city/

16 years ago

The Las Vegas "Death Ray"

http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2010/09/las-vegas-death-ray.html

16 years ago

ICFP report on the use of Haskell at Google

http://k1024.org/~iusty/papers/icfp10-haskell-reagent.pdf

16 years ago

The Future of jQuery - What To Look Forward To In Late 2010 & Beyond

http://addyosmani.com/futureofjquery2010/

16 years ago

ASP.NET and F# - Creating MVC web applications in F#

http://cs.hubfs.net/blogs/tomasp/archive/2010/05/09/14050.aspx

16 years ago

Ask HN: Why are web startups slow to expand abroad?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1738432

16 years ago

Thrush combinator in Clojure

http://blog.fogus.me/2010/09/28/thrush-in-clojure-redux/

16 years ago

Scott Adams: Wireless Voice Calls are Obsolete

http://dilbert.com/blog/entry/wireless_voice_calls_are_obsolete/

16 years ago

Mashable crushed us - here's how we bounced back

http://blog.appstorehq.com/post/1212703421/mashable-crushed-us-heres-how-we-bounced-back

16 years ago

Slow Down to Go Faster

http://fuelyourcoding.com/slow-down-to-go-faster/

16 years ago

A logo that changes with the weather

http://www.underconsideration.com/brandnew/archives/where_the_cold_wind_blows.php

16 years ago

Tell HN: Every photo in Facebook is somewhat publicly accessible

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1739243

16 years ago