top 20 hacker news stories for 2010-09-30

Thanks For Paying Taxes. Here's A Receipt.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2010/09/30/130249425/thanks-for-paying-taxes-here-s-your-receipt?ft=1&f=93559255

16 years ago

331 upvotes – 181 comments

(How to Write a (Lisp) Interpreter (in Python))

http://norvig.com/lispy.html

16 years ago

222 upvotes – 39 comments

Why read books if we can’t remember what’s in them?

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/19/books/review/Collins-t.html

16 years ago

208 upvotes – 102 comments

Google offers JPEG alternative for faster Web

http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-20018146-264.html

16 years ago

204 upvotes – 110 comments

There is no Plan B: why the IPv4-to-IPv6 transition will be ugly

http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2010/09/there-is-no-plan-b-why-the-ipv4-to-ipv6-transition-will-be-ugly.ars

16 years ago

188 upvotes – 191 comments

Wiretapping the Internet

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2010/09/wiretapping_the.html

16 years ago

162 upvotes – 38 comments

Beautiful Simplicity

http://blog.jgc.org/2010/09/beautiful-simplicity.html

16 years ago

159 upvotes – 28 comments

Google URL shortener available to the public

http://goo.gl/

16 years ago

153 upvotes – 120 comments

Potentially Habitable Planet Discovered

http://arbesman.net/blog/2010/09/29/potentially-habitable-planet-discovered/

16 years ago

151 upvotes – 68 comments

I Can’t Work Under These Conditions

http://techcrunch.com/2010/09/30/i-cant-work-under-these-conditions/

16 years ago

141 upvotes – 47 comments

Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat) Release Candidate

http://releases.ubuntu.com/10.10/

16 years ago

128 upvotes – 117 comments

The Facebook API: A Case Study in Not Caring About Developers

http://www.sethcall.com/blog/2010/09/30/facebook-api-does-not-care/

16 years ago

121 upvotes – 35 comments

An illusionist explains why Apple products really are magical

http://www.andrewmayne.com/blog/2010/9/29/an-illusionist-explains-why-apple-products-really-are-magica.html

16 years ago

112 upvotes – 4 comments

Tuning Canabalt (explaining all the basic systems)

http://blog.semisecretsoftware.com/tuning-canabalt

16 years ago

102 upvotes – 12 comments

Clojure 1.3 First Impression (It's Fast)

http://www.learningclojure.com/2010/09/clojure-13-first-impression.html

16 years ago

102 upvotes – 25 comments

Map Reduce: A really simple introduction

http://ksat.me/map-reduce-a-really-simple-introduction-kloudo/

16 years ago

100 upvotes – 16 comments

Stop the Internet Blacklist

http://demandprogress.org/blacklist/?source=tw

16 years ago

99 upvotes – 11 comments

A viral "launching soon" form

http://blog.forkly.com/a-viral-launching-soon-form

16 years ago

97 upvotes – 26 comments

Big Android Market expansion

http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2010/09/more-countries-more-sellers-more-buyers.html

16 years ago

88 upvotes – 27 comments

You Can't Kick Me Off Facebook, I Quit

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2010/09/you-cant-kick-me-off-facebook-i-quit/63653/

16 years ago

83 upvotes – 56 comments
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