top 50% 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

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

Tuning Canabalt (explaining all the basic systems)

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

16 years ago

102 upvotes – 12 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

Retro-engineering a video game system.

http://www.lucidscience.com/pro-lazarus-64%20prototype-1.aspx

16 years ago

76 upvotes – 9 comments

Michael Stonebraker: Why Enterprises Are Uninterested in NoSQL?

http://cacm.acm.org/blogs/blog-cacm/99512-why-enterprises-are-uninterested-in-nosql/fulltext

16 years ago

76 upvotes – 78 comments

Bootstrapping Stormpulse

http://wensing.tumblr.com/post/1215873671/bootstrapping-stormpulse

16 years ago

75 upvotes – 21 comments

You're a Bad Programmer. Embrace It.

http://java.dzone.com/articles/youre-bad-programmer-embrace

16 years ago

75 upvotes – 65 comments

Possible earthlike planet found in the Goldilocks zone of a nearby star

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2010/09/29/possible-earthlike-planet-found-in-the-goldilocks-zone-of-a-nearby-star/

16 years ago

72 upvotes – 4 comments

Google Translate now supports Latin

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/09/veni-vidi-verba-verti.html

16 years ago

71 upvotes – 46 comments

Google Instant Steals 25% of Your Organic Search Results

http://blog.keltex.com/post/1216080930/google-instant-steals-25-of-your-organic-search

16 years ago

68 upvotes – 54 comments

Your Market is Smaller Than You Think

http://www.softwarebyrob.com/2010/09/30/your-market-is-smaller-than-you-think/

16 years ago

67 upvotes – 15 comments

Original Pentium FDIV flaw e-mail [1994]

http://www.trnicely.net/pentbug/bugmail1.html

16 years ago

67 upvotes – 17 comments

Kindle 3: Some Hidden Features

http://geoplanit.blogspot.com/2010/09/kindle-3-some-hidden-features.html

16 years ago

60 upvotes – 10 comments

BitTorrent-Only Movie Denied IMDb Listing

http://torrentfreak.com/bittorrent-only-horror-movie-denied-imdb-listing-100929/

16 years ago

58 upvotes – 12 comments

Ask HN: Please help a virgin blogger.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1743013

16 years ago

58 upvotes – 35 comments

"I modeled this website on the same principles of Walmart"

http://skitch.com/obie/d3jj7/fiverr-obie-orders-management-status-of-your-order-no-71497196

16 years ago

56 upvotes – 44 comments

The Adaptive Function of Masturbation in a Promiscuous African Ground Squirrel

http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0013060

16 years ago

53 upvotes – 15 comments

There is no sane reason for the dock connector to not be micro-USB. Discuss.

http://jwz.livejournal.com/1300359.html

16 years ago

52 upvotes – 35 comments

Editor of HTML5 questions need for alt text in movie poster frames

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=10642#c0

16 years ago

51 upvotes – 46 comments

How to Manage Employees When They Make Mistakes

http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2010/09/30/how-to-manage-employees-when-they-make-mistakes/

16 years ago

51 upvotes – 23 comments

Creating Bots with Notifo (YC W10) User Messaging

https://api.notifo.com/docs/bots

16 years ago

46 upvotes – 10 comments

How to encode video for mobile devices (iPhone/iPad, Android, etc.)

http://zencoder.com/encoder-blog/2010/09/30/how-to-encode-video-for-mobile-use/

16 years ago

46 upvotes – 11 comments

Is Spain now cooking its books?

http://ftalphaville.ft.com/blog/2010/09/30/356201/an-anonymous-tip-off-regarding-spanish-gdp/

16 years ago

45 upvotes – 30 comments
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