top 50% hacker news stories for 2010-10-01

Why Wesabe Lost to Mint

http://blog.precipice.org/why-wesabe-lost-to-mint

16 years ago

373 upvotes – 195 comments

Put armor where there aren't bullet holes

http://motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2010/09/counterintuitive-world

16 years ago

229 upvotes – 76 comments

Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (October 2010 Edition)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1748045

16 years ago

193 upvotes – 213 comments

Where My Money Goes: A visual receipt for your taxes.

http://wheremymoneygoes.com

16 years ago

183 upvotes – 81 comments

Stuxnet Questions and Answers

http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/00002040.html

16 years ago

141 upvotes – 70 comments

Free, high-quality legal docs to get your startup started

http://www.goodwinfoundersworkbench.com/document-driver/

16 years ago

134 upvotes – 19 comments

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

http://norvig.com/lispy2.html

16 years ago

121 upvotes – 10 comments

Google Removes Cookie Control from Chrome

http://lauren.vortex.com/archive/000763.html

16 years ago

114 upvotes – 68 comments

The Ugliest Girl At The Dance: How Yahoo Destroyed Yelp’s Google Acquisition

http://techcrunch.com/2010/10/01/the-ugliest-girl-at-the-dance-how-yahoo-destroyed-yelps-google-acquisition/

16 years ago

106 upvotes – 54 comments

Common Errors in English Usage

http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/errors.html

16 years ago

86 upvotes – 49 comments

Hacker Monthly Issue #5 - October 2010

http://hackermonthly.com/issue-5.html

16 years ago

83 upvotes – 59 comments

What We Pay For

http://www.whatwepayfor.com/

16 years ago

81 upvotes – 18 comments

Amazon DevPay

http://aws.amazon.com/devpay/

16 years ago

81 upvotes – 26 comments

"More Sex is Safer Sex" Paradox (Python)

http://code.activestate.com/recipes/577403-more-sex-safer-sex-paradox/

16 years ago

77 upvotes – 51 comments

Help Pay My Bills: A HN Experiment

http://bendauphinee.com/paythebills

16 years ago

74 upvotes – 72 comments

SaaS Subscription Billing, or How to avoid getting your n*ts in a vice

http://peachshake.com/2010/06/15/saas-subscription-billing-or-how-to-avoid-getting-your-nts-in-a-vice/

16 years ago

72 upvotes – 40 comments

What makes US health care so expensive? Hard numbers, no easy answer.

http://theincidentaleconomist.com/what-makes-the-us-health-care-system-so-expensive-introduction/

16 years ago

71 upvotes – 120 comments

37 Signals' New office (pics and video)

http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2593-official-pictures-of-our-new-office

16 years ago

69 upvotes – 76 comments

Real world analysis of google's webp format versus jpg

http://englishhard.com/2010/10/01/real-world-analysis-of-googles-webp-versus-jpg/

16 years ago

69 upvotes – 25 comments

H.264 and VP8 for still image coding: WebP?

http://x264dev.multimedia.cx/?p=541

16 years ago

66 upvotes – 16 comments

Making AJAX applications crawlable

http://code.google.com/web/ajaxcrawling/docs/learn-more.html

16 years ago

64 upvotes – 14 comments

Corrected "real world analysis of Google’s webp versus jpg"

http://michael.terretta.com/corrected-real-world-analysis-of-googles-webp

16 years ago

63 upvotes – 19 comments

Mixpanel: Scaling to the Internet - Writing C extensions for Python

http://code.mixpanel.com/building-c-extensions-in-python/

16 years ago

63 upvotes – 33 comments

Change to Bios will make for PCs that boot in seconds

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11430069

16 years ago

63 upvotes – 62 comments

EFF Supports Microsoft in Seeking to Make it Easier to Invalidate Patents

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/09/eff-supports-microsoft-seeking-make-it-easier

16 years ago

62 upvotes – 9 comments

Ask HN: Current college student with big goals.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1747470

16 years ago

58 upvotes – 44 comments

Nuitka — A Python Compiler

http://kayhayen24x7.homelinux.org/blog/nuitka-a-python-compiler/what-is-nuitka/

16 years ago

55 upvotes – 33 comments

Ask HN: Who's Looking For a Cofounder? (October 2010 Edition)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1748522

16 years ago

52 upvotes – 45 comments

Ask HN: Who is hiring interns? (October 2010 Edition)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1749103

16 years ago

52 upvotes – 24 comments

Microsoft sues Motorola over Android patent infringements

http://blogs.technet.com/b/microsoft_on_the_issues/archive/2010/10/01/microsoft-sues-motorola-over-android-patent-infringements.aspx

16 years ago

51 upvotes – 61 comments

Mozilla Game On 2010 - Open Web Game Competition

http://mozillalabs.com/gaming/2010/09/30/game-on-2010-is-here/

16 years ago

50 upvotes – 8 comments

Hackage, Cabal and the Haskell Platform: The Second Year : Report from ICFP

http://donsbot.wordpress.com/2010/10/01/hackage-cabal-and-the-haskell-platform-the-second-year/

16 years ago

50 upvotes – 1 comments

Apple's market segmentation strategy

http://radar.oreilly.com/2010/09/apple-segmentation-strategy-an.html?y

16 years ago

49 upvotes – 10 comments

Rare IBM M15 split ergonomic keyboard hits eBay, bids pass $1600

http://www.geek.com/articles/chips/ibm-m15-split-ergonomic-keyboard-hits-ebay-bidding-war-2010101/

16 years ago

48 upvotes – 28 comments

Exploring Programming Language Architecture in Perl (Scheme-Like Interpreter)

http://billhails.net/Book/

16 years ago

43 upvotes – 3 comments

Ask HN: What's your favorite window manager for X11?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1748827

16 years ago

42 upvotes – 68 comments

Mother Effing Text-shadow

http://mothereffingtextshadow.com/

16 years ago

42 upvotes – 18 comments

Could jgc.org be monetized?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1746480

16 years ago

42 upvotes – 44 comments

A love hate relationship with the Gnu/Linux desktop

http://www.goplexian.com/2010/09/love-hate-relationship-with-gnulinux.html

16 years ago

40 upvotes – 20 comments

Homeless Man Leaves Behind Surprise: $4 Million

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=111091624

16 years ago

40 upvotes – 11 comments

How Microsoft went from 30 million Windows Live bloggers to 300,000

http://venturebeat.com/2010/09/30/only-300k-of-7m-microsoft-live-spaces-blogs-will-move-to-wordpress-com/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Venturebeat+%28VentureBeat%29&utm_content=Seesmic

16 years ago

39 upvotes – 8 comments

How Apple dodged a bullet

http://gdgt.com/discuss/this-is-something-wrote-about-how-apple-aa3/?utm_source=gdgt+newsletter&utm_campaign=fa6184a82c-Newsletter+/+2010-10-01&utm_medium=email

16 years ago

36 upvotes – 6 comments

Technical details for a MMOG in perl

http://www.madmongers.org/talks/the-lacuna-expanse

16 years ago

36 upvotes – 12 comments

Liblfds: portable lock-free data structures in C.

http://www.liblfds.org/

16 years ago

36 upvotes – 13 comments

Review my app for making server stacks social

http://stackfu.com

16 years ago

36 upvotes – 23 comments

CssPad - an iPad made with CSS using Quplo

http://csspad.quplo.com/

16 years ago

36 upvotes – 11 comments

An Analysis of Linux Scalability to Many Cores [OSDI'10 PDF]

http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/papers/linux:osdi10.pdf

16 years ago

35 upvotes – 3 comments

JavaScript - It’s a Real Language

http://clubajax.org/javascript-its-a-real-language/

16 years ago

34 upvotes – 35 comments
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