top 50% hacker news stories for 2010-10-05

Internet Explorer falls below 50% market share

http://gs.statcounter.com/press/microsoft-internet-explorer-browser-falls-below-50-perc-of-worldwide-market-for-first-time

16 years ago

319 upvotes – 67 comments

Man jailed over computer password refusal

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-11479831

16 years ago

271 upvotes – 228 comments

Founders who can't code

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1761530

16 years ago

250 upvotes – 114 comments

The Dream Is Over: Music Labels Have Killed Their Digital Future

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/The-Dream-Is-Over-Music-paidcontent-2992521264.html?x=0&.v=1

16 years ago

206 upvotes – 153 comments

So, that was a bummer

http://blog.foursquare.com/2010/10/05/so-that-was-a-bummer/

16 years ago

189 upvotes – 92 comments

What's wrong with 2006 programming?

http://antirez.com/post/what-is-wrong-with-2006-programming.html

16 years ago

157 upvotes – 47 comments

Why are technical recruiters so clueless?

http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2598-why-are-technical-recruiters-so-clueless

16 years ago

148 upvotes – 114 comments

How to get a job at a kick-ass startup (for programmers)

http://nathanmarz.com/blog/how-to-get-a-job-at-a-kick-ass-startup-for-programmers.html

16 years ago

127 upvotes – 28 comments

Using canvas to create alpha-channel JPEGs - 33% the size of PNGs

http://blog.jackadam.net/alpha-jpegs/

16 years ago

124 upvotes – 32 comments

40% of Groupon merchants say "never again"

http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2010/10/forty-percent-of-groupon-merchants-say-never-again.html

16 years ago

114 upvotes – 96 comments

Startup micro opportunities

http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/2010/10/startup-micro-opportunities.html

16 years ago

112 upvotes – 16 comments

Bizarre sea slug is half plant, half animal

http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/pets-animals/stories/bizarre-sea-slug-is-half-plant-half-animal-0

16 years ago

106 upvotes – 46 comments

Ask HN: Recommend a freelance job board

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1759653

16 years ago

96 upvotes – 37 comments

2010 Physics Nobel Prize (Graphene)

http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/2010/announcement.html

16 years ago

94 upvotes – 28 comments

Where are all the alpha geeks and what are they doing?

http://benjaminste.in/post/1223476561/hey-guys-whatcha-doing

16 years ago

91 upvotes – 58 comments

FreeBSD Quickstart Guide for Linux Users

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/linux-users/

16 years ago

89 upvotes – 43 comments

Skype for Android is available

http://www.skype.com/intl/en/get-skype/on-your-mobile/download/skype-for-android/?cm_mmc=m104

16 years ago

85 upvotes – 82 comments

Distributed Social App with CouchDB. Brilliant

http://www.victusspiritus.com/2010/10/05/distributed-social-app-with-couchdb-brilliant/

16 years ago

70 upvotes – 33 comments

Show HN: Coding noob - first weekend project

http://aflanagan.com/weekend-project/

16 years ago

69 upvotes – 54 comments

Time lost by driving fast

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20190187

16 years ago

67 upvotes – 61 comments

Algorithm for converting a finite state machine into a regular expression

http://qntm.org/algo

16 years ago

67 upvotes – 22 comments

A creative cover letter from a hacker to the Chicago Tribune

http://www.documentcloud.org/documents/10404-chris-kick-ass-cover-letter.html

16 years ago

66 upvotes – 11 comments

Martin Fowler's Domain-Specific Languages book is out

http://martinfowler.com/dslwip/

16 years ago

63 upvotes – 21 comments

Dropbox is down

http://scripting.com/stories/2010/10/05/dropboxIsDown.html

16 years ago

61 upvotes – 37 comments

Soyuz capsule landing and retrieval photos

http://cryptome.org/info/soyuz-tma18/soyuz-tma18.htm

16 years ago

60 upvotes – 22 comments

Java Build Systems - a sad state of affairs

http://grok-code.com/538/java-build-systems-a-sad-state-of-affairs/

16 years ago

58 upvotes – 42 comments

Pakistan's deadly robots in the sky

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/asia-pacific/pakistans-deadly-robots-in-the-sky/article1739172/

16 years ago

57 upvotes – 28 comments

Refactoring to clean code.

http://www.amaxus.com/cms-blog/refactoring-to-clean-code

16 years ago

52 upvotes – 13 comments

Calacanis to Challenge TechCrunch

http://newsgrange.com/?p=2139

16 years ago

51 upvotes – 36 comments

Pay With A Tweet

http://www.paywithatweet.com/

16 years ago

51 upvotes – 36 comments

VCs Offer Terms Most Angels Can't Match In Pulse Funding

http://techcrunch.com/2010/10/05/pulse-takes-an-angel-round-but-where-are-the-angels/

16 years ago

49 upvotes – 8 comments

Hipmunk Closes Hyper-Competitive Angel Round, Sans The Usual Suspects

http://techcrunch.com/2010/10/05/hipmunk-closes-hyper-competitive-angel-round-sans-the-usual-suspects/

16 years ago

48 upvotes – 42 comments

Does everyone need to learn to program?

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/alfredth/archive/2010/10/05/should-johnny-learn-to-program.aspx

16 years ago

48 upvotes – 42 comments

Fundraising

http://www.xtranormal.com/watch/7203877/

16 years ago

47 upvotes – 7 comments

Review My One-Day Project: Shared Words

http://sharedwords.org/

16 years ago

47 upvotes – 31 comments

A year of Geek Atlas sales (some facts about book royalties)

http://blog.jgc.org/2010/10/year-of-geek-atlas-sales-or-some-facts.html

16 years ago

46 upvotes – 25 comments

What technologies are geeks pioneering today?

http://www.marco.org/1246041841

16 years ago

46 upvotes – 14 comments

Sitting more than 6hrs/day increases likelihood of premature death

http://weightology.net/weightologyweekly/?page_id=665

16 years ago

46 upvotes – 50 comments

Ask HN: What Cool Android Projects are You doing?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1759528

16 years ago

44 upvotes – 47 comments

What's wrong with 1975 programming?

http://www.varnish-cache.org/trac/wiki/ArchitectNotes

16 years ago

41 upvotes – 12 comments

Understanding vipassana meditation

http://lesswrong.com/lw/2rd/understanding_vipassana_meditation/

16 years ago

40 upvotes – 1 comments

Ex-French trader must pay $6.7 billion for fraud

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101005/ap_on_bi_ge/eu_france_trader_on_trial

16 years ago

39 upvotes – 25 comments

BeagleBoard is nice, but the PandaBoard is better (dual Cortex-A9 at 1GHz)

http://www.thinq.co.uk/2010/10/4/pandaboard-arm-dev-kit-launches/

16 years ago

39 upvotes – 26 comments

Linguists Discover Rarity: a New Language

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703843804575534122591921594.html?mod=WSJ_hps_MIDDLETopStories

16 years ago

38 upvotes – 2 comments
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