top 50% hacker news stories for 2010-10-08

Thank HN: 7 months ago, I asked for help. Now I've got 5 employees.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1772205

16 years ago

620 upvotes – 114 comments

Tell HN: Your social widgets are losing you visitors right now

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1771607

16 years ago

306 upvotes – 73 comments

Bread and Circuses: The State of Web App Startups

http://jolieodell.wordpress.com/2010/10/07/bread-and-circuses-the-state-of-web-app-startups/

16 years ago

237 upvotes – 147 comments

Ask HN: Side Projects Gone Big

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1772224

16 years ago

229 upvotes – 155 comments

Can you solve it? The Greplin programming challenge

http://challenge.greplin.com

16 years ago

220 upvotes – 156 comments

Lets make November "Launch an App Month", who's with me?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1773398

16 years ago

187 upvotes – 173 comments

Caught Spying on Student, FBI Demands GPS Tracker Back

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/10/fbi-tracking-device/

16 years ago

184 upvotes – 158 comments

So I made something that's pretty stupid but had fun doing it

http://www.hitlerhops.com

16 years ago

179 upvotes – 142 comments

Babbage's heart-warming message for the middle-aged

http://blog.jgc.org/2010/10/babbages-heart-warming-message-for.html

16 years ago

153 upvotes – 68 comments

Styled Maps Using Google Maps API Version 3

http://www.41latitude.com/post/1268734799/google-styled-maps

16 years ago

149 upvotes – 25 comments

Some clients are evil and their work is toxic

http://hossgifford.com/fast-good-cheap/

16 years ago

144 upvotes – 56 comments

The Duct Tape Architect

http://www.cubeia.com/index.php/blog/archives/140

16 years ago

134 upvotes – 25 comments

AsmXml: a fast XML parser/decoder in pure x86 assembler

http://tibleiz.net/asm-xml/index.html

16 years ago

132 upvotes – 46 comments

Ask HN: Anyone making a living from just 1 app?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1772199

16 years ago

118 upvotes – 80 comments

NIC.LY statement regarding the decision to block vb.ly

http://nic.ly/anvp.php

16 years ago

99 upvotes – 81 comments

2010 Nobel Prize for Peace Awarded to Liu Xiaobo

http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/2010/

16 years ago

91 upvotes – 42 comments

Ways Your Startup Needs To Be Getting Customers

http://jasonlbaptiste.com/startups/distribution-distribution-distribution#

16 years ago

83 upvotes – 10 comments

The Power of Gratitude

http://blog.jgc.org/2010/10/power-of-gratitude.html

16 years ago

81 upvotes – 7 comments

Ask HN: Help me understand online payment gateways

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1771207

16 years ago

70 upvotes – 27 comments

Goodbye to an old friend: 1-800-GOOG-411

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/10/goodbye-to-old-friend-1-800-goog-411.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2FMKuf+%28Official+Google+Blog%29

16 years ago

70 upvotes – 52 comments

Ask HN: Side Projects Gone Deadpooled

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1772903

16 years ago

66 upvotes – 68 comments

In Defense of Standards, Ethics, and Honest Financial Reporting at HP

http://bhorowitz.com/2010/10/08/in-defense-of-standards-ethics-and-honest-financial-reporting-at-hewlett-packard/

16 years ago

64 upvotes – 8 comments

Here’s what we’ve learned about doing UI for mobile web apps with HTML5

http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2603-heres-what-weve-learned-about-doing-ui-for-mobile-web-apps-with-html5

16 years ago

55 upvotes – 9 comments

Android is Google's Agent Smith

http://www.techvibes.com/blog/android-is-googles-agent-smith

16 years ago

55 upvotes – 43 comments

Kindle gets text-based adventure games

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2010-10/07/kindle-games-adventure-text

16 years ago

53 upvotes – 37 comments

Costco - Food for a whole year - $799 Awesome

http://www.costco.com/Browse/Product.aspx?Prodid=11487214&cm_mmc=BCEmail_Sept2010Mailer-_-Banner_-1-_-Thrive

16 years ago

53 upvotes – 50 comments

MySQL price hikes

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/10/08/oracle_jacking_up_mysql_prices/

16 years ago

51 upvotes – 34 comments

Tell HN: Starting a search startup, please review our project

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1771298

16 years ago

49 upvotes – 35 comments

Classic: Rubber Duck debugging

http://lists.ethernal.org/oldarchives/cantlug-0211/msg00174.html

16 years ago

49 upvotes – 20 comments

Who are North Korea’s 13 Twitter friends?

http://www.reviewmylife.co.uk/blog/2010/10/07/north-korea-13-twitter-friends/

16 years ago

49 upvotes – 14 comments

Inside Pivotal Labs, the Agile Force Behind Twitter

http://gigaom.com/2010/10/07/inside-pivotal-labs-the-agile-force-behind-twitter-and-groupon/

16 years ago

47 upvotes – 11 comments

Distellamap: Visualization of Atari 2600 Code and Data

http://benfry.com/distellamap/

16 years ago

47 upvotes – 7 comments

Taking Uncle Bob to school

http://bestinclass.dk/index.clj/2010/10/taking-uncle-bob-to-school.html

16 years ago

46 upvotes – 19 comments

Xkcd: Airfoil - So what's the right explanation?

http://xkcd.com/803/

16 years ago

46 upvotes – 40 comments
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