top 50% hacker news stories for 2010-10-11

How Hacker News ranking algorithm works

http://amix.dk/blog/post/19574

16 years ago

311 upvotes – 74 comments

'The Simpsons' Explains Its Provocative Banksy Opening

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/11/the-simpsons-explains-its-button-pushing-banksy-opening/

16 years ago

211 upvotes – 80 comments

A sick CEO's full disclosure

http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2010/10/07/a-sick-ceos-full-disclosure/

16 years ago

164 upvotes – 32 comments

If you build it, they won't come, unless...

http://blog.asmartbear.com/startup-marketing-ideas.html

16 years ago

159 upvotes – 16 comments

Google closes Issue 9

http://code.google.com/p/go/issues/detail?id=9#c1097

16 years ago

154 upvotes – 106 comments

Google's first employee

http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_16291970

16 years ago

140 upvotes – 46 comments

HTC Willfully Violates the GPL in T-Mobile's New G2 Android Phone

http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/sjs/htc-willfully-violates-gpl-t-mobiles-new-g2-android-phone

16 years ago

138 upvotes – 51 comments

Chargify New Pricing

http://chargify.com/blog/chargify-news-new-pricing-features-more/

16 years ago

133 upvotes – 164 comments

Impact JavaScript Game Engine for iOS

http://www.phoboslab.org/log/2010/10/impact-for-ios

16 years ago

133 upvotes – 22 comments

1,000 (bad) ideas

http://blog.jgc.org/2010/10/1000-bad-ideas.html

16 years ago

125 upvotes – 65 comments

The Story Behind "Free Public WiFi" - It's Not

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/the_story_behind_free_public_wifi_-_its_not.php

16 years ago

111 upvotes – 27 comments

IE 8 is the new IE 6

http://infrequently.org/2010/10/ie-8-is-the-new-ie-6/

16 years ago

98 upvotes – 52 comments

Quicklisp public beta

http://www.quicklisp.org/beta/

16 years ago

94 upvotes – 35 comments

The True Size of Africa

http://twitpic.com/2woim6/full

16 years ago

92 upvotes – 38 comments

Canvas rider, an innovative HTML5 game

http://canvasrider.com/

16 years ago

88 upvotes – 28 comments

How to Solve Hard Problem Sets Without Staying Up All Night

http://calnewport.com/blog/2007/10/08/monday-master-class-how-to-solve-hard-problem-sets-without-staying-up-all-night/

16 years ago

83 upvotes – 30 comments

How Our Startup Got Featured on CNN

http://viniciusvacanti.com/2010/10/how-our-startup-got-featured-on-cnn/

16 years ago

80 upvotes – 26 comments

EmailOracle (YC W10) Tracks Your Emails and Confirms They've Been Opened

http://lifehacker.com/5660823/emailoracle-tracks-your-emails-and-confirms-theyve-been-opened

16 years ago

78 upvotes – 74 comments

Riak 0.13 released, includes full text search

http://blog.basho.com/2010/10/11/riak-0.13-released/

16 years ago

78 upvotes – 13 comments

IBM to join OpenJDK

http://blogs.sun.com/mr/entry/ibm_to_join_openjdk

16 years ago

75 upvotes – 11 comments

What's the most mind-blowing fact you heard/read in your life?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1781685

16 years ago

74 upvotes – 152 comments

Would the LHC blow up your hand? I do the math.

http://bbot.org/blog/archives/2010/10/11/would_the_lhc_blow_up_your_hand_i_do_the_math/

16 years ago

65 upvotes – 16 comments

Being Eric Schmidt (On Facebook)

http://techcrunch.com/2010/10/10/being-eric-schmidt-on-facebook/

16 years ago

65 upvotes – 6 comments

A winning solution for SimCity

http://m.ammoth.us/blog/2010/10/magnasanti/

16 years ago

63 upvotes – 14 comments

Gap says it will keep classic logo

http://www.gapinc.com/public/Media/Press_Releases/med_pr_GapLogoStatement10112010.shtml

16 years ago

63 upvotes – 45 comments

The magical -- and not harmful -- rebase (Git)

http://jeffkreeftmeijer.com/2010/the-magical-and-not-harmful-rebase/

16 years ago

58 upvotes – 24 comments

Deploying Clojure Services with Crane

http://measuringmeasures.com/blog/2010/10/11/deploying-clojure-services-with-crane.html

16 years ago

56 upvotes – 0 comments

Instapaper's Bookmarklet API request for Mobile Safari

http://www.marco.org/1288715399

16 years ago

49 upvotes – 14 comments

Chargify News: New Pricing

http://grasshopper.com/email_assets/chargify-bootstrapper.html

16 years ago

48 upvotes – 29 comments

RSpec-2.0.0 is released

http://blog.davidchelimsky.net/2010/10/10/rspec-200-is-released/

16 years ago

48 upvotes – 8 comments

Local Storage And How To Use It On Websites

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/10/11/local-storage-and-how-to-use-it/

16 years ago

48 upvotes – 14 comments

How I got a preview of the Kindle 3 – and totally geeked out

http://sonictruths.net/2010/10/how-i-got-a-preview-of-the-kindle-3-and-totally-geeked-out/

16 years ago

47 upvotes – 32 comments

Scripting GNU Screen with Python

http://blog.interstellr.com/scripting-gnu-screen-with-python

16 years ago

45 upvotes – 12 comments

Technology = Salvation: An Interview with Peter Thiel

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704696304575537882643165738.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

16 years ago

44 upvotes – 32 comments

Ask HN: Am I doing this right (launching, press releases, blogs)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1779355

16 years ago

44 upvotes – 30 comments

Microsoft Launches Windows Phone 7 But Does Anyone Care?

http://techcrunch.com/2010/10/11/microsoft-launches-windows-phone-7-but-does-anyone-care/

16 years ago

42 upvotes – 68 comments

Ask HN: What Python web programming frameworks and tools are you using?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1780375

16 years ago

42 upvotes – 45 comments

Ask HN: Linux from Scratch.. Should I try it?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1779665

16 years ago

42 upvotes – 58 comments

Really? Windows Phone 7 Commercials

http://www.betanews.com/joewilcox/article/Really-New-Windows-Phone-7-commercials-rock/1286834703

16 years ago

41 upvotes – 43 comments

JQuery 1.4.3 Release Candidate 1 Released

http://blog.jquery.com/2010/10/10/jquery-1-4-3-release-candidate-1-released/

16 years ago

41 upvotes – 6 comments

Blizzard Bans Starcraft Players Who Cheat in Offline, Single Player Games

http://www.cheathappens.com/article_blizzardbans.asp

16 years ago

40 upvotes – 33 comments

In High School Chem Labs, Every Cameraphone Can Be a Spectrometer

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/10/in-high-school-chem-labs-every-camera-phone-can-be-a-spectrometer/

16 years ago

40 upvotes – 6 comments
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