top 50% hacker news stories for 2010-10-12

Brilliant design: RCA student radically improves the UK plug

http://www.iconeye.com/index.php?view=article&catid=1:latest-news&layout=news&id=3864:rca-student-radically-improves-the-uk-plug&option=com_content&Itemid=18&ref=nf

16 years ago

314 upvotes – 140 comments

A great logo is recognizable in any form

http://s3.amazonaws.com/data.tumblr.com/tumblr_l9rpqtzaDC1qz6flco1_1280.jpg?AWSAccessKeyId=0RYTHV9YYQ4W5Q3HQMG2&Expires=1286966076&Signature=kS6kwiEiYz4w3Mm8E1D1TTjn1sk%3D

16 years ago

232 upvotes – 72 comments

Super-Soaker inventor may have solar-powered fuel cell breakthrough

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/11/shooting-for-the-sun/8268

16 years ago

223 upvotes – 100 comments

Visualization: Guy-to-girl ratio of every bar and restaurant in SF/NYC

http://weeplaces.com/ratiofinder/

16 years ago

208 upvotes – 48 comments

OkTrends: Gay Sex vs. Straight Sex

http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/gay-sex-vs-straight-sex/

16 years ago

205 upvotes – 122 comments

The Ruby on Rails 3 Tutorial screencasts are out

http://railstutorial.org/screencasts?

16 years ago

201 upvotes – 57 comments

Web Design is 95% Typography

http://www.informationarchitects.jp/en/the-web-is-all-about-typography-period/

16 years ago

186 upvotes – 47 comments

Java Trap, 2010 Edition

http://journal.paul.querna.org/articles/2010/10/12/java-trap-2010-edition/

16 years ago

177 upvotes – 96 comments

The 'Irrational' Way Humans Interact With Dentists

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=130356647

16 years ago

119 upvotes – 91 comments

Ask HN: Cover letter techniques for software development positions.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1783915

16 years ago

116 upvotes – 64 comments

Tell HN: booking.com is looking for 40+ Perl programmers (in Amsterdam)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1784399

16 years ago

116 upvotes – 68 comments

No Java 7, The End Game

http://www.jroller.com/scolebourne/entry/no_java_7_the_end

16 years ago

107 upvotes – 50 comments

The Social Network scriptwriter Aaron Sorkin posts about the portrayal of women.

http://kenlevine.blogspot.com/2010/10/aaron-sorkin-responds-to-commenter-in.html

16 years ago

105 upvotes – 41 comments

Innovation Nation: WePay is the anti-PayPal

http://money.cnn.com/2010/10/12/technology/wepay/index.htm

16 years ago

88 upvotes – 47 comments

The Android Market

http://www.tomkleinpeter.com/2010/10/12/the-android-market/

16 years ago

86 upvotes – 26 comments

$100,000 Revenues in last 12 months - wow

http://startupdesi.com/100000-startup-revenue-in-12months/

16 years ago

85 upvotes – 35 comments

Animation of the AES algorithm

http://www.cs.bc.edu/~straubin/cs381-05/blockciphers/rijndael_ingles2004.swf

16 years ago

81 upvotes – 20 comments

So, why Plan 9?

http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg17067.html

16 years ago

78 upvotes – 42 comments

Ubuntu.StackExchange.com is now AskUbuntu.com

http://askubuntu.com/

16 years ago

75 upvotes – 33 comments

Startup idea for you: Modern e-commerce isn't enough

http://tibbon.com/e-commerce-isnt-enough.html

16 years ago

73 upvotes – 55 comments

Japanese Company to Buy iPhone Game Developer (Ngmoco for $400M)

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/13/technology/13social.html

16 years ago

73 upvotes – 12 comments

It Pays to Hire Women in Countries That Won't

http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/6498.html?wknews=101210

16 years ago

71 upvotes – 74 comments

Bringing Smiles to the Faces of MacOS developers - Miguel de Icaza

http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2010/Oct-12.html

16 years ago

70 upvotes – 37 comments

Trent Reznor on Why Facebook "Sucks"

http://drownedinsound.com/news/4141279-trent-reznor-on-why-facebook-sucks

16 years ago

69 upvotes – 36 comments

Why the CBC banned Creative Commons music from its shows

http://arstechnica.com/media/news/2010/10/cbc-radio-fans-crabby-over-creative-commons-snub.ars

16 years ago

68 upvotes – 26 comments

Scotch tape found to emit x-rays by behaving like a particle accelerator

http://sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/64111/title/Tale_of_the_tape_

16 years ago

68 upvotes – 7 comments

"So you want to go freelance..." - a beginners guide to freelancing

http://mocko.org.uk/b/2010/10/11/so-you-want-to-go-freelance/

16 years ago

64 upvotes – 9 comments

Logical Literacy

http://matt.might.net/articles/logical-literacy/

16 years ago

64 upvotes – 28 comments

Terrence Tao: The Cosmic Distance Ladder

http://terrytao.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/cosmic-distance-ladder.pdf

16 years ago

62 upvotes – 6 comments

Indinero - Jessica Mah Interview [video]

http://mixergy.com/indinero-jessica-mah-interview/

16 years ago

59 upvotes – 16 comments

Rackspace, Hostgator, Linode customers must file taxes in Texas from now on.

http://www.usataxaid.com/ustaxaid-blog/are-small-businesses-about-to-get-caught-in-texas-nexus-battle/

16 years ago

57 upvotes – 59 comments

Ask HN: What are the websites that you rely on but have horrible UI?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1782487

16 years ago

55 upvotes – 146 comments

A Python magazine

http://revista.python.org.ar/1/html-en/

16 years ago

53 upvotes – 1 comments

Twitter Co-Founders Offer Tips for Entrepreneurs

http://techcocktail.com/twitter-co-founders-offer-5-tips-for-entrepreneurs-2010-10

16 years ago

53 upvotes – 12 comments

Computers are fast

http://blog.hackensplat.com/2009/11/computers-are-fast.html

16 years ago

52 upvotes – 53 comments

Creative Commons announces the "Public Domain Mark"

http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/23830

16 years ago

52 upvotes – 19 comments

Poor People Should Probably Gamble More

http://ewjordan.blogspot.com/2010/10/poor-people-should-probably-gamble-more.html

16 years ago

50 upvotes – 54 comments

Productivity Tips for Programmers

http://blog.interviewstreet.com/?p=603

16 years ago

49 upvotes – 16 comments

Introducing Posterous for the iPhone

http://blog.posterous.com/introducing-posterous-for-the-iphone-the-only

16 years ago

48 upvotes – 10 comments

Google to map inflation using web data

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/deeb985e-d55f-11df-8e86-00144feabdc0.html

16 years ago

48 upvotes – 4 comments

USPTO likely to adopt 'peer-to-patent' (Feb 2010)

http://www.sdtimes.com/content/article.aspx?ArticleID=34113&page=1&utm_source=Peer+To+Patent+Email+Announcements&utm_campaign=2090490afa-Email_Announcement_10_11_10&utm_medium=email

16 years ago

47 upvotes – 44 comments

With Windows Phone 7, Did Microsoft Actually Bring A Gun To A Gun Fight?

http://techcrunch.com/2010/10/12/windows-phone/

16 years ago

46 upvotes – 70 comments
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