top 20 hacker news stories for 2010-10-14

Rollover image on your website? That will be $80,000 (please)

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/10/patent-troll-takes-over-the-web-can-it-be-stopped.ars

16 years ago

Stop Googling

http://railstips.org/blog/archives/2010/10/14/stop-googling/

16 years ago

ZestCash is Not Good.

http://jasonfager.com/934-zestcash-is-not-good/

16 years ago

My list of ideas, if you're looking for inspiration

http://jacquesmattheij.com/My+list+of+ideas+for+when+you+are+looking+for+inspiration

16 years ago

Stop Speaking in Bullshit

http://blog.danilocampos.com/2010/10/13/stop-speaking-in-bullshit/

16 years ago

Photos from the making of Empire Strikes Back

http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/features/2010/10/the-making-of-the-empire-strikes-back-201010?currentPage=all

16 years ago

Cult Creation

http://blognewcomb.squarespace.com/essays/2010/10/14/cult-creation.html

16 years ago

John Sculley: The Secrets of Steve Jobs’ Success

http://www.cultofmac.com/john-sculley-the-secrets-of-steve-jobs-success-exclusive-interview/21572

16 years ago

Land of Lisp: Learn to Program in Lisp, One Game at a Time

http://oreilly.com/catalog/9781593272814/

16 years ago

The interruptible programmer

http://www.stevestreeting.com/2010/09/04/work-2-0/

16 years ago

Why You Should Start Marketing the Day You Start Coding

http://www.softwarebyrob.com/2010/10/14/startup-marketing-part-6-why-you-should-start-marketing-the-day-you-start-coding/

16 years ago

Loser-Pays makes lawsuits fairer in Europe. It could work in US, too

http://reason.com/archives/1995/06/01/civil-suits

16 years ago

Typedefs & Linus

http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0206.1/0402.html

16 years ago

PyPy gets faster

http://www.ripton.net/blog/?p=59

16 years ago

Fast blurring algorithm written in JavaScript and demoed using YUI

http://people.mozilla.org/~shaver/StackBlurDemo.html

16 years ago

How to make your YC application stand out

http://formisfunction.posterous.com/how-to-make-your-yc-application-stand-out

16 years ago

ARel 2.0: Active Record Performance in Rails 3.0.2

http://engineering.attinteractive.com/2010/10/arel-two-point-ohhhhh-yaaaaaa/

16 years ago

Microsoft unwittingly admits OpenOffice.org is a threat

http://blogs.computerworlduk.com/open-enterprise/2010/10/microsoft-gives-its-blessing-to-openofficeorg/index.htm?cmpid=sbycombinatorschapman

16 years ago

Too Dumb to Fail?

http://logiccolony.com/2010/10/14/Too-Dumb-to-Fail.html

16 years ago

OS X 10.7 “Lion”: The King Of The Apple Jungle, The Last Of Its Kind, Or Both?

http://techcrunch.com/2010/10/13/os-x-lion-10-7/

16 years ago