top 50% 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

Mozilla's JM crosses Apple's Nitro threshold

http://arewefastyet.com/#

16 years ago

Next Hacker News DC Meetup on Monday, Oct 18

http://www.meetup.com/JoinHNDC/calendar/15019871/

16 years ago

Hundreds Register for New Facebook Website (2004)

http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2004/2/9/hundreds-register-for-new-facebook-website/

16 years ago

Why teach with Ruby?

http://blog.hackety-hack.com/post/1313406925/why-teach-with-ruby

16 years ago

Yi an editor written in Haskell

http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Yi

16 years ago

Linear Layout for Network Visualization (End of the era of network hairballs)

http://mkweb.bcgsc.ca/linnet/

16 years ago

A brief guide to the IRC protocol

http://blog.webicity.info/2010/10/14/a-quick-basic-primer-on-the-irc-protocol/

16 years ago

Rescuers pull all 33 miners to safety

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/14/world/americas/14chile.html?_r=1&hp

16 years ago

Sculley: Apple’s Big Mistake Was Hiring Me As CEO

http://www.cultofmac.com/apple%e2%80%99s-big-mistake-was-hiring-me-as-ceo-sculley-interview/63323

16 years ago

How Mint Beat Wesabe

http://okdork.com/2010/10/14/how-mint-beat-wesabe/

16 years ago

Cloudkick (YC W09) hits 1,000,000 servers

http://www.techcrunchit.com/2010/10/14/cloudkick-now-managing-1-million-servers/

16 years ago

Reinventing the Wheel: Why no-tech ancient civilizations still can't catch up.

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2010/10/11/reinventing_the_wheel

16 years ago

An update from Balsamiq-land

http://blogs.balsamiq.com/product/2010/10/14/an-update/

16 years ago

Ask HN: How do you deploy your PHP apps to production?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1790951

16 years ago

Help fund an open source Facebook alternative: Appleseed

http://indiegogo.com/Open-Source-Social-Networking

16 years ago

"Physics shows that cell phones cannot cause cancer"

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=can-you-hear-me-now

16 years ago

PadMapper Maps Out Crime Levels of Cities

http://lifehacker.com/5663251/padmapper-now-displays-heatmaps

16 years ago

Wonderful Human Beings

http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2010/10/14/the-gervais-principle-iv-wonderful-human-beings/

16 years ago

Rails security fixes 2.3.10, 3.0.1 released

http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-security/browse_thread/thread/f9f913d328dafe0c

16 years ago

MixPanel Platform

http://mixpanel.com/api/docs/guides/platform

16 years ago

I need someone to build my website. My budget is $200 and I need it ASAP.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1789803

16 years ago

MessageParty (YC S10): How The Idea For My Startup Came At A Music Festival

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/amanda-peyton/messageparty_b_758885.html

16 years ago