top 50% hacker news stories for 2010-10-16

Benoit Mandelbrot, RIP

http://kottke.org/10/10/benoit-mandelbrot-rip

16 years ago

338 upvotes – 83 comments

What's the shebang (#!) in Facebook and new Twitter URLs for?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3009380/whats-the-shebang-in-facebook-and-new-twitter-urls-for

16 years ago

231 upvotes – 43 comments

Android

http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2010/10/android.html

16 years ago

168 upvotes – 186 comments

JQuery Mobile Alpha 1 Released

http://jquerymobile.com/2010/10/jquery-mobile-alpha-1-released/

16 years ago

147 upvotes – 48 comments

Design Strategies for a Successful Pricing Table

http://uxmovement.com/design-articles/7-useful-design-strategies-for-a-successful-pricing-table

16 years ago

134 upvotes – 26 comments

99 Out Of 100 Programmers Can’t Program – I Call BS

http://www.skorks.com/2010/10/99-out-of-100-programmers-cant-program-i-call-bullshit/

16 years ago

132 upvotes – 161 comments

Benoît B. Mandelbrot (1924-2010), Father of Fractal Geometry

http://laughingsquid.com/benoit-b-mandelbrot-1924-2010-father-of-fractal-geometry/

16 years ago

128 upvotes – 3 comments

jQuery 1.4.3 Released

http://blog.jquery.com/2010/10/16/jquery-143-released/

16 years ago

103 upvotes – 35 comments

IE9 is the IE6 of CSS3

http://css3wizardry.com/2010/08/14/ie9-is-the-ie6-of-css3/

16 years ago

96 upvotes – 56 comments

Startup School 2010

http://justin.tv/startupschool

16 years ago

88 upvotes – 20 comments

The inventor of microfleece refused to patent it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polar_fleece

16 years ago

81 upvotes – 21 comments

Briefing: Cancer is not a disease of the modern world

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn19591-briefing-cancer-is-not-a-disease-of-the-modern-world.html

16 years ago

72 upvotes – 50 comments

WikiLeaks and 9/11: What if?

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-rowley-wikileaks-20101015,0,5616717.story

16 years ago

68 upvotes – 38 comments

Ask HN: What is the most profitable way to self-publish e-books?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1797868

16 years ago

68 upvotes – 45 comments

How to Look at Mondrian

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-elkins/post_1036_b_756669.html?view=print

16 years ago

64 upvotes – 5 comments

Tell HN: hntrades.com

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1797260

16 years ago

63 upvotes – 30 comments

How We're Wrecking Our Feet With Every Step We Take

http://nymag.com/health/features/46213/

16 years ago

62 upvotes – 73 comments

Phono - JQuery plugin to create a phone in your browser

http://www.phono.com/

16 years ago

60 upvotes – 30 comments

Ask HN: Zero programming experience and badly want to learn. Where to start?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1797762

16 years ago

55 upvotes – 44 comments

Google launches In-Page Analytics

http://www.downloadsquad.com/2010/10/15/google-launches-in-page-analytics/

16 years ago

54 upvotes – 8 comments

Armdroid

http://www.fernstrategy.com/2010/10/16/armdroid/

16 years ago

54 upvotes – 10 comments

Backbone.js sample app with Sinatra Backend

http://afewgoodlines.com/post/1329452279/a-backbone-js-demo-app-sinatra-backend

16 years ago

46 upvotes – 5 comments

Self-Balancing Unicycle Only Half as Dorky as Segway

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/10/self-balancing-unicycle-only-half-as-dorky-as-segway/

16 years ago

45 upvotes – 24 comments

Nodaphone — library to control your webapp with your phone

http://dtrejo.no.de/

16 years ago

44 upvotes – 8 comments

EBook Pricing Goes Outright Insane

http://mikecanex.wordpress.com/2010/10/16/ebook-pricing-goes-outright-insane/

16 years ago

43 upvotes – 83 comments

Live video stream of Startup School today 9:30AM - 5:30 Pacific

http://www.justin.tv/startupschool#

16 years ago

42 upvotes – 11 comments

POSIX_ME_HARDER

http://karmak.org/archive/2003/01/12-14-99.epl.html

16 years ago

42 upvotes – 10 comments

How Yahoo's Latest Acquisition Stole & Broke My Heart

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/when.php

16 years ago

41 upvotes – 15 comments
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