top 50% hacker news stories for 2010-10-17

Ask HN: Do we no longer support our members?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1801727

16 years ago

PG: Thank you for putting on Startup School

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1799373

16 years ago

Please support Saeed - Web Dev facing death sentence in Iran

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1799831

16 years ago

Stay up late while you can. It pays off

http://www.aiga.org/content.cfm/stay-up-late

16 years ago

GNU Parallel - build and execute command lines from standard input in parallel

http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/parallel

16 years ago

List of YC Companies

http://yclist.com

16 years ago

Adobe Illustrator → HTML5 Canvas. Free.

http://visitmix.com/labs/ai2canvas/index.html

16 years ago

Why we moved to Linode

http://blog.superfeedr.com/linode/

16 years ago

Video on Steve Jobs personality

http://www.bloomberg.com/video/63722844/?ref=nf

16 years ago

The "ladies' night" strategy

http://cdixon.org/2010/10/16/the-ladies-night-strategy/

16 years ago

Canonical, Ltd. On Record: Seeking Open Core

http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2010/10/17/shuttleworth-admits-it.html

16 years ago

Oracle Asks OpenOffice Community Members To Leave

http://developers.slashdot.org/story/10/10/17/0210209/Oracle-Asks-OpenOffice-Community-Members-To-Leave

16 years ago

Xerox Alto for sale on eBay

http://cgi.ebay.com/Xerox-Alto-Vintage-Computer-Ultra-Rare-system-complete_W0QQitemZ320602942545QQcategoryZ4193QQcmdZViewItemQQ_trksidZp4340.m8QQ_trkparmsZalgo%3DMW%26its%3DC%26itu%3DUCC%26otn%3D5%26ps%3D63%26clkid%3D4944756747746538267

16 years ago

Lua Doesn't Suck – Strange Loop 2010 20-minute talk video

http://kylecordes.com/2010/lua-strange-loop

16 years ago

Programmers: how to make the systems guy love you

http://mocko.org.uk/b/2010/10/17/programmers-how-to-make-the-systems-guy-love-you/

16 years ago

Scalable System Design Patterns

http://horicky.blogspot.com/2010/10/scalable-system-design-patterns.html

16 years ago

Facebook Disables All LOLapps Games and Apps

http://www.insidesocialgames.com/2010/10/16/facebook-bans-lolapps/

16 years ago

Why I love text files

http://www.matthias-endler.de/2010/why-i-love-text-files/

16 years ago

The next big language

http://eugenkiss.com/blog/2010/the-next-big-language/

16 years ago

What Do Real Thugs Think of The Wire?

http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/01/09/what-do-real-thugs-think-of-the-wire/

16 years ago

BBS, Lua, Coroutines, Mongrel2: Part 1

http://sheddingbikes.com/posts/1287306747.html

16 years ago

Ask HN: Tax Haven for startups?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1800824

16 years ago

Why don't we use functional programming languages more? (2004)

http://tratt.net/laurie/tech_articles/articles/why_dont_we_use_functional_programming_languages_more

16 years ago

Technology Lock-In with the DC Metro

http://sunlightlabs.com/blog/2010/technology-lock-in-with-the-dc-metro/

16 years ago

Ask HN: Necessary piracy?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1801640

16 years ago

Graphics Transform 600-Year-Old Clock Tower Into A Virtual Masterpiece

http://kotaku.com/5664245/graphics-transform-600+year+old-clock-tower-into-a-virtual-masterpiece

16 years ago

My Favorite Startup Lessons From Startup School

http://gigaom.com/2010/10/16/my-9-favorite-startup-lessons-from-startup-school/

16 years ago

Ask HN: What are the best podcasts about startups/entrepreneurship?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1801769

16 years ago

My Startup School experience.

http://sahillavingia.com/blog/?p=49&preview=true

16 years ago

Peter Thiel: $100k grant to 20 founders who drop out of school

http://thielfoundation.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=14:the-thiel-fellowship-20-under-20&catid=1&Itemid=16

16 years ago

BSA pressuring the European Commission to remove support for Open Standards

http://www.fsfe.org/projects/os/bsa-letter-analysis.html.en

16 years ago