top 50% hacker news stories for 2010-10-18

PayPal robbed my bank account

http://www.jacquesmattheij.com/PayPal+robbed+my+bank+account

16 years ago

378 upvotes – 185 comments

My history of (mostly failed) side projects and startups

http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/2010/10/a-history-of-failed-projects.html

16 years ago

316 upvotes – 81 comments

Show HN: Hacker News, automagically organized

http://metaoptimize.com/projects/autotag/hackernews/

16 years ago

274 upvotes – 36 comments

Ask PG: Lisp vs Python (2010)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1803351

16 years ago

232 upvotes – 192 comments

Pilot Stands Up To TSA And Refuses Full Body Scan

http://www.expressjetpilots.com/the-pipe/showthread.php?39523-Well-today-was-the-day

16 years ago

188 upvotes – 170 comments

Requiem For A Roommate

http://steveblank.com/2010/10/18/requiem-for-a-roommate/

16 years ago

185 upvotes – 9 comments

HN-Books

http://hn-books.com/

16 years ago

182 upvotes – 63 comments

Warren Buffett: Buying Berkshire Hathaway Was $200 Billion Blunder

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Warren-Buffett-Buying-cnbc-1784378699.html?x=0&sec=topStories&pos=main&asset=&ccode=

16 years ago

166 upvotes – 34 comments

Splendid Bacon: Simple Project Management for Hackers, built in 48 hours

http://splendidbacon.com

16 years ago

161 upvotes – 115 comments

Ask Tom Preston-Werner, cofounder of GitHub, anything Today, Mon 18 Oct 2010.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1804443

16 years ago

144 upvotes – 139 comments

Apple Reports Fourth Quarter Results

http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2010/10/18results.html

16 years ago

142 upvotes – 109 comments

Phusion Passenger 3.0.0 final released

http://blog.phusion.nl/2010/10/18/phusion-passenger-3-0-0-final-released/

16 years ago

141 upvotes – 4 comments

How I Pitched TechCrunch And How To Get Press When You Launch Your Startup

http://jasonlbaptiste.com/featured-articles/how-i-pitched-techcrunch-and-13-ways-to-get-press-when-you-launch-your-startup/

16 years ago

136 upvotes – 26 comments

Facebook Apps transmit Personal IDs and Friends' Names to Advertisers

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304772804575558484075236968.html?mod=djemalertTECH

16 years ago

133 upvotes – 27 comments

Ray Ozzie leaving post as Microsoft's chief software architect

http://blog.seattlepi.com/microsoft/archives/225271.asp

16 years ago

133 upvotes – 90 comments

Programming is for Stupid People

http://www.whattofix.com/blog/archives/2010/10/programming-is.php

16 years ago

118 upvotes – 67 comments

Is Microsoft in trouble?

http://www.fernstrategy.com/2010/10/18/is-microsoft-in-trouble/

16 years ago

115 upvotes – 85 comments

Bell System Technical Journal, 1922-1983

http://bstj.bell-labs.com/

16 years ago

112 upvotes – 20 comments

The Square Grid - New CSS-Grid

http://thesquaregrid.com/

16 years ago

88 upvotes – 31 comments

Desks Near Me - find great coworking places to work at

http://desksnear.me/

16 years ago

88 upvotes – 76 comments

Tldr.it - Summarizer for RSS feeds and other web pages (built in 48 hours)

http://tldr.it

16 years ago

85 upvotes – 43 comments

Redis: under the hood

http://www.pauladamsmith.com/articles/redis_under_the_hood.html

16 years ago

84 upvotes – 0 comments

Redis, from the Ground Up

http://blog.mjrusso.com/2010/10/17/redis-from-the-ground-up.html

16 years ago

83 upvotes – 13 comments

Napping at work. A company that gets it.

http://blog.transloc.com/?p=47

16 years ago

79 upvotes – 35 comments

Warn HN: When PayPal doesn't know the meaning of "Donation"...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1803488

16 years ago

76 upvotes – 36 comments

Lessons from PostgreSQL's Git transition

http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/409635/d605f07a2dc7bf27/

16 years ago

75 upvotes – 35 comments

Stop the Signature File Insanity

http://gadgetwise.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/14/stop-signature-file-insanity/

16 years ago

73 upvotes – 67 comments

Eye Tracking vs. Mouse Tracking

http://www.gazehawk.com/blog/eye-tracking-vs-mouse-tracking/

16 years ago

67 upvotes – 19 comments

MVC, PVC and (¬M)VC

http://github.com/raganwald/homoiconic/blob/master/2010/10/vc_without_m.md

16 years ago

★ 1.8k Ruby
66 upvotes – 18 comments

Advice for YC Applicants: Better Last-Minute than Late

http://ycombinator.posterous.com/advice-for-yc-applicants-better-last-minute-t

16 years ago

65 upvotes – 53 comments

10 web start-ups (all mine) ... and why they failed

http://coding.pressbin.com/50/10-web-start-ups-all-mine--and-why-they-failed/

16 years ago

64 upvotes – 23 comments

Rails Rumble Apps

http://railsrumble.com/teams

16 years ago

62 upvotes – 14 comments

Here's how you can opt out from 100 different online ad networks in one go

http://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp

16 years ago

62 upvotes – 23 comments

Paul Graham: New trends in startup fundraising [video]

http://www.justin.tv/c3oorg/b/272030715

16 years ago

62 upvotes – 9 comments

Understanding "randomness"

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3956478

16 years ago

60 upvotes – 21 comments

Twitter Mood Predicts The Stock Market

http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/25900/

16 years ago

59 upvotes – 36 comments

Japan: To Fix Your Economy, Honor Your Failed Entrepreneurs

http://techcrunch.com/2010/10/17/japan-to-fix-your-economy-honor-your-failed-entrepreneurs/

16 years ago

56 upvotes – 36 comments

How Porn Can Hijack Your Brain

http://www.alternet.org/sex/148399/how_porn_can_hijack_your_brain/?page=entire

16 years ago

56 upvotes – 4 comments

Pythonist's thoughts on Clojure after 3 days of learning and coding

http://sayspy.blogspot.com/2010/10/my-thoughts-on-clojure.html

16 years ago

52 upvotes – 9 comments

Why Companies Keep Pay a Secret

http://www.smartmoney.com/personal-finance/employment/why-companies-keep-pay-a-secret/

16 years ago

51 upvotes – 64 comments

Ask HN: What information do you consider before investing in a stock?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1801846

16 years ago

51 upvotes – 25 comments

What is Clojure good at?

http://cleancode.se/2010/10/17/what-is-clojure-good-at.html

16 years ago

49 upvotes – 31 comments

IPv4 Space Shrinks To 5% – Final Addresses To Be Issued In Early 2011

http://techcrunch.com/2010/10/18/ipv4/

16 years ago

47 upvotes – 67 comments

How We Raised $1.3 Million as First-Time Founders

http://viniciusvacanti.com/2010/10/how-we-raised-1-3-million-as-first-time-founders/

16 years ago

44 upvotes – 6 comments
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