top 50% hacker news stories for 2010-10-19

The reverse job applicant

http://www.reversejobapplication.com/

16 years ago

518 upvotes – 302 comments

OK, here's the thing: this is only the entrance of the rabbit hole.

http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/dst56/today_i_learned_about_php_variable_variables/c12np38

16 years ago

264 upvotes – 86 comments

The New Funding Landscape

http://paulgraham.com/superangels.html

16 years ago

246 upvotes – 51 comments

From 0 to 450k, an App Store Success Story - With Charts and Numbers

http://struct.ca/2010/the-story-so-far/#

16 years ago

222 upvotes – 63 comments

Apple changes words in order to change the debate

http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2620-change-the-words-and-you-change-the-debate

16 years ago

183 upvotes – 135 comments

IDE WTF

http://lukepalmer.wordpress.com/2010/10/18/idewtf/

16 years ago

173 upvotes – 139 comments

People who destroy entrepreneurial value are the scum of the earth

http://ryanwaggoner.com/2010/10/people-who-destroy-entrepreneurial-value-are-the-scum-of-the-earth/

16 years ago

152 upvotes – 40 comments

California Highway Patrol salaries

http://www.sacbee.com/statepay/?name=&agency=CALIFORNIA+HIGHWAY+PATROL&salarylevel=

16 years ago

149 upvotes – 169 comments

Tell HN: The Submissions System is Broken

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1808884

16 years ago

136 upvotes – 49 comments

Enterprise Javascript is...

http://enterprise-js.com/

16 years ago

127 upvotes – 51 comments

MakerLegoBot: A Lego Mindstorms NXT 3D Lego Printer

http://battlebricks.com/makerlegobot/

16 years ago

123 upvotes – 32 comments

Python is now Python 3

http://www.archlinux.org/news/python-is-now-python-3/

16 years ago

122 upvotes – 64 comments

60 percent of Apple’s sales are from products that did not exist three years ago

http://www.asymco.com/2010/10/19/60-percent-of-apples-sales-are-from-products-that-did-not-exist-three-years-ago/

16 years ago

107 upvotes – 44 comments

Pistol Slut, a 2D shoot-em-up platformer in Javascript

http://pistolslut.com

16 years ago

99 upvotes – 59 comments

Mozilla Open Web App prototype

http://blog.mozilla.com/blog/2010/10/19/prototype-of-an-open-web-app-ecosystem/

16 years ago

96 upvotes – 47 comments

Protovis - A visualization toolkit for JavaScript using SVG.

http://github.com/mbostock/protovis/

16 years ago

★ 627 JavaScript
92 upvotes – 25 comments

How to Push Past the Pain, as the Champions Do

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/19/health/nutrition/19best.html

16 years ago

91 upvotes – 76 comments

Android Chief Andy Rubin Sends His First Tweet — And It’s Aimed At Steve Jobs

http://techcrunch.com/2010/10/19/andy-rubin-twitter/

16 years ago

87 upvotes – 111 comments

Startup School 2010 Talks (videos)

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

16 years ago

86 upvotes – 7 comments

Why didn’t people in finance pay attention to Benoit Mandelbrot?

http://blogs.reuters.com/justinfox/2010/10/18/why-didn’t-people-in-finance-pay-attention-to-benoit-mandelbrot/

16 years ago

86 upvotes – 48 comments

Does the angry blue bird multiply its mass?

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/10/does-the-angry-blue-bird-multiply-its-mass

16 years ago

84 upvotes – 12 comments

Tech/Startup focused product? Don't support IE

http://playnice.ly/blog/2010/10/19/techstartup-focused-product-dont-support-ie/

16 years ago

71 upvotes – 59 comments

Why I eat alone and probably you should too

http://planetunknown.blogspot.com/2010/10/why-i-eat-alone-and-probably-you-should.html

16 years ago

64 upvotes – 64 comments

Using MySQL as NoSQL Store

http://yoshinorimatsunobu.blogspot.com/2010/10/using-mysql-as-nosql-story-for.html

16 years ago

63 upvotes – 4 comments

NASA Ames’ Worden reveals DARPA-funded ‘Hundred Year Starship’ program

http://www.kurzweilai.net/nasa-ames-worden-reveals-darpa-funded-hundred-year-starship-program?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

16 years ago

63 upvotes – 28 comments

Ask HN: how many years have you "wasted" on failed startups? And any regrets?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1805922

16 years ago

63 upvotes – 47 comments

Any bad experiences with Y combinator?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1807979

16 years ago

60 upvotes – 42 comments

Elaborate fake Chevron PR campaign created by subversive ad group

http://tedfellows.posterous.com/chevron-spoofed-in-a-fantastic-hoax-by-the-br

16 years ago

59 upvotes – 9 comments

Opera Browser AMA (Ask Me Anything) on reddit

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/dtbcz/hey_reddit_join_the_opera_browser_team_for_an/

16 years ago

59 upvotes – 37 comments

Pitfalls of Dirty Code

http://aegisknight.livejournal.com/138346.html

16 years ago

54 upvotes – 16 comments

Improving Clojure Contrib

http://groups.google.com/group/clojure/browse_thread/thread/c40ff3e876b4b370/f6fcb96fd695635c?show_docid=f6fcb96fd695635c

16 years ago

54 upvotes – 12 comments

China Is Said to Halt Exports to U.S. of Some Key Minerals

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/20/business/global/20rare.html

16 years ago

52 upvotes – 41 comments

Google to bring Dead Sea Scrolls online

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Google-to-bring-Dead-Sea-apf-2071511005.html?x=0&sec=topStories&pos=8&asset=&ccode=

16 years ago

51 upvotes – 11 comments

Wilson, a Django-inspired node.js framework

http://github.com/chrisdickinson/wilson

16 years ago

★ 94 JavaScript
51 upvotes – 16 comments

Summary of useful tools and resources for working in Google App Engine

http://code.google.com/appengine/tools_tips.html

16 years ago

48 upvotes – 5 comments

Ask HN: Whats the best way to start web development on lisp?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1809297

16 years ago

48 upvotes – 35 comments

Apple Has $51 Billion and a Shopping List. Is Facebook On It?

http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/20101018/live-apple-earnings-call-2/

16 years ago

48 upvotes – 52 comments

How to make wooden gears

http://woodgears.ca/gear/howto.html

16 years ago

46 upvotes – 18 comments

Stuff Costs More Than You Think

http://thintz.com/essays/less-stuff

16 years ago

46 upvotes – 24 comments

Kaspersky's Download Site Hacked

http://www.securityweek.com/kasperskys-us-download-site-attacked-users-experience-malicious-redirect

16 years ago

45 upvotes – 8 comments
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