top 50% hacker news stories for 2010-10-20

Embarrassing Flaws That Made My ‘Weekend’ App Possible

http://yieldthought.com/post/1345897970/10-flaws-that-made-my-weekend-app-possible

16 years ago

279 upvotes – 66 comments

The Disruptor In The Valley

http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2010/1108/best-small-companies-10-y-combinator-paul-graham-disruptor.html

16 years ago

197 upvotes – 44 comments

Google Groups Data To Be Destroyed

http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=308700

16 years ago

193 upvotes – 84 comments

Reddit Founder: “I Wish I Still Owned Reddit Now”

http://mixergy.com/steve-huffman-reddit-interview/

16 years ago

190 upvotes – 121 comments

Low Level Bit Hacks You Must Know

http://www.catonmat.net/blog/low-level-bit-hacks-you-absolutely-must-know

16 years ago

158 upvotes – 47 comments

Apple brings App Store to Mac OS X

http://www.engadget.com/2010/10/20/app-store-for-os-x-unveiled/

16 years ago

155 upvotes – 223 comments

Google Engineer Builds Facebook Disconnect

http://techcrunch.com/2010/10/20/google-facebook-disconnec/

16 years ago

135 upvotes – 50 comments

Glibc vulnerability allows any user to get root access

http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2010/Oct/257

16 years ago

130 upvotes – 34 comments

A JavaScript IDE for the iPhone

http://webdesktoplife.com/post/1358032790/a-javascript-ide-for-the-iphone

16 years ago

127 upvotes – 26 comments

Facelette: Chat Roulette for FaceTime

http://facelette.com/

16 years ago

119 upvotes – 27 comments

I’ve Made $216,688 From Products This Year

http://unicornfree.com/2010/i-made-216668-from-products/

16 years ago

114 upvotes – 34 comments

Programming is hard

http://writing.bryanwoods4e.com/1-poor-poor-child

16 years ago

113 upvotes – 95 comments

Facetime for the Mac

http://www.apple.com/mac/facetime/

16 years ago

108 upvotes – 82 comments

Mac OS X.7 "Lion" preview

http://www.apple.com/macosx/lion/

16 years ago

107 upvotes – 132 comments

London Stock Exchange smashes world record trade speed with Linux

http://www.computerworlduk.com/news/networking/3244936/london-stock-exchange-smashes-world-record-trade-speed-with-linux/?cmpid=sbycombinatorrplant

16 years ago

105 upvotes – 53 comments

Knockout: JS library for rich UIs, declarative bindings, and dependency tracking

http://knockoutjs.com/

16 years ago

103 upvotes – 45 comments

Programming Android (O'Reilly Labs)

http://programming-android.labs.oreilly.com/index.html

16 years ago

98 upvotes – 2 comments

Clever social engineering. A malicious web page that tells you it's malicious.

http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/00002051.html

16 years ago

98 upvotes – 24 comments

Indian man of 100 goes back to university for PhD

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-11578763

16 years ago

95 upvotes – 24 comments

Developer Joe Hewitt Tears Into Android’s Definition Of “Open”

http://techcrunch.com/2010/10/19/developer-joe-hewitt-tears-into-androids-definition-of-open/

16 years ago

92 upvotes – 85 comments

Do something positive - leave your job

http://shop.holstee.com/pages/about

16 years ago

89 upvotes – 37 comments

Joe Hewitt: Android and Open Source

http://joehewitt.com/post/android-and-open-source/

16 years ago

87 upvotes – 36 comments

A Brief Look At Paul Graham's Writing Habits (with Charts)

http://andrewacove.posterous.com/wip-pg-essays

16 years ago

87 upvotes – 30 comments

Edward Tufte's impression of Windows Phone 7

http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0003cy&topic_id=1&topic=Ask+E.T.

16 years ago

85 upvotes – 27 comments

Chuck Moore's 144-computers chip is now available

http://www.greenarraychips.com/home/products/index.html

16 years ago

85 upvotes – 47 comments

Marco Arment: The new MacBook Air

http://www.marco.org/1361316116

16 years ago

82 upvotes – 121 comments

Ask HN: What to do when co-workers don't aspire beyond getting their paychecks?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1811050

16 years ago

81 upvotes – 54 comments

Real Go Projects: SmartTwitter and web.go

http://blog.golang.org/2010/10/real-go-projects-smarttwitter-and-webgo.html

16 years ago

80 upvotes – 25 comments

Steve Jobs' business card from 1979

http://obamapacman.com/2010/10/steve-jobs-apple-vp-business-card-circa-1979/

16 years ago

80 upvotes – 22 comments

My experience of selling the same apps on iOS and on Android (with numbers)

http://speedanatomy.blogspot.com/2010/10/iphone-vs-android-app-sales-numbers.html

16 years ago

80 upvotes – 20 comments

Library of Congress: Copyright is killing sound archiving

http://www.boingboing.net/2010/10/11/library-of-congress-3.html

16 years ago

79 upvotes – 13 comments

Ask HN: What are you working on right now?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1809673

16 years ago

78 upvotes – 195 comments

Apple releases 11.6" Instant-On MacBook Air for $999

http://www.apple.com/macbookair/

16 years ago

63 upvotes – 144 comments

Harvard and the Making of the Unabomber (2000)

http://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/issues/2000/06/chase.htm

16 years ago

58 upvotes – 12 comments

‘Angry Birds’ Developer: We Have Not Sold To EA

http://techcrunch.com/2010/10/20/angry-birds-developer-we-have-not-sold-to-ea/

16 years ago

56 upvotes – 11 comments

Pilot who refused body scan at Memphis International blasts TSA security

http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2010/oct/20/pilot-who-refused-body-scan-blasts-tsa/

16 years ago

55 upvotes – 16 comments

Old Military Planes Could Drop 900,000 Tree-Bombs a Day

http://www.treehugger.com/files/2010/10/old-military-planes-drop-900000-tree-bombs-day.php

16 years ago

53 upvotes – 20 comments

'Back to the Mac' Official Apple Livestream

http://events.apple.com.edgesuite.net/1010qwoeiuryfg/event/index.html

16 years ago

51 upvotes – 102 comments

Taking the redpill: Artificial Evolution in native x86 systems

http://vx.netlux.org/lib/vsp26.html

16 years ago

51 upvotes – 9 comments

Why I Am Excited about Riak Search

http://blog.basho.com/2010/10/20/why-i-am-excited-about-riak-search/

16 years ago

48 upvotes – 5 comments

President Obama Signs a Temporary Bill to Encourage More Angel Investing

http://www.goodwinprocter.com/Publications/Newsletters/Client-Alert/2010/Temporary-Exclusion-for-100-of-Gain-from-Qualified-Small-Business-Stock-Acquired-By-Year-End.aspx?article=1#news_article_top

16 years ago

48 upvotes – 47 comments

Reasons startups move to Silicon Valley And Things Boston can do to keep them

http://www.masshightech.com/stories/2010/10/18/daily38-5-reasons-startups-move-to-Silicon-Valleyand-5-things-Boston-can-do-to-keep-them.html

16 years ago

48 upvotes – 23 comments

Portrait of the Entrepreneur as an Old Man

http://myjunto.com/portrait-of-the-entrepreneur-as-an-old-man

16 years ago

47 upvotes – 19 comments

Young & Stupid: How I Made 2.5 Million

http://www.andrewfashion.com/2009/12/05/how-i-made-2-5-million/

16 years ago

45 upvotes – 42 comments

So Long, Carbonmade: A feature from conception to completion in one day.

http://spencerfry.com/so-long-carbonmade

16 years ago

43 upvotes – 9 comments

IPad's Natural User Interface at Work

http://blogs.oracle.com/usableapps/2010/07/ipads-natural-user-interface-a.html

16 years ago

43 upvotes – 3 comments

RIM Responds to Apple’s ‘Distortion Field’

http://blogs.blackberry.com/2010/10/rim-responds-to-apples-distortion-field/

16 years ago

42 upvotes – 17 comments

Unlogo - The Corporate Identity Media Filter

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/816924031/unlogo-the-corporate-media-filter-0?ref=newsletter&utm_campaign=Oct20&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter

16 years ago

41 upvotes – 9 comments

Small Vegetable Plant to Debut for Use in Restaurants

http://techon.nikkeibp.co.jp/english/NEWS_EN/20100614/183423/

16 years ago

41 upvotes – 21 comments

A few comments on Paul Graham re superangels

http://cdixon.posterous.com/a-few-comments-on-paul-graham-re-superangels

16 years ago

41 upvotes – 0 comments

Why Fragmentation isn't a problem for Android or Linux

http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/208193/why_fragmentation_isnt_a_problem_for_android_or_linux.html

16 years ago

40 upvotes – 54 comments
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