top 50% hacker news stories for 2010-10-21

Amazon AWS Free Usage Tier

http://aws.amazon.com/free/

16 years ago

479 upvotes – 137 comments

Apple deprecates Java

http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#releasenotes/Java/JavaSnowLeopardUpdate3LeopardUpdate8RN/NewandNoteworthy/NewandNoteworthy.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40010380-CH4-SW1

16 years ago

386 upvotes – 268 comments

After 4 years of self-funded coding marathons I feel "finished", care to talk?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1817883

16 years ago

379 upvotes – 184 comments

The Tax Haven That's Saving Google Billions

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/10_44/b4201043146825.htm

16 years ago

285 upvotes – 286 comments

The End of x86?

http://www.fernstrategy.com/2010/10/21/the-end-of-x86/

16 years ago

203 upvotes – 115 comments

Facelette: On TechCrunch in Three Hours and $0

http://zachholman.com/2010/10/facelette-on-techcrunch-in-three-hours-and-zero-dollars/

16 years ago

159 upvotes – 49 comments

Review others websites and they review yours

http://feedbackroulette.com/

16 years ago

129 upvotes – 42 comments

Try Arc

http://tryarc.org/

16 years ago

126 upvotes – 25 comments

Computing at scale, or, how Google has warped my brain

http://matt-welsh.blogspot.com/2010/10/computing-at-scale-or-how-google-has.html

16 years ago

119 upvotes – 43 comments

Why complex life probably evolved only once

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18734-why-complex-life-probably-evolved-only-once.html

16 years ago

113 upvotes – 76 comments

Why Apple saddled the MacBook Air with "gimped" CPUs

http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2010/10/why-apple-saddled-the-macbook-air-with-gimped-cpus.ars

16 years ago

101 upvotes – 93 comments

It Gets Better: Google Employees

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYLs4NCgvNU&feature=player_embedded

16 years ago

93 upvotes – 26 comments

How I Snuck Into The Ivy League. And You Can Too.

http://crushable.com/other-stuff/how-i-snuck-into-the-ivy-league-and-you-can-too/

16 years ago

91 upvotes – 84 comments

Ask HN: starting a career in software dev in my thirties, am I nuts?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1815395

16 years ago

88 upvotes – 80 comments

Moon Not Only Has Water, but Lots of It

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303339504575566194097878552.html?mod=e2tw

16 years ago

88 upvotes – 58 comments

Why services should offer marginal features (with apologies to 37signals)

http://zencoder.com/encoder-blog/2010/10/21/marginal-features/

16 years ago

86 upvotes – 35 comments

Why we don't schedule deployments during off-hours

http://blog.scoutapp.com/articles/2010/10/21/why-we-dont-schedule-deployments-during-off-hours

16 years ago

85 upvotes – 54 comments

Jim Hugunin leaves Microsoft and IronPython

http://hugunin.net/microsoft_farewell.html

16 years ago

84 upvotes – 20 comments

Graphic novel piracy on 4chan leads to massive spike in sales

http://www.geek.com/articles/news/graphic-novel-piracy-on-4chan-leads-to-massive-spike-in-sales-20101021/

16 years ago

83 upvotes – 33 comments

Anandtech's Detailed WP7 Review

http://www.anandtech.com/show/3982/windows-phone-7-review/

16 years ago

82 upvotes – 35 comments

MacRuby and the Mac App Store

http://www.rubyinside.com/macruby-and-the-mac-app-store-3922.html

16 years ago

78 upvotes – 17 comments

How to measure page load time with google analytics

http://blog.yottaa.com/2010/10/how-to-measure-page-load-time-with-google-analytics/

16 years ago

69 upvotes – 16 comments

Calgary's new mayor: "Politics in full sentences"

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/toronto/marcus-gee/our-contenders-pale-next-to-calgarys-exciting-new-mayor/article1766388/

16 years ago

67 upvotes – 19 comments

A Plea to Amazon: Fix Mechanical Turk

http://behind-the-enemy-lines.blogspot.com/2010/10/plea-to-amazon-fix-mechanical-turk.html

16 years ago

64 upvotes – 21 comments

MacBook Air ships without Flash

http://www.engadget.com/2010/10/20/macbook-air-all-substance-no-flash/

16 years ago

62 upvotes – 57 comments

"I wrote this film, and I am doing everything I can to prevent its release"

http://www.imdb.com/user/ur13063707/comments

16 years ago

62 upvotes – 12 comments

Ask HN: How to learn Javascript and HTML for devs coming from C++/Java/Python?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1815212

16 years ago

60 upvotes – 52 comments

The language I wish Go was

http://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2010/10/21/the-language-i-wish-go-was/

16 years ago

59 upvotes – 66 comments

Rands in Repose: How nerds and geeks parse the world

http://www.randsinrepose.com/archives/2010/10/21/an_unexpected_connection.html

16 years ago

57 upvotes – 16 comments

Real-time heatmap example with Javascript and HTMLCanvas

http://www.patrick-wied.at/static/heatmap/

16 years ago

54 upvotes – 14 comments

How to turn data into money

http://petewarden.typepad.com/searchbrowser/2010/10/how-to-turn-data-into-money.html

16 years ago

53 upvotes – 6 comments

Study Reveals Big Opportunities in the Sharing Economy

http://www.life-connected.com/2010/10/sharing-study-results-part-3-uncovering-big-opportunities-in-the-sharing-economy/

16 years ago

44 upvotes – 9 comments

Why The Shortage Of UI Engineers Is Going To Get Worse

http://www.usabilitycounts.com/2010/10/20/six-reasons-why-the-shortage-of-ui-engineers-is-going-to-get-worse/

16 years ago

44 upvotes – 38 comments

Does Rapleaf scare you?

http://gigaom.com/2010/10/21/rapleaf-web-startups/

16 years ago

44 upvotes – 17 comments
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