top 50% hacker news stories for 2010-10-22

What We Look for in Founders

http://paulgraham.com/founders.html

16 years ago

362 upvotes – 174 comments

Ewww, You Use PHP?

http://www.mailchimp.com/blog/

16 years ago

276 upvotes – 226 comments

Email from Steve Jobs re: Java and OS X

http://flic.kr/p/8M3fPG

16 years ago

197 upvotes – 160 comments

There are 5,057 janitors in the U.S. with PhDs

http://chronicle.com/blogs/innovations/why-did-17-million-students-go-to-college/27634

16 years ago

179 upvotes – 144 comments

Stop Looking for a Technical Co-Founder, Learn to Code Yourself

http://ror.kateray.net/post/1312957018/the-internet-teaches-you-ruby-on-rails

16 years ago

150 upvotes – 82 comments

Amazon to add "lending" feature to Kindle

http://www.amazon.com/tag/kindle/forum/ref=cm_cd_tfp_ef_tft_tp?_encoding=UTF8&cdForum=Fx1D7SY3BVSESG&cdThread=Tx1G2UIO9PJO50V&displayType=tagsDetail

16 years ago

143 upvotes – 85 comments

Stop the Internet blacklist

http://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/stop-the-internet-blacklist

16 years ago

143 upvotes – 24 comments

Piknik - my full screen color picker

http://color.aurlien.net/

16 years ago

140 upvotes – 42 comments

Being Steve Jobs's Boss

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/10_44/b4201096309840.htm?chan=magazine+channel_top+stories

16 years ago

111 upvotes – 23 comments

Wikileaks Iraq War Diaries

http://warlogs.wikileaks.org/

16 years ago

111 upvotes – 4 comments

How to write cross-platform code

http://blog.backblaze.com/2008/12/15/10-rules-for-how-to-write-cross-platform-code

16 years ago

109 upvotes – 40 comments

Apple Is No Longer Bundling Flash Player With Mac OS X

http://daringfireball.net/2010/10/apple_no_longer_bundling_flash_with_mac_os_x

16 years ago

102 upvotes – 83 comments

On a New Road : James Gosling on Apple and Java

http://nighthacks.com/roller/jag/entry/steve_jobs_comments_on_apple

16 years ago

101 upvotes – 82 comments

Watching Apple: A closer look at iPhone transition animations

http://watchingapple.com/2009/11/a-closer-look-at-iphone-transition-animations/

16 years ago

97 upvotes – 33 comments

How serial #s on Nazi tanks gave the Allies a big strategic advantage

http://us1.campaign-archive.com/?u=2889002ad89d45ca21f50ba46&id=c6f4cf92c4

16 years ago

93 upvotes – 54 comments

Taco Bell Programming

http://teddziuba.com/2010/10/taco-bell-programming.html

16 years ago

92 upvotes – 11 comments

A Short, Simple Introduction to Information Theory

http://knol.google.com/k/ryan-moulton/a-short-simple-introduction-to/3kbzhsxyg4467/7#view

16 years ago

87 upvotes – 14 comments

Game Changers: Jon Stewart [video]

http://www.bloomberg.com/video/63932062/

16 years ago

86 upvotes – 14 comments

Chromeless: Build your own browser

http://mozillalabs.com/chromeless/2010/10/21/chromeless-build-your-own-browser-ui-using-html-css-js/

16 years ago

80 upvotes – 16 comments

PagerDuty (YC S10) wakes the right person up for your tech emergencies

http://www.readwriteweb.com/hack/2010/10/pagerduty-wakes-the-right-pers.php

16 years ago

78 upvotes – 23 comments

PyBrain: modular Machine Learning Library for Python

http://pybrain.org/#

16 years ago

77 upvotes – 11 comments

Amazon P/E ratio 3x that of Apple and Google

http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2010/10/22/the-amazing-amazon-stock-bubble/

16 years ago

75 upvotes – 54 comments

Wikileaks dumps 400,000 more files

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wikleaks-dumps-thousands-classified-military-documents/story?id=11949670

16 years ago

74 upvotes – 126 comments

Y Combinator's Original Home For Sale

http://ycombinator.posterous.com/y-combinators-original-home-for-sale

16 years ago

71 upvotes – 26 comments

Nobel Prize Winner Joseph Stiglitz Calls for Jail Time for Corporate Crooks

http://www.dailyfinance.com/story/investing/joseph-stiglitz-corporate-crooks-to-jail/19684353/

16 years ago

68 upvotes – 47 comments

Anonymouse

http://blog.rapleaf.com/dev/2010/07/20/anonymouse/

16 years ago

66 upvotes – 10 comments

J.K. Rowling’s Plot Spreadsheets

http://www.subtraction.com/2010/10/21/jk-rowlings-plot-diagrams

16 years ago

66 upvotes – 26 comments

Windows Phone 7: The Ars Review

http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/reviews/2010/10/windows-phone-7-the-ars-review.ars

16 years ago

65 upvotes – 44 comments

Richard Branson set to open Virgin Spaceport today.

http://www.virgin.com/travel/news/virgin-galactic-spaceport-america-runway-dedication

16 years ago

64 upvotes – 42 comments

CMU Researchers Break Speed Barrier In Solving Important Class of Linear Systems

http://www.cmu.edu/news/archive/2010/October/oct21_speedyalgorithm.shtml

16 years ago

62 upvotes – 25 comments

Moving from PHP to C saved my web startup.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1820451

16 years ago

61 upvotes – 83 comments

Open Source Search with Lucene & Solr

http://www.igvita.com/2010/10/22/open-source-search-with-lucene-solr/

16 years ago

58 upvotes – 24 comments

Neural Network FAQ

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:ftp://ftp.sas.com/pub/neural/FAQ.html

16 years ago

56 upvotes – 3 comments

Ghcjs: Haskell to Javascript compiler

http://github.com/sviperll/ghcjs

16 years ago

56 upvotes – 10 comments

Setting up Unicorn with Nginx

http://sirupsen.com/setting-up-unicorn-with-nginx/

16 years ago

56 upvotes – 7 comments

Texas sends Amazon a $269M uncollected sales tax bill

http://www.techflash.com/seattle/2010/10/texas-slaps-amazoncom-with-269m-bill.html

16 years ago

53 upvotes – 49 comments

You Can't Sacrifice Partition Tolerance (response to Stonebraker)

http://codahale.com/you-cant-sacrifice-partition-tolerance/#errata10221010

16 years ago

49 upvotes – 13 comments

Fridge (YC S10) on the BBC - Pared down, cut down social networking

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/click_online/9116226.stm

16 years ago

45 upvotes – 22 comments

Zynga wants to patent virtual currency in gambling games

http://appft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PG01&s1=zynga&OS=zynga&RS=zynga

16 years ago

44 upvotes – 27 comments

Ask HN: Simple little business - what should I call it?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1819293

16 years ago

43 upvotes – 109 comments

How Rich Is Rich?

http://finance.yahoo.com/focus-retirement/article/110295/how-rich-is-rich?mod=fidelity-buildingwealth&cat=fidelity_2010_building_wealth

16 years ago

42 upvotes – 29 comments
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