top 50% hacker news stories for 2010-10-23

Engineer saves man by crashing into him on purpose

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2013215629_hero21m.html

16 years ago

383 upvotes – 70 comments

"Nah, who needs another search engine?"

http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/dv0hk/oops_whats_the_most_expensive_mistake_youve_made/c134ycr

16 years ago

242 upvotes – 75 comments

Tell us your naughty stories

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1822847

16 years ago

192 upvotes – 352 comments

Mozilla pays 12-year-old San Jose boy for hunting bugs in system

http://www.mercurynews.com/san-jose-neighborhoods/ci_16401891

16 years ago

158 upvotes – 54 comments

How to Become a Game Programmer

http://shawnpresser.blogspot.com/2010/10/how-to-become-game-programmer.html

16 years ago

143 upvotes – 44 comments

Coding Horror: The Keyboard Cult

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2010/10/the-keyboard-cult.html

16 years ago

134 upvotes – 108 comments

Ask HN: Show me your Half Baked project

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1822253

16 years ago

126 upvotes – 304 comments

The Crazy Lady Speaks

http://blog.redfin.com/blog/2010/10/the_crazy_woman_speaks.html

16 years ago

122 upvotes – 40 comments

How not to Pitch To Y Combinator (2006)

http://damienkatz.net/2006/11/how_not_to_pitc.html

16 years ago

112 upvotes – 22 comments

Ask HN: Django Deploy Recommendations

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1824171

16 years ago

109 upvotes – 38 comments

Why Python?

http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/3882/#

16 years ago

91 upvotes – 59 comments

Ask HN: How expensive is living in Silicon Valley

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1824445

16 years ago

90 upvotes – 110 comments

Mechanical Keyboard Guide

http://www.overclock.net/keyboards/491752-mechanical-keyboard-guide.html

16 years ago

86 upvotes – 47 comments

When App Engine Went Wrong

http://www.agmweb.ca/blog/andy/2286/

16 years ago

85 upvotes – 28 comments

An Illustrated guide to multi-core parallelism in Clojure

http://data-sorcery.org/2010/10/23/clojureconj/

16 years ago

76 upvotes – 7 comments

Ask HN: anyone using the new MacBook Air as your main development machine?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1824563

16 years ago

75 upvotes – 118 comments

I developed PadPressed without having an iPad

http://startupinmexico.com/13-thoughts-after-padpressed-coverpad/

16 years ago

68 upvotes – 17 comments

Android, Tipping Points and Western Electronics Entrepreneurship

http://open.neurostechnology.com/content/future-hardware

16 years ago

65 upvotes – 4 comments

My Weekend Project: Mr. Goal -- simple goal reminders by Email and SMS.

http://mrgoal.net/hn

16 years ago

60 upvotes – 50 comments

Ask HN: What tools do you use to monitor your LAMP server(s)?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1824413

16 years ago

55 upvotes – 38 comments

The MS-DOS Security Model

http://theinvisiblethings.blogspot.com/2010/08/ms-dos-security-model.html

16 years ago

53 upvotes – 26 comments

What Are You Willing To Do For The Rest of Your Life?

http://www.jonathanfields.com/blog/what-are-you-willing-to-do-for-the-rest-of-your-life/

16 years ago

53 upvotes – 15 comments

Tips on giving a big speech

http://www.inc.com/guides/2010/10/10-tips-for-giving-an-important-speech.html

16 years ago

48 upvotes – 8 comments

Find Co-Founders, Don't Get Screwed

http://venturebeat.com/2010/10/22/foundrs-com-find-co-founders-dont-get-screwed/

16 years ago

47 upvotes – 14 comments

Why I Deleted My Foursquare Account

http://ariwriter.com/why-i-deleted-my-foursquare-account/

16 years ago

45 upvotes – 38 comments
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