top 50% hacker news stories for 2010-10-28

John Carmack on government

http://media.armadilloaerospace.com/misc/government.htm

16 years ago

192 upvotes – 303 comments

Web page assignment leads to cease and desist letter.

http://behind-the-enemy-lines.blogspot.com/2010/10/cease-and-desist.html

16 years ago

192 upvotes – 18 comments

How can you program if you're blind?

http://stackoverflow.com/q/118984/4872

16 years ago

185 upvotes – 67 comments

A White iPhone 4 Is Confronted Regarding Its Inability to Be Shipped

http://daringfireball.net/2010/10/anthropomorphized_white_iphone_4

16 years ago

160 upvotes – 36 comments

Icing PayPal: How We Did It

http://blog.wepay.com/2010/10/icing-paypal-how-we-did-it/

16 years ago

160 upvotes – 32 comments

Test driven development at Transloadit

http://debuggable.com/posts/test-driven-development-at-transloadit:4cc892a7-b9fc-4d65-bb0c-1b27cbdd56cb

16 years ago

133 upvotes – 65 comments

Why ReadyForZero (YC S10) Started A Company to Eliminate Credit Card Debt

http://blog.readyforzero.com/2010/10/28/why-we-started-a-company-to-help-people-payoff-credit-card-debt/

16 years ago

132 upvotes – 86 comments

How to Create a Hit Sitcom

http://www.chucklorre.com/?p=writtenby

16 years ago

131 upvotes – 34 comments

Asynchrony in C# 5, Part One

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ericlippert/archive/2010/10/28/asynchrony-in-c-5-part-one.aspx

16 years ago

126 upvotes – 30 comments

A Hidden Genius at the Apple Store

http://duncandavidson.com/blog/2010/10/apple-store

16 years ago

120 upvotes – 53 comments

Ask HN: What's the best way for foreigners to incorporate in the States?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1844221

16 years ago

110 upvotes – 28 comments

Ask HN: "Is that work?"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1842719

16 years ago

83 upvotes – 105 comments

Building an HTML5 Drag & Drop File Uploader Using Sinatra and jQuery: Part 1

http://onehub.com/blog/posts/designing-an-html5-drag-drop-file-uploader-using-sinatra-and-jquery-part-1

16 years ago

77 upvotes – 6 comments

Confessions of a solo founder

http://www.cleverkoala.com/2010/10/confessions-of-a-solo-founder/

16 years ago

72 upvotes – 33 comments

Microsoft profit jumps 51 percent with record Q1 revenue

http://blog.seattlepi.com/microsoft/archives/226445.asp

16 years ago

72 upvotes – 70 comments

Home at Last, or, The Last Programming Language I Will Ever Learn

http://colinsteele.org/2010/10/home-at-last-or-the-last-programming-language-i-will-ever-learn-lisp-clojure/

16 years ago

71 upvotes – 70 comments

The Disadvantages of an Elite Education (2008)

http://www.theamericanscholar.org/the-disadvantages-of-an-elite-education/

16 years ago

69 upvotes – 36 comments

Ask HN: I made $1.01 yesterday. What next?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1843746

16 years ago

69 upvotes – 95 comments

Offer HN: I'll help you learn Python

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1841359

16 years ago

68 upvotes – 50 comments

License to Print Money

http://www.cringely.com/2010/10/license-to-print-money/

16 years ago

66 upvotes – 64 comments

Why You Should Never Pay For Online Dating

http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/page/6/

16 years ago

66 upvotes – 32 comments

Ask HN: What to do in Portland?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1845164

16 years ago

61 upvotes – 97 comments

Ask HN: What is (is there something) wrong with me?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1841067

16 years ago

61 upvotes – 71 comments

Prison Economics Help Drive Ariz. Immigration Law

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=130833741

16 years ago

60 upvotes – 38 comments

Offer HN: Grab lunch with the photos team at Facebook

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1844749

16 years ago

57 upvotes – 35 comments

Oracle: Google 'directly copied' our Java code

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9193538/Oracle_Google_directly_copied_our_Java_code?taxonomyId=17

16 years ago

54 upvotes – 26 comments

Are Google and Samsung Announcing a "Nexus Two?"

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/are_google_and_samsung_announcing_a_nexus_two.php

16 years ago

50 upvotes – 53 comments

A Hacker's Story: Let me tell you just how easily I can steal your personal data

http://www.techvibes.com/blog/a-hackers-story-let-me-tell-you-just-how-easily-i-can-steal-your-personal-data

16 years ago

50 upvotes – 32 comments

MintData Shows Real-Time Spending Trends for U.S. Cities and Merchants

http://data.mint.com

16 years ago

49 upvotes – 9 comments

Computer Scientists Make Progress on Math Puzzle

http://www.utdallas.edu/news/2010/10/28-6621_Computer-Scientists-Make-Progress-on-Math-Puzzle_article.html

16 years ago

49 upvotes – 25 comments

Can you have a baby and a startup? (not easily)

http://calacanis.com/2010/10/28/my-email-yesterday-about-can-you-have-a-baby-and-a-startup/

16 years ago

49 upvotes – 61 comments

Embedly (YC W10) releases new version of their API

http://blog.embed.ly/31814817

16 years ago

47 upvotes – 10 comments

Offer HN: Room in Vienna, Austria

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1841940

16 years ago

47 upvotes – 56 comments

Ircd.js: A Node.js IRC Daemon

http://github.com/alexyoung/ircd.js

16 years ago

★ 531 JavaScript GPL-3.0
47 upvotes – 13 comments

Oracle Files Motion to Strike Google's Answer, Some Counterclaims

http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20101027113123225

16 years ago

42 upvotes – 8 comments

Redis Cluster: a pragmatic approach to distribution

https://docs.google.com/present/view?id=0AW46Gd5VoPJ8ZGR2cmJtczNfMjE3d3pibTdjaw&hl=en&authkey=CK3Bv7oF

16 years ago

42 upvotes – 9 comments

Offer HN: I'll make a decal for your startup.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1844787

16 years ago

40 upvotes – 15 comments

Product Engineering at Airbnb is Growing

http://www.airbnb.com/jobs?=sourceHN

16 years ago

39 upvotes – 6 comments

For Lisa, the World Ended in 1995

http://www.pagetable.com/?p=450

16 years ago

39 upvotes – 4 comments

Asynchrony in C# 5

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/async.aspx

16 years ago

39 upvotes – 9 comments

Adobe Demos Flash to HTML5 Conversion Tool

http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2010/10/adobe-demos-flash-to-html5-conversion-tool.html

16 years ago

38 upvotes – 14 comments
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