top 20 hacker news stories for 2010-11-01

The Day US Customs Found A Bullet In My Pocket

http://www.wanderingearl.com/the-day-us-customs-found-a-bullet-in-my-pocket/

16 years ago

311 upvotes – 202 comments

8pen reinvents mobile keyboard

http://www.the8pen.com/index.html

16 years ago

286 upvotes – 123 comments

Using genetic algorithms to find Starcraft 2 build orders

http://lbrandy.com/blog/2010/11/using-genetic-algorithms-to-find-starcraft-2-build-orders/

16 years ago

230 upvotes – 77 comments

The 5.2 billion dollar mistake.

http://steveblank.com/2010/11/01/no-business-plan-survives-first-contact-with-a-customer-%E2%80%93-the-5-2-billion-dollar-mistake/

16 years ago

228 upvotes – 61 comments

Ask HN: Who Is Hiring Remote Workers? (First Edition, November 2010)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1857051

16 years ago

213 upvotes – 85 comments

Google Sues The US Government For Only Considering Microsoft Solutions

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20101030/23442911657/google-sues-the-us-government-for-only-considering-microsoft-solutions.shtml

16 years ago

192 upvotes – 59 comments

How A Half-Broken Halloween Promotion Smashed Revenue Records

http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/11/01/how-a-half-broken-halloween-promotion-smashed-revenue-records/

16 years ago

170 upvotes – 38 comments

Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (November 2010 Edition)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1855569

16 years ago

157 upvotes – 127 comments

Math prof challenges granting of PhD to unqualified student in court

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/court-battle-over-phd-106366028.html

16 years ago

155 upvotes – 136 comments

Amazon S3 Price Reduction

http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2010/11/what-can-i-say-another-amazon-s3-price-reduction.html

16 years ago

141 upvotes – 37 comments

Alcohol 'more harmful than heroin'

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11660210

16 years ago

120 upvotes – 137 comments

Cheezburger Network doesn't show new hires the bathroom until they check in code

http://www.scottporad.com/2010/11/01/cheezburger-network-doesnt-show-its-new-employees-the-bathroom-until-theyve-checked-in-code

16 years ago

111 upvotes – 61 comments

Brooke the Immortal: An American Child May Hold Secrets to Aging

http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,725798,00.html

16 years ago

108 upvotes – 91 comments

How We Got Sal (KhanAcademy.org) His Dot Com

http://www.domainnoob.com/blog/2010/10/how-we-got-sal-khanacademy-org-his-dot-com/

16 years ago

107 upvotes – 22 comments

33 Developers Leave OpenOffice.org

http://digitizor.com/2010/11/01/and-so-the-exodus-begins-33-developers-leave-openoffice-org/

16 years ago

101 upvotes – 23 comments

Socket.IO 0.6 released

http://groups.google.com/group/socket_io/browse_thread/thread/788f3594b9b16899

16 years ago

99 upvotes – 9 comments

Build your own Startup Death Clock

http://blog.asmartbear.com/death-clock.html

16 years ago

94 upvotes – 14 comments

It’s Morning in India

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/31/opinion/31friedman.html?src=me&ref=general

16 years ago

93 upvotes – 48 comments

The Man Who Wrote Down Every Thought He Had

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/3857621.stm

16 years ago

90 upvotes – 53 comments

Google sues feds over Microsoft-centric bidding requirement

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/11/google-sues-feds-over-microsoft-centric-bidding-requirement.ars

16 years ago

89 upvotes – 24 comments
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