top 50% 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

Clojure at BackType

http://sna-projects.com/blog/2010/11/clojure-at-backtype/

16 years ago

88 upvotes – 3 comments

Interesting Reflections of an 18 year old Programmer

http://wakecodesleep.com/post/1454678482/reflection

16 years ago

88 upvotes – 16 comments

In Quest for a 'Legal High,' Chemists Outfox the Law

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704763904575550200845267526.html

16 years ago

83 upvotes – 72 comments

An online dating site for ugly people - welcome to reality

http://www.theuglybugball.com/

16 years ago

81 upvotes – 58 comments

Remind HN: November is Launch an App Month

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1857136

16 years ago

78 upvotes – 73 comments

How to Take Down Facebook -- Hint: It Ain't Twitter.

http://500hats.typepad.com/500blogs/2010/10/how-to-take-down-facebook.html

16 years ago

77 upvotes – 68 comments

We built this to help you launch apps for the November Startup Sprint

http://hn.21times.org/

16 years ago

76 upvotes – 34 comments

Protect Your Site with a Blackhole for Bad Bots

http://perishablepress.com/press/2010/07/14/blackhole-bad-bots/

16 years ago

75 upvotes – 20 comments

No wonder CompSci grads are unemployed

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/11/01/comp_sci_graduates_need_more_skills/

16 years ago

75 upvotes – 76 comments

Google bug bounties: $500-$3133.7 for security flaws in *.google.com

http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/2010/11/rewarding-web-application-security.html

16 years ago

72 upvotes – 23 comments

Jeff Atwood - The Sitemap Paradox

http://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/4803/the-sitemap-paradox

16 years ago

64 upvotes – 18 comments

OpenBSD 4.8 Released

http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20101101163826

16 years ago

61 upvotes – 19 comments

The Harsh Realities Of Being An Entrepreneur

http://onstartups.com/tabid/3339/bid/17741/The-11-Harsh-Realities-Of-Being-An-Entrepreneur.aspx

16 years ago

58 upvotes – 11 comments

Hacker Monthly #6 is out

http://www.magcloud.com/browse/Issue/126186

16 years ago

58 upvotes – 22 comments

Reddit's Chris Slowe is leaving to join other founders at Hipmunk

http://techcrunch.com/2010/11/01/reddit-chief-takes-flight-to-hipmunk-explains-why-hes-leaving-now/

16 years ago

53 upvotes – 19 comments

Apple's responsibility as a superpower

http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2638-apples-responsibility-as-a-superpower

16 years ago

51 upvotes – 76 comments

Guide to Website Wireframing and Tools

http://sixrevisions.com/user-interface/website-wireframing/

16 years ago

51 upvotes – 2 comments

Remind HN: AWS Free Usage Tier Begins Today.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1855441

16 years ago

50 upvotes – 23 comments

Visualization of iOS Application States

http://koduco.com/2010/11/01/ios-application-states/

16 years ago

49 upvotes – 11 comments

Windows Azure vs Amazon EC2 vs Google App Engine

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/791447/windows-azure-vs-amazon-ec2-vs-google-app-engine

16 years ago

48 upvotes – 17 comments

Popular Science: Every issue from May 1872 to March 2009 online

http://books.google.com/books?id=MC0DAAAAMBAJ

16 years ago

47 upvotes – 12 comments

Natural language processing in Clojure, Go ,Cython

http://samibadawi.blogspot.com/2010/10/natural-language-processing-in-clojure.html

16 years ago

44 upvotes – 8 comments

The Structured Web

http://groups.google.com/group/whits/t/dd87bcac1f187f70

16 years ago

43 upvotes – 9 comments

Google’s Real Problem – GTD?

http://gigaom.com/2010/10/31/google’s-real-problem-–-gtd/

16 years ago

42 upvotes – 19 comments
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