top 50% hacker news stories for 2010-11-02

Remind HN: Vote

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1859796

16 years ago

454 upvotes – 382 comments

Pong written in both flash and HTML5. Left side is flash, right side is HTML5.

http://labs.codecomputerlove.com/FlashVsHtml5/

16 years ago

349 upvotes – 124 comments

"Rate My Startup" Post Policy

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1861577

16 years ago

224 upvotes – 134 comments

If you applied to YC this cycle, please put your email in your profile

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1862616

16 years ago

221 upvotes – 55 comments

Calculus distilled into hours

http://ocw.mit.edu/resources/res-18-005-highlights-of-calculus-spring-2010/

16 years ago

218 upvotes – 37 comments

Nerds in Mourning: A friend, father, and founder leaves us

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1861964

16 years ago

213 upvotes – 50 comments

Ymacs -- An Emacs-like editor for the Web

http://www.ymacs.org/demo/

16 years ago

191 upvotes – 63 comments

Analysis of 50+ requests for my "Offer HN" conversion rate optimization help

http://visualwebsiteoptimizer.com/split-testing-blog/landing-page-optimization-tips-increases-sales-conversions/

16 years ago

177 upvotes – 39 comments

Is user a monkey?

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/ActivityManager.html#isUserAMonkey%28%29

16 years ago

147 upvotes – 37 comments

A List Apart: Get started with Git

http://www.alistapart.com/articles/get-started-with-git/

16 years ago

138 upvotes – 71 comments

Garry Kasparov: The Last Revolutionary Technology Was The Apple II

http://blogs.forbes.com/oliverchiang/2010/11/02/garry-kasparov-the-last-revolutionary-technology-was-the-apple-ii/

16 years ago

120 upvotes – 123 comments

A pitch deck with 5 slides and other useful tips on fundraising

http://knowledgeissocial.com/365-days-10-million-3-rounds-2-companies-all-with-5-magic-slides/

16 years ago

113 upvotes – 9 comments

Good YC Applications, More Interviews

http://twitter.com/paulg/status/29438424751

16 years ago

111 upvotes – 17 comments

Mathematically correct but psychologically wrong

http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2010/11/02/snowball-strategy/

16 years ago

99 upvotes – 61 comments

Are you in a startup career path or are you one and done?

http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/2010/11/are-you-in-a-startup-career-path-or-are-you-one-and-done.html

16 years ago

91 upvotes – 21 comments

Expedia on how one extra data field can cost $12m

http://www.silicon.com/management/sales-and-marketing/2010/11/01/expedia-on-how-one-extra-data-field-can-cost-12m-39746554/

16 years ago

88 upvotes – 47 comments

Capital One Made Me Different Loan Offers Depending On Which Browser I Used

http://consumerist.com/2010/11/capital-one-made-me-different-loan-offers-depending-on-which-browser-i-used.html

16 years ago

85 upvotes – 54 comments

Introduction to Pyjamas

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/web/library/wa-aj-pyjamas/?ca=drs-

16 years ago

84 upvotes – 22 comments

CarWoo (YC S09): Dispelling 3 myths about Y Combinator

http://carwoo.com/blog/dispelling-3-myths-about-y-combinator/

16 years ago

80 upvotes – 35 comments

A degree is only as meaningful as its scarcity [2008]

http://weblog.raganwald.com/2008/01/no-disrespect.html

16 years ago

78 upvotes – 42 comments

Face Detection in JavaScript via Canvas

http://badassjs.com/post/1461943420/face-detection-in-javascript-via-html5-canvas

16 years ago

78 upvotes – 16 comments

Voluntary List of YC W11 Submissions

https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=tbR-rs4TnGc8lleTXTqDinQ&hl=en#gid=0

16 years ago

78 upvotes – 52 comments

Python Patterns - An Optimization Anecdote

http://www.python.org/doc/essays/list2str.html

16 years ago

74 upvotes – 42 comments

Las Vegas Slot Machines vs Electronic Voting Machines

http://media3.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/graphic/2006/03/16/GR2006031600213.gif

16 years ago

72 upvotes – 28 comments

Ask HN: How do I give my son a head start?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1860823

16 years ago

70 upvotes – 153 comments

Programming FAQ (Python)

http://docs.python.org/faq/programming

16 years ago

66 upvotes – 6 comments

Fedora 14 is out

http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/

16 years ago

59 upvotes – 55 comments

The Times UK Lost 4 Million Readers To Its Paywall Experiment

http://techcrunch.com/2010/11/02/times-paywall-4-million-readers/

16 years ago

59 upvotes – 58 comments

37signals' Chalk: a fun little browser-based app for iPad

http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2637-introducing-chalk-a-fun-little-browser-based-app-for-ipad-inspired-by-our-new-office

16 years ago

59 upvotes – 32 comments

Wufoo (YC W06) integrates Notifo (YC W10) for form notifications

http://wufoo.com/2010/11/02/notifo-integration/

16 years ago

56 upvotes – 12 comments

How I'm writing my book using Vim, Git and Ruby

http://chrismdp.github.com/2010/11/how-im-writing-my-book-using-git-and-ruby/

16 years ago

55 upvotes – 17 comments

Naggum Nugget

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.emacs/msg/b888b276e551aad7

16 years ago

55 upvotes – 54 comments

Monetizing Business Ideas

http://dilbert.com/blog/entry/monetizing_business_ideas/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+typepad%2FihdT+%28The+Dilbert+Blog%29&utm_content=Google+Reader

16 years ago

53 upvotes – 19 comments

Anatomy of blekko's press launch

http://www.skrenta.com/2010/11/anatomy_of_blekkos_press_launc.html

16 years ago

52 upvotes – 27 comments

Ask HN: Searching for jobs sucks.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1862887

16 years ago

50 upvotes – 44 comments

Linux Kernel Interactive Diagram

http://www.makelinux.net/kernel_map

16 years ago

50 upvotes – 5 comments

A web server in a shell script

http://www.debian-administration.org/article/371/A_web_server_in_a_shell_script

16 years ago

49 upvotes – 27 comments

We added conference coverage to Lanyrd.com, now collecting video/audio/slides/..

http://lanyrd.com/blog/2010/coverage/

16 years ago

48 upvotes – 5 comments
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