top 50% hacker news stories for 2010-11-04

S4

http://s4.io/

16 years ago

350 upvotes – 59 comments

EPIC Lawsuit to Suspend Deployment of Body Scanners at US Airports

http://epic.org/privacy/body_scanners/epic_v_dhs_suspension_of_body.html

16 years ago

269 upvotes – 85 comments

Google UX Researcher Explains the Social Networking Gay Bar Problem

http://www.slideshare.net/padday/the-real-life-social-network-v2

16 years ago

267 upvotes – 56 comments

"The web is considered 'public domain'"

http://illadore.livejournal.com/30674.html

16 years ago

248 upvotes – 100 comments

$80,000 a Month in App Sales by Outsourcing Everything

http://mixergy.com/free-apps-interview/

16 years ago

205 upvotes – 110 comments

MySQL Editions

http://www.mysql.com/products/

16 years ago

198 upvotes – 94 comments

Soviet Image Editing Tool from 1987

http://www.petapixel.com/2010/11/03/soviet-image-editing-tool-from-1987/

16 years ago

195 upvotes – 57 comments

WorkFlowy (YC S10) launches a better way to organize your brain

http://techcrunch.com/2010/11/04/workflow/

16 years ago

172 upvotes – 188 comments

Joe Stump: Your city sucks (And so does mine)

http://stu.mp/2010/11/your-city-sucks-and-so-does-mine.html

16 years ago

162 upvotes – 146 comments

MySQL at Facebook

http://highscalability.com/blog/2010/11/4/facebook-at-13-million-queries-per-second-recommends-minimiz.html

16 years ago

147 upvotes – 39 comments

What Happened to NewsBlur: A Hacker News Effect Post-Mortem

http://www.ofbrooklyn.com/2010/11/3/hacker-news-effect-post-mortem/

16 years ago

132 upvotes – 43 comments

Exercise More to Hack Better

http://datasyndrome.com/post/1474842339/exercise-more-to-hack-better

16 years ago

126 upvotes – 103 comments

Ouch

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2010/11/ouch.html

16 years ago

123 upvotes – 32 comments

What a Hundred Million Calls to 311 Reveal About New York

http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/11/ff_311_new_york/all/1

16 years ago

122 upvotes – 28 comments

Ask HN: Anyone else here struggle with the alcohol?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1869046

16 years ago

116 upvotes – 122 comments

IBM Open Sources Multi-core Smalltalk VM

https://github.com/smarr/RoarVM#readme

16 years ago

★ 244 C
111 upvotes – 13 comments

Follow up on the reverse job application.

http://www.reversejobapplication.com/followup/

16 years ago

106 upvotes – 38 comments

Hey Gmail, 1994 Called, It Wants Its Dial-Up Level Performance Back

http://techcrunch.com/2010/11/04/help-gmail-is-slow/

16 years ago

103 upvotes – 69 comments

Your Worst Enemy Is Yourself

http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2010/11/your-worst-enemy-is-yourself.html

16 years ago

101 upvotes – 14 comments

Opt Out of a Body Scan? Then Brace Yourself

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Opt-Out-of-a-Body-Scan-Then-nytimes-3016411705.html?x=0

16 years ago

94 upvotes – 120 comments

Fractals Without A Computer

http://scientopia.org/blogs/goodmath/2010/11/02/fractals-without-a-computer/

16 years ago

94 upvotes – 14 comments

Best Practices of Combining Typefaces

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/11/04/best-practices-of-combining-typefaces/

16 years ago

94 upvotes – 28 comments

Looking for cofounders? Forget meetups, use Github search queries

http://shazow.posterous.com/protip-for-hackers-seeking-hackers-forget-mee

16 years ago

87 upvotes – 31 comments

Ask HN: Is PHP/MySQL Still Practical for Building Web Applications?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1867719

16 years ago

82 upvotes – 102 comments

UX Bloat Nonsense

http://yongfook.com/ux-bloat-nonsense

16 years ago

82 upvotes – 57 comments

Learn Python The Hard Way Now For Sale

http://sheddingbikes.com/posts/1288830708.html

16 years ago

79 upvotes – 48 comments

The real reason (climate) scientists don't want to release their code

http://blog.jgc.org/2010/11/real-reason-climate-scientists-dont.html

16 years ago

76 upvotes – 101 comments

Interactive Javascript Terminal as a personal website

http://enekoalonso.com/

16 years ago

74 upvotes – 27 comments

Dropping Adobe Flash boosts Apple's MacBook Air battery life by 2 hours

http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/10/11/04/dropping_adobe_flash_boosts_apples_macbook_air_battery_life_by_2_hours.html

16 years ago

73 upvotes – 70 comments

Microsoft Slowly Euthanizes Xbox Indie Games

http://devlicio.us/blogs/vinull/archive/2010/11/03/microsoft-slowly-euthanizes-xbox-indie-games.aspx

16 years ago

71 upvotes – 31 comments

Daring Fireball: Going Flash-Free on Mac OS X, and How to Cheat When You Need It

http://daringfireball.net/2010/11/flash_free_and_cheating_with_google_chrome

16 years ago

68 upvotes – 45 comments

Groceries: which lane is the fastest?

http://blog.mrmeyer.com/?p=4646

16 years ago

64 upvotes – 67 comments

Getting A New Product Off The Ground: Part One

http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/11/04/getting-a-new-product-off-the-ground-part-one/

16 years ago

62 upvotes – 20 comments

In most patent lawsuits, the defendant invented independently [pdf]

http://www.law.berkeley.edu/files/Lemley_Copying-in-Patent-Law1.pdf

16 years ago

59 upvotes – 7 comments

My (hastily written) Tips About Designing for the Web

http://blog.derekperez.com/post/1482688310/my-10-tips-about-designing-for-the-web

16 years ago

58 upvotes – 11 comments

Using genetic algorithms to train a Mario AI

http://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=15664.msg450842#msg450842

16 years ago

57 upvotes – 7 comments

New visa will boost UK high-tech sector

http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKTRE6A30WA20101104

16 years ago

54 upvotes – 32 comments

Attackers Now Using Honeypots to Trap Researchers

http://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/attackers-now-using-honeypots-trap-researchers-110410

16 years ago

52 upvotes – 7 comments

WePay and DailyBooth Hackathon

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=138815859500979

16 years ago

48 upvotes – 7 comments

Skype for Mac 5.0 beta released

http://www.skype.com/intl/en/get-skype/on-your-computer/macosx/beta/

16 years ago

48 upvotes – 39 comments

Chris Crawford on Mortality

http://www.erasmatazz.com/Personal/page70/page453/Sixty.html

16 years ago

46 upvotes – 52 comments
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