top 50% hacker news stories for 2010-11-05

Ubuntu To Ditch X Server For Wayland

http://digitizor.com/2010/11/05/ubuntu-to-ditch-x-for-wayland/

16 years ago

369 upvotes – 154 comments

Just buy this one

http://www.justbuythisone.com/

16 years ago

289 upvotes – 99 comments

Microsoft releases F# under Apache 2.0 license

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dsyme/archive/2010/11/04/announcing-the-f-compiler-library-source-code-drop.aspx

16 years ago

217 upvotes – 101 comments

How To Write a Learn X the Hard Way

http://sheddingbikes.com/posts/1288945508.html

16 years ago

194 upvotes – 50 comments

Google: Facebook Can’t Import Our User Data Any Longer Without Reciprocity

http://techcrunch.com/2010/11/04/facebook-google-contacts/

16 years ago

175 upvotes – 62 comments

"Please take this down and write your own book."

https://github.com/martinemde/learn-ruby-the-hard-way/issues/1

16 years ago

170 upvotes – 171 comments

Microsoft furious at $2,000 bounty for open source Kinect drivers

http://www.techeye.net/software/microsoft-furious-at-2000-bounty-for-open-source-kinect-drivers

16 years ago

164 upvotes – 125 comments

Lessons learned from helping over 150 startups with marketing (from my Offer HN)

http://insight.io/blog/2010/11/lessons-learned-from-helping-over-150-startups-with-marketing-part-1-fundamentals/

16 years ago

159 upvotes – 28 comments

Let's Do Lunch

http://paulgraham.com/idealunch.html

16 years ago

156 upvotes – 43 comments

Need a name for your startup? I wrote a domain name generator in Node.JS

https://web.archive.org/web/20101108051350/http://impossibility.org/

16 years ago

153 upvotes – 61 comments

37signals' Chalk Dissected

http://samisamhuri.blogspot.com/2010/11/37signals-chalk-dissected.html

16 years ago

142 upvotes – 24 comments

Cool stuff you can do with netcat

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netcat

16 years ago

126 upvotes – 39 comments

Now that you have turned 22 can I please give you some advice...

http://www.tawheedkader.com/2010/11/what-not-to-do-in-life/

16 years ago

116 upvotes – 63 comments

Book review: Land of Lisp

http://books.slashdot.org/story/10/11/03/1238213/Land-of-Lisp

16 years ago

111 upvotes – 25 comments

Conjoined twins who share a brain

http://www2.macleans.ca/2010/11/02/a-piece-of-their-mind/print/

16 years ago

111 upvotes – 73 comments

Why Developers don't rush to create apps on new hardware/platforms.

http://www.marco.org/1483805627

16 years ago

103 upvotes – 11 comments

Starting your first company

http://cdixon.posterous.com/starting-your-first-company

16 years ago

103 upvotes – 33 comments

Scientists say dolphins should be treated as 'non-human persons'

http://current.com/news/91825903_scientists-say-dolphins-should-be-treated-as-non-human-persons.htm

16 years ago

94 upvotes – 106 comments

Node-canvas. Server side HTML5 canvas implementation in node.js

http://www.learnboost.com/introducing-node-canvas-server-side-html5-canvas-api/

16 years ago

93 upvotes – 19 comments

Clojure Web Infrastructure

http://www.glenstampoultzis.net/blog/clojure-web-infrastructure/

16 years ago

90 upvotes – 18 comments

Ask HN: So I got first two paid customers, now what?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1872755

16 years ago

89 upvotes – 69 comments

Why You Should Be Using Virtualisation In Your Development Environment

http://morethanseven.net/2010/11/04/Why-you-should-be-using-virtualisation.html

16 years ago

84 upvotes – 42 comments

Genetic Secret to AIDS Immunity Found

http://www.technologyreview.com/biomedicine/26682/?p1=A3

16 years ago

83 upvotes – 8 comments

Linus Torvalds' Greatest Invention

http://blog.plover.com/misc/git-talk.html

16 years ago

83 upvotes – 27 comments

Your career is a game of Dungeons & Dragons, not Monopoly

http://tjic.com/?p=17979

16 years ago

79 upvotes – 32 comments

Pylons & repoze.bfg Merge

http://groups.google.com/group/pylons-discuss/browse_thread/thread/97faa18a3429a28e

16 years ago

78 upvotes – 32 comments

Tell HN: Tech Recruiters have no clue

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1872671

16 years ago

72 upvotes – 111 comments

Kinect by Microsoft Keeps You Entertained Hands Free

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/04/arts/television/04kinect.html?_r=2&hpw

16 years ago

71 upvotes – 46 comments

Mixpanel (YC S09) launches "Analytics for your customers."

http://techcrunch.com/2010/11/05/mixpanel-now-allows-developers-to-offer-realtime-analytics-to-users/

16 years ago

62 upvotes – 14 comments

The mysterious illness striking down old cars

http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2010/11/tribology

16 years ago

62 upvotes – 27 comments

Signs that (business/life coaches) just want your money

http://chir.ag/201011051505

16 years ago

59 upvotes – 37 comments

Apple to abandon their XServe line

http://www.apple.com/xserve/resources.html?aosid=p204&siteid=403761&program_id=2701&cid=OAS-EMEA-AFF&tduid=8ec33a93d3bb4f1e4f99cbcd7b271cac

16 years ago

59 upvotes – 37 comments

Why doesn't this code simply return a to z as the output?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4098345

16 years ago

59 upvotes – 46 comments

Learn You Some Erlang: What is OTP & Clients and Servers

http://learnyousomeerlang.com/what-is-otp

16 years ago

58 upvotes – 13 comments

Man in disguise boards international flight

http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/11/04/canada.disguised.passenger/index.html

16 years ago

57 upvotes – 17 comments

Ask HN: What martial arts do you practice? What do you recommend?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1871473

16 years ago

56 upvotes – 117 comments

The Joel Test: 12 Steps to Better Code (2000; Still relevant?)

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000043.html

16 years ago

54 upvotes – 27 comments

What do you want to see in Learn C The Hard Way?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1873413

16 years ago

53 upvotes – 120 comments

Apple iOS 4.2 to Support MIDI

http://www.tuaw.com/2010/11/05/ios-4-2-to-support-midi/

16 years ago

49 upvotes – 31 comments

Apple deprecates XServe

http://images.apple.com/xserve/pdf/L422277A_Xserve_Guide.pdf

16 years ago

46 upvotes – 45 comments

42 feet per gallon

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/flyout/crawler.html

16 years ago

46 upvotes – 36 comments

Goodbye, Chrome (How Chrome got me banned from hacker news)

http://blettr.com/3jgy3amnzfvm2b5swdd4fg82rytjmsvqc

16 years ago

45 upvotes – 57 comments
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