top 20 hacker news stories for 2010-11-07

The Myth of the Immortal Hamburger

http://aht.seriouseats.com/archives/2010/11/the-burger-lab-revisiting-the-myth-of-the-12-year-old-burger-testing-results.html

16 years ago

371 upvotes – 34 comments

This is why sites choose to stay vulnerable to Firesheep

https://www.google.com/adsense/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=10528

16 years ago

354 upvotes – 139 comments

Why I bill hourly

http://orestis.gr/blog/2010/11/06/why-i-bill-hourly/

16 years ago

229 upvotes – 57 comments

The Airport Security Grope

http://www.pixiq.com/article/the-airport-security-grope

16 years ago

162 upvotes – 176 comments

The Scene Will Kill You

http://bhargreaves.com/2010/11/scene-kill/

16 years ago

138 upvotes – 35 comments

Google App Engine is now much faster, after latest maintenance

http://code.google.com/status/appengine/detail/datastore/2010/11/06#ae-trust-detail-datastore-get-latency

16 years ago

125 upvotes – 44 comments

NY Blogger Criticized For Posting Photos of Teen Vandals

http://www.pixiq.com/article/ny-blogger-criticized-for-posting-photos-of-teen-vandals

16 years ago

115 upvotes – 52 comments

Comparing Python frameworks: A simple webapp in Flask, web.py, bottle, juno ...

http://agiliq.com/blog/2010/11/i-am-so-starving-same-web-app-in-various-python-we/

16 years ago

114 upvotes – 32 comments

Timing your startup

http://cdixon.org/2010/11/07/timing-your-startup/

16 years ago

107 upvotes – 26 comments

BitTorrent Records

http://torrentfreak.com/5-torrent-files-that-broke-mind-boggling-records-101107

16 years ago

104 upvotes – 10 comments

The V4Z80P - A Z80 Based Laptop

http://www.retroleum.co.uk/electronics-articles/previous/the-v4z80p-a-z80-based-laptop/

16 years ago

103 upvotes – 20 comments

On a weekend, I taught open source skills to CS kids. Thoughts?

http://opensource.com/life/10/11/introducing-students-world-open-source-day-1

16 years ago

96 upvotes – 14 comments

The Art of Unix Programming

http://www.faqs.org/docs/artu/

16 years ago

88 upvotes – 18 comments

Obscene Losses: The porn business is in trouble (2007)

http://www.portfolio.com/culture-lifestyle/culture-inc/arts/2007/10/15/YouPorn-Vivid-Entertainment-Profile

16 years ago

75 upvotes – 42 comments

ACID in Theory and Practice

http://danweinreb.org/blog/acid-in-theory-and-practice

16 years ago

73 upvotes – 17 comments

Hypertextuality: how a programmer reads TS Eliot's 'The Waste Land'

http://www.std.com/~raparker/exploring/thewasteland/table/explore6.html

16 years ago

67 upvotes – 17 comments

Ask HN: Etiquette at conferences?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1878392

16 years ago

62 upvotes – 26 comments

Ask HN: How do founders end up broke?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1879512

16 years ago

58 upvotes – 29 comments

Ask HN: Any good math jokes?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1878735

16 years ago

54 upvotes – 131 comments

Great Tower Defense Game on Canvas

http://pivotfinland.com/frozendefence/

16 years ago

53 upvotes – 22 comments
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