top 50% hacker news stories for 2010-11-09

The 18 things you must do when launching a new website

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/launching-a-new-website-18-steps

16 years ago

353 upvotes – 26 comments

⌘Q is too damn close to ⌘W

http://squishtech.posterous.com/q-is-too-damn-close-to-w

16 years ago

226 upvotes – 106 comments

World's largest association of pilots boycotts body scanners

http://www.bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/home/2010/11/worlds-largest-association-of-pilots-boycotts-body-scanners.html

16 years ago

220 upvotes – 109 comments

We're moving. Goodbye Rackspace.

http://code.mixpanel.com/amazon-vs-rackspace/

16 years ago

203 upvotes – 174 comments

Wherein I help you get a good job

http://www.aaronboodman.com/2010/10/wherein-i-help-you-get-good-job.html

16 years ago

185 upvotes – 94 comments

Japan's Latest Rock Star Is A 3D Hologram - Draws Huge Crowds

http://singularityhub.com/2010/11/09/cant-miss-videos-of-japans-3d-hologram-rock-star-hatsune-miku-in-hd/

16 years ago

169 upvotes – 70 comments

Using MySQL as a NoSQL - A story for exceeding 750,000 qps on a commodity server

http://yoshinorimatsunobu.blogspot.com/2010/10/using-mysql-as-nosql-story-for.html

16 years ago

169 upvotes – 31 comments

Turns out, it is a river in Egypt

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2010/11/08/turns-out-it-is-a-river-in-egypt/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+BadAstronomyBlog+%28Bad+Astronomy%29

16 years ago

167 upvotes – 42 comments

When we have money we'll do X

http://blog.antoniocangiano.com/when-we-have-money-well-do-x

16 years ago

161 upvotes – 29 comments

Daring Fireball: Apple's Pricing Advantage

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

16 years ago

146 upvotes – 173 comments

1.0 Is The Loneliest Number

http://ma.tt/2010/11/one-point-oh/

16 years ago

142 upvotes – 27 comments

1140px grid system. Time to scrap 960px?

http://cssgrid.net/

16 years ago

131 upvotes – 65 comments

Backbone.js adds Controllers and History

http://documentcloud.github.com/backbone/#Controller

16 years ago

125 upvotes – 25 comments

What Alcohol Actually Does to Your Brain and Body

http://lifehacker.com/5684996/what-alcohol-actually-does-to-your-brain-and-body

16 years ago

123 upvotes – 48 comments

Rob Pike: Notes on Programming in C

http://www.lysator.liu.se/c/pikestyle.html

16 years ago

122 upvotes – 111 comments

Facebook Finds A New Way To Liberate Your Gmail Contact Data

http://techcrunch.com/2010/11/08/facebook-finds-a-new-way-to-liberate-your-gmail-contact-data/

16 years ago

116 upvotes – 81 comments

Mystery Missile Launch Seen off California Coast

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/11/09/national/main7036716.shtml

16 years ago

109 upvotes – 85 comments

Your Bank Balance is at Zero

http://www.ideasonideas.com/2010/11/your-bank-balance-is-at-zero/

16 years ago

106 upvotes – 76 comments

HTML5 boilerplate

http://html5boilerplate.com/

16 years ago

97 upvotes – 14 comments

Show HN: Spreadsheets using Python - Have you seen this?

http://pyspread.sourceforge.net/

16 years ago

97 upvotes – 47 comments

Leading scientists say backscatter X-ray may be far more dangerous than thought

http://www.npr.org/assets/news/2010/05/17/concern.pdf

16 years ago

91 upvotes – 50 comments

What do YC Founders think about working at Big Companies?

http://rahfeedback.posterous.com/what-do-yc-founders-think-about-working-at-bi

16 years ago

72 upvotes – 40 comments

Facebook Slaps Google: “Openness Doesn’t Mean Being Open When It’s Convenient”

http://techcrunch.com/2010/11/09/facebook-slaps-google-openness-doesnt-mean-being-open-when-its-convenient/

16 years ago

72 upvotes – 63 comments

ASP.NET MVC 3 Release Candidate

http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2010/11/09/announcing-the-asp-net-mvc-3-release-candidate.aspx

16 years ago

71 upvotes – 44 comments

17% leave their job due to insufficient recognition

http://blog.rypple.com/2010/11/17-leave-their-job-due-to-insufficient-recognition/

16 years ago

69 upvotes – 66 comments

Why 'Be Passionate' Is Awful Advice

http://www.inc.com/millennial-entrepreneurs/why-be-passionate-is-awful-advice.html

16 years ago

68 upvotes – 34 comments

Lisp has too many parentheses...

http://symbo1ics.com/blog/?p=275

16 years ago

66 upvotes – 77 comments

Twilio Raises $12 Million For Powerful Telephony API

http://techcrunch.com/2010/11/09/twilio-raises-12-million-for-powerful-telephony-api/

16 years ago

63 upvotes – 35 comments

By example: Continuation-passing style in JavaScript

http://matt.might.net/articles/by-example-continuation-passing-style/

16 years ago

62 upvotes – 19 comments

Ask.com to refocus away from search, towards Q&A

http://thenextweb.com/us/2010/11/09/ask-jeeves-no-more-iac-shuttering-ask-com-search/

16 years ago

60 upvotes – 30 comments

Why I have migrated from Ruby on Rails to Seaside

http://www.codingforhire.com/2010/07/why-i-have-migrated-from-ruby-on-rails-to-seaside/

16 years ago

57 upvotes – 28 comments

Lua Tutorial

http://luatut.com/

16 years ago

56 upvotes – 25 comments

Announcing StartupMonth.org (our November "Startup Sprint" project)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1886617

16 years ago

55 upvotes – 11 comments

Statement by the ASF Board on our participation in the Java Community Process

https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/entry/statement_by_the_asf_board1

16 years ago

54 upvotes – 23 comments

SI (YC W10) gives newspapers switching to Kindle 1 year of free service

http://seeinginteractive.com/newspaper-support-group/the-kindle-newspaper/

16 years ago

54 upvotes – 9 comments

Rage for iPhone

http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/12/carmack-blows-minds-with-id-softwares-rage-running-on-iphone-a/

16 years ago

54 upvotes – 13 comments

Amazon CloudFront Support for Custom Origins

http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2010/11/amazon-cloudfront-support-for-custom-origins.html

16 years ago

54 upvotes – 15 comments

IFixit's Self-Repair Manifesto

http://www.ifixit.com/Manifesto

16 years ago

54 upvotes – 13 comments

Who are the polite Indians?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1886310

16 years ago

49 upvotes – 57 comments

SSH: Use Password or Public-Private Keys?

http://lwn.net/Articles/369703/

16 years ago

49 upvotes – 36 comments

37signals suite: All 37signals apps for one price

http://37signals.com/suite

16 years ago

47 upvotes – 24 comments

Clojure port of WebMachine released

https://github.com/BankSimple/Clothesline

16 years ago

46 upvotes – 7 comments

Detexify: handwritten symbol recognition with HTML5

http://detexify.kirelabs.org/classify.html?ref=nf

16 years ago

44 upvotes – 12 comments

Twilio, Linode, Heroku and more in the Bad Ass Developer Bundle

http://appsumo.com

16 years ago

43 upvotes – 12 comments

Practical Tips for Not Looking Like a Resume Black Hole as a Startup

http://blog.hirelite.com/dont-be-a-resume-black-hole-practical-tips

16 years ago

43 upvotes – 9 comments

Ask HN: Help me convince a teacher we should learn Python (vs VB.net)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1885594

16 years ago

43 upvotes – 78 comments

Compass is Charityware: Free software with a mission

http://chriseppstein.github.com/blog/2010/11/09/donate-to-umdf-on-behalf-of-compass/

16 years ago

43 upvotes – 2 comments

Tell HN: Fiddler complains about Hacker News

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1885934

16 years ago

42 upvotes – 2 comments

"Three Things You Must Have"

http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2010/11/miltons-three-things-you-must-have.html

16 years ago

40 upvotes – 14 comments

In His Own Words: The Story of Max Levchin [video]

http://gigaom.com/2010/11/08/in-his-own-words-the-story-of-max-levchin-video/

16 years ago

40 upvotes – 3 comments
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