top 50% hacker news stories for 2010-11-10

Gmail: Trap my contacts now (warning when exporting contacts to Facebook)

http://www.google.com/mail/help/contacts_export_confirm.html

16 years ago

470 upvotes – 169 comments

Life Hack - The 30/30 Minute Work Cycle Feels Like Magic

http://chetansurpur.com/blog/2010/11/magic-work-cycle.html

16 years ago

380 upvotes – 134 comments

Kinect reverse-engineered; open driver available

http://www.adafruit.com/blog/2010/11/10/we-have-a-winner-open-kinect-drivers-released-winner-will-use-3k-for-more-hacking-plus-an-additional-2k-goes-to-the-eff/

16 years ago

369 upvotes – 85 comments

Netflix wins a longbet from 8 years ago.

http://www.longbets.org/3

16 years ago

214 upvotes – 55 comments

Battle of the Business Cards

http://p.printingchoice.com/battle-of-the-business-cards/

16 years ago

177 upvotes – 72 comments

How I built 7books in under 4 weeks

http://www.7bks.com/blog/179001

16 years ago

172 upvotes – 76 comments

Things I wish I knew the day I started Berklee

http://sivers.org/berklee

16 years ago

159 upvotes – 66 comments

Was the Wheel of Fortune one letter solve really a miracle?

http://www.esquire.com/blogs/chris-jones/wheel-of-fortune-one-letter

16 years ago

154 upvotes – 69 comments

Flash Mob gone wrong

http://ashitvora.info/flash-mob-gone-wrong

16 years ago

152 upvotes – 36 comments

Google to give staff 10% raise

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703523604575605273596157634.html

16 years ago

150 upvotes – 117 comments

Announcing Google Refine 2.0, a power tool for data wranglers

http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2010/11/announcing-google-refine-20-power-tool.html

16 years ago

148 upvotes – 21 comments

Python progression path - From apprentice to guru

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2573135/python-progression-path-from-apprentice-to-guru

16 years ago

147 upvotes – 23 comments

The Great Cyberheist

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/14/magazine/14Hacker-t.html?ref=technology

16 years ago

130 upvotes – 28 comments

Tir: A Mongrel2+Lua Micro-Framework

http://sheddingbikes.com/posts/1289384533.html

16 years ago

120 upvotes – 55 comments

Help me start a FOSS Tithing movement

http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/2010/11/help-me-start-a-foss-tithing-movement.html

16 years ago

109 upvotes – 39 comments

Apache declares war on Oracle over Java

http://www.itworld.com/legal/127051/apache-declares-war-oracle-over-java

16 years ago

105 upvotes – 54 comments

Using WolframAlpha to Hack Text CAPTCHA

http://joelvanhorn.com/2010/11/10/using-wolframalpha-to-hack-text-captcha/

16 years ago

104 upvotes – 46 comments

Meet The Team

http://www.6wunderkinder.com/about/

16 years ago

103 upvotes – 57 comments

TextCAPTCHA: 180 million simple logic questions

http://textcaptcha.com/demo

16 years ago

89 upvotes – 61 comments

Why You Haven't Launched

http://www.softwarebyrob.com/2010/11/10/five-reasons-you-havent-launched/

16 years ago

88 upvotes – 38 comments

Go (lang): one year ago today

http://blog.golang.org/2010/11/go-one-year-ago-today.html

16 years ago

85 upvotes – 70 comments

Running Shells in Emacs: An Overview

http://www.masteringemacs.org/articles/2010/11/01/running-shells-in-emacs-overview/

16 years ago

79 upvotes – 24 comments

Dear Mom and Dad ...

http://blog.zachklein.com/post/1535065768/dear-mom-and-dad-i-know-you-have-hard-time

16 years ago

78 upvotes – 34 comments

Is The Silicon Valley Talent Shortage Getting Worse?

http://techcrunch.com/2010/11/09/arms-race/

16 years ago

76 upvotes – 101 comments

Theoretical Physics, In Your Own Time

http://michaelhallsmoore.com/blog/Guide_To_Theoretical_Physics

16 years ago

76 upvotes – 26 comments

Give Us Our Data, Facebook

http://techcrunch.com/2010/11/09/give-us-our-data-facebook/

16 years ago

71 upvotes – 34 comments

Apache Foundation to vote down Java 7, protesting Oracle abuses

http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2010/11/apache-foundation-to-vote-down-java-7-protesting-oracle-abuses.ars?

16 years ago

69 upvotes – 34 comments

Amazon S3: Multipart Upload

http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2010/11/amazon-s3-multipart-upload.html

16 years ago

69 upvotes – 26 comments

Your eyes suck at blue

http://nfggames.com/games/ntsc/visual.shtm

16 years ago

68 upvotes – 40 comments

Four Lessons Learned From An Excursion Into Solo Web Programming

http://ponycomplete.blogspot.com/2010/11/five-lessons-learned-from-excursion.html

16 years ago

68 upvotes – 10 comments

Install Android 2.2 on a jailbroken iPhone over the air

http://mobiputing.com/2010/11/how-to-install-android-2-2-on-a-jailbroken-iphone/

16 years ago

63 upvotes – 13 comments

How To Land a Job at Google

http://blog.fairsoftware.net/2010/11/10/how-to-land-a-job-at-google-or-elsewhere/

16 years ago

57 upvotes – 18 comments

Why startups aren’t bothering to go public anymore

http://www.realclearmarkets.com/articles/2010/11/08/regulations_force_the_rise_of_private_stock_markets_98746.html

16 years ago

56 upvotes – 17 comments

Node.JS and Joyent Agreement

http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs/browse_thread/thread/956a3431b1d9e937?pli=1

16 years ago

54 upvotes – 16 comments

After months of work I've launched my startup. Any critiques?

http://www.dropjobs.com

16 years ago

51 upvotes – 41 comments

Optimizely (YC W10) helps raise $1.02 million for Haiti Relief with A/B testing

http://whichtestwon.com/archives/5690

16 years ago

50 upvotes – 8 comments

On Google's 10 Percent Pay Hike . . . And Antitrust Law

http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2010/11/10/on-googles-10-percent-pay-hike-and-antitrust-law/?mod=yahoo_hs

16 years ago

49 upvotes – 8 comments

Hacker Monthly Breezed Past 2,000 Paid Subscribers

http://hackermonthly.posterous.com/hacker-monthly-breezed-past-2000-paid-subscri

16 years ago

44 upvotes – 21 comments

Ask HN: The future of programming languages?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1890301

16 years ago

44 upvotes – 54 comments

Repeat After Me: Investors Are Never the Story

http://gigaom.com/2010/11/09/repeat-after-me-investors-are-never-the-story/

16 years ago

43 upvotes – 7 comments

Clear explanation of the Apache/Oracle fight

http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1861002&cid=34180996

16 years ago

41 upvotes – 13 comments

New f# Tools Release

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dsyme/archive/2010/11/10/november-2010-f-2-0-free-tools-update.aspx

16 years ago

40 upvotes – 7 comments
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