top 50% hacker news stories for 2010-11-12

The day Steve Jobs dissed me hard

http://sivers.org/itunes

16 years ago

567 upvotes – 122 comments

Y Combinator announces two new partners, Paul Buchheit and Harj Taggar

http://ycombinator.posterous.com/y-combinator-announces-two-new-partners-paul

16 years ago

344 upvotes – 77 comments

Facebook’s Gmail Killer, Project Titan, Is Coming On Monday

http://techcrunch.com/2010/11/11/facebook-gmail-titan/

16 years ago

231 upvotes – 207 comments

Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality, by Eliezer Yudkowsky

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5782108/1/Harry_Potter_and_the_Methods_of_Rationality??

16 years ago

223 upvotes – 87 comments

Gmail Creator Paul Buchheit Leaves Facebook for Y Combinator

http://venturebeat.com/2010/11/12/y-combinator-paul-graham-harj-taggar/

16 years ago

215 upvotes – 35 comments

Oracle and Apple Announce OpenJDK Project for Mac OS X

http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2010/11/12openjdk.html

16 years ago

200 upvotes – 98 comments

How To Mass Export All Of Your Facebook Friends’ Private Email Addresses

http://techcrunch.com/2010/11/12/how-to-mass-export-all-of-your-facebook-friends-private-email-addresses/

16 years ago

199 upvotes – 38 comments

The one true REST explanation

http://martinfowler.com/articles/richardsonMaturityModel.html

16 years ago

194 upvotes – 47 comments

Google offers engineer $3.5M to not leave for Facebook

http://techcrunch.com/2010/11/11/google-offers-staff-engineer-3-5-million-to-turn-down-facebook-offer/

16 years ago

191 upvotes – 145 comments

Anic -- Faster than C, Safer than Java, Simpler than *sh

http://code.google.com/p/anic/wiki/Tutorial

16 years ago

187 upvotes – 93 comments

Why Google can’t build Instagram

http://scobleizer.com/2010/11/12/why-google-cant-build-instagram/

16 years ago

137 upvotes – 47 comments

I broke textCAPTCHA with Python

http://textcaptchabreaker.appspot.com/

16 years ago

135 upvotes – 54 comments

Multi-tabling poker player plays 120 tables at a time, verified human

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/showpost.php?p=19301227&postcount=27

16 years ago

124 upvotes – 32 comments

Breakfast is Overrated

http://dilbert.com/blog/entry/breakfast_is_overrated/

16 years ago

117 upvotes – 86 comments

Modern Perl, the book, is Available.

http://www.modernperlbooks.com/mt/2010/11/the-book-is-out.html

16 years ago

111 upvotes – 15 comments

Google Bowls a Googly - Possible invalidation of Oracle's patents

http://blogs.computerworlduk.com/open-enterprise/2010/11/google-bowls-a-googly/index.htm

16 years ago

108 upvotes – 32 comments

JQuery 1.4.4 Released

http://blog.jquery.com/2010/11/11/jquery-1-4-4-release-notes/

16 years ago

98 upvotes – 16 comments

The Instapaper Default.png dilemma

http://www.marco.org/1548306059

16 years ago

84 upvotes – 29 comments

Robot wars break out on poker sites

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/11/12/poker_bot_confidential/

16 years ago

83 upvotes – 75 comments

The Python IAQ: Infrequently Answered Questions

http://norvig.com/python-iaq.html

16 years ago

83 upvotes – 36 comments

Is genius simply the product of hard work?

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703805004575606490403919122.html?mod=WSJ_LifeStyle_Lifestyle_5

16 years ago

76 upvotes – 51 comments

A VC: Storm Clouds

http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2010/11/storm-clouds.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+AVc+%28A+VC%29

16 years ago

76 upvotes – 32 comments

Programming Lessons I've Learned in 20 Years

http://www.dcs-media.com/Archive/20-20-top-20-programming-lessons-ive-learned-in-20-years-FH

16 years ago

74 upvotes – 13 comments

Creating a Lisp Executable

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/25046/lisp-executable

16 years ago

73 upvotes – 20 comments

To code quickly, you must quit coding

http://www.whattofix.com/blog/archives/2010/11/to-code-quickly.php

16 years ago

68 upvotes – 34 comments

Resurrecting a Village by Buying Up Main Street

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/12/nyregion/12morris.html?pagewanted=all

16 years ago

59 upvotes – 13 comments

Paper prototyping kit.

http://www.uxpin.com

16 years ago

56 upvotes – 16 comments

Are Entrepreneurs Pirates? 4min Test for HN by Behavioral Economist Dan Ariely

https://danariely.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_6AsB0KdTTwU4yzy

16 years ago

55 upvotes – 69 comments

Pencil on Firefox

http://pencil.evolus.vn/en-US/Home.aspx

16 years ago

53 upvotes – 6 comments

Developing When Your Computer is too Fast

http://dustin.github.com/2010/11/12/labrea.html

16 years ago

52 upvotes – 31 comments

Write a program to run on my minecraft computer

http://www.minecraftforum.net/viewtopic.php?f=35&t=78889

16 years ago

51 upvotes – 22 comments

Hiring Great Developers: The Pre-Screening

http://www.small-improvements.com/recruiting/hiring-smart-developers--pre-screening

16 years ago

51 upvotes – 46 comments

I'm Tired of Creating Your Content

http://babblingvc.typepad.com/pjozefak/2010/11/im-tired-of-creating-your-content.html

16 years ago

49 upvotes – 35 comments

Six steps to effective Facebook advertising at $0.01 CPC

http://www.dipoll.com/blog/2010/11/six-steps-to-run-cheap-and-successful-facebook-advertising-campaigns/

16 years ago

48 upvotes – 15 comments

Startup marketing lessons learned: adwords is only the beginning

http://insight.io/blog/2010/11/startup-marketing-lessons-learned-part-2-adwords-is-only-the-beginning/

16 years ago

48 upvotes – 8 comments

For sale: an Enigma machine

http://www.christies.com/lotfinder/lot_details.aspx?from=salesummary&intObjectID=5370959&sid=5d471a41-553e-4a2d-b9ee-cf27e36133b8

16 years ago

45 upvotes – 30 comments

How Duff's Device Works

http://tenaciousc.com/?p=753

16 years ago

43 upvotes – 12 comments

Are Canadian Universities 'Too Asian'?

http://www2.macleans.ca/2010/11/10/too-asian/

16 years ago

43 upvotes – 49 comments

Objective C, Cocoa, And Iphone Programming Books For Beginners

http://cocoadevblog.com/objective-c-cocoa-iphone-programming-books

16 years ago

43 upvotes – 10 comments

Ask HN: Advice about possible extortion?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1899004

16 years ago

43 upvotes – 25 comments
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