top 50% hacker news stories for 2010-11-15

How Israel handles airport security

http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/744199---israelification-high-security-little-bother

16 years ago

550 upvotes – 162 comments

Why I feel like a fraud

http://blog.asmartbear.com/self-doubt-fraud.html

16 years ago

266 upvotes – 74 comments

Hacked Kinect is now a 3D video capture tool

http://www.adafruit.com/blog/2010/11/14/hacked-kinect-is-now-a-3d-video-capture-tool/

16 years ago

222 upvotes – 42 comments

Cause of today's Github outage

https://github.com/blog/744-today-s-outage

16 years ago

214 upvotes – 115 comments

Cracking Passwords In The Cloud: Amazon’s New EC2 GPU Instances

http://stacksmashing.net/2010/11/15/cracking-in-the-cloud-amazons-new-ec2-gpu-instances/

16 years ago

199 upvotes – 88 comments

Pragmatic Programmers Magazines (Free)

http://pragprog.com/magazines

16 years ago

190 upvotes – 16 comments

18' Canoe from One Sheet of Plywood

http://koti.kapsi.fi/hvartial/oss3/oss3.htm

16 years ago

185 upvotes – 23 comments

The Incredible Power of the Amazon EC2 Cluster GPU Instances

http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2010/11/cluster_gpu_instances_amazon_ec2.html

16 years ago

167 upvotes – 42 comments

Natural Language Processing for the Working Programmer

http://nlpwp.org/book/

16 years ago

152 upvotes – 36 comments

Visualizing how BitTorrent works.

http://mg8.org/processing/bt.html

16 years ago

149 upvotes – 32 comments

Scott Adams: FaceBook Killer

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

16 years ago

145 upvotes – 53 comments

I stood there, an American citizen, sexually assaulted by a government official

http://www.ourlittlechatterboxes.com/2010/11/tsa-sexual-assault.html

16 years ago

144 upvotes – 133 comments

Is OpenTable Worth it?

http://incanto.biz/2010/10/22/is-opentable-worth-it/

16 years ago

139 upvotes – 85 comments

Why I'm leaving Harvard (for Google)

http://matt-welsh.blogspot.com/2010/11/why-im-leaving-harvard.html

16 years ago

127 upvotes – 38 comments

Will Freemium Work For You? Questions To Consider

http://blog.rapportive.com/is-freemium-right-for-you

16 years ago

125 upvotes – 19 comments

New EC2 Instance Type - The Cluster GPU Instance

http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2010/11/new-ec2-instance-type-the-cluster-gpu-instance.html

16 years ago

121 upvotes – 56 comments

Facebook Messaging: scorned by nerds, built for teens like candy-covered crack

http://brokenbottleboy.tumblr.com/post/1583250140/facebook-messaging-scorned-by-nerds-built-for

16 years ago

121 upvotes – 81 comments

Linux System Monitoring Tools

http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/top-linux-monitoring-tools.html

16 years ago

118 upvotes – 15 comments

Path — Introducing The Personal Network

http://blog.path.com/post/1576969971/introducing-the-personal-network

16 years ago

115 upvotes – 89 comments

Ask HN: How do I crawl out of the "Senior Engineer" hole?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1907792

16 years ago

96 upvotes – 54 comments

Ever wanted arc90′s Readability as an API?

http://preona.net/2010/11/ever-wanted-arc90s-readability-as-an-api/

16 years ago

91 upvotes – 26 comments

MySQL in the cloud at Airbnb

http://nerds.airbnb.com/mysql-in-the-cloud-at-airbnb

16 years ago

90 upvotes – 20 comments

What it really means to be a CTO

http://www.scottporad.com/2010/11/12/what-it-really-means-to-be-a-cto/

16 years ago

89 upvotes – 25 comments

Facebook’s Modern Messaging System: Seamless, History, And A Social Inbox

http://techcrunch.com/2010/11/15/facebook-messaging/

16 years ago

81 upvotes – 93 comments

Facebook announces new Messaging Feature

http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=452288242130

16 years ago

73 upvotes – 49 comments

Why You Need To Start A Startup

http://onstartups.com/tabid/3339/bid/24525/14-Reasons-Why-You-Need-To-Start-A-Startup.aspx

16 years ago

71 upvotes – 13 comments

30-year-old black hole discovered by

http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2010/nov/HQ_10-299_CHANDRA.html

16 years ago

71 upvotes – 39 comments

Between the Bars: Snail-mail blogging for prison inmates

http://mako.cc/copyrighteous/20101114-00

16 years ago

63 upvotes – 16 comments

Ask HN: Berlin - costs of living, python jobs?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1905995

16 years ago

58 upvotes – 66 comments

Microsoft ask for Internet Explorer to be removed from Spoon Browser Sandbox

http://spoon.net/browsers/

16 years ago

58 upvotes – 44 comments

New version of Mathematica released

http://blog.wolfram.com/2010/11/15/mathematica-8/

16 years ago

55 upvotes – 30 comments

A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy

http://www.hn-books.com/Books/A-Guide-to-the-Good-Life-The-Ancient-Art-of-Stoic-Joy.htm

16 years ago

54 upvotes – 21 comments

Creating Startup Success – Customer Development + Business Model Design

http://steveblank.com/2010/11/15/creating-startup-success-customer-development-business-model-design/

16 years ago

54 upvotes – 10 comments

The Cisco in the Coal Mine

http://blogs.forbes.com/mikemalone/2010/11/15/the-cisco-in-the-coal-mine/

16 years ago

50 upvotes – 10 comments

Two weeks with Vim

http://soledadpenades.com/2010/11/15/two-weeks-with-vim/

16 years ago

50 upvotes – 34 comments

Google Instant Previews Under the hood

http://googlecode.blogspot.com/2010/11/instant-previews-under-hood.html

16 years ago

48 upvotes – 10 comments

EFF Begins Accepting Anonymous Donations via Bitcoin

http://www.bitcoinblogger.com/2010/11/bitcoin-gains-legal-protection-through.html

16 years ago

47 upvotes – 23 comments

Eric Schmidt: “It Is A War For Talent”

http://techcrunch.com/2010/11/15/google-schmidt/

16 years ago

44 upvotes – 39 comments

Tell HN: Land of Lisp's Barski M.D. speaking about Clojure (11/18 DC area)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1906241

16 years ago

43 upvotes – 14 comments

How we seamlessly moved from PHP to Django over 22 months

http://devblog.policystat.com/php-to-django-changing-the-engine-while-the-c

16 years ago

41 upvotes – 13 comments

Google Maps goes where no one wants to go

http://9eyes.tumblr.com/

16 years ago

39 upvotes – 16 comments

Pulse app goes free, gets $800,000 in VC

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/15/technology/15pulse.html

16 years ago

39 upvotes – 12 comments

The formula for success

http://www.contrast.ie/blog/the-formula-for-success/

16 years ago

38 upvotes – 7 comments
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