top 50% hacker news stories for 2010-11-16

When we got to the scanner, I opted out. Then they opted out.

http://blog.izs.me/post/1591805056/tsa-success-story

16 years ago

422 upvotes – 184 comments

The ~200 Line Linux Kernel Patch That Does Wonders

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=linux_2637_video

16 years ago

420 upvotes – 96 comments

For 18 minutes, China hijacked 15 percent of the world’s Internet traffic

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:4lR05JZoeUMJ:www.nationaldefensemagazine.org/blog/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx%3FID%3D249+http://www.nationaldefensemagazine.org/blog/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx%3FID%3D249&hl=en&gl=us&strip=0

16 years ago

224 upvotes – 57 comments

Google Voice for iPhone Released

http://googlevoiceblog.blogspot.com/2010/11/google-voice-for-iphone.html

16 years ago

209 upvotes – 76 comments

CSS Positioning 101

http://www.alistapart.com/articles/css-positioning-101/

16 years ago

190 upvotes – 34 comments

EFF: How to Deploy HTTPS Correctly

https://www.eff.org/pages/how-deploy-https-correctly

16 years ago

167 upvotes – 43 comments

A Follow-Up to "The Web is Public Domain"

http://www.cookssource.com/

16 years ago

165 upvotes – 115 comments

Incubator Incubator - Making All Your Incubation Dreams Come True

http://incubatorincubator.com

16 years ago

164 upvotes – 26 comments

GHC 7 is out: Haskell 2010 support; LLVM backend; new optimizer ...

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.general/18297

16 years ago

158 upvotes – 15 comments

Google Hotpot

http://www.google.com/hotpot

16 years ago

155 upvotes – 71 comments

Zappos offers new employees $3000 to quit after a week

http://www.businessweek.com/smallbiz/content/sep2008/sb20080916_288698.htm

16 years ago

119 upvotes – 36 comments

Climbing Out of a Slump

http://blog.trailmeme.com/2010/11/climbing-out-of-a-slump/

16 years ago

116 upvotes – 25 comments

Resources for Getting Started with Ruby on Rails

http://www.engineyard.com/blog/2010/resources-for-getting-started-with-ruby-on-rails/

16 years ago

115 upvotes – 21 comments

Rails 3.0.3 out - Faster Active Record plus fixes

http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2010/11/15/rails-3-0-3-faster-active-record-plus-plenty-of-fixes

16 years ago

114 upvotes – 12 comments

Invent Your Own Computer Games with Python (Free e-Book)

http://inventwithpython.com/

16 years ago

113 upvotes – 22 comments

Is it hard to become an Android developer?

http://www.kreci.net/android/is-it-hard-to-become-an-android-developer/

16 years ago

112 upvotes – 76 comments

Steve Jobs' Not-So-Minimalist Home Office

http://lifehacker.com/5691151/steve-jobs-not+so+minimalist-home-office

16 years ago

100 upvotes – 37 comments

Hey Google. You should compete with Dropbox.

http://kent.posterous.com/wheres-my-g-drive

16 years ago

98 upvotes – 87 comments

What if We Gave Toddlers an 'F' in Walking? (Why Math & Science Ed is Absurd)

http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/yung-tae-kim-tony-hawk-shred-game-physics/Content?oid=2699227

16 years ago

95 upvotes – 51 comments

Lessons learned from wikipedia's fundraising banner design

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_2010/Banner_testing

16 years ago

94 upvotes – 37 comments

Getting A New Product Off The Ground: Part Two

http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/11/16/getting-a-new-product-off-the-ground-part-two/

16 years ago

93 upvotes – 18 comments

Ask HN: Anyone using Haskell in production?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1909093

16 years ago

91 upvotes – 36 comments

Expose any Ruby object over the web. An interesting little snippet...

https://gist.github.com/675667

16 years ago

88 upvotes – 25 comments

Verified by Visa and Mastercard SecureCode are broken and need to be fixed

http://www.cxpartners.co.uk/cxinsights/verified_by_visa_and_mastercard_securecode_are_broken_and_need_to_be_fixed.htm

16 years ago

87 upvotes – 62 comments

O'Reilly discounts: machine learning, nltk, hadoop, sql, nosql, aws and appeng

http://oreilly.com/store/dd-strata-dev.html

16 years ago

77 upvotes – 33 comments

Why Facebook badly needs Steve Jobs

http://raysun.blogspot.com/2010/11/why-facebook-badly-needs-steve-jobs.html

16 years ago

76 upvotes – 71 comments

Drinking Water Before Meals Aids Weight Loss

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/16/health/16really.html?_r=1&ref=health

16 years ago

76 upvotes – 38 comments

U2's Natural Logarhythm: Exponential Decay in the Delay of The Edge's Guitar

http://5cense.com/Edge_Delay.htm

16 years ago

74 upvotes – 20 comments

Utterly sensible HTML templating in Common Lisp

http://trapm.com/vana-templating-an-utterly-sensible-templatin

16 years ago

71 upvotes – 48 comments

FB's New Real-time Messaging System: HBase to Store 135+B Messages a Month

http://highscalability.com/blog/2010/11/16/facebooks-new-real-time-messaging-system-hbase-to-store-135.html

16 years ago

68 upvotes – 18 comments

Scientists propose one-way trips to Mars

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_one_way_to_mars

16 years ago

62 upvotes – 60 comments

Immigration for Startups

http://christophergolda.com/immigration-for-startups

16 years ago

59 upvotes – 36 comments

Why Zencoder is ideal for a video web app

http://blog.takeoffvideo.com/2010/11/11/10x-faster-encoding-in-12hrs/

16 years ago

59 upvotes – 25 comments

Shopify's path to Rails 3

http://blog.shopify.com/2010/11/16/our-upgrade-to-rails-3

16 years ago

58 upvotes – 16 comments

Hacked kinect Brings Futuristic User Interface

http://digitizor.com/2010/11/15/hacked-kinect-brings-futuristic-user-interface/

16 years ago

54 upvotes – 35 comments

How To Actually Win A Fist Fight

http://blog.joethepeacock.com/2008/01/how-to-acutally-win-fist-fight.php?pagewanted=all

16 years ago

50 upvotes – 70 comments

Data on YC-funded startups and their founders

https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AkdOQEasLwW_dDktRWo1czhXSi1BX1IwMnA3MnZ6aVE&hl=en&authkey=CNX-360K

16 years ago

49 upvotes – 23 comments

How to be a Successful Software Engineer

http://blog.darkhax.com/2010/11/16/how-to-be-a-successful-software-engineer

16 years ago

47 upvotes – 13 comments

Sencha Touch 1.0 Released - License Drops from $99 to $0

http://www.sencha.com/products/touch/

16 years ago

45 upvotes – 16 comments

Optimizely (YC W10) Its Way To $1.2m In Funding From A Roster Of Top Angels

http://techcrunch.com/2010/11/16/optimizely-ab-tests-its-way-to-1-2-million-in-funding-from-a-roster-of-top-angels/

16 years ago

44 upvotes – 6 comments

WP7 will render microSD cards useless on other devices

http://www.tomsguide.com/us/microSD-ATT-Windows-Phone-7-Focus-WP7-certified,news-8819.html#comments

16 years ago

43 upvotes – 44 comments

Path’s Playbook For Appealing To Normal People

http://robberbaronblog.com/2010/11/paths-playbook-for-appealing-to-normal-people/

16 years ago

43 upvotes – 4 comments

One Hundred Naked Citizens: One Hundred Leaked Body Scans

http://gizmodo.com/5690749/these-are-the-first-100-leaked-body-scans

16 years ago

42 upvotes – 15 comments

Ken Perlin's Tiny Font

http://mrl.nyu.edu/~perlin/homepage2006/tinyfont/index.html

16 years ago

40 upvotes – 12 comments

Proof of extra dimensions possible next year: CERN

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6AE3QU20101115?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2FtopNews+%28News+%2F+US+%2F+Top+News%29

16 years ago

39 upvotes – 6 comments

Obama Proclaims November 19th as National Entrepreneurs’ Day

http://grasshoppergroup.com/the-president-proclaims-november-19th-as-national-entrepreneurs-day/

16 years ago

39 upvotes – 23 comments

Physics StackExchange is in public beta, ask away

http://physics.stackexchange.com/

16 years ago

39 upvotes – 13 comments

Google CEO: Android update "could replace credit cards"

http://money.cnn.com/2010/11/15/technology/google_schmidt_web2/index.htm

16 years ago

38 upvotes – 18 comments
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