top 50% hacker news stories for 2010-11-17

Open ID Is A Nightmare

http://blog.wekeroad.com/thoughts/open-id-is-a-party-that-happened

16 years ago

311 upvotes – 109 comments

Reporting a bug on a fragile analysis

http://blog.mozilla.com/rob-sayre/2010/11/16/reporting-a-bug-on-a-fragile-analysis/

16 years ago

284 upvotes – 76 comments

Antimatter atoms produced and trapped at CERN

http://press.web.cern.ch/press/PressReleases/Releases2010/PR22.10E.html

16 years ago

250 upvotes – 89 comments

Hacking the Kinect - How to hack USB device drivers

http://ladyada.net/learn/diykinect/

16 years ago

245 upvotes – 33 comments

Buddhism and Happiness: Sitting Quietly, Doing Something

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/16/sitting-quietly-doing-something/#more-7137

16 years ago

165 upvotes – 43 comments

100 Naked Citizens: 100 Leaked Body Scans

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/11/giz-scans/

16 years ago

162 upvotes – 58 comments

Hacker News India

http://hackernews.in/

16 years ago

151 upvotes – 90 comments

AI Sports Journalist Covers Every Division I College Basketball Team

http://singularityhub.com/2010/11/17/ai-sports-journalist-covers-every-division-i-college-basketball-team/

16 years ago

142 upvotes – 60 comments

Rare Star Trek: The Next Generation Pictures

http://slightlywarped.com/crapfactory/curiosities/2010/rare_star_trek_the_next_generation_pictures.htm

16 years ago

126 upvotes – 28 comments

E.W.Dijkstra: On the foolishness of "natural language programming"

http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD06xx/EWD667.html

16 years ago

119 upvotes – 69 comments

Warren Buffett: Pretty Good for Government Work

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/17/opinion/17buffett.html?_r=1

16 years ago

111 upvotes – 103 comments

World's smallest legible font is not the smallest I've seen

http://angband.pl/font/tinyfont.html

16 years ago

107 upvotes – 39 comments

Deprecating XML

http://norman.walsh.name/2010/11/17/deprecatingXML

16 years ago

106 upvotes – 91 comments

Ask HN: Inspirational movies

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1913174

16 years ago

105 upvotes – 148 comments

Twitter to Sell 50% of All Tweets for $360,000 a Year Through Gnip

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/twitter_to_sell_50_of_all_tweets_for_360kyear_thro.php

16 years ago

102 upvotes – 63 comments

Crowdbooster (YC S10) Launches Twitter Analytics with a Twist

http://mashable.com/2010/11/17/crowdbooster/

16 years ago

99 upvotes – 20 comments

Paul Graham's wrong on the value of a hacker culture (sadly)

http://petewarden.typepad.com/searchbrowser/2010/08/paul-grahams-wrong-on-the-value-of-a-hacker-culture.html

16 years ago

99 upvotes – 63 comments

Phrack #67

http://phrack.com/issues.html?issue=67

16 years ago

98 upvotes – 14 comments

Generating code from natural language is closer than you think

http://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2010/11/programming-with-natural-language-is-actually-going-to-work/

16 years ago

96 upvotes – 80 comments

Thank PG: For reclaiming the word 'hacker'

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1913906

16 years ago

93 upvotes – 47 comments

The Importance of Abandoning Crap

http://modernerd.com/post/328572255/the-importance-of-abandoning-crap

16 years ago

93 upvotes – 21 comments

The reason behind the "nnCoection" HTTP header

https://forums.aws.amazon.com/message.jspa?messageID=81954

16 years ago

93 upvotes – 8 comments

Kayak Files for $50 million IPO

http://techcrunch.com/2010/11/17/travel-search-engine-kayak-files-for-50-million-ipo

16 years ago

83 upvotes – 38 comments

Design Without Designers

http://www.core77.com/blog/columns/design_without_designers_17587.asp

16 years ago

82 upvotes – 19 comments

Ask HN: Has HN been slow/spotty loading for you?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1914702

16 years ago

81 upvotes – 42 comments

Bill Nye collapses during speech at USC

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2010/11/bill-nye-the-science-guy-usc.html

16 years ago

68 upvotes – 37 comments

'Police. Step Away From the Chess Table'

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/17/police-step-away-from-the-chess-table/?src=twr

16 years ago

67 upvotes – 49 comments

A Graphical Web Browser for Linux Command Line

http://soosck.wordpress.com/2010/11/16/netsurf-graphical-web-browser-command-line-css/

16 years ago

67 upvotes – 22 comments

Struggling Six Apart Begged for $2M Loan

http://gigaom.com/2010/11/16/struggling-six-apart-begged-for-2m-loan/

16 years ago

67 upvotes – 20 comments

Hacked iRobot Uses XBox Kinect to See The World, Obey Your Commands

http://singularityhub.com/2010/11/17/hacked-irobot-uses-xbox-kinect-to-see-the-world-obey-your-commands-video/

16 years ago

67 upvotes – 20 comments

Too Good to Check

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/17/opinion/17friedman.html?_r=1&src=me&ref=general

16 years ago

64 upvotes – 19 comments

Editing your Google Docs on the go

http://googledocs.blogspot.com/2010/11/editing-your-google-docs-on-go.html

16 years ago

64 upvotes – 10 comments

Morris Worm Decompiled (1988)

http://www.foo.be/docs-free/morris-worm/worm/

16 years ago

63 upvotes – 27 comments

Implementation of an Operating System in ML - PDF

http://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/47545/40495469.pdf?sequence=1

16 years ago

60 upvotes – 11 comments

Penn (of Penn&Teller) tries to charge a TSA employee with assault

http://www.pennandteller.com/03/coolstuff/penniphile/roadpennfederalvip.html

16 years ago

58 upvotes – 14 comments

Review My App:"PG to Alonzo Church?", an iPhone game for the knowledge hungry

http://www.threewiki.com/2jFwit

16 years ago

55 upvotes – 42 comments

New Linux tracing tool: "trace"

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1063399

16 years ago

53 upvotes – 6 comments

John "Captain Crunch" Draper, the Hacker's Hacker

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/John_Draper

16 years ago

53 upvotes – 41 comments

In praise of Go or "Why I moved from Python and C++ to Go"

http://groups.google.com/group/golang-nuts/browse_thread/thread/7a980dfc568a54f2#

16 years ago

50 upvotes – 97 comments

Twitter’s Official Analytics Product Has Arrived

http://mashable.com/2010/11/17/twitter-analytics/

16 years ago

50 upvotes – 14 comments

Why I'm staying at Harvard

http://matt-welsh.blogspot.com/2010/11/guest-post-why-im-staying-at-harvard-by.html

16 years ago

46 upvotes – 9 comments

Disqus Gets A New Look, Premium Add-Ons, New API

http://techcrunch.com/2010/11/17/disqus-4/

16 years ago

46 upvotes – 27 comments

"Steve Jobs' New Machine for the '90s: the NeXT Computer" (BYTE magazine)

http://simson.net/ref/NeXT/byte_article.htm

16 years ago

45 upvotes – 35 comments

Ask HN: Particularly elegant programs to study?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1914737

16 years ago

44 upvotes – 24 comments

PubSubHubbub is not a license

http://blog.superfeedr.com/not-a-license/

16 years ago

43 upvotes – 15 comments

Justin.tv internal Hack Day projects

http://blog.justin.tv/justin-tv-hack-day/

16 years ago

41 upvotes – 4 comments

Introduction to Parallel Computing

https://computing.llnl.gov/tutorials/parallel_comp/

16 years ago

41 upvotes – 13 comments

Phrack Magazine issue #67 announced

http://phrack.com/index.html

16 years ago

40 upvotes – 13 comments

Show HN: Our telepresence setup

http://blog.rypple.com/2010/11/video-portal-telepresence/

16 years ago

38 upvotes – 19 comments

Please Discourage The Region Wise Fragmentation of Hackernews

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1915612

16 years ago

37 upvotes – 32 comments
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