top 50% hacker news stories for 2010-11-18

An Awesome Book

http://veryawesomeworld.com/awesomebook/inside.html

16 years ago

409 upvotes – 100 comments

Do you read HackerNews all day and never actually do anything?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1917274

16 years ago

389 upvotes – 142 comments

Rails for Zombies - Learn Rails from the comfort of your browser

http://railsforzombies.org/

16 years ago

336 upvotes – 57 comments

The 19 Senators Who Voted To Censor The Internet

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20101118/10291211924/the-19-senators-who-voted-to-censor-the-internet.shtml

16 years ago

298 upvotes – 86 comments

Brave New World banned from High School curriculum

http://blogs.seattleweekly.com/dailyweekly/2010/11/brave_new_world_banned_from_cu.php

16 years ago

282 upvotes – 160 comments

Chance of Dying From Backscatter Radiation Same as Chance of Terrorism

http://daringfireball.net/linked/2010/11/18/chances

16 years ago

252 upvotes – 128 comments

Ron Paul: Airport Scanners: Enough is Enough

http://www.c-spanvideo.org/videoLibrary/clip.php?appid=599164944

16 years ago

244 upvotes – 88 comments

Things I Learned About Browsers and the Web

http://www.20thingsilearned.com/

16 years ago

148 upvotes – 49 comments

Introducing the American Traveler Dignity Act

http://paul.house.gov/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1796&Itemid=60

16 years ago

146 upvotes – 47 comments

Dead Code Elimination for Beginners

http://blog.mozilla.com/rob-sayre/2010/11/17/dead-code-elimination-for-beginners/

16 years ago

121 upvotes – 57 comments

The One Thousand Hour Rule

http://yongfook.com/the-one-thousand-hour-rule

16 years ago

116 upvotes – 37 comments

How to Start a Successful Bootstrapped Web App Business (12 hours of audio)

http://justinvincent.com/page/960/how-to-start-a-sucessful-bootstrapped-web-app-business

16 years ago

108 upvotes – 28 comments

Why is there an Oracle copyright in the middle of a Facebook javascript?

http://static.ak.fbcdn.net/rsrc.php/zH/r/mCiGamyeLXU.js

16 years ago

108 upvotes – 39 comments

On Refusing to Disclose Your Salary in a Job Interview

http://bucks.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/17/on-refusing-to-disclose-your-salary-in-a-job-interview/

16 years ago

106 upvotes – 66 comments

Steve Wozniak: Android will be the dominant smartphone platform

http://www.engadget.com/2010/11/18/steve-wozniak-android-will-be-the-dominant-smartphone-platform/

16 years ago

105 upvotes – 107 comments

Steve Klabnik Quits Job to Work on Hackety Hack

http://blog.steveklabnik.com/the-hardest-decision-ive-ever-made

16 years ago

93 upvotes – 29 comments

ClojureQL - 1.0.0 now in beta

http://bestinclass.dk/index.clj/2010/11/clojureql--1.0.0-now-in-beta.html

16 years ago

91 upvotes – 22 comments

Why wreck a blank canvas?

http://sivers.org/blank

16 years ago

89 upvotes – 31 comments

Woz misquoted 'Almost every app that I have is better on the iPhone'

http://www.engadget.com/2010/11/18/exclusive-woz-misquoted-almost-every-app-that-i-have-is-bette/

16 years ago

87 upvotes – 35 comments

Required Reading (for pythonistas)

http://ericholscher.com/blog/2010/nov/17/required-reading/

16 years ago

83 upvotes – 5 comments

The rise of the dead: How many ghosts are on Facebook?

http://1000memories.com/blog/22-the-rise-of-the-dead-how-many-ghosts-are-on-facebook

16 years ago

83 upvotes – 33 comments

The Linux Programming Interface

http://www.man7.org/tlpi/index.html#ordering

16 years ago

83 upvotes – 19 comments

Signups increased by 60% after actually removing the signup form

http://visualwebsiteoptimizer.com/split-testing-blog/signup-conversion-rate-ab-testing/

16 years ago

80 upvotes – 22 comments

Internet blacklist bill COICA one step closer to becoming law

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-20023238-38.html

16 years ago

77 upvotes – 30 comments

Sweden Seeks to Detain Assange

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2010/11/18/world/europe/AP-EU-Sweden-WikiLeaks.html?_r=1&hp

16 years ago

74 upvotes – 66 comments

Clojure game development wiki

http://clojure-games.org/

16 years ago

73 upvotes – 34 comments

You probably misunderstand XML

http://lemire.me/blog/archives/2010/11/17/you-probably-misunderstand-xml

16 years ago

71 upvotes – 29 comments

Life after X: Plans for getting rid of the X server in the future

http://lwn.net/Articles/413335/

16 years ago

65 upvotes – 26 comments

Comparing MySQL and Postgres 9.0 Replication

http://www.theserverside.com/feature/Comparing-MySQL-and-Postgres-90-Replication

16 years ago

65 upvotes – 20 comments

Narcissism and Creativity: Intriguing and Troubling Findings

http://www.fastcompany.com/1701676/narcissism-and-creativity-intriguing-and-troubling-findings

16 years ago

64 upvotes – 13 comments

Hell Freezes Over As MySpace Fully Surrenders To Facebook

http://techcrunch.com/2010/11/18/hell-freezes-over-as-myspace-fully-surrenders-to-facebook/

16 years ago

64 upvotes – 30 comments

The Yes Men take on Apple

http://apple-cf.com/

16 years ago

63 upvotes – 24 comments

Google – A Study In Scalability And A Little Systems Horse Sense

https://doubleclix.wordpress.com/2010/11/11/google-a-study-in-scalability-and-a-little-systems-horse-sense/

16 years ago

62 upvotes – 7 comments

Functional Languages Discussion by Joe, Odersky & Don Syme

http://www.infoq.com/interviews/functional-langs

16 years ago

59 upvotes – 13 comments

Next Hacker News DC Meetup on Monday, Nov 22nd

http://www.meetup.com/JoinHNDC/calendar/15425236/

16 years ago

57 upvotes – 11 comments

On the subject of disclosing your compensation

http://raganwald.posterous.com/on-the-subject-of-disclosing-your-compensatio

16 years ago

55 upvotes – 35 comments

Airbnb: The Ebay for the Entire House

http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2010/1206/technology-airbnb-sequoia-capital-ebay-startup-next-door.html

16 years ago

53 upvotes – 9 comments

Senate Panel Approves Domain Name Seizure Bill

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-20023238-38.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20

16 years ago

52 upvotes – 30 comments

London Stock Exchange hires 81 C++ developers for delayed Linux system

http://www.computerworlduk.com/news/open-source/3249268/london-stock-exchange-hires-81-c-developers-for-delayed-linux-system/

16 years ago

51 upvotes – 48 comments

Twitter “Screwed Up” With Developers, Founder Says

http://gigaom.com/2010/11/17/twitter-screwed-up-with-developers-founder-says/

16 years ago

50 upvotes – 9 comments

Lessons I learnt from porting Diablo

http://petewarden.typepad.com/searchbrowser/2009/12/three-lessons-i-learnt-from-porting-diablo.html

16 years ago

49 upvotes – 8 comments

What would you do if you were CEO of Google?

http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/ceo-of-google/

16 years ago

48 upvotes – 73 comments

Be careful what you ask for. How 2 words dropped CTR 36%

http://blog.appsumo.com/be-careful-what-you-ask-for-how-2-words-dropped-ctr-36/

16 years ago

47 upvotes – 21 comments

The State of Mozilla

http://www.mozilla.org/foundation/annualreport/2009/index.html

16 years ago

47 upvotes – 27 comments
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