top 50% hacker news stories for 2010-11-19

PG on the cover of Forbes

http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2010/1108/best-small-companies-10-y-combinator-paul-graham-disruptor.html

16 years ago

262 upvotes – 65 comments

Demo: Pure CSS GUI icons, no images (experimental).

http://nicolasgallagher.com/pure-css-gui-icons/demo/

16 years ago

205 upvotes – 65 comments

A Google Interviewing Story

http://paultyma.blogspot.com/2010/11/google-interviewing-story.html

16 years ago

201 upvotes – 116 comments

Faking it.

http://sahillavingia.com/blog/2010/11/19/faking-it/

16 years ago

198 upvotes – 70 comments

Another Hacker’s Laptop, Cell Phones Searched at Border

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/11/hacker-border-search/

16 years ago

174 upvotes – 87 comments

SSH scans - I caught one

http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2010/Nov/228

16 years ago

162 upvotes – 67 comments

Why the 8 Hour Workday Doesn’t Make Sense

http://theskooloflife.com/wordpress/8-hour-work-day/

16 years ago

156 upvotes – 100 comments

Let's Code... an MMO

http://www.sea-of-memes.com/LetsCode1/LetsCode1.html

16 years ago

147 upvotes – 40 comments

Where Are the Android Killer Apps?

http://daringfireball.net/2010/11/where_are_the_android_killer_apps

16 years ago

127 upvotes – 159 comments

Playboy Interview with Steven Jobs Circa 1985

http://www.playboy.co.uk/print/print-article/item77251/

16 years ago

125 upvotes – 39 comments

Is there a 4th missing component in the mechanical world?

http://www.judegomila.com/2010/11/is-there-4th-missing-component-in.html#heyzap_game=

16 years ago

118 upvotes – 33 comments

Paychecks Exposed: Google, Apple, Facebook and More

http://www.cnbc.com/id/40129303?__source=yahoo%7Cheadline%7Cquote%7Ctext%7C&par=yahoo

16 years ago

117 upvotes – 72 comments

Security researcher: I keep getting detained by feds

http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-20023341-245.html?tag=mncol;title

16 years ago

100 upvotes – 38 comments

Tim Berners-Lee: Long Live The Web

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=long-live-the-web

16 years ago

90 upvotes – 25 comments

Algorithms and Data Structures by N. Wirth [pdf]

http://www-old.oberon.ethz.ch/WirthPubl/AD.pdf

16 years ago

87 upvotes – 20 comments

The 2 Simple Reasons the Soviet Union Was Doomed to Fail

http://www.aei.org/issue/25991

16 years ago

86 upvotes – 98 comments

W3C Working Group Just Killed Web SQL Database

http://www.w3.org/TR/webdatabase/

16 years ago

85 upvotes – 84 comments

How a programming language documentation ought to look like: clojuredocs

http://clojuredocs.org/clojure_core/clojure.core/defn

16 years ago

83 upvotes – 34 comments

Human brain has more switches than all computers on Earth

http://news.cnet.com/8301-27083_3-20023112-247.html

16 years ago

82 upvotes – 31 comments

A Starting Guide to VIM from Textmate

http://blog.danielfischer.com/2010/11/19/a-starting-guide-to-vim-from-textmate/

16 years ago

82 upvotes – 39 comments

JQuery Raptor Plugin

http://www.zurb.com/playground/jquery-raptorize?timed_launch=true

16 years ago

76 upvotes – 15 comments

Open The Beers And Wait To Be Showered With Job Applications

http://seatgeek.com/blog/company-news/open-the-beers-and-wait-to-be-showered-with-job-applications

16 years ago

75 upvotes – 50 comments

Mobile web developers: Your users hate it when you do this

http://limpet.net/mbrubeck/2010/11/19/mobile-browser-detection.html

16 years ago

70 upvotes – 23 comments

200 students cheat on senior midterm exam, many blame professor

http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2010/11/17/cheating

16 years ago

69 upvotes – 99 comments

Processing.js v1.0 Released

http://processingjs.org/blog/?p=250

16 years ago

68 upvotes – 10 comments

John Carmack talks about Rage SD and HD, iOS, and what's next for iOS gaming

http://www.tuaw.com/2010/11/19/john-carmack-talks-about-rage-sd-and-hd-ios-and-whats-next-fo/

16 years ago

67 upvotes – 22 comments

Aldous Huxley: The Most Beautiful Death

http://www.lettersofnote.com/2010/03/most-beautiful-death.html

16 years ago

66 upvotes – 11 comments

Browse github fast with GithubFinder

http://sr3d.github.com/GithubFinder/?utm_source=bml&user_id=sr3d&repo=GithubFinder

16 years ago

65 upvotes – 22 comments

MailChimp launches $1 million integration fund

http://www.mailchimp.com/blog/mailchimp-launches-1-million-integration-fund/

16 years ago

63 upvotes – 8 comments

Which programming language do you want to learn next?

http://edd.me/proglangs

16 years ago

62 upvotes – 84 comments

How I serve my site using only CloudFront, S3, and a few small tools

http://blog.andrewvc.com/how-i-switched-to-using-only-s3-and-cloudfron

16 years ago

60 upvotes – 14 comments

Facebook Warns Debt Collectors About Using Its Service

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/10/11/facebook-warns-debt-collectors-about-using-its-service/66831/

16 years ago

57 upvotes – 39 comments

Fabricly (YC W10) launches threadless for fashion and raises money

http://techcrunch.com/2010/11/18/yc-funded-fabricly-is-a-threadless-for-high-fashion-and-it-just-raised-400k/

16 years ago

57 upvotes – 19 comments

Opera 11 - new and improved (Alpha)

http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/2010/11/17/new-and-improved

16 years ago

56 upvotes – 63 comments

Ask HN: What SSL Cert Provider Do You Use?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1919995

16 years ago

55 upvotes – 33 comments

Springboard startup bootcamp open to applications

http://springboard.com/

16 years ago

55 upvotes – 20 comments

Wyden (Oregon) threatens block on censorship/copyright bill

http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/211162/senator_threatens_to_block_online_copyright_bill.html

16 years ago

54 upvotes – 11 comments

Cracking wifi using Pyrit with Amazon EC2 GPUs

https://groups.google.com/group/pyrit/browse_thread/thread/6fb00f6c41e6ee0c?pli=1

16 years ago

53 upvotes – 4 comments

Ask HN: what was your first programming gig, and how much did you actually know?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1920453

16 years ago

53 upvotes – 53 comments

Programming Is Not Fun

http://www.c2.com/cgi/wiki?ProgrammingIsNotFun

16 years ago

52 upvotes – 39 comments

Worm Was Perfect for Sabotaging Centrifuges

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/19/world/middleeast/19stuxnet.html

16 years ago

51 upvotes – 13 comments

Fake Work is Destroying America

http://www.lifestyleignition.com/2010/05/fake-work-is-destroying-america/

16 years ago

47 upvotes – 34 comments

Meet the Firehose Seven Thousand Times Bigger Than Twitter's

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/meet_the_firehose_seven_thousand_times_bigger_than.php#

16 years ago

47 upvotes – 5 comments

Microsoft now says it’s “inspired’ by community finding new uses for Kinect

http://www.adafruit.com/blog/2010/11/19/microsoft-now-says-its-inspired-by-community-finding-new-uses-for-kinect/

16 years ago

46 upvotes – 32 comments

The anti-bubble of 2001-2004

http://cdixon.posterous.com/bubbles-and-anti-bubbles

16 years ago

45 upvotes – 6 comments

Being Vegan is worse for the environment?

http://veganskeptic.blogspot.com/2010/11/being-vegan-is-worse-for-environment.html

16 years ago

45 upvotes – 22 comments
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