top 50% hacker news stories for 2010-11-21

Goodbye, Google App Engine

http://www.carlosble.com/?p=719

16 years ago

362 upvotes – 95 comments

Obvious to you. Amazing to others.

http://sivers.org/obvious

16 years ago

244 upvotes – 52 comments

Prof Gives Lecture to Prove He Knows Students Cheated; Over 200 Students Confess

http://thoughtcatalog.com/2010/over-200-students-admit-to-cheating-on-test-after-professor-dedicates-lecture-to-proving-he-knows-they-cheated/

16 years ago

231 upvotes – 143 comments

Lichess - Don't register. Play Chess.

http://lichess.org/

16 years ago

174 upvotes – 56 comments

π does not equal 4

http://www.axiomaticdoubt.com/?p=504

16 years ago

148 upvotes – 72 comments

Nude.js | Nudity detection with JavaScript and HTMLCanvas

http://www.patrick-wied.at/static/nudejs/

16 years ago

144 upvotes – 51 comments

The Fastest VM Bytecode Interpreter

http://byteworm.com/2010/11/21/the-fastest-vm-bytecode-interpreter/

16 years ago

110 upvotes – 35 comments

Phrases that announce ‘I’m lying‘

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2010/11/14/i_hate_to_tell_you/?p1=Upbox_links

16 years ago

109 upvotes – 66 comments

“Do I have the right to refuse this search?”

http://www.hlswatch.com/2009/10/15/

16 years ago

101 upvotes – 15 comments

Dilbert on intentionally confusing pricing

http://dilbert.com/dyn/str_strip/000000000/00000000/0000000/100000/00000/5000/800/105826/105826.strip.sunday.gif

16 years ago

99 upvotes – 55 comments

Ask HN: Is there a hippie commune for hackers?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1926047

16 years ago

97 upvotes – 104 comments

Cool Physics: Visualizing microwaves in a microwave oven

http://gaurabc.com/visualizing_microwaves_in_a_microwave_oven

16 years ago

95 upvotes – 12 comments

A Cautionary Tale from the Startup World

http://randfishkin.com/blog/60/cautionary-tale-startup-world

16 years ago

92 upvotes – 19 comments

To end poverty, guarantee everyone in Canada $20,000 a year.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/to-end-poverty-guarantee-everyone-in-canada-20000-a-year-but-are-you-willing-to-trust-the-poor/article1806904/singlepage/#articlecontent

16 years ago

77 upvotes – 144 comments

What's a "fogbank"? Nobody knows, but nukes need them, so we reinvented them.

http://www.thewaythefutureblogs.com/2010/11/what-fogbanks-cost/

16 years ago

77 upvotes – 43 comments

Ask HN: My lifetime mentor died. How to move on?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1927370

16 years ago

76 upvotes – 39 comments

"God help you. You're on dialysis."

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/print/2010/12/-8220-god-help-you-you-39-re-on-dialysis-8221/8308/

16 years ago

71 upvotes – 64 comments

Lessons Learned: A non-designer's attempt at a redesign

http://noahlitvin.posterous.com/lessons-learned

16 years ago

63 upvotes – 15 comments

Exercise: a requirement for sleep?

http://joel.is/post/1636226903/exercise-sleep

16 years ago

61 upvotes – 29 comments

99 Prolog Problems

https://sites.google.com/site/prologsite/prolog-problems

16 years ago

59 upvotes – 23 comments

X-Ray Backscatter Imaging Safety From Basic Principles

http://compilerbitch.livejournal.com/218216.html

16 years ago

56 upvotes – 15 comments

CL or Scheme?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1926402

16 years ago

54 upvotes – 44 comments

Facebook Removing Gmail From List Of Third Party Email Providers

http://techcrunch.com/2010/11/20/facebook-google-2/

16 years ago

52 upvotes – 23 comments

North Korea Working With Uranium at Vast New Plant

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/21/world/asia/21intel.html?_r=1&hp

16 years ago

51 upvotes – 39 comments

Cssess - The Bookmarklet That Finds Unused CSS Selectors

http://razorfast.com/2010/11/21/announcing-cssess-the-bookmarklet-that-finds-unused-css-selectors/

16 years ago

51 upvotes – 11 comments

My Windows Live Mesh Cluster Fail

http://pantuso.com/2010/11/21/windows-live-mesh-cluster-fail/

16 years ago

46 upvotes – 20 comments

A Beginner's Guide to Google Website Optimizer

http://blog.kissmetrics.com/guide-google-website-optimizer/?utm_source=feedburner

16 years ago

43 upvotes – 2 comments
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