top 50% hacker news stories for 2010-11-22

Re-entry to US without backscatter or pat-down

http://noblasters.com/post/1650102322/my-tsa-encounter

16 years ago

459 upvotes – 179 comments

SR-71 Blackbird Communication to Tower

http://www.econrates.com/reality/schul.html

16 years ago

422 upvotes – 68 comments

My Y Combinator interview.

http://www.korokithakis.net/node/125

16 years ago

269 upvotes – 109 comments

Dropbox (YC S07): Simple Tasks for Extra Space (768MB total)

https://www.dropbox.com/free

16 years ago

225 upvotes – 143 comments

What should a developer know before building a public web site?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/72394/what-should-a-developer-know-before-building-a-public-web-site

16 years ago

196 upvotes – 7 comments

Berners-Lee: Facebook 'threatens' web future

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/11/20/berners_lee_says_facebook_a_thret_to_web/

16 years ago

172 upvotes – 40 comments

What kind of traffic is driven by a single mention of a domain on network TV?

http://www.chrisfinke.com/2010/11/22/what-kind-of-traffic-is-driven-by-a-single-mention-of-a-domain-on-network-tv/

16 years ago

159 upvotes – 54 comments

Worst gadget ever? Ars reviews a $99 Android tablet

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/reviews/2010/11/worst-gadget-ever-ars-reviews-a-99-android-tablet.ars

16 years ago

148 upvotes – 89 comments

Google Launches Plugin That Fuses Microsoft Office With Google Docs

http://techcrunch.com/2010/11/22/google-launches-plugin-that-fuses-microsoft-office-with-google-docs/

16 years ago

147 upvotes – 41 comments

Apple’s iOS 4.2 Available Today for iPad, iPhone & iPod touch

http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2010/11/22ios.html

16 years ago

143 upvotes – 133 comments

Personal Surveillance Drones are here.

http://www.sensefly.com/products/swinglet-cam/

16 years ago

142 upvotes – 50 comments

Facebook Tries To Silence Lamebook: Removes Its Page, Blocks Links And Likes

http://techcrunch.com/2010/11/22/facebook-blocks-lamebook/

16 years ago

142 upvotes – 61 comments

How to Catch a Cheater

http://nerdlife.net/how-to-catch-a-cheater/

16 years ago

138 upvotes – 98 comments

Why we switched from Google App Engine to EC2

http://www.tophatmonocle.com/blog/2010/11/22/why-we-switched/

16 years ago

128 upvotes – 47 comments

A game inside a favicon.

http://www.p01.org/releases/DEFENDER_of_the_favicon/

16 years ago

118 upvotes – 12 comments

Lifetime Mixpanel.com Startup Plan - $17

http://www.appsumo.com/#mixpanel

16 years ago

108 upvotes – 64 comments

Novell acquired by Attachmate Corporation

http://www.novell.com/news/press/novell-agrees-to-be-acquired-by-attachmate-corporation

16 years ago

108 upvotes – 50 comments

Dutch Women work less, have a big gender pay gap, and they love it

http://www.slate.com/id/2274736/

16 years ago

105 upvotes – 92 comments

Stuck in Code

http://pindancing.blogspot.com/2009/04/stuck-in-code.html

16 years ago

95 upvotes – 24 comments

Image hosting that doesn't suck - just drag and drop

http://min.us/

16 years ago

91 upvotes – 79 comments

What good is Wall Street?

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/11/29/101129fa_fact_cassidy?currentPage=all

16 years ago

90 upvotes – 61 comments

Map-Reduce in JavaScript, working on client Browsers

http://blog.0x82.com/2010/11/22/map-crowd-reduce

16 years ago

87 upvotes – 9 comments

Real time lightsaber tracking and rendering on the Kinect

http://kinecthacks.net/real-time-lightsaber-tracking-and-rendering-on-the-kinect/

16 years ago

86 upvotes – 23 comments

Git as a NoSQL datastore

https://github.com/pauldowman/gitmodel

16 years ago

★ 529 Ruby MIT
84 upvotes – 42 comments

Justin Kan: Measuring startup success by head count is toxic

http://areallybadidea.com/measuring-startup-success-by-head-count-is-to?f

16 years ago

79 upvotes – 20 comments

Why you absolutely MUST write an API when you write your next app

http://blog.angrymonkeys.com.au/why-you-absolutely-must-write-an-api-before-y

16 years ago

76 upvotes – 22 comments

Employee Equity - How Much?

http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2010/11/employee-equity-how-much.html

16 years ago

76 upvotes – 11 comments

A true single-sided circuit board.

http://www.evilmadscientist.com/article.php/mobiuscircuit

16 years ago

75 upvotes – 9 comments

Show HN: A successful penny-auction bot

https://github.com/qix/penny-bot

16 years ago

★ 22 Python
74 upvotes – 12 comments

The Ruby Stdlib is a Ghetto

http://www.mikeperham.com/2010/11/22/the-ruby-stdlib-is-a-ghetto

16 years ago

71 upvotes – 47 comments

What makes people click with each other?

http://www.zacharyburt.com/2010/11/what-makes-two-people-click/

16 years ago

70 upvotes – 21 comments

Why You Can't Trust Recuiters

http://www.lessonsoffailure.com/developers/trust-recuiters/

16 years ago

70 upvotes – 34 comments

Editing Google Docs in Emacs

http://vivekhaldar.tumblr.com/post/1649745633/editing-google-docs-in-emacs

16 years ago

66 upvotes – 7 comments

Google Offered To Buy Twitter For $2.5-$4 Billion

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Google-Offered-To-Buy-Twitter-siliconalley-2283206007.html

16 years ago

65 upvotes – 36 comments

Cycle Sort

http://corte.si/posts/code/cyclesort/index.html

16 years ago

55 upvotes – 16 comments

Ask Patio11: Why don't you make SEO tools?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1928838

16 years ago

53 upvotes – 29 comments

The New MobileMe Login Page Has Some Badass JS

http://badassjs.com/post/1649735994/the-new-mobileme-login-page-has-some-badass-js

16 years ago

52 upvotes – 34 comments

[Pragmatic Bookshelf] 40% Off Black Friday Celebration One-Day Sale

http://media.pragprog.com/newsletters/2010-11-22.html

16 years ago

50 upvotes – 18 comments

Wikileaks promises release 7x bigger than Iraq War Logs, asks for donations

http://www.itworld.com/internet/128431/wikileaks-promises-release-7-times-bigger-iraq-war-logs

16 years ago

48 upvotes – 41 comments

What Killed Waterfall Could Kill Agile

http://cleancoder.posterous.com/what-killed-waterfall-could-kill-agile

16 years ago

47 upvotes – 46 comments
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