top 50% hacker news stories for 2010-11-25

What I Learned From FarmVille - So You Don’t Have To Play It

https://docs1.google.com/document/d/1MDqR1MJHfa98ragj2NBp7JMEROKuo29fLJrgb_e702E/edit?hl=en&authkey=CMz61vMB#

16 years ago

251 upvotes – 50 comments

Tandberg attempts to patent x264 open source algorithm

http://x264dev.multimedia.cx/archives/589

16 years ago

231 upvotes – 44 comments

Steal This Presentation

http://www.slideshare.net/GlobalGossip/steal-this-presentation-5038209

16 years ago

182 upvotes – 23 comments

Mathematical explanation of music and white/black notes in a piano

http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/11669/mathematical-difference-between-white-and-black-notes-in-a-piano

16 years ago

161 upvotes – 30 comments

Small startup hits Google paydirt

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/your-business/exit/selling-your-business/small-startup-hits-google-paydirt/article1812156/

16 years ago

157 upvotes – 46 comments

Drew Houston's (Dropbox) YC Application

http://files.dropbox.com/u/2/app.html

16 years ago

152 upvotes – 26 comments

Matt Blaze: No, You Can't Have My Slides

http://www.crypto.com/blog/slideware

16 years ago

130 upvotes – 42 comments

Tim Berners-Lee says Facebook is a trap

http://news.bioscholar.com/2010/11/web-founder-says-facebook-is-a-trap.html

16 years ago

122 upvotes – 77 comments

ScribTeX online LaTeX editor (with git interface)

http://scribtex.com/

16 years ago

118 upvotes – 34 comments

An experiment in A/B Testing my Résumé

http://paulbutler.org/archives/experiment-in-testing-my-resume/

16 years ago

109 upvotes – 27 comments

Why blurring sensitive information is a bad idea

http://dheera.net/projects/blur.php

16 years ago

100 upvotes – 41 comments

Simple kernel attack: Eat 100% CPU, works under guest, no way to protect

http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/11/25/8

16 years ago

94 upvotes – 46 comments

U.S. warns Ottawa of WikiLeak release

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2010/11/24/wikileaks-ottawa.html

16 years ago

90 upvotes – 73 comments

The Mother of All Demos

http://sloan.stanford.edu/mousesite/1968Demo.html

16 years ago

85 upvotes – 10 comments

Throw 1; < don't be evil

http://www.google.com/ig/cp/get?hl=en&gl=

16 years ago

84 upvotes – 15 comments

I'm Everyone, a live, anonymous image/video site (potentially NSFW).

http://imeveryone.com

16 years ago

84 upvotes – 54 comments

Zediva Streams Movies From Physical DVD Players, Argues It’s Legal

http://techcrunch.com/2010/11/24/zediva/

16 years ago

83 upvotes – 47 comments

20 Things I’ve Learned From Traveling Around the World for Three Years

http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2010/10/30/20-things-ive-learned-from-traveling-around-the-world-for-three-years

16 years ago

80 upvotes – 16 comments

The Ruby Stdlib is not a Ghetto

http://blog.segment7.net/articles/2010/11/24/the-ruby-stdlib-is-not-a-ghetto

16 years ago

74 upvotes – 41 comments

Stack Overflow Hits 10M Uniques

http://techcrunch.com/2010/11/25/stack-overflow-hits-10m-uniques-boldly-goes-where-no-qa-site-has-gone-before/

16 years ago

65 upvotes – 21 comments

Index of Boot Sounds

http://titan08.free.fr/Boot%20Sounds/

16 years ago

65 upvotes – 17 comments

Opera's UNIX dev on how he uses wget and grep to read blog comments

http://my.opera.com/ruario/blog/show.dml/22004992

16 years ago

62 upvotes – 15 comments

Prognosis : Lessons learnt from developing a top 10 iPhone app

http://blog.medicaljoyworks.com/prognosis-lessons-learnt-from-developing-a-to

16 years ago

62 upvotes – 19 comments

Introduction to Category Theory in Scala

http://hseeberger.wordpress.com/2010/11/11/introduction-to-category-theory-in-scala/

16 years ago

56 upvotes – 3 comments

Is Complexity Theory On The Brink?

http://rjlipton.wordpress.com/2010/11/19/is-complexity-theory-on-the-brink/

16 years ago

56 upvotes – 13 comments

Ask HN: Would you like to see a book on Racket?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1940162

16 years ago

52 upvotes – 13 comments

What Does Haskell Have to Do with C++?

http://bartoszmilewski.wordpress.com/2009/10/21/what-does-haskell-have-to-do-with-c/

16 years ago

51 upvotes – 23 comments

Donate to the FreeBSD Foundation

http://ivoras.sharanet.org/blog/tree/2010-11-25.donate-to-the-freebsd-foundation!.html

16 years ago

48 upvotes – 12 comments

Netflix a Fast-Growing Rival to Hollywood and Cable

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/25/business/25netflix.html?hp

16 years ago

47 upvotes – 23 comments

The Henry Ford of Heart Surgery

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125875892887958111.html

16 years ago

47 upvotes – 15 comments

What Has Riled 96 Prominent Internet Engineers and 49 Law Professors?

http://spectrum.ieee.org/riskfactor/telecom/internet/what-has-riled-96-internet-engineers-and-49-law-professors/?utm_source=techalert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=101124

16 years ago

46 upvotes – 12 comments

Ghosts of Unix Past: a historical search for design patterns

http://lwn.net/Articles/411845/

16 years ago

46 upvotes – 4 comments

Haskell, Perl 6, Haskell

http://comichunter.net/nowhere/opinions/perl6haskell.html

16 years ago

44 upvotes – 15 comments

Want An iPod Nano Watch? So Does Everyone. New Kickstarter King

http://techcrunch.com/2010/11/24/ipod-nano-watch/

16 years ago

44 upvotes – 38 comments

Academia.edu Launches A Directory Of 12,500 Academic Journals

http://techcrunch.com/2010/11/24/academia-edu-launches-a-directory-of-12500-academic-journals/

16 years ago

43 upvotes – 12 comments

Ask HN: What are you thankful for?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1940354

16 years ago

43 upvotes – 40 comments
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