top 50% hacker news stories for 2010-11-29

Google Beatbox

http://translate.google.com/#de|de|pv%20zk%20bschk%20pv%20zk%20pv%20bschk%20zk%20pv%20zk%20bschk%20pv%20zk%20pv%20bschk%20zk%20bschk%20pv%20bschk%20bschk%20pv%20kkkkkkkkkk%20bschk%0A%0A

16 years ago

1028 upvotes – 96 comments

Comcast demands Level 3 pay fee to deliver online movies to their subscribers

http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20101129006456/en/Level-3-Communications-Issues-Statement-Comcast%E2%80%99s-Actions

16 years ago

269 upvotes – 82 comments

How Obama Raised $60 Million by Running a Simple Experiment

http://blog.optimizely.com/how-obama-raised-60-million-by-running-an-exp

16 years ago

211 upvotes – 53 comments

Unbelievable balancing robot - stabilizes an articulated inverted pendulum

http://hackaday.com/2010/11/27/balancing-inverted-pendulums

16 years ago

211 upvotes – 48 comments

The best investment advice you'll never get

http://www.sanfranmag.com/story/best-investment-advice-youll-never-get

16 years ago

180 upvotes – 93 comments

Reddit Founders' YC Application

http://alexisohanian.com/our-y-combinator-summer-05-application-what-w

16 years ago

178 upvotes – 51 comments

Programmer Competency Matrix: Do you use it when hiring?

http://www.starling-software.com/employment/programmer-competency-matrix.html

16 years ago

156 upvotes – 106 comments

The Truth about California: It's actually saving the rest of the USA

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-truth-about-california-2010-11-22

16 years ago

154 upvotes – 56 comments

The Men Who Stole the World

http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/printout/0,29239,2032304_2032746_2032903,00.html

16 years ago

139 upvotes – 23 comments

Seth Priebatsch: Get a life

http://www.startupswami.com/2010/11/seth-priebatsch-get-life.html

16 years ago

132 upvotes – 64 comments

NASA to Hold News Conference on Astrobiology Discovery

http://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/news/releases/2010/M10-110.html

16 years ago

130 upvotes – 60 comments

Get Satisfaction responds to NYTimes' DecorMyEyes Article

http://blog.getsatisfaction.com/2010/11/28/when-businesses-attack-their-customers/

16 years ago

114 upvotes – 31 comments

Google Buys Groupon for $2.5 Billion?

http://vator.tv/news/2010-11-28-google-buys-groupon-for-25-billion

16 years ago

111 upvotes – 66 comments

Introducing Google Earth 6—the next generation of realism

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/11/introducing-google-earth-6the-next.html

16 years ago

111 upvotes – 30 comments

Clever bike lock scales light posts

http://www.dothegreenthing.com/blog/a_clever_bike_lock

16 years ago

106 upvotes – 56 comments

WikiLeaks Wants To Spill Your Corporate Secrets

http://blogs.forbes.com/andygreenberg/2010/11/29/wikileaks-julian-assange-wants-to-spill-your-corporate-secrets/

16 years ago

96 upvotes – 66 comments

Why Emacs is great - SLIME repl for developing in-browser javascript

https://github.com/ivan4th/swank-js

16 years ago

★ 8 JavaScript
95 upvotes – 23 comments

Lisp interpreter in 90 lines of C++

http://howtowriteaprogram.blogspot.com/2010/11/lisp-interpreter-in-90-lines-of-c.html

16 years ago

92 upvotes – 38 comments

Mozilla Is Designing a New Programming Language Language Called Rust

http://www.readwriteweb.com/hack/2010/11/mozilla-designing-programming-language-rust.php

16 years ago

92 upvotes – 69 comments

Apple, Microsoft, and Google called out by Mozilla to "stop being evil"

http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/363196/apple-microsoft-and-google-attacked-for-evil-plugins

16 years ago

88 upvotes – 63 comments

Google has a problem retaining great engineers? Bullcrap.

http://thunk.org/tytso/blog/2010/11/29/google-has-a-problem-retaining-great-engineers-bullcrap/

16 years ago

88 upvotes – 54 comments

Many teachers...grading...for compliance - not for mastering course material

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/28/weekinreview/28tyre.html

16 years ago

85 upvotes – 90 comments

Tutorial: Get Google search terms and rank from HTTP referrer

http://coding.pressbin.com/59/Get-Google-search-terms-and-rank-from-HTTP-referrer/

16 years ago

83 upvotes – 36 comments

Someone Copied the SNAP Source Code to Github Before Sony Pulled it Down

https://github.com/deliciousrobots/gnustep-gui-sony

16 years ago

82 upvotes – 37 comments

Groovy Array: it just keeps going...and going...

http://svn.codehaus.org/groovy/trunk/groovy/groovy-core/src/main/org/codehaus/groovy/runtime/ArrayUtil.java

16 years ago

81 upvotes – 34 comments

Lisp compiler in 89 lines of Python

http://bernhardkausler.wordpress.com/2009/11/28/sinc-%E2%80%94-the-tiniest-lisp-compiler-to-python/

16 years ago

79 upvotes – 8 comments

Men wanted for hazardous journey: AdGrok (YC S10) is hiring.

http://adgrok.com/men-wanted-for-hazardous-journey

16 years ago

79 upvotes – 113 comments

Peewee, a lightweight python ORM

http://charlesleifer.com/blog/peewee-a-lightweight-python-orm/

16 years ago

75 upvotes – 16 comments

Libgit2: a Git Linkable Library - GitHub

https://github.com/blog/752-libgit2-a-git-linkable-library

16 years ago

72 upvotes – 18 comments

Self-hosting Lisp-to-C compiler in 384 lines of Lisp

https://github.com/darius/ichbins/blob/master/ichbins.scm

16 years ago

★ 239 C
66 upvotes – 10 comments

Genetic algorithm demo: finding optimal vehicle design (in Flash)

http://www.qubit.devisland.net/ga/

16 years ago

65 upvotes – 16 comments

Cult phenomenon game builds confidence, creates opportunities

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/11/27/MN841GBAR6.DTL&tsp=1

16 years ago

65 upvotes – 13 comments

Tell HN: Save 60% on all O'Reilly E-books

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1949928

16 years ago

65 upvotes – 24 comments

How much Clojure do you know?

http://pepijndevos.nl/how-much-clojure-do-you-know

16 years ago

63 upvotes – 5 comments

The missing method: Deleting from Okasaki's red-black trees

http://matt.might.net/articles/red-black-delete/

16 years ago

58 upvotes – 5 comments

Businessmen: don't outsource your code.

http://techwildcatters.com/2010/11/businessmen-dont-outsource-your-code/

16 years ago

52 upvotes – 46 comments

EC2 Micro Instance as a Remote Bittorrent Client

http://mwmanning.com/2010/11/29/ec2-micro-instance-as-a-remote-bittorrent-client/

16 years ago

51 upvotes – 30 comments

P2P settlement lawyers lied, committed fraud says new lawsuit

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/11/p2p-settlement-lawyers-lied-committed-fraud-says-new-lawsuit.ars

16 years ago

48 upvotes – 3 comments

Microsoft "embraces" (doesn't prohibit) windows phone 7 jailbreaking

http://www.geek.com/articles/mobile/microsoft-we-cant-stop-you-from-jailbreaking-windows-phone-7-20101129/

16 years ago

46 upvotes – 37 comments

Khan Academy: Venture Capital & Capital Markets

http://www.khanacademy.org/#Venture%20Capital%20and%20Capital%20Markets

16 years ago

45 upvotes – 3 comments

Tell HN: Mumbai Hackers & Founders Dinner Meet - 6 Dec

http://www.ankeshkothari.com/mumbai-hackers-founders-dinner-meet-6-december/

16 years ago

44 upvotes – 11 comments

Rebuilding Your Userbase After a 60% Traffic Loss (80% Sales Loss) Disaster

http://jacquesmattheij.com/When+your+userbase+gets+away+from+you,+make+something+people+want,+indeed

16 years ago

44 upvotes – 37 comments

Why Canvas is not an obvious choice for web games

http://paulbakaus.com/2010/07/19/why-canvas-is-not-an-obvious-choice-for-web-games/

16 years ago

43 upvotes – 23 comments
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