top 50% hacker news stories for 2010-11-30

Startup Ideas Every Nerd Has (That Never Work)

http://blog.eladgil.com/2010/11/6-startup-ideas-every-nerd-has.html

16 years ago

313 upvotes – 209 comments

The only script in your head

http://headjs.com/

16 years ago

258 upvotes – 33 comments

BitTorrent Based DNS To Counter US Domain Seizures

http://torrentfreak.com/bittorrent-based-dns-to-counter-us-domain-seizures-101130

16 years ago

221 upvotes – 73 comments

My first tiny "weekend project": readable text hosting. Useful?

http://tidypub.org

16 years ago

204 upvotes – 93 comments

Sleep hacks

http://download.cnet.com/40-Sleep-Hacks-Geek-s-Guide-to-Optimizing-Sleep/3000-2129_4-10864038.html

16 years ago

195 upvotes – 34 comments

BankSimple Launches Preview Site

https://www.banksimple.com/

16 years ago

192 upvotes – 110 comments

Excellent analysis of Assange's Wikileaks motivations (from the horse's mouth)

http://zunguzungu.wordpress.com/2010/11/29/julian-assange-and-the-computer-conspiracy-“to-destroy-this-invisible-government”

16 years ago

179 upvotes – 105 comments

Scale of the Universe

http://uploads.ungrounded.net/525000/525347_scale_of_universe_ng.swf

16 years ago

149 upvotes – 39 comments

Sleep Hacks: The Geek's Guide to Optimizing Sleep

http://www.scribd.com/doc/3932344/40-Sleep-Hacks-The-Geeks-Guide-to-Optimizing-Sleep

16 years ago

147 upvotes – 55 comments

140 Google Interview Questions

http://blog.seattleinterviewcoach.com/2009/02/140-google-interview-questions.html

16 years ago

146 upvotes – 63 comments

Thank HN: Design for Hackers

http://www.kadavy.net/blog/posts/d4h-the-book/

16 years ago

142 upvotes – 35 comments

WikiLeaks Will Unveil Major Bank Scandal in Early 2011

http://blogs.forbes.com/andygreenberg/2010/11/29/exclusive-wikileaks-will-unveil-major-bank-scandal/

16 years ago

140 upvotes – 51 comments

Main GNU source repository server compromised

http://savannah.gnu.org/

16 years ago

135 upvotes – 39 comments

Oracle in conflict with another open source project?

http://www.hudson-labs.org/content/whos-driving-thing

16 years ago

129 upvotes – 34 comments

Systems Programmers Relax - Most Programming Advice Isn't For You

http://axisofeval.blogspot.com/2010/11/systems-programmers-relax-most-advice.html

16 years ago

124 upvotes – 34 comments

How to Draw An Owl

http://ben.casnocha.com/2010/11/how-to-draw-an-owl.html

16 years ago

106 upvotes – 15 comments

Galois releases the Haskell Lightweight Virtual Machine (HaLVM)

http://www.galois.com/blog/2010/11/30/galois-releases-the-haskell-lightweight-virtual-machine-halvm/

16 years ago

96 upvotes – 16 comments

Ecuador offers WikiLeak's founder Assange residency, no questions asked

http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/Ecuador+offers+WikiLeak+founder+Assange+residency+questions+asked/3902251/story.html

16 years ago

95 upvotes – 78 comments

Level 3 outbid Akamai on Netflix by reselling stolen bandwidth

http://www.digitalsociety.org/2010/11/level-3-outbid-akamai-on-netflix-by-reselling-stolen-bandwidth/

16 years ago

89 upvotes – 58 comments

Notation And Thinking

http://rjlipton.wordpress.com/2010/11/30/notation-and-thinking

16 years ago

85 upvotes – 27 comments

Ruby 2.0 Refinements in Practice

http://yehudakatz.com/2010/11/30/ruby-2-0-refinements-in-practice/

16 years ago

82 upvotes – 29 comments

Can you name the Programming Language if You Know The Creators?

http://www.sporcle.com/games/mi0tch/prog_lang_inventors

16 years ago

81 upvotes – 57 comments

Work/Life Balance

http://garrettdimon.com/post/2050767045/work-life-balance

16 years ago

78 upvotes – 15 comments

Nokia's MeeGo is doomed - A summary of Dublin's MeeGo Summit

http://www.techeye.net/software/nokias-meego-is-doomed

16 years ago

74 upvotes – 62 comments

How to Win at Coin Flipping

http://blog.wolfram.com/2010/11/30/how-to-win-at-coin-flipping/

16 years ago

66 upvotes – 2 comments

SSL with Rails

http://collectiveidea.com/blog/archives/2010/11/29/ssl-with-rails/

16 years ago

65 upvotes – 22 comments

Python NLTK Bayesian Classifier for word sense disambiguation - 92% accuracy

http://www.litfuel.net/plush/?postid=200

16 years ago

65 upvotes – 25 comments

What Does it Mean to Work Hard?

http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2010/11/29/what-does-it-mean-to-work-hard/

16 years ago

64 upvotes – 9 comments

Y Combinator And Yodlee Team Up To Give Startups Access To Financial Data

http://techcrunch.com/2010/11/30/y-combinator-and-yodlee-team-up-to-give-startups-access-to-financial-data/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Techcrunch+%28TechCrunch%29&utm_content=My+Yahoo

16 years ago

61 upvotes – 19 comments

Google's Current Bid for Groupon: $5 Billion.

https://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/30/technology/30google.html?_r=1&hp

16 years ago

60 upvotes – 62 comments

"Z3" - World’s fastest theorem prover

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/projects/z3/

16 years ago

59 upvotes – 2 comments

Where Are All The Internet Sales Guys? (CarWoo YC S09)

http://carwoo.com/blog/where-are-all-the-internet-sales-guys/

16 years ago

58 upvotes – 49 comments

Ask HN: Please upvote good questions in comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1955609

16 years ago

50 upvotes – 30 comments

Running Pure Django Projects on Google App Engine

https://code.google.com/appengine/articles/django-nonrel.html

16 years ago

48 upvotes – 14 comments

Linus on branching

http://codicesoftware.blogspot.com/2010/11/linus-on-branching.html

16 years ago

48 upvotes – 12 comments

Timelapse: Designing a new website

http://www.guestlistapp.com/blog/2010/11/30/timelapse-designing-a-new-website/

16 years ago

46 upvotes – 19 comments

Show HN: Cyberspace - my new web browser for iOS

http://cyberspaceapp.com

16 years ago

41 upvotes – 28 comments

Causing Terror on the Cheap

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2010/11/causing_terror.html

16 years ago

41 upvotes – 13 comments

My 1st article for the New York Times -- the psychology of financial willpower

http://bucks.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/30/how-to-improve-your-financial-willpower/

16 years ago

40 upvotes – 10 comments

Launching CakePlate, a boilerplate CakePHP distribution for fast web apps

http://cakeplate.posterous.com/launching-cakeplate

16 years ago

40 upvotes – 33 comments

Scatter - Ajax without coding, ideal for HTML prototyping

http://blog.quplo.com/2010/11/scatter-ajax-without-coding

16 years ago

39 upvotes – 8 comments

Ask HN: Why doesn't HN have a Search Bar

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1955629

16 years ago

38 upvotes – 13 comments

Impatient Perl (free ebook)

http://www.perl.org/books/impatient-perl/

16 years ago

37 upvotes – 6 comments
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