top 20 hacker news stories for 2010-12-05

Captain Crunch needs your help

http://savingcaptaincrunch.com/

16 years ago

195 upvotes – 74 comments

With Domain Name Seizures Increasing, It's Time For A Decentralized DNS System

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20101129/01445312034/with-domain-name-seizures-increasing-its-time-decentralized-dns-system.shtml

16 years ago

186 upvotes – 80 comments

There is no talent

http://timeless.judofyr.net/there-is-no-talent

16 years ago

158 upvotes – 140 comments

List of freely available programming books

http://stackoverflow.com/q/194812/89806

16 years ago

146 upvotes – 8 comments

Introducing the New Profile

http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=462201327130

16 years ago

141 upvotes – 106 comments

Okay. So what are you going to do about it?

http://www.sebastianmarshall.com/?p=387

16 years ago

111 upvotes – 17 comments

Ask HN: Who's hiring (for H-1B)? | Dec 2010

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1971206

16 years ago

103 upvotes – 39 comments

Ask HN: experiences with Lasik eye surgery (programmers especially)?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1970554

16 years ago

91 upvotes – 82 comments

How LG Described its Windows 7 Phone to Anandtech

http://www.anandtech.com/show/4045/lgs-optimus-7-samsungs-focus-reviewed-a-tale-of-two-windows-phones/2

16 years ago

85 upvotes – 14 comments

HTML5 Speech Recognition (in Chrome)

http://slides.html5rocks.com/#slide24

16 years ago

83 upvotes – 72 comments

Why are variables "i" and "j" used for counters?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4137785/why-are-variables-i-and-j-used-for-counters

16 years ago

81 upvotes – 36 comments

WikiLeaks now running on over 200 hosts around the world

http://wikileaks.ch/mirrors.html

16 years ago

77 upvotes – 13 comments

ASK HN: Easy ways for a web developer to make online cash?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1972904

16 years ago

73 upvotes – 47 comments

Deriving the Y Combinator in JavaScript in 7 Steps

http://igstan.ro/posts/2010-12-01-deriving-the-y-combinator-in-7-easy-steps.html

16 years ago

71 upvotes – 9 comments

Getting Creative Things Done: How To Fit Hard Thinking Into a Busy Schedule

http://the99percent.com/tips/6956/Getting-Creative-Things-Done-How-To-Fit-Hard-Thinking-Into-a-Busy-Schedule

16 years ago

66 upvotes – 5 comments

Rosie Redfield: No convincing evidence that As has been incorporated into DNA

http://rrresearch.blogspot.com/2010/12/arsenic-associated-bacteria-nasas.html

16 years ago

59 upvotes – 23 comments

Hudson’s Secret: Kohsuke

http://pelegri.wordpress.com/2010/12/05/hudsons-secret-kohsuke/

16 years ago

59 upvotes – 10 comments

Gödel’s Lost Letter and P=NP

http://rjlipton.wordpress.com/the-gdel-letter/

16 years ago

57 upvotes – 10 comments

Why Isn't WikiLeaks Trending on Twitter?

http://studentactivism.net/2010/12/05/wikileaks-twitter-3/

16 years ago

55 upvotes – 5 comments

Economics of Information Technology

http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/~hal/Papers/mattioli/mattioli.html

16 years ago

54 upvotes – 10 comments
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