top 50% 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

New Federal Law: Zero Taxes on Gains on Small Business Investments

http://angelsoft.net/blog/2010/10/08/new-federal-law-zero-taxes-on-gains-on-small-business-investments/

16 years ago

51 upvotes – 22 comments

How to add a notifier LED to your computer

http://www.justblair.co.uk/the-attiny45-usb-led-e-mail-twitter-and-pidgin-notifier.html

16 years ago

47 upvotes – 30 comments

Ask HN: Why aren't scientific journals free on the web?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1972304

16 years ago

45 upvotes – 57 comments

Tridge (of Samba fame) reviews a year of remote peer programming

http://blog.tridgell.net/?p=111

16 years ago

44 upvotes – 6 comments

Tumblr is Down – Fans Angry

http://www.centernetworks.com/tumblr-down-dec-5?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Centernetworks-+%28CenterNetworks+-%29

16 years ago

44 upvotes – 41 comments

Hey dude, where's our future?

http://citizen428.net/archives/1348

16 years ago

41 upvotes – 26 comments

Are you improving every day? Or are you a sheep?

http://pantuso.com/2010/12/04/how-are-you-improving-every-day/

16 years ago

40 upvotes – 26 comments

Get the New Facebook Profile Now

http://www.facebook.com/about/profile/

16 years ago

40 upvotes – 27 comments

Why shaken, not stirred?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaken,_not_stirred#Why_shaken.2C_not_stirred.3F

16 years ago

39 upvotes – 35 comments

Julian Assange's Barrister speaks out

http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/swedens-justice-system-may-become-a-laughing-stock-over-the-rape-charges-against-wikileaks-figurehead-julian-assange/story-e6freon6-1225965652205

16 years ago

39 upvotes – 16 comments

Faster Mac Development for a Linux Developer

http://tmsh.posterous.com/faster-mac-development-for-a-linux-developer

16 years ago

38 upvotes – 0 comments

What the Kinect sensor actually does

http://www.stephenhobley.com/blog/2010/12/04/what-the-kinect-sensor-actually-does/

16 years ago

38 upvotes – 1 comments

Ghosts of Unix Past

http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/4156

16 years ago

37 upvotes – 4 comments

Ask HN: What will medicine look like in 10 years?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1972573

16 years ago

37 upvotes – 54 comments

Is expecting expertise unreasonable?

http://blog.sidu.in/2010/12/is-expecting-expertise-unreasonable.html

16 years ago

34 upvotes – 14 comments

Julian Assange's lawyers say they are being watched

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/dec/05/julian-assange-lawyers-being-watched

16 years ago

34 upvotes – 17 comments

Ways to bootstrap a startup: “working in waves”

http://joel.is/post/2106915988/bootstrapping-waves

16 years ago

32 upvotes – 10 comments

Hacker News Munich Meetup

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1971409

16 years ago

32 upvotes – 40 comments
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