top 50% hacker news stories for 2010-12-07

Everest is littered with dead, exposed bodies

http://godheadv.blogspot.com/2010/04/abandoned-on-everest.html

16 years ago

664 upvotes – 255 comments

Don't shoot the messenger for telling the truth

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/in-depth/wikileaks/dont-shoot-messenger-for-revealing-uncomfortable-truths/story-fn775xjq-1225967241332

16 years ago

334 upvotes – 131 comments

Chromium Blog: A New Crankshaft for V8

http://blog.chromium.org/2010/12/new-crankshaft-for-v8.html

16 years ago

242 upvotes – 90 comments

Introducing Apache Wave

http://googlewavedev.blogspot.com/2010/12/introducing-apache-wave.html

16 years ago

218 upvotes – 24 comments

The Tree Slider - GitHub

https://github.com/blog/760-the-tree-slider

16 years ago

182 upvotes – 34 comments

Assange arrested in London (BBC)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11937110

16 years ago

156 upvotes – 103 comments

Learn Clojure

http://learn-clojure.com/

16 years ago

144 upvotes – 10 comments

Home - Chrome OS

http://www.google.com/chromeos/

16 years ago

142 upvotes – 102 comments

Android vs iOS: A Developer's Perspective

http://whereoscope.wordpress.com/2010/12/07/android-vs-ios-a-developers-perspective/

16 years ago

124 upvotes – 84 comments

Sad as Hell

http://nplusonemag.com/sad-as-hell

16 years ago

121 upvotes – 64 comments

Software design mistakes that Diaspora needs to fix.

http://buddycloud.com/cms/node/204

16 years ago

118 upvotes – 54 comments

Chrome Web Store

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/

16 years ago

114 upvotes – 45 comments

Apache loses Java showdown vote to Oracle

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/12/07/apache_google_vote_no_oracle_roadmap/

16 years ago

108 upvotes – 125 comments

Hello HN: I am quitting school for freelance, here's my portfolio

http://ivzhao.com

16 years ago

105 upvotes – 85 comments

8 [Startup] Things I’m Better At Now That I’m 30

http://deeringdavis.wordpress.com/2010/12/06/things-im-better-at-now

16 years ago

103 upvotes – 25 comments

The Unfortunate Sex Life of the Banana

http://www.damninteresting.com/the-unfortunate-sex-life-of-the-banana

16 years ago

101 upvotes – 35 comments

Slowloris - the low bandwidth, yet greedy and poisonous HTTP client

http://ha.ckers.org/slowloris/

16 years ago

93 upvotes – 43 comments

Disk Encryption by Default in Chrome OS

http://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/chromiumos-design-docs/protecting-cached-user-data

16 years ago

83 upvotes – 18 comments

Apply for a Google Cr-48

http://www.google.com/chromeos/pilot-program.html

16 years ago

83 upvotes – 60 comments

Downtime

http://staff.tumblr.com/post/2127872280/downtime

16 years ago

82 upvotes – 45 comments

Daily Aspirin Linked to Steep Drop in Cancer Risk

http://www.businessweek.com/lifestyle/content/healthday/647054.html

16 years ago

74 upvotes – 35 comments

WebSockets Disabled by default for Firefox 4

http://cometdaily.com/2010/12/07/websockets-disconnected-for-firefox-4/

16 years ago

74 upvotes – 58 comments

African poverty is falling…much faster than you think

http://www.voxeu.org/index.php?q=node/5890

16 years ago

71 upvotes – 23 comments

One Database To Rule The Cloud: Salesforce Debuts Database.com

http://techcrunch.com/2010/12/07/one-database-to-rule-the-cloud-salesforce-debuts-database-com-for-the-enterprise/

16 years ago

69 upvotes – 68 comments

Jason Fried: How to Kill a Bad Idea

http://www.inc.com/magazine/20101201/how-to-kill-a-bad-idea.html

16 years ago

66 upvotes – 33 comments

Rethinking the scientific method

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/12/13/101213fa_fact_lehrer

16 years ago

59 upvotes – 34 comments

So, you want to provide an API for the world to use?

http://design.canonical.com/2010/12/so-you-want-to-provide-an-api-for-the-world-to-use/

16 years ago

58 upvotes – 5 comments

Homeland Security Messages Coming to Wal Mart, etc.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/12/homeland-security-messages-coming-walmart-hotels-malls/

16 years ago

57 upvotes – 36 comments

Linux kernel root-level exploit leveraging three previous vulnerabilities

http://marc.info/?l=full-disclosure&m=129175358621826&w=2

16 years ago

56 upvotes – 12 comments

TeslaTouch - tactile feedback from touchscreen surface

http://www.teslatouch.com/media.html

16 years ago

50 upvotes – 20 comments

Bayesian Learning in Social Networks

http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~ilobel/socialnetworks_revised.pdf

16 years ago

49 upvotes – 4 comments

Build native iOS apps with jQuery Mobile

http://insideria.com/2010/12/yes-virginia-you-can-build-nat.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+oreilly%2Fjavascript+%28O%27Reilly+News%3A+Javascript%29&utm_content=Google+Reader

16 years ago

48 upvotes – 45 comments

U.S. to host World Press Freedom Day

http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2010/12/152465.htm

16 years ago

48 upvotes – 34 comments

Gmail: Priority Inbox Is Working; Users Spending 15 Percent Less Time Reading

http://techcrunch.com/2010/12/06/gmail-priority-inbox-stats/

16 years ago

48 upvotes – 21 comments

Is it OK to Want to Make Money? Slaying Some Silicon Valley Myths

http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2010/12/06/is-it-ok-to-want-to-make-money/

16 years ago

48 upvotes – 8 comments

Video And Screenshots Of Android 3.0′s Surprise Appearance

http://www.crunchgear.com/2010/12/07/video-and-screenshots-of-the-motopad-with-android-3-0/

16 years ago

47 upvotes – 36 comments

Google Officially Unveils Chrome OS

http://thenextweb.com/google/2010/12/07/google-officially-unveils-its-long-awaited-operating-system-chrome-os-is-nothing-but-the-web/

16 years ago

47 upvotes – 8 comments

Starting Forth - After yesterday's Prolog post, another awesome language

http://home.iae.nl/users/mhx/sf.html

16 years ago

45 upvotes – 27 comments

Is Angel Investing Out of Hand? Joshua Schachter Thinks So

http://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2010/12/07/is-angel-investing-out-of-hand-joshua-schachter-thinks-so/

16 years ago

45 upvotes – 61 comments

Leaked cables suggest China Access to Microsoft source used for cyber attacks

http://www.winrumors.com/leaked-u-s-embassy-cables-suggest-china-uses-access-to-microsoft-source-code-for-cyber-attacks/

16 years ago

45 upvotes – 26 comments

Weebly featured in Chrome Web Store

http://blog.weebly.com/2/post/2010/12/weebly-launches-as-a-featured-google-chrome-web-store-app.html

16 years ago

44 upvotes – 9 comments

Entrepreneurs We Love: Jessica Mah (YC S10)

http://www.inc.com/magazine/20101201/indinero-fixes-money-management.html

16 years ago

44 upvotes – 10 comments

Google Wave will continue as Apache Wave

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_wave_will_live_on_as_apache_wave.php

16 years ago

44 upvotes – 1 comments

NodeConf May 5th 2011 Portland, OR

http://nodeconf.com

16 years ago

43 upvotes – 16 comments

MagicRuby - Free Ruby conference at Walt Disney World

http://magic-ruby.com

16 years ago

43 upvotes – 14 comments

AWS Achieves PCI DSS 2.0 Validated Service Provider Status

http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2010/12/aws-achieves-pci-dss-20-validated-service-provider-status.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+AmazonWebServicesBlog+(Amazon+Web+Services+Blog)

16 years ago

43 upvotes – 8 comments

Void main(void) - the Wrong Thing

http://users.aber.ac.uk/auj/voidmain.shtml

16 years ago

42 upvotes – 21 comments

Google to Launch Chrome Web Store and Chrome OS

http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2010/12/google-to-launch-chrome-web-store-and.html

16 years ago

41 upvotes – 4 comments

Top Test Scores From Shanghai Stun Educators

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/07/education/07education.html?hp

16 years ago

41 upvotes – 45 comments

Thou Shalt Not Lie: git rebase, ammend, squash, and other lies

http://paul.stadig.name/2010/12/thou-shalt-not-lie-git-rebase-ammend.html

16 years ago

40 upvotes – 25 comments

Pivotal Tracker has a new look

http://pivotallabs.com/users/dan/blog/articles/1498-new-in-tracker-updated-look-google-accounts-sign-in-

16 years ago

39 upvotes – 0 comments

Amazon proves that REST doesn’t matter for Cloud APIs

http://stage.vambenepe.com/archives/1700

16 years ago

39 upvotes – 26 comments

Diaspora branch with xmpp federation support

https://github.com/bnolan/diaspora-x

16 years ago

★ 63 Ruby
38 upvotes – 1 comments

Show HN: We made this 'Pandora for Music Videos', let me know what you think.

http://viddyjam.com

16 years ago

37 upvotes – 29 comments

VMware to virtualize Android smartphones for business users

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/120710-vmware-virtualizes-lg-android.html

16 years ago

36 upvotes – 9 comments

Issue 1 of Hackers is here

http://hackerspaper.com/2010/12/07/hackers-is-here/

16 years ago

36 upvotes – 18 comments
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