top 20 hacker news stories for 2010-12-08

Salesforce Buys Heroku (YC W08) For $212 Million In Cash

http://techcrunch.com/2010/12/08/breaking-salesforce-buys-heroku-for-212-million-in-cash/

16 years ago

How I Screwed Up My Google Acquisition

http://www.codusoperandi.com/posts/how-i-screwed-up-my-google-acquisition

16 years ago

I always forget the argument order of the `ln -s` command

http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1qt0z/ln_s_d1_d2_am_i_the_only_person_who_gets_this_the

16 years ago

Visa.com Now Also Down Under DDoS

http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2010/12/08/visa-website-down-after-threat-from-wikileaks-supporters/

16 years ago

Yesterday I had this crazy idea: People pay me $15, I make them a web design

http://designfor15bucks.com/

16 years ago

Stanford CS Book: Mining of Massive Datasets [pdf]

http://infolab.stanford.edu/~ullman/pub/book.pdf

16 years ago

This is experimental. However, it could start a revolution in information access

http://i.imgur.com/nkBnu.png

16 years ago

MasterCard under DDOS, can't process SecureCode online payments

http://blog.securetrading.com/2010/12/mastercard-maestro-3-d-secure/

16 years ago

EFF: Say No to Online Censorship

https://www.eff.org/pages/say-no-to-online-censorship

16 years ago

PayPal: "State Department Said It Was Illegal"

http://techcrunch.com/2010/12/08/paypal-vp-on-blocking-wikileaks-state-department-told-us-it-was-illegal/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=hellotxt&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Techcrunch+%28TechCrunch%29&utm_content=Google+UK

16 years ago

Copyright troll lawsuit blows up in face of Righthaven

http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/12/democratic-underground-responds-righthaven

16 years ago

Tips for Intermediate Git Users

http://andyjeffries.co.uk/articles/25-tips-for-intermediate-git-users

16 years ago

A table that should exist in all projects with a database

http://blog.cherouvim.com/a-table-that-should-exist-in-all-projects-with-a-database/

16 years ago

Anonymous in The Economist

http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2010/12/more_wikileaks

16 years ago

Lanyrd feeds: never miss out on a conference

http://lanyrd.com/blog/2010/feeds/

16 years ago

A Chrome extension to avoid the Stack Overflow ripoffs

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/gledhololmniapejefjfocffkhoamlll#

16 years ago

Ditching 200K of C++ for 30K of Scheme

http://blog.racket-lang.org/2010/12/racket-version-5.html

16 years ago

New York Times - Chrome version

http://www.nytimes.com/chrome/

16 years ago

250 Free Online Courses from Top Universities

http://www.openculture.com/freeonlinecourses

16 years ago

Let's make the web faster: Tools to discover and improve your site performance

http://code.google.com/speed/tools.html

16 years ago