top 50% 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

717 upvotes – 198 comments

How I Screwed Up My Google Acquisition

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

16 years ago

472 upvotes – 103 comments

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

252 upvotes – 123 comments

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

242 upvotes – 256 comments

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

http://designfor15bucks.com/

16 years ago

230 upvotes – 176 comments

Stanford CS Book: Mining of Massive Datasets [pdf]

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

16 years ago

227 upvotes – 17 comments

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

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

16 years ago

208 upvotes – 91 comments

MasterCard under DDOS, can't process SecureCode online payments

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

16 years ago

204 upvotes – 188 comments

EFF: Say No to Online Censorship

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

16 years ago

189 upvotes – 44 comments

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

173 upvotes – 137 comments

Copyright troll lawsuit blows up in face of Righthaven

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

16 years ago

162 upvotes – 30 comments

Tips for Intermediate Git Users

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

16 years ago

158 upvotes – 15 comments

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

146 upvotes – 63 comments

Anonymous in The Economist

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

16 years ago

137 upvotes – 69 comments

Lanyrd feeds: never miss out on a conference

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

16 years ago

133 upvotes – 43 comments

A Chrome extension to avoid the Stack Overflow ripoffs

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

16 years ago

126 upvotes – 48 comments

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

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

16 years ago

124 upvotes – 52 comments

New York Times - Chrome version

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

16 years ago

104 upvotes – 66 comments

250 Free Online Courses from Top Universities

http://www.openculture.com/freeonlinecourses

16 years ago

95 upvotes – 2 comments

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

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

16 years ago

93 upvotes – 24 comments

SpaceX craft launches from Florida

http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/12/08/space.flight/index.html

16 years ago

87 upvotes – 13 comments

Ask HN: Advice for self-publishing books

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1982564

16 years ago

80 upvotes – 20 comments

Tracking Every Release

http://codeascraft.etsy.com/2010/12/08/track-every-release/

16 years ago

78 upvotes – 7 comments

Objects vs closures

http://people.csail.mit.edu/gregs/ll1-discuss-archive-html/msg03277.html

16 years ago

74 upvotes – 17 comments

SpaceX falcon9 launch

http://www.spacex.com/webcast.php

16 years ago

73 upvotes – 11 comments

Google's AROUND Operator for Proximity Search

http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2010/12/googles-around-operator.html

16 years ago

69 upvotes – 8 comments

Heroku: The Next Level (Salesforce.com acquisition)

http://blog.heroku.com/archives/2010/12/8/the_next_level/

16 years ago

66 upvotes – 21 comments

Everything a Hacker Needs to Know about Getting Busted by the Feds (1997)

http://web.textfiles.com/hacking/agentsteal.txt

16 years ago

64 upvotes – 12 comments

The Singularity in Our Past

http://cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/weblog/699.html

16 years ago

62 upvotes – 49 comments

The Groupon Editorial Manual

https://docs.google.com/View?id=dmv9rbh_2g92x4scj

16 years ago

58 upvotes – 13 comments

Looks Like “Google +1″ Was Just Accidentally Revealed

http://techcrunch.com/2010/12/07/google-plus-one-pic/

16 years ago

57 upvotes – 25 comments

SlideShare Outage Will Be Due To Global Warming

http://blog.slideshare.net/2010/12/07/slideshare-outage-will-be-due-to-global-warming/

16 years ago

56 upvotes – 12 comments

What's new in purely functional data structures since Okasaki?

http://cstheory.stackexchange.com/questions/1539/whats-new-in-purely-functional-data-structures-since-okasaki

16 years ago

55 upvotes – 2 comments

COLOURlovers (YC W10) Wants To Unleash Your Creative Streak With An iPhone App

http://techcrunch.com/2010/12/07/chromaom-wants-to-unleash-your-creative-streak-with-an-iphone-app/

16 years ago

54 upvotes – 21 comments

What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic

http://docs.sun.com/source/806-3568/ncg_goldberg.html

16 years ago

53 upvotes – 14 comments

Anonymous Ousted from Twitter and Facebook

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

16 years ago

51 upvotes – 50 comments

Is the Better Business Bureau a protection racket?

http://www.slate.com/id/2277100/

16 years ago

50 upvotes – 9 comments

Artificial Intelligence Stack Overflow about to start

http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/6607

16 years ago

50 upvotes – 33 comments

WebKit Clock

http://onotakehiko.com/webkitclock/

16 years ago

46 upvotes – 13 comments

I am a Female Sole Founder with no Dev Experience… Yeah, it’s a Tough Road

http://harperlindsey.com/2010/12/08/i-am-a-female-sole-founder-with-no-dev-experience%E2%80%A6-yeah-it%E2%80%99s-a-tough-road/

16 years ago

45 upvotes – 47 comments

WebSocket disabled in Firefox 4

http://hacks.mozilla.org/2010/12/websockets-disabled-in-firefox-4/

16 years ago

44 upvotes – 3 comments

How To Convert a SIM to a MicroSIM with a Meat Cleaver

http://www.johnbenson.net/How_to_Convert_a_SIM_to_a_MicroSIM_with_a_Meat_Cleaver/How_to_Convert_a_SIM_to_a_MicroSIM_with_a_Meat_Cleaver.html

16 years ago

42 upvotes – 16 comments

How Hunch Built a Data-Crunching Monster

http://www.readwriteweb.com/hack/2010/12/how-hunch-built-a-data-crunchi.php

16 years ago

40 upvotes – 13 comments

Google Executive: No Time to Build, So We Buy

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/12/07/google-executive-no-time-to-build-so-we-buy/?ref=technology

16 years ago

40 upvotes – 11 comments

And Then There Was One: Red Hat

http://ostatic.com/blog/and-then-there-was-one-red-hat

16 years ago

39 upvotes – 28 comments

Apple's Steve Wozniak: 'We've lost a lot of control'

http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/innovation/12/08/steve.wozniak.computers/index.html?hpt=C1

16 years ago

39 upvotes – 17 comments
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