top 50% hacker news stories for 2010-12-09

How to detect a toxic customer

http://www.softwarebyrob.com/2010/12/09/how-to-detect-a-toxic-customer/

16 years ago

293 upvotes – 114 comments

The ASF Resigns From the JCP Executive Committee

https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/entry/the_asf_resigns_from_the

16 years ago

260 upvotes – 57 comments

Dropbox for Teams

http://www.dropbox.com/teams

16 years ago

243 upvotes – 105 comments

Mark Zuckerberg Agrees to Give Away Fortune

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703493504576007982500939482.html?mod=djemalertTECH

16 years ago

239 upvotes – 193 comments

How to Fly 35,000 Miles, Visit 4 Continents, 9 Countries, and 15 Cities for $418

http://www.nerdfitness.com/blog/2010/12/09/how-to-fly-35000-miles-visit-4-continents-9-countries-and-15-cities-for-418/

16 years ago

193 upvotes – 108 comments

Paypal.com appears to be unavailable

http://paypal.com

16 years ago

148 upvotes – 123 comments

A virus could increase lithium batteries capacity by 10x

http://www.fastcompany.com/1708167/how-to-make-lithium-batteries-last-ten-times-longer-incorporate-a-plant-virus

16 years ago

141 upvotes – 70 comments

How to reject a job candidate without being an asshole

http://nathanmarz.com/blog/how-to-reject-a-job-candidate-without-being-an-asshole.html

16 years ago

140 upvotes – 77 comments

Engineering Is Not Science

http://spectrum.ieee.org/at-work/tech-careers/engineering-is-not-science/?utm_source=techalert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=101209

16 years ago

134 upvotes – 76 comments

Ask HN: How would you deal with DDoS?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1986728

16 years ago

129 upvotes – 65 comments

Evernote makes $800,000 per Month

http://mashable.com/2010/12/09/evernote-by-the-numbers-stats/

16 years ago

123 upvotes – 66 comments

Kinect finally fulfills its Minority Report destiny

http://www.engadget.com/2010/12/09/kinect-finally-fulfills-its-minority-report-destiny-video/

16 years ago

120 upvotes – 44 comments

Truly decentralized bittorrent

http://torrentfreak.com/truly-decentralized-bittorrent-downloading-has-finally-arrived-101208/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:%20Torrentfreak%20(Torrentfreak)

16 years ago

114 upvotes – 19 comments

YouTube Lifts Time Limit for Videos

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/12/09/youtube-lifts-time-limit-for-some-videos/?src=twr

16 years ago

107 upvotes – 40 comments

Ask HN: Did anyone else get a Google Chrome Laptop yet?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1987536

16 years ago

102 upvotes – 102 comments

Ben the Bodyguard: The Perils of Promotion That's Better Than the Product

http://www.fastcompany.com/1708233/ben-the-bodyguard

16 years ago

99 upvotes – 26 comments

10.1 inch Notion Ink Tablet - $375

http://notionink.wordpress.com/2010/12/09/fiat-lux/

16 years ago

98 upvotes – 50 comments

Objective-C Memory Management For Lazy People

http://interfacelab.com/objective-c-memory-management-for-lazy-people/

16 years ago

96 upvotes – 35 comments

Giant Patent Troll Awakened: Intellectual Ventures Files Its First Lawsuits

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20101208/11073712190/intellectual-ventures-files-its-first-lawsuits-giant-patent-troll-awakened.shtml

16 years ago

89 upvotes – 15 comments

Kickstarting Hubcap: a Socially Aware GitHub Mac App

https://github.com/blog/761-hubcap-a-socially-aware-github-mac-app

16 years ago

86 upvotes – 8 comments

The Most Honest Privacy Policy, Ever

http://www.itworld.com/print/129778

16 years ago

81 upvotes – 15 comments

JavaScript is the most popular language on GitHub

https://github.com/languages/JavaScript

16 years ago

78 upvotes – 30 comments

Climber Creates The "Anti-Cam" - A Fall Protection Device

http://www.alpinist.com/doc/web10f/wfeature-maddaloni-anticam

16 years ago

78 upvotes – 79 comments

Sprite.js: HTML5 framework for creating efficient animations in browsers

https://github.com/batiste/sprite.js

16 years ago

★ 871 JavaScript MIT
77 upvotes – 14 comments

Ask HN: Big company looking to acquire us, I'm terrified

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1985552

16 years ago

74 upvotes – 31 comments

Seattle School Board votes to keep 'Brave New World' on curriculum

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2013631328_bravenewworld09.html

16 years ago

66 upvotes – 19 comments

My Y Combinator Interview Experience and my Startup Postmortem

http://blog.maxlynch.com/my-y-combinator-interview-experience-and-a-go

16 years ago

66 upvotes – 22 comments

Two Days After Unveiling, Cr-48 Chrome Notebook Already Showing Up On Doorsteps

http://techcrunch.com/2010/12/09/cr-48-chrome-notebook-delivered/

16 years ago

63 upvotes – 11 comments

How I killed Pluto and why it had it coming

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2010/12/how-i-killed-pluto-and-why-it-had-it-coming/67242/

16 years ago

60 upvotes – 22 comments

Hacker News, now with downvotes

http://jacquesmattheij.com/HackerNews,+now+with+downvotes

16 years ago

60 upvotes – 45 comments

Mirrored display face-to-face pair programming setup

http://pivotallabs.com/users/jsusser/blog/articles/1505-pairing-tete-a-tete

16 years ago

59 upvotes – 24 comments

Truly Decentralized BitTorrent Downloading Has Finally Arrived

http://torrentfreak.com/truly-decentralized-bittorrent-downloading-has-finally-arrived-101208/

16 years ago

58 upvotes – 16 comments

16 year old arrested for DDOS attack on MasterCard in The Hague, The Netherlands

http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&sl=nl&tl=en&u=http://www.nrc.nl/binnenland/article2648033.ece/16-jarige_opgepakt_voor_cyberaanval_op_MasterCard&prev=_t&rurl=translate.google.com&twu=1&usg=ALkJrhj4avUDZchGTFq4083zux8gLS_o4w

16 years ago

58 upvotes – 83 comments

The Day I Bought $15,000 From the US Mint

http://tylertervooren.com/advancedriskology/the-day-i-bought-15000/#

16 years ago

57 upvotes – 56 comments

SyncPad Node.js Server Revisited

http://blog.mysyncpad.com/post/2143658273/syncpad-node-js-server-revisited

16 years ago

56 upvotes – 15 comments

The iOS and Android App Economies

http://daringfireball.net/2010/12/ios_android_app_economies

16 years ago

55 upvotes – 45 comments

Remix HN: Experimenting with the Hacker News user interface

http://www.hnvue.com/hello.htm

16 years ago

54 upvotes – 35 comments

Swarmsourcing: Radar Detection

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ari-krupnik/hazmap-open-everything-radar-detector

16 years ago

54 upvotes – 46 comments

Whatever happened to Google Fiber for Communities?

http://www.google.com/appserve/fiberrfi/

16 years ago

54 upvotes – 30 comments

Game Theory and Why Diplomatic Transparency is a Good Thing

http://sfard.posterous.com/game-theory-and-why-diplomatic-transparency-i

16 years ago

52 upvotes – 6 comments

Boomerang for Gmail update: Now in public beta with revamped UI

http://thenextweb.com/apps/2010/12/09/boomerang-for-gmail-new-features-and-a-bit-of-magic-to-receive-email-whenever-you-want/?awesm=tnw.to_179Xe&utm_content=twitter-publisher-main&utm_medium=tnw.to-twitter&utm_source=direct-tnw.to

16 years ago

50 upvotes – 13 comments

Mozilla's David Mandelin on Crankshaft

http://blog.mozilla.com/dmandelin/2010/12/08/crankshaft/

16 years ago

45 upvotes – 10 comments

The FBI Arbitrarily Covers Up Evidence of Misconduct

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/12/fbi-arbitrarily-covers-evidence-misconduct

16 years ago

43 upvotes – 1 comments

It's not WebSockets it's your broken proxy

http://blog.pusherapp.com/2010/12/9/it-s-not-websockets-it-s-your-broken-proxy

16 years ago

43 upvotes – 6 comments

Lessons Learned from Shutting Down My Second Startup

http://venturefizz.com/blog/lessons-learned-shutting-down-my-second-startup

16 years ago

42 upvotes – 14 comments

Andy Rubin: Google activates 300,000 phones every day

http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2010/12/08/andy-rubin-google-activates-300000-phones-every-day/

16 years ago

41 upvotes – 23 comments

Strategies to Protect Against Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Attacks

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/tech/tk59/technologies_white_paper09186a0080174a5b.shtml

16 years ago

40 upvotes – 6 comments

If you could only learn three programming languages, which would you choose?

https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dC0zRkR3U1kwYVRvZW9fa3ZNaEVreGc6MQ

16 years ago

40 upvotes – 64 comments

How To Get Experience Working With Large Datasets

http://www.philwhln.com/?p=394

16 years ago

36 upvotes – 9 comments

Say Something Nice About Every Language You’ve Used

http://blog.darevay.com/2010/12/say-something-nice-about-every-language-youve-used

16 years ago

35 upvotes – 30 comments

Were atoms real? (Interesting discussion of scientific philosophy.)

http://lesswrong.com/lw/38z/were_atoms_real/

16 years ago

35 upvotes – 16 comments

First Day Review: The Google Chrome OS Cr-48 Notebook

http://searchengineland.com/first-day-review-the-google-chrome-os-cr-48-notebook-58322

16 years ago

34 upvotes – 38 comments

Paypal.com down

http://twitter.com/#!/search/paypal

16 years ago

33 upvotes – 10 comments

Most Scientists in the U.S. Are Democrats. That's a Problem

http://www.slate.com/id/2277104/

16 years ago

33 upvotes – 117 comments
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