top 20 hacker news stories for 2010-12-10

What does it feel like to be stupid? An anonymous Quora user explains.

http://garrysub.posterous.com/what-does-it-feel-like-to-be-stupid-an-anonym

16 years ago

521 upvotes – 149 comments

I solved the embedded Chrome OS ad equation and won a Cr-48

http://www.sylvainzimmer.com/2010/12/10/first-to-decode-the-chrome-os-video-equation-won-a-cr-48/

16 years ago

324 upvotes – 88 comments

Web Programming Is Hard

http://www.shubharamani.com/wordpress/?p=31

16 years ago

258 upvotes – 154 comments

Anonymous stops dropping DDoS bombs, starts dropping science

http://www.boingboing.net/2010/12/09/anonymous-stops-drop.html

16 years ago

249 upvotes – 86 comments

A reminder for us all: The Hacker News newcomer welcome page.

http://ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html

16 years ago

196 upvotes – 59 comments

Peter Seebach: How I learned C

http://www.seebs.net/c/growup.html

16 years ago

175 upvotes – 32 comments

Unladen Swallow is dead

http://groups.google.com/group/unladen-swallow/msg/bd4e6f935c23252a

16 years ago

171 upvotes – 57 comments

OOP practiced backwards is "POO"

http://github.com/raganwald/homoiconic/blob/master/2010/12/oop.md#readme

16 years ago

★ 1.8k Ruby
140 upvotes – 90 comments

Review my startup: Tastebuds - dating for last.fm users

http://tastebuds.fm

16 years ago

133 upvotes – 64 comments

Using the Google Cr-48 for Coding

http://ejohn.org/blog/google-cr-48-for-coding/

16 years ago

125 upvotes – 63 comments

2600 Magazine condemns DoS attacks

http://www.2600.com/news/view/article/12037

16 years ago

113 upvotes – 49 comments

Hotmail development team on Reddit

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/ej32l/we_are_the_hotmail_development_team_lets_talk/c18gp4r?context=1

16 years ago

105 upvotes – 118 comments

My Y Combinator Interview (W2011)

http://judstephenson.com/blog/archives/2010/11/My-Y-Combinator-Interview.html

16 years ago

101 upvotes – 24 comments

Navy Sets World Record With Rail Gun

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/12/10/navy-railgun-shoots-bullets-electromagnet/

16 years ago

91 upvotes – 81 comments

The last days of the polymath

http://moreintelligentlife.com/content/edward-carr/last-days-polymath

16 years ago

85 upvotes – 31 comments

Things to hate about OOP

http://blog.jot.fm/2010/08/26/ten-things-i-hate-about-object-oriented-programming/

16 years ago

84 upvotes – 73 comments

Oracle Asks Apache to Reconsider Java Committee Departure

http://news.idg.no/cw/art.cfm?id=D0CBFE66-1A64-67EA-E4FB1D830180257C

16 years ago

80 upvotes – 31 comments

Announcing the Facebook 2011 Hacker Cup

http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=467531498919

16 years ago

78 upvotes – 27 comments

Backscatter Machines Not Effective at Detecting Plastic Explosives

http://springerlink.com/content/g6620thk08679160/

16 years ago

78 upvotes – 25 comments

Ask HN: Web-based coding text editors? (for coding on the cr48)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1992137

16 years ago

75 upvotes – 56 comments
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