top 50% 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

Are the American people obsolete?

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2010/07/27/american_people_obsolete

16 years ago

74 upvotes – 117 comments

Mono: What we are Cooking

http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2010/Dec-09-1.html

16 years ago

72 upvotes – 18 comments

Google "Reading Level" filter

http://www.google.com/support/websearch/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1095407

16 years ago

70 upvotes – 31 comments

Ron Paul Defends WikiLeaks On House Floor

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/10/ron-paul-wikileaks-defense_n_795014.html?ref=tw

16 years ago

70 upvotes – 0 comments

The computer programming language known as "open source code"

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN3026798220101130

16 years ago

70 upvotes – 31 comments

Stepanov interview: origin of STL

http://www.stlport.org/resources/StepanovUSA.html#

16 years ago

68 upvotes – 15 comments

Man Sued Winklevoss Twins in 2009, Saying They Stole Company Stake From Him

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40593836/ns/business-us_business/

16 years ago

67 upvotes – 15 comments

Decline of the Tornado Web Server - What happened?

http://www.google.com/url?sa=D&q=https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc%3Fkey%3D0AhQ6xoOmtiH-dFdGeDE1YUU5dUpId0FUZklYb1hKZnc%26hl%3Den%26authkey%3DCJDyuSk&usg=AFQjCNHJsjiiPX40g56J93zK9I5owIedKQ

16 years ago

64 upvotes – 32 comments

Google 2010 Zeitgeist

http://www.google.com/intl/en/press/zeitgeist2010

16 years ago

64 upvotes – 31 comments

Big Just Got Bigger - 5 Terabyte Object Support in Amazon S3

http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2010/12/amazon_s3_5_terabyte_objects.html

16 years ago

61 upvotes – 31 comments

Emacs on a tablet PC with gestures

http://lispgamesdev.blogspot.com/2010/12/gnu-emacs-tablet-pc-touchscreen-gesture.html

16 years ago

60 upvotes – 8 comments

Amazon S3 - Object Size Limit Now 5 TB

http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2010/12/amazon-s3-object-size-limit.html

16 years ago

60 upvotes – 9 comments

More than you ever wanted to know about Marijuana strains

http://www.leafly.com/explore

16 years ago

59 upvotes – 44 comments

Weirdest Animals Discovered in 2010

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/12/photogalleries/101207-top-ten-weird-new-animals-2010/

16 years ago

57 upvotes – 6 comments

Military Bans Disks, Threatens Courts-Martial to Stop New Leaks

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/12/military-bans-disks-threatens-courts-martials-to-stop-new-leaks

16 years ago

57 upvotes – 52 comments

Microsoft Outlook ruins my evening

http://markshroyer.com/2010/12/outlook-ruins-evening/

16 years ago

55 upvotes – 22 comments

Spacecraft Saw ULF Radio Emissions over Haiti before January Quake

http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/26114/

16 years ago

54 upvotes – 16 comments

The decline and fall of an ultra rich gaming empire

http://www.wired.com/gaming/virtualworlds/magazine/16-12/ff_ige?currentPage=all

16 years ago

54 upvotes – 4 comments

Great Reading in Computer Science

http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/CS_readings.html

16 years ago

52 upvotes – 15 comments

Fast Iterations: How Napoleon Managed the French Army

http://managingmetrics.com/how-napoleon-managed-the-french-army

16 years ago

51 upvotes – 30 comments

Successful women in Open Source: Interview w/ Drupal Core Maintainer Angie Byron

http://www.port25.ca/2010/12/08/dev-profile-angie-byron/

16 years ago

49 upvotes – 3 comments

What it's like to participate in Anonymous actions

http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2010/12/what-its-like-to-participate-in-anonymous-actions/67860/

16 years ago

48 upvotes – 4 comments

The secret to fighting poverty is New Zealand

http://aidwatchers.com/2010/12/the-secret-to-fighting-poverty-is-new-zealand/

16 years ago

48 upvotes – 12 comments

Thank You HN: Deals for Hackers is on

http://www.surveygizmo.com/s3/430456/Thank-you-Deals-for-Hackers-is-on

16 years ago

46 upvotes – 7 comments

Italian Financial Crisis: A.D. 33

http://businomics.typepad.com/businomics_blog/2010/12/italian-financial-crisis-ad-33.html

16 years ago

44 upvotes – 6 comments

Ask HN: Finally have loose change and spare time, but no sense of purpose. Help.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1992741

16 years ago

41 upvotes – 74 comments

Next generation of algorithms inspired by problem-solving ants

http://www.physorg.com/news/2010-12-algorithms-problem-solving-ants.html

16 years ago

40 upvotes – 8 comments

PHP doesn't need 'finally'

http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=32100

16 years ago

40 upvotes – 43 comments

The Secrets Behind Blekko's Search Technology

http://www.readwriteweb.com/hack/2010/12/the-secrets-behind-blekkos-search-technology.php?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+readwriteweb+%28ReadWriteWeb%29

16 years ago

38 upvotes – 7 comments
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