top 20 hacker news stories for 2010-12-11

The answer to "Will you mentor me?" is...No.

http://pindancing.blogspot.com/2010/12/answer-to-will-you-mentor-me-is.html

16 years ago

Apple engineer uses Lego to rebuild Antikythera mechanism

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-20025264-71.html

16 years ago

How to impress Joel Spolsky

http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/25432/how-can-a-new-programmer-impress-the-software-engineer-boss

16 years ago

Ask HN: How do you cope with loneliness?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1994671

16 years ago

My crazy boss sold everything, bought a boat, and is sailing for an entire year

http://sailingondine.com/2010/12/11/skippers-summary-of-events/

16 years ago

Comparing Compiler Optimizations

http://blog.regehr.org/archives/320

16 years ago

Anonymous sends a press release, but the author doesn't clear his metadata...

http://paulrankin.tumblr.com/post/2166282743/anonymous-has-supposedly-released-a-press-release

16 years ago

New US cybersecurity bill could threaten free software

http://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/new-us-cybersecurity-bill-could-threaten-free-software

16 years ago

Terminal app for the Kindle

http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/kindle/

16 years ago

The Viral Me: Inside Y Combinator

http://www.gq.com/news-politics/big-issues/201012/viral-me-silicon-valley-social-networking-devin-friedman

16 years ago

No Jobs? Young Graduates Make Their Own

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/12/business/12yec.html

16 years ago

Paypal shut my account today because my business donated money to wikileaks

http://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/ejzfp/paypal_shut_my_account_today_because_my_business/

16 years ago

"Do you listen to music while coding?" An analysis.

http://themoah.posterous.com/music-work

16 years ago

Tim Ferris: 3 More Case Studies of Successful Cash-Flow Businesses

http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2010/12/11/engineering-a-muse-volume-2-case-studies-of-successful-cash-flow-businesses/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+timferriss+%28The+Blog+of+Author+Tim+Ferriss%29&utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher

16 years ago

Quicksort is the new Hello World

http://blog.rmontanaro.com/2010/12/11/quicksort-is-the-new-hello-world/

16 years ago

Why Teens Don't and Won't Tweet

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

16 years ago

Finding security issues in a website (or: How to get paid by Google)

http://adblockplus.org/blog/finding-security-issues-in-a-website-or-how-to-get-paid-by-google

16 years ago

SpaceX's top secret payload

http://www.spacex.com/press.php?page=20101209

16 years ago

The New York subway-map wars, continued

http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/culture/2010/12/915879/new-york-subway-map-wars-continued

16 years ago

How to run Redis natively on Xen

http://openfoo.org/blog/redis-native-xen.html

16 years ago