top 50% 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

328 upvotes – 42 comments

Apple engineer uses Lego to rebuild Antikythera mechanism

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

16 years ago

210 upvotes – 42 comments

How to impress Joel Spolsky

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

16 years ago

201 upvotes – 76 comments

Ask HN: How do you cope with loneliness?

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

16 years ago

158 upvotes – 77 comments

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

142 upvotes – 95 comments

Comparing Compiler Optimizations

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

16 years ago

120 upvotes – 10 comments

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

108 upvotes – 55 comments

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

104 upvotes – 61 comments

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

100 upvotes – 29 comments

Terminal app for the Kindle

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

16 years ago

100 upvotes – 15 comments

No Jobs? Young Graduates Make Their Own

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

16 years ago

95 upvotes – 18 comments

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

88 upvotes – 34 comments

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

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

16 years ago

86 upvotes – 93 comments

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

73 upvotes – 61 comments

Quicksort is the new Hello World

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

16 years ago

70 upvotes – 60 comments

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

69 upvotes – 8 comments

Why Teens Don't and Won't Tweet

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

16 years ago

69 upvotes – 41 comments

SpaceX's top secret payload

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

16 years ago

65 upvotes – 22 comments

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

61 upvotes – 10 comments

How to run Redis natively on Xen

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

16 years ago

58 upvotes – 19 comments

SHA-3 Finalists Announced

http://jonkatz.wordpress.com/2010/12/10/sha-3-finalists-announced/

16 years ago

54 upvotes – 4 comments

Engadget's review on Nexus S

http://www.engadget.com/2010/12/10/nexus-s-review/

16 years ago

53 upvotes – 28 comments

Are Posterous Fudging Visitor Statistics?

http://blog.awesomezombie.com/2010/12/are-posterous-fudging-visitor-statics.html

16 years ago

53 upvotes – 33 comments

Ask HN: Is there any market for creative coders?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1995029

16 years ago

49 upvotes – 38 comments

Google's Motion to Dismiss patent infringement charges granted

http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20101210205849673

16 years ago

48 upvotes – 14 comments

On writing (and law)

http://grellas.com/articles.html

16 years ago

48 upvotes – 15 comments

Timeless Decision Theory Paper Released

http://singinst.org/blog/2010/11/12/timeless-decision-theory-paper-released/

16 years ago

46 upvotes – 12 comments

The String Memory Gotcha (2005)

http://fishbowl.pastiche.org/2005/04/27/the_string_memory_gotcha/

16 years ago

45 upvotes – 11 comments

Startup Bullshit Bingo - December 2010 Edition

http://kaljundi.com/2010/12/11/startup-bullshit-bingo/

16 years ago

41 upvotes – 13 comments

Stuxnet Worm Still Out of Control at Iran's Nuclear Sites

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/12/09/despite-iranian-claims-stuxnet-worm-causing-nuclear-havoc/

16 years ago

41 upvotes – 23 comments

Java Serialization options

http://code.google.com/p/thrift-protobuf-compare/wiki/Benchmarking

16 years ago

40 upvotes – 1 comments

An open source command-line computer algebra system (CAS)

http://www.mathomatic.org/math/

16 years ago

37 upvotes – 4 comments

Liu Xiaobo: I Have No Enemies

http://www.npr.org/2010/12/10/131970677/liu-xiaobo-i-have-no-enemies

16 years ago

35 upvotes – 5 comments
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