top 20 hacker news stories for 2010-12-12

The Day MAME Saved My Ass

http://www.ppl-pilot.com/mame.aspx

16 years ago

352 upvotes – 44 comments

Staging Servers, Source Control & Deploy Workflows, And Other Stuff

http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/12/12/staging-servers-source-control-deploy-workflows-and-other-stuff-nobody-teaches-you/

16 years ago

330 upvotes – 54 comments

The frontpage with a threshold of 100 points

http://news.ycombinator.com/over?points=100

16 years ago

256 upvotes – 110 comments

What's really wrong with BlackBerry

http://mobileopportunity.blogspot.com/2010/10/whats-really-wrong-with-blackberry-and.html

16 years ago

248 upvotes – 74 comments

SimpleCDN has been effectively kicked off the Internet by its ISPs w/o warning

http://admin.simplecdn.com/

16 years ago

125 upvotes – 86 comments

10% unemployment yet every startup in NYC struggling to hire

http://jonsteinberg.com/15-unemployment-yet-every-startup-in-nyc-is-s

16 years ago

116 upvotes – 178 comments

Why choose Tropo over Twilio

http://www.diggz.org/index.php/2010/12/01/why-choose-tropo-over-twili/

16 years ago

110 upvotes – 98 comments

Ask HN: What is a monad?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1997341

16 years ago

100 upvotes – 43 comments

I Miss Lisp

http://drupal.technicat.com/writing/lisp.html#It%27s+Really+Lisp

16 years ago

99 upvotes – 66 comments

Wondering if you are getting a CR-48? Look for your zipcode here.

http://pastie.org/1366486

16 years ago

84 upvotes – 80 comments

Pornoscanners trivially defeated by pancake-shaped explosives

http://www.boingboing.net/2010/12/11/pornoscanners-trivia.html

16 years ago

84 upvotes – 36 comments

Oracle VP: “We have a strategy to run Java inside a Javascript environment”

http://cemerick.com/2010/12/12/oracle-vp-we-have-a-strategy-to-run-java-inside-a-javascript-environment/

16 years ago

74 upvotes – 55 comments

Sorting Algorithm Animations

http://www.sorting-algorithms.com/

16 years ago

69 upvotes – 18 comments

Sam Ruby, Brendan Eich, and Jeremy Ashkenas on CoffeeScript and "JS-next"

http://intertwingly.net/blog/2010/11/25/Hobgoblin-of-Little-Minds#c1292138238

16 years ago

65 upvotes – 17 comments

Procedural Building Generation in Unreal Engine 3

http://udn.epicgames.com/Three/ProceduralBuildings.html

16 years ago

65 upvotes – 20 comments

Show HN: Flattehn: A Chrome extension to hide points / users until you've voted

https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/hahhhdmfdgfiehpgljfiichmokfpkbpg

16 years ago

61 upvotes – 37 comments

When Free Software isn't better

http://mako.cc/writing/hill-when_free_software_isnt_better.html

16 years ago

61 upvotes – 45 comments

On C Linked Lists (Profiling and Optimizing)

http://rusty.ozlabs.org/?p=168

16 years ago

60 upvotes – 31 comments

The danger of having system programmers around

http://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/SystemProgrammerDanger

16 years ago

60 upvotes – 28 comments

Original Macintosh Business Plan: July 12, 1981

http://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/text/2009/102712692.05.01acc.pdf

16 years ago

58 upvotes – 11 comments
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