top 50% 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

The danger of having system programmers around

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

16 years ago

60 upvotes – 28 comments

On C Linked Lists (Profiling and Optimizing)

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

16 years ago

60 upvotes – 31 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

Dieter Rams: Principles For Good Design

http://www.vitsoe.com/en/gb/about/dieterrams/gooddesign

16 years ago

54 upvotes – 14 comments

A Secretive Banking Elite Rules Trading in Derivatives

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

16 years ago

53 upvotes – 34 comments

How to Get Started with Bitcoins

http://pzxc.com/how-to-get-started-with-bitcoins

16 years ago

52 upvotes – 47 comments

No evidence of time before Big Bang

http://www.nature.com/news/2010/101210/full/news.2010.665.html

16 years ago

50 upvotes – 40 comments

Head of Design at Facebook: How Her Team Uses Data To Make Decisions

http://www.zurb.com/article/515/podcast-of-julie-zhuos-talk-on-how-facebo

16 years ago

49 upvotes – 18 comments

A Mothers's Blood Reveals Entire Genome of Child

http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/news/3908/mums-blood-test-reveals-genome-foetus

16 years ago

49 upvotes – 22 comments

TeX/LaTeX Stack Exchange

http://tex.stackexchange.com/

16 years ago

48 upvotes – 5 comments

Ranking Programming Languages by Size of Community and Number of Projects

http://www.readwriteweb.com/hack/2010/12/ranking-programming-languages.php

16 years ago

47 upvotes – 16 comments

Initial Thoughts on Android 2.3 from a Game Developer's Perspective

http://www.badlogicgames.com/wordpress/?p=1315

16 years ago

47 upvotes – 11 comments

Understand Haskell Monads through Macros

http://common-lisp.net/project/cl-monad-macros/monad-macros.htm

16 years ago

45 upvotes – 2 comments

Ask HN: Is anyone else tired of reading the same articles?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1997511

16 years ago

44 upvotes – 29 comments

Realistic CSS3 Box Shadow trick with generated content

http://www.ballyhooblog.com/realistic-css3-box-shadows/

16 years ago

43 upvotes – 12 comments

Reasons to expect the next 10 years to be more exciting than the last

http://www.hplusmagazine.com/editors-blog/top-10-reasons-expect-next-10-years-be-more-exciting-last

16 years ago

42 upvotes – 61 comments

Gawker Media hacked

http://thenextweb.com/media/2010/12/12/gawker-media-is-compromised-the-responsible-parties-reach-out-to-tnw/

16 years ago

42 upvotes – 34 comments

Qantas QF32 flight from the cockpit (dealing with exploded engine)

http://www.aerosocietychannel.com/aerospace-insight/2010/12/exclusive-qantas-qf32-flight-from-the-cockpit/

16 years ago

39 upvotes – 16 comments
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