top 50% hacker news stories for 2010-12-13

Gawker Website source, databases & passwords now on BitTorrent

http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/6034669/Gawkmedia_source_code___database_release_

16 years ago

365 upvotes – 188 comments

The Anatomy of a Perfect Landing Page

http://www.formstack.com/the-anatomy-of-a-perfect-landing-page

16 years ago

327 upvotes – 56 comments

FreeBSD/EC2 lives

http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2010-12-13-FreeBSD-on-EC2.html

16 years ago

229 upvotes – 46 comments

Wik-Bee Leaks: EPA Knowingly Allowed Pesticide That Kills Honey Bees

http://www.fastcompany.com/1708896/wiki-bee-leaks-epa-document-reveals-agency-knowingly-allowed-use-of-bee-toxic-pesticide

16 years ago

217 upvotes – 40 comments

Author Slams eBook Piracy, Son Outs Her As a Music Pirate

http://torrentfreak.com/author-slams-ebook-piracy-son-outs-her-as-a-music-pirate-101213/

16 years ago

192 upvotes – 170 comments

HN: We're starting a "Move to Silicon Valley" wiki. We could use some help.

http://svstartup.com/~svstartu/index.php?title=Main_Page

16 years ago

179 upvotes – 45 comments

The War on Cameras

http://reason.com/archives/2010/12/07/the-war-on-cameras/print

16 years ago

173 upvotes – 64 comments

Check if your email is amongst those compromised in Gawker break-in

http://www.google.com/fusiontables/DataSource?dsrcid=350662

16 years ago

160 upvotes – 48 comments

Database development mistakes made by application developers

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/621884/database-development-mistakes-made-by-application-developers/

16 years ago

154 upvotes – 69 comments

What if we tested laws before passing them?

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2010/12/12/law_lab/?page=full

16 years ago

150 upvotes – 133 comments

Lettering.js - A jQuery plugin for radical web typography.

http://letteringjs.com/

16 years ago

132 upvotes – 13 comments

Everything you never wanted to know about file locking

http://apenwarr.ca/log/?m=201012#13

16 years ago

122 upvotes – 14 comments

Engineers: Build businesses not apps

http://emphaticsolutions.com/2010/12/10/build-businesses-not-apps.html

16 years ago

118 upvotes – 22 comments

A pink $16 pocket spectrum analyzer

http://ossmann.blogspot.com/2010/03/16-pocket-spectrum-analyzer.html

16 years ago

115 upvotes – 24 comments

Facebook Chat Architecture (Erlang)

http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:o0g6ONeGemcJ:www.erlang-factory.com/upload/presentations/31/EugeneLetuchy-ErlangatFacebook.pdf+architecture+of+facebook&hl=en&gl=sg&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESiw63ZXSvf3kF4c-tTuKgPrHYucnpVY2FNqzV3vwY12fTxebQwEQMhf9PLmeEVVWioJiFDnY2aiaAnQaqL4E65nkHUleUIuZj2Ythq34IDRx5gVhajUSKjOUmLUVxkV_3GFC7M2&sig=AHIEtbThewthIAMefblxc9U9NWkD6yYY6g&pli=1

16 years ago

106 upvotes – 48 comments

Google Closure: How not to write JavaScript

http://blogs.sitepoint.com/2009/11/12/google-closure-how-not-to-write-javascript/

16 years ago

101 upvotes – 47 comments

Why I Switched to Duck Duck Go Permanently

http://www.bookflavor.com/blog/2010/12/duck-duck-go-has-added-bookflavor-bang-syntax/

16 years ago

101 upvotes – 49 comments

Plead HN: Please be careful with your information

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2000627

16 years ago

93 upvotes – 75 comments

Yacc is dead: An update

http://matt.might.net/articles/parsing-with-derivatives/

16 years ago

93 upvotes – 18 comments

Heroku Gets Sweet Logging

http://blog.heroku.com/archives/2010/12/13/logging/

16 years ago

88 upvotes – 24 comments

Stallman on Hacking

http://stallman.org/articles/on-hacking.html

16 years ago

82 upvotes – 38 comments

So long, and thanks for the Ph.D.

http://www.cs.unc.edu/~azuma/hitch4.html

16 years ago

82 upvotes – 22 comments

Input type="password" Needs to Grow Up

http://blog.yafla.com/input_typepassword_Needs_To_Grow_Up/

16 years ago

80 upvotes – 64 comments

The Atlantic Turns a Profit, With an Eye on the Web

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/13/business/media/13atlantic.html?src=twr

16 years ago

78 upvotes – 30 comments

How to Hack the Psychology of Student Motivation

http://calnewport.com/blog/2010/12/13/learning-to-love-your-ap-history-assignments-how-to-hack-the-psychology-of-student-motivation/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+StudyHacks+%28Study+Hacks%29&utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher

16 years ago

71 upvotes – 37 comments

Beware of those who say they help entrepreneurs

http://alwaysnewmistakes.wordpress.com/2010/12/13/beware-of-those-who-say-they-help-entrepreneurs/

16 years ago

70 upvotes – 36 comments

My Startup - A node.js cloud hosting platform

http://www.nodejscloud.com/

16 years ago

70 upvotes – 33 comments

Face Detection jQuery Plugin

http://facedetection.jaysalvat.com/#

16 years ago

67 upvotes – 15 comments

Hacker News' Reading Level

http://www.google.com/search?q=site:news.ycombinator.com&hl=en&tbs=rl:1

16 years ago

57 upvotes – 55 comments

The Waffle Game That Changed Their Lives

http://kotaku.com/5712626/the-waffle-game-that-changed-their-lives

16 years ago

56 upvotes – 6 comments

Chrome OS and IT platform longevity

http://www.marco.org/2194283690

16 years ago

56 upvotes – 35 comments

APIs that developers should know about

http://econsultancy.com/us/blog/6963-five-apis-developers-should-know-about

16 years ago

55 upvotes – 17 comments

Google's IPv6 Statistics

http://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics/

16 years ago

53 upvotes – 33 comments

Programming Languages to watch in 2011

http://java.dzone.com/news/9-programming-languages-watch

16 years ago

53 upvotes – 32 comments

The 70 Online Databases that Define Our Planet

http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/26097/

16 years ago

51 upvotes – 4 comments

Time Warner Views Netflix as a Fading Star

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/13/business/media/13bewkes.html?_r=1&src=twr

16 years ago

47 upvotes – 44 comments

SkyFly - Vertical Takeoff & Landing Ultralight Aircraft

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1894175451/skyfly-vertical-takeoff-and-landing-ultralight-air?ref=category

16 years ago

46 upvotes – 26 comments

A Comprehensive Guide to CSS Resets

http://sixrevisions.com/css/a-comprehensive-guide-to-css-resets/

16 years ago

44 upvotes – 1 comments

Profile of Shigeru Miyamoto

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/12/20/101220fa_fact_paumgarten?currentPage=all

16 years ago

44 upvotes – 2 comments

FreeBSD on Amazon EC2

http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2010/12/freebsd-on-amazon-ec2.html

16 years ago

43 upvotes – 1 comments

Why Stack Exchange Data Explorer is moving off the Windows Azure platform

http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/12/re-launching-stack-exchange-data-explorer/

16 years ago

41 upvotes – 9 comments

Ashton’s plight, fight or flight or "self-righteous metropolitan exceptionalism"

http://cemerick.com/2010/12/11/ashtons-plight-fight-or-flight/

16 years ago

41 upvotes – 29 comments

Tell HN: In case you're interested, I'm selling my webapp wrttn.in

https://flippa.com/auctions/116170/Wrttn-in---A-popular-unique-web-app-

16 years ago

40 upvotes – 20 comments

Applying to Ph.D. Programs in Computer Science

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~harchol/gradschooltalk.pdf

16 years ago

40 upvotes – 6 comments

Seeking beta testers for Rails & Node.js cloud hosting; free during beta

http://www.duostack.com/

16 years ago

40 upvotes – 11 comments

Audio.js - Cross browser wrapper for <audio>

http://kolber.github.com/audiojs/

16 years ago

39 upvotes – 14 comments

Federal Reserve secretly bailed out large companies, including foreign ones

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/01/AR2010120106870_pf.html

16 years ago

38 upvotes – 25 comments
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