top 50% hacker news stories for 2010-12-15

If people tried to pay for other services like they try to pay for programming

http://www.dump.com/2010/12/13/the-vendor-client-relationship-in-real-world-situations-video/

16 years ago

503 upvotes – 123 comments

Winning Isn't Normal

http://www.jasonshen.com/2010/winning-isnt-normal/

16 years ago

261 upvotes – 89 comments

Developer responds to allegations of FBI backdoor in OpenBSD IPSec

http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=129244045916861&w=2

16 years ago

235 upvotes – 51 comments

Locksmith gets less tips and more price complaints for being faster

http://danariely.com/2010/12/15/locksmiths/

16 years ago

219 upvotes – 148 comments

Why You Need To Work For A Big Company

http://onstartups.com/tabid/3339/bid/33111/7-Reasons-Why-You-Need-To-Work-For-A-Big-Company.aspx?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+onstartups+%28OnStartups%29&utm_content=Google+Reader

16 years ago

207 upvotes – 83 comments

What will kill Facebook?

http://swombat.com/2010/12/15/what-will-kill-facebook

16 years ago

189 upvotes – 104 comments

For the First Time in History Man Cured of HIV

http://thenextweb.com/shareables/2010/12/14/for-the-first-time-in-history-a-man-is-cured-of-hiv/

16 years ago

172 upvotes – 48 comments

Software Patents Shut Down RunwayFinder

http://blog.runwayfinder.com/

16 years ago

170 upvotes – 85 comments

How To Handle Lawyers Threatening You

http://hustlebear.com/2010/12/14/how-to-handle-lawyers-threatening-you/

16 years ago

164 upvotes – 68 comments

The MacGyver Approach to Winter Biking (Zip Ties)

http://www.dutchbikeco.com/_blog/Dutch_Bike_Co_Weblog/post/Seattle_Snowpocalypse/

16 years ago

146 upvotes – 48 comments

"Americans sense that something is wrong with the places where we live and work"

http://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/issues/96sep/kunstler/kunstler.htm

16 years ago

141 upvotes – 83 comments

Paypal's logo designed to look like a recommendation?

http://openmymind.net/2010/12/15/Paypals-logo-looks-like-a-recommendation

16 years ago

131 upvotes – 54 comments

111 Gigapixel photo of Seville sets new world record

http://www.sevilla111.com/

16 years ago

127 upvotes – 49 comments

Mark Zuckerberg Named TIME’s 2010 Person of the Year

http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/0,28757,2036683,00.html

16 years ago

118 upvotes – 116 comments

Chrome for a Cause

http://www.google.com/chrome/intl/en/p/cause/#tnc

16 years ago

114 upvotes – 31 comments

Launching Posterous Groups: Smart email lists made easy

http://blog.posterous.com/get-your-group-on-introducing-posterous-group

16 years ago

113 upvotes – 56 comments

Homeland Security seizes music blog domains

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/14/business/media/14music.html

16 years ago

109 upvotes – 82 comments

Redis 2.2.0 RC1 is out

http://antirez.com/post/redis-2.2.0-rc1-is-out.html

16 years ago

109 upvotes – 39 comments

Announcing VM Import for Amazon EC2

http://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2010/12/15/announcing-vm-import/

16 years ago

105 upvotes – 35 comments

Apple's Best Kept Secret: Ad Hoc Installs for Testing Purposes

http://www.readwriteweb.com/mobile/2010/12/apple-best-kept-secret-how-to-do-ad-hoc-installs.php

16 years ago

103 upvotes – 21 comments

A Homebrew 8-Bit Computer

http://www.msarnoff.org/6809/

16 years ago

98 upvotes – 20 comments

Linode giving $100 credit to first 1,000 new customers to sign up this Friday

http://blog.linode.com/2010/12/15/linode-100000-giveaway/

16 years ago

93 upvotes – 68 comments

Amazon Taking Down Erotica, Removing From Kindles

http://theselfpublishingrevolution.blogspot.com/2010/12/amazon-in-book-banning-business.html

16 years ago

88 upvotes – 89 comments

The inhumane conditions of Bradley Manning's detention

http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/12/14/manning/

16 years ago

78 upvotes – 51 comments

Ask HN: How can a programmer learn graphic design from the ground up?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2008777

16 years ago

78 upvotes – 57 comments

Show HN: Profile Collage for Facebook

http://www.profilecollage.com/

16 years ago

77 upvotes – 42 comments

PayPal is no GayPal: another PayPal horror story

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2009702

16 years ago

75 upvotes – 41 comments

Twitter Raises $200 Million at $3.7 Billion Valuation; Adds New Board Members

http://kara.allthingsd.com/20101215/exclusive-twitter-raises-200-million-at-3-7-billion-valuation-adds-mccue-and-rosenblatt-to-board/

16 years ago

74 upvotes – 71 comments

Reia: Friendly, Ruby-style syntax on the Erlang VM

https://github.com/tarcieri/reia

16 years ago

★ 776 Erlang MIT
69 upvotes – 46 comments

Impatience Kills Startups

http://chrisyeh.blogspot.com/2010/12/impatience-kills-startups.html

16 years ago

69 upvotes – 30 comments

Chrome is Ready for Business

http://blog.chromium.org/2010/12/chrome-is-ready-for-business.html

16 years ago

68 upvotes – 33 comments

Science and Religion: an essay by Einstein

http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/voices-in-time/albert-einstein-solves-the-equation.php

16 years ago

67 upvotes – 15 comments

Why Digg Lost #1 Spot to Reddit

http://zurb.us/eVMBdu

16 years ago

66 upvotes – 40 comments

Sunglasses that block out glare with lcd spot

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1510502615/electronic-sunglasses

16 years ago

65 upvotes – 68 comments

Starting with Lisp: A collection of beginner pointers

http://www.dreamincode.net/forums/blog/48/entry-3070-starting-with-lisp/

16 years ago

63 upvotes – 23 comments

How I got someone on Ebay to buy something they backed out on after winning

http://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/em01h/how_i_got_an_uncooperative_ebay_buyer_to_pay_for/

16 years ago

59 upvotes – 48 comments

Sorry Bing, Adioso (YC W09) still the only natural language flight search tool

http://blog.adioso.com/sorry-bing-adioso-is-still-the-worlds-only-na

16 years ago

56 upvotes – 14 comments

An FBI backdoor in OpenBSD? Further response from Gregory Perry

http://blogs.csoonline.com/1296/an_fbi_backdoor_in_openbsd

16 years ago

52 upvotes – 12 comments

Kaminsky's Next Hack? Colorblindness

http://blogs.forbes.com/andygreenberg/2010/12/15/security-guru-launches-iphone-app-to-hack-colorblindness/

16 years ago

51 upvotes – 26 comments

Is long-term solitary confinement torture?

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/03/30/090330fa_fact_gawande

16 years ago

46 upvotes – 20 comments

This is Your Brain on Vim

http://kevinw.github.com/2010/12/15/this-is-your-brain-on-vim/

16 years ago

46 upvotes – 9 comments

Imagine a world where every app has its own data plan

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/12/net-neutrality-nightmare-a-world-where-every-app-has-its-own-data-plan.ars?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss

16 years ago

44 upvotes – 31 comments

A convenient setup using Erlang for your web app.

http://buffered.io/2010/09/01/webmachine-erlydtl-and-riak-part-1/

16 years ago

41 upvotes – 5 comments

Scheme in One (Java) Class [using JSR292, by John Rose]

http://blogs.sun.com/jrose/entry/scheme_in_one_class

16 years ago

40 upvotes – 0 comments

The Gawker hack: how a million passwords were lost

http://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2010/12/15/the-gawker-hack-how-a-million-passwords-were-lost/

16 years ago

39 upvotes – 17 comments

Stack Overflow 2010 Analytics

http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/12/stack-overflow-2010-analytics/

16 years ago

38 upvotes – 22 comments

F# performance on the Xbox 360

http://sharp-gamedev.blogspot.com/2010/12/on-performance-of-f-on-xbox-360.html

16 years ago

38 upvotes – 3 comments

Scala for Project Euler

http://pavelfatin.com/scala-for-project-euler/

16 years ago

37 upvotes – 16 comments

Nine London Start-Ups that are Hiring Right Now

https://www.hiremarshal.com/blog/hiring/london-startup-jobs/

16 years ago

37 upvotes – 10 comments
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