top 50% hacker news stories for 2010-12-16

Yahoo is Shutting Down Del.icio.us

http://techcrunch.com/2010/12/16/is-yahoo-shutting-down-del-icio-us/

16 years ago

486 upvotes – 293 comments

Hey Yahoo, Can you please open source Delicious?

https://web.archive.org/web/20110904025448/http://kommons.com/questions/401

16 years ago

413 upvotes – 84 comments

Netflix: Lessons We’ve Learned Using AWS

http://techblog.netflix.com/2010/12/5-lessons-weve-learned-using-aws.html

16 years ago

256 upvotes – 62 comments

BMW Burns Logo onto Cinema-Goers’ Eyes

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/12/flash-ad-bmw-burns-logo-onto-cinema-goers-eyes/

16 years ago

209 upvotes – 76 comments

Rackspace Buys Server Management Platform Cloudkick (YC W09)

http://techcrunch.com/2010/12/16/rackspace-buys-server-management-platform-cloudkick/

16 years ago

202 upvotes – 59 comments

Google Body Browser

http://bodybrowser.googlelabs.com/index.html

16 years ago

195 upvotes – 60 comments

Down the 'ls' Rabbit Hole

http://sysadvent.blogspot.com/2010/12/day-15-down-ls-rabbit-hole.html

16 years ago

169 upvotes – 12 comments

Epic Animation Created Entirely in Google Docs

http://malbonnington.com/best-thing-u-will-see-today-created-entirely

16 years ago

129 upvotes – 18 comments

Opera 11 goes final

http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/2010/12/16/opera-11-goes-final

16 years ago

115 upvotes – 40 comments

How To Make Wealth (2004)

http://www.paulgraham.com/wealth.html

16 years ago

112 upvotes – 32 comments

Security in 2020

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2010/12/security_in_202.html

16 years ago

111 upvotes – 25 comments

Git in layman's terms: isomorphic contours in source-code phase space

http://tartley.com/?p=1267

16 years ago

107 upvotes – 20 comments

Thinking in Clojure for Java Programmers

http://blog.factual.com/devblog/aaron/thinking-in-clojure-for-java-programmers-part-1-—-a-gentle-intro/

16 years ago

105 upvotes – 50 comments

Build a better spell checker, win $10,000

http://web-ngram.research.microsoft.com/spellerchallenge/

16 years ago

93 upvotes – 60 comments

Tell HN: After six days of DupDetector, time to take stock.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2013666

16 years ago

91 upvotes – 43 comments

PG's essays, ranked "Google-style"

http://www.solipsys.co.uk/new/PaulGrahamEssaysRanking.html?HN

16 years ago

85 upvotes – 27 comments

RailsAdmin: Rails3 easy-to-use interface for managing your data

https://github.com/sferik/rails_admin

16 years ago

★ 7.9k Ruby MIT
81 upvotes – 14 comments

The Benefits of Exercising Before Breakfast

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/12/15/phys-ed-the-benefits-of-exercising-before-breakfast/

16 years ago

81 upvotes – 82 comments

Get iCourage. The Rejection Therapy iPhone App is Here

http://itunes.apple.com/app/rejection-therapy/id408405656?mt=8

16 years ago

71 upvotes – 32 comments

Auto Scale your Heroku Apps with Hero Scale

https://www.heroscale.com

16 years ago

69 upvotes – 49 comments

Internet start-ups: Another bubble?

http://www.economist.com/node/17733145?story_id=17733145&fsrc=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+economist%2Ffull_print_edition+%28The+Economist%3A+Full+print+edition%29

16 years ago

69 upvotes – 70 comments

Begging for Your Pay

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/12/15/begging-for-your-pay/

16 years ago

67 upvotes – 47 comments

Security Fix in Open BSD

http://code.bsd64.org/cvsweb/openbsd/src/sys/netinet/ip_esp.c.diff?r1=1.74;r2=1.75;f=h

16 years ago

66 upvotes – 34 comments

So you're the CEO, what do you actually do?

http://www.tophatmonocle.com/blog/2010/12/16/what-does-a-ceo-do/

16 years ago

62 upvotes – 22 comments

Show HN: Crondom

http://crondom.com/

16 years ago

62 upvotes – 56 comments

Cheating in Computer Science

http://ubiquity.acm.org/article.cfm?id=1865908

16 years ago

59 upvotes – 47 comments

Run last command as root

http://blog.hardikr.com/post/2337320222/sudo-previous-command

16 years ago

55 upvotes – 59 comments

Why TV Lost (2009)

http://www.paulgraham.com/convergence.html

16 years ago

55 upvotes – 24 comments

Ask HN: Why is there so little innovation in education?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2011805

16 years ago

54 upvotes – 80 comments

Video on YC and the Cloudkick acquisition

http://vimeo.com/17857506

16 years ago

50 upvotes – 2 comments

I was rejected by ThemeForest so I did this...

http://themesc.com/

16 years ago

48 upvotes – 31 comments

Powerful Ideas

http://dilbert.com/blog/entry/powerful_ideas/

16 years ago

47 upvotes – 47 comments

I made $40,000 this year with my eBook and you (probably) can, too

http://omgbloglol.com/post/2336867402/holy-crap-i-made-40-000-this-year-with-my-ebook

16 years ago

46 upvotes – 36 comments

San Diego Hacker News Meetup #12 (Fri 12/17)

http://anyvite.com/uw0pmrpy7q

16 years ago

46 upvotes – 6 comments

Google Labs: Books Ngram Viewer

http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/

16 years ago

45 upvotes – 48 comments

Foreign Entrepreneurs Eye StartUp Visa Act

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704694004576020001550357580.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

16 years ago

44 upvotes – 18 comments

Export your bookmarks from delicious

https://secure.delicious.com/settings/bookmarks/export

16 years ago

42 upvotes – 13 comments

Chrome 9 Sandboxes Flash and Adds WebGL Support

http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2010/12/chrome-9-sandboxes-flash-and-adds-webgl.html

16 years ago

41 upvotes – 17 comments

Google App Engine Pipeline API

http://code.google.com/p/appengine-pipeline/

16 years ago

41 upvotes – 8 comments

"Invisibility cloak" can shield macroscopic objects in visible light

http://www.nature.com/news/2010/101215/full/news.2010.678.html

16 years ago

40 upvotes – 9 comments

Mapquest using OpenStreetMap

http://open.mapquest.com/

16 years ago

39 upvotes – 15 comments

Automatically Backup and Host Your Delicious Bookmarks

http://www.favbot.com/import-delicious.html

16 years ago

39 upvotes – 8 comments

Why the Kids Don't Blog and Grandma's on Facebook

http://www.fastcompany.com/1710068/embargoed-till-1201-am-thursday-grandmas-on-facebook?partner=homepage_newsletter

16 years ago

38 upvotes – 35 comments

New Advice On How to Survive Nuclear Attack

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/16/science/16terror.html?hp

16 years ago

38 upvotes – 30 comments

Don't be a Human Keyboard

http://sysadvent.blogspot.com/2010/12/day-13-dont-be-human-keyboard.html

16 years ago

37 upvotes – 4 comments

TDD Problems

http://sites.google.com/site/tddproblems/

16 years ago

37 upvotes – 0 comments
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