top 50% hacker news stories for 2010-12-17

Introducing Word Lens

http://questvisual.com/

16 years ago

Dropbox hits 1.0

http://blog.dropbox.com/?p=581

16 years ago

The Largest Prison Strike In American History Goes Ignored By US Media

http://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/41235/the-largest-prison-strike-in-american-history-goes-ignored-by-us-media/

16 years ago

What’s Next for Delicious?

http://blog.delicious.com/blog/2010/12/whats-next-for-delicious.html

16 years ago

Governments shouldn’t have a monopoly on Internet governance

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/12/governments-shouldnt-have-monopoly-on.html

16 years ago

What to Read to Get Up to Speed in JavaScript

http://blog.reybango.com/2010/12/15/what-to-read-to-get-up-to-speed-in-javascript/

16 years ago

Mechanical Turk: Now with 40.92% Spam.

http://behind-the-enemy-lines.blogspot.com/2010/12/mechanical-turk-now-with-4092-spam.html

16 years ago

Stored XSS Vulnerability in Amazon (or How to hack Amazon with a book)

http://drwetter.eu/amazon/

16 years ago

An urgent appeal from git-scm.com maintainer Scott Chacon

http://git-scm.com/appeal

16 years ago

Delicious's Data Policy is Like Setting a Museum on Fire

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/deliciouss_data_policy_is_like_setting_a_museum_on.php

16 years ago

FitFu (YC W11): Stay active anywhere

http://blog.fitfu.com/2010/12/17/fitfu-is-go-stay-active-with-your-iphone/

16 years ago

Write your passwords down

http://blog.jgc.org/2010/12/write-your-passwords-down.html

16 years ago

How to (In)validate Your Startup Idea

http://blog.wepay.com/blog/2010/12/17/how-to-invalidate-your-startup-idea/

16 years ago

What should a self-taught programmer with no degree learn/read?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/414779/what-should-a-self-taught-programmer-with-no-degree-learn-read

16 years ago

Trunk.ly picks up the torch of del.icio.us

http://trunk.ly/

16 years ago

Cash Cow Disease: The Cognitive Decline of Microsoft and Google

http://ronburk.blogspot.com/2010/08/cash-cow-disease-cognitive-decline-of.html

16 years ago

Computer Engineering Barbie now available

http://shop.mattel.com/product/index.jsp?productId=4032107

16 years ago

Open Web Analytics

http://www.openwebanalytics.com/

16 years ago

Yahoo Just Pissed Off The One Group They Shouldn’t With Delicious Closure

http://www.centernetworks.com/yahoo-delicious-closure

16 years ago

Columbia University vs the little guy

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/columbia_vs_the_little_guy_1Kx7nuGlUH2Pzvc4mwGvhK

16 years ago

Woman With No Fear Intrigues Scientists

http://www.livescience.com/health/woman-has-no-fear-ptsd-101216.html

16 years ago

Android 2.3 Gingerbread source code is being released right now

http://groups.google.com/group/android-building/browse_thread/thread/91172a81604c8a0

16 years ago

On Why Open Source Developers run Mac OS X

http://www.sharms.org/blog/2010/12/on-why-open-source-developers-run-mac-os-x/

16 years ago

Remind HN: Raise your rates

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2017332

16 years ago

Best of Design 2010

http://www.webdesignerwall.com/trends/best-of-design-2010/

16 years ago

Phone-Wielding Shoppers Strike Fear Into Retailers

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704694004576019691769574496.html

16 years ago

Don't Glorify Dropping Out

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2010/12/dont-glorify-dropping-out/68156/

16 years ago

Shopify raises $7 Million Series A

http://www.shopify.com/press/articles/7-million-series-a-funding/

16 years ago

Ma.gnolia shut down two months too soon (old delicious competitor)

http://gnolia.com/

16 years ago

Problems with Proposed IP Cryptography [1995]

http://www.cs.ucdavis.edu/~rogaway/papers/draft-rogaway-ipsec-comments-00.txt

16 years ago

Why Pinboard.in Is My Favorite Alternative Bookmarking Service to Delicious

http://www.messagingnews.com/onmessage/ben-gross/why-pinboardin-is-my-favorite-bookmarking-service

16 years ago

LHC spots no black holes, eliminates some versions of string theory

http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2010/12/lhc-spots-no-black-holes-eliminates-some-versions-of-string-theory.ars

16 years ago

Hacker changes the way people with colour blindness see the world

http://thenextweb.com/apps/2010/12/18/did-a-hacker-just-cure-colour-blindness/

16 years ago

Look at my silly idea

http://escapefromcasablan.ca/

16 years ago

Easel JS: a javascript library for working with the html5 canvas element

http://easeljs.com/

16 years ago

Scientists find first evidence that many universes exist

http://www.physorg.com/news/2010-12-scientists-evidence-universes.html

16 years ago

Djangy gets background jobs and more

http://blog.djangy.com/2010/12/17/background-jobs-and-more/

16 years ago

Phone Review » Nexus S » Ugly, Buggy, Slow

http://sixarm.com/about/phone-review-nexus-s-ugly-buggy-slow.html

16 years ago

Under the hood of Google Maps 5.0 for Android

http://googlemobile.blogspot.com/2010/12/under-hood-of-google-maps-50-for.html

16 years ago

Guile also supports the web at the programming language level

http://wingolog.org/archives/2010/12/17/on-the-new-posix

16 years ago

First Kinect sex game tech demo arrived (NSFW)

http://steamunpowered.eu/first-kinect-sex-game-tech-demo-arrived-nsfw/

16 years ago

World of Goo for iPad Now Available

http://2dboy.com/2010/12/15/world-of-goo-for-ipad-now-available/

16 years ago

This Christmas, turn your gifts into charitable giving

http://blog.swipegood.com/this-christmas-turn-your-gifts-into-charitabl

16 years ago