top 50% hacker news stories for 2010-12-18

Bingo Card Creator (etc) Annual Report

http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/12/17/bingo-card-creator-etc-year-in-review-2010/

16 years ago

288 upvotes – 88 comments

A Physicist Solves the City

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/19/magazine/19Urban_West-t.html?_r=2&ref=magazine&pagewanted=all

16 years ago

189 upvotes – 55 comments

Man deposits fake check in ATM, gets to keep the money. (1995)

http://www.goodthink.com/writing/view_stories.cfm?id=11&page_id=2

16 years ago

140 upvotes – 52 comments

Show HN: I wrote my own Delicious clone

http://1r7.net

16 years ago

138 upvotes – 70 comments

The disposable academic: Why doing a PhD is often a waste of time

http://www.economist.com/node/17723223?story_id=17723223

16 years ago

116 upvotes – 78 comments

Learn HTML5, JavaScript and CSS With Mozilla’s Free School of Webcraft

https://www.drumbeat.org/webcraft/sign-up

16 years ago

103 upvotes – 12 comments

Paul Buchheit: The Cloud OS

http://paulbuchheit.blogspot.com/2010/12/cloud-os.html

16 years ago

100 upvotes – 41 comments

The Semicolon Wars

http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/id.3489,y.0,no.,content.true,page.1,css.print/issue.aspx

16 years ago

94 upvotes – 35 comments

Suggestion for startups - remind us who you are when you email

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2019571

16 years ago

89 upvotes – 14 comments

Why old people make better entrepreneurs than young ones

http://www.slate.com/id/2278383/

16 years ago

88 upvotes – 20 comments

Computing Your Skill

http://www.moserware.com/2010/03/computing-your-skill.html

16 years ago

73 upvotes – 10 comments

Isle of Tune: A music sequencer using roads

http://isleoftune.com/

16 years ago

70 upvotes – 10 comments

Tell HN: Doing a PhD is good

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2020128

16 years ago

70 upvotes – 61 comments

Facebook: Why our 'next-gen' comms ditched MySQL

http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2010/12/17/facebook_messages_tech/

16 years ago

68 upvotes – 16 comments

The original Google storage

http://infolab.stanford.edu/pub/voy/museum/pictures/display/0-4-Google.htm

16 years ago

68 upvotes – 7 comments

Jon Rohan · Creating Triangles in CSS

http://www.dinnermint.org/blog/css/creating-triangles-in-css/

16 years ago

68 upvotes – 13 comments

The Russian

http://www.hemispheregames.com/2010/12/18/the-russian/

16 years ago

62 upvotes – 26 comments

Machine Learning: a Love Story (video)

http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Machine-Learning

16 years ago

57 upvotes – 2 comments

Which start-up inspired you most in 2010?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2020329

16 years ago

46 upvotes – 52 comments

Yahoo Says Delicious For Sale, Blames Press for Confusion

http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/12/yahoo-blames-press/

16 years ago

46 upvotes – 14 comments

Welcome

http://pinboard.in/blog/156/

16 years ago

43 upvotes – 6 comments

Google Books Ngram of George Carlin's Seven Dirty Words

http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=shit,piss,fuck,cunt,cocksucker,motherfucker,tits&year_start=1650&year_end=2000&corpus=0&smoothing=3

16 years ago

43 upvotes – 15 comments

Stack Exchange for English Language and Usage

http://english.stackexchange.com/

16 years ago

42 upvotes – 14 comments

An Evernote user once saved the company with a last minute $500,000 check

http://thenextweb.com/entrepreneur/2010/12/17/an-evernote-user-once-saved-the-company-with-a-last-minute-500000-check/

16 years ago

42 upvotes – 9 comments

Introducing Knockout, a UI library for JavaScript

http://blog.stevensanderson.com/2010/07/05/introducing-knockout-a-ui-library-for-javascript/

16 years ago

41 upvotes – 13 comments

Humble Bundle #2 Breaches $900k, On Way To $1M USD

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=ODkzMg

16 years ago

40 upvotes – 18 comments

My domain name generator just passed 120k searches, here's the top 50 keywords

http://blamcast.net/articles/domain-name-generator

16 years ago

40 upvotes – 14 comments

Coder Needed for Social Networking Website

http://i.imgur.com/1qUlZ.png

16 years ago

37 upvotes – 13 comments

Ask HN: The ranking algorithm in 'the social network'

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2019672

16 years ago

37 upvotes – 10 comments

Google To Invest Millions in Palestine

http://blog.bazinga.ps/2010/12/Google-To-Invest-Millions-in-Palestine

16 years ago

36 upvotes – 60 comments

UltraEdit text editor for Mac - Now Available

http://www.ultraedit.com/products/mac-text-editor.html

16 years ago

35 upvotes – 45 comments

World of Warcraft utility bot violates DMCA, says 9th Circuit

http://www.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2010/12/14/09-15932.pdf

16 years ago

34 upvotes – 36 comments

Bank of America says cuts off WikiLeaks

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6BH0HF20101218

16 years ago

34 upvotes – 5 comments

Why Your Startup Shouldn't Hire a Marketer from Microsoft

http://www.rocketwatcher.com/blog/2010/12/why-your-startup-shouldnt-hire-a-marketer-from-microsoft.html

16 years ago

33 upvotes – 28 comments

What's New in Scala 2.8: The Architecture of Scala Collections

http://www.artima.com/scalazine/articles/scala_collections_architecture.html

16 years ago

33 upvotes – 6 comments

Ask HN: How do you begin to build your new project?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2019157

16 years ago

32 upvotes – 18 comments

Delicious2google – Import Your Delicious Bookmarks To Google Bookmarks Easily

http://blog.arpitnext.com/2010/12/delicious2google-import-delicious-google-bookmarks.html

16 years ago

31 upvotes – 8 comments

How Yahoo Blew It (2007)

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/15.02/yahoo.html

16 years ago

31 upvotes – 4 comments
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