top 50% hacker news stories for 2010-12-21

Paul Buchheit: Four Reasons Google is still Awesome

http://paulbuchheit.blogspot.com/2010/12/four-reasons-google-is-still-awesome.html

16 years ago

325 upvotes – 100 comments

Startup Title Junk

http://cam.ly/blog/2010/12/startup-title-junk/

16 years ago

298 upvotes – 26 comments

Netflix: Culture of Fear

http://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Employee-Review-Netflix-RVW484559.htm

16 years ago

282 upvotes – 99 comments

Mark Zuckerberg is Person of the Year? Where's the "dislike" button?

http://www.fsf.org/facebook/mark-zuckerberg-is-time-magazines-person-of-the-year-wheres-the-dislike-button

16 years ago

259 upvotes – 127 comments

Having a launched product is hard

http://martin.kleppmann.com/2010/12/21/i-didnt-really-enjoy-y-combinator.html

16 years ago

248 upvotes – 60 comments

Getting shot by a handgun

http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=467321

16 years ago

238 upvotes – 126 comments

How to Become a Software Contractor

http://www.evanmiller.org/contracting-advice.html

16 years ago

219 upvotes – 33 comments

Comic Sans Criminal

http://www.comicsanscriminal.com/

16 years ago

209 upvotes – 76 comments

Startup Fundraising is a Time Sink

http://paulstamatiou.com/startup-fundraising-time-sink

16 years ago

156 upvotes – 29 comments

WakeMate review

http://www.engadget.com/2010/12/21/wakemate-review/

16 years ago

136 upvotes – 96 comments

Theo de Raadt summarizes the OpenBSD IPSec "backdoor" situation

http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=129296046123471&w=2

16 years ago

136 upvotes – 47 comments

Google sends Cr-48 to "Will it Blend?"

http://www.gstatic.com/chromeos/demolab/video/blend.mov

16 years ago

134 upvotes – 90 comments

Schneier on Security: Recording the Police

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

16 years ago

126 upvotes – 54 comments

Salesforce Buys Email Contact Manager Etacts (YC W10)

http://techcrunch.com/2010/12/21/salesforce-buys-email-contact-manager-etacts/

16 years ago

107 upvotes – 39 comments

Etacts (YC W10) Shutting Down

https://etacts.com/

16 years ago

105 upvotes – 63 comments

HaXe - a multiplatform language

http://haxe.org/doc/intro

16 years ago

84 upvotes – 36 comments

Introducing the Ubuntu Font Family to the web

http://googlewebfonts.blogspot.com/2010/12/introducing-ubuntu-font-family-to-web.html

16 years ago

83 upvotes – 20 comments

Reversal on Carbs: Scientists now blame carbohydrates for America's ills

http://www.latimes.com/health/la-he-carbs-20101220,0,5464425.story

16 years ago

71 upvotes – 90 comments

Rubinius 1.2.0 released (it's an implementation of Ruby)

http://rubini.us/releases/1.2.0/

16 years ago

68 upvotes – 9 comments

Counting syllables in "fire" and other words

http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview/id/112732.html

16 years ago

67 upvotes – 20 comments

Trulia acquires Movity (YC W10)

http://kara.allthingsd.com/20101220/trulia-acquires-movity/

16 years ago

67 upvotes – 15 comments

Sun Microsystems’ Pioneering Co-Founder Gives A Rare Interview

http://mixergy.com/scott-mcnealy-sun-interview/

16 years ago

64 upvotes – 5 comments

Crafty: open source JS game engine

http://craftyjs.com/

16 years ago

64 upvotes – 10 comments

Microsoft release a Firefox plugin enabling H.264 support

http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2010/12/did-microsoft-just-take-interoperability-too-far.ars

16 years ago

63 upvotes – 36 comments

Charming Python: Functional programming in Python

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-prog.html

16 years ago

61 upvotes – 24 comments

Generic FSMs in Erlang

http://learnyousomeerlang.com/finite-state-machines

16 years ago

60 upvotes – 20 comments

China bans English words in media

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12050067

16 years ago

57 upvotes – 76 comments

FCC: We didn't impose stricter net neutrality regulation because Android is open

http://www.engadget.com/2010/12/21/fcc-we-didnt-impose-stricter-net-neutrality-regulations-on-wir/

16 years ago

54 upvotes – 25 comments

Ask HN: Why doesn't HN use SSL/HTTPS for its login form?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2028927

16 years ago

54 upvotes – 48 comments

FreeBSD on EC2 FAQ

http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2010-12-20-FreeBSD-on-EC2-FAQ.html

16 years ago

49 upvotes – 13 comments

Bamboo Train: How Cambodians hacked together rural transit

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/people-places/Catching-the-Bamboo-Train.html

16 years ago

48 upvotes – 3 comments

Finding arbitrage opportunities with Linear Programming (includes Python script)

http://stochastix.wordpress.com/2010/12/20/fixed-odds-betting-arbitrage/

16 years ago

47 upvotes – 18 comments

Googler Paul Adams Heads To Facebook

http://techcrunch.com/2010/12/20/paul-adams-googler-whose-presentation-foretold-facebook-groups-heads-to-facebook/

16 years ago

43 upvotes – 19 comments

List Processing in C

http://www.dekorte.com/blog/blog.cgi?do=item&id=3119

16 years ago

43 upvotes – 42 comments

U.S. military strong-arming IT industry on IPv6

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/122010-dod-strongarms-suppliers-on-ipv6.html?hpg1=bn

16 years ago

41 upvotes – 22 comments

Page Flips Are Better Than Infinite Scroll

http://designdare.com/-page-flips-are-better-than-infinite-scroll

16 years ago

41 upvotes – 16 comments

Machine Learning for Human Memorization

http://blog.smellthedata.com/2010/12/machine-learning-for-human-memorization.html

16 years ago

40 upvotes – 4 comments

Some Mathematical Gifts

http://rjlipton.wordpress.com/2010/12/20/some-mathematical-gifts/

16 years ago

40 upvotes – 0 comments

I want a "plonk" button in Gmail

http://workin-progress.posterous.com/37049855

16 years ago

39 upvotes – 38 comments

FCC Adopts Net Neutrality Lite

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/12/its-here-fcc-adopts-net-neutrality-lite.ars

16 years ago

37 upvotes – 33 comments
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