top 50% hacker news stories for 2010-12-28

Zed Shaw: Why I Don't Use Tor

http://sheddingbikes.com/posts/1293530004.html

16 years ago

181 upvotes – 158 comments

VimGolf.com - real Vim ninjas count every keystroke

http://vimgolf.com/

16 years ago

178 upvotes – 79 comments

Build apps not businesses.

http://sahillavingia.com/blog/2010/12/28/build-apps-not-businesses/

16 years ago

172 upvotes – 64 comments

Caring for your introvert

http://m.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2003/03/caring-for-your-introvert/2696/

16 years ago

166 upvotes – 39 comments

Why are restaurant web sites so bad?

http://www.juliansanchez.com/2010/12/27/why-are-restaurant-web-sites-so-bad/

16 years ago

142 upvotes – 116 comments

Low Skills Cause Procrastination

http://chestergrant.posterous.com/low-skills-causes-procrastination

16 years ago

129 upvotes – 33 comments

What Microsoft gets for $2 billion

http://www.scottberkun.com/blog/2010/what-microsoft-gets-for-2-billion/

16 years ago

126 upvotes – 63 comments

“Merry Christmas" vs. "Happy Holidays" - nearly double the conversion rate.

http://conversionvoodoo.com/blog/2010/12/%e2%80%9cmerry-christmas%e2%80%9d-vs-%e2%80%9chappy-holidays%e2%80%9d-nearly-double-the-conversion-rate/

16 years ago

117 upvotes – 72 comments

After correcting for demographics, US schools fare better than EU/Asian schools

http://super-economy.blogspot.com/2010/12/amazing-truth-about-pisa-scores-usa.html

16 years ago

111 upvotes – 191 comments

Duke Nukem Forever finally available for pre-order on Amazon

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=duke+nukem+forever&x=11&y=17

16 years ago

109 upvotes – 66 comments

Python - How to sort my paws?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4502656/how-to-sort-my-paws

16 years ago

107 upvotes – 8 comments

DD-WRT, I Know Where You Live

http://www.devttys0.com/2010/12/dd-wrt-i-know-where-you-live/

16 years ago

94 upvotes – 35 comments

Job Posting for Amazon.com Before it Launched (1994)

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

16 years ago

89 upvotes – 38 comments

Redditors share the way the world was 20 years ago

http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/esid8/from_sex_to_phones_to_star_wars_what_would_older/

16 years ago

83 upvotes – 55 comments

How Disney Uses Technology To Control Crowds In Their Theme Parks

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/28/business/media/28disney.html?src=tptw

16 years ago

83 upvotes – 17 comments

4chan has been DDOSed

http://status.4chan.org/

16 years ago

79 upvotes – 48 comments

Restaurant Menu Pricing

http://www.neurosciencemarketing.com/blog/articles/neuro-menus-and-restaurant-psychology.htm

16 years ago

78 upvotes – 19 comments

Show HN: drag-drop file uploading for the whole web (Firefox/Chrome)

http://drag2up.appspot.com/

16 years ago

66 upvotes – 10 comments

URL Design

http://warpspire.com/posts/url-design/

16 years ago

65 upvotes – 10 comments

TurboGears joins the Pylons Project

http://compoundthinking.com/blog/index.php/2010/12/28/turbogears-joins-the-pylons-project/

16 years ago

65 upvotes – 37 comments

War for tech talent in NYC

http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/12/war-for-talent-hits-new-york/

16 years ago

64 upvotes – 62 comments

Women, Men and the New Economics of Marriage

http://pewsocialtrends.org/2010/01/19/women-men-and-the-new-economics-of-marriage/

16 years ago

56 upvotes – 22 comments

CAR, CDR, and Lisp...

http://www.mschaef.com/blog/tech/lisp/car-cdr.html

16 years ago

55 upvotes – 15 comments

A Day With an E-mail Scammer

http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/12/23/a-day-with-an-e-mail-scammer/#more-3355

16 years ago

55 upvotes – 12 comments

Ask HN: Who/What will do for Prolog what Clojure has done for Lisp?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2045790

16 years ago

52 upvotes – 19 comments

Economic Optimism? Yes, I’ll Take That Bet

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/28/science/28tierney.html

16 years ago

52 upvotes – 24 comments

Unit Testing in C++ and Objective-C just got easier

http://www.levelofindirection.com/journal/2010/12/28/unit-testing-in-c-and-objective-c-just-got-easier.html

16 years ago

48 upvotes – 16 comments

TurboGears joins the PylonsProject

http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears-announce/browse_thread/thread/a6ef71ebea4ebcb0?hl=en

16 years ago

48 upvotes – 4 comments

The Next Mainstream Programming Language: A Game Developer's Perspective (2006)

http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/1277

16 years ago

47 upvotes – 18 comments

Groupon Authorizes $950 Million Series G

http://vcexperts.com/vce/news/buzz/archive_view.asp?id=996

16 years ago

44 upvotes – 66 comments

A bedtime story (about the publishing industry)

http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2010/12/bedtime-story.html

16 years ago

42 upvotes – 17 comments

Getting Started with Redis for Node.js

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4542694/getting-started-setup-database-for-node-js

16 years ago

41 upvotes – 0 comments

Flaws in Tor anonymity network spotlighted

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/12/flaws-in-tor-anonymity-network-spotlighted.ars

16 years ago

40 upvotes – 15 comments

How To Be A Great Startup CEO

http://onstartups.com/tabid/3339/bid/34321/14-Ways-To-Be-A-Great-Startup-CEO.aspx

16 years ago

40 upvotes – 13 comments

Ask HN: Sub-$1000/mo passive income in 30 days?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2046751

16 years ago

40 upvotes – 10 comments

Python's super considered harmful

http://fuhm.net/super-harmful/

16 years ago

39 upvotes – 32 comments

Most profitable movie ever was also most pirated of 2010

http://torrentfreak.com/avatar-crowned-the-most-pirated-movie-of-2010-101220/

16 years ago

36 upvotes – 49 comments

Building a USB protocol analyzer

http://rdist.root.org/

16 years ago

35 upvotes – 4 comments

Ask HN: What did you accomplish in 2010?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2045399

16 years ago

35 upvotes – 45 comments

The Microdistilling Myth

http://www.theatlantic.com/food/archive/2010/12/the-microdistilling-myth/68503/

16 years ago

34 upvotes – 35 comments

How does the Reeder iPhone app swipe up and down between articles?

http://idevrecipes.com/2010/12/28/how-does-the-reeder-iphone-app-swipe-up-and-down-between-articles/

16 years ago

32 upvotes – 7 comments

Mathematically optimal markup with HTML5

http://shinyplasticbag.posterous.com/mathematically-optimal-html

16 years ago

32 upvotes – 26 comments

2011 Predictions

http://brianbreslin.com/2011-predictions/

16 years ago

32 upvotes – 21 comments

One Handed Clock using canvas and js

http://quietcode.com/clock/

16 years ago

31 upvotes – 11 comments
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