top 50% hacker news stories for 2010-12-29

Sacked by a Google algorithm

http://www.duckworksmagazine.com/11/columns/guest/winter/index.htm

16 years ago

685 upvotes – 283 comments

Touching Your Junk: An Ontological Complaint

http://eblong.com/zarf/thod/38.html

16 years ago

225 upvotes – 22 comments

The Oatmeal (online cartoon) earns ~$1000/day

http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2010/12/online_cartoons

16 years ago

185 upvotes – 67 comments

Why your child's school bus has no seat belts

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40820669/ns/us_news-life/

16 years ago

171 upvotes – 104 comments

Woman with Immortal Cells

http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2010/05/there-was-once-a-woman-who-had-immortal-cells/

16 years ago

161 upvotes – 41 comments

Rails 3 Cheat Sheets from Envy Labs

http://blog.envylabs.com/2010/12/rails-3-cheat-sheets/

16 years ago

145 upvotes – 9 comments

You Should Self-Publish

http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2010/12/you-should-self-publish.html

16 years ago

133 upvotes – 43 comments

The Hot Girl Effect and Networking

http://sirdg.com/2010/12/the-hot-girl-effect-and-networking/

16 years ago

132 upvotes – 69 comments

Complete Noobs Guide to Hacking Nginx

http://blog.schmichael.com/2010/12/28/noobs-guide-to-hacking-nginx/

16 years ago

123 upvotes – 31 comments

How to Design Programs: An Introduction to Computing and Programming

http://htdp.org/2003-09-26/Book/

16 years ago

121 upvotes – 17 comments

The Ulam spiral: hidden structure among the prime numbers

https://bitbucket.org/ctkrohn/ulam/wiki/Home

16 years ago

118 upvotes – 39 comments

How the Gun on the Original Duck Hunt Game Worked

http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2010/12/how-the-gun-on-the-original-duck-hunt-game-worked/

16 years ago

112 upvotes – 9 comments

Programming Has Been Difficult (But Rewarding)

http://jamesjohnsona.tumblr.com/post/2088297700/programming-has-been-difficult

16 years ago

102 upvotes – 26 comments

Monads Are Not Metaphors

http://www.codecommit.com/blog/ruby/monads-are-not-metaphors/print/

16 years ago

96 upvotes – 39 comments

PS3 Master Key Found and PS3 Dongle ID Key Generator Released

http://www.ps3hax.net/2010/12/ps3-dongle-id-key-generator/

16 years ago

93 upvotes – 52 comments

Show HN: My first significant project with Backbone.js - a simple online editor

http://www.quietwrite.com/home

16 years ago

91 upvotes – 36 comments

Wired's Response to Glenn Greenwald (re:Lamo-Manning Chat Logs)

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/12/greenwald/

16 years ago

90 upvotes – 60 comments

Old-skool virus writers still exist.

http://pastebin.com/8ZN3BVTJ

16 years ago

88 upvotes – 59 comments

Long distance relationship? Perl can help.

http://code.google.com/p/serendipity/

16 years ago

86 upvotes – 20 comments

Maze Generation: Eller's Algorithm

http://weblog.jamisbuck.org/2010/12/29/maze-generation-eller-s-algorithm

16 years ago

85 upvotes – 9 comments

Why Your Employees Are Losing Motivation

http://hbswk.hbs.edu/archive/5289.html

16 years ago

84 upvotes – 15 comments

$15 phone, 3 minutes all that's needed to eavesdrop on GSM call

http://feeds.arstechnica.com/~r/arstechnica/index/~3/ZubJwpxmyjM/15-phone-3-minutes-all-thats-needed-to-eavesdrop-on-gsm-call.ars

16 years ago

75 upvotes – 15 comments

Heroku for...

http://morethanseven.net/2010/12/29/Heroku-for....html

16 years ago

72 upvotes – 35 comments

Where Pair Programming Fails for Me

http://tersesystems.com/2010/12/29/where-pair-programming-fails-for-me

16 years ago

70 upvotes – 38 comments

Greenwald Responds to Wired

http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/12/29/wired_response_1

16 years ago

61 upvotes – 25 comments

Dremel – Google's tool for analyzing trillion-row tables in seconds [pdf]

http://sergey.melnix.com/pub/melnik_VLDB10.pdf

16 years ago

56 upvotes – 18 comments

Seeing Interactive And Weebly Partner, Offer White-Label Websites

http://techcrunch.com/2010/12/28/seeing-interactive-weebly/

16 years ago

55 upvotes – 8 comments

Perl 6 in 2010 - a retrospection

http://perlgeek.de/blog-en/perl-6/perl-6-in-2010.html

16 years ago

55 upvotes – 28 comments

Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen tries again with patent megasuit

http://feeds.arstechnica.com/~r/arstechnica/index/~3/3yNGXNL3rSo/microsoft-cofounder-paul-allen-tries-again-with-patent-megasuit.ars

16 years ago

55 upvotes – 56 comments

Ask HN: Dos & Don'ts of Referral/Invite Programs

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2047600

16 years ago

53 upvotes – 18 comments

Ask PG: do you want HN to be a general news site or not?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2048761

16 years ago

52 upvotes – 40 comments

Kinect Hacked to Control Humanoid Robot: First Steps to Avatar

http://www.fastcompany.com/1713032/kinect-hacked-to-control-humanoid-robot-first-steps-to-avatar

16 years ago

51 upvotes – 9 comments

Incredibly detailed map of North American English dialects, with audio

http://aschmann.net/AmEng/

16 years ago

51 upvotes – 5 comments

Ask HN: What provider do you use for Cloud hosting and why?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2048890

16 years ago

47 upvotes – 58 comments

Encrypting and authenticating the whole Internet: DJB (video)

http://27c3.iphoneblog.de/recordings/4295.html

16 years ago

47 upvotes – 21 comments

No more "minimal early Lisps", pulleezz

http://axisofeval.blogspot.com/2010/08/no-more-minimal-early-lisps-pulleezz.html

16 years ago

47 upvotes – 41 comments
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