top 50% hacker news stories for 2010-12-31

Breaking a WoW addiction

http://www.pixelpoppers.com/2010/12/doing-my-dailies-why-i-quit-wow-and.html

16 years ago

282 upvotes – 193 comments

Github 404 page

https://github.com/404

16 years ago

192 upvotes – 43 comments

Important Safety Notice from WakeMate

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2054847

16 years ago

152 upvotes – 107 comments

Hotlinking to jquery.com will be disabled on January 31, 2011

http://blog.jquery.com/2010/12/30/hotlinking-to-be-disabled-on-jan-31-2011/

16 years ago

150 upvotes – 97 comments

Minimalism: It Works

http://kirindave.tumblr.com/post/2544990560/minimalism-works

16 years ago

129 upvotes – 53 comments

Steve Jobs Understands Team Building

http://taosecurity.blogspot.com/2010/12/steve-jobs-understands-team-building.html

16 years ago

119 upvotes – 33 comments

Cannabalt for iOS now open source

https://github.com/ericjohnson/canabalt-ios

16 years ago

★ 1.5k Objective-C
117 upvotes – 14 comments

How To Avoid Getting Fired From Your Own Company

http://techcrunch.com/2010/12/31/how-to-avoid-getting-fired-from-your-own-company/

16 years ago

109 upvotes – 45 comments

The quest for every beard type

http://www.dyers.org/blog/beards/beard-types/

16 years ago

84 upvotes – 30 comments

Fannie Mae Unix Engineer Gets 41 Months for Planting Logic Bomb

http://www.thenewnewinternet.com/2010/12/20/fannie-mae-unix-engineer-gets-41-months-for-planting-logic-bomb/

16 years ago

84 upvotes – 49 comments

How To Manage A Tech Career

http://antipatter.com/2010/12/how-to-manage-a-tech-career/

16 years ago

81 upvotes – 11 comments

17 years old, 11 startups

http://markbao.com/about

16 years ago

81 upvotes – 83 comments

Suicides in India show the dark side of micro-finance

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-12-28/suicides-among-borrowers-in-india-show-how-men-made-a-mess-of-microcredit.html

16 years ago

81 upvotes – 67 comments

Zombie.js: insanely fast, full-stack, headless testing

http://labnotes.org/2010/12/30/zombie-js-insanely-fast-full-stack-headless-testing/?utm_source=javascriptweekly&utm_medium=email

16 years ago

74 upvotes – 17 comments

VIM from novice to professional by: Derek Wyatt

http://ontwik.com/tools/vim-from-novice-to-professional-by-derek-wyatt-p1/

16 years ago

74 upvotes – 31 comments

1024cores

http://www.1024cores.net/

16 years ago

71 upvotes – 18 comments

WakeMate Warns Users Of Major Safety Issue

http://techcrunch.com/2010/12/31/wakemate-usb-fire

16 years ago

71 upvotes – 8 comments

Minimalism is not a viable intellectual strategy

http://vivekhaldar.tumblr.com/post/2525332092/minimalism-is-not-a-viable-intellectual-strategy

16 years ago

70 upvotes – 21 comments

The Chess Master and the Computer

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2010/feb/11/the-chess-master-and-the-computer/

16 years ago

69 upvotes – 36 comments

Build a new year clock with an SQL query? Sure, why not

http://explainextended.com/2010/12/31/happy-new-year-2/

16 years ago

69 upvotes – 8 comments

Boredom Enthusiasts Discover the Pleasures of Understimulation

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703395904576025482554838642.html

16 years ago

62 upvotes – 25 comments

I benchmarked 8 different ways of representing a 2d grid in JavaScript

https://github.com/shazow/grid-benchmark.js

16 years ago

★ 29 JavaScript
60 upvotes – 33 comments

The first privately owned EPIC camera has already been stolen

http://reduser.net/forum/showthread.php?t=53549

16 years ago

58 upvotes – 45 comments

Open Source Contribution Etiquette

http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2010/Dec-31.html

16 years ago

56 upvotes – 14 comments

Show HN: I wrote a script to turn a webpage into bitmap HTML. (Caution: huge)

http://elliottkember.com/awesome/hn.html

16 years ago

53 upvotes – 32 comments

A Year of Clojure

http://tech.puredanger.com/2010/12/31/a-year-of-clojure/

16 years ago

51 upvotes – 11 comments

I've had more fragmentation problems with iOS/iPhone than with Android

http://www.getidealyzer.com/blog/ive-had-more-fragmentation-problems-iosiphone-android

16 years ago

50 upvotes – 49 comments

Lingt acquired

http://lingt.com/

16 years ago

48 upvotes – 7 comments

Milton Friedman's Free To Choose

http://www.freetochoose.tv/

16 years ago

47 upvotes – 11 comments

Node.js v0.2.6 Released

http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs/browse_thread/thread/b1e7196eb6e4a990

16 years ago

46 upvotes – 9 comments

Overcome Fear in 2011. Get Rejected On Purpose

http://modernhomemodernbaby.com/get-rejected-on-purpose/

16 years ago

45 upvotes – 28 comments

Keith Richards, Karl Marx, and the satisfaction of genuine work

http://slackwire.blogspot.com/2010/12/satisfaction.html

16 years ago

45 upvotes – 20 comments

How many people reading Hacker News do not have any programming skills?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2056020

16 years ago

43 upvotes – 51 comments

Twins’ Facebook Fight Rages On

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/31/business/31twins.html?_r=1&src=twr

16 years ago

43 upvotes – 43 comments

2011 3D Printing Predictions

http://blog.makerbot.com/2010/12/31/2011-3d-printing-predictions/

16 years ago

41 upvotes – 18 comments

There isn't really much of a tablet market

http://www.marco.org/2546655554

16 years ago

40 upvotes – 72 comments

Clojure In Small Pieces [pdf]

http://daly.axiom-developer.org/clojure.pdf

16 years ago

37 upvotes – 3 comments
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