top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-01-02

New cave found in Vietnam: "A skyscraper could fit"

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2011/01/largest-cave/peter-photography

16 years ago

318 upvotes – 47 comments

RSS Is Dying, and You Should Be Very Worried

http://camendesign.com/blog/rss_is_dying

16 years ago

278 upvotes – 188 comments

What Could Have Been Entering the Public Domain on January 1, 2011?

http://www.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/pre1976

16 years ago

253 upvotes – 128 comments

Working hurts less than procrastinating, we fear the twinge of starting

http://lesswrong.com/lw/3kv/working_hurts_less_than_procrastinating_we_fear/

16 years ago

198 upvotes – 47 comments

The No. 1 Habit of Highly Creative People

http://zenhabits.net/creative-habit/

16 years ago

190 upvotes – 54 comments

People will never line up for Android phones

http://www.engadget.com/2011/01/01/meizus-m9-launch-amasses-thousands-of-jack-wong-fans-across-chi/

16 years ago

138 upvotes – 88 comments

I Eliminated the Free Plan from my Web App for a Month: Here’s What Happened.

http://www.mattmazur.com/2011/01/i-eliminated-the-free-plan-from-my-web-app-for-a-month-heres-what-happened/

16 years ago

123 upvotes – 38 comments

Show HN: Google search blacklist

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2060994

16 years ago

119 upvotes – 29 comments

Giving up on Ruby packaging

http://www.lucas-nussbaum.net/blog/?p=617

16 years ago

92 upvotes – 144 comments

Let’s End the Myth that Ideas Are Worthless

http://blog.assetmap.com/2011/01/social-web/lets-end-the-ideas-are-worthless-myth/

16 years ago

89 upvotes – 81 comments

I quit my job. Shipped 2 products. Launched a Services business. Now what?

http://www.tawheedkader.com/2011/01/i-quit-my-job-shipped-2-products-launched-a-services-business-with-clients-now-what-part-i+

16 years ago

88 upvotes – 11 comments

Building an RFID Proximity Card Cloner for $30

http://proxclone.com/reader_cloner.html

16 years ago

86 upvotes – 29 comments

Fixing XSS on a bank website - A customer's saga

http://tech.bluesmoon.info/2011/01/fixing-xss-on-icicidirectcom.html

16 years ago

85 upvotes – 26 comments

Whats New in Emacs 24

http://sachachua.com/blog/2010/12/whats-new-in-emacs-24/

16 years ago

82 upvotes – 44 comments

2010: Cyberpunk World

http://herbsutter.com/2010/12/31/2010-cyberpunk-world/

16 years ago

81 upvotes – 23 comments

Windows Phone 7 development from the perspective of an iOS developer

http://carpeaqua.com/2011/01/02/from-iphone-to-windows-phone-7/

16 years ago

76 upvotes – 29 comments

How Twitter Uses NoSQL

http://www.readwriteweb.com/cloud/2011/01/how-twitter-uses-nosql.php

16 years ago

75 upvotes – 3 comments

I've made Dayta free

http://daytaapp.com/go/

16 years ago

74 upvotes – 34 comments

How to build a social entertainment website

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/ev2zb/i_run_thathighcom_and_it_pays_my_rent_in_san/c1b6ql9

16 years ago

74 upvotes – 8 comments

The rules for using "ſ" (long s)

http://babelstone.blogspot.com/2006/06/rules-for-long-s.html

16 years ago

71 upvotes – 38 comments

ScienceLeaks

http://scienceleaks.blogspot.com/

16 years ago

71 upvotes – 49 comments

From concept to launch in 24 hrs and why there's no reason you can't do this too

http://kylewritescode.com/post/2568648171/from-concept-to-launch-in-24-hours-and-why-theres-no

16 years ago

68 upvotes – 30 comments

Android Reverse Engineering

http://thomascannon.net/projects/android-reversing/

16 years ago

67 upvotes – 11 comments

TED Talks for Entrepreneurs

http://theeducatedentrepreneur.wordpress.com/2010/04/28/10-ted-talks-for-entrepreneurs/

16 years ago

65 upvotes – 4 comments

On the increasing uselessness of Google

http://broadstuff.com/archives/2370-On-the-increasing-uselessness-of-Google......html

16 years ago

63 upvotes – 60 comments

Git from the Bottom-Up by John Wiegley [pdf]

http://ftp.newartisans.com/pub/git.from.bottom.up.pdf

16 years ago

59 upvotes – 8 comments

Johnny Chung Lee to donate $5k for Khan-style linear algebra lectures

http://procrastineering.blogspot.com/2011/01/khan-academy-closest-thing-to.html

16 years ago

58 upvotes – 20 comments

Apple to expand CPU design group beyond iPad A4

http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/10/12/31/apple_to_expand_cpu_design_group_beyond_ipad_a4.html

16 years ago

56 upvotes – 47 comments

Scheme on the iPad

http://web.mac.com/Jay_reynolds_freeman/My/Pixie_Scheme_III.html

16 years ago

52 upvotes – 15 comments

Typhon is a Python implementation for the Rubinius (ruby) VM

https://github.com/vic/typhon

16 years ago

★ 83 Ruby BSD-3-Clause
50 upvotes – 5 comments

Porting a renderer from C++ to CUDA - the speed gains and their cost

http://users.softlab.ece.ntua.gr/~ttsiod/cudarenderer.html

16 years ago

49 upvotes – 18 comments

Hello World in LLVM

http://ecksit.wordpress.com/2011/01/01/hello-world-in-llvm/

16 years ago

49 upvotes – 3 comments

The best presentation is the one never shown

http://www.artlebedev.com/mandership/145/

16 years ago

48 upvotes – 28 comments

Hacking Dunkin' Donuts

http://notcraig.blogspot.com/2011/01/hacking-for-love.html

16 years ago

46 upvotes – 18 comments

Top algorithms preprints of 2010

http://11011110.livejournal.com/211518.html

16 years ago

44 upvotes – 2 comments

2011: The Year You Weren’t Expecting

http://arbesman.net/blog/2011/01/02/2011-the-year-you-werent-expecting/

16 years ago

44 upvotes – 14 comments
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