top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-01-03

Google tracks you. We don't. An illustrated guide

http://donttrack.us/

16 years ago

588 upvotes – 168 comments

Trouble In the House of Google

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2011/01/trouble-in-the-house-of-google.html

16 years ago

461 upvotes – 162 comments

Visualization of stock market performance over time, adjusted for inflation

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/01/02/business/20110102-metrics-graphic.html?ref=business

16 years ago

295 upvotes – 83 comments

Google Will Become an AI Company

http://mattmaroon.com/2011/01/03/google-will-become-an-ai-company/

16 years ago

187 upvotes – 157 comments

The MOS 6502 and the Best Layout Guy in the World

http://research.swtch.com/2011/01/mos-6502-and-best-layout-guy-in-world.html

16 years ago

177 upvotes – 51 comments

Goldman Sachs invests in Facebook at $50 Billion valuation

http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2011/01/02/goldman-invests-in-facebook-at-50-billion-valuation/

16 years ago

176 upvotes – 121 comments

How I Made My First 100 Sales

http://photoshoplayerstyles.com/blog/my-first-100-sales

16 years ago

139 upvotes – 42 comments

Root keys for Sony’s PlayStation 3 go public

http://geohot.com/

16 years ago

139 upvotes – 75 comments

Facebook-Goldman: Where Is the S.E.C.?

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/johncassidy/2011/01/facebook-goldman-where-is-the-sec.html

16 years ago

130 upvotes – 86 comments

My favourite interview question

http://weblog.raganwald.com/2006/06/my-favourite-interview-question.html

16 years ago

126 upvotes – 32 comments

The CIA Meets MIT

http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1102963&lastnode_id=0

16 years ago

126 upvotes – 23 comments

Scalable memory allocation using jemalloc

http://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-engineering/scalable-memory-allocation-using-jemalloc/480222803919

16 years ago

125 upvotes – 11 comments

Reddit's traffic grew by 300% in 2010

http://www.reddit.com/r/blog/comments/evmek/2010_we_hardly_knew_ye/

16 years ago

124 upvotes – 54 comments

Howto: Multi-domain SSL, Nginx, 1 IP address

http://playnice.ly/blog/2011/01/03/multi-domain-ucc-ssl-certificates-on-nginx-with-1-ip-address/

16 years ago

122 upvotes – 34 comments

Eric Meyer's Reset Revisited

http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2011/01/03/reset-revisited/

16 years ago

118 upvotes – 2 comments

How to Survive a Slashdotting on a Small Apache Server

http://mocko.org.uk/b/2011/01/02/how-to-survive-a-slashdotting-on-a-small-apache-server/

16 years ago

118 upvotes – 22 comments

Why Lisp is a Big Hack (And Haskell is Doomed to Succeed)

http://axisofeval.blogspot.com/2011/01/why-lisp-is-big-hack-and-haskell-is.html

16 years ago

110 upvotes – 87 comments

My server's been hacked

http://serverfault.com/questions/218005/my-servers-been-hacked-emergency

16 years ago

107 upvotes – 12 comments

QIP = PSPACE

http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2010/12/102144-qip-pspace-breakthrough/fulltext

16 years ago

90 upvotes – 10 comments

Register a Business Today

http://swombat.com/2011/1/3/register-a-business-today

16 years ago

85 upvotes – 39 comments

Printing 1 to 1000 without loop or conditionals

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4568645/printing-1-to-1000-without-loop-or-conditionals

16 years ago

80 upvotes – 51 comments

Crowdfund a mission to put a monolith on the moon

http://www.ironicsans.com/2011/01/idea_crowdfund_a_mission_to_pu.html

16 years ago

69 upvotes – 20 comments

Unhosted - Freedom from web 2.0's monopoly platforms

http://www.unhosted.org/

16 years ago

67 upvotes – 15 comments

Matz: I use Debian, I have no Ruby problems.

http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/785744#971922

16 years ago

63 upvotes – 54 comments

Interesting conversation between Dave McClure and DHH about Facebook

http://bettween.com/davemcclure/dhh/Jan-02-2011/Jan-03-2011/desc

16 years ago

62 upvotes – 64 comments

Redis site now implements interactive examples with embedded live Redis cli

http://redis.io/commands/mget

16 years ago

60 upvotes – 7 comments

Your Architecture Sucks and I Don't Care

http://friendlydingo.com/blog/2011/your-architecture-sucks-and-i-dont-care

16 years ago

59 upvotes – 37 comments

The Care and Feeding of the Android GPU

http://www.satine.org/archives/2011/01/01/the-care-and-feeding-of-the-android-gpu/

16 years ago

57 upvotes – 55 comments

6.912 - MIT Pokerbot Competition

http://pokerbots.mit.edu/

16 years ago

56 upvotes – 27 comments

Digg Founder Kevin Rose Launches Private Newsletter Called Foundation

http://techcrunch.com/2011/01/03/digg-founder-kevin-rose-launches-private-newsletter-called-foundation/

16 years ago

54 upvotes – 29 comments

UDP co-creator on UDP (and NSA killing end-to-end encryption in TCP)

http://www.reed.com/blog-dpr/?page_id=6

16 years ago

50 upvotes – 9 comments

Apple's market cap tops $300 billion

http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2011/01/03/apples-market-cap-tops-300-billion/

16 years ago

48 upvotes – 25 comments

50-Year Anniversary of the World's Greatest Prank

http://articles.latimes.com/2010/dec/26/sports/la-sp-crowe-20101227

16 years ago

47 upvotes – 15 comments

Seeking Wisdom

http://sivers.org/book/SeekingWisdom

16 years ago

47 upvotes – 4 comments

Cellphones, Though Banned, Thrive in U.S. Prisons

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/03/us/03prisoners.html?src=twr

16 years ago

46 upvotes – 29 comments

Parallel Programming, a book by Paul McKenney

http://paulmck.livejournal.com/23027.html

16 years ago

46 upvotes – 6 comments

Single-Page Site with Parallax

http://nikebetterworld.com/index

16 years ago

45 upvotes – 20 comments

KhanApp - Mobile App for Khan Academy

http://khanapp.com

16 years ago

45 upvotes – 19 comments
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