top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-01-04

Dating Denial of Service attack

http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/evkwy/what_are_some_lifehacks_youd_never_admit_to/c1bb70v

16 years ago

How to build an 8x8x8 LED cube

http://daid.mine.nu/instructabliss/?url=http://www.instructables.com/id/Led-Cube-8x8x8/

16 years ago

Paul Buchheit: Angel investing, my first three years

http://paulbuchheit.blogspot.com/2011/01/angel-investing-my-first-three-years.html

16 years ago

Rich Hickey stops Clojure funding appeal from 2011 onwards

http://clojure.org/funding

16 years ago

Could It Be? Spooky Experiments That 'See' The Future

http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2011/01/04/132622672/could-it-be-spooky-experiments-that-see-the-future

16 years ago

PHP 5.3.3 hangs on numeric value 2.2250738585072011e-308

http://www.exploringbinary.com/php-hangs-on-numeric-value-2-2250738585072011e-308/

16 years ago

Firefox overtakes IE in Europe

http://gs.statcounter.com/press/firefox-overtakes-internet-explorer-in-europe-in-browser-wars

16 years ago

Why I'm not buying Facebook

http://finance.fortune.cnn.com/2011/01/04/five-reasons-why-im-not-buying-facebook/

16 years ago

I Paid a Bribe

http://www.ipaidabribe.com/

16 years ago

When Smart People are Bad Employees

http://blogs.forbes.com/bruceupbin/2011/01/03/when-smart-people-are-bad-employees/?boxes=Homepagechannels

16 years ago

JavaScript simulation of an iPad

http://alexw.me/ipad/

16 years ago

Redis: new disk storage to replace VM

http://groups.google.com/group/redis-db/browse_thread/thread/d444bc786689bde9?pli=1

16 years ago

Telehash: JSON+UDP+DHT = Freedom

http://www.telehash.org/

16 years ago

Stealing the United States Government by stealing .gov

http://www.breaksecurity.com/2011/01/stealing-the-united-states-government/

16 years ago

Debunking the Google Interview Myth

http://www.technologywoman.com/2010/05/17/debunking-the-google-interview-myth/

16 years ago

Warrantless cell phone search gets a green light in California

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/01/warrantless-cell-phone-search-gets-a-green-light-in-california.ars

16 years ago

Mixpanel - Internships. A story.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2068451

16 years ago

The Surprising Usefulness of Sloppy Arithmetic

http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2010/fuzzy-logic-0103.html

16 years ago

Functional Jobs

http://functionaljobs.com/

16 years ago

Google Doesn't Want to Lead You Down Any Dead Ends

http://www.41latitude.com/post/2595785737/dead-ends

16 years ago

Research Chef: You’re Not Allergic to MSG and More Culinary Secrets

http://www.chow.com/food-news/69604/you-re-not-allergic-to-msg-and-7-more-secrets-from-a-research-chef/

16 years ago

Facebook will be forced to go public after their deal with Goldman Sachs

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40898422/ns/business-us_business/

16 years ago

Increasing Popularity of MIT OpenCourseWare

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/year-end_stats_from_mit_point_to_increasing_popula.php?sms_ss=hackernews&at_xt=4d23422ea755b53b%2C0

16 years ago

Android Isn’t About Building a Mobile Platform

http://www.tightwind.net/2011/01/android-isnt-about-building-a-mobile-platform/

16 years ago

JavaScript Super Mario Kart

http://www.nihilogic.dk/labs/mariokart/

16 years ago

When 9 Trillion dollars from Fed Reserve goes missing what can we do about it?

http://thechangelog.com/post/2596290871/opengovernment-empower-individuals-and-organizations

16 years ago

A tale of two expats

http://www.economist.com/node/17797134

16 years ago

Rushkoff proposes we abandon the Internet, and create something better

http://www.shareable.net/blog/the-next-net

16 years ago

Creating the Next Silicon Valley - The Chilean Experiment

http://steveblank.com/2011/01/04/creating-the-next-silicon-valley-%E2%80%93-the-chilean-experiment/

16 years ago

How I do Proofs

http://bentilly.blogspot.com/2011/01/how-i-do-proofs.html

16 years ago

Show HN my christmas project: Focus.app, cut off your Internet so you can focus

http://therealfocusapp.com/

16 years ago

"I never agreed to that. Here's what I signed."

http://www.reddit.com/r/YouShouldKnow/comments/ev9k8/10_tips_before_you_sign_a_housing_rental/c1b9973

16 years ago

New Intel processors to contain DRM suggested by Hollywood studios

http://www.techradar.com/news/computing-components/processors/intel-s-sandy-bridge-chip-to-offer-built-in-drm-919047

16 years ago

The Dave Matthews Band shows how to make money in the music industry

http://www.slate.com/id/2279757/pagenum/all/

16 years ago

Our Brains Are Shrinking. Are We Getting Dumber?

http://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=132591244

16 years ago

I suck at web design, so I made a contest to design rubycommitters.org.

http://tenderlovemaking.com/2011/01/04/rubycommitters-org-design-contest/

16 years ago

Google's Chrome climbs its way to 10% of the browser market

http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2011/01/03/googles-chrome-climbs-its-way-to-10-of-the-browser-market/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+fortunebrainstormtech+%28Fortune+Brainstorm+Tech%29&utm_content=Google+Reader

16 years ago

Tools for startups along their lifetime

https://docs.google.com/present/edit?id=0AdawJ_th06NvZDJrcWs2cl8yNnc2Z2ZxNmc0&hl=en&pli=1

16 years ago

Erlang vs. Scala

http://yarivsblog.blogspot.com/2008/05/erlang-vs-scala.html

16 years ago

RSS isn't dead it just needs to be repurposed.

http://blog.embed.ly/rss-isnt-dead-it-just-needs-to-be-repurposed

16 years ago

Goldman Sachs, Facebook, the SEC and Bubble 2.0

http://broadstuff.com/archives/2373-Goldman-Sachs,-Facebook,-the-SEC-and-Bubble-2.0.html

16 years ago

Gondor - effortless production Django hosting

http://gondor.io/

16 years ago

IPhone Alarms Still Not Working Despite Apple's Words

http://www.engadget.com/2011/01/03/iphone-alarms-still-not-working-worlds-crashing-left-and-right/

16 years ago

Freakonomics: Game Theory and Child-Rearing

http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/01/04/game-theory-and-child-rearing/

16 years ago