top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-01-05

Game Preview: Voxatron - voxel-based, destructible environment, 8bit soundtrack

http://www.lexaloffle.com/voxatron.php

16 years ago

279 upvotes – 65 comments

The Dubai Job

http://www.gq.com/news-politics/big-issues/201101/the-dubai-job-mossad-assassination-hamas?printable=true&currentPage=7

16 years ago

215 upvotes – 59 comments

Google's library for dealing with phone numbers (Java/JavaScript)

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

16 years ago

190 upvotes – 39 comments

Nvidia announces Project Denver ARM CPU for the desktop

http://www.engadget.com/2011/01/05/nvidia-announces-project-denver-arm-cpu-for-the-desktop/

16 years ago

185 upvotes – 112 comments

Technical job post tips for the desperate

http://blog.hirelite.com/technical-job-post-tips-for-the-desperate

16 years ago

170 upvotes – 117 comments

Google shows off Android 3.0, the 'Entirely for Tablet' Honeycomb (video)

http://www.engadget.com/2011/01/05/google-shows-off-android-3-0-the-entirely-for-tablet-honeycom/

16 years ago

160 upvotes – 75 comments

R.I.P. Ruby Hash Rocket Syntax 1993-2010

http://blog.peepcode.com/tutorials/2011/rip-ruby-hash-rocket-syntax

16 years ago

159 upvotes – 92 comments

The Rise of the New Global Elite

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2011/01/the-rise-of-the-new-global-elite/8343/

16 years ago

149 upvotes – 86 comments

Russian Physicists Solve Radio Black-Out Problem for Re-Entering Spacecraft

http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/26222/

16 years ago

138 upvotes – 36 comments

Fact and folklore in software engineering

http://morendil.github.com/folklore.html

16 years ago

135 upvotes – 90 comments

Drupal 7 Released

http://drupal.org/drupal-7.0

16 years ago

124 upvotes – 33 comments

Uh Oh, Internet: Basic Mobile Video Will be YouTube-Only With MetroPCS Plans

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/uh_oh_internet_basic_mobile_video_will_be_youtube-.php

16 years ago

121 upvotes – 83 comments

Amazon’s Disruptive Android App Store Now Open To Developers — Full Details

http://techcrunch.com/2011/01/05/amazon-android-app-store-2/

16 years ago

120 upvotes – 59 comments

An introduction to the Haiku OS

http://www.osnews.com/story/24198/Haiku_Could_Change_the_World

16 years ago

112 upvotes – 69 comments

Aim for a Lifestyle, Not a Jackpot

http://mixergy.com/tom-rossi-molehill-interview/

16 years ago

108 upvotes – 22 comments

Airlines using reverse auctions to determine true seat pricing

http://cheeptalk.wordpress.com/2011/01/05/be-very-afraid/

16 years ago

100 upvotes – 61 comments

How to share your 2011 conference plans using Lanyrd

http://lanyrd.com/blog/2011/confs2011/

16 years ago

98 upvotes – 22 comments

Ask HN: How to step up my coding skills?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2069477

16 years ago

95 upvotes – 54 comments

Vote to amend the DMCA and help music apps like Grooveshark stay alive

http://blog.grooveshark.com/post/2519052858/help-grooveshark-stay-alive

16 years ago

90 upvotes – 64 comments

Finally, Linux on My Desktop

http://www.jeff-barr.com/?p=1592

16 years ago

83 upvotes – 48 comments

Why Groupon is not in Australia (domain squatter)

http://www.groupon.com/blog/cities/why-groupon-isnt-in-australia/

16 years ago

82 upvotes – 51 comments

Beans make you gassy, and other advice from last night's first YC dinner

http://1000memories.com/blog/34-beans-make-you-gassy-and-other-advice-from-last-night-s-first-yc-dinner

16 years ago

82 upvotes – 34 comments

Windows 8 to support ARM, System on a chip, architectures

http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2011/jan11/01-05SOCsupport.mspx

16 years ago

81 upvotes – 75 comments

The Wikipedia of Long Tail Programming Questions

http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/01/the-wikipedia-of-long-tail-programming-questions/

16 years ago

79 upvotes – 31 comments

Goldman’s Mutual Friend

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/01/04/friends-with-benefits/?hp

16 years ago

75 upvotes – 103 comments

HexFiend - A fast and clever open source hex editor for Mac OS X

http://ridiculousfish.com/hexfiend/

16 years ago

74 upvotes – 31 comments

Video lecture series on programming languages and formal reasoning

http://www.cs.uoregon.edu/Activities/summerschool/summer10/curriculum.html

16 years ago

74 upvotes – 4 comments

An Open Letter to the Erlang Beginner (or Onlooker)

http://ferd.ca/an-open-letter-to-the-erlang-beginner-or-onlooker.html

16 years ago

73 upvotes – 17 comments

Is tomorrow Armageddon for Mac developers?

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/government/for-traditional-mac-developers-armageddon-comes-tomorrow/9825

16 years ago

72 upvotes – 45 comments

Progressive Signup: A Better User Signup Process

http://www.quietwrite.com/writing/7011

16 years ago

67 upvotes – 19 comments

Windows 8 to introduce ARM; First Public Demonstration Expected This Week

http://www.techflash.com/seattle/2011/01/windows-on-arm-more-details.html

16 years ago

65 upvotes – 67 comments

Announcing the High Replication Datastore for App Engine

http://googleappengine.blogspot.com/2011/01/announcing-high-replication-datastore.html

16 years ago

62 upvotes – 26 comments

AT&T Pins 4G Label to Existing Network

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704405704576063912912052074.html?mod=WSJ_hp_LEFTTopStories

16 years ago

60 upvotes – 39 comments

EFF Wins Landmark Ruling Freeing Promo CDs for Resale

https://www.eff.org/press/archives/2011/01/04-0

16 years ago

58 upvotes – 10 comments

Mother-effing hsl()

http://mothereffinghsl.com/

16 years ago

58 upvotes – 34 comments

Micron releases half-terabyte laptop SSDs

http://www.macworld.com/article/156849/2011/01/micron.html

16 years ago

53 upvotes – 32 comments

Map-Reduce With Ruby Using Apache Hadoop

http://www.cloudera.com/blog/2011/01/map-reduce-with-ruby-using-apache-hadoop/

16 years ago

49 upvotes – 3 comments

Riak 0.14 is out

https://github.com/basho/riak/raw/riak-0.14.0/releasenotes/riak-0.14.0.txt

16 years ago

★ 4k Shell Apache-2.0
48 upvotes – 11 comments

System administration with scsh (Scheme shell)

http://www.theillien.com/Sys_Admin_v12/html/v11/i01/a2.htm

16 years ago

48 upvotes – 11 comments

Easy HTML5 Template

http://www.impressivewebs.com/easy-html5-template/

16 years ago

47 upvotes – 11 comments

Learning WebGL

http://learningwebgl.com/

16 years ago

46 upvotes – 8 comments

Lisp IDEs (where for art thou?)

http://www.adrianmouat.com/bit-bucket/2011/01/lisp-ides-where-for-art-thou/

16 years ago

45 upvotes – 57 comments

Getting your users on-board - thoughts on Quora, Path.com, Instagram etc.

http://www.contrast.ie/blog/getting-your-users-on-board/

16 years ago

45 upvotes – 11 comments

How I Work - learn about new tools by watching screencasts

http://how-i-work.com/

16 years ago

45 upvotes – 4 comments

Mistakes young entrepreneurs make, but don't have to

http://finance.fortune.cnn.com/2011/01/04/15-mistakes-young-entrepreneurs-make-but-don%E2%80%99t-have-to/

16 years ago

44 upvotes – 4 comments

Tabs on the side?

http://www.azarask.in/blog/post/firefoxnext-tabs-on-the-side/

16 years ago

43 upvotes – 25 comments

Google's library for dealing with URLs (C++)

http://code.google.com/p/google-url/

16 years ago

43 upvotes – 11 comments

Wordpress frameworks that don't suck

http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/3725/wordpress-frameworks-and-parent-themes

16 years ago

42 upvotes – 7 comments

Editor-independent advice for working with Lisp

https://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.lisp/msg/6e91e20f2f371b52?&noredirect

16 years ago

42 upvotes – 15 comments

Tweetie 2.0 For Mac Will Launch With The Mac App Store, Tomorrow

http://www.razorianfly.com/2011/01/05/exclusive-tweetie-2-twitter-for-mac-will-be-available-from-the-mac-app-store-tomorrow/

16 years ago

41 upvotes – 15 comments

If Money Doesn't Change Hands You Can't Call A User A Customer

http://www.skmurphy.com/blog/2010/12/23/if-money-doesnt-change-hands-you-cant-call-a-user-a-customer/

16 years ago

41 upvotes – 21 comments

Trigonometric Delights (pdf)

http://press.princeton.edu/books/maor/

16 years ago

39 upvotes – 7 comments

Ask HN: Anyone interested in meeting other HNers?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2071430

16 years ago

38 upvotes – 32 comments
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