top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-01-06

Dear Google: please let me ban sites from results

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2075049

16 years ago

438 upvotes – 208 comments

NYT Review of ‘The 4-Hour Body’

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/07/books/07book.html

16 years ago

383 upvotes – 203 comments

RIP Bill Zeller

http://metatalk.metafilter.com/20205/RIP-Bill-Zeller

16 years ago

370 upvotes – 138 comments

Google’s decreasingly useful, spam-filled web search

http://www.marco.org/2617546197

16 years ago

327 upvotes – 178 comments

Hard Core: What Porn's Ubiquity Says About Men and Women

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/print/2011/01/hard-core/8327/

16 years ago

242 upvotes – 152 comments

Mac App Store: Open for Business

http://www.apple.com/mac/app-store/

16 years ago

204 upvotes – 277 comments

New "How Airbnb Works" video (shot at 13 locations around world)

http://www.airbnb.com/info/how_it_works

16 years ago

190 upvotes – 56 comments

Trimensional: 3D Scanner for iPhone

http://www.trimensional.com/

16 years ago

153 upvotes – 36 comments

Pizza And Ramen Are Hurting Your Startup

http://blog.500startups.com/2011/01/06/pizza-and-ramen-are-hurting-your-startup/

16 years ago

146 upvotes – 181 comments

Quantifying The Value Of A College Degree (By Major)

http://www.kalzumeus.com/2011/01/05/quantifying-the-value-of-a-college-degree-by-major/

16 years ago

143 upvotes – 73 comments

CES2011: The end of the PC era

http://www.asymco.com/2011/01/06/this-is-the-most-exciting-ces-ever/

16 years ago

138 upvotes – 74 comments

Retracted autism/vaccine study an 'elaborate fraud,' British journal finds

http://www.cnn.com/2011/HEALTH/01/05/autism.vaccines/index.html

16 years ago

133 upvotes – 127 comments

The "vaccination causes autism" fraud

http://theincidentaleconomist.com/wordpress/the-autismmmr-fraud/

16 years ago

123 upvotes – 78 comments

We are in the AOL days of social networking

http://buddycloud.com/cms/content/we-are-aol-days-social-networking

16 years ago

122 upvotes – 62 comments

Things You Might Not Know about jQuery

http://answers.oreilly.com/topic/2353-5-things-you-might-not-know-about-jquery/

16 years ago

118 upvotes – 26 comments

Why Are Taxpayers Subsidizing Facebook, and the Next Bubble?

http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/01/06/why-are-taxpayers-subsidizing-facebook-and-the-next-bubble/?src=tptw

16 years ago

114 upvotes – 30 comments

US Government Strategy To Prevent Leaks Is Leaked

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110104/23484712519/us-govt-strategy-to-prevent-leaks-is-leaked.shtml

16 years ago

105 upvotes – 22 comments

List of languages that compile to JS

https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/wiki/List-of-languages-that-compile-to-JS

16 years ago

★ 16.5k CoffeeScript MIT
96 upvotes – 55 comments

FreeBSD now supports the Playstation 3

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2011-January/022104.html

16 years ago

91 upvotes – 17 comments

Google Spam Heresy: The AdSense Paradox

http://blog.directededge.com/2011/01/06/google-spam-heresy-the-adsense-paradox/

16 years ago

84 upvotes – 35 comments

Phil Hagelberg on Emacs new package manager.

http://technomancy.us/144

16 years ago

83 upvotes – 14 comments

Digikey products now listed on Octopart

http://octopart.com/blog/archives/2011/1/digi%252Dkey-products-now-listed-on-octopart

16 years ago

80 upvotes – 26 comments

Ask HN: Are you a solo creator?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2076163

16 years ago

79 upvotes – 38 comments

Selling to small businesses is damn hard. Here’s How.

http://www.seancoleman.net/

16 years ago

78 upvotes – 13 comments

OKWS, the Ok Web Server (behind OK Cupid)

http://www.okws.org/doku.php?id=okws

16 years ago

76 upvotes – 33 comments

Goldman docs: Facebook income $355m, revenue $1.2bn (first 9 months of 2010)

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE70359V20110106

16 years ago

76 upvotes – 64 comments

Skype to Acquire Qik

http://blogs.skype.com/en/2011/01/qik.html

16 years ago

75 upvotes – 15 comments

What skills do you need to be an entrepreneur? Only two.

http://www.sebastianmarshall.com/what-skills-do-you-need-to-be-an-entrepreneur-only-two

16 years ago

73 upvotes – 33 comments

Zynga buys Flock

http://techcrunch.com/2011/01/05/zynga-to-acquire-flock-the-social-browser-that-you-never-used/

16 years ago

73 upvotes – 38 comments

Why Do Schools Fire Losing Coaches But Not Bad Teachers?

http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/12/why_do_schools_fire_losing_coa.html

16 years ago

72 upvotes – 80 comments

Idea: Y Combinator for Startup Recruiting

http://blog.adamsmith.cc/2011/01/idea-y-combinator-for-startup-recruiting.html

16 years ago

72 upvotes – 32 comments

Mac App Store UI is so hideous that it makes me want to kick a swan

http://reverttosaved.com/2011/01/06/mac-app-store-ui-is-so-hideous-that-it-makes-me-want-to-kick-a-swan/

16 years ago

68 upvotes – 75 comments

Global spam e-mail levels suddenly fall

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12126880

16 years ago

66 upvotes – 36 comments

2kb JQuery for animated list in circle

http://playground.mobily.pl/jquery/mobily-blocks/

16 years ago

57 upvotes – 17 comments

Creators Should Never Read Their Forums

http://jeff-vogel.blogspot.com/2011/01/three-reasons-creators-should-never.html

16 years ago

54 upvotes – 22 comments

A Goldman Unit Is Said to Have Rejected Facebook

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/A-Goldman-Unit-Is-Said-to-nytimes-3234310186.html?x=0&sec=topStories&pos=3&asset=&ccode=

16 years ago

53 upvotes – 21 comments

Dan Kaminsky responds (at length) to DJB's 27C3 DNSSEC presentation

http://dankaminsky.com/2011/01/05/djb-ccc/

16 years ago

49 upvotes – 36 comments

Hello from Gondor -- New Django cloud hosting provider from makers of Pinax

http://gondor.io/blog/2011/01/03/hello-gondor/

16 years ago

48 upvotes – 25 comments

Google Ngram Experiments

http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/google-ngram-experiments/

16 years ago

47 upvotes – 25 comments

NY Hackers: Breadpig & LEGO are hosting our first Hack Club on Jan 14

http://breadpig.com/2011/01/06/announcing-hack-club/

16 years ago

44 upvotes – 16 comments

Sega Brings Awkward Fun to the Restroom

http://singularityhub.com/2011/01/05/controlling-video-games-with-your-pee-sega-brings-awkward-fun-to-the-restroom/

16 years ago

43 upvotes – 17 comments
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