top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-01-08

VLC for iOS Pulled from the App Store

http://planet.videolan.org/

16 years ago

209 upvotes – 226 comments

What does one trillion dollars look like?

http://www.pagetutor.com/trillion/index.html

16 years ago

142 upvotes – 43 comments

Latency Compensating Methods in Client/Server Games

http://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Latency_Compensating_Methods_in_Client/Server_In-game_Protocol_Design_and_Optimization

16 years ago

129 upvotes – 54 comments

Redis memory fragmentation contest

http://groups.google.com/group/redis-db/browse_thread/thread/9fbc4b033b387baa

16 years ago

112 upvotes – 4 comments

A Healthy Diet For The Mind

http://www.cs.uni.edu/~wallingf/blog/archives/monthly/2011-01.html#e2011-01-08T10_41_10.htm

16 years ago

110 upvotes – 32 comments

Notifo (YC W10) Android Client - Beta signup

https://spreadsheets.google.com/a/notifo.com/viewform?formkey=dFpmWGw1Ymh2OURWdnRtNFRtSE9EV1E6MQ

16 years ago

90 upvotes – 26 comments

When Bad Patents Hurt Good People: Patent Threat Shuts Down Flight Planning Site

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/01/when-bad-patents-hurt-good-people-patent-threat

16 years ago

90 upvotes – 37 comments

Unreal Networking Architecture

http://unreal.epicgames.com/Network.htm

16 years ago

88 upvotes – 12 comments

Why our best officers are leaving

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2011/01/why-our-best-officers-are-leaving/8346/1/

16 years ago

82 upvotes – 28 comments

Internet Identity System Said Readied by Obama Administration

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-01-07/internet-identity-system-said-readied-by-obama-administration.html

16 years ago

78 upvotes – 71 comments

Chinese Mothers

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704111504576059713528698754.html?mod=WSJ_hp_LEFTTopStories

16 years ago

75 upvotes – 34 comments

Best advice on product management, marketing, & biz dev for lean startups

http://platformsandnetworks.blogspot.com/2011/01/launching-tech-ventures-part-iv.html

16 years ago

74 upvotes – 8 comments

DOM Monster: JavaScript performance bookmarklet

http://mir.aculo.us/dom-monster/

16 years ago

74 upvotes – 15 comments

Electric sheep

http://electricsheep.org/

16 years ago

74 upvotes – 20 comments

Arduino: The Documentary has been released.

http://arduino.cc/blog/2011/01/07/arduino-the-documentary-now-online/

16 years ago

70 upvotes – 14 comments

A DIY Origami Notebook to Keep in Your Jeans' Small Pocket

http://www.mostlymaths.net/2011/01/diy-origami-notebook-to-keep-in-your.html

16 years ago

67 upvotes – 27 comments

Ugly Software (like Blackboard) Gives Education a Bad Name

http://www.smartlyedu.com/blog/posts/19-ugly-software-gives-education-a-bad-name

16 years ago

65 upvotes – 54 comments

Is learning to program inherently hard?

http://computinged.wordpress.com/2010/04/14/is-learning-to-program-inherently-hard/

16 years ago

62 upvotes – 66 comments

3D-Printed Flute Is Here

http://www.pcworld.com/article/215148/3dprinted_flute_is_here_3dprinted_stradivarius_next.html

16 years ago

61 upvotes – 22 comments

Can Google Get Its Mojo Back?

http://techcrunch.com/2011/01/08/google-mojo/

16 years ago

59 upvotes – 49 comments

Picking Investments: Only Two Things Matter

http://blog.futureadvisor.com/picking-investments-only-two-things-matter

16 years ago

57 upvotes – 31 comments

Simple Haskell webapp: Generate random tweets using Markov chains

http://jaspervdj.be/tweetov

16 years ago

55 upvotes – 30 comments

What I Learned About Building Apps

http://feint.me/articles/5-important-things-i-learned-about-building-apps

16 years ago

54 upvotes – 3 comments

Proofs By Contradiction And Other Dangers

http://rjlipton.wordpress.com/2011/01/08/proofs-by-contradiction-and-other-dangers/

16 years ago

53 upvotes – 12 comments

US Department of Justice Subpoena to Twitter for Account Data [pdf]

http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2011/01/07/twitter/subpoena.pdf

16 years ago

51 upvotes – 11 comments

Which one will execute faster, if(flag==0) or if(0==flag)?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4624536/which-one-will-execute-faster-ifflag-0-or-if0-flag

16 years ago

50 upvotes – 61 comments

Google to Start Charging for Prediction API

http://www.readwriteweb.com/hack/2011/01/google-to-start-charging-for-prediction-api.php?sms_ss=hackernews&at_xt=4d2868a5f268affe%2C0

16 years ago

49 upvotes – 13 comments

U.S. teenager tortured in Kuwait and barred re-entry into the U.S.

http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2011/01/06/kuwait/index.html

16 years ago

47 upvotes – 30 comments

No GPL Apps for Apple's App Store

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/no-gpl-apps-for-apples-app-store/8046

16 years ago

46 upvotes – 92 comments

Zed Shaw & Dan Kaminsky Talk About Autho.me on Twitter

http://www.curated.by/splaice/zed-shaw--dan-kaminsky-talk-about-authome

16 years ago

45 upvotes – 36 comments

UTF-8 History

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/utf-8-history.txt

16 years ago

42 upvotes – 2 comments

The War Against Spam: A report from the front line

http://www.google.com/buzz/goog.research.buzz/DvRkTRUBSys/This-paper-is-short-but-sweet-and-quite-accessible

16 years ago

40 upvotes – 20 comments

Student-designed solar car smashes world speed record

http://inhabitat.com/student-designed-solar-car-smashes-world-speed-record/

16 years ago

38 upvotes – 27 comments

The 11 rules of the HP Garage (where all began)

http://blog.mashape.com/the-11-rules-of-the-hp-garage-where-all-began

16 years ago

34 upvotes – 8 comments

Daring Fireball: Why Next Week's Event Is Hosted by Verizon, Not Apple

http://daringfireball.net/2011/01/verizon_event

16 years ago

32 upvotes – 21 comments

America by the Numbers

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/01/07/us/CENSUS.html

16 years ago

31 upvotes – 17 comments
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