top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-01-09

Steve's story - Google employee #13

http://googler13.blogspot.com/2011/01/steves-story-googler-13.html

16 years ago

440 upvotes – 89 comments

Obama administration moves forward with unique Internet ID for all Americans

http://www.engadget.com/2011/01/09/obama-administration-moves-forward-with-unique-internet-id-for-a/

16 years ago

239 upvotes – 186 comments

And suddenly, you're hip

http://blogs.perl.org/users/su-shee/2011/01/and-suddenly-youre-hip.html

16 years ago

182 upvotes – 142 comments

The Python Paradox

http://www.paulgraham.com/pypar.html

16 years ago

161 upvotes – 78 comments

Reddit/HN clone in Clojure

http://bestinclass.dk/index.clj/2011/01/building-a-social-media-site.html

16 years ago

124 upvotes – 21 comments

StackOverflow clone, created entirely with Redis and jQuery

http://servicestack.net/RedisStackOverflow/

16 years ago

123 upvotes – 61 comments

Ie7-js

http://code.google.com/p/ie7-js/

16 years ago

111 upvotes – 28 comments

Microsoft is Dead

http://paulgraham.com/microsoft.html

16 years ago

97 upvotes – 93 comments

That guy who called the big one? Don’t listen to him.

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2011/01/09/that_guy_who_called_the_big_one_dont_listen_to_him/?page=full

16 years ago

96 upvotes – 49 comments

The PhD Problem: "Talk of a ‘higher education bubble’ may not be idle chatter”

http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2011/01/07/the_phd_problem.php

16 years ago

96 upvotes – 78 comments

Dive Into 2010: HTML5 Book Reflection

http://diveintomark.org/archives/2011/01/09/dive-into-2010

16 years ago

93 upvotes – 10 comments

Particle Video (flash)

http://unitzeroone.com/labs/particleVideo/

16 years ago

76 upvotes – 6 comments

MapReduce for Idiots

http://petewarden.typepad.com/searchbrowser/2010/01/mapreduce-for-idiots.html

16 years ago

70 upvotes – 12 comments

Add support for CSS3 properties to IE6-8 with CSS3PIE

http://www.css3pie.com

16 years ago

67 upvotes – 11 comments

Battle of the Lisps

http://symbo1ics.com/blog/?p=729

16 years ago

67 upvotes – 7 comments

Node.JS 0.3.4 out (with experimental HTTPS)

http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs/browse_thread/thread/20494c1796e91bf6?hl=en

16 years ago

63 upvotes – 13 comments

In Defense Of The PhD

http://soundandcomplete.com/2011/01/09/in-defense-of-the-phd/

16 years ago

60 upvotes – 43 comments

The Social Disease

http://www.whattofix.com/blog/archives/2011/01/the-social-dise.php

16 years ago

58 upvotes – 10 comments

Heroku founder Adam Wiggins: Speculating Sucks (2008)

http://adam.heroku.com/past/2008/8/11/speculating_sucks/

16 years ago

56 upvotes – 5 comments

One Year In Two Minutes

http://eirikso.com/2011/01/05/one-year-in-2-minutes/

16 years ago

50 upvotes – 12 comments

Flatland: A Forgivably Flat Classic

http://www.americanscientist.org/bookshelf/pub/a-forgivably-flat-classic

16 years ago

50 upvotes – 22 comments

Mental hashing for paper address books (with Python)

http://lists.canonical.org/pipermail/kragen-hacks/2010-October/000517.html

16 years ago

49 upvotes – 11 comments

Ask HN: What software do you use for your startup?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2085644

16 years ago

49 upvotes – 70 comments

Ends Don't Justify Means (Among Humans)

http://lesswrong.com/lw/uv/ends_dont_justify_means_among_humans/

16 years ago

45 upvotes – 61 comments

Ashton Kutcher made my day. Thanks Internet

http://grumomedia.com/ashton-kutcher-made-my-day-thanks-internet/

16 years ago

41 upvotes – 33 comments

While writing YAQL I accidentally discovered Lisp

http://www.jroller.com/trasukg/entry/while_writing_yaql_i_accidentally

16 years ago

38 upvotes – 32 comments

Using MTurk to spam upvotes for Quora

http://techcrunch.com/2011/01/09/quora-4/

16 years ago

36 upvotes – 13 comments

Ask HN: Best way to block an EC2-hosted scraper?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2085859

16 years ago

36 upvotes – 34 comments

Medium, Please

http://www.smashrobot.com/marketing/medium/

16 years ago

36 upvotes – 26 comments

Android addresses UI shortcomings

http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2011/01/android-addresses-ui-shortcomings.html

16 years ago

35 upvotes – 20 comments

Keeping Python packages tidy on AppEngine.

http://blog.stochastictechnologies.com/keeping-python-packages-tidy-when-developing

16 years ago

35 upvotes – 2 comments
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