top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-01-10

My winter break project — Silk

http://weavesilk.com

16 years ago

687 upvotes – 88 comments

Learning Advanced JavaScript

http://ejohn.org/apps/learn/#

16 years ago

302 upvotes – 31 comments

Inequality in Equalland

http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2011-01-10-inequality-in-equalland.html

16 years ago

233 upvotes – 133 comments

Sorry, your “cool” webapp is probably not going to make money

http://paraschopra.com/blog/entrepreneurship/webapp-is-not-going-to-make-money.htm

16 years ago

189 upvotes – 84 comments

Production is Red, Development is Blue

http://jeffmiller.github.com/2011/01/10/ssh-host-color

16 years ago

173 upvotes – 48 comments

Bayesian stats book banned in China

http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~cook/movabletype/archives/2011/01/i_guess_they_fi.html

16 years ago

159 upvotes – 76 comments

Chrome Release Cycle

https://docs.google.com/present/view?id=dg63dpc6_4d7vkk6ch&pli=1

16 years ago

149 upvotes – 29 comments

Extruding Ice from Steel Fences and Pipes with Diurnal Freeze/Thaw

http://my.ilstu.edu/~jrcarter/ice/diurnal/extrude/

16 years ago

148 upvotes – 12 comments

When A Game Designer teaches a College Course: No Grading, just Levelling Up

http://gamingtheclassroom.wordpress.com/syllabus/

16 years ago

142 upvotes – 49 comments

FlightCaster (YC S09) Acquired

http://blog.flightcaster.com/flightcaster-acquired

16 years ago

136 upvotes – 32 comments

Akin's Laws of Spacecraft Design

http://spacecraft.ssl.umd.edu/akins_laws.html

16 years ago

134 upvotes – 17 comments

Announcing NoSQL Tapes

http://nosqltapes.com/

16 years ago

131 upvotes – 27 comments

Why Caltech Is in a Class by Itself

http://www.mindingthecampus.com/originals/2010/12/why_caltech_is_in_a_class_by_i.html

16 years ago

125 upvotes – 147 comments

Ask HN: Tell me about your failed startup.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2088330

16 years ago

117 upvotes – 55 comments

The Mathematics Of Beauty

http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/the-mathematics-of-beauty/

16 years ago

109 upvotes – 5 comments

The Trillion Dollar Website (a story of quantitative easing)

http://tbwa.com/#lsi121ci5b0q

16 years ago

106 upvotes – 47 comments

$100K in 4 months: A niche app's path to App Store success

http://blog.endloop.ca/blog/2010/08/12/100k-in-4-months-a-niche-apps-path-to-app-store-success/

16 years ago

105 upvotes – 28 comments

MongoDB, Data Durability and Improvements coming in 1.8

http://www.paperplanes.de/2011/1/10/mongodb_and_data_durability.html

16 years ago

100 upvotes – 57 comments

The Cover-Up Culture

http://steveblank.com/2011/01/10/the-cover-up-culture/

16 years ago

99 upvotes – 8 comments

Next Hacker News DC Meetup on Wednesday, Jan 12th

http://meetup.hackernewsdc.org/calendar/15696680/

16 years ago

82 upvotes – 6 comments

We're not based in the valley.

http://seeinginteractive.com/newspaper-support-group/omg-were-not-based-in-the-valley/

16 years ago

82 upvotes – 62 comments

Mug: A New JavaScript compiler for the JVM

http://timcameronryan.com/post/2684769192/mug-javascript-compiler-for-the-jvm

16 years ago

80 upvotes – 22 comments

SageMath: Python-based Mathematics. Rock it.

http://www.sagemath.org

16 years ago

80 upvotes – 27 comments

Mining-the-Social-Web (Python)

https://github.com/ptwobrussell/Mining-the-Social-Web

16 years ago

★ 1.2k JavaScript
79 upvotes – 3 comments

Taking pictures with your MacBook every time the lid opens

http://benjamin-meyer-home.blogspot.com/2011/01/1-10-photos-every-day-starting-in-2006.html

16 years ago

76 upvotes – 35 comments

What did they do before you came along?

http://blog.asmartbear.com/before-you-marketing.html

16 years ago

72 upvotes – 6 comments

TorChat: p2p instant messenger with a completely decentralized design.

https://code.google.com/p/torchat/

16 years ago

72 upvotes – 14 comments

Using the Kinect to Build in Minecraft

http://www.orderofevents.com/MineCraft/KinectInfo.htm

16 years ago

72 upvotes – 6 comments

ZFS for Mac OS X Breaths New Life

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

16 years ago

70 upvotes – 43 comments

Flightcaster Gets Acquired. I Go on to Start Woven.

http://measuringmeasures.com/blog/2011/1/9/flightcaster-gets-acquired-i-go-on-to-start-woven.html

16 years ago

69 upvotes – 21 comments

Obese Pipes

http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2011/01/09/Fat-Pipes

16 years ago

68 upvotes – 34 comments

Square Raises $27.5 Million

http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2011/01/10/square-raises-275-million/

16 years ago

66 upvotes – 27 comments

Successful Lisp: How to Understand and Use Common Lisp

http://www.psg.com/~dlamkins/sl/contents.html

16 years ago

63 upvotes – 7 comments

Real Life Tron an an Apple IIgs

http://blog.danielwellman.com/2008/10/real-life-tron-on-an-apple-iigs.html

16 years ago

63 upvotes – 6 comments

Show HN: 3DTin - 3D modelling in browser

http://www.3dtin.com/

16 years ago

62 upvotes – 16 comments

Who killed the Intel microprocessor?

http://www.asymco.com/2011/01/10/who-killed-the-intel-microprocessor/

16 years ago

62 upvotes – 42 comments

Bufferbloat

http://apenwarr.ca/log/?m=201101#10

16 years ago

60 upvotes – 12 comments

Pretty Perl

http://blogs.perl.org/users/su-shee/2010/01/perl-made-all-pretty.html

16 years ago

55 upvotes – 7 comments

The Mac App Store Debug Menu

http://www.red-sweater.com/blog/1586/the-mac-app-store-debug-menu

16 years ago

54 upvotes – 7 comments

Algorithms take control of Wall Street

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/01/algorithms-take-control-of-wall-street.ars

16 years ago

53 upvotes – 37 comments

What Kind of Mother?

http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2011/01/09/Chinese-Mothers

16 years ago

46 upvotes – 22 comments

Silly Rabbits: Google is for Spam not for Search

http://smoothspan.wordpress.com/2011/01/10/silly-rabbits-google-is-for-spam-not-for-search/

16 years ago

45 upvotes – 51 comments

The Truth About Lisp

http://secretgeek.net/lisp_truth.asp

16 years ago

43 upvotes – 7 comments

Ask HN: What are your favorite books of 2010?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2087360

16 years ago

40 upvotes – 28 comments

The GPL, the App Store, and You

http://i.tuaw.com/2011/01/09/the-gpl-the-app-store-and-you/

16 years ago

40 upvotes – 19 comments
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