top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-01-11

Google Removing H.264 Support in Chrome

http://blog.chromium.org/2011/01/html-video-codec-support-in-chrome.html

16 years ago

579 upvotes – 349 comments

There is no place for just shitting all over other people's work

http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2732-there-is-no-place-for-just-shitting-all-over-other-peoples-work

16 years ago

273 upvotes – 130 comments

Why Chinese Mothers are Not Superior (from a female Chinese engineer)

http://www.jeanhsu.com/?p=229

16 years ago

262 upvotes – 201 comments

How Pixar Bosses Saved Their Employees from Layoffs

http://www.geekosystem.com/how-pixar-bosses-saved-their-employees-from-layoffs/

16 years ago

202 upvotes – 59 comments

Why GIMP is Inadequate

http://troy-sobotka.blogspot.com/2011/01/why-gimp-is-inadequate.html

16 years ago

201 upvotes – 105 comments

Simple Truths Smart People Forget

http://www.marcandangel.com/2011/01/10/10-simple-truths-smart-people-forget/

16 years ago

187 upvotes – 45 comments

NYTimes Opensources Their Deep Linking JS

http://open.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/01/11/emphasis-update-and-source/#h[WtEIyw,2]

16 years ago

169 upvotes – 50 comments

Simple Questions for Google Regarding Chrome’s Dropping of H.264

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

16 years ago

166 upvotes – 141 comments

L-Theanine: a 4,000 Year Old Mind-Hack

http://worldoftea.org/caffeine-and-l-theanine/

16 years ago

157 upvotes – 70 comments

Scala == Effective Java?

http://grahamhackingscala.blogspot.com/2011/01/does-scala-equal-effective-java-bloch.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2Fvnby+%28Graham+Hacking+Scala%29

16 years ago

133 upvotes – 55 comments

Why So Many Rich People Don’t Feel Very Rich

http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/01/11/why-so-many-rich-people-dont-feel-very-rich/

16 years ago

132 upvotes – 183 comments

Thunderstorms create antimatter

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/GLAST/news/fermi-thunderstorms.html

16 years ago

122 upvotes – 31 comments

Hudson (OSS CI Server) to rename itself to escape Oracle's control

http://www.hudson-labs.org/content/hudsons-future

16 years ago

120 upvotes – 32 comments

Plupload - A beautiful file uploader powered by jQuery

http://plupload.com/

16 years ago

120 upvotes – 27 comments

Great Men Keep Journals

http://artofmanliness.com/2009/06/07/30-days-to-a-better-man-day-8-start-a-journal/

16 years ago

116 upvotes – 67 comments

The Incredible True Story of the Collar Bomb Heist

http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/12/ff_collarbomb/

16 years ago

114 upvotes – 21 comments

Verizon iPhone 4

http://www.engadget.com/apple/verizon-iphone/

16 years ago

107 upvotes – 152 comments

Rush: the ruby shell

http://rush.heroku.com/

16 years ago

102 upvotes – 34 comments

How to use last 5 minutes of a day

http://blogs.hbr.org/bregman/2011/01/the-best-way-to-use-the-last-f.html?cm_mmc=email-_-newsletter-_-weekly_hotlist-_-hotlist011011&referral=00202&utm_source=newsletter_weekly_hotlist&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=hotlist011011

16 years ago

101 upvotes – 27 comments

50 Cent Tweets, Tiny Stock Soars

http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/Investing/top-stocks/blog.aspx?post=c00e87b0-01a3-435e-8638-549e5d55170c?gt1=33009

16 years ago

89 upvotes – 46 comments

Building a location based iPhone App: from idea to my first users

http://missionlab.posterous.com/37126809

16 years ago

89 upvotes – 35 comments

Two Centuries On, a Cryptologist Cracks a Presidential Code

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124648494429082661.html

16 years ago

83 upvotes – 8 comments

Bye bye iCal, welcome org-mode

https://khinsen.wordpress.com/2011/01/04/bye-bye-ical-welcome-org-mode/

16 years ago

82 upvotes – 33 comments

SwipeGood Now Supporting Chase, WF, BofA, Amex

http://mashable.com/2011/01/11/swipepay-expands/

16 years ago

78 upvotes – 10 comments

Why I’m Having Second Thoughts About The Wisdom Of The Cloud

http://techcrunch.com/2011/01/10/why-im-having-second-thoughts-about-the-wisdom-of-the-cloud/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Techcrunch+%28TechCrunch%29&utm_content=My+Yahoo

16 years ago

75 upvotes – 28 comments

New stock market for long-term investors/reducing high-frequency trading

http://noir.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=akTimUBYXtW4

16 years ago

72 upvotes – 63 comments

Twitter Beta-Tests a Spine

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/01/twitter-beta-tests-a-spine/69301/

16 years ago

63 upvotes – 16 comments

List of YC companies, ordered by response time from EC2

https://www.blamestella.com/group/ycombinator

16 years ago

63 upvotes – 40 comments

The Man Who Was Hit By A Proton Beam

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatoli_Bugorski

16 years ago

60 upvotes – 9 comments

Why I joined Bump

http://ikhare.posterous.com/why-i-joined-bump

16 years ago

59 upvotes – 0 comments

Z-Type: Typing Game + Shoot'Em Up (Entry for Mozilla Game On)

http://www.phoboslab.org/ztype/

16 years ago

59 upvotes – 25 comments

Google Needs Sex

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/01/10/google-needs-sex/

16 years ago

59 upvotes – 38 comments

Bump (YC S09) Raises $16 Million Round Led By Andreessen Horowitz

http://techcrunch.com/2011/01/10/bump-raises-16-million-round-led-by-andreessen-horowitz/

16 years ago

58 upvotes – 26 comments

Gingerbread NDK Awesomeness

http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2011/01/gingerbread-ndk-awesomeness.html

16 years ago

57 upvotes – 19 comments

A Thought on Communication

http://al3x.net/2011/01/10/a-thought-on-communication.html

16 years ago

57 upvotes – 15 comments

Reading the Book

http://www.cs.umd.edu/class/spring2003/cmsc311/Notes/Learn/read.html

16 years ago

52 upvotes – 20 comments

Did Bankers Rob the Middle Class?

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2011/01/did-bankers-rob-the-middle-class/69248/

16 years ago

51 upvotes – 29 comments

Mining Wikipedia with Hadoop and Pig for Natural Language Processing

http://blogs.nuxeo.com/dev/2011/01/mining-wikipedia-with-hadoop-and-pig-for-natural-language-processing.html

16 years ago

51 upvotes – 2 comments

AMD CEO resigns unexpectedly

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE70A0D620110111

16 years ago

50 upvotes – 34 comments

MySpace Slashes 47% of Staff

http://techcrunch.com/2011/01/11/myspace-slashes-47-percent-of-staff-nearly-500-employees-given-pink-slips/

16 years ago

49 upvotes – 18 comments

Martin Odersky on the Future of Scala

http://www.infoq.com/interviews/martin-odersky-scala-future

16 years ago

47 upvotes – 5 comments

Game Oriented Assembly Lisp

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_Oriented_Assembly_Lisp

16 years ago

47 upvotes – 7 comments

Apache Cassandra 0.7 Released

https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/entry/the_apache_software_foundation_announces9

16 years ago

47 upvotes – 7 comments

Holy crap, is creating A/B tests this easy?

http://www.visualwebsiteoptimizer.com/split-testing-blog/ab-tests-easy/?utm_source=hn

16 years ago

45 upvotes – 14 comments

BP oil spill clearly foreseeable on monitoring software, official

http://www.computerworlduk.com/news/it-business/3256288/bp-oil-spill-clearly-foreseeable-on-monitoring-software-official/

16 years ago

44 upvotes – 2 comments

Get more out of your startup reading

http://swombat.com/2011/1/11/get-more-out-of-your-startup-reading

16 years ago

43 upvotes – 18 comments

The anatomy of a WordPress theme (Infographic)

http://yoast.com/wordpress-theme-anatomy/

16 years ago

43 upvotes – 18 comments

The Little Book of Semaphores

http://greenteapress.com/semaphores/

16 years ago

43 upvotes – 7 comments

PHP Fog Raises $1.8 Million To Be The Heroku Of PHP

http://techcrunch.com/2011/01/10/php-fog-raises-1-8-million-to-be-the-heroku-of-php/

16 years ago

41 upvotes – 38 comments
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