top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-01-13

Google's dropping H.264 in Chrome is not a step backward for openness.

http://my.opera.com/haavard/blog/2011/01/13/openness

16 years ago

Spray-on liquid glass is about to revolutionize almost everything

http://www.physorg.com/news184310039.html

16 years ago

How to write a simple operating system

http://mikeos.berlios.de/write-your-own-os.html

16 years ago

“OK, but there are two rules…”

http://andyswan.com/blog/2011/01/05/two-rules/

16 years ago

A Comfy Helvetica frontpage for Hacker News

http://comfy-helvetica.jottit.com/

16 years ago

How to get your startup on Hacker News

http://swombat.com/2011/1/13/how-to-get-your-startup-on-hacker-news

16 years ago

Flowchart : Should you work for Free?

http://jhische.com/workforfree.html

16 years ago

Why You Can't Hire Great Perl Programmers

http://www.modernperlbooks.com/mt/2011/01/why-you-cant-hire-great-perl-programmers.html

16 years ago

I love async, but I can't code like this

http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs/browse_thread/thread/c334947643c80968?hl=en

16 years ago

Scientists Demonstrate Mammalian Regeneration Through a Single Gene Deletion

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/03/100315161913.htm

16 years ago

Skip The Water

http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2011/01/skip-the-water.html

16 years ago

Hack Week at Dropbox

http://blog.dropbox.com/?p=593

16 years ago

Leisure Suit Larry in HTML5

http://www.sarien.net/

16 years ago

HH Dalai Lama: Countering Stress and Depression

http://www.dalailama.com/messages/articles/counter-stress

16 years ago

The antidepressant reboxetine: A headdesk moment in science

http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/post.cfm?id=the-antidepressant-reboxetine-a-hea-2010-11-30

16 years ago

What if Flickr fails?

http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/doc/2011/01/12/what-if-flickr-fails/

16 years ago

The Security Threat of Forged Law-Enforcement Credentials

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2011/01/the_security_th.html

16 years ago

Show HN: cubeduel (our side project)

http://cubeduel.com/

16 years ago

And then there's Haskell...

http://www.xent.com/pipermail/fork/Week-of-Mon-20070219/044101.html

16 years ago

Google's dropping H.264 from Chrome a step backward for openness

http://arstechnica.com/web/news/2011/01/googles-dropping-h264-from-chrome-a-step-backward-for-openness.ars

16 years ago

Google already knows its search sucks (and is working to fix it)

http://venturebeat.com/2011/01/12/google-search/

16 years ago

IE9 beta's HTML5 support isn't there yet: 3 big canvas gotchas

http://dt.deviantart.com/blog/37599369/

16 years ago

Predicting the future of the Internet is easy

http://cdixon.org/2011/01/13/predicting-the-future-of-the-internet-is-easy-anything-it-hasnt-yet-dramatically-transformed-it-will/

16 years ago

8 percent of Internet users account for 85 percent of all ad clicks

http://www.comscore.com/Press_Events/Press_Releases/2009/10/comScore_and_Starcom_USA_Release_Updated_Natural_Born_Clickers_Study_Showing_50_Percent_Drop_in_Number_of_U.S._Internet_Users_Who_Click_on_Display_Ads

16 years ago

What Went Wrong at Borders

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2011/01/what-went-wrong-at-borders/69310/

16 years ago

Android (and Windows 7 phones) leads to too much hardware choice

http://www.marco.org/2730711751

16 years ago

New Multi-Touch Gestures on iPad iOS 4.3

http://www.macrumors.com/2011/01/12/video-of-new-multi-touch-gestures-on-ipad-ios-4-3/

16 years ago

Mother, Superior?

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2011/01/13/apop011311.DTL

16 years ago

Tim Ferriss on tolerable mediocrity, and the advice he gives startups

http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2734-tim-ferriss-on-tolerable-mediocrity-false-idols-diversifying-your-identity-and-the-advice-he-gives-startups

16 years ago

Review my startup - E

http://mynameise.com

16 years ago

Why I Am Switching to Interleaved Email Replies and Why You Should Too

http://brooksreview.net/2011/01/interleaved-email/

16 years ago

The Italian entrepreneur who moved his team and got funded in 19 days

http://eu.techcrunch.com/2011/01/12/the-italian-entrepreneur-who-moved-his-team-and-got-funded-in-19-days/

16 years ago

Steve Pavlina releases 1000+ personal development articles into public domain

http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2010/12/releasing-my-copyrights/

16 years ago

The Practical vs. Idealistic Scenarios for the Near-Term Future of Online Video

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

16 years ago

Chatroulette Founder Andrey Ternovskiy Raises New Funding: "50,000 Naked Men"

http://www.fastcompany.com/1716690/chatroulette-andrey-ternovskiy-video-chat?partner=homepage_newsletter

16 years ago

SVG: The best way to graph quantitative data

http://developers.simplegeo.com/blog/2011/01/05/svg-the-best-way-to-graph-quantitative-data/

16 years ago

Strict Mode Is Coming To Town

http://www.yuiblog.com/blog/2010/12/14/strict-mode-is-coming-to-town/

16 years ago

New Lanyrd feature: JS badges for speakers/attendees to display their events

http://lanyrd.com/blog/2011/badges/

16 years ago

Ask HN: Please give us feedback on our (anti-social) tool thinkery.me

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2100342

16 years ago

Thoughts on Webmatrix (Microsoft's simple website development tool)

http://blog.wekeroad.com/microsoft/someone-hit-their-head

16 years ago

Orion - web based IDE from Eclipse

http://borisoneclipse.blogspot.com/2011/01/orion.html

16 years ago

My Facebook Interview Experience

http://blog.casanovawebdesign.com/2011/01/my-facebook-interview-experience/

16 years ago

Dropbox Forums: The Official Dropquest Thread

http://forums.dropbox.com/topic.php?id=30339

16 years ago

Announcing YUI 3.3.0: AutoComplete, Charts, DataTable, Dial, Resize & more

http://www.yuiblog.com/blog/2011/01/12/announcing-yui-3-3-0/

16 years ago

Running out of hex words?

http://nedbatchelder.com/text/hexwords.html

16 years ago

OnSwipe Raises, Like, A Million Dollars

http://techcrunch.com/2011/01/12/onswipe/

16 years ago

PS3 Root Key now Public Domain (Exhibit T, page 247)

http://www.scribd.com/doc/46819521/04

16 years ago