top 20 hacker news stories for 2011-01-14

MIT OpenCourseWare introduces courses designed for independent learners

http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2010/mitocw-independent-learners.html

16 years ago

383 upvotes – 38 comments

Things Real People Don't Say About Advertising

http://tpdsaa.tumblr.com/

16 years ago

300 upvotes – 57 comments

Git Immersion

http://gitimmersion.com/

16 years ago

247 upvotes – 38 comments

US Patent system so dysfunctional you can patent a stick from a tree

http://www.google.com/patents?id=hhYJAAAAEBAJ&printsec=abstract&zoom=4#v=onepage&q&f=false

16 years ago

234 upvotes – 59 comments

Malware researcher Dancho Danchev gone missing since August

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/security/we-need-help-with-the-strange-disappearance-of-dancho-danchev/7897

16 years ago

202 upvotes – 41 comments

Projects: hijack (Hijacking the iPhone earphone jack)

http://eecs.umich.edu/~prabal/projects/hijack/

16 years ago

183 upvotes – 40 comments

Why you should never, ever use two spaces after a period

http://www.slate.com/?id=2281146

16 years ago

167 upvotes – 167 comments

Reasons to Open a Chinese Bank Account

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704307404576080222812076888.html?mod=WSJAsia__MIDDLETopStories

16 years ago

150 upvotes – 110 comments

The most mysterious Google ranking ever...

http://jamespanderson.tumblr.com/post/2744065946/most-mysterious-google-ranking-ever

16 years ago

149 upvotes – 50 comments

"I think that djb redo will turn out to be the Git of build systems."

http://pozorvlak.livejournal.com/159126.html

16 years ago

147 upvotes – 49 comments

Chromium Blog: More about the Chrome HTML Video Codec Change

http://blog.chromium.org/2011/01/more-about-chrome-html-video-codec.html

16 years ago

138 upvotes – 120 comments

W3Fools - A W3Schools Intervention

http://w3fools.com/

16 years ago

135 upvotes – 55 comments

Why American Mothers are Superior

http://www.thejuliagroup.com/blog/?p=1033

16 years ago

118 upvotes – 65 comments

Why Indian Startups need to get off their asses and learn to program

http://indianstartupgyaan.wordpress.com/2011/01/13/why-indian-startups-need-to-get-off-their-asses-and-learn-to-program/

16 years ago

116 upvotes – 85 comments

Using Python and heat maps to determine the best place to aim on a dart board

http://thevirtuosi.blogspot.com/2011/01/darts.html

16 years ago

111 upvotes – 10 comments

MapReduce from the basics to the actually useful (in under 30 minutes)

http://blog.cloudant.com/39351506

16 years ago

104 upvotes – 12 comments

How to Buy an iPhone at the Worst Possible Time

http://designdare.com/how-to-buy-an-iphone-at-the-worst-possible-ti

16 years ago

97 upvotes – 72 comments

Age of surveillance: the fish is rotting from its head

http://non-linear-response.blogspot.com/2011/01/age-of-surveillance-fish-is-rotting.html

16 years ago

95 upvotes – 38 comments

How to win with an online store (hint: don't sell things available on Amazon)

http://www.gettingmoreawesome.com/2011/01/how-squishable-wins-online.html

16 years ago

94 upvotes – 23 comments

Three Design Hacks from Apple

http://measuringmeasures.com/blog/2011/1/14/three-design-hacks-from-apple.html

16 years ago

87 upvotes – 42 comments
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