top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-01-15

Garry Tan moving on from Posterous and joining YC

http://garry.posterous.com/moving-on-and-thanks

16 years ago

Why Minecraft Matters

http://www.crunchgear.com/2011/01/15/a-brief-explanation-of-why-minecraft-matters/

16 years ago

Top Mistakes in Behavior Change

http://www.slideshare.net/captology/stanford-6401325

16 years ago

The Ambiguity of Open and H.264 vs. VP8

http://antimatter15.com/wp/2011/01/the-ambiguity-of-open-and-vp8-vs-h-264/

16 years ago

DropQuest 2011

http://www.dropbox.com/dropquest2011

16 years ago

Why pi?

http://stanford-online.stanford.edu/seminars/knuth/101206-knuth-500.asx

16 years ago

Roll your own toy UNIX-clone OS

http://www.jamesmolloy.co.uk/tutorial_html/index.html

16 years ago

Fast Levenshtein distance using a Trie

http://stevehanov.ca/blog/?id=114

16 years ago

Paranoia and deletion: the wipe man page

http://www.boingboing.net/2011/01/14/paranoia-and-deletio.html

16 years ago

RAPT: A physics-intensive HTML5 Platformer

http://raptjs.heroku.com

16 years ago

HTTP Response Splitting Vulnerability on reddit.com

http://nealpoole.com/blog/2011/01/http-response-splitting-on-reddit-com/

16 years ago

10 petabytes - visualized

http://blog.backblaze.com/2011/01/05/10-petabytes-visualized/

16 years ago

Bruce Schneier: Google And Facebook's Privacy Illusion

http://www.forbes.com/2010/04/05/google-facebook-twitter-technology-security-10-privacy.html

16 years ago

A Tale of Two Terminals: Beijing Terminal 3 and Heathrow Terminal 5

http://www.leanessays.com/2011/01/tale-of-two-terminals.html

16 years ago

Who is Using Node.js And Why? Yammer, Bocoup, Proxlet and Yahoo

http://bostinnovation.com/2011/01/15/who-is-using-node-js-and-why-yammer-bocoup-proxlet-and-yahoo/

16 years ago

Programmers think differently than non-programmers

http://jacquesmattheij.com/Programmers+think+differently+than+non-programmers+

16 years ago

Ask HN: Reasonable equity for early employees?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2107161

16 years ago

One startup's journey into SEO

http://cam.ly/blog/2011/01/one-startups-journey-into-seo/

16 years ago

Marvin Minsky on Education and Reprogramming One's Mind

http://web.media.mit.edu/~minsky/OLPC-5.html

16 years ago

Getting Started with AppHarbor – Heroku for .NET

http://www.aaronstannard.com/post/2011/01/14/Getting-Started-with-AppHarbor-e28093-Heroku-for-NET.aspx

16 years ago

University of Phoenix Enrollment Down by 42%

http://www.hackeducation.com/2011/01/14/university-of-phoenix-enrollment-down-by-42/

16 years ago

What the Heck is Shadow DOM?

http://glazkov.com/2011/01/14/what-the-heck-is-shadow-dom/

16 years ago

Is Chess with Queen Odds a Provable Win?

http://arvindn.livejournal.com/129555.html

16 years ago

Wattvision (YC W09): The Tale of the Mystery Load

http://blog.wattvision.com/the-tale-of-the-mystery-load-what-happens-aft

16 years ago

Facebook Shares Hit $28.26 Per Share, That’s a $70+ Billion Valuation

http://techcrunch.com/2011/01/14/facebook-shares-hit-28-26-per-share-thats-a-70-billion-valuation/

16 years ago

Dear Firefox, please keep the RSS icon

http://scripting.com/stories/2011/01/15/mozillaPleaseKeepTheRssIco.html

16 years ago

The Resume Is Dead

http://www.chicagosean.com/2011/01/resume-is-dead.html

16 years ago

IPad 2 Likely to Have 2048x1536 Screen Resolution

http://www.macrumors.com/2011/01/15/ipad-2-screen-likely-to-have-2048x1536-resolution/

16 years ago

MIT and the future of open courseware

http://sharing-nicely.net/2011/01/mit-and-the-future-of-open-courseware/

16 years ago

Build Your Own OS (from scratch)

http://www.osdever.net/bkerndev/

16 years ago

Freedom of Information Rallies Tomorrow (Sat Jan 15)

http://www.whyweprotest.net/en/

16 years ago

The experiment infrastructure at Google

http://glinden.blogspot.com/2011/01/experiment-infrastructure-at-google.html

16 years ago

IPython as a Replacement for Bash (on a Mac)

http://tmsh.posterous.com/ipython-as-a-replacement-for-bash-on-a-mac

16 years ago

3D Without Glasses, With Nightmarish Disfigurement

http://lonelysandwich.com/post/2756106707/3d-without-appetite

16 years ago

Learn Python the Hard way Class At PyCon 2011

http://sheddingbikes.com/posts/1295120282.html

16 years ago