top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-01-16

Watch a swarm of flying robotic drones construct a tiny building

http://www.botjunkie.com/2011/01/14/autonomous-quadrotor-teams-may-build-your-next-house/

16 years ago

357 upvotes – 78 comments

Facebook Now Shares Phone Number & Address With Third-Party Apps

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/facebook_now_shares_phone_number_address_with_thir.php?sms_ss=hackernews&at_xt=4d3346d0e7608241%2C0

16 years ago

184 upvotes – 78 comments

Applications Open For Summer 2011 YC Funding Cycle

http://ycombinator.com/apply.html

16 years ago

183 upvotes – 59 comments

Development and testing of the Stuxnet worm

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/16/world/middleeast/16stuxnet.html?pagewanted=all

16 years ago

137 upvotes – 78 comments

Shortchanging Your Business with User-Hostile Platforms

http://al3x.net/2011/01/15/user-hostile-platforms.html

16 years ago

136 upvotes – 93 comments

The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 4A has been published

http://www-cs-staff.stanford.edu/~uno/news.html

16 years ago

129 upvotes – 18 comments

What if Tunisia had a revolution, but nobody watched?

http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2011/01/12/what-if-tunisia-had-a-revolution-but-nobody-watched/

16 years ago

126 upvotes – 49 comments

Redirect a running process output to a file and log out

https://gist.github.com/782263

16 years ago

121 upvotes – 13 comments

List of JavaScript Game Engines

http://www.reddit.com/r/javascript/comments/f094j/list_of_js_game_engines_community_effort/

16 years ago

110 upvotes – 24 comments

Developer-driven development

http://schacon.github.com/ddd

16 years ago

97 upvotes – 48 comments

Implementing REST

http://code.google.com/p/implementing-rest/

16 years ago

97 upvotes – 2 comments

I got a bad review from TechCrunch, lessons learned

http://www.joshliu.co/i-got-a-bad-review-from-techcrunch-lessons-le

16 years ago

91 upvotes – 43 comments

Getaround: Peer-to-peer car sharing and car rental startup

http://www.getaround.com/

16 years ago

90 upvotes – 78 comments

The OpenBSD IPsec-Stuxnet connection

http://extendedsubset.com/?p=43

16 years ago

88 upvotes – 22 comments

W3Fools Takes on W3Schools

http://www.readwriteweb.com/hack/2011/01/w3fools-takes-on-w3schools.php

16 years ago

87 upvotes – 34 comments

Offer HN: Free startup idea / designs

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2109709

16 years ago

82 upvotes – 36 comments

How they used to sell computers: Oldest computer ads:

http://www.topdesignmag.com/oldest-computer-ads/

16 years ago

81 upvotes – 37 comments

Nedtries: an ordered container faster than hash tables and red-black trees

http://www.nedprod.com/programs/portable/nedtries/

16 years ago

75 upvotes – 20 comments

As predicted on HN: Kindle Lending Club

http://www.kindlelendingclub.com/

16 years ago

75 upvotes – 35 comments

Why do ebooks cost so much?

http://dearauthor.com/wordpress/2011/01/16/why-do-ebooks-cost-so-much/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+dearauthor+%28Dear+Author%3A+Romance+Novel+Reviews%2C+Industry+News%2C+and+Commentary%29&utm_content=Google+Reader

16 years ago

66 upvotes – 83 comments

GPL, ScummVM and violations

http://sev-notes.blogspot.com/2009/06/gpl-scummvm-and-violations.html

16 years ago

65 upvotes – 11 comments

How to Identify a Good Perl Programmer

http://www.modernperlbooks.com/mt/2011/01/how-to-identify-a-good-perl-programmer.html

16 years ago

60 upvotes – 37 comments

So long, and thanks for the Ph.D.

http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~palsberg/azuma.html

16 years ago

58 upvotes – 6 comments

jade: a node.js template engine

http://jade-lang.com/

16 years ago

55 upvotes – 31 comments

Airbnb (YC W09) Grew 800% in 2010

http://ycombinator.posterous.com/airbnb-grows-800-in-2010

16 years ago

55 upvotes – 44 comments

A world without advertising

http://bemmu.posterous.com/a-world-without-advertising

16 years ago

54 upvotes – 51 comments

Let’s Compete on Innovation Rather Than Patents

http://techcrunch.com/2011/01/15/lets-compete-on-innovation/

16 years ago

52 upvotes – 12 comments

Why You Need to Learn JavaScript

http://www.w2lessons.com/2011/01/why-you-need-to-learn-javascript.html

16 years ago

52 upvotes – 24 comments

Graph.tk plots equations on a canvas and it's LGPL

http://graph.tk

16 years ago

51 upvotes – 6 comments

Culture still doesn’t explain poverty

http://www.bostonreview.net/BR36.1/steinberg.php

16 years ago

50 upvotes – 42 comments

Deficit Reduction

http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2011/01/deficit-reduction.html

16 years ago

49 upvotes – 40 comments

Why developers should care about system packages

http://morethanseven.net/2011/01/16/Why-developers-should-care-about-system-packages.html

16 years ago

48 upvotes – 46 comments

The Story of BankSimple

http://www.carnegiemellontoday.com/article.asp?aid=977&page=0

16 years ago

48 upvotes – 20 comments

On Netscape and CSS history: "here's the history that must not come to light"

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html/msg/358f05eb3e9a79b5

16 years ago

47 upvotes – 14 comments
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