top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-01-17

How Facebook Ships Code

http://framethink.wordpress.com/2011/01/17/how-facebook-ships-code/

16 years ago

344 upvotes – 108 comments

Steve Jobs To Take ‘Medical Leave Of Absence’, Stays On As CEO

http://techcrunch.com/2011/01/17/steve-jobs-to-take-medical-leave-of-absence-stays-on-as-ceo/

16 years ago

311 upvotes – 201 comments

I Can Crack Your App With Just A Shell (And How To Stop Me)

http://kswizz.com/post/2785664228/hacking-mac-apps

16 years ago

250 upvotes – 89 comments

My Experiences as a Female Software Engineer

http://www.jeanhsu.com/?p=134

16 years ago

244 upvotes – 218 comments

Rands in Repose: Managing Nerds

http://www.randsinrepose.com/archives/2011/01/17/managing_nerds.html

16 years ago

153 upvotes – 40 comments

How Much Does a Single Search Cost Google?

http://billwarner.posterous.com/new-blog-post-how-much-does-a-single-search-c

16 years ago

137 upvotes – 37 comments

Threewords.me is up for private auction

http://sale.threewords.me/

16 years ago

136 upvotes – 78 comments

Piracy Doubled My App Sales

http://amitay.us/Blog/Entries/2011/1/17_piracy_doubled_my_app_sales.html

16 years ago

131 upvotes – 72 comments

New Twitter Has Become Browser Poison

http://mikecanex.wordpress.com/2011/01/17/new-twitter-has-become-browser-poison/

16 years ago

121 upvotes – 100 comments

JQuery 1.5 promises a better future.

http://renesd.blogspot.com/2011/01/jquery-15-promises-better-future.html

16 years ago

118 upvotes – 8 comments

Octave: An Alternative to the High Cost of Matlab

http://math-blog.com/2011/01/17/octave-an-alternative-to-the-high-cost-of-matlab/

16 years ago

117 upvotes – 55 comments

Google Translate adds easter egg that recognizes the beatboxing hack

http://translate.google.com/#de|en|pv%20zk%20pv%20pv%20zk%20pv%20zk%20kz%20zk%20pv%20pv%20pv%20zk%20pv%20zk%20zk%20pzk%20pzk%20pvzkpkzvpvzk%20kkkkkk%20bsch%0A%0A

16 years ago

116 upvotes – 27 comments

Roll your own LinkBait headline

http://www.whattofix.com/blog/archives/2011/01/roll-your-own-l.php

16 years ago

100 upvotes – 34 comments

Solitude and Leadership

http://www.theamericanscholar.org/solitude-and-leadership/

16 years ago

99 upvotes – 6 comments

Show HN: Pocket - my first app ever

http://letspocket.com

16 years ago

99 upvotes – 65 comments

Apple Says Jobs Is Taking a New Medical Leave

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/18/technology/18apple.html?_r=1

16 years ago

92 upvotes – 29 comments

Django Software Stack

http://www.sourcefabric.org/en/home/blog/139/Django-Software-Stack.htm?tpl=355

16 years ago

88 upvotes – 24 comments

Compiling to lambda-calculus: Turtles all the way down

http://matt.might.net/articles/compiling-up-to-lambda-calculus/

16 years ago

86 upvotes – 25 comments

Ask HN: Please review my startup: TheSunnyTrail

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2111663

16 years ago

85 upvotes – 46 comments

Dog learns over 1,000 words

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/18/science/18dog.html

16 years ago

81 upvotes – 47 comments

Show HN: A Wiki written in 80 lines of JavaScript

http://wiki.pageforest.com/#mckoss-3535

16 years ago

79 upvotes – 41 comments

Googlers Expose Sketchy SEO Company

http://www.seroundtable.com/sketchy-seo-company-google-12786.html

16 years ago

73 upvotes – 29 comments

GET vs POST in terms of security

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/198462/get-versus-post-in-terms-of-security/1744404#1744404

16 years ago

72 upvotes – 42 comments

Stuxnet is embarrassing, not amazing

http://rdist.root.org/2011/01/17/stuxnet-is-embarrassing-not-amazing/

16 years ago

72 upvotes – 107 comments

Django Deployment Workshop by Jacob Kaplan-Moss

http://ontwik.com/python/django-deployment-workshop-by-jacob-kaplan-moss/

16 years ago

69 upvotes – 8 comments

Groupon CEO Apologizes For Poorly Executed Offer In Japan

http://info.groupon.jp/topics/20110117-515.html

16 years ago

65 upvotes – 43 comments

IPhone v Android debate 'not important'

http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/science-&-technology/iphone-v-android-debate-not-important-201101173436/

16 years ago

64 upvotes – 25 comments

EU funds open source language Scala

http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/EU-funds-open-source-language-Scala-1170222.html

16 years ago

62 upvotes – 10 comments

Xfce 4.8 released

http://www.xfce.org/

16 years ago

61 upvotes – 21 comments

Advice to a college sophomore programmer

http://www.pchristensen.com/blog/articles/advice-to-a-college-sophomore-programmer/

16 years ago

61 upvotes – 25 comments

Salvatore Sanfilippo talks Redis design and internals

http://thechangelog.com/post/2801342864/episode-0-4-5-redis-with-salvatore-sanfilippo

16 years ago

54 upvotes – 11 comments

Why Learning to Fly (or Code) Is Easier Than You Think

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/01/why-learning-to-fly-or-code-is-easier-than-you-think/69324/

16 years ago

52 upvotes – 13 comments

Ask HN: Deaf wannabe entrepreneur faces networking issues. How to work with it?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2111278

16 years ago

50 upvotes – 42 comments

Timelapse Me

http://noahlitvin.posterous.com/timelapse-me

16 years ago

49 upvotes – 3 comments

Danchev found hospitalized in Bulgaria, local news report

http://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/report-zdnets-danchev-hospitalized-011711

16 years ago

47 upvotes – 7 comments

Questions VCs Will Ask and What They Mean

http://www.socialtimes.com/2011/01/entrepreneurs-corner-10-questions-vcs-will-ask-and-what-it-means/

16 years ago

46 upvotes – 9 comments

Scientist Plans to Clone Woolly Mammoth

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2375794,00.asp

16 years ago

45 upvotes – 24 comments

How to analyze Craigslist's entire history? Jeremy Zawodny is taking suggestions

http://blog.zawodny.com/2011/01/16/suggestions-for-analysis-of-all-craigslist-postings/?

16 years ago

45 upvotes – 3 comments

Why I Quit Intuit and Started CompanyLine

http://blog.companyline.com/post/2797977927/why-i-quit-intuit-and-started-companyline

16 years ago

42 upvotes – 17 comments
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