top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-01-19

Ask HN/PG: Why are comments being paginated?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2118325

16 years ago

341 upvotes – 114 comments

The polynomial algorithm for 3-SAT problem (or P=NP)

http://romvf.wordpress.com/2011/01/19/open-letter/

16 years ago

269 upvotes – 142 comments

Why HN was slow and how Rtm fixed it

http://ycombinator.com/newsnews.html#19jan

16 years ago

257 upvotes – 184 comments

Introducing AWS Elastic Beanstalk

http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2011/01/introducing-elastic-beanstalk.html

16 years ago

209 upvotes – 57 comments

No double standards: supporting Google's push for WebM

http://www.fsf.org/news/supporting-webm

16 years ago

202 upvotes – 163 comments

Facebook is what happens to the Web when you hit it with the stupid stick

http://whatever.scalzi.com/2011/01/19/and-now-for-no-particular-reason-a-rant-about-facebook/

16 years ago

184 upvotes – 107 comments

Senator Al Franken: No joke, Comcast trying to whack Netflix

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/01/sen-al-franken-no-joke-comcast-trying-to-whack-netflix.ars

16 years ago

157 upvotes – 61 comments

Sony uses DMCA to silence speech that reveals its security flaws

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/01/sony-v-hotz-sony-sends-dangerous-message

16 years ago

146 upvotes – 40 comments

Website calculates how your life might be like in another country

http://www.ifitweremyhome.com/

16 years ago

142 upvotes – 106 comments

Everything you need to know about cryptography in 1 hour, by Colin Percival

http://www.mefeedia.com/watch/31231135

16 years ago

136 upvotes – 40 comments

How do emulators work and how are they written?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/448673/how-do-emulators-work-and-how-are-they-written/448689#448689

16 years ago

132 upvotes – 21 comments

The Bad Board Member

http://steveblank.com/2011/01/19/the-bad-board-member/

16 years ago

120 upvotes – 15 comments

Crowdsource HN: Resources for making your next website.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/14Ym6LTR9hLBGI0cM0mMU_BDEKG3ysmRsakwzA5Z_Ce4/edit?hl=en&authkey=CLWU-ssM

16 years ago

116 upvotes – 28 comments

Sproutcore vs jQuery +backbone.js

http://ryth.posterous.com/sproutcore-vs-jquery-backbonejs?a

16 years ago

108 upvotes – 46 comments

Mark Pilgrim Ask Me Anything on Reddit

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/f545e/i_am_a_fourtime_published_author_i_write_free/

16 years ago

100 upvotes – 29 comments

HTML is the new HTML5

http://blog.whatwg.org/html-is-the-new-html5

16 years ago

93 upvotes – 27 comments

How I implemented 2D collision detection in Pistol Slut

http://www.maryrosecook.com/post/how-to-do-2d-collision-detection

16 years ago

90 upvotes – 35 comments

Yes, browsers do cache SSL resources, so please use Google's CDN

http://hoisie.com/post/yes_browsers_do_cache_ssl_resources__so_please_use_googles_cdn

16 years ago

90 upvotes – 35 comments

The road to faster tests

http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2742-the-road-to-faster-tests

16 years ago

87 upvotes – 35 comments

Wolfram Alpha's take on the Drake Equation

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=drake+equation

16 years ago

82 upvotes – 74 comments

Learning Lisp the hard way

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.lisp/browse_thread/thread/63d76b19003620d2

16 years ago

70 upvotes – 20 comments

Notes of a native tiger son: it's a weird time to be Asian-American

http://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2011/01/notes-of-a-native-tiger-son-part-1/69748/

16 years ago

68 upvotes – 54 comments

Maptail.js geoips your tail -f to a map

https://github.com/stagas/maptail

16 years ago

★ 800 JavaScript
65 upvotes – 29 comments

Open-Source Projects Are Getting Ripped On Amazon

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=OTAyNg

16 years ago

65 upvotes – 25 comments

Andreas’ Personal Flying Suit (“Monocopter”) Project

http://www.technologie-entwicklung.de/Gasturbines/Monocopter/body_monocopter.html

16 years ago

63 upvotes – 18 comments

Tom Faulhaber: Lisp, Functional Programming, And The State Of Flow

http://ontwik.com/clojure/tom-faulhaber-lisp-functional-programming-and-the-state-of-flow/

16 years ago

63 upvotes – 2 comments

HTML5 client-side graphing calculator

http://graph.tk/

16 years ago

56 upvotes – 17 comments

Hadoopy: Cython based MapReduce library for Python (w/ Oozie Support)

http://brandynwhite.com/hadoopy-cython-based-mapreduce-library-for-py

16 years ago

52 upvotes – 4 comments

Ruby's rmagick Gem looking for a maintainer

https://github.com/rmagick/rmagick/blob/master/README

16 years ago

★ 729 C++ MIT
51 upvotes – 13 comments

Startup Row at PyCon 2011

http://us.pycon.org/2011/blog/2011/01/19/announcing-startup-row-pycon-2011/

16 years ago

49 upvotes – 9 comments

AWS Elastic Beanstalk

http://aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/?ref_=pe_12300_18337730

16 years ago

45 upvotes – 3 comments

Study: College Students Not Learning Much

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504744_162-20028739-10391703.html

16 years ago

44 upvotes – 55 comments

WebKit Updates CSS3 Gradient Support, Matches Mozilla Syntax

http://blogs.sitepoint.com/2011/01/18/webkit-updates-css3-gradient-support-matches-mozilla-syntax/

16 years ago

43 upvotes – 4 comments

Mozilla Skywriter has been merged into Ace

http://mozillalabs.com/skywriter/2011/01/18/mozilla-skywriter-has-been-merged-into-ace/

16 years ago

41 upvotes – 7 comments

AT&T Case Asks High Court to Assign Privacy Rights to Companies

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-01-19/at-t-case-asks-high-court-to-assign-privacy-rights-to-companies.html

16 years ago

40 upvotes – 32 comments

Harmony Of My Dreams

http://brendaneich.com/2011/01/harmony-of-my-dreams/

16 years ago

40 upvotes – 2 comments

Cold Water on the iPad 2 Retina Display Hype

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

16 years ago

38 upvotes – 56 comments

Inglourious Software Patents

http://nathanmarz.com/blog/inglourious-software-patents.html

16 years ago

37 upvotes – 17 comments

Kids Who Don't Sleep Enough Are at Greater Risk for Depression, Anxiety Later

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704029704576087943126802036.html

16 years ago

37 upvotes – 27 comments

A Year After (Sun’s Aquisition): The Open Source Projects

https://pelegri.wordpress.com/2011/01/16/a-year-after-the-open-source-projects/

16 years ago

37 upvotes – 4 comments

Amazon Releases Elastic Beanstalk!... What?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2118778

16 years ago

37 upvotes – 20 comments

Showdown in Silicon Valley (1985)

http://www.newsweek.com/1985/09/30/showdown-in-silicon-valley.html

16 years ago

36 upvotes – 12 comments

Trunk.ly Keeps Track of the Links You Share Online

http://www.nytimes.com/external/gigaom/2011/01/18/18gigaom-trunkly-keeps-track-of-the-links-you-share-online-58012.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

16 years ago

36 upvotes – 25 comments

Up The Asset: Modern Accounting on the Open Web

http://blog.zacharyvoase.com/2011/01/18/up-the-asset/

16 years ago

36 upvotes – 20 comments

Should Younger Developers be Paid More?

http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/entdev/article.php/3921006/Should-Younger-Developers-be-Paid-More.htm

16 years ago

36 upvotes – 44 comments
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