top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-01-20

Eric Schmidt: On April 4th I Will Step Down, Larry Page to be CEO

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/01/update-from-chairman.html

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DuckDuckGo Challenges Google on Privacy (With a Billboard in San Francisco)

http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2011/01/duckduckgo-google-privacy/

16 years ago

Impossible for the HN crowd: Do nothing for 2 minutes

http://www.donothingfor2minutes.com/

16 years ago

How To Use Amazon EC2 as Your Desktop

http://blog.restbackup.com/how-to-use-amazon-ec2-as-your-desktop

16 years ago

Learning from Twitter

http://ejohn.org/blog/learning-from-twitter/

16 years ago

Ask HN: Do you meditate? How/Why?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2125115

16 years ago

What happened to the 11 employees of Microsoft in the 1978 photo

http://www.snopes.com/photos/people/microsoft.asp

16 years ago

Apple’s diabolical plan to screw your iPhone

http://www.ifixit.com/blog/blog/2011/01/20/apples-diabolical-plan-to-screw-your-iphone/

16 years ago

The miserable programmer paradox

http://blog.garlicsim.org/post/2840398276/the-miserable-programmer-paradox

16 years ago

Twitter Gets Sued For Letting Famous People Interact Online

http://techcrunch.com/2011/01/20/twitter-lawsuit-vs-technologies/

16 years ago

A brief glimpse of Nokia's popularity outside the Western world

http://downloadsquad.switched.com/2011/01/20/a-brief-glimpse-of-nokias-popularity-outside-the-western-world/

16 years ago

Malaria caught on video breaking and entering into red blood cell

http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/nstv/2011/01/malaria-caught-breaking-and-entering-red-blood-cell.html

16 years ago

Google Voice now lets you port your own phone number

http://www.engadget.com/2011/01/19/google-voice-now-lets-you-port-your-own-phone-number/

16 years ago

JsFiddle: a REPL for web development

http://jsfiddle.net/

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Pivotal Tracker will no longer be free in 6 months

http://pivotallabs.com/users/dan/blog/articles/1537-introducing-pivotal-tracker-pricing

16 years ago

To Really Learn, Quit Studying and Take a Test

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/21/science/21memory.html?hp

16 years ago

Maze Generation: Wilson's algorithm

http://weblog.jamisbuck.org/2011/1/20/maze-generation-wilson-s-algorithm

16 years ago

WePay just built a new feature inspired by and for redditors

http://www.reddit.com/r/self/comments/f5vh1/i_founded_the_antipaypal_raised_9mm_and_now_want/

16 years ago

LivingSocial Hacked

http://www.deepgreencrystals.com/archives/2011/01/living-social-h.html

16 years ago

Hiring Front-End Engineers

http://www.computedstyle.com/2010/12/hiring-front-end-engineers.html

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PadMapper Apartment Search

http://www.padmapper.com/

16 years ago

Ask HN: Share your experience with a non YC or Techstars incubator.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2123401

16 years ago

Send to Kindle: any web page text, with one click, using Chrome browser.

http://kindleworld.blogspot.com/2011/01/using-googles-chrome-browser-extension.html

16 years ago

Google Announces 2010 Results and Management Changes

http://investor.google.com/earnings/2010/Q4_google_earnings.html

16 years ago

BitTorrent Inventor Demos New P2P Live Streaming Protocol

http://torrentfreak.com/bittorrent-p2p-live-streaming-110119/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Torrentfreak+%28Torrentfreak%29

16 years ago

Collection of mathematics blogs

http://www.mathblogging.org/bytype

16 years ago

About that slowness on Twitter…

http://www.dustindiaz.com/about-that-slowness-on-twitter/

16 years ago

Zaphod - JavaScript written in JavaScript

https://mozillalabs.com/zaphod/

16 years ago

Building a 4 bit computer from Transistors

http://www.waitingforfriday.com/index.php/4-Bit_Computer

16 years ago

LOLCats... Yes, you can haz $30m

http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2011/01/18/empire-built-on-lolcats-gets-30-million/

16 years ago

Show HN: New Punchd website (like foursquare for the masses)

http://getpunchd.com

16 years ago

Chinese Social Media Lessons from a Japanese Porn Star

http://techrice.com/2011/01/20/japanese-porn-star-practices-calligraphy-for-one-million-chinese-fanboys-on-sina-weibo/

16 years ago

On Using Debuggers

http://plope.com/Members/chrism/usingdebuggers

16 years ago

How Apple Almost Got Microsoft’s Kinect Game Controller

http://www.cultofmac.com/how-apple-almost-got-microsofts-kinect-game-controller/67951

16 years ago

An amoeba who raises bacteria crops is the world's tiniest farmer

http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2011/01/the-worlds-smallest-farmers.html

16 years ago

AT&T mauled in oral arguments in arguing for "personal privacy" for corporations

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/19/AR2011011907414.html

16 years ago

PubSubHubbub

http://code.google.com/p/pubsubhubbub/

16 years ago

Understanding Map Reduce

http://openmymind.net/2011/1/20/Understanding-Map-Reduce

16 years ago

Four Lessons From Evernote’s First Week On The Mac App Store

http://techcrunch.com/2011/01/19/evernote-mac-app-store/

16 years ago

JQuery Script to Automatically Preload images

http://www.filamentgroup.com/lab/update_automatically_preload_images_from_css_with_jquery/

16 years ago

Fake keyboard: PCs hacked with custom Android USB drivers

http://arstechnica.com/security/news/2011/01/fake-keyboard-pcs-hacked-with-custom-android-usb-drivers.ars

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