top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-01-21

Oops: No copied Java code or weapons of mass destruction found in Android

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/burnette/oops-no-copied-java-code-or-weapons-of-mass-destruction-found-in-android/2162

16 years ago

584 upvotes – 57 comments

Google search and search engine spam

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/01/google-search-and-search-engine-spam.html

16 years ago

239 upvotes – 212 comments

Why can't all "tech" journalism be like this?

http://kottke.org/11/01/why-is-schmidt-stepping-down-at-google

16 years ago

239 upvotes – 78 comments

Pypy wants you - now's the time to start contributing to Pypy

http://morepypy.blogspot.com/2011/01/pypy-wants-you.html?uhttp://morepypy.blogspot.com/2011/01/pypy-wants-you.html

16 years ago

179 upvotes – 21 comments

AppHarbor (YC W11): "Azure Done Right"

http://techcrunch.com/2011/01/20/yc-funded-appharbor-a-heroku-for-net-or-azure-done-right/

16 years ago

153 upvotes – 68 comments

Google to Launch Groupon Competitor

http://mashable.com/2011/01/20/google-offers/

16 years ago

149 upvotes – 98 comments

Why Is Eric Schmidt Stepping Down at Google?

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2011/01/eric-schmidt-google.html?mbid=social_twitter

16 years ago

143 upvotes – 43 comments

24 Gigabytes of Memory Ought to be Enough for Anybody

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2011/01/24-gigabytes-of-memory-ought-to-be-enough-for-anybody.html

16 years ago

124 upvotes – 112 comments

CSS background image hacks

http://nicolasgallagher.com/css-background-image-hacks/

16 years ago

119 upvotes – 8 comments

The best Web Framework - what makes Lift different

http://seventhings.liftweb.net/index

16 years ago

114 upvotes – 71 comments

David E. Chen: Discovering the Heroku Vulnerability

http://daverecycles.com/post/2858880862/heroku-hacked-dissecting-herokus-critical-security

16 years ago

108 upvotes – 10 comments

1000Memories in 60 seconds (video, YC S10)

http://1000memories.com/blog/39-1000memories-in-60-seconds

16 years ago

107 upvotes – 27 comments

Does email address obfuscation actually work?

http://superuser.com/q/235937/1548

16 years ago

95 upvotes – 53 comments

Ask HN: I made an app that makes people happy, how do I let them know about it?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2126918

16 years ago

94 upvotes – 46 comments

Run OS X from a USB Drive

http://lifehacker.com/5739259/how-to-create-a-portable-hackintosh-on-a-usb-thumb-drive

16 years ago

89 upvotes – 34 comments

Vivian Maier: A life's work seen for first time

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-12247395

16 years ago

89 upvotes – 51 comments

Threewords.me sold

http://sale.threewords.me/?sold

16 years ago

85 upvotes – 47 comments

Genetic Algorithm Used to Build Car With Box2D

http://megaswf.com/serve/102223/

16 years ago

81 upvotes – 28 comments

Mozilla Blocks Official Skype Toolbar Add-on for Firefox

http://blog.arpitnext.com/2011/01/block-skype-addon-firefox-crash.html

16 years ago

78 upvotes – 28 comments

Genetic Algorithm Car Physics

http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/f6g98/genetic_algorithm_car_physics/

16 years ago

77 upvotes – 22 comments

Techies don't understand what business Apple is in

http://caffeine.shugendo.org/2011/01/21/techies-dont-understand-what-apple-makes/

16 years ago

76 upvotes – 103 comments

Study: GM corn causes organ failure in mice

http://www.biolsci.org/v05p0706.htm#headingA11

16 years ago

73 upvotes – 46 comments

Show HN: WerdMerge: A Portmanteau Generator With Phonemes

http://www.werdmerge.com/

16 years ago

71 upvotes – 31 comments

Mouseless Browsing in Firefox with Pentadactyl

http://mshared.tumblr.com/post/2856324781/pentadactyl

16 years ago

71 upvotes – 50 comments

Lisp Conversation with Gábor Melis, Google AI Contest Winner

http://www.franz.com/services/conferences_seminars/webinar_1-20-11.lhtml

16 years ago

68 upvotes – 8 comments

“Yes, I am human:” learnings from fast customer service via live chat

http://blog.indextank.com/239/yes-i-am-human-learnings-from-fast-customer-service-via-live-chat/

16 years ago

67 upvotes – 33 comments

Ask HN : Which opensource project for beginner python developer

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2127741

16 years ago

65 upvotes – 25 comments

We Believe A Lot, But Can Prove Little

http://rjlipton.wordpress.com/2011/01/19/we-believe-a-lot-but-can-prove-little/

16 years ago

64 upvotes – 11 comments

Awesome UI screenshots from applications running on Symbolics Lisp Machines

http://lispm.dyndns.org/symbolics-ui-examples/symbolics-ui-examples.html

16 years ago

62 upvotes – 26 comments

XBMC now works on Apple TV, iPad and iPhone

http://www.geek.com/articles/mobile/xbmc-now-works-on-apple-tv-ipad-and-iphone-20110121/

16 years ago

60 upvotes – 45 comments

Get Ruby and Rails running on Ubuntu with one command

http://thechangelog.com/post/2857400260/railsready-setup-script-to-get-ruby-and-rails-running

16 years ago

56 upvotes – 50 comments

Eric Schmidt to Sell $335 Million of His Google Shares

http://mashable.com/2011/01/21/eric-schmidt-google-shares/

16 years ago

51 upvotes – 33 comments

Heroku: Resolved Security Vulnerability

http://pastebin.com/p3XrtdEa

16 years ago

49 upvotes – 25 comments

280North/Cappuccino modules list comes to life

https://github.com/280north/cappuccino/wiki/Modules

16 years ago

★ 45 Objective-J LGPL-2.1
47 upvotes – 9 comments

Rogue: A Type-Safe Scala DSL for querying MongoDB

http://engineering.foursquare.com/2011/01/21/rogue-a-type-safe-scala-dsl-for-querying-mongodb/

16 years ago

46 upvotes – 12 comments

A modest proposal for 500 Y Combinators

http://launch.is/blog/2011/1/21/l005-a-modest-proposal-for-america-build-500-accelerators.html

16 years ago

45 upvotes – 32 comments
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