top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-01-23

Delegate or die: the self-employed trap

http://sivers.org/delegate

16 years ago

423 upvotes – 72 comments

Always pay your web developers

http://utilitybidder.co.uk/

16 years ago

299 upvotes – 105 comments

eBooks compiled from top StackOverflow topics/answers

http://hewgill.com/~greg/stackoverflow/ebooks/

16 years ago

207 upvotes – 36 comments

Humans.txt, like robots.txt, but for humans.

http://humanstxt.org/

16 years ago

192 upvotes – 43 comments

ITerm 2

http://sites.google.com/site/iterm2home/

16 years ago

185 upvotes – 80 comments

Using Python generators for real work [pdf]

http://www.dabeaz.com/generators/Generators.pdf

16 years ago

154 upvotes – 20 comments

Life as a Second Class Citizen of the Web

http://oonwoye.com/2011/01/23/life-as-a-second-class-citizen-of-the-web/

16 years ago

140 upvotes – 99 comments

Why I Don’t Buy the Quora Hype

http://techcrunch.com/2011/01/23/why-i-don%E2%80%99t-buy-the-quora-hype/

16 years ago

132 upvotes – 79 comments

Hacker Shows It Doesn’t Take $8 Million to Clone Qwiki

http://newsgrange.com/hacker-shows-it-doesnt-take-8-million-to-clone-qwiki-just-321-lines-of-html-will-do-the-trick/

16 years ago

126 upvotes – 49 comments

How I almost killed Facebook

http://matt-welsh.blogspot.com/2009/02/how-i-almost-killed-facebook.html

16 years ago

119 upvotes – 16 comments

20-line patch to Firefox 4 that makes startup on Windows 2x as fast

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=627591

16 years ago

117 upvotes – 27 comments

Why you should read academic papers

http://blog.rafaelcorrales.com/2011/01/all-you-have-to-do-is-consume-and.html

16 years ago

110 upvotes – 31 comments

Who is Mark Bao? Meet the 18-year old entrepreneur behind Threewords.me

http://thenextweb.com/entrepreneur/2011/01/23/who-is-mark-bao-meet-the-18-year-old-entrepreneur-behind-threewords-me/

16 years ago

108 upvotes – 64 comments

Show HN: Fqwiki - Qwiki cloned with a single HTML file

http://banksytheluckystiff.github.com/fqwiki/

16 years ago

96 upvotes – 14 comments

Sean Parker: "The Social Network" is a complete work of fiction

http://thenextweb.com/facebook/2011/01/23/sean-parker-the-social-network-is-a-complete-work-of-fiction/

16 years ago

95 upvotes – 51 comments

Mathematician, Artist, Maker, I find myself looking for a job...

http://maxwelldemon.com/2011/01/22/i-find-myself-looking-for-a-job/

16 years ago

94 upvotes – 36 comments

Hidden features of Python - Stack Overflow

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/101268/hidden-features-of-python/102062

16 years ago

83 upvotes – 15 comments

Hacking your life through data collection and analysis

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2133665

16 years ago

69 upvotes – 30 comments

Dungeons & Dragons ruled a threat to prison security

http://abovethelaw.com/2010/01/seventh-circuit-rules-dungeons-dragons-a-threat-to-prison-security/

16 years ago

68 upvotes – 60 comments

Ask HN: How to credibly demonstrate self-taught skills/knowledge?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2132700

16 years ago

67 upvotes – 28 comments

How debuggers work: Part 1

http://eli.thegreenplace.net/2011/01/23/how-debuggers-work-part-1/

16 years ago

66 upvotes – 28 comments

Why I Stuck With Perl

http://blogs.perl.org/users/jeffrey_kegler/2011/01/why-i-stuck-with-perl.html

16 years ago

66 upvotes – 27 comments

The IRS Targets Income Tricks

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703951704576092371207903438.html

16 years ago

65 upvotes – 66 comments

How Video Cards Work

http://www.x.org/wiki/Development/Documentation/HowVideoCardsWork

16 years ago

64 upvotes – 7 comments

Moving from Java to Scala - One year later...

http://blog.danmachine.com/2011/01/moving-from-java-to-scala-one-year.html

16 years ago

64 upvotes – 11 comments

10x Productivity Myths: Where’s the 10x Difference in Compensation?

http://forums.construx.com/blogs/stevemcc/archive/2011/01/22/10x-productivity-myths-where-s-the-10x-difference-in-compensation.aspx

16 years ago

62 upvotes – 34 comments

Google May Let Users Personally Blacklist Domains To Fight Spam

http://searchengineland.com/google-may-let-you-blacklist-domains-to-fight-spam-62129

16 years ago

61 upvotes – 42 comments

Pro scraping with Node.JS

https://github.com/chriso/node.io

16 years ago

★ 1.7k JavaScript MIT
60 upvotes – 18 comments

TestFlight: iOS beta testing on the fly

http://www.testflightapp.com/

16 years ago

60 upvotes – 17 comments

HIV is powered by RNA

http://www.urmc.rochester.edu/news/story/index.cfm?id=3098

16 years ago

59 upvotes – 15 comments

How I sold my company to Google ($80million)

http://thenextweb.com/video/2011/01/19/silicon-valley-startup-how-i-sold-my-company-to-google-80million/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+TheNextWeb+(The+Next+Web+All+Stories)

16 years ago

54 upvotes – 18 comments

Adder: Python with a Lisp

http://www.thibault.org/adder/

16 years ago

53 upvotes – 16 comments

Show HN: Turning my Dashboard widget into a profitable iOS app

http://ioswebdevmusings.blogspot.com/2011/01/turning-my-dashboard-widget-into.html

16 years ago

48 upvotes – 5 comments

Java finally getting closures, method handles and traits in JDK 8

http://www.javarants.com/2011/01/22/using-closures-method-handles-and-extension-methods-in-java-8-jsr-335/

16 years ago

48 upvotes – 34 comments

IPhone 4 Gyroscope Teardown

http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/iPhone-4-Gyroscope-Teardown/3156/1

16 years ago

48 upvotes – 7 comments
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