top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-01-24

Why 3D doesn't work and never will.

http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2011/01/post_4.html

16 years ago

Rent vs. Buy Visualization of Top 50 Cities

http://trulia.movity.com/rentvsbuy/

16 years ago

ACM considered harmful

http://se9book.wordpress.com/2011/01/24/acm-considered-harmful/

16 years ago

How I Screwed Yasser Arafat out of $2mm (and lost $100mm in the process)

http://www.jamesaltucher.com/2011/01/how-i-screwed-yasser-arafat-out-of-2mm-and-lost-100mm-in-the-process/

16 years ago

Qwiki Epitomizes the Current Startup Bubble

http://epicfumble.com/post/qwiki-epitomizes-the-current-startup-bubble

16 years ago

Waking up at 5am, my nearly 1 year review

http://notgeeklycorrect.com/2011/01/24/5am-wake-up-is-it-crazy-to-wake-up-early

16 years ago

Can you see the flag on the Moon with a telescope?

http://www.rocketroberts.com/astro/flag_on_moon.htm

16 years ago

Tim Cook Is Running Apple, but Not Imitating Steve Jobs

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/24/technology/24cook.html?_r=1

16 years ago

20,000 square foot coworking / hackspace opens in Manhattan

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/01/24/a-place-for-techies-to-gather/?ref=technology

16 years ago

Summary of "Must Read" articles for starting entrepreneurs

http://tappen.posterous.com/nice-summary-stanleytang-256-must-read-conten

16 years ago

The Dilbert Black Swan Portfolio: a skeptical/practical guide to investing

http://attardi.org/dilbert-black-swan-portfolio/

16 years ago

Haskell improves log processing 4x over Python

http://devblog.bu.mp/haskell-at-bump

16 years ago

Search leakage is not FUD. Google et al., please fix it.

http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/2011/01/search-leakage-is-not-fud-google-et-al-please-fix-it.html

16 years ago

Stop Saying ‘Let me know when works for you’

http://viniciusvacanti.com/2011/01/24/stop-saying-let-me-know-when-works-for-you/

16 years ago

The Inside Story of How Facebook Responded to Tunisian Hacks

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/01/the-inside-story-of-how-facebook-responded-to-tunisian-hacks/70044/

16 years ago

Start Small, Stay Small

http://www.hn-books.com/Books/Start-Small-Stay-Small.htm

16 years ago

The GPL is a License, Not a Contract

http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20031214210634851

16 years ago

Bookmarklet turns any webpage into a wireframe

http://www.volkside.com/tools/wirify/

16 years ago

Dropbox Founder on New Features and Global Expansion

http://thenextweb.com/apps/2011/01/24/dropbox-founder-on-new-features-and-global-expansion/

16 years ago

Equity in startups: Cap tables for Google, Apple, Genentech, Netscape, etc

http://wiki.epfl.ch/a3-angels/documents/reunions/a3angels07-herve_lebret-equity_split_study.pdf

16 years ago

The code injected to steal passwords in Tunisia

http://blog.jgc.org/2011/01/code-injected-to-steal-passwords-in.html

16 years ago

Programming is Easy, Software Development is Hard

http://www.thoughtclusters.com/2011/01/programming-is-easy-software-development-is-hard/

16 years ago

Permanently opt your browser out of online ad personalization via cookies

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hhnjdplhmcnkiecampfdgfjilccfpfoe

16 years ago

DHH: Un-Manage Your Employees

http://www.nfib.com/mybusiness-magazine/operational-insight

16 years ago

What scientific concept would improve everybody's cognitive toolkit?

http://www.edge.org/q2011/q11_1.html

16 years ago

CSS3 toggle-button without JavaScript

http://lab.simurai.com/css/toggle/#

16 years ago

Why should I have to install an app to figure out subway times?

http://stefanweitz.wordpress.com/2011/01/16/deep-plane-thoughts-the-appocalypse/

16 years ago

Arrays considered somewhat harmful

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ericlippert/archive/2008/09/22/arrays-considered-somewhat-harmful.aspx

16 years ago

Show HN: EDW, quantitative analytics, machine learning.

http://blog.mediafederation.com/andy-hawkins/the-edward-worthington-project/

16 years ago

Framebox: HTML5 wireframing tool

http://framebox.org/

16 years ago

London Names Map

http://names.mappinglondon.co.uk/

16 years ago

Ask HN: How to fire a client who is a scamming gullible people through your work?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2134773

16 years ago

Rob Pike: Geek of the Week

http://www.simple-talk.com/opinion/geek-of-the-week/rob-pike-geek-of-the-week/

16 years ago

Teeth LEDs

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/01/21/new-japanese-fashion-l-e-d-lights-for-your-teeth/?hpw

16 years ago

StackExchange reaches 16 million users, 131% growth

http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/01/state-of-the-stack-2010-a-message-from-your-ceo/

16 years ago

M&A Ladder: Position Your Startup To Sell it For More

http://blog.eladgil.com/2011/01/m-ladder-position-your-startup-to-sell.html

16 years ago

Impact (Javascript Game Engine) Sales Report

http://www.phoboslab.org/log/2011/01/impact-sales-report

16 years ago

Webdis: HTTP + JSON API for Redis

http://thechangelog.com/post/2910383164/webdis-a-redis-http-interface-with-json-output

16 years ago

An open source, cross-platform IDE for exploring pixel based graphics on the GPU

http://syntopia.github.com/Fragmentarium/

16 years ago

Should I work for free?

http://www.shouldiworkforfree.com/

16 years ago

Your Lying Eyes: The Illusions of Kokichi Sugihara

http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2011/01/19/133017843/your-lying-eyes-can-this-be-happening

16 years ago

Taboo "OO"

http://www.loup-vaillant.fr/articles/taboo-oo

16 years ago

Performance boost in Clojure 1.3 (alpha4)

http://www.skuro.tk/2011/01/24/performance-boost-in-clojure-1-3/

16 years ago

Making sense of your credit card

http://www.mint.com/blog/trends/credit-card-code-01202011/

16 years ago

Ask HN: What do you use to organize e-books and research papers?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2136297

16 years ago

Forget apps, OnSwipe is the future of publishing.

http://thenextweb.com/media/2011/01/24/forget-apps-onswipe-is-the-future-of-publishing/

16 years ago

Facebook silencing Tunisian cyber activists involved in Revolution

http://takriz.com/press/24-1-2011-english.txt

16 years ago

Facebook To Make ‘Facebook Credits’ Mandatory For Game Developers

http://techcrunch.com/2011/01/24/facebook-to-make-facebook-credits-mandatory-for-game-developers/

16 years ago

Nvidia Tegra 3 to Be One Full Generation Ahead of Competition

http://www.engadget.com/2011/01/24/nvidia-tegra-3-equipped-with-1-5ghz-quad-core-madness-teased-b/

16 years ago

“Fantastic” beats “efficient”

http://blog.asmartbear.com/fantastic-beats-efficient.html

16 years ago

How to Create A Startup in Japan (In 10 Easy Steps)

http://blog.500startups.com/2011/01/24/how-to-create-a-successful-startup-in-japan-in-10-easy-steps/

16 years ago