top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-01-25

Introducing Amazon Simple Email Service

http://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2011/01/25/introducing-amazon-simple-email-service/

16 years ago

438 upvotes – 168 comments

OAuth Will Murder Your Children

http://zachholman.com/2011/01/oauth_will_murder_your_children/

16 years ago

380 upvotes – 99 comments

Mythbusting: Why Firefox 4 won’t score 100 on Acid3

http://limi.net/articles/firefox-acid3

16 years ago

269 upvotes – 27 comments

An USB plug that goes both ways

http://www.yankodesign.com/2011/01/25/this-usb-plugs-in-both-ways/

16 years ago

265 upvotes – 132 comments

37Signals to retire OpenID for logins on May 1

http://productblog.37signals.com/products/2011/01/well-be-retiring-our-support-of-openid-on-may-1.html

16 years ago

227 upvotes – 113 comments

Startup Suicide -- Rewriting the Code

http://steveblank.com/2011/01/25/startup-suicide-–-rewriting-the-code/

16 years ago

217 upvotes – 111 comments

How the iPhone mail app decides when to show you new mail

http://theinvisibl.com/2011/01/24/iphonemail/

16 years ago

189 upvotes – 34 comments

Why I Wrote a Programmer's Text Editor

http://rsms.me/2011/01/20/why-i-wrote-a-programmers-text-editor.html

16 years ago

177 upvotes – 58 comments

"Nothing like this will be built again": a tour of a working nuclear reactor

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/rants/nothing-like-this-will-be-buil.html

16 years ago

160 upvotes – 37 comments

What if Visual Studio had Achievements?

http://www.blog.whiletrue.com/vs-achieve.html

16 years ago

155 upvotes – 53 comments

Neat trick for getting private info for Facebook, GMail, Twitter and Digg users

https://grepular.com/Abusing_HTTP_Status_Codes_to_Expose_Private_Information

16 years ago

141 upvotes – 29 comments

Forget Quora, New York's Stack Overflow Is Killing It

http://www.observer.com/2011/tech/new-yorks-stack-overflow-14-times-bigger-quora

16 years ago

140 upvotes – 65 comments

Hacker News app for Android (with login, voting, and commenting)

http://etc.jazzychad.net/hnandroid.html

16 years ago

140 upvotes – 47 comments

Design for Hackers: Why You Hate Comic Sans

http://www.kadavy.net/blog/posts/why-you-hate-comic-sans/

16 years ago

136 upvotes – 76 comments

Close Tab Behaviour in Google Chrome

http://theinvisibl.com/2009/12/08/chrometabs/

16 years ago

133 upvotes – 56 comments

HTML4 logo

http://dribbble.com/shots/104556-HTML-4-01-TRANSITIONAL-LOGO

16 years ago

126 upvotes – 9 comments

Help wanted: Google hiring in 2011

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/01/help-wanted-google-hiring-in-2011.html

16 years ago

119 upvotes – 114 comments

Real-Life Massive Multi-Player Spy Game

http://labs.blue74.com/

16 years ago

115 upvotes – 99 comments

How To: WordPress to Jekyll

http://paulstamatiou.com/how-to-wordpress-to-jekyll

16 years ago

104 upvotes – 36 comments

Pixelmator Grosses $1 Million on the Mac App Store

http://www.pixelmator.com/weblog/2011/01/25/pixelmator-grosses-1-million-on-the-mac-app-store/#comments?r44b=no

16 years ago

97 upvotes – 48 comments

Obama Nominates RIAA Lawyer for Solicitor General

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/01/riaa-lawyer-solicitor-general

16 years ago

89 upvotes – 46 comments

An inspirational collection of UI details/hacks

http://www.littlebigdetails.com

16 years ago

84 upvotes – 14 comments

The End Of Facebook and Free Software's Quiet Revolution

http://developer.appleseedproject.org/profile/michael.chisari/journal/dec5c92b2301f4a1c5f5cf7a43ea5db6

16 years ago

83 upvotes – 45 comments

Twitter Can Predict The Stock Market

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/10/twitter-crystal-ball/

16 years ago

80 upvotes – 53 comments

System Admins R.I.P.?

http://blogs.mulesoft.org/system-admins-r-i-p/

16 years ago

76 upvotes – 63 comments

“Let The Hacking Begin” Declares Person Who Hacked Zuckerberg’s Facebook Page

http://techcrunch.com/2011/01/25/zuckerberg-fan-page-hack/

16 years ago

72 upvotes – 34 comments

World's first solar sail unfurled in orbit

http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2011/24jan_solarsail/

16 years ago

69 upvotes – 22 comments

CPython to LLVM to Javascript - Python in the browser

http://syntensity.com/static/python.html

16 years ago

68 upvotes – 15 comments

"2001": The Monolith and the Message (Roger Ebert, April 21, 1968)

http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19680421/COMMENTARY/40312115

16 years ago

66 upvotes – 35 comments

How to increase conversions with a stellar landing page

http://blog.kissmetrics.com/beginners-guide-to-landing-pages/

16 years ago

64 upvotes – 3 comments

Interview with Instapaper's Marco Arment

http://www.randsinrepose.com/archives/2011/01/25/interview_marco_arment.html

16 years ago

58 upvotes – 8 comments

The first stable release LibreOffice 3.3

http://blog.documentfoundation.org/2011/01/25/the-document-foundation-launches-libreoffice-3-3/

16 years ago

56 upvotes – 38 comments

Amazon to Roll Out Grocery Delivery Service

http://mashable.com/2011/01/24/amazon-to-roll-out-grocery-delivery-service/

16 years ago

52 upvotes – 56 comments

Hipmunk Surfacing New $6 Million Round

http://techcrunch.com/2011/01/25/hipmunk-funding/

16 years ago

50 upvotes – 40 comments

China erects 15 story hotel in less than 6 days (video)

http://singularityhub.com/2011/01/25/china-erects-15-story-hotel-in-less-than-6-days-video/

16 years ago

50 upvotes – 19 comments

Train before you hire

http://blog.codelesson.com/train-before-you-hire/

16 years ago

50 upvotes – 27 comments

The downward spiral of ownership and value (happened to music, books are next)

http://www.librarything.com/blogs/thingology/2011/01/ebooks-the-downward-spiral-of-ownership-and-value/

16 years ago

50 upvotes – 76 comments

Alienware Evaluating Customers' Interest in Linux

http://www.osnews.com/story/24310/Alienware_Evaluating_Customers_Interest_in_Linux

16 years ago

49 upvotes – 49 comments

An Intro to Backbone.js: Part 1 - Models and Collections

http://liquidmedia.ca/blog/2011/01/backbone-js-part-1/

16 years ago

48 upvotes – 11 comments

The Best "Thank You for Your Order" Email I Have Ever Received

http://couchraisin.com/post/2921948101/best-thank-you-for-your-order-email-ever

16 years ago

48 upvotes – 28 comments

Chrome to support Multiple Profiles/ Identities

http://www.chromium.org/user-experience/multi-profiles

16 years ago

48 upvotes – 11 comments

An iPad App Developer Trying Every Marketing Trick in the Book: Case Study

http://mobileorchard.com/ipad-app-marketing-case-study-flickpad/

16 years ago

47 upvotes – 5 comments

Google To Acquire fflick For $10 Million

http://techcrunch.com/2011/01/25/google-to-acquire-fflick-for-10-million/

16 years ago

47 upvotes – 21 comments

Should I switch from Sendgrid to Amazon SES?

https://willj.net/2011/01/25/should-i-switch-from-sendgrid-to-amazon-ses/

16 years ago

45 upvotes – 30 comments

First release of LibreOffice arrives with improvements over OOo

http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2011/01/the-document-foundation-announces-first-release-of-libreoffice.ars

16 years ago

44 upvotes – 5 comments
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