top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-01-26

How (not) to write Factorial in Java

http://chaosinmotion.com/blog/?p=622

16 years ago

Google Starts Censoring BitTorrent, RapidShare and More

http://torrentfreak.com/google-starts-censoring-bittorrent-rapidshare-and-more-110126/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Torrentfreak+%28Torrentfreak%29&utm_content=Google+Reader

16 years ago

Greplin (YC W10) open sources 10-15x faster protocol buffers for Python

https://github.com/Greplin/fast-python-pb

16 years ago

★ 5 Python Apache-2.0

Grubwithus (YC W11) Brings Strangers Together Over Social Meals

http://mashable.com/2011/01/26/grubwithus/

16 years ago

Ask HN: Review RentPost.com

http://rentpost.com

16 years ago

New in Gmail Labs: Unread message icon

http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2011/01/new-in-labs-unread-message-icon.html

16 years ago

John's Phone: a minimalist cell phone

http://www.johnsphones.com/

16 years ago

Clever Algorithms: Nature-Inspired Programming Recipes

http://www.cleveralgorithms.com/

16 years ago

Apple.com gets a redesign

http://www.apple.com/

16 years ago

Periodic Table of Google APIs

http://code.google.com/more/table/

16 years ago

How Lisp macros differ from static code-generation and metaprogramming

http://brandonbyars.com/2008/02/12/understanding-syntactic-macros/

16 years ago

One page: Javascript in 10 minutes

http://javascript.infogami.com/Javascript_in_Ten_Minutes

16 years ago

Woot's take on affiliate marketing

http://www.woot.com/minions

16 years ago

Ooops. First 3 messages in my gmail spam folder

https://skitch.com/jeffiel/rmgmu/twilio-inc-mail-spam-251-jeffiel-twilio.com

16 years ago

The Next Big Language

http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2007/02/next-big-language.html?

16 years ago

PhantomJS is a minimalistic, headless, WebKit-based, JavaScript-driven tool

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

16 years ago

Anonymously Post/Compare Startup Salary & Equity Offers

http://www.ackwire.com/

16 years ago

What Stops Female Founders?

http://www.foundersatwork.com/1/post/2011/01/what-stops-female-founders.html

16 years ago

Ask HN: Review DocumentCloud.org

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2144019

16 years ago

"I Did a Bad Job"

http://blog.ashmokhberi.com/post/2940181809/i-did-a-bad-job

16 years ago

Female Would-be Founders: Learn More About Startups by Grubbing with YC Alumni

http://www.foundersatwork.com/1/post/2011/01/grubwithus-female-founders-dinners-in-the-bay-area.html

16 years ago

XSS Prevention Cheat Sheet

http://www.owasp.org/index.php/XSS_(Cross_Site_Scripting)_Prevention_Cheat_Sheet

16 years ago

How to Hack a Marathon

http://andrewgertig.com/2011/01/how-to-hack-a-marathon-if-you-arent-a-runner/

16 years ago

Pandora: Community driven linux based hardware project, actually shipping units.

http://www.openpandora.org/

16 years ago

Android 3.0 Platform Preview and Updated SDK Tools

http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2011/01/android-30-platform-preview-and-updated.html

16 years ago

Should employers be blind to private beliefs? (Richard Dawkins)

http://www.boingboing.net/2011/01/24/should-employers-be.html

16 years ago

Slashdot Launches Re-Design

http://meta.slashdot.org/story/11/01/25/163257/Slashdot-Launches-Re-Design

16 years ago

Perl 5.12.3 released

http://dev.perl.org/perl5/

16 years ago

SendGrid Responds to Amazon's Simple Email Service

http://blog.sendgrid.com/a-word-from-your-friends-at-sendgrid/

16 years ago

Google Chrome and (weird) DNS requests

http://isc.sans.edu/diary.html?storyid=10312&rss

16 years ago

No opting out from Facebook turning your check-ins, likes into ads

http://arstechnica.com/web/news/2011/01/no-opting-out-from-facebook-turning-your-check-ins-likes-into-ads.ars

16 years ago

Stop guessing. Use A/B testing to determine ideal price for your product

http://visualwebsiteoptimizer.com/split-testing-blog/ab-testing-price-testing/

16 years ago

using GAE and DryDrop to host static sites for free

http://www.nata2.org/2011/01/26/how-to-use-app-engine-to-host-static-sites-for-free/

16 years ago

Google "not happy" with slow Android app sales

http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/11/01/26/google_not_happy_with_slow_android_app_sales.html

16 years ago

San Diego: join us for SD Hacker News meetup #13 (Fri 1/28)

http://anyvite.com/dekek0s0bs

16 years ago

Saturn's hexagon recreated in the laboratory

http://www.planetary.org/blog/article/00002471/

16 years ago

How to Build Content That Converts Into Users

http://b.lesseverything.com/2011/1/26/how-to-build-content-that-converts-into-users

16 years ago

Readability and Naming Things

http://www.codesimplicity.com/post/readability-and-naming-things/

16 years ago

How The Social Network Soundtrack Glitch Artwork Was Made

http://rob-sheridan.com/TSN/

16 years ago

How Writing Libraries Restored my Faith in Open Source

http://metautonomo.us/2011/01/25/how-writing-libraries-restored-my-faith-in-open-source/

16 years ago

And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Patent Trolls

http://yglesias.thinkprogress.org/2011/01/and-you-will-know-us-by-the-trail-of-patent-trolls/

16 years ago

(Literally) Drawing the HTML 5 Logo in Canvas with Javascript

http://richwchan.com/2011/01/25/literally-drawing-the-html-5-logo-in-canvas-with-javascript/

16 years ago

Introducing Kindle Singles

http://www.amazon.com/gp/browse.html/ref=pe_132950_18514490_pe_btn/?node=2486013011

16 years ago

Reset v2.0

http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2011/01/26/reset-v2-0/

16 years ago

Google ’not happy' with Android Market purchase rates, many changes coming

http://www.engadget.com/2011/01/26/google-not-happy-with-android-market-purchase-rates-many-chan/

16 years ago

New security settings coming to Facebook

http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=486790652130

16 years ago

Embedly Pro Lets Your App Embed Content From Any Link

http://techcrunch.com/2011/01/26/embedly-pro-lets-developers-embed-content-from-any-link/

16 years ago

Don’t Follow Your Passion

http://unicornfree.com/2011/dont-follow-your-passion/

16 years ago

Sabermetrician In Exile

http://www.thepostgame.com/features/201101/sabermetrician-exile

16 years ago