top 20 hacker news stories for 2011-01-27

Egypt has shut off the Internet (update: not everywhere)

http://www.arabist.net/blog/2011/1/28/urgent-egypt-has-shut-off-the-internet.html

16 years ago

290 upvotes – 139 comments

How to Make Trillions of Dollars

http://www.raptitude.com/2011/01/how-to-make-trillions-of-dollars/

16 years ago

284 upvotes – 135 comments

My biggest frustration with Google AdWords

http://www.kalzumeus.com/2011/01/26/my-biggest-frustration-with-google-adwords/

16 years ago

224 upvotes – 97 comments

Oxford announces new degree in Computer Science and Philosophy

http://www.comlab.ox.ac.uk/admissions/ugrad/Computer_Science_and_Philosophy

16 years ago

223 upvotes – 174 comments

Oracle discontinues Ruby/Rails support for NetBeans

http://wiki.netbeans.org/RubySupport

16 years ago

179 upvotes – 121 comments

Netflix Performance on Top ISP Networks

http://techblog.netflix.com/2011/01/netflix-performance-on-top-isp-networks.html

16 years ago

178 upvotes – 64 comments

The piece of paper that fooled Hitler

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-12266109

16 years ago

169 upvotes – 50 comments

Power user replacements for OS X default apps

http://www.subelsky.com/2011/01/ive-noticed-that-longer-i-use-os-x-more.html

16 years ago

155 upvotes – 170 comments

One with Vim

http://invisibletheory.com/2011/01/27/one-with-vim/

16 years ago

148 upvotes – 123 comments

Tutorspree (YC W11) Is An Airbnb For Tutoring

http://techcrunch.com/2011/01/26/tutorspree/

16 years ago

148 upvotes – 63 comments

Quora Blocks Startup Search Engines

http://www.readwriteweb.com/hack/2011/01/quora-blocks-startup-search-en.php

16 years ago

136 upvotes – 78 comments

Please drop the SOAP

http://thecoffman.com/2011/01/please-drop-the-soap/

16 years ago

121 upvotes – 61 comments

You Dont Need a Good Idea To Start a Great Company

http://blog.eladgil.com/2011/01/you-dont-need-good-idea-to-start-great.html

16 years ago

105 upvotes – 40 comments

Justin.tv guys launching new mobile video app Socialcam

http://socialcam.com

16 years ago

99 upvotes – 29 comments

Netflix: ISPs who charge by the gigabyte are ridiculous

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/01/netflix-charging-by-the-gigabyte-is-ridiculous.ars

16 years ago

96 upvotes – 50 comments

LinkedIn to File for IPO Today

http://thenextweb.com/industry/2011/01/27/linkedin-reportedly-set-to-file-for-ipo-as-soon-as-today/

16 years ago

90 upvotes – 21 comments

47% of the world’s wealthy people are entrepreneurs

http://www.economist.com/node/17929057

16 years ago

87 upvotes – 72 comments

Generating random mazes with the Growing Tree algorithm (w/ Javascript demo)

http://weblog.jamisbuck.org/2011/1/27/maze-generation-growing-tree-algorithm

16 years ago

86 upvotes – 6 comments

Rethinking 99 weeks of unemployment

http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2011/01/26/rethinking-99-weeks-of-unemployment/

16 years ago

86 upvotes – 142 comments

Silicon Valley is Broken. Should We Even Bother to Fix It?

http://www.erica.biz/2011/silicon-valley-broken/

16 years ago

85 upvotes – 44 comments
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