290
139
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
284
135
How to Make Trillions of Dollars
http://www.raptitude.com/2011/01/how-to-make-trillions-of-dollars/
224
97
My biggest frustration with Google AdWords
http://www.kalzumeus.com/2011/01/26/my-biggest-frustration-with-google-adwords/
223
174
Oxford announces new degree in Computer Science and Philosophy
http://www.comlab.ox.ac.uk/admissions/ugrad/Computer_Science_and_Philosophy
179
121
Oracle discontinues Ruby/Rails support for NetBeans
http://wiki.netbeans.org/RubySupport
178
64
Netflix Performance on Top ISP Networks
http://techblog.netflix.com/2011/01/netflix-performance-on-top-isp-networks.html
169
50
The piece of paper that fooled Hitler
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-12266109
155
170
Power user replacements for OS X default apps
http://www.subelsky.com/2011/01/ive-noticed-that-longer-i-use-os-x-more.html
148
123
One with Vim
http://invisibletheory.com/2011/01/27/one-with-vim/
63
Tutorspree (YC W11) Is An Airbnb For Tutoring
http://techcrunch.com/2011/01/26/tutorspree/
136
78
Quora Blocks Startup Search Engines
http://www.readwriteweb.com/hack/2011/01/quora-blocks-startup-search-en.php
61
Please drop the SOAP
http://thecoffman.com/2011/01/please-drop-the-soap/
105
40
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
99
29
Justin.tv guys launching new mobile video app Socialcam
http://socialcam.com
96
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
90
21
LinkedIn to File for IPO Today
http://thenextweb.com/industry/2011/01/27/linkedin-reportedly-set-to-file-for-ipo-as-soon-as-today/
87
72
47% of the world’s wealthy people are entrepreneurs
http://www.economist.com/node/17929057
86
142
Rethinking 99 weeks of unemployment
http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2011/01/26/rethinking-99-weeks-of-unemployment/
6
Generating random mazes with the Growing Tree algorithm (w/ Javascript demo)
http://weblog.jamisbuck.org/2011/1/27/maze-generation-growing-tree-algorithm
85
44
Silicon Valley is Broken. Should We Even Bother to Fix It?
http://www.erica.biz/2011/silicon-valley-broken/
83
23
MongoDB 1.7.5 Released with single server durability
http://groups.google.com/group/mongodb-user/browse_thread/thread/4b94744f1f709048
80
DontEat.at: Check into a NYC restaurant, get texted of health code violations
http://donteat.at/
79
Redis creator on startups, working in Sicily and getting sponsored by VMWare
http://www.thestartup.eu/2011/01/an-interview-with-salvatore-sanfilippo-creator-of-redis-working-out-of-sicily/
47
Is Facebook making us sad?
http://www.slate.com/id/2282620/
The European startup ecosystem arrived
http://eu.techcrunch.com/2011/01/27/the-european-startup-ecosystem-arrived-but-paul-carr-wasnt-paying-attention/
19
Time Investment
http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2011/01/time-investment.html
70
9
ReMarkdown — Display HTML as Markdown text
http://covertprestige.info/css/remarkdown/
HN, I just built this 2D game designer. What do you think?
http://www.spritedeck.com/
1
Tracking Real Funnels: Mixpanel vs. KISSmetrics vs. Google Analytics
http://blog.intlock.com/tracking-real-funnels-mixpanel-vs-kissmetrics-vs-google-analytics/
3
LinkedIn files registration statement for Initial Public Offering
http://blog.linkedin.com/2011/01/27/linkedin-ipo-registration/
26
How to Manage CSS Explosion
http://stackoverflow.com/q/2253110/184
62
16
How to write a simple TCP Server in Haskell
http://catonmat.net/blog/simple-haskell-tcp-server
92
Fitness for geeks: my annual review of the Stronglifts 5x5 program
http://tomaskohl.com/blog/2011/01/fitness-for-geeks/
60
11
LinkedIn acquires CardMunch, now making it free for everyone to use
http://cardmunch.posterous.com/big-news-from-cardmunch
56
Text message blows up suicide bomber by accident
http://www.leaderpost.com/news/Text+message+blows+suicide+bomber+accident/4172966/story.html#ixzz1CEXYNNTR
53
15
An Intro to Backbone.js: Part 2 - Controllers and Views
http://liquidmedia.ca/blog/2011/01/an-intro-to-backbone-js-part-2-controllers-and-views/
52
HTML5 Games 0.1: Speedy Sprites (and interesting browser performance analysis)
http://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-engineering/html5-games-01-speedy-sprites/491691753919
51
18
Toy Store: ORM for Riak, Redis, Cassandra, Memcached, darn near anything
http://thechangelog.com/post/2960631110/toystore-orm-for-key-value-data-stores
Programmatic programming font exploration
http://1overN.com
46
In 2003, the Pentagon nearly created a terrorism prediction market.
http://money.cnn.com/2003/07/29/news/terror_futures/
42
14
Your chocolate is picked by enslaved kids.
http://www.kamikazecookery.com/blogs/210
5
YC Co-Founder Jessica Livingston On The Dearth Of Women In Tech
http://techcrunch.com/2011/01/26/yc-co-founder-jessica-livingston-on-the-dearth-of-women-in-tech-and-some-steps-to-fix-it/
38
Microsoft Shipped 2 Million Units of Windows Phone 7 Software Last Quarter
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-01-26/microsoft-says-it-shipped-2-million-windows-phones-last-quarter.html
A Global Database for Facial Recognition
http://david.weebly.com/1/post/2011/01/a-global-database-for-facial-recognition.html
13
Project Voldemort: A Distributed Database
http://project-voldemort.com/
How Good Are Laughs?
http://www.overcomingbias.com/2011/01/how-good-are-laughs.html
4
WebMynd (YC W08) Receives TechFellow Award To Focus On Addon Developer Platform
http://techcrunch.com/2011/01/26/webmynd/
