top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-01-28

Google algorithm change launched

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2152286

16 years ago

Would-Be Suicide Bomber Killed by Unexpected SMS From Mobile Carrier

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/01/sms-suicide-bomber/

16 years ago

Sublime Text 2: Public Alpha Released

http://www.sublimetext.com/blog/articles/sublime-text-2-public-alpha

16 years ago

Why Dropbox Succeeded and Syncplicity Didn’t

http://wetzler.me/dropbox-syncplicity/

16 years ago

Views from an Egyptian

http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1968394&cid=35025842

16 years ago

Rare pictures of North Korea

http://www.mrlevek.com/northkorea.htm

16 years ago

Redis: the AK-47 of databases

http://flazz.me/redis-the-ak-47-of-databases

16 years ago

HN: I'm building a TC alternative. Will you share your startup's story with me?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2153038

16 years ago

How the FBI raided Anonymous

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/01/two-real-guns-pointed-at-me-how-the-fbi-raided-anonymous.ars

16 years ago

Google Translate Easter Egg

http://translate.google.com/#auto|ja|I%20HATE%20YOU

16 years ago

How Organized Spam is Taking Control of Google's Search Results

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/how-organized-crime-is-taking-control-of-googles-search-results

16 years ago

How Egypt Switched Off The Internet

http://gigaom.com/2011/01/28/how-egypt-switched-off-the-internet/

16 years ago

Should Tumblr care? David Karp tells users who complain to "go away"

http://postdesk.com/debates/should-tumblr-care/

16 years ago

Never Use a Warning When you Mean Undo

http://www.alistapart.com/articles/neveruseawarning/

16 years ago

Tell HN: Sourceforge servers compromised

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2150639

16 years ago

Egyptian Revolution Live [video]

http://english.aljazeera.net/watch_now/?

16 years ago

In Japan, Young Face Generational Roadblocks

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/28/world/asia/28generation.html

16 years ago

Makin' It Rain - How Raindrop Effects Work In 2D Games

http://bulletproofoutlaws.com/?p=264

16 years ago

Get rich quick ads from 1909

http://books.google.com/books?id=nN8DAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA476&vq=tesla&pg=PA22#v=onepage&q&f=false

16 years ago

The Genius of Turing

http://blog.jgc.org/2011/01/genius-of-turing.html

16 years ago

Kinect is fastest-selling consumer electronics device in history

http://venturebeat.com/2011/01/27/microsofts-kinectified-game-business-grows-55-percent/

16 years ago

NoSQL at Netflix

http://techblog.netflix.com/2011/01/nosql-at-netflix.html

16 years ago

How Steve Jobs 'out-Japanned' Japan or out-Sony'ed Sony

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2011/01/28/apop012811.DTL

16 years ago

Three unique features of Lisp in 2010

http://john.freml.in/lisp-features

16 years ago

Amazon.com Security Flaw Accepts Passwords That Are Close, But Not Exact

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/01/amazon-password-problem/

16 years ago

An Aussie in NY

http://delimiter.com.au/2011/01/28/an-australian-developer-in-new-york/

16 years ago

The 3 most important things I learned from Google (part 2) (from employee #13)

http://googler13.blogspot.com/2011/01/3-most-important-things-i-learned-from_26.html

16 years ago

Prolog Introduction for Hackers

http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2004/2/25/124713/784

16 years ago

Kalimba - Embedly Colored Glasses for Hacker News

http://hn.embed.ly/

16 years ago

Get Lanyrd conference recommendations by email

http://lanyrd.com/blog/2011/email/

16 years ago

Is it time to return to the medieval way of life on college campuses?

http://chronicle.com/article/Getting-Medieval-on-Higher/126008/

16 years ago

Engaging Recruiters with Hacker Trading Cards

http://blog.hackthology.com/hacker-trading-cards

16 years ago

Tunisia, Egypt, Miami: The Importance of Internet Choke Points

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/01/tunisia-egypt-miami-the-importance-of-internet-choke-points/70415/

16 years ago

Amazon Kindle e-book downloads outsell paperbacks

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-12305015

16 years ago

Briss Trims PDFs so They Fit Better, Are Easier to Read on Your Ereader

http://lifehacker.com/5744899/briss-trims-pdfs-to-make-them-more-readable-on-your-e+reader

16 years ago