top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-02-02

Cached OkCupid Article: Why You Should Never Pay For Online Dating

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:9OtAvuobLwgJ:www.okcupid.com/z/yf2

16 years ago

490 upvotes – 80 comments

Space Stasis (Neal Stephenson)

http://www.slate.com/id/2283469/pagenum/all/

16 years ago

322 upvotes – 71 comments

The 4-Hour Dentist

http://bygonebureau.com/2011/02/02/4-hour-dentist/

16 years ago

300 upvotes – 100 comments

Match.com Acquires Online Dating Site OkCupid

http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/02/match-com-acquires-online-dating-site-okcupid-for-50-million-in-cash/

16 years ago

254 upvotes – 117 comments

What it's like in Egypt: An email from my mom

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2170560

16 years ago

238 upvotes – 56 comments

What on earth are Google thinking? (re: Binggate)

http://www.puremango.co.uk/2011/02/what-on-earth-are-google-doing/

16 years ago

234 upvotes – 129 comments

Paypal's fraud prevention routine does it again

http://scottishrubyconference.com/posts/149

16 years ago

189 upvotes – 88 comments

Why is Google so hysterically hypocritical about Bing using its public data?

http://www.roughlydrafted.com/2011/02/01/why-is-google-so-hysterically-hypocritical-about-bing-using-its-public-data/

16 years ago

182 upvotes – 128 comments

Bing sets the record straight on recent accusations

http://www.bing.com/community/site_blogs/b/search/archive/2011/02/02/setting-the-record-straight.aspx

16 years ago

169 upvotes – 186 comments

MailChimp now free up to 2000 subscribers

http://mailchimp.com/pricing/

16 years ago

165 upvotes – 44 comments

Rands in Repose: The Noise

http://www.randsinrepose.com/archives/2011/02/02/the_noise.html

16 years ago

152 upvotes – 19 comments

Reddit (YC S05): 1 billion monthly pageviews

http://www.reddit.com/tb/fdyyf

16 years ago

145 upvotes – 71 comments

WooMe: TechCrunch40 Finalist, $20 Million In Funding – And One Huge Scam

http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/02/woome-techcrunch40-finalist-20-million-in-funding-and-one-huge-scam/

16 years ago

144 upvotes – 112 comments

Andrew Warner is in the hospital

http://mixergy.com/im-in-the-hospital-this-week-so-ill-post-fewer-interviews-and-will-be-a-little-harder-to-reach/

16 years ago

142 upvotes – 43 comments

Android Market Web Store just Launched

http://market.android.com/

16 years ago

142 upvotes – 81 comments

YC startups seeking designers for Feb 2011 designer directory

https://ycdesign.wufoo.com/forms/y-combinator-designer-directory/

16 years ago

138 upvotes – 28 comments

But now: US viewers seek Al Jazeera coverage

http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/opinion/2011/02/201121121041735816.html

16 years ago

132 upvotes – 78 comments

World's worst hacker

http://george.hedfors.com/content/worlds-worst-hacker

16 years ago

121 upvotes – 42 comments

Wow, Microsoft And Google Are Punching Each Other In The Face In Front Of Us

http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/01/bing-google-fight/

16 years ago

118 upvotes – 28 comments

A Classic 'Nontextbook' on Writing

http://chronicle.com/article/A-Classic-Nontextbook-on/126034/

16 years ago

96 upvotes – 21 comments

.NET Reflector no longer a free tool - An open letter to the .NET community

http://www.red-gate.com/products/dotnet-development/reflector/announcement

16 years ago

93 upvotes – 82 comments

The Future of Cheap Androids Begins Now

http://gigaom.com/mobile/cheap-android-smartphones/

16 years ago

91 upvotes – 71 comments

Nate Silver: How Much Does Bing Borrow From Google?

http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/02/how-much-does-bing-borrow-from-google/

16 years ago

91 upvotes – 49 comments

A Deepness In The Sky

http://hn-books.com/Books/A-Deepness-In-The-Sky.htm

16 years ago

91 upvotes – 85 comments

Google Tried To Buy Path For $100+ Million. Path Said No.

http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/02/google-tried-to-buy-path-for-100-million-path-said-no/

16 years ago

87 upvotes – 69 comments

A Googler gone missing in Egypt. Google asks for your help.

http://thenextweb.com/google/2011/02/01/a-googler-gone-missing-in-egypt-google-asks-for-your-help/

16 years ago

78 upvotes – 28 comments

Ask HN: What is legally required to run a small service-based web application?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2170041

16 years ago

77 upvotes – 58 comments

Egypt comes back online after government backs down

http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/onepercent/2011/02/nearly-a-week-after-the.html

16 years ago

70 upvotes – 8 comments

VideoLAN launches new website

http://www.videolan.org

16 years ago

69 upvotes – 41 comments

Senators decry link between Egypt and U.S. 'kill switch' bill

http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-20030332-281.html

16 years ago

63 upvotes – 48 comments

Rapportive (YC S10) adds Facebook: like, comment, and add friends from Gmail

http://mashable.com/2011/02/02/rapportive-facebook-integration/

16 years ago

63 upvotes – 20 comments

Microsoft backs H.264.

http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/02/microsoft-h264/

16 years ago

61 upvotes – 89 comments

NASA's Kepler Spacecraft Discovers Extraordinary New Planetary System

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/kepler/news/new_planetary_system.html

16 years ago

60 upvotes – 9 comments

MailChimp Launches Simple Transactional Service on Top of Amazon SES

http://blog.mailchimp.com/mailchimp-launches-transactional-email-service-on-top-of-amazon-ses/

16 years ago

60 upvotes – 11 comments

Free Hacker Monthly Special Issue (Startup Marketing) Is Out

http://hackermonthly.com/startup-marketing.html?

16 years ago

60 upvotes – 2 comments

If I were starting out now (in startup land), I would clone threewords.me

http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/2011/02/if-i-were-starting-out-i-would-clone-threewordsme.html

16 years ago

59 upvotes – 32 comments

The case of the identical rabbit games

http://kotaku.com/5750238/the-case-of-the-identical-rabbit-games

16 years ago

58 upvotes – 10 comments

Push Pop Press

http://daringfireball.net/2011/02/push_pop_press

16 years ago

54 upvotes – 21 comments

SproutCore Amber: A Report by Yehuda

http://blog.sproutcore.com/post/3075780393/sproutcore-amber-a-report-by-yehuda

16 years ago

51 upvotes – 8 comments

New Google Go Release

http://groups.google.com/group/golang-nuts/browse_thread/thread/b877e34723b543a7

16 years ago

51 upvotes – 11 comments

What we have learnt running a bootstrapped startup

http://teamblog.supportbee.com/2011/02/02/what-we-have-learnt-running-a-bootstrapped-startup/

16 years ago

50 upvotes – 46 comments

OKCupid: We Didn't Censor Our Match.com-Bashing Blog Post

http://www.observer.com/2011/tech/okcupid-we-didnt-censor-our-matchcom-bashing-blog-post

16 years ago

47 upvotes – 24 comments

Amazon Previews Rival Streaming Service to Netflix

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/amazon-previews-rival-streaming-service-95069

16 years ago

46 upvotes – 35 comments

The Tiger Mother versus Cost-Benefit Analysis

http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2011/02/the_tiger_mothe.html

16 years ago

43 upvotes – 14 comments

Hacker Monthly #9 is out

http://hackermonthly.com/issue-9.html

16 years ago

43 upvotes – 3 comments

What I learned from watching six hours of Starcraft

http://areallybadidea.com/what-i-learned-from-watching-six-hours-of-sta

16 years ago

43 upvotes – 48 comments

Power Blogging Hour (and Why You Should Have One Too)

http://mygengo.com/talk/blog/power-blogging-hour-and-why-you-should-have-one-too/

16 years ago

42 upvotes – 15 comments

How should I get started with programming? Which language should I learn first?

http://www.marco.org/3061580301

16 years ago

41 upvotes – 34 comments

Robert Haas: MySQL vs. PostgreSQL, Part 2: VACUUM vs. Purge

http://rhaas.blogspot.com/2011/02/mysql-vs-postgresql-part-2-vacuum-vs.html

16 years ago

41 upvotes – 2 comments

Mozilla Chromeless: making desktop apps with web technologies

http://mozillalabs.com/blog/2011/02/prism-is-now-chromeless/

16 years ago

40 upvotes – 22 comments

Did Vikings navigate by polarized light?

http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110131/full/news.2011.58.html

16 years ago

40 upvotes – 20 comments

Set your heart on an MBA? Don't bother

http://www.economist.com/whichmba/think-twice?fsrc=nlw|mgt|02-02-2011|management_thinking

16 years ago

40 upvotes – 29 comments
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