top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-02-04

Aerial footage of uncontacted Amazon tribe

http://www.uncontactedtribes.org/brazilfootage

16 years ago

418 upvotes – 363 comments

E-ink writing pad, Noteslate.

http://www.noteslate.com/

16 years ago

296 upvotes – 116 comments

The Type of Employee You Really Want: Porn Star

http://pseudocoder.com/archives/the-type-of-employee-you-really-want-porn-star

16 years ago

208 upvotes – 52 comments

I'm graduating with a CS degree but I don't feel like I know how to program

http://stackoverflow.com/q/2823571/280598

16 years ago

191 upvotes – 128 comments

Steve Pavlina: 30 days since I quit Facebook

http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2011/02/30-day-facebook-fast/

16 years ago

187 upvotes – 106 comments

I pitched YC, was rejected, just closed a multi-million dollar round.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2178339

16 years ago

186 upvotes – 49 comments

Ode to the App Review team

http://www.marco.org/3100131471

16 years ago

157 upvotes – 67 comments

Why PostgreSQL doesn't have query hints

http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/database-soup/why-postgresql-doesnt-have-query-hints-44121?rss=1

16 years ago

156 upvotes – 60 comments

The git parable

http://tom.preston-werner.com/2009/05/19/the-git-parable.html?HN

16 years ago

146 upvotes – 38 comments

XMPP creator's "Locker" -- personal social media aggregation platform

https://github.com/quartzjer/Locker

16 years ago

★ 48 JavaScript BSD-3-Clause
132 upvotes – 34 comments

Show HN: my new project, an anti-snub dating site

http://www.secretpoke.com

16 years ago

119 upvotes – 113 comments

The iPad is the new IE6

http://blog.millermedeiros.com/2011/01/ipad-is-the-new-ie6/

16 years ago

117 upvotes – 75 comments

Rainbird: The Way Twitter Counts Tweets In Realtime (Soon To Be Open Sourced)

http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/04/twitter-rainbird/

16 years ago

116 upvotes – 28 comments

When Irish Eyes Are Crying

http://www.vanityfair.com/business/features/2011/03/michael-lewis-ireland-201103?printable=true

16 years ago

91 upvotes – 71 comments

Explain “Event-Driven” Web Servers to Your Grandma

http://daverecycles.com/post/3104767110/explain-event-driven-web-servers-to-your-grandma

16 years ago

88 upvotes – 35 comments

How Americans Get Out of Credit Card Debt

http://blog.readyforzero.com/2011/02/04/how-americans-get-out-of-credit-card-debt/

16 years ago

88 upvotes – 122 comments

.42: new experimental, all numeric top-level domain

http://wiki.42registry.org/page/Main_Page

16 years ago

87 upvotes – 43 comments

How to Write Without Writing

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2011/02/how-to-write-without-writing.html

16 years ago

80 upvotes – 26 comments

Expectations: Follow up to "I'm building a better TechCrunch"

http://thestartupfoundry.com/2011/02/04/expectations/

16 years ago

77 upvotes – 32 comments

Sleep hacks: How to Become an Early Riser

http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2005/05/how-to-become-an-early-riser/

16 years ago

74 upvotes – 43 comments

Why Plenty Of Fish Stores Passwords in Plain Text

http://grumomedia.com/why-plenty-of-fish-stores-passwords-in-plain-text/

16 years ago

74 upvotes – 100 comments

JQuery Mobile Alpha 3 Released

http://jquerymobile.com/2011/02/jquery-mobile-alpha-3-released/

16 years ago

70 upvotes – 39 comments

Remembering the Egyptian martyrs

http://1000memories.com/egypt

16 years ago

70 upvotes – 27 comments

Russia poised to breach mysterious Antarctic lake

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/02/04/us-russia-antarctica-lake-idINTRE7135MB20110204

16 years ago

70 upvotes – 42 comments

Reporter's first person account in Egypt: "You will be lynched"

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-02-04/-you-will-be-lynched-egyptian-policeman-tells-reporters-first-person.html

16 years ago

68 upvotes – 15 comments

A Beautiful Race Condition

http://mailinator.blogspot.com/2009/06/beautiful-race-condition.html

16 years ago

64 upvotes – 20 comments

Openredis – Redis Hosting Service

http://www.openredis.com/

16 years ago

63 upvotes – 32 comments

Securing a Rails App against Firesheep with HTTPS

http://blog.documentcloud.org/blog/2011/02/https-by-default/

16 years ago

61 upvotes – 22 comments

Sometimes it pays to pay your web designer

http://winonachiropractic.com/

16 years ago

60 upvotes – 48 comments

Lecture notes on Computational Geometry

http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mechanical-engineering/2-158j-computational-geometry-spring-2003/lecture-notes/

16 years ago

56 upvotes – 1 comments

Startupcraft 2 (a Starcraft tournament for Startups in SF) announced

http://www.startupcraftsf.com/1/post/2011/02/startupcraft-ii-february-26th-yes-for-real-this-time.html

16 years ago

56 upvotes – 28 comments

Bing: Why Google’s Wrong In Its Accusations

http://searchengineland.com/bing-why-googles-wrong-in-its-accusations-63279

16 years ago

56 upvotes – 69 comments

Co-Founders: Your Idea is Worthless. Show Your Chops

http://go-to-hellman.blogspot.com/2011/02/co-founders-your-idea-is-worthless-show.html

16 years ago

48 upvotes – 26 comments

Crate. Web-based file sharing done incredibly easy.

http://thenextweb.com/apps/2011/02/04/crate-web-based-file-sharing-done-incredibly-easy/

16 years ago

47 upvotes – 34 comments

Ask HN: my startup got acquisition interest, what's next?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2180618

16 years ago

45 upvotes – 22 comments

Ask HN: Where are all the London hackers working on startups?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2179279

16 years ago

43 upvotes – 43 comments
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