top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-02-06

The Size of the Human Radio-Broadcast Bubble in the Milky Way Galaxy

http://blog.jackadam.net/2011/the-tiny-humanity-bubble/

16 years ago

240 upvotes – 109 comments

Debian 6.0 “Squeeze” released

http://www.debian.org/News/2011/20110205a

16 years ago

230 upvotes – 45 comments

HackerBuddy

http://hackerbuddy.com/

16 years ago

194 upvotes – 66 comments

Github Resume Generator

http://resume.github.com

16 years ago

175 upvotes – 35 comments

Using git to manage a website

http://toroid.org/ams/git-website-howto

16 years ago

172 upvotes – 51 comments

Oracle "sanitizes" Hudson's creator from wiki

http://jenkins.361315.n4.nabble.com/Hudson-Dev-Can-I-get-my-account-back-td3262992.html

16 years ago

171 upvotes – 56 comments

Why do programmers write apps and then make them free

http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/3233/why-do-programmers-write-apps-and-then-make-them-free

16 years ago

168 upvotes – 111 comments

How to Beat Procrastination

http://lesswrong.com/lw/3w3/how_to_beat_procrastination/

16 years ago

145 upvotes – 45 comments

Awesome-Fontstacks: free web fonts with failsafes to back them up

http://awesome-fontstacks.com/

16 years ago

138 upvotes – 29 comments

Chromium Notes: Ninja, a new build system

http://neugierig.org/software/chromium/notes/2011/02/ninja.html

16 years ago

130 upvotes – 44 comments

Russian peasant multiplication

http://everything2.com/title/Russian+peasant+multiplication

16 years ago

129 upvotes – 15 comments

Who else is hacking a project instead of watching the Super Bowl?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2186752

16 years ago

126 upvotes – 132 comments

The Knack for Getting Money

http://www.sebastianmarshall.com/the-knack-for-getting-money

16 years ago

126 upvotes – 66 comments

How Deaf People Think

http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2010/07/how-deaf-people-think/

16 years ago

107 upvotes – 50 comments

Typesetting and paste-up, 1970 style

http://commfaculty.fullerton.edu/woverbeck/dtr5.htm

16 years ago

106 upvotes – 11 comments

US manufacturing still tops China’s by nearly 46 percent

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2011/02/06/made_in_the_usa/

16 years ago

100 upvotes – 96 comments

JPEG canaries: exposing on-the-fly recompression

http://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2011/02/04/jpeg-copy-evidence/

16 years ago

94 upvotes – 24 comments

Joyent responds to Yahoo's issues with V8 being used under Node.js

http://joyeur.com/2011/02/05/on-brunos-concern-about-the-current-coupling-of-node-js-and-v8/

16 years ago

83 upvotes – 21 comments

Oracle forks Jenkins

http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=317610

16 years ago

78 upvotes – 38 comments

Susan Wojcicki: The most important Googler you've never heard of

http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_17286427?nclick_check=1

16 years ago

77 upvotes – 13 comments

Premature Optimization and the Birth of Nginx Module Development

http://evanmiller.org/premature-optimization-and-nginx-module-development.html

16 years ago

73 upvotes – 4 comments

What happens when you're the #1 story on HN

http://jimplush.com/blog/article/179/What-happens-when-you-are-the--number-1-article-on-Hacker-News

16 years ago

72 upvotes – 39 comments

A sequence of lines consecutively traced by 500 individuals

http://www.clementvalla.com/index.php?/work/line-trace/

16 years ago

67 upvotes – 14 comments

Handy 4-channel digital oscilloscope for $159

http://www.seeedstudio.com/depot/preorder-dso-quad-beta-test-p-736.html?cPath=174

16 years ago

66 upvotes – 32 comments

Multithreading Magic - Why Everything You Thought You Knew about Concurrency...

http://www.slideshare.net/pieterh/fosdem-2011-0mq

16 years ago

66 upvotes – 36 comments

The fake Facebook profile I could not get removed

http://www.salon.com/technology/facebook/index.html?story=/mwt/feature/2011/02/01/my_fake_facebook_profile&source=newsletter&utm_source=contactology&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Salon_Daily%2520Newsletter%2520%2528Not%2520Premium%2529_7_30_110

16 years ago

65 upvotes – 35 comments

Why I Write Books Even Though I’ve Lost Money on Every Book I’ve Written

http://www.jamesaltucher.com/2011/02/why-i-write-books-even-though-ive-lost-money-on-every-book-ive-written/

16 years ago

59 upvotes – 63 comments

Clever ARM instruction validation for Chrome Native Client

http://www.chromium.org/nativeclient/reference/arm-overview

16 years ago

57 upvotes – 12 comments

A Duck & a Wiki Team Up Against the Content Farms

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/a_duck_a_wiki_team_up_against_the_content_farms.php?sms_ss=hackernews&at_xt=4d4dea696c2807b0%2C0

16 years ago

57 upvotes – 65 comments

Free Software, Paid Support

http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2011/02/free-software-paid-support.html

16 years ago

57 upvotes – 27 comments

13k datasets, 100 million time series, 600 million facts

http://blog.datamarket.com/2011/01/23/13-thousand-data-sets-100-million-time-series-600-million-facts/

16 years ago

52 upvotes – 3 comments

The rise and rise of the cognitive elite

http://www.economist.com/node/17929013?story_id=17929013

16 years ago

48 upvotes – 28 comments

Detecting Currency in Photoshop

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~sjm217/projects/currency/

16 years ago

48 upvotes – 22 comments
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