top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-02-07

"You've angered the hive"

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/02/anonymous-to-security-firm-working-with-fbi-youve-angered-the-hive.ars

15 years ago

521 upvotes – 214 comments

Isotope - An exquisite jQuery plugin for magical layouts

http://isotope.metafizzy.co/

15 years ago

459 upvotes – 58 comments

The unfortunate math behind consulting companies

http://blog.asmartbear.com/consulting-company-accounting.html

15 years ago

259 upvotes – 125 comments

Airplane Mode

http://minimalmac.com/post/3165411533/airplane-mode

15 years ago

249 upvotes – 68 comments

AOL buys Huffington Post for $315mm in cash

http://kara.allthingsd.com/20110206/youve-got-arianna-aol-buys-huffington-post-for-315-million-in-cash/?mod=tweet

15 years ago

224 upvotes – 89 comments

Brutal New York - 1965/95

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=402544

15 years ago

215 upvotes – 74 comments

Treesaver.js - JavaScript library for creating magazine style layouts

http://treesaverjs.com/

15 years ago

197 upvotes – 39 comments

The Google I/O freebie I'm hoping for: Nothing

http://justinsb.posterous.com/why-google-shouldnt-give-away-anything-this-y

15 years ago

193 upvotes – 55 comments

When Should I Visit? - A 24 hour hack I made, what do you think?

http://whenshouldivisit.iamdanw.com/

15 years ago

188 upvotes – 59 comments

Firefox 4, 5, 6 and 7 to be released before the end of 2011

http://downloadsquad.switched.com/2011/02/07/firefox-4-5-6-and-7-to-be-released-before-the-end-of-2011/

15 years ago

188 upvotes – 112 comments

How My School and District Failed its Students

http://www.anurbanteacherseducation.com/2011/02/tfa-alumnus-describes-barriers-to.html

15 years ago

168 upvotes – 124 comments

Android Patterns

http://www.androidpatterns.com/

15 years ago

147 upvotes – 42 comments

Against UI Chrome (not the browser)

http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2011/02/against-chrome-a-manifesto.html

15 years ago

124 upvotes – 60 comments

Eric Schmidt’s "5 Exabytes" Quote is a Load of Crap

http://themetricsystem.rjmetrics.com/eric-schmidts-5-exabytes-quote-is-a-load-of-c

15 years ago

112 upvotes – 43 comments

Andrew Warner is out of the hospital

http://mixergy.com/thanks-support-out-of-hospital/

15 years ago

103 upvotes – 14 comments

Finally: Facebook Co-Founder Opens the Curtain on Two-Year Old Asana

http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/07/finally-facebook-co-founder-opens-the-curtain-on-two-year-old-asana/

15 years ago

102 upvotes – 56 comments

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

http://hn-books.com/Books/Zen-And-The-Art-Of-Motorcycle-Maintenance.htm

15 years ago

102 upvotes – 77 comments

FareBot: Read data from public transit cards w/ your NFC-equipped Android phone

http://codebutler.com/announcing-farebot-for-android

15 years ago

102 upvotes – 17 comments

CSS Code Snippets To Make You A Better Coder

http://www.designyourway.net/blog/resources/31-css-code-snippets-to-make-you-a-better-coder/

15 years ago

99 upvotes – 20 comments

Clojure on Google App Engine

https://github.com/gcv/appengine-magic

15 years ago

★ 340 Clojure MIT
95 upvotes – 23 comments

"Erase and rewind": Thoughts on the BBC's plans to delete 172 websites

http://adactio.com/journal/4336/

15 years ago

94 upvotes – 49 comments

Meat-Eating Furniture

http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2011/02/07/133432897/meat-eating-furniture?sc=fb&cc=fp

15 years ago

93 upvotes – 36 comments

Reject the PATRIOT Act Sneak Attack

https://secure.eff.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=461

15 years ago

85 upvotes – 5 comments

Why you don't have any Gingerbread

http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/faculty/jiang/nexuss.html

15 years ago

73 upvotes – 19 comments

First-ever images of the entire Sun

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/stereo/news/entire-sun.html

15 years ago

70 upvotes – 22 comments

Lean Startup 101 by Eric Ries: How to Build a Better Startup

http://www.socrated.com/courses/226

15 years ago

69 upvotes – 4 comments

Harjeet Taggar: Start Fund is bad news for bad investors

http://thenextweb.com/industry/2011/02/07/y-combinator-partner-harjeet-taggar-startup-fund-is-bad-news-for-bad-investors-interview/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+TheNextWeb+(The+Next+Web+All+Stories)

15 years ago

69 upvotes – 6 comments

Facebook.com is now the internet

http://thinkvitamin.com/asides/facebook-com-is-now-the-internet/

15 years ago

67 upvotes – 67 comments

Ship Firefox 4, 5, 6 and 7 in the 2011 calendar year

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Roadmap

15 years ago

67 upvotes – 17 comments

Motorola XOOM priced at $800

http://www.engadget.com/2011/02/06/best-buy-ad-prices-motorola-xoom-at-800-affirms-february-24th/

15 years ago

66 upvotes – 89 comments

I Believe in the Middle Click

http://horia.me/the-middle-click

15 years ago

66 upvotes – 22 comments

"Seriously - those first 386 chips barely worked at all. " Anyone remember?

http://groups.google.com/group/alt.folklore.computers/msg/d11e88d27137261b?hl=en

15 years ago

63 upvotes – 41 comments

Duck Duck Go Karma Widget

http://duckduckgo.com/karma.html

15 years ago

62 upvotes – 23 comments

Top Mistakes in Behavior Change

http://moonbase.rydia.net/mental/blog/personal-development/top-10-mistakes-in-behavior-change.html

15 years ago

62 upvotes – 11 comments

Maze-generation algorithms, with JS demos

http://weblog.jamisbuck.org/2011/2/7/maze-generation-algorithm-recap

15 years ago

57 upvotes – 9 comments

The Economics of Science Fiction

http://hanson.gmu.edu/econofsf.html

16 years ago

56 upvotes – 34 comments

Japanese hacker earns $13,174 for reporting Google security holes

http://d.hatena.ne.jp/masatokinugawa/20110207/google_security

15 years ago

54 upvotes – 17 comments

AOL is Buying The Huffington Post

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/07/business/media/07aol.html?src=busln

15 years ago

53 upvotes – 4 comments

Groupon spends big on Superbowl commercials, but ads anger many viewers

http://money.cnn.com/2011/02/06/technology/groupon_superbowl_ad/

15 years ago

50 upvotes – 86 comments

Visual Website Optimizer: Bootstrapped, Profitable, and over 4,000 users

http://thestartupfoundry.com/2011/02/07/visual-website-optimizer-bootstrapped-profitable-and-over-4000-users/

15 years ago

50 upvotes – 18 comments

The Commuter Bike Redesigned and Electrified

http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/03/the-commuter-bike-redesigned-and-electrified/

15 years ago

49 upvotes – 59 comments

Do the rich need Americans?

http://blogs.wsj.com/wealth/2010/08/02/do-the-rich-even-need-the-rest-of-america-anymore/

15 years ago

48 upvotes – 23 comments

Very unhappy with Meetup.com Perks

http://peachshake.com/2011/02/06/very-unhappy-with-meetup-com-perks/

15 years ago

47 upvotes – 11 comments

GoDaddy isn't as pretty as you thought

http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/godaddy-isnt-pretty-you-thought

15 years ago

46 upvotes – 48 comments

How Dropbox Did It and How Python Helped (PyCon 2011)

http://us.pycon.org/2011/blog/2011/02/07/pycon-2011-announcing-startup-stories/

15 years ago

44 upvotes – 4 comments

Making Crash Bandicoot

http://all-things-andy-gavin.com/2011/02/02/making-crash-bandicoot-part-1/

15 years ago

44 upvotes – 2 comments

Google Executive Emerges as Key Figure in Revolt

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703989504576127621712695188.html

15 years ago

43 upvotes – 15 comments

Graduated with a Major in Startups

http://zachholman.com/2011/02/graduated-with-a-major-in-startups/

15 years ago

43 upvotes – 22 comments
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