top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-02-08

Ditch Starbucks and work at the library

http://52tiger.net/ditch-starbucks-and-work-at-the-library/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+52Tiger+%2852+Tiger%29&utm_content=Google+Reader

15 years ago

330 upvotes – 209 comments

Random Startup Generator

http://www.ykombinator.com

15 years ago

327 upvotes – 53 comments

Want to be a leader? Wash the Dishes When Nobody Else Will.

http://thesash.me/wash-the-dishes-when-nobody-else-will

15 years ago

298 upvotes – 150 comments

How Much Money I Made From Side Projects In 2010

http://pseudocoder.com/archives/how-much-money-i-made-from-side-projects-in-2010

15 years ago

276 upvotes – 49 comments

JQuery 1.5 released: .sub(), ajax rewrite, speed improvements, more

http://blog.jquery.com/2011/02/07/jqcommunity-updates-feb2011/

15 years ago

166 upvotes – 9 comments

What New Twitter Employees Do For The First Week

http://www.quora.com/Twitter-Inc-company/What-is-the-on-boarding-process-for-new-employees-at-Twitter

15 years ago

164 upvotes – 66 comments

How To Get Your First 1,000 Users

http://viniciusvacanti.com/2011/02/08/how-to-get-your-first-1000-users/

15 years ago

146 upvotes – 29 comments

How to be 100% sure your startup idea is good

http://upstartly.com/

15 years ago

144 upvotes – 60 comments

Startup America -- Dead on Arrival

http://steveblank.com/2011/02/08/startup-america-dead-on-arrival/

15 years ago

137 upvotes – 102 comments

YC Partner Harjeet Taggar Gives Insights

http://thenextweb.com/industry/2011/02/08/y-combinator-partner-harjeet-taggar-gives-insights-interview/

15 years ago

136 upvotes – 16 comments

UTF-8 good, UTF-16 bad

http://benlynn.blogspot.com/2011/02/utf-8-good-utf-16-bad.html

15 years ago

117 upvotes – 90 comments

Baseball stats show June 5th was Ferris Bueller's day off

http://www.baseballprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=12877

15 years ago

113 upvotes – 16 comments

Update your timezone defs: Russia abolishes winter time (DST)

http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/russia-winter-time.html

15 years ago

109 upvotes – 117 comments

The Youth Unemployment Bomb

http://www.businessweek.com/print/magazine/content/07_52/b4064058743638.htm

15 years ago

108 upvotes – 156 comments

Google uses accelerometer API in Jules Verne Google Doodle

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/02/happy-birthday-from-20000-leagues-under.html

15 years ago

105 upvotes – 32 comments

Introducing the Google Translate app for iPhone

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/02/introducing-google-translate-app-for.html

15 years ago

100 upvotes – 22 comments

Landing Page Best Practices: the definitive guide (with infographics)

http://visualwebsiteoptimizer.com/split-testing-blog/landing-page-best-practices/

15 years ago

91 upvotes – 17 comments

Condé Nast finally throws Reddit a bone, new hires coming

http://blog.reddit.com/2011/02/reddit-undergoes-dramatic-expansion.html

15 years ago

91 upvotes – 39 comments

The Dirty Little Secret of Successful Companies

http://boss.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/08/the-dirty-little-secret-of-successful-companies/

15 years ago

86 upvotes – 34 comments

Lisp-based OSes

http://linuxfinances.info/info/lisposes.html

15 years ago

84 upvotes – 35 comments

CouchOne + Membase merge

http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/07/nosql-companies-couchone-and-membase-merge-to-form-couchbase/

15 years ago

82 upvotes – 36 comments

An Open Letter To PC Makers: Ditch Bloatware, Now

http://hothardware.com/News/Open-Letter-To-PC-Makers-Ditch-The-Bloatware-Now

15 years ago

80 upvotes – 92 comments

Luna, the in-house web framework developed at Asana

http://asana.com/luna/

15 years ago

80 upvotes – 19 comments

Why I absolutely love java

https://gist.github.com/817504

15 years ago

77 upvotes – 130 comments

EFF Warns That FCC Net Neutrality Rules Are a Bad, Bad Idea

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110204/23560912976/eff-warns-that-fcc-net-neutrality-rules-are-bad-bad-idea.shtml

15 years ago

76 upvotes – 16 comments

Mastering Key Bindings in Emacs

http://www.masteringemacs.org/articles/2011/02/08/mastering-key-bindings-emacs/

15 years ago

75 upvotes – 17 comments

SBCL quicker than C?

http://lbolla.wordpress.com/2010/12/05/sbcl-quicker-than-c/

15 years ago

69 upvotes – 49 comments

Ken Olsen, co-founder of Digital Equipment Corp., died at 84

http://www.masshightech.com/stories/2011/02/07/daily16-Ken-Olsen-co-founder-of-DEC-died-at-84.html

15 years ago

64 upvotes – 23 comments

Analysis: World of Goo’s iPad Launch

http://2dboy.com/2011/02/08/ipad-launch/

15 years ago

63 upvotes – 7 comments

160 People: Skype 5 for Mac = Fail. Skype: No Comment

http://forum.skype.com/index.php?showtopic=756073

15 years ago

62 upvotes – 52 comments

A Closer Look at the Java 2.2250738585072012e-308 Bug

http://www.exploringbinary.com/a-closer-look-at-the-java-2-2250738585072012e-308-bug/

15 years ago

58 upvotes – 12 comments

Do I Owe My Employees a Career Path?

http://boss.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/12/do-i-owe-my-employees-a-career-path/

15 years ago

57 upvotes – 48 comments

The Best Questions For A First Date

http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/the-best-questions-for-first-dates/

15 years ago

57 upvotes – 1 comments

I Keep Arriving Back at Perl

http://blog.sam-pointer.com/2011/02/07/i-keep-arriving-back-at-perl

15 years ago

56 upvotes – 50 comments

In China, alpha males carry designer purses

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-china-man-purse-20110207,0,5536207,full.story

15 years ago

55 upvotes – 70 comments

Collaboration just got a lot easier, see how...

http://taskforce.posterous.com/collaboration-just-got-a-lot-easier-see-how

15 years ago

54 upvotes – 11 comments

Government investigation: No evidence Toyota electronic throttles malfunctioned

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/02/08/us-toyota-usa-idUSTRE7165SY20110208

15 years ago

54 upvotes – 42 comments

Wall Street Firm Uses Algorithms to Make Sports Betting Like Stock Trading

http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/11/ff_midas/all/1

15 years ago

52 upvotes – 15 comments

Dalvik ported to MeeGo, promising instant Android app compatibility

http://www.linuxfordevices.com/c/a/News/Myriad-Group-Myriad-Alien-Dalvik/

15 years ago

48 upvotes – 19 comments

A VC: Anatomy Of A Pirate

http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2011/02/anatomy-of-a-pirate.html

15 years ago

43 upvotes – 63 comments

Mollom Architecture - Killing Over 373 Million Spams At 100 Requests Per Second

http://highscalability.com/blog/2011/2/8/mollom-architecture-killing-over-373-million-spams-at-100-re.html

15 years ago

43 upvotes – 5 comments

Why won't anyone hire middle-aged geeks?

http://www.itworld.com/career/136164/why-wont-anyone-hire-middle-aged-geeks

15 years ago

43 upvotes – 73 comments

Basho (Riak) raises 7.5M

http://www.masshightech.com/stories/2011/02/07/daily18-Basho-raises-75M-to-expand-NoSQL-database-sales.html

15 years ago

43 upvotes – 19 comments

Why You Need To Start A Startup

http://jasonlbaptiste.com/startups/14-reasons-why-you-need-to-start-a-startup/

15 years ago

42 upvotes – 2 comments

Gilt Tech: Tips for optimizing iPhone/iPad applications

http://tech.gilt.com/post/3187131303/tips-for-optimizing-iphone-ipad-applications

15 years ago

42 upvotes – 12 comments

Breaking the Web with hash-bangs

http://isolani.co.uk/blog/javascript/BreakingTheWebWithHashBangs

15 years ago

41 upvotes – 14 comments

Global Village Construction Set: Open source tools and machinery

http://openfarmtech.org/wiki/Global_Village_Construction_Set

15 years ago

40 upvotes – 1 comments

Socrates and a friend talk about the morality of profit

http://www.ac-nice.fr/philo/textes/Plato-Works/32-Hipparchus.htm

15 years ago

40 upvotes – 36 comments

Facebook Buys Old Sun Campus in Menlo Park

http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/08/facebook-makes-it-official-we-bought-the-old-sun-campus-in-menlo-park/

15 years ago

39 upvotes – 34 comments

Queuing theory books on line

http://web2.uwindsor.ca/math/hlynka/qonline.html

15 years ago

39 upvotes – 2 comments

Scaling up personal customer service - lessons from WePay (YC S09)

http://www.xconomy.com/san-francisco/2011/02/08/sophies-voice-scaling-the-personal-touch-in-customer-service/

15 years ago

37 upvotes – 2 comments

Efficient C Tip – use the modulus (%) operator with caution

http://embeddedgurus.com/stack-overflow/2011/02/efficient-c-tip-13-use-the-modulus-operator-with-caution/

15 years ago

37 upvotes – 26 comments

A More Open Platform: The Instagram API

http://instagr.am/blog/40/instagram-api

15 years ago

37 upvotes – 13 comments

OS Development Tutorials

http://www.osdever.net/tutorials/index

15 years ago

37 upvotes – 0 comments
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