top 20 hacker news stories for 2011-02-09

Nokia CEO: Nokia is "standing on a burning platform"

http://www.engadget.com/2011/02/08/nokia-ceo-stephen-elop-rallies-troops-in-brutally-honest-burnin/

15 years ago

513 upvotes – 196 comments

Web based Textmate like editor that saves to Dropbox

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/iieeldjdihkpoapgipfkeoddjckopgjg

15 years ago

288 upvotes – 91 comments

Breaking the web with hash-bangs

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

15 years ago

287 upvotes – 94 comments

HN now serving a million page views on weekdays

http://ycombinator.com/newsnews.html#9feb11

15 years ago

279 upvotes – 80 comments

Convore (YC W11) Wants To Be The Easiest Group Communication App Yet

http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/09/convore-wants-to-be-the-easiest-group-communication-app-yet/

15 years ago

243 upvotes – 54 comments

The Next Six Months

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

15 years ago

239 upvotes – 218 comments

UBS Whistleblower Finds Himself in Federal Prison

http://www.cnbc.com/id/41257962

15 years ago

209 upvotes – 110 comments

House Fails to Extend Patriot Act Spy Powers

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/02/patriot-act-notextended/

15 years ago

181 upvotes – 39 comments

How The FCC Plans To Destroy GPS – A Simple Explanation

http://freegeographytools.com/2011/how-the-fcc-plans-to-destroy-gps-a-simple-explanation

15 years ago

166 upvotes – 58 comments

The most common phone number: 214-748-3647

http://sharkbait.computerworld.com/node/2585

15 years ago

146 upvotes – 61 comments

Lisp inventor John McCarthy on human progress and its sustainability

http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/progress/index.html

15 years ago

136 upvotes – 51 comments

Ask HN: What kind of personal financial investment do you do?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2197649

15 years ago

125 upvotes – 168 comments

Spotify is second largest source of revenue in Europe for labels

http://www.arcticstartup.com/2011/02/09/spotify-second-largest-source-of-revenue-in-europe-for-labels/

15 years ago

124 upvotes – 42 comments

How to train your brain to flip to a new language

http://www.bitesizeirishgaelic.com/blog/self-learning-non-widespread-languages/

15 years ago

119 upvotes – 70 comments

How Rails Developers do Ajax in 2011

http://chadfowler.com/2011/2/9/how-rails-developers-do-ajax-in-2011

15 years ago

118 upvotes – 23 comments

Engineering a Compiler, 2nd Edition is out

http://www.elsevierdirect.com/product.jsp?isbn=9780120884780

15 years ago

116 upvotes – 33 comments

Sparrow, new Mac mail client out of beta and #1 on Mac App Store

http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/09/sparrow-mac-mail-app/

15 years ago

116 upvotes – 81 comments

Using a belt sander to foil biometric fingerprints

http://jacquesmattheij.com/The+belt+sander+and+the+battle+for+privacy+a+body+hack

15 years ago

111 upvotes – 67 comments

How ThatHigh solved the chicken and egg problem and grew to 1 million pageviews

http://insight.io/blog/2011/02/how-thathigh-com-solved-the-chicken-and-egg-problem-and-grew-to-1-million-pageviews-a-month-with-no-seo/

15 years ago

110 upvotes – 30 comments

Google 2000 vs. Google 2011

http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/google-2000-vs-google-2011

15 years ago

109 upvotes – 62 comments
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