top 50% 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

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

Engineering a Compiler, 2nd Edition is out

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

15 years ago

116 upvotes – 33 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

Show HN: Pen.io

http://pen.io

15 years ago

108 upvotes – 96 comments

Video: 24 year-old Steve Jobs prepping for his first TV appearance (1978)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzDBiUemCSY&feature=player_embedded

15 years ago

94 upvotes – 14 comments

Backbone.js Tutorial with Rails Part 2

http://www.jamesyu.org/2011/02/09/backbone.js-tutorial-with-rails-part-2/

15 years ago

93 upvotes – 19 comments

HTML5 Is An Oncoming Train, Native App Development An Oncoming Rocket Ship

http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/09/html5-versus-native-apps/

15 years ago

92 upvotes – 84 comments

4-Hour Profitable Project: Viral Marketing Explained

http://madebyloren.com/posts/13

15 years ago

92 upvotes – 28 comments

I want role models who are happy, not rich

http://codercofounder.wordpress.com/2011/02/09/i-want-role-models-who-are-happy-not-rich/

15 years ago

91 upvotes – 20 comments

Chirply (YC S10) is Threadless for Paper Goods

http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/09/y-combinator-backed-chirply-is-threadless-for-paper-goods/

15 years ago

84 upvotes – 33 comments

The Path Forward: Ruby 1.9.2

http://blog.heroku.com/archives/2011/2/9/the-path-forward-192/

15 years ago

84 upvotes – 6 comments

Remind HN: webOS Announcement Today

http://www.palm.com/us/company/events/

15 years ago

80 upvotes – 40 comments

Interest in 3D animation? Get Messiah Studio Pro for $40 ($1200 retail value)

http://projectmessiah.com/x6/shop.html

15 years ago

77 upvotes – 47 comments

An Android app that generated $150,000 in a month

http://www.androidguys.com/2011/02/09/paid-apps-pay-150k-month/

15 years ago

69 upvotes – 28 comments

Nourishing a Culture of Failure

http://www.whattofix.com/blog/archives/2011/02/nourishing-a-cu.php

15 years ago

68 upvotes – 41 comments

Mahalo's Calacanis: Time To End The Content Farm Arms Race

http://searchengineland.com/mahalo-calacanis-time-to-end-the-content-farm-arms-race-64109

15 years ago

65 upvotes – 58 comments

Microsoft finally says adios to Autorun

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/02/08/microsoft_windows_autorun_retirement/

15 years ago

65 upvotes – 43 comments

HP Announces The Veer, A Credit Card Sized webOS Device

http://www.mobilecrunch.com/2011/02/09/hp-announces-the-veer-a-credit-card-sized-webos-device/

15 years ago

64 upvotes – 49 comments

Django Security Releases Issued

http://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2011/feb/08/security/

15 years ago

61 upvotes – 19 comments

Canadians: Please submit a comment to the CRTC on 2011-77

http://services.crtc.gc.ca/pub/instances-proceedings/Default.aspx?Status=Open&PubArea=Tel&PubType=NofConsul&PubSubType=All&Lang=eng

15 years ago

61 upvotes – 15 comments

The Groupon Bubble is Going Burst Tech

http://www.markevanstech.com/2011/02/09/the-groupon-bubble-is-going-to-burst/

15 years ago

61 upvotes – 69 comments

Convore (YC W11) Launches and Makes Web Based Group Chat Easy and Fun.

http://thenextweb.com/2011/02/09/ycombinators-convore-launches-easy-and-fun-web-based-group-chat/

15 years ago

59 upvotes – 4 comments

Google Maps & Label Readability - Part 3

http://www.41latitude.com/post/3183269217/google-maps-label-reability-3

15 years ago

56 upvotes – 15 comments

Selena Deckelmann will teach PostgreSQL on CodeLesson

http://codelesson.com/courses/view/introduction-to-postgresql

15 years ago

55 upvotes – 16 comments

The Riemann Hypothesis - one of the outstanding unsolved problems in math

http://benvitalis.wordpress.com/2011/02/08/the-riemann-hypothesis-a-journey-through-the-prime-num3ers/

15 years ago

55 upvotes – 13 comments

Michelle Obama Doesn't Want Her Kids Using Facebook

http://mashable.com/2011/02/09/michelle-obama-kids-facebook/

15 years ago

53 upvotes – 55 comments

Expenses are like spending equity

http://david.weebly.com/1/post/2011/02/expenses-are-like-spending-equity.html

15 years ago

50 upvotes – 23 comments

IPad Makes Space in Japan's Tiny Homes by Removing Bookshelves

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-02-03/ipad-makes-space-in-japan-s-tiny-homes-by-removing-bookshelves.html

15 years ago

49 upvotes – 33 comments

99 Days at a Startup

http://www.jeanhsu.com/?p=243

15 years ago

48 upvotes – 4 comments

Android Developers Blog: Introducing Renderscript

http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2011/02/introducing-renderscript.html

15 years ago

47 upvotes – 1 comments

Object Oriented CSS

https://github.com/stubbornella/oocss/wiki

15 years ago

★ 6.1k JavaScript
45 upvotes – 25 comments

Get Lanyrd (YC W11) in your Gmail inbox with Rapportive (YC S10)

http://lanyrd.com/blog/2011/rapportive/

15 years ago

45 upvotes – 5 comments

The HP TouchPad

http://www.engadget.com/2011/02/09/the-hp-touchpad/

15 years ago

44 upvotes – 34 comments

The difference betwen skill and luck.

http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2011/02/untangling_skill_and_luck.html

15 years ago

43 upvotes – 40 comments

Introducing Copycopter: let your clients do the copy writing

http://robots.thoughtbot.com/post/3201164937/introducing-copycopter

15 years ago

43 upvotes – 9 comments
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