top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-02-10

How one man tracked down Anonymous—and paid a heavy price

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/02/how-one-security-firm-tracked-anonymousand-paid-a-heavy-price.ars

15 years ago

432 upvotes – 155 comments

Broken Links

http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2011/02/09/Hash-Blecch

15 years ago

303 upvotes – 90 comments

Mubarak to step down tonight

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2011/02/egypts-supreme-council-of-armed-forces-meeting-on-crisis/1

15 years ago

249 upvotes – 98 comments

Google Rolls Out Two-Factor Authentication For Everyone.

http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/10/google-rolls-out-two-factor-authentication-for-everyone-you-should-use-it/

15 years ago

210 upvotes – 93 comments

The Zen of Python by Example

http://artifex.org/~hblanks/talks/2011/pep20_by_example.py.txt

15 years ago

199 upvotes – 63 comments

Why business analysts and project managers get higher salaries than programmers?

http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/45776/why-do-business-analysts-and-project-managers-get-higher-salaries-than-programmer/45814#45814

15 years ago

166 upvotes – 66 comments

Office comparison: 37signals vs Zappos

http://thinkvitamin.com/web-industry/37signals-vs-zappos/

15 years ago

158 upvotes – 65 comments

Introducing the File Finder

https://github.com/blog/793-introducing-the-file-finder

15 years ago

158 upvotes – 39 comments

IBM's "Watson" finally ready for prime-time Jeopardy

http://www.hpcwire.com/features/Must-See-TV-IBM-Watson-Heads-for-Jeopardy-Showdown-115684499.html

15 years ago

156 upvotes – 142 comments

Full Instapaper API now available

http://blog.instapaper.com/post/3208433429

15 years ago

154 upvotes – 33 comments

Towards Better Online Dating

http://blog.adamsmith.cc/2011/02/towards-better-online-dating.html

15 years ago

152 upvotes – 81 comments

Advanced sign-in security for your Google account

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/02/advanced-sign-in-security-for-your.html

15 years ago

152 upvotes – 31 comments

Making Crash Bandicoot, by Andy Gavin and Jason Rubin

http://www.naughtydog.com/site/post/making_crash_bandicoot_by_andy_gavin_and_jason_rubin/

15 years ago

136 upvotes – 25 comments

Great Math Books as Recommended by Our Readers

http://math-blog.com/2011/02/10/great-math-books/

15 years ago

134 upvotes – 36 comments

Node v0.4 announcement

http://nodejs.org/v0.4_announcement.html

15 years ago

128 upvotes – 30 comments

Mubarak says that he will not be leaving office

http://blogs.aljazeera.net/middle-east/2011/02/10/live-blog-feb-10-egypt-protests

15 years ago

124 upvotes – 87 comments

The 3/2 rule of employee productivity

http://www.cybaea.net/Blogs/Journal/employee_productivity.html

15 years ago

120 upvotes – 54 comments

2045: The Year Man Becomes Immortal

http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,2048138-1,00.html

15 years ago

108 upvotes – 137 comments

How did WordPress win?

http://www.majordojo.com/2011/02/how-did-wordpress-win.php

15 years ago

104 upvotes – 61 comments

GTK+ 3.0.0 released

http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2011-February/msg00020.html

15 years ago

95 upvotes – 23 comments

Why the Internet is creating more value than jobs

http://unenumerated.blogspot.com/2011/02/great-stagnation-or-external-growth.html

15 years ago

87 upvotes – 20 comments

We’re creating a “Startup toolbox”. What apps should go in it?

http://thestartupfoundry.com/2011/02/09/hn-we%E2%80%99re-creating-a-%E2%80%9Cstartup-toolbox%E2%80%9D-what-apps-should-go-in-it/

15 years ago

81 upvotes – 63 comments

Silicon Valley geeks have their own ‘Fight Club’. I kid you not. [video]

http://thenextweb.com/shareables/2011/02/10/a-look-at-a-geek-fight-club-in-silicon-valley/

15 years ago

80 upvotes – 77 comments

Ask HN: Best way to write an app for both Android and iOS?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2201706

15 years ago

78 upvotes – 50 comments

Dependency Injection is dangerous for your career

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2407540/what-are-the-downsides-to-using-dependency-injection/2407614#2407614

15 years ago

75 upvotes – 31 comments

Are you working for github yet?

http://amiworkingforgithubnow.com/

15 years ago

74 upvotes – 30 comments

How to use metrics in a startup

http://swombat.com/2011/2/10/how-to-use-metrics-in-a-startup

15 years ago

74 upvotes – 11 comments

Flash + 307 redirect = Game Over

http://lists.webappsec.org/pipermail/websecurity_lists.webappsec.org/2011-February/007533.html

15 years ago

72 upvotes – 36 comments

Are We In Inflationary Part of Internet Financing Bubble? 2011 = 1997?

http://blog.eladgil.com/2011/02/are-we-in-inflationary-part-of-internet.html

15 years ago

72 upvotes – 35 comments

1 bitcoin worth more than dollar

http://bitcoincharts.com/charts/mtgoxUSD#vztgSzm1g10zm2g25

15 years ago

71 upvotes – 81 comments

Bing smacks Google in new usability test

http://thenextweb.com/microsoft/2011/02/11/bing-smacks-google-in-new-usability-test/

15 years ago

71 upvotes – 60 comments

The CIA’s amazing bots

http://hackaday.com/2011/02/10/the-cias-amazing-bots/

15 years ago

71 upvotes – 15 comments

DARPA's Mind-Controlled Prosthetic Arm Could Be on the Market in Four Years

http://www.fastcompany.com/1725799/darpas-mind-controlled-prosthetic-arm-could-be-on-the-market-in-four-years

15 years ago

64 upvotes – 21 comments

Career Fairs: May I Have a Mug, Sir?

http://www.atalasoft.com/cs/blogs/office/archive/2011/02/10/career-fairs-may-i-have-a-mug-sir.aspx

15 years ago

63 upvotes – 24 comments

GNU Octave 3.4 has just been released

http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/index.html

15 years ago

59 upvotes – 17 comments

Snag great investors at first OAF Philly (apply deadline next Fri)

http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/2011/02/snag-great-angel-investors-at-oaf-philly---deadline-next-friday-218.html

15 years ago

57 upvotes – 7 comments

Early Quora Design Notes

http://www.artypapers.com/ap.log/thread.php?346

15 years ago

55 upvotes – 31 comments

Making Pizza with Python

http://slowfrog.blogspot.com/2011/02/making-pizza-with-python.html

15 years ago

51 upvotes – 11 comments

MapKey: jQuery for Keyboard shortcuts

http://pixelmatrixdesign.com/weblog/comments/introducing_mapkey/

15 years ago

50 upvotes – 9 comments

What HP Really Bought From Palm: A Mobile Future Untethered From Microsoft

http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2011/02/09/what-1-2-billion-bought-hp-a-mobile-future-untethered-from-microsoft/

15 years ago

50 upvotes – 29 comments

Erjang - A JVM-based Erlang VM

http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Erjang-A-JVM-based-Erlang-VM

15 years ago

49 upvotes – 20 comments

It’s Official: Voice is Worthless

http://gigaom.com/mobile/its-official-voice-is-worthless/

15 years ago

44 upvotes – 24 comments

SwipeGood (YCW11) Raises $500K From Michael Birch And Others

http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/10/swipegood-raises-500k-from-michael-birch-and-others-to-allow-you-to-donate-with-each-purchase/

15 years ago

43 upvotes – 8 comments

Tell PG: Thank you for removing the political stories

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2204200

15 years ago

42 upvotes – 10 comments

Browsing Commits in Vim

http://mshared.tumblr.com/post/3215710879/browsing-commits-in-vim-with-an-unimpaired-fugitive

15 years ago

37 upvotes – 0 comments
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