top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-02-11

How I Got Kicked Out of Y Combinator and Then Raised $1.5m for My Startup

http://joncrawford.com/how-i-got-kicked-out-of-y-combinator-and-rais

15 years ago

589 upvotes – 112 comments

Hosni Mubarak finally steps down

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2011/02/201121125158705862.html

15 years ago

332 upvotes – 127 comments

Microsoft just bought Nokia for $0

http://jacquesmattheij.com/Microsoft+just+bought+Nokia+for+%240

15 years ago

278 upvotes – 155 comments

1000+ Nokia workers have walked out in protest (in English via Google Translate)

http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&sl=fi&tl=en&u=http://www.hs.fi/talous/artikkeli/1135263739290&prev=_t&rurl=translate.google.com&twu=1&usg=ALkJrhgcMoG2wO4B5oGULvdpMwc0RkStCA

15 years ago

252 upvotes – 165 comments

Toyota, The Media Owe You an Apology

http://www.businessweek.com/lifestyle/content/feb2011/bw20110210_848076.htm

15 years ago

184 upvotes – 77 comments

TechCrunch Tours Dropbox Offices

http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/10/inside-the-psychobox-a-tour-of-dropboxs-bumping-office/

15 years ago

172 upvotes – 79 comments

Does my company have IP rights to the stuff I do in my spare time?

http://answers.onstartups.com/questions/19422/if-im-working-at-a-company-do-they-have-intellectual-property-rights-to-the-stu

15 years ago

167 upvotes – 116 comments

Nokia Confirms Microsoft Partnership, New Leadership Team

http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/10/nokia-confirms-microsoft-partnership-new-leadership-team/

15 years ago

167 upvotes – 175 comments

Khan Academy and BitTorrent Partner to Distribute Educational Videos

http://www.hackeducation.com/2011/02/11/khan-academy-and-bittorrent-partner-to-distribute-educational-videos/

15 years ago

162 upvotes – 21 comments

GroupOn, LivingSocial engaging in questionable practices

http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/11/valentines-day-bait-switch-groupon-must-avoid-becoming-just-another-useless-coupon-site/#comment-144671358

15 years ago

157 upvotes – 58 comments

Reddit AmA: Director of the first ISP to challenge the USA Patriot Act

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/fjfby/iama_director_of_an_isp_who_was_the_first_person/

15 years ago

154 upvotes – 17 comments

Pervasive myths about older software developers

http://www.lessonsoffailure.com/developers/pervasive-myths-older-software-developers/

15 years ago

149 upvotes – 68 comments

BBC To Delete 172 Websites Due to Budget Cuts, Geek Saves Them for $3.99

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/bbc_to_delete_172_websites_due_to_budget_cuts_geek.php

15 years ago

149 upvotes – 67 comments

Nokia’s Suicide Note

http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=2931

15 years ago

131 upvotes – 45 comments

How Aaron Barr revealed himself to Anonymous

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/02/virtually-face-to-face-when-aaron-barr-met-anonymous.ars

15 years ago

126 upvotes – 85 comments

Stack Exchange’s Architecture in Bullet Points

http://blog.serverfault.com/post/stack-exchanges-architecture-in-bullet-points/

15 years ago

112 upvotes – 31 comments

Nokia to developers: no Qt for Windows Phone development

http://www.engadget.com/2011/02/11/nokia-notifies-developers-that-qt-is-out-for-windows-phone-devel/

15 years ago

111 upvotes – 64 comments

Ask HN: Hackers falling in love

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2205259

15 years ago

106 upvotes – 68 comments

Pandora Files To Go Public

http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/11/pandora-files-to-go-public/

15 years ago

101 upvotes – 39 comments

Visualizing The New Arab Mind

http://www.kovasboguta.com/1/post/2011/02/first-post.html

15 years ago

99 upvotes – 16 comments

Paul Irish on HTML5 Boilerplate

http://ontwik.com/html5-2/paul-irish-on-html5-boilerplate/

15 years ago

87 upvotes – 8 comments

37signals support satisfaction ratings now public

http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2774-smiley-goes-public-now-everyone-can-see-how-our-customers-feel-about-our-customer-support

15 years ago

82 upvotes – 27 comments

Pinboard Creator Maciej Ceglowski Talks About Why Boring Architecture is Good

http://www.readwriteweb.com/hack/2011/02/pinboard-creator-maciej-ceglow.php

15 years ago

82 upvotes – 44 comments

Nokia and Microsoft Announce Plans for Mobile Partnership

http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2011/feb11/02-11partnership.mspx

15 years ago

77 upvotes – 15 comments

PlayStation 3 Hacker Must Allow Sony to Inspect His Hard Drive

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/02/playstation3-hacker-files/

15 years ago

77 upvotes – 57 comments

And so I'm giving up the Mozilla project - Jamie Zawinski (1999)

http://www.jwz.org/gruntle/nomo.html

15 years ago

77 upvotes – 37 comments

F1 Engine Power Secrets (2000)

http://www.pureluckdesign.com/ferrari/f1engine/index.htm

15 years ago

71 upvotes – 43 comments

Offshoring: does it ever work?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/502995/offshoring-does-it-ever-work/

15 years ago

68 upvotes – 66 comments

Reddit is hiring. We're looking for 3 rockstar programmers.

http://www.reddit.com/r/blog/comments/fjgit/reddit_is_doubling_the_size_of_its_programming/

15 years ago

67 upvotes – 105 comments

Nokia's Windows Phone 7 concept revealed

http://www.engadget.com/2011/02/11/exclusive-nokias-windows-phone-7-concept-revealed/

15 years ago

63 upvotes – 47 comments

Whitney Tilson: Why We Covered Our Netflix Short

http://seekingalpha.com/article/252316-whitney-tilson-why-we-covered-our-netflix-short

15 years ago

63 upvotes – 37 comments

Nokia marries Microsoft

http://www.engadget.com/2011/02/11/nokia-and-microsoft-enter-strategic-alliance-on-windows-phone-b/

15 years ago

62 upvotes – 8 comments

Stop the presses: Facebook CTO says news next in social revolution

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-12406171

15 years ago

61 upvotes – 14 comments

MPEG LA Announces Call for Patents Essential to VP8 Video Codec

http://www.mpegla.com/main/pid/vp8/default.aspx

15 years ago

60 upvotes – 68 comments

World’s first programmable nanoprocessor

http://www.seas.harvard.edu/news-events/press-releases/nanoprocessor

15 years ago

57 upvotes – 7 comments

Rietveld - code review Google style

http://code.google.com/appengine/articles/rietveld.html

15 years ago

56 upvotes – 34 comments

Android Lighthouse: Android Qt Port

http://code.google.com/p/android-lighthouse/

15 years ago

53 upvotes – 27 comments

Teaching scripting postpones students discovering CS is not for them = Good

http://www.cs.uni.edu/~wallingf/blog/archives/monthly/2011-02.html#e2011-02-11T16_15_44.htm

15 years ago

51 upvotes – 47 comments

Vicarious Systems Says Its Artificial Intelligence Is The Real Deal

http://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2011/02/10/vicarious-systems-says-its-artificial-intelligence-is-the-real-deal/

15 years ago

48 upvotes – 36 comments

Root molecular cause of declining health in the old found by scientists

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-02-root-molecular-declining-health-scientists.html

15 years ago

45 upvotes – 45 comments

Ask HN: How do think tanks make money?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2206450

15 years ago

45 upvotes – 39 comments

DARPA's new memristor-based approach to AI

http://spectrum.ieee.org/robotics/artificial-intelligence/moneta-a-mind-made-from-memristors

15 years ago

42 upvotes – 24 comments

How does Etsy manage development and operations?

http://www.quora.com/How-does-Etsy-manage-development-and-operations

15 years ago

41 upvotes – 1 comments

Million Song Dataset of audio metadata

http://labrosa.ee.columbia.edu/millionsong/

15 years ago

41 upvotes – 4 comments
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