top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-02-16

I'm a designer who learned Django and launched her first webapp in 6 weeks

http://www.limedaring.com/im-a-designer-who-learned-django-and-launched-her-first-webapp-in-6-weeks/

15 years ago

490 upvotes – 120 comments

U.S. Government Shuts Down 84,000 Websites, ‘By Mistake’

http://torrentfreak.com/u-s-government-shuts-down-84000-websites-by-mistake-110216/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Torrentfreak+%28Torrentfreak%29

15 years ago

430 upvotes – 152 comments

Anonymous speaks: the inside story of the HBGary hack

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/02/anonymous-speaks-the-inside-story-of-the-hbgary-hack.ars

15 years ago

345 upvotes – 83 comments

Jeopardy Champion Ken Jennings Q&A about IBM Watson

http://live.washingtonpost.com/jeopardy-ken-jennings.html?hpid=talkbox1

15 years ago

274 upvotes – 84 comments

Why are you people defending Apple?

http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/16/why-are-you-people-defending-apple/

15 years ago

233 upvotes – 209 comments

The Technology Behind Convore

http://www.eflorenzano.com/blog/post/technology-behind-convore/

15 years ago

220 upvotes – 36 comments

Reminder: "Broken gets fixed, but shitty lasts forever"

http://jamesgolick.com/2011/2/15/verify-none..html

15 years ago

169 upvotes – 34 comments

Google releases OnePass, a payment system for publishers

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/02/simple-way-for-publishers-to-manage.html

15 years ago

157 upvotes – 78 comments

IE9 vs. Firefox 4 (done in canvas)

http://people.mozilla.com/~prouget/ie9/ie9_vs_fx4.html

15 years ago

144 upvotes – 86 comments

Apple’s Three Laws of Developers

http://yourhead.tumblr.com/post/3320228508/apples-three-laws-of-developers

15 years ago

139 upvotes – 47 comments

Microsoft: No GPLv3 Software for Windows Phone and Xbox Apps.

http://jan.wildeboer.net/2011/02/microsoft-absolutely-no-free-software-for-windows-phone-and-xbox-apps/

15 years ago

131 upvotes – 131 comments

787 Dreamliner teaches Boeing costly lesson on outsourcing

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-hiltzik-20110215,0,442445.column

15 years ago

129 upvotes – 95 comments

Expert Exchange gets narky after snub from Q/A site review

http://www.experts-exchange.com/blogs/EE-Tech-News/B_3955-Question-Answer-Sites-A-Case-of-Mistaken-Identity.html

15 years ago

126 upvotes – 135 comments

A Stack Overflow user's reply to Experts Exchange blogpost

http://blog.williamhilsum.com/2011/02/response-to-experts-exchange-blog-post.html

15 years ago

121 upvotes – 49 comments

Taskforce (YC W11) Helps You Organize Your Inbox and Become a Taskmaster

http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/16/taskforce-helps-you-organize-your-inbox-and-become-a-taskmaster/

15 years ago

110 upvotes – 51 comments

C Language Resources

http://www.mycplus.com/featured-articles/top-ten-c-language-resources/

15 years ago

105 upvotes – 18 comments

Pixelfari: a pixely, 8-bitty version of Safari from Neven Mrgan

http://mrgan.tumblr.com/post/3330188156/pixelfari

15 years ago

103 upvotes – 19 comments

What if Hudson loses its plugins?

http://java.net/projects/hudson/lists/dev/archive/2011-02/message/117

15 years ago

101 upvotes – 26 comments

Yuri Milner pays $150k Y Combinator investments by ‘making it rain’

http://founderdaily.com/2011/02/16/yuri-milner-pays-150k-ycombinator-investments-by-making-it-rain/

15 years ago

96 upvotes – 19 comments

Urban sql injection

http://seanbonner.tumblr.com/post/3200064101/jacobjoaquin-r03-urban-sql-injection

15 years ago

94 upvotes – 17 comments

Nokia Plan B fails after only 36 hours

http://nokiaplanb.com/2011/02/16/calling-it-quits/

15 years ago

89 upvotes – 35 comments

Watson crushes the competition in second round of 'Jeopardy'

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_tv_man_vs_machine

15 years ago

88 upvotes – 122 comments

Decentralizing the Internet So Big Brother Can’t Find You

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/16/nyregion/16about.html?_r=1&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

15 years ago

87 upvotes – 22 comments

Nobody really gives a damn what you built your site in (why I chose asp.net).

http://tumblr.com/xzh1ixatl0

15 years ago

87 upvotes – 130 comments

Facebook pages are worthless for your startup. Go where the early adopters are.

http://thestartupfoundry.com/2011/02/16/facebook-pages-are-worthless-for-your-startup-go-where-the-early-adopters-are/

15 years ago

86 upvotes – 21 comments

Apple is actually asking for 100% of SaaS mobile revenue

http://whydoeseverythingsuck.com/2011/02/apple-is-actually-asking-for-100-of.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+WhyDoesEverythingSuck+%28Why+does+everything+suck%3F%29

15 years ago

83 upvotes – 106 comments

World's first embeddable HTML5 document viewer, from Crocodoc (YC W10)

http://www.xconomy.com/san-francisco/2011/02/16/crocodoc-rolls-out-embeddable-html5-document-viewer-yc-startup-wants-to-be-the-new-adobe-of-the-web-sans-flash/

15 years ago

83 upvotes – 33 comments

Guile 2.0 is out

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.devel/11654

15 years ago

81 upvotes – 42 comments

NokiaPlanB was a hoax

http://www.engadget.com/2011/02/16/nokia-plan-b-was-just-a-hoax-all-along/

15 years ago

78 upvotes – 25 comments

Ask HN: I need advice. Major problems with my business & co-founder

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2224098

15 years ago

77 upvotes – 36 comments

What is Stack Overflow's business model?

http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/79435/what-is-stack-overflows-business-model

15 years ago

75 upvotes – 35 comments

Are Silicon Valley’s Engineers Underpaid?

http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/153/engineers-to-the-valley-pay-up.html

15 years ago

75 upvotes – 115 comments

TileMill: Open Source Map Design

http://developmentseed.org/blog/2011/feb/16/announcing-tilemill-modern-map-design-studio-powered-open-source

15 years ago

74 upvotes – 7 comments

Rhapsody passes on Apple's "economically untenable" sub plans

http://technologizer.com/2011/02/15/rhapsody-iphone/

15 years ago

72 upvotes – 92 comments

Crocodoc (YC W10) Launches HTML5-Based Document Viewer With Its Own API

http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/16/crocodoc-launches-html5-based-document-viewer-with-annotations-embeds-and-its-own-api/

15 years ago

71 upvotes – 13 comments

Greplin (YC W10) Search Engine Tackles Facebook, Twitter

http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2011/02/16/greplin-search-engine-tackles-facebook-twitter/

15 years ago

70 upvotes – 7 comments

How I Almost Failed a Facebook Turing Test

http://georgesaines.com/2011/02/15/how-i-almost-failed-a-facebook-turing-test/

15 years ago

69 upvotes – 22 comments

BitTorrent is to movies what "bolt-cutters are to stealing bicycles"

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/02/bittorrent-is-to-movies-what-bolt-cutters-are-to-stealing-bicycles.ars

15 years ago

68 upvotes – 60 comments

Greplin’s (YC W10) Social Search Opens Its Doors To All

http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/16/greplins-social-search-opens-its-doors-to-all/

15 years ago

66 upvotes – 21 comments

Idea to paying customers in 7 weeks: how we did it

http://blog.bufferapp.com/post/3328167762/idea-to-paying-customers-in-7-weeks-how-we-did-it

15 years ago

66 upvotes – 22 comments

Cash4Gold Competitor's Clever Adwords Hack

http://www.byrnehobart.com/blog/a-clever-adwords-hack-how-to-get-your-advertorial-on-marketwatch-com/

15 years ago

65 upvotes – 16 comments

In what cases is Java faster than C++?

http://www.quora.com/In-what-cases-is-Java-faster-if-at-all-than-C#ans386926

15 years ago

63 upvotes – 57 comments

CPU and GPU trends over time

http://www.r-bloggers.com/cpu-and-gpu-trends-over-time/

15 years ago

62 upvotes – 24 comments

Taskforce (YC W11) for Gmail: Inbox organization made easy

http://thenextweb.com/apps/2011/02/16/in-depth-with-taskforce-for-gmail-inbox-organization-made-easy/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheNextWeb+%28The+Next+Web+All+Stories%29&utm_content=Google+Reader

15 years ago

62 upvotes – 13 comments

Q&A: Michael Lewis on the Politicians That Sank Ireland

http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2011/02/michael-lewis.html

15 years ago

61 upvotes – 19 comments

Show HN: three.io = available 3 letter .io domains

http://three.io

15 years ago

59 upvotes – 59 comments

Most venture capital funds lose money

http://finance.fortune.cnn.com/2011/02/16/venture-capital-returns-more-in-short-term-less-in-long-term/

15 years ago

58 upvotes – 17 comments

Clojure REPL for Android

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.sattvik.clojure_repl

15 years ago

58 upvotes – 11 comments

PyCon 2011: Behind the Scenes

http://pycon.blogspot.com/2011/02/pycon-2011-behind-scenes.html

15 years ago

57 upvotes – 2 comments

Show HN: A user powered copy editing tool (running on Ars Technica)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2228268

15 years ago

56 upvotes – 27 comments

Show HN: We made LinkedList NYC. A weekly newsletter for New York hackers.

http://www.linkedlistnyc.org/

15 years ago

49 upvotes – 18 comments

1000Memories (YC S10) Raises $2.5 Million to Digitally Memorialize Loved Ones

http://mashable.com/2011/02/16/1000memories-funding/

15 years ago

47 upvotes – 16 comments

TED Launches Quora-Like Platform for Intelligent Discussion

http://mashable.com/2011/02/16/ted-conversations/

15 years ago

46 upvotes – 11 comments

The true cost of publishing on the Amazon Kindle

http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2011/02/15/the-true-cost-of-publishing-on-the-amazon-kindle/

15 years ago

44 upvotes – 19 comments

Watson: The Confusion over an Airport Clue

http://asmarterplanet.com/blog/2011/02/watson-on-jeopardy-day-two-the-confusion-over-an-airport-clue.html

15 years ago

41 upvotes – 19 comments

Venture Capital Tutorial

http://www.vcic.unc.edu/entrepreneur-tutorial.html

15 years ago

40 upvotes – 9 comments

The world of HBGary

http://lcamtuf.blogspot.com/2011/02/world-of-hbgary.html

15 years ago

40 upvotes – 7 comments

Learning Clojure

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Learning_Clojure

15 years ago

40 upvotes – 1 comments
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