top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-02-17

Brilliant use of CSS drop shadows

http://nicolasgallagher.com/css-drop-shadows-without-images/demo/

15 years ago

426 upvotes – 60 comments

The HB Gary Email That Should Concern Us All (Sockpuppet Management Software)

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/02/16/945768/-UPDATED:-The-HB-Gary-Email-That-Should-Concern-Us-All

15 years ago

326 upvotes – 119 comments

Last.fm co-founder: Apple just fucked over online music subs for the iPhone

http://downloadsquad.switched.com/2011/02/17/apple-just-f-over-online-music-subs-for-the-iphone-lastfm/

15 years ago

271 upvotes – 206 comments

The Cognitive Style of Unix

http://blog.vivekhaldar.com/post/3339907908/the-cognitive-style-of-unix

15 years ago

239 upvotes – 68 comments

Langton's ant

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langtons_ant

15 years ago

176 upvotes – 20 comments

It’s Not a Bubble, People; It’s a Pyramid Scheme

http://www.pehub.com/96111/its-not-a-bubble-people-its-a-pyramid-scheme/

15 years ago

173 upvotes – 58 comments

What Google knows about you

http://www.google.com/ads/preferences/view

15 years ago

169 upvotes – 51 comments

Why Isn't Wall Street in Jail?

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/why-isnt-wall-street-in-jail-20110216

15 years ago

158 upvotes – 93 comments

How ~75% of PirateBay traffic is seeded by 100 people driven by profit

http://www.bit-tech.net/bits/interviews/2011/02/16/torrent-seeders-driven-profit/

15 years ago

130 upvotes – 54 comments

Why Can’t Tablet Makers Just Freaking Ship?

http://www.crunchgear.com/2011/02/17/why-cant-tablet-makers-just-freaking-ship/

15 years ago

128 upvotes – 98 comments

Tell HN: Catch.com raises 7m. Didn't get in as solo founder (S08), kept pushing

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2229261

15 years ago

116 upvotes – 41 comments

Using git and dropbox together

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1960799/using-gitdropbox-together-effectively/1961515#1961515

15 years ago

110 upvotes – 56 comments

Django and Python 3

http://alexgaynor.net/2011/feb/17/django-and-python-3-take-2/

15 years ago

110 upvotes – 17 comments

Ask IBM's Watson Research Team Anything

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/fnfg3/by_request_we_are_the_ibm_research_team_that/

15 years ago

106 upvotes – 27 comments

Cooling a cup of coffee with help of a spoon

http://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/5265/cooling-a-cup-of-coffee-with-help-of-a-spoon

15 years ago

94 upvotes – 43 comments

Game Closure Makes it a Breeze to Build Multiplayer, Cross-Platform Games

http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/17/game-closure-makes-it-a-breeze-to-build-multiplayer-cross-platform-games/

15 years ago

93 upvotes – 17 comments

Rubinius Announces Plans for GIL Elimination, JIT Improvements, Targetable VM

http://rubini.us/2011/02/17/rubinius-what-s-next/

15 years ago

90 upvotes – 21 comments

Naughty Dog used Google SketchUp for Uncharted 2 development

http://www.geek.com/articles/games/naughty-dog-used-google-sketchup-for-uncharted-2-development-20110217/

15 years ago

86 upvotes – 26 comments

Show HN: I've always wanted a Y Combinator shirt, so I made one.

http://fold.sigusr2.net/2011/02/y-combinator-in-ycombinator.html

15 years ago

80 upvotes – 32 comments

Y Combinator founder: there is no tech bubble

http://venturebeat.com/2011/02/17/graham-y-combinator-no-tech-bubble/

15 years ago

79 upvotes – 53 comments

The "Donald Duck as prior art" case

http://www.iusmentis.com/patents/priorart/donaldduck/

15 years ago

76 upvotes – 16 comments

Star wars theme played by a floppy disk hack.

http://vodpod.com/watch/799407-hacked-floppy-disk-plays-star-wars-music-as-awesome-as-it-

15 years ago

72 upvotes – 27 comments

Amplify: a jQuery component library for solving common web problems.

http://amplifyjs.com/

15 years ago

70 upvotes – 19 comments

Help wanted — jobless need not apply

http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thelookout/20110217/ts_yblog_thelookout/help-wanted-jobless-need-not-apply

15 years ago

68 upvotes – 66 comments

Show HN: I made an Android app that gives you an extra phone number to give out

https://market.android.com/details?id=net.tyx.extraphone

15 years ago

67 upvotes – 25 comments

Biologists and dolphins have created a new inter-species language

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6V1N-4YBX1K6-4&_user=10&_coverDate=12%2F31%2F2010&_rdoc=19&_fmt=high&_orig=browse&_origin=browse&_zone=rslt_list_item&_srch=doc-info%28%23toc%235679%232010%23999329988%232388737%23FLA%23display%23Volume%29&_cdi=5679&_sort=d&_docanchor=&_ct=19&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=f0a54b7589671ebfef9d62f77c659ebd&searchtype=a

15 years ago

67 upvotes – 46 comments

Are Mathematicians In Jeopardy?

http://rjlipton.wordpress.com/2011/02/17/are-mathematicians-in-jeopardy/

15 years ago

61 upvotes – 44 comments

Report: PSN hacked, custom firmware could pose security risk to users

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2011/02/report-psn-hacked-showing-stunning-lack-of-credit-card-security.ars

15 years ago

60 upvotes – 19 comments

50 Scholarships for Developers to Launch next week

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2231754

15 years ago

59 upvotes – 19 comments

An update to Google Social Search

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/02/update-to-google-social-search.html

15 years ago

58 upvotes – 13 comments

A Tweet's Effect on SEO Rankings - An Unexpected Case Study

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/tweets-effect-rankings-unexpected-case-study

15 years ago

56 upvotes – 13 comments

Palm’s amazingly user-hostile sign-up process

http://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2011/02/palms_amazingly.html

15 years ago

55 upvotes – 18 comments

Jamie Zawinski forks his business

http://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/log/2011/02/16.html

15 years ago

55 upvotes – 26 comments

ILSpy is the open-source .NET assembly browser and decompiler.

http://wiki.sharpdevelop.net/ilspy.ashx

15 years ago

55 upvotes – 33 comments

Well, Actually

http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2011/Feb-17.html

15 years ago

52 upvotes – 2 comments

The ABCs of virtual private servers, Part 1: Why go virtual?

http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2011/02/virtual-private-servers.ars

15 years ago

51 upvotes – 33 comments

Show HN: Twitter graph monitoring over time, SocialGrapple

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2232656

15 years ago

50 upvotes – 22 comments

Is Your Job an Endangered Species?

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703439504576116340050218236.html

15 years ago

49 upvotes – 41 comments

Staples prints CVs for free.

http://www.matthiasmcgregor.com/print/good-marketing-staples-prints-cvs-for-free/

15 years ago

46 upvotes – 24 comments

All the external private APIs referenced by iBooks.app version 1.2.1

https://gist.github.com/830865

15 years ago

44 upvotes – 12 comments

Programming languages and their relationship styles

http://maradydd.livejournal.com/293666.html

15 years ago

43 upvotes – 30 comments

Whom am I speaking with?

http://www.olark.com/blog/2011/who-am-i-speaking-with/

15 years ago

43 upvotes – 48 comments

Posterous (YC S08) Goes Bare: Shows Us All Its Stats

http://networkeffect.allthingsd.com/20110216/posterous-goes-bare-shows-us-all-its-stats/

15 years ago

42 upvotes – 8 comments

An Intro to Backbone.js: Part 3 - Binding a Collection to a View

http://liquidmedia.ca/blog/2011/02/backbone-js-part-3/

15 years ago

41 upvotes – 6 comments

Hashbang URIs Aren't as Bad as You Think

http://mtrpcic.net/2011/02/fragment-uris-theyre-not-as-bad-as-you-think-really/

15 years ago

40 upvotes – 44 comments

A First Look At Firefox 5

http://www.conceivablytech.com/5673/products/firefox-4-in-march-a-first-look-at-firefox-5/

15 years ago

39 upvotes – 20 comments

Testing for -0 (negative zero) in JavaScript

http://www.wirfs-brock.com/allen/posts/128

15 years ago

39 upvotes – 10 comments

How to use Dropbox as a git server?

http://www.intermediaware.com/blog/1085

15 years ago

39 upvotes – 14 comments

Google plans to seek summary judgment on Oracle copyright claim

http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20110216210828960

15 years ago

39 upvotes – 4 comments

Crowdbooster (YC S10) in "How to Measure Your Brand's Online Influence"

http://www.inc.com/guides/201102/how-to-measure-brand-influence-online.html

15 years ago

37 upvotes – 7 comments
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