top 10 hacker news stories for 2011-02-19

"It'll never work": a collection of failed predictions

http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/neverwrk.htm

15 years ago

224 upvotes – 82 comments

A practical use for space-filling curves

http://www2.isye.gatech.edu/~jjb/mow/mow.html

15 years ago

192 upvotes – 31 comments

Once again, praise kids for effort, not for 'smarts'

http://nymag.com/print/?/news/features/27840/

15 years ago

161 upvotes – 60 comments

Bother Me, I'm Thinking

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703584804576144192132144506.html#printMode

15 years ago

159 upvotes – 43 comments

Why I do my resume in LaTeX

http://www.toofishes.net/blog/why-i-do-my-resume-latex/

15 years ago

143 upvotes – 137 comments

A rare look into North Korea's famed Propaganda School

http://english.aljazeera.net/programmes/101east/2011/02/2011217113256267999.html

15 years ago

135 upvotes – 60 comments

Are founders really 1000x more valuable than their employees?

http://venturehacks.com/articles/employees-founders

15 years ago

131 upvotes – 117 comments

Why Open Source misses the point of Free Software

http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.html?

15 years ago

123 upvotes – 117 comments

Ask HN: Does anyone actually code at a hackathon?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2240226

15 years ago

123 upvotes – 77 comments

Ask HN: Obtaining initial users for a startup

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2239281

15 years ago

119 upvotes – 24 comments
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