top 50% 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

Why did Borders Tank and B&N not?

http://www.quora.com/Borders-Books/Why-is-Barnes-Noble-performing-well-as-a-business-while-Borders-is-near-or-has-even-reached-bankruptcy

15 years ago

114 upvotes – 70 comments

Python, JRuby on the Android Platform in 10 Steps

http://www.thebitsource.com/programming-software-development/android/python-jruby-on-the-android-platform-in-10-steps/

15 years ago

110 upvotes – 31 comments

LibreOffice / The Document Foundation needs €50,000. Please donate.

http://challenge.documentfoundation.org/

15 years ago

102 upvotes – 29 comments

What will happen to Bit.ly links when Gaddafi shuts down the Internet in Libya?

http://www.quora.com/What-will-happen-to-http-bit-ly-links-when-Gaddafi-shuts-down-the-Internet-in-Libya-due-to-protests

15 years ago

98 upvotes – 30 comments

What if this is as good as it gets?

http://diveintomark.org/archives/2011/02/18/ie9-is-the-new-ie6

15 years ago

95 upvotes – 25 comments

The Program - Start-Up Chile – Entrepreneurs Welcome

http://www.startupchile.org/about/the-program/

15 years ago

78 upvotes – 29 comments

Jilted in the U.S., a Site Finds Love in India

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/20/business/20ignite.html?ref=business&pagewanted=all

15 years ago

65 upvotes – 22 comments

Paul Miller Leaves Engadget/AOL - Cites AOL Way Issues

http://pauljmiller.com/?p=5

15 years ago

62 upvotes – 28 comments

Disciple: A Strict Dialect of Haskell

http://disciple.ouroborus.net/

15 years ago

58 upvotes – 18 comments

Hacker Public Radio

http://hackerpublicradio.org/

15 years ago

57 upvotes – 10 comments

Command-line CSS spriting

http://www.phpied.com/command-line-css-spriting/

15 years ago

55 upvotes – 12 comments

Business Is Booming

http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=business_is_booming

15 years ago

49 upvotes – 34 comments

Simplify templating with node.js, jsdom 0.2.0 and weld

http://blog.nodejitsu.com/micro-templates-are-dead

15 years ago

47 upvotes – 18 comments

Socialcam: A Look At Justin.tv’s Upcoming ‘Instagram for Video’

http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/18/socialcam-a-look-at-justin-tvs-upcoming-instagram-for-video/

15 years ago

44 upvotes – 7 comments

Startup Toolbox - Follow up to "HN: We’re creating a “Startup toolbox”.

http://thestartupfoundry.com/2011/02/18/startup-toolbox-a-resource-for-startups/

15 years ago

42 upvotes – 4 comments

Does "You are what you eat" apply to developing?

http://trentwalton.com/

15 years ago

42 upvotes – 8 comments

Mark Suster to Twitter on behalf of users

http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2011/02/18/twitter-i-love-you-but/

15 years ago

42 upvotes – 26 comments

Wittgenstein for programmers

http://www.hxa.name/notes/note-hxa7241-20110219T1113Z.html

15 years ago

41 upvotes – 7 comments

XML: Contrary to popular belief, it doesn't always kill babies

http://www.thurn.ca/xml_contrary_to_popular_belief_it_doesnt_always_kill_babies

15 years ago

41 upvotes – 58 comments

For Mobile Apps, It’s 1996 All Over Again

http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/19/mobile-apps-1996-all-over-again/

15 years ago

40 upvotes – 15 comments

Why Does College Cost So Much?

http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/18/why-does-college-cost-so-much/

15 years ago

40 upvotes – 61 comments

Ragel State Machine Compiler

http://www.complang.org/ragel/

15 years ago

39 upvotes – 15 comments
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