top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-02-23

What I Wish Someone Had Told Me About Startups 4 Years Ago

http://blog.amirkhella.com/2011/02/23/what-i-wish-someone-had-told-me-5-years-ago/

15 years ago

377 upvotes – 55 comments

Buying VMWare Fusion: A lesson in how to drive customers away

http://blog.bitquabit.com/2011/02/22/buying-vmware-fusion/

15 years ago

296 upvotes – 98 comments

How to Sell your Company

http://jacquesmattheij.com/How+To+Sell+Your+Company

15 years ago

217 upvotes – 17 comments

Rate my startup - Slowcop - measure your website's speed

http://www.slowcop.com

15 years ago

206 upvotes – 90 comments

JQuery Waypoints - execute a function whenever you scroll to an element

http://imakewebthings.github.com/jquery-waypoints/

15 years ago

196 upvotes – 26 comments

Breakup Notifier Shut Down By Facebook

http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/23/breakup-notifier/

15 years ago

189 upvotes – 159 comments

WordPress names their 3.1 release: Reinhardt

http://wordpress.org/news/2011/02/threeone/

15 years ago

163 upvotes – 106 comments

Warn HN: How to accidentally, irreversibly nuke your Facebook account

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2256150

15 years ago

159 upvotes – 60 comments

Eth0 no more?

http://lists.us.dell.com/pipermail/linux-desktops/2011-February/003757.html

15 years ago

154 upvotes – 50 comments

Torrent meta-search engine

http://torrentbutler.com/

15 years ago

153 upvotes – 58 comments

Cappuccino 0.9

http://cappuccino.org/discuss/2011/02/23/cappuccino-0-9/

15 years ago

150 upvotes – 30 comments

DrChrono (YC W11) Makes The iPad A Doctor’s Best Friend In The Exam Room

http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/23/drchrono-makes-the-ipad-a-doctors-best-friend-in-the-exam-room/

15 years ago

136 upvotes – 93 comments

Mach's designers simply assumed that systems would be rebooted often enough

http://clozure.com/pipermail/openmcl-devel/2011-February/012567.html

15 years ago

127 upvotes – 70 comments

Brunch - lightweight html5 framework using backbone, eco, stylus, coffeescript

http://brunchwithcoffee.org

15 years ago

120 upvotes – 28 comments

Ever missed an SMS on your Android? Here's why. (long-standing bug)

http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=4991

15 years ago

110 upvotes – 65 comments

Why can't we all use standard libraries for commonly needed algorithms?

http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1944489

15 years ago

108 upvotes – 46 comments

Ruby concurrency explainined simply

http://merbist.com/2011/02/22/concurrency-in-ruby-explained/

15 years ago

103 upvotes – 25 comments

Switching to Plan J (From Scala back to Java)

http://alarmingdevelopment.org/?p=562

15 years ago

95 upvotes – 65 comments

Everything you need to know about cryptography in 1 hour [video]

http://fosslc.org/drupal/content/everything-you-need-know-about-cryptography-1-hour

15 years ago

91 upvotes – 6 comments

Inception - The movie, explained through C code

http://thechangelog.com/post/3463797919/inception-the-movie-explained-through-c-code

15 years ago

90 upvotes – 18 comments

How To Be a Consultant, a freelancer or an independent contractor (2009)

http://jacquesmattheij.com/be-consultant+/

15 years ago

88 upvotes – 7 comments

Everything that can go wrong with Windows Phone 7 update does

http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2011/02/everything-that-can-go-wrong-with-windows-phone-7-update-does.ars?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss

15 years ago

87 upvotes – 40 comments

StackOverflow’s Careers 2.0

http://careers.stackoverflow.com/

15 years ago

86 upvotes – 50 comments

IBM Watson's team Q&A on reddit

http://blog.reddit.com/2011/02/ibm-watson-research-team-answers-your.html

15 years ago

85 upvotes – 28 comments

Ask HN: what lifestyle business could I help to create for my mom?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2253876

15 years ago

78 upvotes – 50 comments

One long, intimate month with the Facebook API

http://anilchawla.org/2011/02/23/one-intimate-month-facebook-api/

15 years ago

78 upvotes – 27 comments

What's it like getting your DNA results back from 23andMe

http://philosophistry.com/archives/2011/02/dna-test-23andme-review.html

15 years ago

78 upvotes – 50 comments

YouTube Says It's in Negotiations to Stream Live NBA, NHL Games

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-02-22/google-s-youtube-says-it-s-negotiating-to-broadcast-live-nba-nhl-games.html

15 years ago

77 upvotes – 37 comments

The Programming Language Zoo

http://www.andrej.com/plzoo/

15 years ago

65 upvotes – 3 comments

Inception Movie explained using the C language

https://github.com/karthick18/inception

15 years ago

★ 780 C
62 upvotes – 10 comments

Peter Thiel & Max Levchin: "Silicon Valley Lacks Radical Innovation"

http://www.siliconvalleywatcher.com/mt/archives/2011/02/top_paypal_alum.php

15 years ago

61 upvotes – 74 comments

Learning eLisp

http://learn-elisp-for-emacs.uses.hn/

15 years ago

55 upvotes – 36 comments

Secret History of Silicon Valley

http://steveblank.com/secret-history/

15 years ago

55 upvotes – 10 comments

Snapshots of the HN "newest" page - one per month

http://www.penzba.co.uk/HN_Snapshots

15 years ago

53 upvotes – 14 comments

Is it OK to Hire People from Your Friend’s Company?

http://bhorowitz.com/2011/02/23/is-it-ok-to-hire-people-from-your-friend%E2%80%99s-company/

15 years ago

48 upvotes – 36 comments

The Year(s) of the Growing Startup

http://blog.uservoice.com/entries/the-years-of-the-growing-startup

15 years ago

47 upvotes – 4 comments

Should You Sell Your Company?

http://bhorowitz.com/2011/01/19/should-you-sell-your-company/

15 years ago

47 upvotes – 4 comments

Michael Arrington’s Dreams of a Blog for True Startups

http://peterc.org/blog/2011/381-michael-arringtons-dreams-of-a-blog-for-true-startups.html

15 years ago

47 upvotes – 35 comments

Microsoft Open XML embarrassment: spaces go missing between words

http://www.itwriting.com/blog/3912-microsoft-open-xml-embarrassment-spaces-go-missing-between-words.html

15 years ago

45 upvotes – 75 comments

MIT OpenCourseWare Turns 10: What's Next for Open Education?

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/mit_opencourseware_turns_10_celebrating_a_decade_o.php?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+readwriteweb+%28ReadWriteWeb%29&utm_content=Netvibes

15 years ago

45 upvotes – 15 comments

The 80/20 Rule of Technical Founders

http://www.softwarebyrob.com/2011/02/23/the-8020-rule-of-startup-founders/

15 years ago

44 upvotes – 26 comments

Judge rules Ex-Microsoft GM can't work in his new Salesforce job

http://www.techflash.com/seattle/2011/02/judge-former-microsoft-gm-cant-work.html

15 years ago

42 upvotes – 29 comments

What Every Startup Can Learn From AirBnB

http://gigaom.com/2011/02/22/airbnb/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OmMalik+%28GigaOM%3A+Tech%29&utm_content=Google+Reader

15 years ago

41 upvotes – 13 comments

How I Indexed The Daily (HTTP proxying using Charles for Mac)

http://waxy.org/2011/02/how_i_indexed_the_daily/

15 years ago

40 upvotes – 10 comments

FFI and Ruby 1.9.2 |

http://engineering.attinteractive.com/2010/09/ffi-and-ruby-1-9-2/

15 years ago

37 upvotes – 5 comments

Benchmarking Go and Python Web servers

http://ziutek.github.com/web_bench/

15 years ago

37 upvotes – 27 comments

Tell me why I suck

http://injekt.net/blog/tell-me-why-i-suck

15 years ago

37 upvotes – 55 comments

JDK 7 Developer Preview

http://blogs.sun.com/mr/entry/jdk7_preview

15 years ago

36 upvotes – 8 comments

How To Read Your Users’ Minds With Better Menu Options

http://www.cloudspace.com/blog/2011/02/22/how-to-read-your-users-minds-with-better-menu-options/

15 years ago

34 upvotes – 5 comments

Why cloud services should care about customer support

http://zencoder.com/encoder-blog/2011/02/23/support/

15 years ago

34 upvotes – 2 comments

Quicksilver: Smalltalk implementation in Javascript

http://www.silversmalltalk.com/

15 years ago

34 upvotes – 10 comments
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