top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-02-25

You win, RIM (An open letter to RIM's developer relations)

http://blog.jamiemurai.com/2011/02/you-win-rim/

15 years ago

320 upvotes – 109 comments

Jerry Seinfeld's Productivity Secret

http://lifehacker.com/#!281626/jerry-seinfelds-productivity-secret

15 years ago

283 upvotes – 88 comments

The Colour Clock

http://thecolourclock.co.uk/

15 years ago

271 upvotes – 86 comments

Google Forecloses on Content Farms with "Farmer" Algorithm Update

http://searchengineland.com/google-forecloses-on-content-farms-with-farmer-algorithm-update-66071

15 years ago

221 upvotes – 103 comments

Neat Algorithms - Flocking

http://harry.me/2011/02/17/neat-algorithms---flocking

15 years ago

220 upvotes – 32 comments

I'm a cargo cult programmer, help me

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2262527

15 years ago

202 upvotes – 158 comments

Redditors earning $100k+ a year, what are your secrets to your success?

http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/frw5l/redditors_earning_100k_a_year_or_other_high/

15 years ago

193 upvotes – 204 comments

Why does Adobe Reader need so many updates?

http://www.reddit.com/r/geek/comments/ddh5p/the_iso_pdf_standard_hasnt_been_updated_since/c0zfics

15 years ago

193 upvotes – 82 comments

Dear Google, I Have More Than 10,000 Contacts

http://www.feld.com/wp/archives/2011/02/dear-google-i-have-more-than-10000-contacts.html

15 years ago

155 upvotes – 138 comments

Google rolls out algorithm change in the US

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/02/finding-more-high-quality-sites-in.html

15 years ago

149 upvotes – 52 comments

Anonymous vs. HBGary: the aftermath

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/02/anonymous-vs-hbgary-the-aftermath.ars

15 years ago

145 upvotes – 42 comments

Redis Presharding

http://antirez.com/post/redis-presharding.html

15 years ago

111 upvotes – 28 comments

Dilbert and Bogart On “F#(& You” Money

http://www.mymoneyblog.com/dilbert-and-bogart-on-f-you-money.html

15 years ago

107 upvotes – 24 comments

Löve 0.7.1 (lua game framework) is released

http://love2d.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=2503

15 years ago

105 upvotes – 14 comments

LSE Halts

http://www.londonstockexchange.com/exchange/news/sharecast/news-detail.html?newsId=4072679

15 years ago

101 upvotes – 69 comments

Inside Libya – A Photographer Reports

http://blogs.wsj.com/photojournal/2011/02/24/inside-libya-a-photographer-reports/?mod=e2fb

15 years ago

97 upvotes – 15 comments

Hofstadter's law

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

15 years ago

94 upvotes – 18 comments

Apple adds SSD TRIM support to Mac OS X 10.7 Lion beta

http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/11/02/25/apple_adds_ssd_trim_support_to_mac_os_x_10_7_lion_beta.html

15 years ago

93 upvotes – 55 comments

I got accidental code execution via glibc?

http://scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com/2011/02/i-got-accidental-code-execution-via.html

15 years ago

89 upvotes – 7 comments

How to draw viewers into Web Video - lessons from porn

http://guerillashowrunner.com/2011/02/why-a-good-porn-site-makes-our-web-show-pages-look-like-amateurish-crap/

15 years ago

86 upvotes – 24 comments

Turn off ri and rdoc generation by default

https://github.com/rubygems/rubygems/pull/42

15 years ago

★ 3.9k Ruby
86 upvotes – 42 comments

Kevin McDonagh on: How to attend a conference

http://swombat.com/2011/2/25/kevin-mcdonagh-how-to-attend-a-conference

15 years ago

85 upvotes – 27 comments

"…encourage your users to enter stronger passwords."

http://www.nakedpassword.com/

15 years ago

81 upvotes – 44 comments

Putting the Science back in Computer Science

http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~rs/talks/ScienceCS10.pdf

15 years ago

81 upvotes – 40 comments

AWS CloudFormation: BeanStalk with custom stacks

http://aws.amazon.com/cloudformation/

15 years ago

80 upvotes – 31 comments

Marketing

http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2011/02/marketing.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+AVc+%28A+VC%29&utm_content=Netvibes

15 years ago

76 upvotes – 24 comments

Erdos' Combinatorial Geometry Problem Solved

http://newsinfo.iu.edu/news/page/normal/17494.html

15 years ago

75 upvotes – 10 comments

What we know about Mac OS X Lion

http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2011/02/what-we-know-about-mac-os-x-lion-so-far.ars

15 years ago

71 upvotes – 43 comments

MacRuby 0.9 is released

http://www.macruby.org/blog/2011/02/24/macruby09.html

15 years ago

70 upvotes – 18 comments

Coming of Age as an Entrepreneur

http://www.metamorphblog.com/2011/02/coming-of-age-as-an-entrepreneur.html

15 years ago

69 upvotes – 10 comments

Harvard Scientists Create Hand-Held Device to Detect Cancer at Bedside

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-02-23/harvard-scientists-create-hand-held-device-to-detect-cancer-at-bedside.html

15 years ago

68 upvotes – 18 comments

Improving a [web] design, step by step

http://www.attackofdesign.com/improving-a-design-step-by-step-part-1/

15 years ago

66 upvotes – 40 comments

OnLive willl give you a free console if you buy a game

http://venturebeat.com/2011/02/25/onlive-willl-give-you-a-free-console-if-you-buy-a-game/

15 years ago

58 upvotes – 34 comments

The US health care wait times myth

http://theincidentaleconomist.com/wordpress/enough-with-the-wait-times-already/

15 years ago

56 upvotes – 56 comments

Nastiest Python list comprehension ever

http://blog.garlicsim.org/post/3504711416/nastiest-python-list-comprehension-ever

15 years ago

56 upvotes – 52 comments

Jury Nullification Advocate Faces Indictment

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/26/nyregion/26jury.html?hp

15 years ago

54 upvotes – 49 comments

Kayak Explore - see where you can go for how much

http://www.kayak.com/explore/?airport=YYC#/YYC?a=any&d=any&fb=290,2000&l=any&ll=1.58183,-0.175781&ns=n&s=0&t=0,100&z=3

15 years ago

54 upvotes – 22 comments

Take Control of Your Twitter Data: Introducing Crowdbooster (YC S10) Pro Exports

http://blog.crowdbooster.com/take-control-of-your-twitter-data-introducing

15 years ago

54 upvotes – 9 comments

Zenhabits

http://zenhabits.net/start/

15 years ago

54 upvotes – 21 comments

Write Code Like You Just Learned How to Program

http://prog21.dadgum.com/87.html

15 years ago

50 upvotes – 6 comments

Campaign to save collection of rare Alan Turing papers ends in success

http://www.thinq.co.uk/2011/2/25/turing-papers-safe-last-bletchley-park/

15 years ago

50 upvotes – 5 comments

Reminder to HN: Think "how will this software get my users laid?"

http://www.jwz.org/doc/groupware.html

15 years ago

49 upvotes – 28 comments

London Stock Exchange hauled offline after major data problem

http://www.computerworlduk.com/news/networking/3262702/london-stock-exchange-hauled-offline-after-major-data-problem/

15 years ago

47 upvotes – 14 comments

Photon: high performance PHP/Mongrel2/ZeroMQ micro framework

http://www.photon-project.com/

15 years ago

44 upvotes – 14 comments

Did launching a web startup become 10x cheaper between 1998 and 2011?

http://christophjanz.blogspot.com/2011/02/launching-web-startup-became-10x.html

15 years ago

41 upvotes – 26 comments
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