top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-03-17

Subject: Airbnb

http://paulgraham.com/airbnb.html

15 years ago

614 upvotes – 134 comments

Entreporn, The Fallacy That Wastes Your Life

http://justinvincent.com/page/1392/entreporn-the-fallacy-that-wastes-your-life

15 years ago

607 upvotes – 227 comments

Don't distract new programmers with OOP

http://prog21.dadgum.com/93.html

15 years ago

248 upvotes – 154 comments

Imagine K12

http://www.ycombinator.com/imaginek12.html

15 years ago

230 upvotes – 81 comments

You can't do that

http://jacquesmattheij.com/you+can+not+do+that

15 years ago

218 upvotes – 88 comments

Save IE6

http://saveie6.com/

15 years ago

215 upvotes – 72 comments

This is why I sell beer.

http://jwz.livejournal.com/1373728.html

15 years ago

179 upvotes – 67 comments

Youngest Y Combinator Founders Launch MinoMonsters, The Pokemon Of Social Games

http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/17/youngest-y-combinator-founders-launch-minomonsters-the-pokemon-of-social-games/

15 years ago

148 upvotes – 80 comments

PNG that works

http://calendar.perfplanet.com/2010/png-that-works/

15 years ago

135 upvotes – 39 comments

Moki.tv (YC W11) is TV Guide for Online Movies & TV

http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/17/moki-tv-is-the-ultimate-personalized-guide-to-whats-streaming-on-the-web/

15 years ago

120 upvotes – 16 comments

JavaScript Trie Performance Analysis

http://ejohn.org/blog/javascript-trie-performance-analysis/

15 years ago

119 upvotes – 28 comments

IPad: The Microwave Oven of Computing

http://techinch.com/2011/03/17/ipad-the-microwave-oven-of-computing/

15 years ago

116 upvotes – 98 comments

New Chrome Logo

http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2011/03/new-chrome-logo.html

15 years ago

111 upvotes – 73 comments

Man upgrades Internet Explorer 1.0 to 9.0

http://www.winrumors.com/man-upgrades-internet-explorer-1-0-to-9-0-video/

15 years ago

104 upvotes – 51 comments

Damn Cool Algorithms: Levenshtein Automata

http://blog.notdot.net/2010/07/Damn-Cool-Algorithms-Levenshtein-Automata

15 years ago

99 upvotes – 8 comments

Code Standards & Front-end Development Best Practices

http://na.isobar.com/standards/

15 years ago

98 upvotes – 22 comments

Why I'm Glad I Got Fired

http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2011/03/why_im_glad_i_got_fired.html

15 years ago

94 upvotes – 31 comments

RSA hit by targeted attacks, SecurID 2-factor auth possibly compromised

http://www.rsa.com/node.aspx?id=3872

15 years ago

86 upvotes – 41 comments

Judge gives Sony access to PS3 hacker's PayPal records

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2011/03/judge-gives-sony-access-to-ps3-hackers-paypal-records.ars

15 years ago

83 upvotes – 24 comments

C? Go? Cgo

http://blog.golang.org/2011/03/c-go-cgo.html

15 years ago

79 upvotes – 24 comments

Wave Disk Engine Could Be 3.5 Times More Efficient Than Combustion Engines

http://nextbigfuture.com/2011/03/wave-disk-engines-could-be-35-times.html

15 years ago

78 upvotes – 39 comments

Your Web, Half a Second Sooner

http://googlecode.blogspot.com/2011/03/your-web-half-second-sooner.html

15 years ago

77 upvotes – 37 comments

Curebit (YC W11) productizes the Dropbox referral system

http://mashable.com/2011/03/17/curebit/

15 years ago

76 upvotes – 23 comments

The New York Times to Begin Charging for Web Use on March 28

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/18/business/media/18times.html?hp&pagewanted=all

15 years ago

76 upvotes – 121 comments

A new class of Internet start-ups is trying to turn data into money

http://www.economist.com/node/18396166?story_id=18396166&fsrc=rss

15 years ago

66 upvotes – 14 comments

On being startled by a programming language

http://bbot.org/blog/archives/2011/03/17/on_being_surprised_by_a_programming_language/

15 years ago

66 upvotes – 49 comments

Visa to Offer Person-to-person Payments (to compete with PayPal)

http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/222396/visa_to_offer_persontoperson_payments.html

15 years ago

65 upvotes – 28 comments

Why the Nitro JavaScript Engine Isn’t Available to Other iOS Apps

http://daringfireball.net/2011/03/nitro_ios_43

15 years ago

65 upvotes – 79 comments

Not in the Valley. Not funded. Not an overnight success.

http://mixergy.com/joshua-baer-capital-factory-interview/

15 years ago

65 upvotes – 1 comments

Titles and Promotions (Ben Horowitz)

http://bhorowitz.com/2011/03/17/titles-and-promotions/

15 years ago

65 upvotes – 15 comments

Xv6, a simple Unix-like teaching operating system

http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.828/xv6/

15 years ago

64 upvotes – 4 comments

A “Y Combinator For Education Startups”

http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/17/startup-veterans-launch-imagine-k12-a-y-combinator-for-education-startups/

15 years ago

58 upvotes – 13 comments

Google's Android faces a serious Linux copyright issue

http://fosspatents.blogspot.com/2011/03/googles-android-faces-serious-linux.html

15 years ago

58 upvotes – 81 comments

Tell HN: Why I want to start a startup

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2336228

15 years ago

56 upvotes – 41 comments

What PG and FW both missed about AirBNB in their email exchange

http://thegongshow.tumblr.com/post/3927745651/airbnb-0-02

15 years ago

56 upvotes – 8 comments

Github reviews as a way to improve code quality?

http://antirez.com/post/github-review-to-improve-code.html

15 years ago

55 upvotes – 33 comments

What were the key decisions that Page & Brin made in the early days of Google?

http://www.quora.com/Google-Inc-company/What-were-the-4-or-5-key-decisions-that-Larry-Page-and-Sergey-Brin-made-in-the-early-days-of-Google

15 years ago

55 upvotes – 17 comments

Github'd genome license has interesting restrictions for cloning

https://github.com/kennethreitz/genome/blob/master/LICENSE#L3

15 years ago

★ 77 HTML
54 upvotes – 18 comments

Windows Phone 7 Part Deux - Microsoft respond to developer

http://blog.dantup.com/2011/03/windows-phone-7-part-deux

15 years ago

53 upvotes – 21 comments

Dear Designer, You Aren't That Special

http://www.getfinch.com/finch/entry/dear-designer-you-aren%E2%80%99t-that-special/

15 years ago

52 upvotes – 17 comments

Rdio: No REST for the wicked

http://developer.rdio.com/blog/read/No_REST_for_the_wicked

15 years ago

52 upvotes – 28 comments

Raphael.js 2.0 beta release is out - GitHub

https://github.com/DmitryBaranovskiy/raphael/tree/2.0

15 years ago

★ 11.2k JavaScript MIT
52 upvotes – 18 comments

Whom Should You Hire at a Startup? (Attitude over Aptitude)

http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/17/whom-to-hire-at-a-startup-attitude-over-aptitude/

15 years ago

50 upvotes – 28 comments

Super "Perigee Moon" to Rise Saturday

http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2011/16mar_supermoon/

15 years ago

49 upvotes – 6 comments

A Y Combinator point of view and helpful resources

http://keepitfresh.frid.ge/post/3915901768/a-fresh-ycombinator-point-of-view-and-helpful

15 years ago

47 upvotes – 2 comments

Mountain West Ruby Conf Live Feed

http://mtnwestrubyconf.org/

15 years ago

43 upvotes – 11 comments
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