top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-04-04

Tron Legacy: how the special effects were done

http://jtnimoy.net/workviewer.php?q=178

15 years ago

419 upvotes – 77 comments

Show HN: my weekend project, Gumroad

http://gumroad.com/

15 years ago

396 upvotes – 202 comments

How to find startup ideas that make money

http://www.paraschopra.com/blog/entrepreneurship/how-to-find-startup-ideas-that-make-money.htm?src=hn

15 years ago

305 upvotes – 44 comments

Sshuttle - tunnel all your traffic through ssh

https://github.com/apenwarr/sshuttle

15 years ago

★ 8.8k Python
228 upvotes – 66 comments

Introducing the New Commodore 64

http://www.commodoreusa.net/CUSA_C64.aspx

15 years ago

225 upvotes – 92 comments

Show HN: My weekend project, tracking the services you can't have in Canada

http://cantada.ca

15 years ago

212 upvotes – 118 comments

Facebook Ads: The Cheapest Traffic You'll Ever Buy

http://blog.imranghory.org/facebook-ads-the-cheapest-traffic-youll-ever

15 years ago

183 upvotes – 57 comments

The Möbius Gear

http://robotics.eecs.berkeley.edu/~ahoover/Moebius.html

15 years ago

164 upvotes – 21 comments

Patents and innovation

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/04/patents-and-innovation.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2FMKuf+%28Official+Google+Blog%29&utm_content=Google+Reader

15 years ago

161 upvotes – 48 comments

On Tesla's induction motor

http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2011/04/induction_motors

15 years ago

157 upvotes – 77 comments

A few of my Git tricks, tips and workflows

http://nuclearsquid.com/writings/git-tricks-tips-workflows.html

15 years ago

149 upvotes – 19 comments

Raphters, a web framework for C

https://github.com/DanielWaterworth/raphters

15 years ago

★ 1.2k C LGPL-3.0
145 upvotes – 64 comments

Canadian-backed report says piracy is a market failure, not a legal one

http://www.thestar.com/business/article/956637--geist-canadian-backed-report-says-music-movie-and-software-piracy-is-a-market-failure-not-a-legal-one

15 years ago

135 upvotes – 44 comments

Show HN: jsgif: A GIF player in JavaScript

http://slbkbs.org/jsgif

15 years ago

128 upvotes – 24 comments

How Two American Kids Became Big-time Arms Dealers

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-stoner-arms-dealers-20110316?print=true

15 years ago

128 upvotes – 50 comments

Ian Bicking: My Unsolicited Advice For PyPy

http://blog.ianbicking.org/2011/04/04/unsolicited-advice-for-pypy/

15 years ago

121 upvotes – 52 comments

335k downloads of Learning Python The Hard Way

http://sheddingbikes.com/posts/1301901149.html

15 years ago

119 upvotes – 52 comments

How To Keep Your Domain Name Searches Safe From Poachers

http://www.domainsherpa.com/prevent-domain-name-front-running/

15 years ago

111 upvotes – 81 comments

Guardian.co.uk Switching from Java to Scala

http://www.infoq.com/articles/guardian_scala

15 years ago

110 upvotes – 9 comments

A Call to All UI Designers: Do Not Play Skype’s Game

http://kaishinlab.com/no-to-skype-competition/

15 years ago

109 upvotes – 86 comments

Getting to Know Americans

http://www.nyu.edu/life/student-life/international-students-and-scholars/beyond-nyu/cultural-issues-/know-americans.html

15 years ago

106 upvotes – 169 comments

JRumble: A jQuery Plugin That Rumbles Elements

http://jackrugile.com/jrumble/

15 years ago

102 upvotes – 32 comments

Why TCP Over TCP Is A Bad Idea

http://sites.inka.de/bigred/devel/tcp-tcp.html

15 years ago

100 upvotes – 26 comments

Appcelerator Titanium: From a developer's perspective

http://tannerburson.com/2011/04/03/Thoughts-on-Appcelerator-Titanium.html

15 years ago

83 upvotes – 53 comments

Ex-Engadget Crew Starting New Site

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/04/business/media/04carr.html?_r=1

15 years ago

80 upvotes – 25 comments

Milk: Kevin Rose's New Company Aims to Solve Big Problems on the Mobile Web

http://techcrunch.com/2011/04/04/milk-kevin-roses-new-company-aims-to-solve-big-problems-on-the-mobile-web/

15 years ago

80 upvotes – 49 comments

Twitter Announces Fire Hose Marketplace: Up to 10k Keyword Filters for 30 Cents

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/twitter_announces_fire_hose_marketplace_up_to_10k.php

15 years ago

78 upvotes – 28 comments

Java implementation of algorithms from Norvig And Russell's AI

http://code.google.com/p/aima-java/

15 years ago

78 upvotes – 17 comments

XMPP over websockets [HTML5]

http://blog.superfeedr.com/xmpp-over-websockets/

15 years ago

76 upvotes – 28 comments

Model View Controller: History, theory and usage

http://amix.dk/blog/post/19615#Model-View-Controller-History-theory-and-usage

15 years ago

75 upvotes – 8 comments

Why GitHub Hacks on Side Projects

http://zachholman.com/posts/why-github-hacks-on-side-projects

15 years ago

74 upvotes – 12 comments

Mistakes Google made in scaling its organization

http://www.quora.com/What-are-the-main-mistakes-Google-has-made-in-scaling-its-organization?srid=n7

15 years ago

73 upvotes – 26 comments

Ebook Fraud

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2011/04/ebook_fraud.html

15 years ago

72 upvotes – 14 comments

Nature Sounds generator

http://naturesoundsfor.me/

15 years ago

68 upvotes – 14 comments

Dungeons & Dragons, Marketing, and Everything

http://www.conversationmarketing.com/2011/01/marketing-dungeons-dragons-2011.htm

15 years ago

67 upvotes – 9 comments

Rhythm for beginners

http://www.whitakerblackall.com/blog/music-theory-for-beginners-ii

15 years ago

65 upvotes – 12 comments

Gavin Andresen on BitCoin and Virtual Currency

http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2011/04/andresen_on_bit.html

15 years ago

63 upvotes – 45 comments

Ask HN: Recommendations on Learning Photoshop?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2406356

15 years ago

63 upvotes – 37 comments

Rands in Repose: A Hard Thing is Done by Figuring Out How to Start

http://www.randsinrepose.com/archives/2011/04/04/a_hard_thing_is_done_by_figuring_out_how_to_start.html

15 years ago

61 upvotes – 5 comments

The death of Intel Labs and what it means for industrial research

http://matt-welsh.blogspot.com/2011/04/death-of-intel-labs-and-what-it-means.html

15 years ago

60 upvotes – 17 comments

Show HN: SyncPad on 40 iPads simultaneously

http://blog.mysyncpad.com/post/4293113601/syncpad-on-40-ipads-simultaneously

15 years ago

59 upvotes – 8 comments

What are those little Xcode tips & tricks you wish you knew about 2 years ago?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/146297/what-are-those-little-xcode-tips-tricks-you-wish-you-knew-about-2-years-ago

15 years ago

58 upvotes – 2 comments

Can Etsy Scale?

http://www.inc.com/magazine/20110401/can-rob-kalin-scale-etsy.html

15 years ago

58 upvotes – 32 comments

Can You Outsource Product UX / UI Design Successfully?

http://ginzametrics.com/can-you-outsource-ux.html

15 years ago

54 upvotes – 26 comments

Images of US Military Space Drone

http://news.discovery.com/space/slide-show-military-mini-shuttle-landing-california.html

15 years ago

53 upvotes – 17 comments

Accidental Find May Lead to a Cure For Baldness

http://singularityhub.com/2011/04/02/accidental-find-may-lead-to-a-cure-for-baldness-2/

15 years ago

53 upvotes – 54 comments

MLB.com CEO: iOS users more likely to purchase content than Android users

http://www.edibleapple.com/mlb-ceo-bob-bowman-ios-more-likely-purchase-content-than-android-users/

15 years ago

52 upvotes – 60 comments

Mac users: enable certificate revocation checking

http://securityskeptic.typepad.com/the-security-skeptic/2011/04/mac-users-listen-up-enable-certificate-checking.html

15 years ago

52 upvotes – 12 comments

Lush, an object-oriented lisp for large-scale numerical and graphic applications

http://lush.sourceforge.net/

15 years ago

50 upvotes – 20 comments

Quantity Always Trumps Quality (2008)

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2008/08/quantity-always-trumps-quality.html

15 years ago

49 upvotes – 14 comments

Google Crisis Response: a small team tackling big problems

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/04/google-crisis-response-small-team.html

15 years ago

48 upvotes – 2 comments

Ask HN: What podcasts do you watch regularly?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2406319

15 years ago

45 upvotes – 41 comments

Firmin, a JavaScript animation library using CSS transforms and transitions

http://extralogical.net/articles/2011-04-04-firmin-javascript-animation/

15 years ago

43 upvotes – 11 comments

Unknown band's album illegally downloaded 100,000 times. Or is it?

http://www.torrentfreak.com/cria-watches-massive-music-piracy-crisis-devastate-unknown-band-110404/

15 years ago

42 upvotes – 12 comments

FCC Commissioner slams N. Carolina attack on city-owned broadband

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/04/fcc-commish-slams-north-carolina-anti-muni-broadband-bill.ars

15 years ago

42 upvotes – 1 comments

Yuri Milner Portrait

http://blogs.forbes.com/parmyolson/2011/03/10/yuri-milner-billionaire-facebook-day-in-the-life/

15 years ago

42 upvotes – 5 comments
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