top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-04-05

Larry Page Begins Major Google Reorg: Engineers, Not Managers, In Charge

http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/20110405/exlusive-larry-page-mulls-google-reorg/

15 years ago

415 upvotes – 152 comments

Why Some People Can Run on Little Sleep and Get So Much Done

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703712504576242701752957910.html

15 years ago

286 upvotes – 125 comments

Writing Clear, Concise, Sentences

http://writing.wisc.edu/Handbook/ClearConciseSentences.html

15 years ago

272 upvotes – 71 comments

Georgify: Hacker News meets beautiful typography

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ofjfdfaleomlfanfehgblppafkijjhmi

15 years ago

235 upvotes – 94 comments

Where can I get large datasets open to the public?

http://www.quora.com/Data/Where-can-I-get-large-datasets-open-to-the-public

15 years ago

215 upvotes – 37 comments

OpenSSL memory use in Node.js

http://journal.paul.querna.org/articles/2011/04/05/openssl-memory-use/

15 years ago

196 upvotes – 14 comments

What skills do self-taught programmers commonly lack?

http://www.quora.com/What-skills-do-self-taught-programmers-commonly-lack

15 years ago

181 upvotes – 144 comments

The Prime That Wasn’t

http://zmievski.org/2010/08/the-prime-that-wasnt?

15 years ago

176 upvotes – 32 comments

Self-Taught Programmers vs CS-Educated Programmers

http://chezpete.posterous.com/self-taught-programmer-vs-cs-educated-program

15 years ago

169 upvotes – 132 comments

Tell HN: Khan Academy is hiring full-time devs

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2412000

15 years ago

163 upvotes – 33 comments

India Graduates Millions, But Too Few Are Fit to Hire

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB20001424052748703515504576142092863219826.html

15 years ago

162 upvotes – 150 comments

Things You Must Do Every Week As Startup CEO

http://betashop.com/post/4367407080/13-things-you-must-do-every-week-as-a-startup-ceo

15 years ago

157 upvotes – 22 comments

SpaceX Falcon Heavy announced: 53 metric tons to low earth orbit

http://www.spacex.com/falcon_heavy.php

15 years ago

155 upvotes – 99 comments

Let us pay for this service so it won't go down

http://www.marco.org/4372312713

15 years ago

129 upvotes – 64 comments

Starting Up Silicon Valley Style

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0fYKnKbM6s

15 years ago

128 upvotes – 19 comments

Dapper.NET - "micro-ORM" that poweres StackOverflow goes opensource

http://code.google.com/p/dapper-dot-net/

15 years ago

120 upvotes – 25 comments

Source for Predator Object Tracking (OpenCV)

https://github.com/abelsson/TLD/

15 years ago

116 upvotes – 31 comments

Stop Panhandling your Ideas

http://bennesvig.com/post/4363890591/stop-panhandling-your-ideas

15 years ago

109 upvotes – 18 comments

Learn MongoDB

http://mongly.com/

15 years ago

108 upvotes – 8 comments

Feynman Algorithm

http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?FeynmanAlgorithm

15 years ago

91 upvotes – 35 comments

High-Performance Web Applications in Haskell

http://qconlondon.com/dl/qcon-london-2011/slides/GregoryCollins_HighPerformanceWebApplicationsInHaskell.pdf

15 years ago

90 upvotes – 30 comments

Wozniak: Tablet is the PC for 'normal people'

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/040411-wozniak-tablet-is-the-pc.html

15 years ago

84 upvotes – 75 comments

From reddit to Hipmunk: if it ain't broke, don't fix it.

http://meetthefounders.com/meet-steve-huffman-cofounder-of-reddit-and-hi

15 years ago

84 upvotes – 10 comments

TI buys National Semiconductor for $6.5B

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9215480/Update_TI_buys_National_Semiconductor_for_6.5B

15 years ago

81 upvotes – 19 comments

MongoDB Interactive Geospatial Tutorial

http://mongly.com/geo/index

15 years ago

79 upvotes – 24 comments

Moving a Production MySQL Database to Amazon RDS with Minimal Downtime

http://geehwan.posterous.com/moving-a-production-mysql-database-to-amazon

15 years ago

75 upvotes – 8 comments

Evercookie

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

15 years ago

75 upvotes – 17 comments

Zed Shaw's Advanced Network Architectures With ZeroMQ at Pycon 2011 [video]

http://vodpod.com/watch/5757197-pycon-2011-advanced-network-architectures-with-zeromq

15 years ago

75 upvotes – 13 comments

DotCloud gets NodeJS support

http://blog.dotcloud.com/dotcloud-gets-nodejs-support

15 years ago

72 upvotes – 19 comments

OwnLocal (YC W10) makes newspapers money with Web 2.0 tools

http://thenextweb.com/apps/2011/04/05/ownlocal-is-cleverly-making-old-newspapers-money-with-white-label-products-and-web-2-0-makeovers/

15 years ago

71 upvotes – 25 comments

Baydin Closes Its $375,000 Funding Round (In An UberCab, Per Our Suggestion)

http://techcrunch.com/2011/04/05/baydin-closes-its-375000-funding-round-in-an-ubercab-per-our-suggestion/

15 years ago

70 upvotes – 10 comments

Steve Jobs Interview about the Blue Box Story

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFURM8O-oYI

15 years ago

67 upvotes – 28 comments

The Gandhi Nobody Knows (1983)

http://replay.waybackmachine.org/20090226171138/http://history.eserver.org/ghandi-nobody-knows.txt

15 years ago

66 upvotes – 40 comments

Google, Facebook take France to court over privacy

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gcIROpaIgngw8P1fO7BXywMIhe5Q?docId=CNG.897aaf456d2691082257863ec5125653.311

15 years ago

66 upvotes – 19 comments

WakeMate Shipping Internationally

http://blog.wakemate.com/2011/04/04/wakemate-is-shipping-internationally/

15 years ago

62 upvotes – 33 comments

Orchestra.io - PHP Platform as a service

http://orchestra.io/

15 years ago

61 upvotes – 28 comments

Engine Yard AppCloud: free 500 hours for new customers

http://www.engineyard.com/blog/2011/try-appcloud-risk-free/

15 years ago

60 upvotes – 21 comments

Cyberpunk is dead?

http://w3.cultdeadcow.com/cms/2011/03/cyberpunk-is-dead.html

15 years ago

60 upvotes – 65 comments

Tenenbaum Appeal Heard: Is It OK to Make Someone Pay $675K for 30 Songs?

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110404/22551013777/tenenbaum-appeal-heard-is-it-okay-to-make-someone-pay-675000-downloading-30-songs.shtml

15 years ago

57 upvotes – 40 comments

80 Startups Rejected From NYC Job Fair Launch Rival Gathering

http://mashable.com/2011/04/05/nyc-startups-job-fair/

15 years ago

57 upvotes – 8 comments

Why Does Facebook Hate This Woman?

http://www.whattofix.com/blog/archives/2011/04/why-does-facebo.php

15 years ago

55 upvotes – 26 comments

Some thoughts on incumbents

http://cdixon.org/2011/04/04/some-thoughts-on-incumbents/

15 years ago

55 upvotes – 2 comments

The history of UTF-8 as told by Rob Pike

http://doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/utf-8_history

15 years ago

47 upvotes – 2 comments

Aspen is a Python web server. Simplates are the main attraction.

http://aspen.io/simplates/

15 years ago

44 upvotes – 39 comments

Optimizing Cache Performance on Posterous

http://technology.posterous.com/planning-and-engineering-your-cache-for-maxim-0

15 years ago

43 upvotes – 3 comments
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