top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-04-06

Jason Fried: Why I Run a Flat Company

http://www.inc.com/magazine/20110401/jason-fried-why-i-run-a-flat-company.html

15 years ago

435 upvotes – 179 comments

The Montessori Mafia

http://blogs.wsj.com/ideas-market/2011/04/05/the-montessori-mafia/

15 years ago

263 upvotes – 151 comments

Meet news:yc, the open source Hacker News client for your iPhone.

http://newsyc.me/??

15 years ago

261 upvotes – 53 comments

Must Read CS Books For Self Self-Taught Programmers

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2414280

15 years ago

251 upvotes – 61 comments

Plain Text Offenders - Did you just email me back my own password?

http://plaintextoffenders.com/

15 years ago

234 upvotes – 141 comments

The traveling German carpenters

http://blog.intellum.com/2011/04/traveling-german-carpenters.html

15 years ago

180 upvotes – 42 comments

GNOME 3 Released

http://gnome3.org/

15 years ago

178 upvotes – 98 comments

Firefox Add-ons with the Slowest Start-up

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/performance/

15 years ago

167 upvotes – 49 comments

Writing code with MS Paint

http://i.min.us/ikq8hS.gif

15 years ago

167 upvotes – 52 comments

"A JVM Does What?"

http://jeremymanson.blogspot.com/2011/04/cliff-click-in-jvm-does-what.html

15 years ago

166 upvotes – 20 comments

Richard Branson Announces Virgin Oceanic Submarine

http://www.dailytech.com/Richard+Branson+Announces+Virgin+Oceanic+Submarine+/article21307.htm

15 years ago

135 upvotes – 46 comments

The developer of the indie-game Minecraft is doing an AMA on reddit

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/gjrf4/iama_indie_game_developer_who_made_a_commercially/

15 years ago

117 upvotes – 30 comments

I support Gus

http://supportgus.dk/

15 years ago

110 upvotes – 72 comments

Show HN: NationBuilder, my startup just launched

http://nationbuilder.com/

15 years ago

109 upvotes – 93 comments

π = 3 (sometimes) for Nobel laureate

http://ask.metafilter.com/182210/Is-this-where-Im-supposed-to-use-the-phrase-selfappointed-defender-of-the-orthodoxy#2621825

15 years ago

105 upvotes – 37 comments

WSJ: "India Graduates Millions But Too Few Are Fit to Hire" - Yes, But .....

http://blogs.zoho.com/general/wsj-india-graduates-millions-but-too-few-are-fit-to-hire-yes-but

15 years ago

105 upvotes – 73 comments

LinkedIn Announces New Platform

http://blog.linkedin.com/2011/04/06/linkedin-developer-platform/

15 years ago

103 upvotes – 28 comments

Creepy iPhone bug: front facing camera takes pictures by itself.

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2792410&tstart=0

15 years ago

101 upvotes – 46 comments

Latest Everything: Bot shows signs of consciousness

http://sixwoffers.blogspot.com/2011/04/bot-shows-signs-of-consciousness.html

15 years ago

97 upvotes – 34 comments

10,000-core Linux supercomputer built in Amazon cloud

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/040611-linux-supercomputer.html

15 years ago

94 upvotes – 44 comments

Competition Doesn't Matter. Look at Dropbox.

http://blog.waxman.me/competition-doesnt-matter-look-at-dropbox

15 years ago

93 upvotes – 48 comments

Mono for Android released with Visual Studio 2010 integration

http://mono-android.net/

15 years ago

90 upvotes – 70 comments

An Engineer's Explanation of the Fukushima Incident

https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=11RJz6KCYjVa6M8urvzO0tYq1SjbgqQwW5zw8nquMshzBqSNxn2n3leC_O8hP&hl=en

15 years ago

84 upvotes – 25 comments

Hacker News Guidelines

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html?

15 years ago

82 upvotes – 27 comments

CKAN - The CPAN of data

http://ckan.net/

15 years ago

77 upvotes – 14 comments

The Unix Tree

http://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl

15 years ago

74 upvotes – 7 comments

Is Stealth Mode Stupid?

http://blog.eladgil.com/2011/04/is-stealth-mode-stupid.html

15 years ago

74 upvotes – 22 comments

Clever CSS Easter Egg: Search Google For “Tilt” Or “Askew” On Your Smartphone

http://thenextweb.com/google/2011/04/06/fun-tip-search-google-for-tilt-or-askew-on-your-smartphone/

15 years ago

70 upvotes – 16 comments

Fundamental Guidelines Of E-Commerce Checkout Design

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2011/04/06/fundamental-guidelines-of-e-commerce-checkout-design/

15 years ago

70 upvotes – 16 comments

Unqualified Names in the SSL Observatory

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/04/unqualified-names-ssl-observatory

15 years ago

67 upvotes – 9 comments

Netflix: Run Consistency Checkers All The Time To Fixup Transactions

http://highscalability.com/blog/2011/4/6/netflix-run-consistency-checkers-all-the-time-to-fixup-trans.html

15 years ago

66 upvotes – 8 comments

YC Summer 2011 Applicants Live Web Chat

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2417519

15 years ago

61 upvotes – 11 comments

The Lisp keyboards

http://deskthority.net/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=98&ok

15 years ago

60 upvotes – 38 comments

CoSQL: SQL and noSQL are really just two sides of the same coin

http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2011/4/106584-a-co-relational-model-of-data-for-large-shared-data-banks/fulltext

15 years ago

60 upvotes – 17 comments

Ask HN: What's the relationship between App Store Top Grossing Rank and Revenue?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2413806

15 years ago

59 upvotes – 16 comments

Cocoa's NSMutableArray changes implementation based on the size of the dataset

http://ridiculousfish.com/blog/archives/2005/12/23/array/

15 years ago

58 upvotes – 16 comments

From 15 to 55,000: A 24 hour experiment on the App Store

http://www.glasshouseapps.com/2011/04/from-15-to-55000-a-24-hour-experiment-in-the-free-app-market/

15 years ago

56 upvotes – 8 comments

Selling to Developers: Dealing with “I’ll do it myself”

http://blog.windsoc.co/2011/04/05/dealing-with-ill-do-it-myself/

15 years ago

56 upvotes – 18 comments

Introduction to Node.js with Ryan Dahl

http://ontwik.com/javascript/introduction-to-node-js-with-ryan-dahl/

15 years ago

55 upvotes – 21 comments

Harvard Online Master’s Degree

http://www.productivity501.com/harvard-masters-degree/6463/

15 years ago

55 upvotes – 33 comments

Are Biology PhD students the most miserable?

http://scienceblogs.com/bioephemera/2011/03/are_biology_graduate_students.php

15 years ago

53 upvotes – 47 comments

Kindle and Nook readers bash high e-book pricing with angry one-star reviews

http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-18438_7-20051201-82.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20

15 years ago

53 upvotes – 74 comments

Are you chasing a fad or a market?

http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/2011/04/are-you-chasing-a-fad-or-a-market.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+yegg+%28Gabriel+Weinberg%27s+Blog%29

15 years ago

53 upvotes – 12 comments

At Particle Lab, a Tantalizing Glimpse Has Physicists Holding Their Breaths

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/06/science/06particle.html

15 years ago

52 upvotes – 19 comments

Fukushima from Afar: Realtime Data that Matters

http://blog.cloudant.com/fukushima/

15 years ago

52 upvotes – 5 comments

Ask HN: How to give submission a second chance?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2414537

15 years ago

50 upvotes – 18 comments

How much more difficult is it to build a startup with a single founder?

http://www.quora.com/How-much-more-difficult-is-it-to-build-a-startup-with-a-single-founder-versus-having-two-founders

15 years ago

50 upvotes – 38 comments

Ask HN: What are you working on?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2415837

15 years ago

46 upvotes – 95 comments

Gmail and Google Contacts, brought together by Rapportive (YC S10)

http://blog.rapportive.com/address-book-inbox-together-at-last

15 years ago

45 upvotes – 13 comments

Show HN: measure curiosity of your website users

http://popify.me

15 years ago

45 upvotes – 33 comments

Self promotion ideas: Novel resumes

http://blogof.francescomugnai.com/2011/04/self-promotion-ideas-15-new-modern-and-inspirational-resumes/

15 years ago

45 upvotes – 16 comments

Rate my startup: Zwapp, a unique social view of the App Store

http://www.zwapp.com

15 years ago

44 upvotes – 21 comments
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