top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-04-08

Crash Course: Design for Startups

http://paulstamatiou.com/startup-web-design-ux-crash-course

15 years ago

523 upvotes – 33 comments

Birth and Death of Microsoft Bing

http://myprasanna.posterous.com/birth-and-death-of-microsoft-bing

15 years ago

322 upvotes – 123 comments

Why Can't Developers Estimate Time?

http://blog.patchspace.co.uk/why-cant-developers-estimate-time

15 years ago

250 upvotes – 126 comments

We need a GitHub of Science

http://marciovm.com/i-want-a-github-of-science

15 years ago

246 upvotes – 62 comments

Why T-shirts matter at tech companies

http://blog.adamnash.com/2010/11/29/why-t-shirts-matter/

15 years ago

243 upvotes – 141 comments

Why do apps from the same company look worse on Android than on iPhone?

http://android-gripes.tumblr.com/post/4409289546/why-do-apps-from-the-same-company-look-worse-on-android

15 years ago

219 upvotes – 130 comments

YouTube is going Live

http://youtube-global.blogspot.com/2011/04/youtube-is-going-live.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+youtube%2FPKJx+%28YouTube+Blog%29

15 years ago

195 upvotes – 79 comments

Lorempixum: Generate placeholder images (not just gray boxes)

http://lorempixum.com/

15 years ago

180 upvotes – 34 comments

My startup story: from big idea to thriving business in 8 short years

http://blog.traysoft.com/2011/04/my_startup_story/

15 years ago

165 upvotes – 19 comments

Google acquires ITA Software

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/04/ita-software-acquisition-cleared-for.html

15 years ago

162 upvotes – 76 comments

Meet the IOIO - USB breakout board for android w/48 digital+analog IO pins

http://ytai-mer.blogspot.com/2011/04/meet-ioio-io-for-android.html

15 years ago

143 upvotes – 30 comments

Larry Page completes major reorganization of Google

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2011/04/exclusive-google-ceo-larry-page-completes-major-reorganization-of-internet-search-giant.html

15 years ago

136 upvotes – 34 comments

We mistakenly marked about 50 applications as late

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2425577

15 years ago

126 upvotes – 55 comments

The JavaScript Age

http://metamarketsgroup.com/blog/node-js-and-the-javascript-age/

15 years ago

119 upvotes – 50 comments

Mint’s Original Marketing Plan (circa 2007)

http://thestartupfoundry.com/2011/04/08/mints-original-marketing-plan-circa-2007/

15 years ago

113 upvotes – 14 comments

New engine shakes up auto industry

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42460541/ns/technology_and_science-innovation/

15 years ago

107 upvotes – 44 comments

Fighting to Shut Out the Real India

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/07/world/asia/07iht-letter07.html

15 years ago

107 upvotes – 86 comments

Google has developed speech-recognition technology that actually works.

http://www.slate.com/id/2290516

15 years ago

101 upvotes – 49 comments

Recommender Systems: We're doing it (all) wrong

http://technocalifornia.blogspot.com/2011/04/recommender-systems-were-doing-it-all.html

15 years ago

85 upvotes – 35 comments

Dropbox + git = Designer Luv

http://pivotallabs.com/users/ken/blog/articles/1637-dropbox-git-designer-luv

15 years ago

83 upvotes – 40 comments

Are grains making us fat? If so, we should be much thinner than 1914.

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2011/04/are-grains-making-us-fat/237030/

15 years ago

77 upvotes – 79 comments

Formerly good at math, but I've lost my skills. Any advice to grow them back?

http://math.stackexchange.com/q/23566

15 years ago

75 upvotes – 43 comments

How would you store 500TB of stuff you don't need everyday?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2423146

15 years ago

74 upvotes – 65 comments

English as a second language: Test results on the most fluent countries

http://www.economist.com/blogs/johnson/2011/04/english?fsrc=scn/tw/te/bl/whospeaksenglish

15 years ago

71 upvotes – 77 comments

NASA Gives Up on LISA

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2011/04/06/nasa-gives-up-on-lisa/

15 years ago

67 upvotes – 40 comments

Nikki and the Robots: Open Source Videogame Written in Haskell

http://joyridelabs.de/game/

15 years ago

66 upvotes – 15 comments

List Comprehensions in C

http://benlynn.blogspot.com/2011/04/list-comprehensions-in-c.html

15 years ago

63 upvotes – 8 comments

Avoiding Arbitrary Code Execution with nginx and php-fastcgi

https://nealpoole.com/blog/2011/04/setting-up-php-fastcgi-and-nginx-dont-trust-the-tutorials-check-your-configuration/

15 years ago

61 upvotes – 15 comments

Relativistic Statistical Arbitrage

http://www.cfreer.org/papers/PhysRevE_82-056104.pdf

15 years ago

54 upvotes – 17 comments

Free hosting for static websites

http://coralrift.com/

15 years ago

54 upvotes – 18 comments

InboxQ (YC W10): Snagging Customer Leads from Twitter

http://blogs.forbes.com/tomtaulli/2011/04/08/inboxq-snagging-customer-leads-from-twitter/

15 years ago

53 upvotes – 14 comments

Pinpointing your location to Within 690 Meters

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

15 years ago

53 upvotes – 12 comments

Why Learning Prolog Can Make You a Better Programmer

http://coliveira.net/software/why-learning-prolog-can-make-you-a-better-programmer/

15 years ago

53 upvotes – 30 comments

A Quick Node.js Jumpstart

http://intridea.com/2011/4/8/nodejs-jumpstart

15 years ago

52 upvotes – 10 comments

Phone peripherals powered by audio jack

http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~prabal/projects/hijack/

15 years ago

48 upvotes – 13 comments

Grokking Org-mode and putting it in charge

http://old.blog.sean.whitton.me/2011/04/grokking-org-mode-putting-it-in-charge.html

15 years ago

48 upvotes – 21 comments

India's skewed sex ratio

http://www.economist.com/node/18530371

15 years ago

47 upvotes – 40 comments

Ask HN: What's the average salary for a Web Python Developer in California?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2423493

15 years ago

47 upvotes – 52 comments

Steve Wozniak says would consider return to Apple

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/04/08/us-apple-wozniak-idUSTRE7375PU20110408

15 years ago

45 upvotes – 32 comments

TIOBE language popularity absurdity

http://accidentalidad.wordpress.com/2011/04/07/8/

15 years ago

43 upvotes – 16 comments

How to Build an Effective Startup Press Kit

http://sprouter.com/blog/how-to-build-an-effective-startup-press-kit/

15 years ago

43 upvotes – 7 comments

TED talk about "Open Science" debate TEDxWaterloo

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/tag/michael-nielsen/

15 years ago

43 upvotes – 5 comments

Hedgehog: an embedded Lisp in 20k

http://hedgehog.oliotalo.fi/

15 years ago

42 upvotes – 7 comments
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