top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-04-11

Notice: Experimenting with HN

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2434333

15 years ago

412 upvotes – 209 comments

Apple AirTunes private key extracted

http://www.mafipulation.org/blagoblig/2011/04/08#shairport

15 years ago

371 upvotes – 94 comments

Peter Thiel: We’re in a Higher Education Bubble

http://techcrunch.com/2011/04/10/peter-thiel-were-in-a-bubble-and-its-not-the-internet-its-higher-education/

15 years ago

343 upvotes – 132 comments

IPad 2 gets glasses-free 3D display using front-facing camera for head tracking

http://www.tuaw.com/2011/04/11/ipad-2-gets-glasses-free-3d-display-using-front-facing-camera-fo/

15 years ago

275 upvotes – 50 comments

ReCAPTCHA Founder's New Startup: Killing Two Birds With One Stone

http://duolingo.com

15 years ago

273 upvotes – 51 comments

Ask HN: Why can't I make as much as I make?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2432778

15 years ago

262 upvotes – 114 comments

"Diff for HN": Update and highlight changes

http://www.mrspeaker.net/2011/04/11/hackernews-bookmarklet/

15 years ago

234 upvotes – 30 comments

White Hat SEO: It F$#ing Works

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/white-hat-seo-it-fing-works-12421

15 years ago

206 upvotes – 52 comments

What Lucky People Do Different

http://www.jonathanfields.com/blog/what-lucky-people-do-differently/

15 years ago

191 upvotes – 43 comments

Copy-on-write B-tree finally beaten.

http://tm.durusau.net/?p=9346

15 years ago

188 upvotes – 48 comments

Three signs you have a management problem. And that problem might be you

http://www.businessinsider.com/three-signs-you-have-a-management-problem-and-that-problem-might-be-you-2011-4?page=1

15 years ago

187 upvotes – 27 comments

Judge to copyright troll: your "business model" isn't my problem

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/04/judge-to-copyright-troll-your-business-model-isnt-my-problem.ars

15 years ago

159 upvotes – 43 comments

Now Chrome disables Quicktime plugin by default

http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=78768

15 years ago

148 upvotes – 133 comments

Google Modifies HTTP, Makes Chrome 50% Faster

http://www.conceivablytech.com/6696/products/google-chrome-gets-spdy-and-an-onscreen-keyboard

15 years ago

141 upvotes – 78 comments

Virgin Galactic hiring fulltime astronauts

http://careers.virgin.com/search/1921/

15 years ago

129 upvotes – 32 comments

The Pyramid Method: A Simple Strategy for Becoming Exceptionally Good

http://calnewport.com/blog/2009/06/03/the-pyramid-method-a-simple-strategy-for-becoming-exceptionally-good/

15 years ago

128 upvotes – 25 comments

Followup on the star torn apart by a black hole: Hubble picture

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2011/04/07/followup-on-the-star-torn-apart-by-a-black-hole-hubble-picture/

15 years ago

110 upvotes – 20 comments

Aviary has slick HTML5 image editor. Add to your webapp now. Source code soon.

http://www.aviary.com/html5

15 years ago

106 upvotes – 15 comments

Settlement in George Hotz Case

http://blog.us.playstation.com/2011/04/11/settlement-in-george-hotz-case/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=george_hotz_041111

15 years ago

106 upvotes – 107 comments

Adobe Creative Suite now in subscription form

http://www.adobe.com/products/creativesuite/cssubscription.html

15 years ago

104 upvotes – 69 comments

Stop Google's Exploitation of Open Communities

http://brainoff.com/weblog/2011/04/11/1635

15 years ago

103 upvotes – 28 comments

Google's Social Strategy

http://cdixon.org/2011/04/10/googles-social-strategy/

15 years ago

102 upvotes – 41 comments

YC Reject - We've been offered an investment to fund our Summer 2011 class

http://www.ycreject.com/2011/04/yc-reject-has-been-approached-with.html

15 years ago

101 upvotes – 71 comments

Overcoming Impostor Syndrome

http://www.jeanhsu.com/?p=304

15 years ago

99 upvotes – 22 comments

Scientists Settle centuries-old debate on perception

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-04-scientists-centuries-old-debate-perception.html

15 years ago

96 upvotes – 12 comments

Canadian Conservatives commit to Internet surveillance.

http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/5733/125/

15 years ago

93 upvotes – 32 comments

Ask HN: Tips/secrets for partnering with large businesses?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2434919

15 years ago

91 upvotes – 30 comments

After 11 years, a new "Programming in Standard ML" [pdf]

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rwh/smlbook/

15 years ago

87 upvotes – 21 comments

Every Unicode character shown once per frame as a 33-minute movie

http://netpoetic.com/2011/04/unicode/

15 years ago

87 upvotes – 47 comments

Simon Peyton-Jones - A Taste of Haskell

http://ontwik.com/haskell/simon-peyton-jones-a-taste-of-haskell/

15 years ago

87 upvotes – 24 comments

Court says Winklevoss twins must accept Facebook deal

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/04/11/us-facebook-winklevoss-idUSTRE73A5DX20110411

15 years ago

80 upvotes – 43 comments

Open Source at Google: Introducing CityHash

http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2011/04/introducing-cityhash.html

15 years ago

78 upvotes – 16 comments

Here comes China: $95 Cortex-A9 Android tablet (video review)

http://armdevices.net/2011/04/09/95-cortex-a9-tablet-review-kinstone-ks-umd070a9/

15 years ago

77 upvotes – 40 comments

Bing Now Powers 30% of US Searches

http://thenextweb.com/microsoft/2011/04/11/bing-now-powers-30-of-us-searches/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheNextWeb+%28The+Next+Web+All+Stories%29

15 years ago

76 upvotes – 98 comments

World’s 2nd deadliest poison, in an aquarium store near you

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2011/04/05/world%E2%80%99s-2nd-deadliest-poison-in-an-aquarium-store-near-you/

15 years ago

75 upvotes – 37 comments

Adobe introduces subscription pricing model (Photoshop for $35/month)

http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/pressroom/pressreleases/201104/041111AdobeCreativeSuite5.5.html

15 years ago

74 upvotes – 37 comments

OOP = FP?

http://blog.vivekhaldar.com/post/4525315474/oop-fp

15 years ago

71 upvotes – 59 comments

23andMe Genetic Testing Kit Free with a Year Long Membership of $108

http://www.yourgeneticgenealogist.com/2011/04/23andme-sale-on-monday.html

15 years ago

71 upvotes – 51 comments

Don't Store Passwords, Generate Them When Needed

http://16s.us/sha1_pass/why/

15 years ago

70 upvotes – 59 comments

Crocodoc, inDinero and ReadyForZero on NBC's Press:Here

http://blog.crocodoc.com/crocodoc-featured-on-nbcs-presshere

15 years ago

69 upvotes – 2 comments

To the young brilliant minds

http://scripting.com/stories/2011/04/11/toTheYoungBrilliantMinds.html

15 years ago

68 upvotes – 53 comments

ISteve: The Steve Jobs authorized biography

http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory?id=13343409

15 years ago

67 upvotes – 15 comments

Touch based WP7 programing environment and language by Microsoft Research

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/touchstudio/

15 years ago

67 upvotes – 15 comments

How did I get 38 willing-to-pay customers before writing code?

http://artsyeditor.com/2011/04/how-did-i-get-38-willing-to-pay-customers-before-writing-code/

15 years ago

66 upvotes – 20 comments

Visualizing Directed Edges in Graphs: Don't Use Arrows

http://datamining.typepad.com/data_mining/2011/04/visualizing-directed-edges-in-graphs-dont-use-arrows.html

15 years ago

64 upvotes – 14 comments

Stack Exchange release open source Redis client

http://marcgravell.blogspot.com/2011/04/async-redis-await-booksleeve.html

15 years ago

57 upvotes – 1 comments

Google Unveils Message For Japan

http://www.messagesforjapan.com/

15 years ago

54 upvotes – 25 comments

A virtual pet that helps you raise your TDD practice.

http://www.happyprog.com/tdgotchi/

15 years ago

52 upvotes – 14 comments

One script closer to designing in the browser

http://livejs.com/

15 years ago

48 upvotes – 5 comments

HireFire - The Heroku Worker Manager

https://github.com/meskyanichi/hirefire

15 years ago

44 upvotes – 18 comments

Startup Weekend in San Jose April 15th

http://sanjose.startupweekend.org/2010/11/10/startup-weekend-new-event/

15 years ago

44 upvotes – 19 comments
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