top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-04-14

Joel Spolsky on allocating ownership in your startup

http://answers.onstartups.com/questions/6949/forming-a-new-software-startup-how-do-i-allocate-ownership-fairly/23326#23326

15 years ago

441 upvotes – 67 comments

Introducing Prompt. Nice SSH for iOS.

http://www.panic.com/blog/2011/04/introducing-prompt-ssh-for-ios/

15 years ago

307 upvotes – 140 comments

Simple algorithms

http://algorithms.openmymind.net/

15 years ago

222 upvotes – 32 comments

Collection of documents that startups commonly need: Privacy Policy, NDA, etc...

http://www.pearwords.com/resources.html

15 years ago

220 upvotes – 25 comments

Pictures of the first GUIs from Xerox

http://www.digibarn.com/collections/screenshots/xerox-star-8010/index.html

15 years ago

216 upvotes – 36 comments

Rackspace cloud beats Amazon EC2, by a lot

http://scripting.com/stories/2011/04/14/rackspaceBeatsEc2ByALot.html

15 years ago

203 upvotes – 76 comments

Why no company that values their data should ever "Go Google"

http://e1ven.com/2011/04/14/why-no-company-that-values-their-data-should-ever-go-google/

15 years ago

197 upvotes – 119 comments

Teaching binary to 3rd Graders using the Socratic method

http://www.garlikov.com/Soc_Meth.html

15 years ago

195 upvotes – 31 comments

Rent the country of Liechtenstein for $70,000 a night with Airbnb

http://blog.airbnb.com/rent-anything-from-a-couchto-a-country

15 years ago

193 upvotes – 60 comments

Voyager 1 is on the edge, and so is he

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-0414-ed-stone-20110412,0,4527527.story

15 years ago

170 upvotes – 17 comments

YC: The new grad school

http://www.mattbrezina.com/blog/2011/04/yc-the-new-grad-school/

15 years ago

165 upvotes – 54 comments

Why is it so hard to be a good domain registrar?

http://www.marco.org/2011/04/14/why-is-it-so-hard-to-be-a-good-registrar

15 years ago

154 upvotes – 112 comments

XOR patent ended CD32, and Commodore-Amiga

http://xcssa.org/pipermail/xcssa/2005-February/002587.html

15 years ago

148 upvotes – 49 comments

The Tragic Death of the Flip

http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/14/the-tragic-death-of-the-flip/

15 years ago

143 upvotes – 63 comments

IGDA about the Amazon Android Appstore: just say no.

http://pastebin.com/cH7PZENi

15 years ago

137 upvotes – 64 comments

What happens when an air traffic controller is asleep?

http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2011/04/14/what-happens-when-an-air-traffic-controller-is-asleep/

15 years ago

127 upvotes – 22 comments

Concepts The Emacs Newbie Should Master

http://benjisimon.blogspot.com/2011/04/10-concepts-emacs-newbie-should-master.html

15 years ago

122 upvotes – 48 comments

Ace of spades, Minecraft like FPS

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/04/13/10-reasons-you-need-to-play-ace-of-spades

15 years ago

118 upvotes – 37 comments

North Carolina cities mobilize against anti-muni broadband bill

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/04/north-carolina-cities-mobilize-against-anti-muni-broadband-bill.ars

15 years ago

118 upvotes – 13 comments

Protip for salary seekers: H1-B filings are public

http://www.flcdatacenter.com/CaseH1B.aspx

15 years ago

115 upvotes – 41 comments

The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race

http://www.ditext.com/diamond/mistake.html

15 years ago

111 upvotes – 108 comments

Tweetbot

http://tapbots.com/software/tweetbot/

15 years ago

110 upvotes – 42 comments

Safari to join "Do Not Track" crowd, leaving Google behind

http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2011/04/safari-to-gain-do-not-track-support-in-lion.ars

15 years ago

91 upvotes – 44 comments

Top Missing PostgreSQL Features

http://blog.kimiensoftware.com/2011/04/top-10-missing-postgresql-features/

15 years ago

91 upvotes – 31 comments

Hacker Monthly: One year old, 5000 subscribers

http://hackermonthly.posterous.com/one-year-old-5000-subscribers

15 years ago

90 upvotes – 23 comments

VMware CloudFoundry: Ruby powered PaaS

http://www.igvita.com/2011/04/14/vmware-cloudfoundry-ruby-powered-paas/

15 years ago

85 upvotes – 7 comments

Running a Modern Startup on PHP

http://blog.chartboost.com/post/4591949888/php-agile-development

15 years ago

76 upvotes – 72 comments

Calendar Apps Suck, Here Are My Suggestions

http://brooksreview.net/2010/09/sucky-calendars/

15 years ago

70 upvotes – 26 comments

Twenty Years of Linux according to Linus Torvalds

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/twenty-years-of-linux-according-to-linus-torvalds/8663

15 years ago

64 upvotes – 7 comments

Sorting algorithms demonstrated with Hungarian folk dance

http://flowingdata.com/2011/04/14/sorting-algorithms-demonstrated-with-hungarian-folk-dance/

15 years ago

61 upvotes – 20 comments

.htaccess tester

http://htaccess.madewithlove.be/

15 years ago

61 upvotes – 15 comments

Visualization of Home Price Reductions

http://explore.trulia.com/datavis/priceredux/Q1-2011/

15 years ago

60 upvotes – 7 comments

The iPad will see you now: drchrono EHR on the iPad

http://mashable.com/2011/04/14/dr-chrono/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+Mashable+(Mashable)

15 years ago

52 upvotes – 18 comments

Why we're going back to NYC to build Tutorspree

http://www.aaronkharris.com/post/4597607168/alley-vs-valley-or-why-were-coming-home

15 years ago

51 upvotes – 17 comments

Garry mods Garry's Mod to catch pirates

http://www.joystiq.com/2011/04/13/garry-mods-garrys-mod-to-catch-pirates/

15 years ago

49 upvotes – 16 comments

Compiling to Java as a target language

http://matt.might.net/articles/compiling-to-java/

15 years ago

46 upvotes – 12 comments

Scala + Mozart/Oz

http://lists.gforge.info.ucl.ac.be/pipermail/mozart-users/2011/011766.html

15 years ago

45 upvotes – 12 comments

Microsoft confirms IE10 won't run on Vista, millions of IE9 users shrug

http://www.engadget.com/2011/04/14/microsoft-confirms-ie10-wont-run-on-vista-millions-of-ie9-user/

15 years ago

45 upvotes – 52 comments

Ban email archives thrown open in devastating financial crash report

http://www.computerworlduk.com/news/it-business/3274277/bank-email-archives-thrown-open-in-devastating-financial-crash-report/1

15 years ago

44 upvotes – 28 comments

Startup Office Hours?

http://betashop.com/post/4611273735/startup-office-hours

15 years ago

42 upvotes – 21 comments

Game makers says Amazon’s Android appstore terms are greedy

http://venturebeat.com/2011/04/14/game-makers-says-amazons-android-appstore-terms-are-greedy/

15 years ago

41 upvotes – 10 comments

Apple Hiring a Team to Build "the Future of Cloud Services"

http://www.readwriteweb.com/cloud/2011/04/apple-hiring-a-team-to-build-t.php

15 years ago

41 upvotes – 9 comments

Anarchism, Capitalism, Altruism : Why do I open source?

http://toomanytabs.com/blog/1863/anarchism-capitalism-altruism-why-do-i-open-source/

15 years ago

41 upvotes – 23 comments

Tell HN: The utility of comment karma

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2444933

15 years ago

40 upvotes – 20 comments

Japan's crisis: one month later

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2011/04/japans_crisis_one_month_later.html

15 years ago

40 upvotes – 21 comments

Is Scheme Lisp?

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

15 years ago

39 upvotes – 31 comments

Dismantling the Space Shuttle Program

http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2011/04/dismantling-the-space-shuttle-program/100045/

15 years ago

39 upvotes – 31 comments
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