top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-04-15

FBI seized PokerStars.com, FullTiltPoker.com, UB.com,... domain names

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/29/news-views-gossip/fulltiltpoker-com-pokerstars-com-domain-names-confiscated-fbi-1020606/

15 years ago

880 upvotes – 384 comments

Why the password "this is fun" is 10 times more secure than "J4fS!2"

http://www.baekdal.com/tips/password-security-usability?

15 years ago

421 upvotes – 170 comments

What was the code quality of the initial version of Google?

http://www.quora.com/What-was-the-code-quality-of-the-initial-version-of-Google

15 years ago

295 upvotes – 73 comments

Living in the zone

http://jacquesmattheij.com/living+in+the+zone

15 years ago

289 upvotes – 83 comments

The Lisp Curse

http://www.winestockwebdesign.com/Essays/Lisp_Curse.html

15 years ago

268 upvotes – 151 comments

Ubuntu Unity usability testing results and analysis

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2011-April/032988.html

15 years ago

249 upvotes – 115 comments

Screw you. Pay me.

http://venturebeat.com/2011/04/15/screw-you-pay-me/

15 years ago

248 upvotes – 86 comments

Former Google VP Kai-Fu Lee Got a Nickname, Start-Copy Lee

http://jyorr.com/post/4622300101/former-google-vp-kai-fu-lee-got-a-nickname-start-copy

15 years ago

202 upvotes – 94 comments

A death sentence for a young Chinese businesswoman chills entrepreneurs

http://www.economist.com/node/18560729

15 years ago

171 upvotes – 70 comments

Why Leaves Really Fall Off Trees

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=114288700

15 years ago

156 upvotes – 23 comments

Ask HN: How would you make a site resistant to government takedown?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2451783

15 years ago

147 upvotes – 57 comments

Researchers have successfully teleported wave packets of light

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2011/04/15/3192505.htm

15 years ago

134 upvotes – 53 comments

Modern JavaScript

http://blog.rebeccamurphey.com/modern-javascript

15 years ago

116 upvotes – 31 comments

Peacetime CEO/Wartime CEO

http://bhorowitz.com/2011/04/15/peacetime-ceowartime-ceo/

15 years ago

115 upvotes – 28 comments

This Tech Bubble Is Different

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/11_17/b4225060960537.htm

15 years ago

104 upvotes – 50 comments

ASCII Pronunciation Rules for Programmers [2008]

http://www.codinghorror.com//blog/2008/06/ascii-pronunciation-rules-for-programmers.html

15 years ago

94 upvotes – 87 comments

Cheating and the Honor System

http://www.ginandtacos.com/2011/04/14/honor-system/

15 years ago

93 upvotes – 84 comments

Appointment Reminder at 6 Months

http://www.kalzumeus.com/2011/04/15/appointment-reminder-update/

15 years ago

92 upvotes – 60 comments

Inside Google's China misfortune

http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2011/04/15/googles-ordeal-in-china/

15 years ago

90 upvotes – 29 comments

Cutting that cord

http://daringfireball.net/2011/04/cutting_that_cord

15 years ago

82 upvotes – 55 comments

The Definitive C++ Book Guide and List

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/388242/the-definitive-c-book-guide-and-list

15 years ago

80 upvotes – 20 comments

Speculation on an Amazon iPad Competitor

http://www.marco.org/2011/04/15/kindle-tablet-speculation

15 years ago

78 upvotes – 31 comments

The betrayal of Bntr

http://techcrunch.com/2011/04/15/the-betrayal-of-bnter/

15 years ago

73 upvotes – 39 comments

Scraping the web with Node.io

http://www.coderholic.com/scraping-the-web-with-node-io/

15 years ago

70 upvotes – 10 comments

Introducing Gofix

http://blog.golang.org/2011/04/introducing-gofix.html

15 years ago

62 upvotes – 11 comments

The Emacs 30 Day Challenge

http://www.mostlymaths.net/2010/12/emacs-30-day-challenge.html

15 years ago

59 upvotes – 15 comments

Haskell Platform 2011.2.0.1 is out -- major improvements for Mac users

http://hackage.haskell.org/platform/?2011.2.0.1

15 years ago

59 upvotes – 16 comments

Greplin’s Chrome Extension Now Makes Gmail Search Infinitely Better

http://techcrunch.com/2011/04/15/greplins-chrome-extension-now-makes-gmail-search-infinitely-better/

15 years ago

55 upvotes – 41 comments

Case shiller 100 year chart

http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2011/04/case-shiller-100-year-chart-2011-update/

15 years ago

47 upvotes – 14 comments
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