top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-04-17

Fooling myself to work

http://www.dextronet.com/blog/2011/04/10-best-tricks-of-fooling-myself-to-work/

15 years ago

356 upvotes – 78 comments

JQuery Events: Stop (Mis)Using Return False

http://fuelyourcoding.com/jquery-events-stop-misusing-return-false/

15 years ago

277 upvotes – 19 comments

In the UK? Strange browser behaviour? You might be being IWF’d.

http://grimboy.co.uk/blawg/in-the-uk-being-told-youre-already-downloading-or-have-failed-the-captcha-too-many-times-by-file-hosting-sites-for-no-reason-you-might-be-being-iwfd/

15 years ago

182 upvotes – 47 comments

Git is Inconsistent

http://r6.ca/blog/20110416T204742Z.html

15 years ago

157 upvotes – 79 comments

Recycling Capital: The Key To The Startup Economy

http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2011/04/reinvesting-capital.html

15 years ago

110 upvotes – 24 comments

Fukushima: Radiation Detection Using Artifacts in CCCD Image?

http://www.hackerfactor.com/blog/index.php?/archives/427-Radiation-Detection.html

15 years ago

98 upvotes – 43 comments

List of copyrighted places

http://www.istockphoto.com/tutorial_copyright_list.php

15 years ago

98 upvotes – 34 comments

How can I learn to program?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2456994

15 years ago

93 upvotes – 74 comments

Apple and the TV industry

http://cdixon.org/2011/04/17/apple-and-the-tv-industry/

15 years ago

88 upvotes – 74 comments

Ask HN: What does a non-programmer bring to a 2-3 person startup team?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2456535

15 years ago

83 upvotes – 77 comments

How Larry Page learned Java

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.java/msg/88fa10845061c8ba

15 years ago

78 upvotes – 18 comments

Ideas suck

http://hackfwd.tumblr.com/post/4527016456/ideas-suck-a-tale-of-lust-vs-love

15 years ago

73 upvotes – 23 comments

Www. is deprecated - should it be?

http://no-www.org/

15 years ago

64 upvotes – 80 comments

Improved V8 external arrays in Node.js

http://blog.mrale.ph/post/4217120977/improved-v8-external-arrays-support-and-nodejs-buffer

15 years ago

62 upvotes – 0 comments

Dressed for Success

http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/219343

15 years ago

62 upvotes – 53 comments

Show HN: Our app built at the Startup Weekend SanJose in 48 hours: Shout A Tweet

http://www.shoutatweet.com/support/agtzaG91dGF0d2VldHILCxIEVXNlchjcHww

15 years ago

58 upvotes – 36 comments

Instant 8-bit alpha PNG converter

http://www.8bitalpha.com/

15 years ago

57 upvotes – 26 comments

Some Developers Just Can't Develop

http://www.richard-banks.org/2009/08/some-developers-just-cant-develop.html

15 years ago

57 upvotes – 62 comments

The HTML5 test

http://html5test.com

15 years ago

56 upvotes – 34 comments

Motivations of a Hacker

http://nushackers.org/2011/04/motivations/

15 years ago

51 upvotes – 10 comments

This Receipt Tells You Where Your Tax Dollars Go

http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2011/04/15/135438878/this-receipt-tells-you-where-your-tax-dollars-go

15 years ago

51 upvotes – 41 comments

Unix for poets

http://people.sslmit.unibo.it/~baroni/compling04/UnixforPoets.pdf

15 years ago

50 upvotes – 4 comments

How to Price Software - Economics vs. Pyschology

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/CamelsandRubberDuckies.html

15 years ago

50 upvotes – 6 comments

Chrome OS Release Coming Soon? Stable Channel Now Available

http://www.thechromesource.com/chrome-os-release-coming-soon-stable-channel-now-available/

15 years ago

48 upvotes – 11 comments

The rise of the 99-cent Kindle e-book

http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-18438_7-20037800-82.html

15 years ago

47 upvotes – 27 comments

IPhone 4 About to Be Flickr's Top Camera

http://techcrunch.com/2011/04/17/iphone-4-camera/

15 years ago

46 upvotes – 18 comments

Video: Scaling Scala at Twitter

http://ontwik.com/scala/scaling-scala-at-twitter-by-marius-eriksen/

15 years ago

45 upvotes – 1 comments

Internet Explorer, WebGL and a Return to the Bad Old Days

http://www.readwriteweb.com/hack/2011/04/internet-explorer-webgl-and-a.php

15 years ago

43 upvotes – 24 comments

Monopoly Lawyers Shouldn’t Write Monopoly Laws

http://torrentfreak.com/monopoly-lawyers-shouldnt-write-monopoly-laws-110417/

15 years ago

41 upvotes – 28 comments

Show HN: WhoWorks.At - Professional Heads Up Display

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2456981

15 years ago

40 upvotes – 12 comments

Iran Accuses Siemens of Helping U.S. and Israel Develop Stuxnet

http://www.haaretz.com/news/international/iranian-military-official-siemens-helped-u-s-and-israel-in-cyber-attack-on-nuclear-program-1.356419

15 years ago

40 upvotes – 24 comments

Explaining the Python Software Foundation - Part 1

http://jessenoller.com/2011/04/17/explaining-the-python-software-foundation-psf-part-1/

15 years ago

39 upvotes – 0 comments

There's a new version of Google Analytics available

http://google.com/analytics

15 years ago

37 upvotes – 17 comments
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