top 20 hacker news stories for 2011-04-21

Amazon Web Services are down

http://status.aws.amazon.com/?a

15 years ago

560 upvotes – 332 comments

Building a Web Application that makes $500 a Month – Part I

http://tbbuck.com/building-a-web-application-that-makes-500-a-month-part-i/

15 years ago

421 upvotes – 115 comments

"... so now I will jiggle things randomly until they unbreak" is not acceptable'

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1126136

15 years ago

352 upvotes – 126 comments

AWS is down, but here's why the sky is falling

http://justinsb.posterous.com/aws-down-why-the-sky-is-falling

15 years ago

347 upvotes – 80 comments

My National Security Letter Gag Order (2007)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/22/AR2007032201882.html

15 years ago

307 upvotes – 60 comments

2-D Glasses

http://www.2d-glasses.com/

15 years ago

281 upvotes – 67 comments

Thank HN: 127 days since I asked for your advice.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2471229

15 years ago

253 upvotes – 44 comments

IBM's infamous "Black Team"

http://www.t3.org/tangledwebs/07/tw0706.html#

15 years ago

232 upvotes – 51 comments

Great jquery tutorial

http://jqfundamentals.com/book/index.html

15 years ago

187 upvotes – 11 comments

Everything popular is wrong: Making it in electronic music

http://www.littlewhiteearbuds.com/feature/everything-popular-is-wrong-making-it-in-electronic-music-despite-democratization/

15 years ago

175 upvotes – 45 comments

Apple is not “recording your moves”

http://www.willclarke.net/?p=247

15 years ago

157 upvotes – 78 comments

A common bug in published code

http://www.google.com/codesearch?lr=&q=\(int\)\s*Math\.random\(\)

15 years ago

140 upvotes – 71 comments

Fallacies of Distributed Computing

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallacies_of_Distributed_Computing

15 years ago

139 upvotes – 48 comments

Why Groupon Sucks for Merchants and LivingSocial Doesn't

http://venturelevel.com/post/4798285366/why-groupon-sucks-for-merchants-and-livingsocial

15 years ago

128 upvotes – 40 comments

The Economics of Dropbox

http://www.w2lessons.com/2011/04/economics-of-dropbox.html

15 years ago

110 upvotes – 50 comments

Sugar and Health: Interview with UCSF professor Robert Lustig

http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201104211000

15 years ago

108 upvotes – 54 comments

Actual JavaScript Engine Performance

http://crockford.com/javascript/performance.html

15 years ago

107 upvotes – 62 comments

Go At Heroku (Doozer)

http://blog.golang.org/2011/04/go-at-heroku.html

15 years ago

106 upvotes – 10 comments

Thomas Friedman: Amazon.you (1999)

http://www.nytimes.com/1999/02/26/opinion/foreign-affairs-amazonyou.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm

15 years ago

101 upvotes – 38 comments

The education bubble: Tech progress may reduce the demand for high-end jobs

http://www.economist.com/blogs/schumpeter/2011/04/higher_education

15 years ago

93 upvotes – 58 comments
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