top 50% 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

SimpleGeo puts 20 million places in the public domain.

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/facts_should_be_free_simplegeo_puts_20_million_pla.php

15 years ago

87 upvotes – 20 comments

Don't blame Amazon for your lack of redundancy

http://cloudability.com/single-points-of-failure

15 years ago

86 upvotes – 21 comments

Rails 3.1 has jQuery by default

http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2011/4/21/jquery-new-default

15 years ago

85 upvotes – 34 comments

How Books were made in 1947 [video]

http://youtu.be/hBztGX-2i1M

15 years ago

77 upvotes – 34 comments

What will Google offer?

https://www.google.com/offers/

15 years ago

76 upvotes – 73 comments

RESTduino - Arduino hacking for the REST of us

http://jasongullickson.posterous.com/restduino-arduino-hacking-for-the-rest-of-us

15 years ago

75 upvotes – 18 comments

Android location service cache dumper.

https://github.com/packetlss/android-locdump

15 years ago

★ 179 Python
69 upvotes – 46 comments

Working around the EC2 outage

http://blog.dotcloud.com/working-around-the-ec2-outage

15 years ago

68 upvotes – 18 comments

Texas jury finds Google infringes a patent: $5,000,000 damage award

http://fosspatents.blogspot.com/2011/04/texas-jury-finds-against-google-in.html

15 years ago

68 upvotes – 65 comments

Pipeable Ruby - forget about grep / sed / awk / wc ...

https://github.com/grosser/pru

15 years ago

★ 579 Ruby
67 upvotes – 40 comments

Privacy, Security and Your Dropbox

http://blog.dropbox.com/?p=735

15 years ago

67 upvotes – 55 comments

Tarsnap bug bounties

http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2011-04-21-tarsnap-bug-bounties.html

15 years ago

63 upvotes – 13 comments

How to Get a Real Education

http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB10001424052748704101604576247143383496656-lMyQjAxMTAxMDIwMDEyNDAyWj.html

15 years ago

61 upvotes – 9 comments

Node.js on mozilla spidermonkey

http://blog.zpao.com/post/4620873765/about-that-hybrid-v8monkey-engine/

15 years ago

61 upvotes – 16 comments

Nine Billion Names of God

http://downlode.org/Etext/nine_billion_names_of_god.html

15 years ago

57 upvotes – 21 comments

AT&T: T-Mobile sucks (and we'd like to buy it for $39 billion)

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/04/att-t-mobile-sucks-and-wed-like-to-buy-it-for-39-billion.ars

15 years ago

56 upvotes – 19 comments

V1.2 Prediction API: Every app a smart app

http://googlecode.blogspot.com/2011/04/prediction-api-every-app-smart-app.html

15 years ago

54 upvotes – 6 comments

CSS3 vs. CSS: A Speed Benchmark

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2011/04/21/css3-vs-css-a-speed-benchmark/

15 years ago

54 upvotes – 10 comments

Show HN: Garden Madness, a flowery HTML5 game

http://www.thearca.de/gardenmadness/

15 years ago

53 upvotes – 36 comments

Incredible Working Factory Made With Lego Robots

http://singularityhub.com/2011/04/20/wow-model-factory-made-with-lego-robots-moves-48-items-per-minute-video/

15 years ago

52 upvotes – 8 comments

Find a Hacker, Find a Co-founder

http://www.findahacker.com/

15 years ago

49 upvotes – 18 comments

LIBSVM - A Library for Support Vector Machines

http://www.csie.ntu.edu.tw/~cjlin/libsvm/

15 years ago

48 upvotes – 16 comments

Hipmunk wants you (to run our Android development)

http://www.hipmunk.com/jobs

15 years ago

48 upvotes – 15 comments

"Let’s cofound a baby" and other phrases you should never speak

http://unicornfree.com/2011/lets-cofound-a-baby/

15 years ago

48 upvotes – 1 comments

Did the Early Universe Have One Dimension?

http://www.buffalo.edu/news/12493

15 years ago

46 upvotes – 19 comments
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