top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-04-25

Dropbox Attempts To Kill Open Source Project

http://razorfast.com/2011/04/25/dropbox-attempts-to-kill-open-source-project/

15 years ago

886 upvotes – 292 comments

Working with the Chaos Monkey

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2011/04/working-with-the-chaos-monkey.html

15 years ago

310 upvotes – 41 comments

7% of Americans Subscribe to Netflix, Now Larger than any Cable Company

http://money.cnn.com/2011/04/25/technology/netflix_earnings/index.htm?source=cnn_bin&hpt=Sbin

15 years ago

299 upvotes – 143 comments

Never say “no,” but rarely say “yes.”

http://blog.asmartbear.com/how-to-say-yes.html

15 years ago

295 upvotes – 36 comments

The Guantanamo Files

http://wikileaks.ch/gitmo/

15 years ago

262 upvotes – 56 comments

The Merge Button

https://github.com/blog/843-the-merge-button

15 years ago

254 upvotes – 18 comments

SurveyMonkey to buy Wufoo (YC W06) for $35m

http://kara.allthingsd.com/20110425/surveymonkey-buys-online-forms-start-up-wufoo-for-35-million/

15 years ago

249 upvotes – 60 comments

Tanking the YC interview, some lessons learned

http://www.naivehack.com/2011/04/24/tanking-the-yc-interview-lessons-learned/

15 years ago

188 upvotes – 41 comments

SurveyMonkey Acquires Wufoo (YC W06)

http://wufoo.com/2011/04/25/wufoo-surveymonkey-acquisition/

15 years ago

183 upvotes – 22 comments

How I got into YC as a non-technical single founder

http://alexkrupp.typepad.com/sensemaking/2011/04/how-i-got-into-yc-as-a-non-technical-single-founder.html

15 years ago

181 upvotes – 40 comments

Show HN: Hacker Typer [joke]

http://duiker101.tk/hackertyper/

15 years ago

160 upvotes – 34 comments

John Resig's CSS optimization for F7U12 SubReddit (more than 6x improvement)

http://www.reddit.com/r/fffffffuuuuuuuuuuuu/comments/gwm95/rage_faster_fixed/

15 years ago

151 upvotes – 25 comments

Sitting All Day: Worse For You Than You Might Think

http://www.npr.org/2011/04/25/135575490/sitting-all-day-worse-for-you-than-you-might-think

15 years ago

146 upvotes – 92 comments

Dr. Stallman responded to my open letter

http://alexeymk.com/dear-dr-stallman-the-aftermath

15 years ago

143 upvotes – 132 comments

Show HN: Codr.cc - Etherpad meets Pastebin Meets Notepad.cc: live code sharing

http://codr.cc

15 years ago

135 upvotes – 79 comments

The cost of cloud hosting vs. colocation

http://chrischandler.name/the-real-cost-of-cloud-hosting

15 years ago

127 upvotes – 91 comments

How SmugMug survived the Amazonpocalypse

http://don.blogs.smugmug.com/2011/04/24/how-smugmug-survived-the-amazonpocalypse/

15 years ago

115 upvotes – 24 comments

Man Unveils Interactive Toothpick Sculpture of SF That Took 35 Years to Create

http://thoughtcatalog.com/2011/man-unveils-interactive-toothpick-sculpture-of-san-francisco-that-took-35-years-to-create/

15 years ago

113 upvotes – 22 comments

A GeekDad’s 8-Year Old Daughter Reinvents Chess

http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2011/04/geekdads-daughter-reinvents-chess/

15 years ago

111 upvotes – 22 comments

Joi Ito Named Director of the MIT Media Lab

http://web.mit.edu/press/2011/ito-media-lab-director.html

15 years ago

110 upvotes – 18 comments

Inspired use of QR code on resume

http://www.mobileinc.co.uk/2011/04/inspired-use-of-qr-code-on-cv/

15 years ago

102 upvotes – 54 comments

Barnes & Noble treats Nook Color to Froyo; unveils Nook Apps

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/gadgetreviews/barnes-noble-treats-nook-color-to-froyo-unveils-nook-apps/23904

15 years ago

93 upvotes – 56 comments

Nintendo confirms launching new console in 2012, playable at E3

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2011/04/nintendo-confirms-new-system-for-2012-playable-at-junes-e3.ars

15 years ago

86 upvotes – 52 comments

What does your .gitconfig contain?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/267761/what-does-your-gitconfig-contain

15 years ago

78 upvotes – 7 comments

How JavaScript Timers Work

http://ejohn.org/blog/how-javascript-timers-work/

15 years ago

72 upvotes – 6 comments

IMF: The Age of America About to End

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/imf-bombshell-age-of-america-about-to-end-2011-04-25

15 years ago

69 upvotes – 61 comments

Amazon EC2 outage: summary and lessons learned

http://blog.rightscale.com/2011/04/25/amazon-ec2-outage-summary-and-lessons-learned/

15 years ago

66 upvotes – 22 comments

Smalltalk on the JVM

http://redline.st/

15 years ago

65 upvotes – 5 comments

Yale Law student takes a look at Bitcoin (draft of legal paper)

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1817857

15 years ago

60 upvotes – 12 comments

Information Physics: The New Frontier

http://arxiv.org/abs/1009.5161

15 years ago

59 upvotes – 12 comments

Theory and Practice of making games - I used to write this

http://www.flipcode.com/archives/Theory_Practice-Issue_00_Introduction.shtml

15 years ago

59 upvotes – 14 comments

In honor of Wufoo: our interview a year ago

http://vimeo.com/11093594

15 years ago

52 upvotes – 6 comments

The Programmer Entrepreneur Dilemma

http://kickme444.com/the-programmer-entrepreneur-dilemma

15 years ago

52 upvotes – 16 comments

Sony’s Precarious PlayStation 3

http://extendedsubset.com/?p=47

15 years ago

49 upvotes – 20 comments

EventMachine, How Does It Work?

http://www.paperplanes.de/2011/4/25/eventmachine-how-does-it-work.html

15 years ago

49 upvotes – 0 comments

What it's like to be a startup in a 3rd world country

http://thenextweb.com/asia/2011/04/24/building-a-startup-in-a-developing-country-the-pitfalls-and-opportunities/1/

15 years ago

47 upvotes – 21 comments
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