top 20 hacker news stories for 2011-05-14

Honestly.com – Not acting so honestly

http://philfreo.com/blog/honestly-com-not-acting-so-honestly/

15 years ago

395 upvotes – 82 comments

Is it hard to build a web app that makes at least $1000 a month?

http://www.quora.com/Is-it-hard-to-build-market-and-maintain-a-web-app-that-makes-at-least-1000-a-month?

15 years ago

264 upvotes – 121 comments

How Little Sleep Can You Get Away With?

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/17/magazine/mag-17Sleep-t.html?hp

15 years ago

229 upvotes – 88 comments

Why Microsoft bought Skype

http://www.cringely.com/2011/05/why-microsoft-bought-skype/

15 years ago

188 upvotes – 87 comments

Maybe Americans aren't dumb enough to keep buying houses?

http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2011/05/13/soft-housing-prices-maybe-americans-just-arent-dumb-enough-to-keep-buying-houses/

15 years ago

184 upvotes – 165 comments

What Every C Programmer Should Know About Undefined Behavior #2/3

http://blog.llvm.org/2011/05/what-every-c-programmer-should-know_14.html

15 years ago

172 upvotes – 43 comments

America's License Raj

http://www.economist.com/node/18678963?story_id=18678963&fsrc=rss

15 years ago

144 upvotes – 64 comments

Lockitron (YC S09) Lets You Unlock Your Door With Your Phone

http://techcrunch.com/2011/05/13/lockitron-lets-you-unlock-your-door-with-your-phone/

15 years ago

130 upvotes – 99 comments

Pay Enough or Don't Pay at All

http://behind-the-enemy-lines.blogspot.com/2011/05/pay-enough-or-dont-pay-at-all.html

15 years ago

129 upvotes – 20 comments

Beats Drum Machine

http://beatsdrummachine.com/

15 years ago

129 upvotes – 31 comments

Sony: The Company That Kicked the Hornet's Nest

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/11_21/b4229035889849.htm

15 years ago

124 upvotes – 79 comments

Namecoin: Distributed (p2p) domain registration system based on bitcoin

http://dot-bit.org/Main_Page

15 years ago

102 upvotes – 35 comments

Comments Are Dead. We Need You to Help Reinvent Them

http://www.pbs.org/idealab/2011/05/comments-are-dead-we-need-you-to-help-reinvent-them131.html

15 years ago

99 upvotes – 86 comments

Learning to Love JavaScript

http://ontwik.com/javascript/google-io-2011-learning-to-love-javascript/

15 years ago

88 upvotes – 4 comments

HN: I want to trade my finance knowledge for python/django mentorship

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2548621

15 years ago

78 upvotes – 44 comments

Ben Horowitz on the Skype acquisition

http://bhorowitz.com/2011/05/10/microsoft-buys-skype/

15 years ago

77 upvotes – 18 comments

The Dark Side of C++ (2007)

http://www.fefe.de/c++/c%2b%2b-talk.pdf

15 years ago

76 upvotes – 53 comments

America's Achilles' heel: the Mississippi River's Old River Control Structure

http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/show.html

15 years ago

74 upvotes – 12 comments

GNU SIP Witch 1.0 released for peer-to-peer next gen VoIP

http://planet.gnu.org/gnutelephony/?p=18

15 years ago

68 upvotes – 11 comments

Thoughts on Learning Emacs

http://wideaperture.net/blog/?p=3058

15 years ago

54 upvotes – 21 comments
show: top 10top 20top 50%
go to date: prev next
sort by: datescorecomments