top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-06-08

"My current theory is that programming is quite literally writing."

http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2198700&cid=36293622

15 years ago

513 upvotes – 190 comments

Steve Jobs Presents His Ideas For A New Apple Campus

http://techcrunch.com/2011/06/07/steve-jobs-cupertino/

15 years ago

427 upvotes – 216 comments

The Dangerous Mr. Khan

http://www.nas.org/polArticles.cfm?Doc_Id=2029

15 years ago

311 upvotes – 246 comments

Git Tutorials for Beginners

http://sixrevisions.com/resources/git-tutorials-beginners/

15 years ago

286 upvotes – 28 comments

Evernote Peek, The First iPad Smart Cover App

http://blog.evernote.com/2011/06/08/introducing-evernote-peek-the-first-ipad-smart-cover-app/

15 years ago

253 upvotes – 55 comments

The Go Programming Language, or: Why all C-like languages except one suck.

http://www.syntax-k.de/projekte/go-review

15 years ago

245 upvotes – 88 comments

Failed entrepreneur, broke, unemployed, now taking care of aging parents. Help.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2634289

15 years ago

236 upvotes – 140 comments

Richard Dreyfuss' dramatic reading of the iTunes EULA

http://www.cnet.com/8301-30976_1-20068778-10348864.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=Crave

15 years ago

217 upvotes – 53 comments

IPv6 Day Has Started

http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=11023&rss

15 years ago

176 upvotes – 57 comments

Normalize.css: An alternative to CSS resets

http://necolas.github.com/normalize.css/

15 years ago

173 upvotes – 45 comments

MIT students develop liquid fuel for electric cars

http://i.autoblog.com/2011/06/08/mit-students-develop-liquid-fuel-for-electric-cars/

15 years ago

153 upvotes – 26 comments

Donald Knuth never told Steve Jobs that he was full of shit

http://www.catonmat.net/blog/don-knuth-steve-jobs/

15 years ago

148 upvotes – 44 comments

Optimizely (YC W10) Increases Homepage Conversion Rate by 29%

http://blog.optimizely.com/optimizelys-new-results-page-helps-you-determ

15 years ago

146 upvotes – 48 comments

Third richest man in China lives on $20 a day, eats same meals as workers

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-13427392

15 years ago

135 upvotes – 89 comments

Steve Jobs describes iCloud experience at WWDC 1997

http://youtu.be/3LEXae1j6EY?t=14m10s

15 years ago

129 upvotes – 46 comments

The US IPO cartel

http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2011/06/07/the-us-ipo-cartel/

15 years ago

122 upvotes – 30 comments

Low-Competition Niches In Retail Software

http://successfulsoftware.net/2011/06/08/3-low-competition-niches-in-retail-software/

15 years ago

111 upvotes – 30 comments

Free SQL dump with 200 million tweets from 13 million users

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2633384

15 years ago

98 upvotes – 36 comments

How to DDOS yourself

http://devblog.bu.mp/how-to-ddos-yourself

15 years ago

96 upvotes – 18 comments

Bank Not Responsible for Letting Hackers Steal $300K From Customer

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/06/bank-ach-theft/

15 years ago

93 upvotes – 87 comments

Trying to pursue many different directions at once?

http://sivers.org/donkey

15 years ago

81 upvotes – 13 comments

Down the Rabbit Hole and Back Again: The Story of Flowtown

http://maplebutter.com/down-the-rabbit-hole-and-back-again-the-story-of-flowtown

15 years ago

80 upvotes – 7 comments

Senators seek crackdown on "Bitcoin" currency

http://www.baltimoresun.com/business/sns-rt-us-financial-bitcoitre7573t3-20110608,0,1767151.story

15 years ago

80 upvotes – 67 comments

The secrets of Node's success

http://radar.oreilly.com/2011/06/node-javascript-success.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+oreilly%2Fjavascript+%28O%27Reilly+News%3A+Javascript%29&utm_content=Google+Reader

15 years ago

79 upvotes – 43 comments

Data Brewery (open-source data processing + OLAP in python)

http://databrewery.org/

15 years ago

74 upvotes – 11 comments

Encrypt Your Private Dropbox Data With EncFS

http://www.webupd8.org/2011/06/encrypt-your-private-dropbox-data-with.html

15 years ago

69 upvotes – 13 comments

Lojban - The Logical Language

http://www.lojban.org/tiki/Lojban%20Introductory%20Brochure#intro

15 years ago

64 upvotes – 38 comments

Most developers are coding for Google's Android instead of Apple's IOS

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2077195/developers-coding-googles-android-instead-apples-ios

15 years ago

62 upvotes – 64 comments

This Is Where The Magic Happens (Opening Africa Up to Broadband)

http://techcrunch.com/2011/06/07/this-is-where-the-magic-happens/

15 years ago

59 upvotes – 1 comments

HN Meetup: New Delhi on Friday, June 10th

http://www.techmeetup.in/events/18845721/

15 years ago

57 upvotes – 26 comments

"The Internet Is My Religion"

http://www.jakelevine.me/blog/2011/06/the-internet-is-my-religion/

15 years ago

52 upvotes – 46 comments

The crooks who created modern wiretapping law

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/06/the-crooks-who-created-modern-wiretapping-law.ars

15 years ago

51 upvotes – 1 comments

Serving small static files: which server to use?

http://nbonvin.wordpress.com/2011/03/24/serving-small-static-files-which-server-to-use/

15 years ago

50 upvotes – 29 comments

Lessons Learned For Startup User Signups

http://blog.lessmeeting.com/2011/06/lessons-learned-for-startup-user.html

15 years ago

50 upvotes – 7 comments

Hacking Challenge: Change this website's homepage picture and win $10K...

http://www.blackbergsecurity.us/

15 years ago

48 upvotes – 17 comments
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