top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-06-29

Sal Khan has started videos about Python

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWufLwJkfoE

15 years ago

323 upvotes – 83 comments

Dotjs — hack the web

http://defunkt.io/dotjs/

15 years ago

309 upvotes – 58 comments

The Tale of OpenGL vs. Direct3D

http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/60544/why-do-game-developers-prefer-windows/88055#88055

15 years ago

266 upvotes – 33 comments

Why is European broadband faster and cheaper? Blame the government

http://www.engadget.com/2011/06/28/why-is-european-broadband-faster-and-cheaper-blame-the-governme/

15 years ago

207 upvotes – 139 comments

First Night With Google Plus: This is Very Cool

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

15 years ago

184 upvotes – 79 comments

Guide to Programming Clojure For Beginners

http://blackstag.com/blog.posting?id=5

15 years ago

183 upvotes – 16 comments

Show HN: Can anonymous chat within identified groups create better discussions?

http://freeversation.com/blog/2011/06/29/identified-anonymity/

15 years ago

165 upvotes – 104 comments

Global Interpreter Lock, or how to kill it

http://morepypy.blogspot.com/2011/06/global-interpreter-lock-or-how-to-kill.html

15 years ago

165 upvotes – 43 comments

Wizards of bullshit: How Forbes turned $6.5 million into $20 billion

http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2966-wizards-of-bullshit-how-forbes-turned-65-million-into-20-billion

15 years ago

157 upvotes – 56 comments

JsPlumb - pipe your UI elements together

http://jsplumb.org/jquery/demo.html

15 years ago

156 upvotes – 15 comments

What Google Learned from Wave and Buzz

http://smarterware.org/8248/what-google-learned-from-buzz-and-wave

15 years ago

152 upvotes – 62 comments

"The legal profession is undergoing a massive structural shift"

http://www.abajournal.com/magazine/article/paradigm_shift/

15 years ago

152 upvotes – 110 comments

CA Amazon Tax Signed Into Law

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/california-politics/2011/06/jerry-brown-signs-laws-redevelopment-agencies-taxes-online-retailers.html

15 years ago

144 upvotes – 106 comments

Local Food or Less Meat? Data Tells The Real Story

http://blogs.hbr.org/winston/2011/06/local-food-or-less-meat-data-t.html

15 years ago

139 upvotes – 90 comments

Linus Torvalds on userspace filesystems

http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-fsdevel/msg46078.html

15 years ago

135 upvotes – 98 comments

Death By Regulation: FaceCash Is Shutting Down in California

https://www.facecash.com/legal/ca.html

15 years ago

132 upvotes – 34 comments

Amazon will end affiliate program in California if new law passes

http://www.boingboing.net/2011/06/29/amazon-kills-associa.html

15 years ago

131 upvotes – 161 comments

MySpace Acquired: Email From CEO Mike Jones To Employees

http://techcrunch.com/2011/06/29/myspace-goes-to-specific-media-for-35m-ceo-is-out-press-release/

15 years ago

130 upvotes – 54 comments

Android-x86 Project - Run Android on Your PC

http://www.android-x86.org/

15 years ago

121 upvotes – 28 comments

2000 shell companies at one address in Wyoming

http://news.yahoo.com/special-report-little-house-secrets-great-plains-113759191.html

15 years ago

113 upvotes – 39 comments

Show HN: Overlap.me - a new way to meet people & share your identity online

http://www.overlap.me/blog/introducing-overlap-dot-me

15 years ago

112 upvotes – 49 comments

555 Timer footstool

http://www.evilmadscientist.com/article.php/555stool

15 years ago

111 upvotes – 16 comments

Moving to New York: a Guide for Software Engineers

http://code.dblock.org/ShowPost.aspx?id=225

15 years ago

100 upvotes – 78 comments

California Startups: Legislative Emergency

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2710623

15 years ago

90 upvotes – 55 comments

DNA

http://www.randsinrepose.com/archives/2011/06/29/dna.html

15 years ago

85 upvotes – 8 comments

How to Acquire Users for Free

http://spencerfry.com/ways-to-acquire-users-for-free

15 years ago

84 upvotes – 17 comments

Windows 8 for software developers: the Longhorn dream reborn?

http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2011/06/windows-8-for-software-developers-the-longhorn-dream-reborn.ars/

15 years ago

83 upvotes – 28 comments

Clever Foursquare Hack Turns New York City Into a Giant Game of Risk

http://mashable.com/2011/06/29/world-of-fourcraft/

15 years ago

78 upvotes – 28 comments

Braintree Founder On Decision To Raise Capital vs. Continuing to Bootstrap

http://www.braintreepayments.com/inside-braintree/braintrees-34-million-accel-investment-yesterday-today-tomorrow

15 years ago

73 upvotes – 11 comments

Paul Buchheit at Startup School 08. This talk continues to inspire me

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZxP0i9ah8E

15 years ago

69 upvotes – 8 comments

IE10 Platform Preview 2 Released

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ukmsdn/archive/2011/06/29/ie10-platform-preview-2-released.aspx

15 years ago

69 upvotes – 26 comments

Hi, I’m a UX Developer - You’re a what?

http://uxmag.com/technology/hi-im-a-ux-developer-youre-a-what

15 years ago

68 upvotes – 41 comments

Anything You Want

http://sivers.org/a

15 years ago

67 upvotes – 15 comments

Node.js v0.4.9 released

http://blog.nodejs.org/2011/06/29/node-v0-4-9/

15 years ago

66 upvotes – 17 comments

Ask HN: Are you using Riak? What for?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2710101

15 years ago

65 upvotes – 16 comments

Why you should (not) create a mobile app

http://lifebyexperimentation.com/2011/06/why-you-should-not-have-a-mobile-app/

15 years ago

59 upvotes – 27 comments

Chevy Volt: Is This Our Future?

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/26/opinion/sunday/26car.html

15 years ago

59 upvotes – 87 comments

DjangoCon EU 2011 Videos

http://blip.tv/djangocon-europe-2011

15 years ago

57 upvotes – 16 comments

Firefox add-on to add OTR encryption to web-based chats

http://lists.cypherpunks.ca/pipermail/otr-dev/2011-June/001183.html

15 years ago

57 upvotes – 15 comments

Rybka disqualified and banned from World Computer Chess Championships

http://www.chessvibes.com/reports/rybka-disqualified-and-banned-from-world-computer-chess-championships/

15 years ago

57 upvotes – 15 comments

I don't understand why anyone would use Node.js

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2709539

15 years ago

56 upvotes – 51 comments

Amazing new wireless tech: Breaking Shannon's Law

http://onlivespot.blogspot.com/2011/06/steve-perlman-unveils-amazing-new.html

15 years ago

56 upvotes – 26 comments

The Perfect Scam

http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/37718/

15 years ago

55 upvotes – 18 comments

Google+ Circles - Thunderbird didn't want to implement it in 2009

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=524354

15 years ago

54 upvotes – 21 comments

Purely Functional Data Structures : Red Black Trees in Qi

http://jng.imagine27.com/articles/2011-06-28-141124_purely_functional_types_red_black_trees_in_qi.html

15 years ago

54 upvotes – 11 comments

Friendster Relaunches

http://friendster.com

15 years ago

52 upvotes – 33 comments

Joe Stump presentation: Starting your Startup

http://lanyrd.com/2011/fowa-vegas/sfxcz/

15 years ago

50 upvotes – 9 comments

Myspace to Be Sold to Specific Media for $35 Million

http://allthingsd.com/20110629/exclusive-myspace-to-be-sold-to-specific-media-at-35-million/

15 years ago

48 upvotes – 30 comments

Peeling away the interface in an iOS app

http://skookum.com/blog/ios-peeling-effect/

15 years ago

47 upvotes – 4 comments

Researchers create rollerball-pen ink to draw circuits

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-06-rollerball-pen-ink-circuits.html

15 years ago

46 upvotes – 21 comments

Online payment integration does not have to suck.

http://getwillet.com

15 years ago

45 upvotes – 27 comments

50 Million Myspace Profiles Now Belong to an Ad Targeting Firm

http://www.betabeat.com/2011/06/29/myspace-sold-ad-targeting-specific-media/

15 years ago

44 upvotes – 23 comments
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