top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-07-03

Nobody Understands REST or HTTP

http://blog.steveklabnik.com/2011/07/03/nobody-understands-rest-or-http.html

15 years ago

520 upvotes – 133 comments

Learn C The Hard Way

http://learncodethehardway.org/

15 years ago

419 upvotes – 246 comments

Once Greece goes...

http://www.lrb.co.uk/2011/06/30/john-lanchester/once-greece-goes

15 years ago

300 upvotes – 194 comments

Thorium nuclear reactors: a possible solution of the energy crisis? (video)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LeM-Dyuk6g

15 years ago

227 upvotes – 102 comments

TrueCrypt Discrepancy

http://16s.us/TCHunt/discrepancy/

15 years ago

150 upvotes – 47 comments

Introduction to Computer Science with Python [pdf]

http://mit.edu/6.01/mercurial/spring11/www/handouts/readings.pdf

15 years ago

149 upvotes – 5 comments

Len Sassaman has passed away

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2723959

15 years ago

135 upvotes – 44 comments

The 'intellectual property' oxymoron

http://harmful.cat-v.org/economics/intellectual_property/

15 years ago

115 upvotes – 131 comments

Some Apps Do Sell: Developer Makes $750K in 3 Weeks on Android Market

http://www.readwriteweb.com/mobile/2011/06/developer-makes-750000-dollars-in-three-weeks-on-android-market.php?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+readwriteweb+%28ReadWriteWeb%29

15 years ago

111 upvotes – 32 comments

Fitbit users are unwittingly sharing details of their sex lives with the world

http://thenextweb.com/industry/2011/07/03/fitbit-users-are-inadvertently-sharing-details-of-their-sex-lives-with-the-world/

15 years ago

102 upvotes – 51 comments

Why Fair Bosses Fall Behind

http://hbr.org/2011/07/why-fair-bosses-fall-behind/ar/1

15 years ago

101 upvotes – 48 comments

Mark Zuckerberg's TopCoder profile

http://www.topcoder.com/tc?module=MemberProfile&cr=276132

15 years ago

93 upvotes – 40 comments

1password explain the new Dropbox terms

http://blog.agilebits.com/2011/07/dropbox-terms/

15 years ago

91 upvotes – 22 comments

Portugal drug law shows results ten years on, experts say

http://news.yahoo.com/portugal-drug-law-show-results-ten-years-experts-180013798.html

15 years ago

79 upvotes – 18 comments

The Next Big Thing is Sitting Right in Front of You

http://cdixon.org/2011/07/02/the-next-big-thing-is-sitting-right-in-front-of-you/

15 years ago

71 upvotes – 19 comments

The Ultimate 6-Week Startup Crash Course (MBA alternative)

http://blog.profitably.com/post/7134922299/the-ultimate-6-week-startup-crash-course

15 years ago

71 upvotes – 10 comments

Realtime Hadoop usage at Facebook: The Complete Story

http://hadoopblog.blogspot.com/2011/07/realtime-hadoop-usage-at-facebook.html?m=1

15 years ago

67 upvotes – 6 comments

Show HN: My first web app

http://www.twecommend.me

15 years ago

64 upvotes – 27 comments

A Regular Expression Matcher in 30 lines of C

http://www.cs.princeton.edu/courses/archive/spr09/cos333/beautiful.html

15 years ago

63 upvotes – 9 comments

The harmonic series, after removing any term with a "9" in it, is convergent.

http://hippomath.blogspot.com/2011/07/kempner-series-modified-harmonic-series.html

15 years ago

62 upvotes – 23 comments

After feedback, Dropbox clarified language on licensing

http://blog.dropbox.com/?p=846&updated

15 years ago

60 upvotes – 4 comments

A trip through the Graphics Pipeline

http://fgiesen.wordpress.com/2011/07/01/a-trip-through-the-graphics-pipeline-2011-part-1/

15 years ago

60 upvotes – 3 comments

Google+ and Privacy: A Roundup

http://33bits.org/2011/07/03/google-and-privacy-a-roundup/

15 years ago

59 upvotes – 16 comments

How Much Money To Raise

http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2011/07/how-much-money-to-raise.html

15 years ago

57 upvotes – 6 comments

Getting funded: Step 0 – Prepare

http://blog.thansys.com/2011/07/03/getting-funded-step-0/

15 years ago

57 upvotes – 2 comments

Contract based programming (Python)

https://github.com/thoughtnirvana/augment

15 years ago

★ 58 Python
50 upvotes – 12 comments

Databranches: using git as a database

http://kitenet.net/~joey/blog/entry/databranches/

15 years ago

49 upvotes – 10 comments

Concurrency and Redis

http://santosh-log.heroku.com/2011/07/02/concurrency-and-redis/

15 years ago

49 upvotes – 17 comments

Samsung Galaxy S II – Over 3 million units sold in 55 days

http://androidos.in/2011/07/samsung-galaxy-s-ii-%E2%80%93-over-3-million-units-sold-in-55-days/

15 years ago

49 upvotes – 29 comments

Google’s Six-Front War

http://techcrunch.com/2011/07/03/google-six-front-war/

15 years ago

47 upvotes – 29 comments

Dealing With (Not Dealing With) the Open Source Assholes

http://harthur.wordpress.com/2011/06/30/dealing-with-not-dealing-with-the-open-source-assholes/

15 years ago

46 upvotes – 13 comments

Suggest good sites/books on probability

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2723436

15 years ago

46 upvotes – 25 comments

Nanopond: Artificial Life VM

http://adam.ierymenko.name/nanopond.shtml

15 years ago

46 upvotes – 14 comments

Stealthy Trick Makes Facebook Look Like an Excel Spreadsheet

http://mashable.com/2011/07/03/hardlyworkin-excel-facebook/

15 years ago

45 upvotes – 20 comments

Backdoor in vsftpd download

http://scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com/2011/07/alert-vsftpd-download-backdoored.html

15 years ago

44 upvotes – 13 comments
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