top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-07-05

Why I read Hacker News even though I understand very little of it

http://alexrosen.com/blog/2011/05/sponge-learning/

15 years ago

373 upvotes – 89 comments

Advanced Javascript tips and tricks

http://code.google.com/p/jslibs/wiki/JavascriptTips#language_advanced_Tips_&_Tricks

15 years ago

311 upvotes – 35 comments

Twitter acquires BackType (YC S08)

http://blog.backtype.com/2011/07/backtype-has-been-acquired-by-twitter/

15 years ago

263 upvotes – 48 comments

MIT 6.006: Algorithms in Python

http://courses.csail.mit.edu/6.006/spring11/notes.shtml

15 years ago

260 upvotes – 27 comments

US claims all .com and .net websites are in its jurisdiction

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2083906/claims-com-net-websites-jurisdiction

15 years ago

253 upvotes – 153 comments

Clojure on Heroku

http://blog.heroku.com/archives/2011/7/5/clojure_on_heroku/

15 years ago

243 upvotes – 27 comments

Cool notification messages with CSS3 & Jquery

http://www.red-team-design.com/cool-notification-messages-with-css3-jquery

15 years ago

194 upvotes – 33 comments

Facebook blocks Google Chrome extension for exporting friends

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/facebook/facebook-blocks-google-chrome-extension-for-exporting-friends/1935

15 years ago

192 upvotes – 103 comments

Google to Retire Blogger & Picasa Brands in Google+ Push

http://mashable.com/2011/07/05/google-blogger-picasa-rebranding/

15 years ago

186 upvotes – 90 comments

Question for PG/HN: Where do you think we stand on your list of "ideas"?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2728401

15 years ago

172 upvotes – 103 comments

All NeXT Inc.'s Plant Lacks Is Orders (1990)

http://www.nytimes.com/1990/12/24/business/all-next-inc-s-plant-lacks-is-orders.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm

15 years ago

156 upvotes – 80 comments

The Broken Promises of MRI/REE/YARV

http://timetobleed.com/the-broken-promises-of-mrireeyarv/

15 years ago

149 upvotes – 65 comments

This is why memory fragmentation is bad

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=666058#c31

15 years ago

144 upvotes – 94 comments

90 Law Professors sign letter in opposition to Protect IP Act

http://volokh.com/2011/07/04/and-speaking-of-the-inalienable-right-to-the-pursuit-of-happiness/

15 years ago

138 upvotes – 28 comments

My wife's and my holiday weekend project: A database of intro books

http://bestintrobook.com

15 years ago

134 upvotes – 79 comments

The Pi Manifesto

http://www.thepimanifesto.com/

15 years ago

116 upvotes – 82 comments

Music Theory For Beginners (part 2)

http://www.whitakerblackall.com/blog/music-theory-for-beginners-ii/

15 years ago

115 upvotes – 16 comments

V8: a tale of two compilers

http://wingolog.org/archives/2011/07/05/v8-a-tale-of-two-compilers

15 years ago

113 upvotes – 17 comments

Why WSJ Mobile App Gets 2 Star Customer Reviews

http://www.useit.com/alertbox/mobile-startup-screen.html

15 years ago

108 upvotes – 24 comments

What Alan T. did for his PhD

http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=697

15 years ago

104 upvotes – 13 comments

A git Primer

http://danielmiessler.com/study/git/

15 years ago

101 upvotes – 19 comments

Math reading list

http://mathoverflow.net/questions/2144/a-single-paper-everyone-should-read

15 years ago

98 upvotes – 6 comments

Button Basics

http://jacojoubert.ca/post/7210637533/button-basics

15 years ago

95 upvotes – 23 comments

If you are a small team [...] don't bother with Amazon Appstore.

http://bithack.se/news/apparatus-amazon-july-4-2011.html

15 years ago

94 upvotes – 38 comments

The blog of the original author of DOS: Tim Paterson

http://dosmandrivel.blogspot.com/

15 years ago

90 upvotes – 16 comments

Why Only One in Four Teens is Employed

http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2011/07/why-only-one-in-four-teens-is-employed/

15 years ago

89 upvotes – 47 comments

Fixes to memory footprint and garbage collection arrive in Firefox 7

http://www.extremetech.com/internet/88998-fixes-to-memory-footprint-land-in-firefox-7

15 years ago

86 upvotes – 42 comments

A collection of "intuitive" explanations.

http://betterexplained.com/archives/

15 years ago

83 upvotes – 1 comments

Flying Cars Get OK From Department of Transportation

http://bostinnovation.com/2011/07/05/flying-cars-get-ok-from-department-of-transportation/

15 years ago

78 upvotes – 31 comments

Youth unemployment: The outsiders

http://www.economist.com/blogs/dailychart/2011/07/youth-unemployment?fsrc=scn/tw/te/dc/theoutsiders

15 years ago

66 upvotes – 77 comments

Apple JavaScript Coding Guidelines [pdf]

http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/ScriptingAutomation/Conceptual/JSCodingGuide/JSCodingGuide.pdf

15 years ago

66 upvotes – 25 comments

Code's Worst Enemy [2007]

http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2007/12/codes-worst-enemy.html#

15 years ago

64 upvotes – 31 comments

Greplin's code independence day: open source for Nagios, OOM debugging, and more

http://tech.blog.greplin.com/code-independence-day-nagios-utilities-oom-di

15 years ago

62 upvotes – 8 comments

Childish behaviour

http://holdenweb.blogspot.com/2011/07/childish-behavior.html

15 years ago

62 upvotes – 35 comments

China Wants To Buy Facebook Stock

http://blogs.forbes.com/gordonchang/2011/07/03/china-wants-to-buy-facebook/

15 years ago

61 upvotes – 39 comments

Clojure on Heroku with Noir and Mongo in 10 minutes

http://thecomputersarewinning.com/post/clojure-heroku-noir-mongo

15 years ago

60 upvotes – 6 comments

Learning Perl 6th Edition available

http://oreilly.com/catalog/0636920018452

15 years ago

59 upvotes – 19 comments

Financial services industry given special powers to fight patents

http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2011/07/04/in-a-bill-wall-street-shows-clout/

15 years ago

57 upvotes – 15 comments

Google to launch flight search service soon

http://venturebeat.com/2011/07/05/google-flight-search-engine/

15 years ago

57 upvotes – 24 comments

Job Locations for July Who's Hiring Thread

http://wbills.posterous.com/59740254

15 years ago

54 upvotes – 14 comments

Fully Bayesian Computing

http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/research/unpublished/fullybayesiancomputing-nonblinded.pdf

15 years ago

53 upvotes – 7 comments

Facebook Blocks Chrome Extension That Imports Contacts To Google Plus

http://digitizor.com/2011/07/05/facebook-blocks-plus-export/

15 years ago

52 upvotes – 20 comments

What did 37signals, Evernote and Wufoo blog when they just get started?

http://startup.alexdong.com/what-did-37signals-evernote-and-wufoo-blog-when-they-just-get-started/

15 years ago

51 upvotes – 6 comments

Hourly Hacker News Snapshot

http://www.domador.net/extras/services/hourly-hn-snapshot/

15 years ago

50 upvotes – 10 comments

Interview with author of Cappuccino and Objective-J

http://www.stateofcode.com/2011/07/francisco-tolmasky/

15 years ago

49 upvotes – 6 comments

Six Months of Gondor (Update on Django Hosting)

https://gondor.io/blog/2011/07/03/six-months-gondor/

15 years ago

47 upvotes – 8 comments

Backbone.js and Django

https://github.com/ccarpenterg/djangotodos/wiki

15 years ago

★ 67 JavaScript
46 upvotes – 15 comments

Berlins new techno beat. why international tech startups should move to berlin.

http://www.cnbcmagazine.com/story/berlins-new-techno-beat/1417/1/

15 years ago

46 upvotes – 42 comments

Our Startup's One Guiding Principle

http://blog.comprehend.com/our-startups-one-guiding-principle

15 years ago

46 upvotes – 16 comments

Astroturf hurts: leadership resigns after GLAAD supports T-Mobile sale

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/07/glaadatt-meltdown-new-rules-for-teclo-backed-non-profits.ars

15 years ago

45 upvotes – 21 comments

Microjs: Fantastic Micro-Frameworks and Micro-Libraries

http://microjs.com/

15 years ago

45 upvotes – 3 comments

The Two Phases of Successful Seed Fundraising

http://startuphoodlum.com/2011/07/05/the-two-phases-to-successful-seed-fundraising/

15 years ago

45 upvotes – 7 comments
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