top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-07-08

How Running A Business Changes The Way You Think

http://www.kalzumeus.com/2011/07/08/business-psychology/

15 years ago

477 upvotes – 98 comments

XKCD's Randall Munroe on Google+ requiring your gender to be public

https://plus.google.com/111588569124648292310/posts/SeBqgN9Zoiu

15 years ago

463 upvotes – 283 comments

Warren Buffett: I could end the deficit in 5 minutes.

http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2011/07/warren-buffett-i-could-end-the-deficit-in-5-minutes/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheBigPicture+%28The+Big+Picture%29

15 years ago

434 upvotes – 180 comments

Create a Robot Image from any text string

http://RoboHash.org

15 years ago

319 upvotes – 101 comments

Courtney Love does the math (2000)

http://www.salon.com/technology/feature/2000/06/14/love/print.html

15 years ago

251 upvotes – 66 comments

Oh Yes You Can Use Regexes to Parse HTML

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4231382/regular-expression-pattern-not-matching-anywhere-in-string/4234491#4234491

15 years ago

239 upvotes – 77 comments

Cobra effect

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Cobra_effect

15 years ago

226 upvotes – 67 comments

Interesting C code

http://a1k0n.net/2011/06/26/obfuscated-c-yahoo-logo.html

15 years ago

225 upvotes – 29 comments

Live coverage of the last Shuttle launch (STS-135, Atlantis)

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv

15 years ago

172 upvotes – 83 comments

Full Screen Google Task

https://mail.google.com/tasks/canvas?pli=1

15 years ago

166 upvotes – 42 comments

RIAA Accounting: How To Sell 1 Million Albums And Still Owe $500,000

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110707/03264014993/riaa-accounting-how-to-sell-1-million-albums-still-owe-500000.shtml

15 years ago

162 upvotes – 53 comments

FuzzyWuzzy: Fuzzy String Matching in Python

http://seatgeek.com/blog/dev/fuzzywuzzy-fuzzy-string-matching-in-python

15 years ago

150 upvotes – 24 comments

DuckDuckGo Twitter ad by the numbers

http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/2011/07/replaceawordinafamousquotewithduck.html

15 years ago

149 upvotes – 25 comments

Treating Students as Gifted Yields Impressive Academic Results, Study Finds

http://today.duke.edu/2011/03/darity.html

15 years ago

141 upvotes – 69 comments

Quartzy (YC S11) Brings Order To Science Lab Supply Cabinets

http://techcrunch.com/2011/07/08/yc-funded-quartzy-brings-order-to-science-lab-supply-cabinets/

15 years ago

136 upvotes – 41 comments

Google Singleton Detector

http://code.google.com/p/google-singleton-detector/

15 years ago

135 upvotes – 81 comments

Selenium 2.0: Out Now

http://seleniumhq.wordpress.com/2011/07/08/selenium-2-0/

15 years ago

126 upvotes – 21 comments

All about 64-bit programming in one place

http://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/2011/07/07/all-about-64-bit-programming-in-one-place/

15 years ago

126 upvotes – 5 comments

Collusion: A browser addon to demo how websites track you online

http://collusion.toolness.org/

15 years ago

125 upvotes – 28 comments

Light - If you view the Earth from far enough away can you observe its past?

http://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/11940/if-you-view-the-earth-from-far-enough-away-can-you-observe-its-past

15 years ago

117 upvotes – 65 comments

Lua/APR - proper standard library for Lua

http://peterodding.com/code/lua/apr/

15 years ago

100 upvotes – 28 comments

Congress Tries To Hide Data Retention Law Pretending It's an Anti-Child Porn Law

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110707/04402514995/congress-tries-to-hide-massive-data-retention-law-pretending-its-anti-child-porn-law.shtml

15 years ago

95 upvotes – 9 comments

Do What You Love or You Will Destroy Yourself

http://adamconrad.posterous.com/do-what-you-love-or-it-will-destroy-you-or-ho#

15 years ago

88 upvotes – 30 comments

"The Darknet Plan" Subreddit dedicated to creating a decentralized VPN

http://www.reddit.com/r/darknetplan/

15 years ago

86 upvotes – 10 comments

Pair.io: on demand cloud pair programming environments

https://pair.io/

15 years ago

85 upvotes – 17 comments

FreeBSD on EC2 via defenestration

http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2011-07-08-FreeBSD-on-EC2-via-defenestration.html

15 years ago

82 upvotes – 19 comments

Carmack: Unquestionable that mobile will surpass consoles

http://www.industrygamers.com/news/john-carmack-unquestionable-that-mobile-will-surpass-current-consoles/

15 years ago

79 upvotes – 45 comments

Mozilla now banning people for grumpy bug reports

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=668655#c1

15 years ago

76 upvotes – 112 comments

Woman gets laptop back in DIY sting operation

http://www.ottawacitizen.com/Woman+gets+laptop+back+sting+operation/5069377/story.html

15 years ago

75 upvotes – 63 comments

AMD's master plan to topple Intel - Back to the top on a radical GPU

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/07/07/amd_graphics_core_next/

15 years ago

71 upvotes – 42 comments

Construder - A Minecraft-inspired OpenGL game in Perl

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qd95SrdNkgE

15 years ago

69 upvotes – 11 comments

The Results: #AskObama Town Hall analyzed

http://obama.twitsprout.com/

15 years ago

68 upvotes – 19 comments

Try Blogger's New Interface

http://draft.blogger.com

15 years ago

68 upvotes – 32 comments

A new method of making electricity from sunlight

http://www.economist.com/node/18678935

15 years ago

66 upvotes – 11 comments

HBS Student Creates Smartphone App To Detect Malaria

http://bostinnovation.com/2011/07/08/hbs-student-creates-smartphone-app-to-detect-malaria/

15 years ago

65 upvotes – 51 comments

60% of all NBA players end up poor

http://www.cnbc.com/id/42766400/?slide=1

15 years ago

61 upvotes – 46 comments

Akka and the Java Memory Model

http://blog.typesafe.com/akka-and-the-java-memory-model

15 years ago

49 upvotes – 2 comments

The Strangely Compelling Game Mechanic Powering Google+

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/07/the-strangely-compelling-game-mechanic-powering-google/241595/

15 years ago

48 upvotes – 6 comments
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