top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-07-09

30kloc and $0 revenue. Lessons from my failed startup (& code release)

http://truffles.me.uk/exambuff-open-sourced-startup

15 years ago

301 upvotes – 97 comments

Three Little Circles

http://mbostock.github.com/d3/tutorial/circle.html

15 years ago

220 upvotes – 14 comments

EFF: forced disclosure of encryption password violates 5th Amendment

https://www.eff.org/press/archives/2011/07/08

15 years ago

216 upvotes – 75 comments

Python and the Principle of Least Astonishment

http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2011/7/9/python-and-pola/

15 years ago

207 upvotes – 50 comments

"Yes, but what are your credentials, Mr Stross?"

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2011/07/yes-but-what-are-your-credenti.html

15 years ago

198 upvotes – 93 comments

Rule of Consulting: You can’t stop people from sticking beans up their nose

http://www.uie.com/brainsparks/2011/07/08/beans-and-noses/

15 years ago

185 upvotes – 44 comments

Why shuttle Atlantis will not be left attached to the ISS

http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/fonzm/why_doesnt_nasa_leave_a_shuttle_in_orbit_attached/c1hhz90

15 years ago

151 upvotes – 41 comments

China: High GDP, 64 million empty apartments.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPILhiTJv7E

15 years ago

140 upvotes – 77 comments

Stanford's CS 101 course uses Javascript

http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs101/cs101-demo.html

15 years ago

139 upvotes – 48 comments

Steve Jobs isn’t our Dad

http://blog.getjar.com/developer/

15 years ago

135 upvotes – 45 comments

Lisp for the Web, Part II

http://msnyder.info/posts/2011/07/lisp-for-the-web-ii/

15 years ago

116 upvotes – 16 comments

Former GM exec, Bob Lutz: Fire the MBAs and let the engineers run the show

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2081930,00.html

15 years ago

112 upvotes – 64 comments

Leaftlet - A Lightweight JavaScript Library for Interactive Maps

http://leaflet.cloudmade.com/examples/quick-start.html

15 years ago

107 upvotes – 21 comments

How Many People Are In Space Right Now?

http://www.howmanypeopleareinspacerightnow.com/

15 years ago

106 upvotes – 41 comments

Two Years of Pinboard

http://blog.pinboard.in/2011/07/two_years_of_pinboard/

15 years ago

103 upvotes – 33 comments

Adventures in Bitmasking

http://www.angryfishstudios.com/2011/04/adventures-in-bitmasking/

15 years ago

97 upvotes – 7 comments

Cooking For Engineers: Step by Step Recipes and Food for the Analytically Minded

http://www.cookingforengineers.com

15 years ago

93 upvotes – 26 comments

Web app ideas

http://lkozma.net/blog/quick-web-app-ideas/

15 years ago

92 upvotes – 18 comments

ASCII animated donut in obfuscated C

http://a1k0n.net/2006/09/15/obfuscated-c-donut.html

15 years ago

81 upvotes – 32 comments

Go for the JVM, written in Scala

http://code.google.com/p/jgo/

15 years ago

71 upvotes – 57 comments

Google+ accounted for 35% of Tweeted news links last week

http://thenextweb.com/google/2011/07/08/google-accounted-for-35-of-tweeted-news-links-last-week/

15 years ago

64 upvotes – 18 comments

The state of HTML5 for mobile app development

http://martinkou.blogspot.com/2011/06/present-state-of-html5-in-mobile-app.html

15 years ago

58 upvotes – 15 comments

G- (Chrome Extension removes Google+)

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/dgpdknjcnmdopmgoajdcphdlcgdfdpfp

15 years ago

56 upvotes – 16 comments

Amazon user feedback used for censorship

http://www.marklynas.org/2011/07/the-god-species-withdrawn-from-amazon-censorship/

15 years ago

55 upvotes – 24 comments

Picking the Lock of Google's Search

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/10/your-money/lead-gen-sites-pose-challenge-to-google-the-haggler.html?_r=1

15 years ago

49 upvotes – 22 comments

Why your company should do an internal hackathon

http://blog.mumm.me/?p=174

15 years ago

48 upvotes – 15 comments

Floating Point Determinism

http://gafferongames.com/networking-for-game-programmers/floating-point-determinism/

15 years ago

47 upvotes – 19 comments

The IBM PC ran at 4.77MHz due to a decision made in 1953

http://dosmandrivel.blogspot.com/2009/03/ibm-pc-design-antics.html

15 years ago

47 upvotes – 12 comments

How to Hire a Great Web Designer, With Y Combinator’s Garry Tan

http://www.openforum.com/idea-hub/topics/technology/article/how-to-hire-a-great-web-designer-with-y-combinators-garry-tan-jolie-odell

15 years ago

45 upvotes – 4 comments
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