top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-07-11

Ex-Wave, Ex-Plus engineer on Google Plus

http://rethrick.com/#google-plus

15 years ago

441 upvotes – 150 comments

GoDaddy SSL Cert Scam

http://rentzsch.tumblr.com/post/7471141866/godaddy-ssl-cert-scam

15 years ago

321 upvotes – 119 comments

So you want to write a fast Python?

http://alexgaynor.net/2011/jul/10/so-you-want-write-fast-python/

15 years ago

262 upvotes – 67 comments

Erlang creator on how to get started and learning to program

http://erlang.org/pipermail/erlang-questions/2011-July/059966.html

15 years ago

230 upvotes – 72 comments

Nginx sucks at SSL, here's what to do instead

http://matt.io/entry/uq

15 years ago

170 upvotes – 62 comments

Noah Kagan and the Faceless Bitch slide

http://sherprog.com/2011/07/10/noah-kagan-and-the-faceless-bitch-slide/

15 years ago

168 upvotes – 209 comments

Anonymous hacks Booz Allen Hamilton, US military contractor, 90k logins dumped

http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/6533009

15 years ago

168 upvotes – 82 comments

CSS Lint is harmful

http://mattwilcox.net/archive/entry/id/1054/

15 years ago

157 upvotes – 38 comments

Firefox 8 is 20% faster than Firefox 5, matches Chrome 14

http://www.extremetech.com/internet/89570-firefox-8-is-20-faster-than-firefox-5-matches-chrome-14

15 years ago

150 upvotes – 119 comments

DOJ: We can force you to decrypt that laptop

http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-20078312-281/doj-we-can-force-you-to-decrypt-that-laptop/

15 years ago

148 upvotes – 120 comments

How to make awesome diagrams for your slides

http://www.slideshare.net/otikik/how-to-make-awesome-diagrams-for-your-slides

15 years ago

134 upvotes – 23 comments

Why you should take the money

http://blog.asmartbear.com/rand-take-money.html

15 years ago

132 upvotes – 41 comments

Punchd has been acquired by Google

http://www.getpunchd.com/google

15 years ago

123 upvotes – 25 comments

I'm a technical lead on the Google+ team. Ask me anything.

http://anyasq.com/79-im-a-technical-lead-on-the-google+-team

15 years ago

122 upvotes – 38 comments

Why I quit my job

http://kainagata.com/2011/07/08/why-i-quit-my-job/

15 years ago

117 upvotes – 7 comments

Results of the 2011 State of Clojure survey

http://cemerick.com/2011/07/11/results-of-the-2011-state-of-clojure-survey/

15 years ago

115 upvotes – 18 comments

Yet Another "People Plug in Strange USB Sticks" Story

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2011/06/yet_another_peo.html

15 years ago

110 upvotes – 61 comments

As I run past the RIM buildings, I see these posters

http://fightandroid.org/

15 years ago

109 upvotes – 89 comments

To defend Android, Google must attack software patents

http://www.h-online.com/open/features/To-defend-Android-Google-must-attack-software-patents-1276948.html

15 years ago

104 upvotes – 53 comments

Google Circles is high work and low return

http://garry.posterous.com/google-circles-is-high-work-and-low-return-wh

15 years ago

103 upvotes – 107 comments

Larry Page: If we can't win on quality, we shouldn't win at all.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304066504576351650017002270.html

15 years ago

101 upvotes – 28 comments

Where are my rounded corners?

http://bigseadesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Factsheet-Where-are-my-rounded-corners.pdf

15 years ago

99 upvotes – 26 comments

A notebook and a pen can be a highly effective personal productivity system

https://www.waterflowon.com/blog?category=1&article=43

15 years ago

95 upvotes – 56 comments

AI: Playing Score4 in functional and imperative style (C++,OCaml,F#,C#)

http://users.softlab.ece.ntua.gr/~ttsiod/score4.html

15 years ago

95 upvotes – 30 comments

My weekend project: MongoDB implementation in Ruby

https://github.com/gdb/embedded-mongo

15 years ago

★ 122 Ruby MIT
94 upvotes – 11 comments

First step in scaling a web site: HTTP caching

http://merbist.com/2011/07/11/first-step-in-scaling-a-web-site-http-caching/

15 years ago

94 upvotes – 12 comments

Color, Now Down Two of Three Leaders, Lesson in Lean Startup Philosophy

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/color_now_down_two_of_three_leaders_looks_like_a_l.php#.Ths_w1L9sOY.hackernews

15 years ago

83 upvotes – 42 comments

Monads in C++

http://bartoszmilewski.wordpress.com/2011/07/11/monads-in-c/

15 years ago

80 upvotes – 32 comments

Netcat cheat sheet

http://h.ackack.net/cheat-sheets/netcat

15 years ago

79 upvotes – 7 comments

Explaining Google+ To The Norms

http://www.betabeat.com/2011/07/11/google-circles-more-like-a-hole/

15 years ago

78 upvotes – 40 comments

There is no Jake Frink

http://www.reddit.com/r/starcraft/comments/im6r4/there_is_no_jake_frink_and_teevox_has_pulled_an/

15 years ago

77 upvotes – 42 comments

Hire me: a story of developer burnout and how I want to turn it around

http://tanepiper.com/hire-me-a-story-of-developer-burnout-and-how

15 years ago

77 upvotes – 10 comments

How “Patent Trolling” Taxes Innovation

http://www.freakonomics.com/2011/07/11/how-patent-trolling-taxes-innovation/

15 years ago

76 upvotes – 13 comments

Don’t compete on features

http://andrewchenblog.com/2011/07/11/dont-compete-on-features/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+AndrewChensBlog+%28Andrew+Chen+%28%40andrewchen%29%29

15 years ago

76 upvotes – 18 comments

A Google slide presentation that explains some of the thinking behind G+

http://www.slideshare.net/padday/the-real-life-social-network-v2/

15 years ago

74 upvotes – 12 comments

Python 3.2.1 released

http://www.python.org/download/releases/3.2.1

15 years ago

65 upvotes – 2 comments

Two line fix to speed up canvas performance on iPhone4

http://29a.ch/2011/5/27/fast-html5-canvas-on-iphone-mobile-safari-performance

15 years ago

63 upvotes – 0 comments

The most useful GCC options and extensions

http://www.antoarts.com/the-most-useful-gcc-options-and-extensions/

15 years ago

62 upvotes – 21 comments

Show HN: My weekend project, Startup Tees

http://zach-johnston.com/tees/

15 years ago

58 upvotes – 45 comments

How the Bubble Destroyed the Middle Class

http://finance.yahoo.com/banking-budgeting/article/113086/bubble-destroyed-middle-class-marketwatch;_ylt=At4mPlCBilFtqaDeVWAOHkK7YWsA;_ylu=X3oDMTE1YTVsNjl0BHBvcwM4BHNlYwN0b3BTdG9yaWVzBHNsawNob3d0aGVidWJibGU-?mod=bb-budgeting&sec=topStories&pos=5&asset=&ccode=

15 years ago

56 upvotes – 31 comments

Driven off the Road by M.B.A.s

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2081930,00.html?xid=fblike [-]

15 years ago

55 upvotes – 29 comments

WebRTC

https://sites.google.com/site/webrtc/

15 years ago

54 upvotes – 15 comments

Wii-js, interact with Nintendo Wii via Javascript

https://github.com/ryanmcgrath/wii-js

15 years ago

★ 159 JavaScript MIT
53 upvotes – 7 comments

Fluxflex: GitHub integrated cloud hosting, starting at $1/month

https://www.fluxflex.com/

15 years ago

52 upvotes – 62 comments

I canceled the project: A success story of talking to your potential customers

https://plus.google.com/117332097246383158508/posts/4WoTh3XpCBR

15 years ago

51 upvotes – 38 comments

How Seawater Can Power the World

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/11/opinion/11Prager.html

15 years ago

47 upvotes – 52 comments

Project ShapeOko: a $300 complete CNC machine

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/edwardrford/project-shapeoko-a-300-complete-cnc-machine

15 years ago

46 upvotes – 7 comments

The illusion of job stability

http://finance.fortune.cnn.com/2011/07/11/the-illusion-of-job-stability/

15 years ago

45 upvotes – 13 comments

CSS only Lightbox

http://www.w3css.co.uk/

15 years ago

45 upvotes – 10 comments

Google+: One too many eggs in the Google basket

http://www.extremetech.com/computing/89628-too-many-eggs-in-the-google-basket

15 years ago

45 upvotes – 32 comments

Evolving the Node.js Brand

http://blog.nodejs.org/2011/07/11/evolving-the-node-js-brand/

15 years ago

45 upvotes – 27 comments
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