top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-07-12

Bored People Quit

http://www.randsinrepose.com/archives/2011/07/12/bored_people_quit.html

15 years ago

840 upvotes – 151 comments

Matz (creator of Ruby) joins Heroku

http://blog.heroku.com/archives/2011/7/12/matz_joins_heroku/

15 years ago

578 upvotes – 75 comments

My experiences as a Recruiter on Hacker News

http://voltsteve.blogspot.com/2011/07/my-experiences-as-recruiter-on-hacker.html?spref=tw

15 years ago

402 upvotes – 114 comments

Rapid DHCP: Or, how do Macs get on the network so fast?

http://cafbit.com/entry/rapid_dhcp_or_how_do

15 years ago

354 upvotes – 180 comments

How not to design a CAPTCHA

https://plus.google.com/107276867598285658079/posts/KcJXYamu12X

15 years ago

310 upvotes – 88 comments

Instantly Add Chat To Hacker News

http://envo.lv/http://news.ycombinator.com

15 years ago

304 upvotes – 64 comments

The fanless spinning heatsink: more efficient, and immune to dust and detritus

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/89710-the-fanless-spinning-heatsink-the-heatsink-is-the-fan

15 years ago

299 upvotes – 63 comments

Edward Tufte's "Slopegraphs"

http://charliepark.org/slopegraphs/

15 years ago

235 upvotes – 38 comments

Own Your Identity

http://www.marco.org/2011/07/11/own-your-identity

15 years ago

226 upvotes – 55 comments

Dyslexie: A typeface for dyslexics

http://thenextweb.com/shareables/2011/06/30/dyslexie-a-typeface-for-dyslexics/

15 years ago

201 upvotes – 65 comments

Floppy Disks: It’s Too Late

http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/3191

15 years ago

181 upvotes – 79 comments

Monkeys Don't Do Fair Use; News Agency Tells Techdirt To Remove Photos

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110712/01182015052/monkeys-dont-do-fair-use-news-agency-tells-techdirt-to-remove-photos.shtml

15 years ago

163 upvotes – 70 comments

Dropbox Raising Massive Round at a $5B-Plus Valuation

http://techcrunch.com/2011/07/12/dropbox-raising-massive-round-at-a-5b-plus-valuation/

15 years ago

161 upvotes – 58 comments

Why we’re building a boring business (and you should too)

http://www.meetingburner.com/blog/2011/07/12/why-we-are-building-a-boring-business/

15 years ago

145 upvotes – 67 comments

Alternatives to GoDaddy

http://www.mahdiyusuf.com/post/7521009923/5-alternatives-to-godaddy

15 years ago

140 upvotes – 88 comments

Netflix introduces new plans and price changes

http://blog.netflix.com/2011/07/netflix-introduces-new-plans-and.html

15 years ago

135 upvotes – 165 comments

The new Pandora: Slick new HTML5 design

http://techcrunch.com/2011/07/12/new-pandora/

15 years ago

124 upvotes – 39 comments

Hollywood is about to repeat the catastrophic mistakes of the music industry

http://www.slate.com/id/2298871/pagenum/all/

15 years ago

121 upvotes – 66 comments

MemSQL (YC W11) Raises $2.1 Million From Ashton Kutcher, SV Angel And More

http://techcrunch.com/2011/07/12/y-combinator-alum-memsql-raises-2-1-million-from-ashton-kutcher-sv-angel-and-more/

15 years ago

115 upvotes – 54 comments

Verbling (YC S11) Links Up Language Learners With Native Speakers Through Video

http://techcrunch.com/2011/07/08/verbling-links-up-language-learners-with-native-speakers-through-live-video-chat/

15 years ago

110 upvotes – 32 comments

Coders Who Don't Job Interview: Zed Shaw

http://www.codebelay.com/blog/2011/07/12/coders-who-dont-job-interview-zed-shaw/

15 years ago

106 upvotes – 76 comments

A change thousands want made to Google+ circles

https://plus.google.com/116872576248355504859/posts/gn3uQfCFyRs

15 years ago

106 upvotes – 55 comments

Apple, Microsoft, RIM, and others join forces to bring down Android

http://www.dailytech.com/Can+Microsoft+and+Apple+Kill+Googles+Android+with+Lawsuits/article22114.htm

15 years ago

94 upvotes – 47 comments

Startup Ideas - July 2011

http://wesleytansey.com/startup-ideas-july-2011/

15 years ago

91 upvotes – 48 comments

Interstate (YC S11) Plots Your Development Progress On The Map

http://techcrunch.com/2011/07/12/yc-funded-interstate-plots-your-development-progress-on-the-map/

15 years ago

90 upvotes – 22 comments

Firefox Sync is now 100% Python

http://tarekziade.wordpress.com/2011/07/12/firefox-sync-python/

15 years ago

82 upvotes – 20 comments

Building a pure CSS 3D City

http://cubiq.org/building-a-pure-css-3d-city

15 years ago

78 upvotes – 15 comments

Google+ to surpass 10M Users

https://plus.google.com/117388252776312694644/posts

15 years ago

63 upvotes – 35 comments

Unhappy Security Dialogs

http://usersinhell.com/unhappy-security-dialogs/

15 years ago

63 upvotes – 25 comments

Porting a HTML5 game: 6 platforms, 1 codebase.

http://blog.greweb.fr/2011/07/same-game-gravity-technical-notes/

15 years ago

62 upvotes – 11 comments

New Android Market for Phones

http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2011/07/new-android-market-for-phones.html

15 years ago

61 upvotes – 20 comments

Pandora Drops Flash for HTML 5

http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/pandora_drops_flash_for_html_5/

15 years ago

59 upvotes – 19 comments

Google+ Statistics On Overdrive

http://www.findpeopleonplus.com/statistics

15 years ago

53 upvotes – 15 comments

20 Million Google+ Users May Exist by the Weekend

http://www.pcworld.com/article/235468/20_million_google_users_may_exist_by_the_weekend.html

15 years ago

50 upvotes – 42 comments

No Stinking Mutants

http://blog.fogus.me/2011/07/12/no-stinking-mutants/

15 years ago

50 upvotes – 3 comments
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