top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-07-13

A lesson on the importance of encouraging your children with their projects

http://gamesbyemail.com/WoodTape/Default.htm

15 years ago

821 upvotes – 103 comments

PuTTY 0.61 released

http://lists.tartarus.org/pipermail/putty-announce/2011/000016.html

15 years ago

342 upvotes – 102 comments

Why I left Google. What happened to my book. What I work on at Facebook.

http://www.thinkoutsidein.com/blog/2011/07/why-i-left-google-what-happened-to-my-book-what-i-work-on-at-facebook/

15 years ago

321 upvotes – 80 comments

The Problem With Silicon Valley Is Itself

http://thenextweb.com/entrepreneur/2011/07/13/the-problem-with-silicon-valley-is-itself/

15 years ago

299 upvotes – 188 comments

Nginx doesn't suck at SSL after all

http://matt.io/technobabble/hivemind_devops_alert:_nginx_does_not_suck_at_ssl/ur

15 years ago

288 upvotes – 107 comments

Comcast cuts off customer for going over 250GB of legitimate use

http://12160.info/profiles/blogs/the-day-comcasts-data-cap

15 years ago

274 upvotes – 279 comments

You Weren't Meant to Have a Boss

http://www.paulgraham.com/boss.html

15 years ago

228 upvotes – 83 comments

Google+ can now hide your gender "in response to user feedback"

https://plus.google.com/106792630639449031994/posts/5kt9TpEb77m

15 years ago

224 upvotes – 69 comments

VMWare Screw Customers

http://communities.vmware.com/thread/320877?start=0&tstart=0

15 years ago

190 upvotes – 90 comments

Man counterhacks paypal phisher, deletes data, warns other victims via phone

http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/io76r/i_received_a_scam_paypal_verification_email_this/

15 years ago

184 upvotes – 56 comments

The Rise and Fall of the Independent Developer

http://furbo.org/2011/07/13/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-independent-developer/

15 years ago

143 upvotes – 114 comments

Patent troll Lodsys now after apps with 'More Apps' links

http://forums.toucharcade.com/showthread.php?t=100387

15 years ago

141 upvotes – 68 comments

Introducing NodeBalancer, load-balancer-as-a-service

http://blog.linode.com/2011/07/13/introducing-nodebalancer/

15 years ago

134 upvotes – 24 comments

The magic button — Make Everything OK

http://make-everything-ok.com/

15 years ago

133 upvotes – 41 comments

From Here On Out, Do What You Love

http://justinbriggs.org/from-here-on-out-do-what-you-love

15 years ago

126 upvotes – 31 comments

50 Lego Designs with 50 Pieces

https://plus.google.com/u/0/108419179389291163454/posts/brkw1ZPjrzj

15 years ago

117 upvotes – 20 comments

Wi-Fi–Hacking Neighbor From Hell Sentenced to 18 Years

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/07/hacking-neighbor-from-hell/

15 years ago

115 upvotes – 162 comments

IBM patent trolling patent application

http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PG01&p=1&u=/netahtml/PTO/srchnum.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=%2220070244837%22.PGNR.&OS=DN/20070244837&RS=DN/20070244837

15 years ago

109 upvotes – 35 comments

Thoughtback - Program Your Mind

http://thoughtback.com/

15 years ago

106 upvotes – 45 comments

Early look into Khan Academy iPad app

https://plus.google.com/115675748062237570841/posts/JGthmsiU6aN#115675748062237570841/posts/JGthmsiU6aN

15 years ago

105 upvotes – 23 comments

Ideas For Beginning Web Developers

http://excid3.com/blog/10-ideas-for-beginner-web-developers/

15 years ago

99 upvotes – 20 comments

SSA and the Lambda Tribe

http://wingolog.org/archives/2011/07/12/static-single-assignment-for-functional-programmers/

15 years ago

94 upvotes – 8 comments

Stephen Wolfram On Starting a Long-Term Company

http://www.stephenwolfram.com/publications/recent/ycombinatorschool/

15 years ago

93 upvotes – 23 comments

Play Button: a wearable, uneditable album

http://www.playbutton.co/

15 years ago

91 upvotes – 40 comments

Google+ Is Built Using Tools You Can Use Too

http://highscalability.com/blog/2011/7/12/google-is-built-using-tools-you-can-use-too-closure-java-ser.html

15 years ago

72 upvotes – 36 comments

Sam Stephenson on Pow, CoffeeScript, and the Rails 3.1 Asset Pipeline

http://lg.gd/064

15 years ago

66 upvotes – 14 comments

Twitter's Abuse Of Its Outside Developers Is Its Downfall

http://mikecanex.wordpress.com/2011/07/13/this-is-what-twitter-does-not-want-to-happen-part-four/

15 years ago

64 upvotes – 27 comments

Localmind closes funding and is moving to SF

http://blog.localmind.com/post/7574018517/localmind-closes-funding-and-is-moving-to-sf

15 years ago

62 upvotes – 16 comments

Hacker News gives "Unknown or expired link" Often when I click "More"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2760187

15 years ago

58 upvotes – 28 comments

Flash game illustrating the Gale-Shapley algorithm

http://mathsite.math.berkeley.edu/smp/smp.html

15 years ago

57 upvotes – 14 comments

Why publish science in peer-reviewed journals?

http://www.genomesunzipped.org/2011/07/why-publish-science-in-peer-reviewed-journals.php

15 years ago

55 upvotes – 49 comments

Visual Website Optimizer new interface + new features + 10,000 accounts

http://visualwebsiteoptimizer.com/split-testing-blog/split-testing-software/

15 years ago

53 upvotes – 25 comments

Awesome White Pages for Google+

http://www.findpeopleonplus.com/

15 years ago

53 upvotes – 26 comments

Splitterbug (YC S11) shutting down

http://www.splitterbug.com/?

15 years ago

53 upvotes – 51 comments

ASP.NET MVC 4 Roadmap

http://haacked.com/archive/2011/07/13/asp-net-mvc-4-roadmap.aspx

15 years ago

49 upvotes – 31 comments

Evernote Gets $50 Million in Funding

http://blog.evernote.com/2011/07/13/evernote-gets-50-million-in-funding-with-faq/

15 years ago

49 upvotes – 43 comments

Google Employee No. 59 on Google+, Privacy and Why He Left

http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2011/07/12/google-employee-no-59-on-google-privacy-and-why-he-left/

15 years ago

47 upvotes – 12 comments

Google's Patent Problems

http://www.marco.org/2011/07/13/google-patents

15 years ago

47 upvotes – 14 comments
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