top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-07-18

You are not running out of time

http://rahulbijlani.com/essays/you-are-not-running-out-of-time-essay/

15 years ago

696 upvotes – 125 comments

Nginx established as a company

http://nginx.org/#2011-07-18

15 years ago

463 upvotes – 71 comments

Tame.JS: Flow-control by the makers of OkCupid.com

http://tamejs.org/

15 years ago

247 upvotes – 52 comments

Netflix for baby clothes

http://plumgear.com/

15 years ago

239 upvotes – 100 comments

9.2% Unemployment? Blame Microsoft.

http://blogs.forbes.com/quickerbettertech/2011/07/18/9-2-unemployment-blame-microsoft/

15 years ago

217 upvotes – 243 comments

Chain World: a game that exists on a unique USB flash drive

http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/07/mf_chainworld/all/1

15 years ago

216 upvotes – 41 comments

Apple deals massive patent blow to HTC, Android in serious trouble

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/hardware/apple-deals-massive-patent-blow-to-htc-android-in-serious-trouble/13714

15 years ago

212 upvotes – 280 comments

LulzSec Redirects ‘The Sun’ Homepage To Fake Murdoch Death Story

http://techcrunch.com/2011/07/18/lulzsec-hacks-the-sun-redirects-homepage-to-fake-murdoch-death-story/

15 years ago

197 upvotes – 76 comments

Use Google+ to Improve Your UI

http://pixify.com/blog/use-google-plus-to-improve-your-ui/

15 years ago

183 upvotes – 44 comments

Bookstore Chain Borders is Dead

http://blogs.wsj.com/deals/2011/07/18/its-almost-official-borders-is-dead/

15 years ago

163 upvotes – 124 comments

When free markets make it worse: new TLDs

http://blog.asmartbear.com/free-markets-bad.html

15 years ago

157 upvotes – 64 comments

Ask HN: Where is the Django community?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2777883

15 years ago

147 upvotes – 155 comments

reddit gold, one year later (spoiler: the naysayers were wrong)

http://www.reddit.com/r/raldi/comments/isk36/reddit_gold_one_year_later/

15 years ago

140 upvotes – 88 comments

College Students Can Now Rent Textbooks Electronically From Amazon

http://mashable.com/2011/07/18/amazon-textbook-kindle/

15 years ago

118 upvotes – 41 comments

Indian Official Puts Public Webcam in Government office

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/18/business/global/in-india-an-official-puts-a-webcam-in-office.html

15 years ago

104 upvotes – 30 comments

Scala comes to .Net

http://www.scala-lang.org/node/10299

15 years ago

95 upvotes – 70 comments

Astronomers Discover Potentially Earthlike Planet Orbiting Binary Star

http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/27005/

15 years ago

93 upvotes – 31 comments

Spotify bitrategate: 320kbps premium quality not there yet

http://www.spotifyclassical.com/2011/07/spotify-bitrategate-story-so-far.html

15 years ago

89 upvotes – 79 comments

The Fruits of Immigration

http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2011/07/the-fruits-of-immigration.html

15 years ago

87 upvotes – 88 comments

Machine Learning Fairy Dust

http://stdout.be/2011/07/18/machine-learning-fairy-dust/

15 years ago

86 upvotes – 34 comments

Confessions of a custom-essay writer (2010)

http://chronicle.com/article/The-Shadow-Scholar/125329/

15 years ago

81 upvotes – 30 comments

Bruce Eckel on JavaScript

http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=329840

15 years ago

78 upvotes – 56 comments

A slight discrepancy

http://bit-player.org/2011/a-slight-discrepancy

15 years ago

77 upvotes – 13 comments

Google Prediction API - Google Code

http://code.google.com/apis/predict

15 years ago

76 upvotes – 13 comments

Novell and Xamarin Partnership around Mono

http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2011/Jul-18.html

15 years ago

71 upvotes – 30 comments

Open source graphic design

http://www.ponnuki.net/2011/07/open-source-graphic-design/

15 years ago

70 upvotes – 39 comments

Japan's preference for hardware over software is fading

http://www.economist.com/node/18958643

15 years ago

67 upvotes – 42 comments

Errant cron task yields yearlong time lapse of nytimes.com

http://blog.joshuanguyen.com/post/7766138893/due-to-an-errant-cron-task-that-ran-twice-an-hour

15 years ago

61 upvotes – 20 comments

Lightsaber + Kinect + robotic arm = JediBot

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/90204-lightsaber-kinect-robotic-arm-jedibot

15 years ago

55 upvotes – 9 comments

Is anyone there?

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/17/fashion/when-your-e-mail-goes-unanswered.html

15 years ago

54 upvotes – 42 comments

Military software predicts Greek default

http://business.financialpost.com/2011/07/18/computer-program-predicts-greek-default/

15 years ago

54 upvotes – 28 comments

The Internet Is My Religion

http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2011/07/the_internet_is.php?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+thetechnium+%28The+Technium%29

15 years ago

52 upvotes – 7 comments

Twitter spam and motivation to report it

http://www.marco.org/2011/07/18/twitter-spam

15 years ago

52 upvotes – 25 comments

How RIM BlackBerry works with loyal app developers

http://www.im-possible.com/2011/07/how-rim-blackberry-works-with-loyal-app.html

15 years ago

51 upvotes – 10 comments

Why Google+ is a Plus for startups

http://blog.tape.io/what-a-success-why-google-is-a-plus-for-start

15 years ago

50 upvotes – 18 comments

Show HN: How Obama's budget proposal affects you (Weekend Hack)

http://www.howmuchmorewillmytaxesbe.com/

15 years ago

49 upvotes – 37 comments

Researchers Develop Proxy-Less Anonymity System

http://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/researchers-develop-proxy-less-anonymity-system-071811

15 years ago

45 upvotes – 16 comments

Byte Buffers and Non-Heap Memory

http://www.kdgregory.com/index.php?page=java.byteBuffer

15 years ago

45 upvotes – 5 comments

Financing Options: Preferred Stock

http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2011/07/financing-options-preferred-stock.html

15 years ago

43 upvotes – 1 comments

Tisa

http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2011/07/17/Tisa

15 years ago

42 upvotes – 4 comments

How teenagers handle the web's instant fame

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/17/fashion/how-teenagers-handle-the-webs-instant-fame.html?pagewanted=all

15 years ago

42 upvotes – 8 comments

Random highly-ranked Hacker News Posts

http://www.skrenta.com/hn/?filtersfail

15 years ago

41 upvotes – 7 comments

NodeUp: New Node.js Podcast

http://nodeup.com/2

15 years ago

39 upvotes – 4 comments

In Los Angeles Coders Are Too Scared To Take Risks

http://www.codebelay.com/blog/2011/07/17/in-la-coders-are-scared-to-take-risks/

15 years ago

39 upvotes – 28 comments

Belgian newspapers: Google blocking us on searches

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jj9ad340cxT7i1ADyPk_ksWRtLgQ?docId=79891bacb5a84c068862fba59868b1d6

15 years ago

39 upvotes – 50 comments

Proof-of-concept public key authentication for web users

http://toolchain.eu/verifypoc/poc

15 years ago

39 upvotes – 22 comments

Sync G+ posts to Identica/Twitter/FB by simply sharing a post with this G+ bot

http://gplus.sagg.im

15 years ago

39 upvotes – 13 comments

Phone-hacking whistle-blower found dead

http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/europe/07/18/uk.phone.hacking.hoare/

15 years ago

38 upvotes – 7 comments
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