top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-08-02

Games company claims their graphics are 100,000x better

http://www.ausgamers.com/news/read/3093969

15 years ago

385 upvotes – 139 comments

The Mother of All Interview Questions

http://raganwald.posterous.com/the-mother-of-all-interview-questions

15 years ago

263 upvotes – 128 comments

My experience with a 'negative review' scammer.

http://westiseast.co.uk/blog/weird-seo-twitter-scam/

15 years ago

260 upvotes – 78 comments

The Legislation That Could Kill Internet Privacy for Good

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2011/08/the-legislation-that-could-kill-internet-privacy-for-good/242853/

15 years ago

247 upvotes – 72 comments

PyPy is faster than C, again: string formatting

http://morepypy.blogspot.com/2011/08/pypy-is-faster-than-c-again-string.html

15 years ago

233 upvotes – 76 comments

Amazon App Store: Rotten To The Core

https://shiftyjelly.wordpress.com/2011/08/02/amazon-app-store-rotten-to-the-core/

15 years ago

231 upvotes – 94 comments

ViTunes

http://danielchoi.com/software/vitunes.html

15 years ago

196 upvotes – 43 comments

9800 Feet Underground at Kidd Creek Mine in Northern Ontario, Canada

http://blogs.agu.org/martianchronicles/2011/08/01/9800-feet/

15 years ago

187 upvotes – 32 comments

Don't Burn Bridges: A Guide to Networking in Silicon Valley

http://www.giftrocket.com/blog/dont-burn-bridges

15 years ago

168 upvotes – 31 comments

Federal Register API

http://www.federalregister.gov/blog/learn/developers

15 years ago

161 upvotes – 23 comments

The Most Expensive One-byte Mistake

http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2010365

15 years ago

146 upvotes – 79 comments

Chocolat - the new editor

http://chocolatapp.com/

15 years ago

142 upvotes – 140 comments

Zero Day Vulnerability in many Wordpress Themes

http://markmaunder.com/2011/zero-day-vulnerability-in-many-wordpress-themes/

15 years ago

128 upvotes – 53 comments

Turning the Internet Off

http://scripting.com/stories/2011/08/02/turningTheInternetOff.html

15 years ago

123 upvotes – 30 comments

Bootstrapping an Ultra Low Latency Trading Firm, Part 2

http://veyronb.wordpress.com/2011/08/01/bootstrapping-an-ultra-low-latency-trading-firm-part-2/

15 years ago

119 upvotes – 47 comments

Notch on Euclideon: It's a scam

http://notch.tumblr.com/post/8386977075/its-a-scam

15 years ago

115 upvotes – 48 comments

How the Winning Tron Bot Works

http://a1k0n.net/2010/03/04/google-ai-postmortem.html

15 years ago

113 upvotes – 13 comments

MIT develops new tool that can interrupt infinite loops

http://bostinnovation.com/2011/08/02/mit-researchers-develop-tool-to-resuscitate-frozen-programs/

15 years ago

106 upvotes – 67 comments

Amazon App Store: Rotten To The Core

http://shiftyjelly.wordpress.com/2011/08/02/amazon-app-store-rotten-to-the-core/

15 years ago

103 upvotes – 19 comments

Push Pop Press acquired by Facebook

http://pushpoppress.com/about/

15 years ago

102 upvotes – 37 comments

Dan McCracken died, peacefully in his sleep

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_D._McCracken

15 years ago

100 upvotes – 22 comments

Aloha Editor - HTML5 WYSIWYG Editor

http://www.aloha-editor.org/

15 years ago

92 upvotes – 38 comments

Why We Threw out All Our Code (And Why You Should Too)

http://blog.nowjs.com/why-we-threw-out-all-our-code-and-why-you-sho

15 years ago

92 upvotes – 64 comments

Radi - mac app for producing web visual animations, video, realtime graphics

http://radiapp.com/

15 years ago

84 upvotes – 14 comments

Twitter lands $800 million venture capital deal, breaking record

http://www.mercurynews.com/wiretap/ci_18596988

15 years ago

84 upvotes – 66 comments

Catching Integer Overflows in C

http://www.fefe.de/intof.html

15 years ago

81 upvotes – 22 comments

Startups On TV: TechStars Teams Up With Bloomberg

http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/02/startups-on-tv-techstars-teams-up-with-bloomberg-to-offer-a-look-inside-the-startup-hustle/

15 years ago

77 upvotes – 13 comments

Faceplanting: an app launch horror story with a twist

http://taptaptap.com/blog/faceplanting-an-app-launch-horror-story-with-a-twist/

15 years ago

71 upvotes – 9 comments

Why wireless networks are slow

http://mattryall.net/blog/2011/08/why-wireless-networks-are-slow

15 years ago

69 upvotes – 20 comments

USCIS makes it easier for immigrants to build startups in the US

http://www.dhs.gov/ynews/releases/20110802-napolitano-startup-job-creation-initiatives.shtm

15 years ago

67 upvotes – 23 comments

Makerbot killer? Ultimaker: There’s a New 3D Printer in Town

http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2011/08/ultimaker-theres-a-new-3d-printer-in-town.html

15 years ago

63 upvotes – 20 comments

Myth of the the extraordinary teacher

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-herman-class-size-20110731,0,3910343.story

15 years ago

62 upvotes – 32 comments

Happy WiFi day 8.02.11, the most exclusive holiday ever

https://spideroak.com/blog/20110802131754-happy-wifi-day-80211-the-most-exclusive-holiday-ever

15 years ago

59 upvotes – 17 comments

U.S. to Assist Immigrant Job Creators

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111904292504576482573203358158.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

15 years ago

58 upvotes – 25 comments

Reconstructing an Apple II+ on an FPGA

http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~sedwards/apple2fpga/

15 years ago

58 upvotes – 5 comments

Founders: Burn Your Boats

http://www.venturebent.com/2011/08/burn-your-boats/

15 years ago

57 upvotes – 43 comments

Thank 'This American Life' and ask them to set an example

http://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/tal-when-patents-attack

15 years ago

57 upvotes – 24 comments

Crazy, Heretical, and Awesome: The Way I Write Rails Apps

http://jamesgolick.com/2010/3/14/crazy-heretical-and-awesome-the-way-i-write-rails-apps.html

15 years ago

56 upvotes – 36 comments

What the NYC startup world needs (and doesn’t need)

http://cdixon.org/2011/08/02/what-the-nyc-startup-world-needs-and-doesnt-need/

15 years ago

55 upvotes – 32 comments

FCC releases report on America's broadband providers

http://www.fcc.gov/measuring-broadband-america

15 years ago

54 upvotes – 22 comments

How Leaders Emerge

http://pandadesk.com/blog/2011/08/3-surprising-facts-about-how-leaders-emerge/

15 years ago

51 upvotes – 19 comments

GitHub Nodeload2: Downloads Reloaded

https://github.com/blog/900-nodeload2-downloads-reloaded

15 years ago

51 upvotes – 6 comments

Ask HN: When was the last time you used big-o in a web app?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2837214

15 years ago

50 upvotes – 35 comments

How Apple conquered China and learned to think like the Communist Party.

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/08/01/red_delicious_and_rotten?page=full

15 years ago

50 upvotes – 57 comments

Google Chrome Releases: Stable Channel Update

http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2011/08/stable-channel-update.html

15 years ago

46 upvotes – 14 comments

HelpJuice -- The automatically updating help page

http://www.helpjuice.com

15 years ago

46 upvotes – 11 comments

Cool additions by Dropbox Interns

http://blog.dropbox.com/?p=875

15 years ago

44 upvotes – 18 comments

The Fallacy of Modern Web Development

http://jtaby.com/2011/08/01/fallacy-of-modern-web-development.html?

15 years ago

44 upvotes – 37 comments

Undetweetable saves the tweets that you delete, and publishes them

http://undetweetable.com/

15 years ago

43 upvotes – 34 comments

Turntable.fm Picks Union Square as Investor Over Kleiner and Accel

http://www.betabeat.com/2011/08/02/turntable-fm-chooses-union-square-ventures-over-kleiner-and-accel/

15 years ago

43 upvotes – 9 comments
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