top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-08-03

That truck driver you flipped off? Let me tell you his story.

http://www.startribune.com/opinion/otherviews/126619568.html#.TjliGe_CsCo.reddit

15 years ago

616 upvotes – 286 comments

SICP is Under Attack

http://vedantk.tumblr.com/post/8424437797/sicp-is-under-attack

15 years ago

570 upvotes – 196 comments

When patents attack Android

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/08/when-patents-attack-android.html

15 years ago

387 upvotes – 279 comments

Free icons for any object in the world

http://thenounproject.com

15 years ago

323 upvotes – 58 comments

How to remove yourself from all background check websites

http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/j1mit/how_to_remove_yourself_from_all_background_check/

15 years ago

231 upvotes – 32 comments

How I Made $350 In Two Days With Three Pages and Some Payment Code

http://dshipper.posterous.com/how-i-made-350-in-two-days-with-three-pages-a

15 years ago

224 upvotes – 84 comments

See what Google knows about you

http://www.google.com/ads/preferences/

15 years ago

224 upvotes – 94 comments

Why I Quit My Job to Start a Tech Company

http://viniciusvacanti.com/2011/08/03/why-i-quit-my-job-to-start-a-tech-company/

15 years ago

222 upvotes – 75 comments

Shock, awe: British government agrees that copyright has gone too far

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/08/the-british-government-has-endorsed.ars

15 years ago

214 upvotes – 23 comments

Update: Internet Explorer IQ story was bogus

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-14370878#

15 years ago

206 upvotes – 52 comments

Working Remotely

http://arandomurl.com/2011/09/03/working-remotely.html

15 years ago

201 upvotes – 73 comments

Scalability

http://gregor-wagner.com/?p=79

15 years ago

198 upvotes – 161 comments

Why Van Halen had brown M&Ms contractually removed

http://www.snopes.com/music/artists/vanhalen.asp

15 years ago

184 upvotes – 55 comments

Linus Torvalds dumps Gnome3 for XFCE (G+ discussion)

https://plus.google.com/106327083461132854143/posts/SbnL3KaVRtM

15 years ago

183 upvotes – 143 comments

Google Please Hire Me

http://googlepleasehire.me/

15 years ago

164 upvotes – 106 comments

Swedish man caught trying to split atoms at home

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/EU_SWEDEN_NUCLEAR?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2011-08-03-11-33-45

15 years ago

157 upvotes – 77 comments

Quantly: News for quants

http://quant.ly/

15 years ago

148 upvotes – 27 comments

Polyglot Platform

http://blog.heroku.com/archives/2011/8/3/polyglot_platform/

15 years ago

140 upvotes – 10 comments

PyCon 2012

http://us.pycon.org/2012/

15 years ago

135 upvotes – 31 comments

Google: Patently Absurd

http://daringfireball.net/2011/08/google_patently_absurd

15 years ago

135 upvotes – 151 comments

Randi Zuckerberg Runs in the Wrong Direction on Pseudonymity Online

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/08/randi-zuckerberg-runs-wrong-direction-pseudonymity

15 years ago

135 upvotes – 59 comments

Notch defends his previous statement calling Euclideon a scam

http://notch.tumblr.com/post/8423008802/but-notch-its-not-a-scam

15 years ago

128 upvotes – 52 comments

Google Should Publicly Oppose Software Patents

http://blogs.forbes.com/timothylee/2011/08/03/google-should-publicly-oppose-software-patents/

15 years ago

126 upvotes – 25 comments

The future of CSS layouts

http://www.netmagazine.com/features/future-css-layouts

15 years ago

121 upvotes – 37 comments

The Official Ruby Site Is Proudly Maintained by No-One

http://www.rubyinside.com/official-ruby-site-not-so-good-5248.html

15 years ago

116 upvotes – 15 comments

NYT Crossword editor: "I was willing to endure a life of poverty to do this."

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/19/business/media/19askthetimes.html?adxnnl=1&pagewanted=all&adxnnlx=1312384839-mLpflGqHfgDeFFI863nEgA

15 years ago

104 upvotes – 42 comments

Elegant Markdown for a more civilized age

http://blog.vmarti.net/2011/08/03/elegant-markdown.html

15 years ago

97 upvotes – 63 comments

Operation Shady Rat Is The Largest Cyber Attack Ever Uncovered

http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2011/09/chinese-hacking-201109

15 years ago

97 upvotes – 30 comments

Windows 8 to feature stripped-down kernel, built-in virtualization

http://www.itworld.com/virtualization/189289/windows-8-hyper-v-and-minwin-game-changing-strategy

15 years ago

97 upvotes – 63 comments

Bootstrapping an Ultra Low Latency Trading Firm, Part 3

http://veyronb.wordpress.com/2011/08/03/bootstrapping-an-ultra-low-latency-trading-firm-part-3/

15 years ago

91 upvotes – 16 comments

What's Special About Lisp?

http://kresimirbojcic.com/2011/08/02/whats-so-special-about-lisp.html

15 years ago

88 upvotes – 64 comments

Weebly (YC 07) Launches Whitelabel Platform for Designers

http://blog.designers.weebly.com/1/post/2011/08/introducing-the-weebly-designer-platform.html

15 years ago

87 upvotes – 38 comments

Tom Pinckney: Why I gave up on Java and switched to Python

http://www.tompinckney.com/2009/09/why-i-gave-up-on-java-and-switched-to.html

15 years ago

83 upvotes – 50 comments

Earth may once have had two moons

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-14391929

15 years ago

75 upvotes – 18 comments

First amateur polywell fusion reactor, in a Brooklyn apt

http://prometheusfusionperfection.com/2011/08/02/sydney-experiment-we-have-electron-confinement/

15 years ago

75 upvotes – 32 comments

Skype goes VP8, embraces open video codec

http://gigaom.com/video/skype-vp8-video-conferencing/

15 years ago

72 upvotes – 26 comments

SETI Needs Your Help to Resume Search for Extraterrestrial Life

https://setistars.org/donations

15 years ago

71 upvotes – 38 comments

On SproutCore 2.0

http://www.okito.net/post/8409610016/on-sproutcore-2-0

15 years ago

67 upvotes – 2 comments

DoD: $42,000,000 to influence Social Media

https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&id=6ef12558b44258382452fcf02942396a&tab=core&_cview=0

15 years ago

64 upvotes – 24 comments

Show HN: Our weekend project - HN Showcase, browse "Show HN" posts

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2843490

15 years ago

63 upvotes – 18 comments

I found a job through Quora (I thought I was just answering a question)

http://www.assistly.com/blog/greg-meyer-assistly/

15 years ago

62 upvotes – 9 comments

The idea ain't the hard part. One writer finds out hard it is to create an app

http://www.unlimitedmagazine.com/2011/08/how-to-create-an-iphone-app/

15 years ago

61 upvotes – 37 comments

UK Govt accepts all 10 points of the Hargreaves IP Report

http://www.ipo.gov.uk/ipresponse

15 years ago

60 upvotes – 19 comments

The ultimate cross platform language

http://lambdabrella.blogspot.com/2011/08/haxe-book-secret-weapon-under-spot.html

15 years ago

59 upvotes – 25 comments

State actor seen behind "enormous" wave of cyber attacks

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/03/us-cyberattacks-idUSTRE7720HU20110803

15 years ago

58 upvotes – 16 comments

The Xbox Story, Part 1: The Birth of a Console

http://www.vg247.com/2011/08/02/the-xbox-story-part-1-the-birth-of-a-console/

15 years ago

55 upvotes – 7 comments

IPython 0.11 - Innovation in iPython

http://stronginference.com/weblog/2011/7/15/innovations-in-ipython.html

15 years ago

54 upvotes – 8 comments

Planet Money: The Patent War (podcast)

http://www.npr.org/player/v2/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=1&islist=false&id=138934689&m=138939522

15 years ago

54 upvotes – 2 comments

Opera Mobile Emulator

http://www.opera.com/developer/tools/mobile/

15 years ago

53 upvotes – 11 comments
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