top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-08-04

How to seem good at everything: Stop doing stupid shit

http://jinfiesto.posterous.com/how-to-seem-good-at-everything-stop-doing-stu

15 years ago

403 upvotes – 130 comments

Who Rules America: An Investment Manager's View on the Top 1%

http://sociology.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/investment_manager.html

15 years ago

362 upvotes – 201 comments

Zed Shaw: The wonderful Rob Sobers did a great job translating LPTHW to Ruby

http://ruby.learncodethehardway.org/

15 years ago

327 upvotes – 65 comments

Google Threw A Punch, Microsoft Fires Back With A Missile

http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/03/microsoft-just-kicked-google-in-the-nuts/

15 years ago

293 upvotes – 143 comments

“Real Names” Policies Are an Abuse of Power

http://socialmediacollective.org/2011/08/04/real-names-policies-are-an-abuse-of-power/

15 years ago

272 upvotes – 187 comments

$1 chip tests for HIV in 15 minutes, fits in your wallet

http://www.fastcompany.com/1770850/the-10-cent-plastic-chip-that-quickly-detect-hiv-syphilis

15 years ago

214 upvotes – 124 comments

Why "Coupon Code" Should Not be a Field on Your Payment Form

http://rachelbaker.me/2011/coupon-code-boxes-should-not-be-on-payment-forms/

15 years ago

209 upvotes – 94 comments

Parse (YC S11): A Heroku For Mobile Apps

http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/04/yc-funded-parse-a-heroku-for-mobile-apps/

15 years ago

201 upvotes – 61 comments

Show HN: My weekend project - preview TV sizes on your wall

http://tvsizematters.com

15 years ago

179 upvotes – 51 comments

Groupon’s Strikeouts Reveal an Unspoken Truth

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-08-04/groupon-s-strikeouts-reveal-an-unspoken-truth-jonathan-weil.html

15 years ago

160 upvotes – 46 comments

Why I develop for iOS

http://chriseidhof.tumblr.com/post/8467033275/why-i-develop-for-ios

15 years ago

159 upvotes – 74 comments

The Schmidle Muddle of the Osama Bin Laden Take Down

http://www.registan.net/index.php/2011/08/04/the-schmidle-muddle-of-the-osama-bin-laden-take-down/comment-page-1/

15 years ago

154 upvotes – 29 comments

Chats are not dead yet

http://amiadogroup.github.com/candy/

15 years ago

152 upvotes – 72 comments

AsciiFlow - diagram & wireframe tool

http://asciiflow.com

15 years ago

151 upvotes – 20 comments

Stanford "Intro to AI" course to be offered online for free

http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/artificial-intelligence/you-you-can-take-stanfords-intro-to-ai-course-next-quarter-for-free

15 years ago

150 upvotes – 25 comments

H.R.1981, the end of online privacy as we know it.

https://spideroak.com/blog/20110803172630-hr1981-the-end-of-online-privacy-as-we-know-it

15 years ago

137 upvotes – 35 comments

Scientists find evidence of salt water flowing on Mars

http://blog.chron.com/sciguy/2011/08/scientists-find-evidence-of-salt-water-flowing-on-mars/

15 years ago

132 upvotes – 42 comments

How our SaaS startup got 1000+ signups in just 7 days, without getting Crunched.

http://blog.groovehq.com/post/8471578393/how-our-saas-startup-got-1000-private-beta-signups-in

15 years ago

121 upvotes – 43 comments

John Mayer: "Manage the Temptation to Publish Yourself"

http://www.berklee-blogs.com/2011/07/john-mayer-2011-clinic-manage-the-temptation-to-publish-yourself/

15 years ago

107 upvotes – 29 comments

MIT develops new method to cure broad range of viruses

http://bostinnovation.com/2011/08/04/mit-researchers-develop-new-method-to-cure-a-broad-range-of-viruses/

15 years ago

106 upvotes – 39 comments

Felicia Day: Mogul In The Making

http://blogs.forbes.com/davidewalt/2011/08/03/felicia-day-dragon-age-redemption/

15 years ago

104 upvotes – 15 comments

Node.js - A Giant Step Backwards

http://fenn.posterous.com/nodejs-a-giant-step-backwards

15 years ago

102 upvotes – 114 comments

The Mythical Man-Finger

http://lenz.unl.edu/2011/07/25/the-mythical-man-finger.html

15 years ago

97 upvotes – 52 comments

Fukime - The Mobile Cloud Platform

http://fukime.com/

15 years ago

92 upvotes – 54 comments

Racket v5.1.2

http://blog.racket-lang.org/2011/08/racket-v512.html

15 years ago

92 upvotes – 5 comments

Lincoln Assassination Eyewitness on 1956 Episode of I’ve Got a Secret

http://laughingsquid.com/lincoln-assassination-eyewitness-on-1956-episode-of-ive-got-a-secret/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+laughingsquid+%28Laughing+Squid%29&utm_content=Google+Reader

15 years ago

81 upvotes – 40 comments

Jimmy Wales: Wikipedia is Losing Contributors

http://siliconfilter.com/jimmy-wales-wikipedia-is-losing-contributors/

15 years ago

81 upvotes – 100 comments

Google Responds To Microsoft’s "Gotcha": They’re Diverting Attention

http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/04/the-greatest-trick-microsoft-never-pulled/

15 years ago

80 upvotes – 65 comments

Wadler's critique of SICP (1987)

http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/people/staff/dat/miranda/wadler87.pdf

15 years ago

80 upvotes – 50 comments

NASA Spacecraft Data Suggest Water Flowing on Mars

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/MRO/news/mro20110804.html

15 years ago

79 upvotes – 7 comments

Google failing to pay Android developers

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/08/04/android_marketplace_payments/

15 years ago

74 upvotes – 17 comments

Class-action complaint against Kissmetrics and others for use of Flash LSO [pdf]

http://gigaom2.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/complaint.pdf

15 years ago

66 upvotes – 37 comments

Calling Google's bluff: Which patent is bogus? Why not open source their code?

http://brianshall.com/content/google-are-pussies

15 years ago

65 upvotes – 12 comments

Why Your Passion for Work Could Ruin Your Career

http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2011/08/why_your_passion_for_work_coul.html

15 years ago

65 upvotes – 15 comments

Warrantless "emergency" surveillance by DOJ up 400%

http://paranoia.dubfire.net/2011/08/warrantless-emergency-surveillance-of.html

15 years ago

64 upvotes – 10 comments

The Mysterious Case Of The Craigslist Writing Gig Scam

http://www.theawl.com/2011/08/the-mysterious-case-of-the-craigslist-writing-gig-scam

15 years ago

62 upvotes – 26 comments

New DNS hijacking technique exploits RAM errors

http://domainincite.com/bit-squatting-%E2%80%93-the-latest-risk-to-domain-name-owners/

15 years ago

61 upvotes – 28 comments

Nokia’s Losses Fires Up Finland's Start-Up Culture

http://blogs.wsj.com/tech-europe/2011/08/04/nokias-losses-become-finlands-gains/

15 years ago

61 upvotes – 9 comments

Official KISSmetrics Response to Data Collection Practices

http://blog.kissmetrics.com/official-kissmetrics-response-to-data-collection-practices/

15 years ago

58 upvotes – 44 comments

My Airbnb page generates a $1,129 CPM

http://josephsofaer.tumblr.com/post/8475650684/my-airbnb-page-generates-a-1-129-cpm

15 years ago

57 upvotes – 30 comments

Nate Silver: Double Dip or Not, Economy Is Falling Farther Behind

http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/08/04/double-dip-or-not-economy-is-falling-farther-behind/

15 years ago

57 upvotes – 33 comments

Philips wins $10M L Prize for LED-based 60W replacement bulb

http://www.edn.com/blog/PowerSource/41224-Philips_wins_10M_L_Prize_for_LED_based_60W_replacement_bulb.php

15 years ago

57 upvotes – 26 comments

Microsoft Responds To Google’s Response To Microsoft’s Response

http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/04/gentlemen-take-this-outside/

15 years ago

52 upvotes – 22 comments

Use Your Powers for Good: Work at Causes.com

http://causes.com/join_us

15 years ago

52 upvotes – 9 comments

A Dashboard for Your Body

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/04/garden/gadgets-to-track-your-health-home-tech.html

15 years ago

43 upvotes – 8 comments

Bitcoin Hackathon, 2.-4. September, Finland. Programmers/hackers, join the fun

http://bitcoin-hackathon.com/

15 years ago

42 upvotes – 6 comments
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