top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-08-05

Give 100 Percent?

http://samanthadouglas.wordpress.com/2011/07/28/give-100-percent/

15 years ago

375 upvotes – 106 comments

We’re not going to have a jobless recovery. We’re going to have a jobless future

http://www.buzzmachine.com/2011/08/05/the-jobless-future/

15 years ago

275 upvotes – 263 comments

Hacker puts a video cam on an RC truck and saves the lives of 6 soldiers

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/remote-controlled-truck-soldier-afghanistan-saves-soldiers-lives/story?id=14225434&fb_ref=abc-fb-recs

15 years ago

272 upvotes – 96 comments

What's a Closure?

http://nathansjslessons.appspot.com/lesson?id=1000

15 years ago

254 upvotes – 57 comments

Are you a Facebook employee?

https://www.facebook.com/ajax/flash/user_info.php

15 years ago

191 upvotes – 94 comments

Designing command-line interfaces

http://www.antoarts.com/designing-command-line-interfaces/

15 years ago

166 upvotes – 80 comments

Hackers Can Kill Diabetics w/ Insulin Pumps? Facts vs. Fear Mongering

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/HackersCanKillDiabeticsWithInsulinPumpsFromAHalfMileAwayUmNoFactsVsJournalisticFearMongering.aspx

15 years ago

163 upvotes – 50 comments

Martin Fowler on Software Patents

http://martinfowler.com/bliki/SoftwarePatent.html

15 years ago

155 upvotes – 53 comments

How I explained MapReduce to my Wife?

http://whyjava.wordpress.com/2011/08/04/how-i-explained-mapreduce-to-my-wife/

15 years ago

130 upvotes – 48 comments

My Name Is Me - Supporting your freedom to choose the name you use online

http://my.nameis.me/

15 years ago

127 upvotes – 43 comments

Why Facebook and Google's Concept of "Real Names" Is Revolutionary

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/08/why-facebook-and-googles-concept-of-real-names-is-revolutionary/243171/

15 years ago

124 upvotes – 66 comments

Code Kata: Becoming a better developer

http://codekata.pragprog.com/2007/01/code_kata_backg.html

15 years ago

116 upvotes – 30 comments

Why aren't there any Open Source laser printers?

http://www.arbitraryuser.com/blog/2011/08/05/open-source-printing/

15 years ago

114 upvotes – 56 comments

Google Announces Plans To Bake Android-Like Web Intents Into Chrome

http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/04/google-announces-plans-to-bake-android-like-web-intents-into-chrome/

15 years ago

108 upvotes – 45 comments

Police: Mock us in Cartoons, go to Prison

http://www.dailytech.com/Police+Mock+us+in+Cartoons+go+to+Prison/article22362.htm

15 years ago

106 upvotes – 33 comments

Bonfire of the Vanities

http://steveblank.com/2011/08/05/bonfire-of-the-vanities/

15 years ago

104 upvotes – 21 comments

A Short Introduction to Prolog

http://coliveira.net/software/a-short-introduction-to-prolog/

15 years ago

102 upvotes – 40 comments

Black Hat hacker details lethal wireless attack on insulin pumps

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/92054-black-hat-hacker-details-wireless-attack-on-insulin-pumps

15 years ago

94 upvotes – 40 comments

How Plan B found the Droid I was looking for

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2011/08/how-plan-b-found-the-droid-i-was-looking-for.ars

15 years ago

94 upvotes – 23 comments

Federal Circuit Slams Patent Troll

http://ipwatchdog.com/2011/08/04/indicia-of-extortion-federal-circuit-slams-patent-troll/id=18568/

15 years ago

88 upvotes – 16 comments

Judge says domain name loss is not a "substantial hardship"

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/08/judge-says-domain-name-loss-is-not-a-substantial-hardship.ars

15 years ago

87 upvotes – 42 comments

Forget WiFi, It's LiFi: Internet Through Lightbulbs

http://www.good.is/post/forget-wifi-it-s-lifi-internet-through-lightbulbs?utm_campaign=daily_good&utm_medium=email_daily_good&utm_source=headline_link&utm_content=Forget%20WiFi%2C%20It%27s%20LiFi%3A%20Internet%20Through%20Lightbulbs

15 years ago

73 upvotes – 37 comments

Bethesda suing Mojang AB for "Scrolls"

http://notch.tumblr.com/post/8519901309/bethesda-are-suing-us-heres-the-full-story

15 years ago

73 upvotes – 33 comments

Celery 2.3 released

http://www.celeryproject.org/news/celery-23-released/

15 years ago

72 upvotes – 33 comments

MyBitcoin Incident Report - August 4th 2011

https://www.mybitcoin.com/

15 years ago

67 upvotes – 28 comments

Web Intents

http://webintents.org/

15 years ago

67 upvotes – 21 comments

We were raised by the Valley

http://blog.teambox.com/raised-by-the-valley

15 years ago

66 upvotes – 8 comments

Small ISPs use "malicious" DNS servers to watch Web searches, earn cash

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/08/small-isps-turn-to-malicious-dns-servers-to-make-extra-cash.ars

15 years ago

65 upvotes – 36 comments

Widespread Hijacking of Search Traffic in the United States

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/07/widespread-search-hijacking-in-the-us

15 years ago

62 upvotes – 18 comments

Why Startups Should Try to Hire Women

http://www.jeanhsu.com/2011/08/04/why-startups-should-try-to-hire-women/

15 years ago

62 upvotes – 74 comments

Lost skills: What today's coders don't know and why it matters

http://www.itworld.com/it-managementstrategy/190213/lost-programming-skills

15 years ago

61 upvotes – 74 comments

Where do users look first?

http://www.gazehawk.com/blog/where-do-users-look-first/

15 years ago

59 upvotes – 10 comments

Judge to Oracle: "proceed with caution before overreaching again"

http://patent-damages.com/2011/08/oracle-v-google-ndca-judge-alsup-rejects-nash-bargaining-solution-and-grants-google%E2%80%99s-motion-to-exclude-oracle%E2%80%99s-expert%E2%80%99s-report-and-testimony-advocating-1-4b-to-6-1b-in-d/

15 years ago

59 upvotes – 15 comments

The Problem With Virtual Goods

http://betab.ly/qAe4Vr

15 years ago

57 upvotes – 17 comments

Show HN: My weekend project - Chessboard picture recognition

http://codebazaar.blogspot.com/2011/08/chess-board-recognition-project-part-1.html

15 years ago

51 upvotes – 54 comments

Antiproton ring found around Earth

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21128245.500-antiproton-ring-found-around-earth.html

15 years ago

46 upvotes – 15 comments

Eric Ries -- The Lean Startup [video]

http://hackersandfounders.tv/e2N/eric-ries-the-lean-startup/

15 years ago

45 upvotes – 13 comments

Oracle v. Google - You Name It, You'll Find It In This Story

http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20110804160611483

15 years ago

44 upvotes – 0 comments

Is Kenya the next outsourcing hub?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12004815

15 years ago

44 upvotes – 21 comments

Minecraft surpasses 3 million sales

http://attackofthefanboy.com/news/minecraft-surpasses-3-million-sales/

15 years ago

44 upvotes – 29 comments

Game mechanics for thinking users

http://pietro.open-lab.com/2010/11/09/game-mechanics-for-thinking-users

15 years ago

39 upvotes – 4 comments

Lessons from a Dell Executive who Joined a YC Startup

http://ownlocal.com/newspaper-support-group/interview-with-lamar-romero-ownlocals-vp-of-sales/

15 years ago

39 upvotes – 15 comments

Isolation with a Very Small TCB

http://blog.regehr.org/archives/565?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+EmbeddedInAcademia+%28Embedded+in+Academia%29

15 years ago

39 upvotes – 7 comments

Google Researcher Exposes Flaws In Sophos Software, Slams Antivirus Industry

http://blogs.forbes.com/andygreenberg/2011/08/04/google-researcher-exposes-flaws-in-sophos-software-slams-antivirus-industry/

15 years ago

38 upvotes – 14 comments

Google docs: Try out a new look and keyboard shortcuts for your documents list

http://googledocs.blogspot.com/2011/08/try-out-new-look-and-keyboard-shortcuts.html

15 years ago

37 upvotes – 15 comments

Restoring Bletchley Park: birthplace of modern computing

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/08/restoring-bletchley-park-birthplace-of.html

15 years ago

36 upvotes – 9 comments

Closure Mode for CoffeeScript

http://bolinfest.com/coffee/

15 years ago

36 upvotes – 18 comments
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