top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-08-10

Jonathan's Card revealed as viral marketing campaign

http://www.coffeestrategies.com/2011/08/08/starbucks-and-the-starkbucks-jonathan-card-viral-marketing-campaign

15 years ago

303 upvotes – 97 comments

Winter is coming

http://www.startuplessonslearned.com/2011/08/winter-is-coming.html

15 years ago

295 upvotes – 78 comments

Detroit in Ruins

http://detroiturbex.com/content/index.html

15 years ago

269 upvotes – 165 comments

HTML5 Boilerplate v2.0 released

http://html5boilerplate.com/#v2

15 years ago

267 upvotes – 28 comments

Captchas To Keep Idiots Out Of Comment Threads

http://www.dangerousminds.net/comments/captchas_to_keep_idiots_out_of_comment_threads/

15 years ago

233 upvotes – 202 comments

The Price of (Dev) Happiness: Part One

http://blog.fogcreek.com/the-price-of-dev-happiness-part-one/

15 years ago

219 upvotes – 142 comments

I Like PHP

http://beust.com/weblog/2011/08/09/i-like-php/

15 years ago

204 upvotes – 263 comments

DEF CON 19 - hackers get hacked

http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2011/Aug/76

15 years ago

192 upvotes – 64 comments

My secret Hobby: Applying for jobs

http://www.irrlicht3d.org/pivot/entry.php?id=1223

15 years ago

187 upvotes – 127 comments

535 ways to reload the page with JavaScript

http://www.phpied.com/files/location-location/location-location.html

15 years ago

184 upvotes – 52 comments

Groupon updates IPO filing, admits it's unprofitable

http://money.cnn.com/2011/08/10/technology/groupon_accounting/

15 years ago

183 upvotes – 85 comments

The Amazon Kindle Cloud Reader is live

http://read.amazon.com

15 years ago

181 upvotes – 118 comments

Awesome but commonly unknown Linux Commands

http://www.anchor.com.au/blog/2011/08/awesome-but-often-unknown-linux-commands-and-tools/

15 years ago

167 upvotes – 87 comments

Show HN: I shipped my first product

http://chriseidhof.tumblr.com/post/8728970225/i-shipped-my-first-product

15 years ago

163 upvotes – 65 comments

Envolve (YC S11) Launches An API For Real-Time Chat

http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/10/yc-funded-envolve-launches-an-api-for-real-time-chat/

15 years ago

159 upvotes – 38 comments

Little Exercise, Big Effects: Reversing Aging

http://www.jneurosci.org/content/31/32/11578.short?rss=1

15 years ago

158 upvotes – 46 comments

How to program independent games (Johnathan Blow of Braid fame)

http://the-witness.net/news/2011/06/how-to-program-independent-games/

15 years ago

148 upvotes – 18 comments

ZeroCater (YC W11) Raises $1.5 Million For No-Hassle Office Lunches

http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/10/zerocater-raises-1-5-million-for-no-hassle-office-lunches/

15 years ago

146 upvotes – 63 comments

Anonymous Pledges to Take Down Facebook

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-20090328-71/anonymous-facebooks-going-down-november-5/

15 years ago

144 upvotes – 92 comments

Trojan T-shirt targets German right-wing rock fans

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-14465150

15 years ago

142 upvotes – 59 comments

Why to Start a Startup in a Bad Economy (2008)

http://paulgraham.com/badeconomy.html

15 years ago

118 upvotes – 25 comments

C No Evil

http://blog.regehr.org/archives/574?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+EmbeddedInAcademia+%28Embedded+in+Academia%29

15 years ago

118 upvotes – 65 comments

Advanced tricks with vim registers

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1497958/how-to-use-vim-registers/1498026#1498026

15 years ago

114 upvotes – 25 comments

Joel Spolsky - A Unified Theory of Internet Startups

https://plus.google.com/117114202722218150209/posts/KhMRNmgGniP?hl=en

15 years ago

99 upvotes – 21 comments

WebGL Path Tracing

http://madebyevan.com/webgl-path-tracing/

15 years ago

94 upvotes – 32 comments

Most of the kids are alright

http://rosamicula.livejournal.com/540476.html

15 years ago

89 upvotes – 16 comments

Glasgow Haskell Compiler 7.2.1 released

http://www.haskell.org/ghc/download_ghc_7_2_1

15 years ago

87 upvotes – 11 comments

Show HN: Proxino - optimize and monitor your javascript

https://www.proxino.com

15 years ago

87 upvotes – 25 comments

Destructuring with Ruby

http://tony.pitluga.com/2011/08/08/destructuring-with-ruby.html

15 years ago

84 upvotes – 5 comments

Can the Dutch Get the World to Eat Bugs?

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/print/2011/09/bug-nuggets/8599/

15 years ago

82 upvotes – 90 comments

The Real Deal about Jonathans Card

https://www.facebook.com/notes/jonathans-card/the-real-deal/174391689299156

15 years ago

74 upvotes – 18 comments

Letterbomb: Wii 4.3 Homebrew Installer Without Need For Special Game Disc

http://hackmii.com/2011/08/letterbomb/

15 years ago

73 upvotes – 16 comments

Raising Money On AngelList: 21 Tips From Two Active Angels

http://onstartups.com/tabid/3339/bid/63010/Raising-Money-On-AngelList-21-Tips-From-Two-Active-Angels.aspx

15 years ago

68 upvotes – 15 comments

Turned Down for a Job at Groupon Over a Year After Applying

http://bennesvig.com/post/8715782820/groupon

15 years ago

66 upvotes – 34 comments

Youtube, please let me know the country availability of a given video.

http://dbasch.posterous.com/youtube-please

15 years ago

63 upvotes – 21 comments

It’s the Economy, Dummkopf!

http://www.vanityfair.com/business/features/2011/09/europe-201109?currentPage=all

15 years ago

61 upvotes – 15 comments

The pros and cons of developing a complete Javascript UI

http://devblog.supportbee.com/2011/08/10/the-pros-and-cons-of-developing-a-complete-javascript-ui/

15 years ago

58 upvotes – 47 comments

Programming for Mere Mortals

http://stevenf.com/pages/book.html

15 years ago

57 upvotes – 24 comments

Password Strength

http://xkcd.com/936/

15 years ago

52 upvotes – 4 comments

PouchDB (Portable CouchDB JavaScript implementation)

https://github.com/mikeal/pouchdb

15 years ago

★ 56 JavaScript Apache-2.0
51 upvotes – 13 comments

Android’s Google Maps App Automatically Tells You How to Beat Traffic

http://singularityhub.com/2011/03/14/androids-google-maps-app-automatically-tells-you-how-to-beat-traffic/

15 years ago

50 upvotes – 26 comments

Geometric proof that angle trisection by straightedge and compass is impossible

http://terrytao.wordpress.com/2011/08/10/a-geometric-proof-of-the-impossibility-of-angle-trisection-by-straightedge-and-compass/

15 years ago

49 upvotes – 20 comments

Try the unconventional alternative

http://blog.businessofsoftware.org/2011/08/an-unconventional-alternative.html

15 years ago

48 upvotes – 12 comments

SproutCore 2.0 Beta 3 Released

http://blog.sproutcore.com/sproutcore-2-0-beta-3-released/

15 years ago

45 upvotes – 6 comments

Nokia confirms N9 MeeGo phone not coming to US

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2011/08/nokia-confirms-n9-not-coming-to-us.ars

15 years ago

44 upvotes – 38 comments

Space travel: Looking to build spaceship within 100 years

http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-sci-100-year-starship-20110806,0,1784371.story

15 years ago

43 upvotes – 30 comments
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