top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-08-20

Solar-panel "trees" really are inferior

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:JmlMNqVPKlsJ:uvdiv.blogspot.com/2011/08/solar-panel-trees-really-are-inferior.html+http://uvdiv.blogspot.com/2011/08/solar-panel-trees-really-are-inferior.html&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&source=www.google.com

15 years ago

650 upvotes – 98 comments

I am nothing

http://paulbuchheit.blogspot.com/2011/08/i-am-nothing.html

15 years ago

520 upvotes – 125 comments

If PHP Were British

http://www.addedbytes.com/blog/if-php-were-british/

15 years ago

347 upvotes – 104 comments

Marc Andreessen on Why Software is Eating the World

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111903480904576512250915629460.html

15 years ago

317 upvotes – 91 comments

Women are rejecting marriage in Asia. The social implications are serious.

http://www.economist.com/node/21526350?fsrc=scn/tw/te/ar/asiasloneyhearts

15 years ago

213 upvotes – 206 comments

What is in your .vimrc

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/164847/what-is-in-your-vimrc

15 years ago

200 upvotes – 84 comments

Functional Programming Is Hard, That's Why It's Good

http://dave.fayr.am/posts/2011-08-19-lets-go-shopping.html

15 years ago

177 upvotes – 102 comments

Why Amazon Can't Make A Kindle In the USA

http://www.forbes.com/sites/stevedenning/2011/08/17/why-amazon-cant-make-a-kindle-in-the-usa/

15 years ago

161 upvotes – 184 comments

Notch's Livestream for Ludum Dare 21

http://www.livestream.com/mojang

15 years ago

133 upvotes – 90 comments

Nym Wars (Google+ "real name" rules)

http://www.jwz.org/blog/2011/08/nym-wars/

15 years ago

123 upvotes – 71 comments

HP: To Save The webOS Dev Community, Open-Source Enyo Now

http://funkatron.com/posts/hp:-to-save-the-webos-development-community,-you-must-open-source-enyo-now.html

15 years ago

95 upvotes – 19 comments

Why threads vs events is a nonsensical question.

http://swtch.com/~rsc/talks/threads07

15 years ago

92 upvotes – 46 comments

Flipping 10 heads in a row - a small probability demonstration

http://singingbanana.tumblr.com/post/9166555322/flipping-10-heads-in-a-row-full-video-by

15 years ago

82 upvotes – 40 comments

Thief

http://dribbble.com/shots/240255-Logo-Garden-Stealing-Work?list=popular&offset=0

15 years ago

73 upvotes – 2 comments

Show HN: nyan-mode.el - Nyan Cat for Emacs (my first real Emacs minor mode)

http://nyan-mode.buildsomethingamazing.com/

15 years ago

71 upvotes – 8 comments

Why there aren't many innovators in China

http://joezhou.posterous.com/startups-in-china-why-there-arent-many-innova

15 years ago

69 upvotes – 27 comments

Show HN: I am building a next-gen browser

http://ashraful.org/introducing-browsr/

15 years ago

68 upvotes – 55 comments

Praising Kernel (The Axis of Eval)

http://axisofeval.blogspot.com/2011/08/praising-kernel.html

15 years ago

67 upvotes – 10 comments

TouchPad 16GB on Sale for $99

http://www.shopping.hp.com/store/product/product_detail/FB355UA%2523ABA?jumpid=se_r1002_fp_usen_hho

15 years ago

67 upvotes – 79 comments

Bots are crawling new domain registrations and namesquatting Twitter handles

http://rossduggan.ie/blog/technology/bots-are-crawling-new-domain-registrations-and-namesquatting-twitter-handles/

15 years ago

66 upvotes – 37 comments

Martin Ford Asks: Will Automation Lead to Economic Collapse?

http://singularityhub.com/2009/12/15/martin-ford-asks-will-automation-lead-to-economic-collapse/

15 years ago

61 upvotes – 73 comments

Silicon Valley Booms but Worries About a New Bust

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/21/technology/silicon-valley-booms-but-worries-about-a-new-bust.html?hpw

15 years ago

60 upvotes – 18 comments

Fulcrum - Open Source Agile Project Management Tool

http://wholemeal.co.nz/projects/fulcrum.html

15 years ago

55 upvotes – 18 comments

No, HP, you’re off the mark

http://www.bgr.com/2011/08/20/no-hp-youre-off-the-mark/

15 years ago

54 upvotes – 10 comments

Twitter's t.co uses meta tags and JS instead of 301 Redirects to Mask Referrers

http://getclicky.com/blog/274/breaking-twitters-influence-is-now-zero-facebook-wins-all-hail-the-zuck

15 years ago

53 upvotes – 29 comments
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