top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-08-24

Steve Jobs Resigns as CEO of Apple

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Steve-Jobs-Resigns-as-CEO-of-bw-19285464.html?x=0&.v=1

15 years ago

1667 upvotes – 305 comments

Steve Jobs Resigns as Apple CEO (Official Letter)

http://blogs.wsj.com/deals/2011/08/24/steve-jobs-resigns-as-apple-ceo/

15 years ago

641 upvotes – 65 comments

If Software Is Eating The World, Why Don't Coders Get Any Respect?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2919708

15 years ago

618 upvotes – 265 comments

Papers Every Programmer Should Read (At Least Twice)

http://blog.objectmentor.com/articles/2009/02/26/10-papers-every-programmer-should-read-at-least-twice

15 years ago

358 upvotes – 26 comments

Steve Jobs' Best Quotes

http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2011/08/24/steve-jobss-best-quotes/

15 years ago

333 upvotes – 67 comments

Mac OS X Lion accepts any password when authenticating via LDAP

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1197379

15 years ago

279 upvotes – 82 comments

Facebook Partners with Stack Overflow

http://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/545/

15 years ago

278 upvotes – 50 comments

When Not To Quit: Man Revived After 96 Minutes

http://m.npr.org/news/front/139670971?singlePage=true

15 years ago

276 upvotes – 61 comments

Peter Norvig on a 45-year-old article about a checkers-playing program

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/at-scientific-american/2011/08/23/systems-analysis-look-back-1966-scientific-american-article/

15 years ago

226 upvotes – 31 comments

What does 0^0 equal? Why do mathematicians and high school teachers disagree?

http://www.askamathematician.com/?p=4524

15 years ago

223 upvotes – 130 comments

Annual Developer Income Report

http://www.kreci.net/reports/annual-developer-income-report/

15 years ago

190 upvotes – 58 comments

GameStop opening Deus Ex boxes, removing free OnLive game code

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2011/08/report-gamestop-opening-deus-ex-copies-removing-free-game-code.ars

15 years ago

183 upvotes – 71 comments

Russia plans $65bn tunnel to America

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article1680121.ece

15 years ago

181 upvotes – 95 comments

Netherlands judge rules Samsung Galaxy S, S II violate Apple patents, bans sales

http://www.engadget.com/2011/08/24/netherlands-judge-rules-that-samsung-galaxy-s-s-ii-violate-appl/

15 years ago

171 upvotes – 137 comments

Y Combinator Demo Day: The Ultimate Roundup

http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/23/y-combinator-demo-day-the-ultimate-roundup/

15 years ago

143 upvotes – 27 comments

$25 PC alpha board successfully runs Linux

http://www.geek.com/articles/chips/25-pc-alpha-board-successfully-runs-linux-20110824/

15 years ago

138 upvotes – 80 comments

How to sell: tips from a marketing guy who can actually sell something

http://bostinnovation.com/2011/08/24/how-to-sell-tips-from-a-marketing-guy-who-can-actually-sell-something/

15 years ago

137 upvotes – 41 comments

An Intern Guide to a Summer in the Bay Area

http://alexeymk.com/an-interns-guide-to-a-summer-in-the-bay-area

15 years ago

132 upvotes – 37 comments

Windows 8: Improving our file management basics: copy, move, rename, and delete

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2011/08/23/improving-our-file-management-basics-copy-move-rename-and-delete.aspx

15 years ago

127 upvotes – 131 comments

NPR tried Google's 20%-time with their developers

http://www.niemanlab.org/2011/08/npr-tries-something-new-a-day-to-let-managers-step-away-and-developers-play/

15 years ago

126 upvotes – 39 comments

Design Secrets For Engineers

http://eng.pulse.me/design-secrets-for-engineers/

15 years ago

126 upvotes – 38 comments

Announcing the first release of batman.js

http://batmanjs.org/2011/08/23/i-am-the-batman.html

15 years ago

123 upvotes – 72 comments

The most stupid C bug ever

http://www.elpauer.org/?p=971

15 years ago

121 upvotes – 85 comments

Compiling to λ-calculus

http://matt.might.net/articles/compiling-up-to-lambda-calculus/

15 years ago

114 upvotes – 16 comments

Preparing To Fire an Executive

http://bhorowitz.com/2011/08/24/preparing-to-fire-an-executive/

15 years ago

104 upvotes – 33 comments

Thoughtbot Releases Playbook for Building Web & Mobile Applications

http://bostinnovation.com/2011/08/24/thoughtbot-releases-playbook-for-building-web-mobile-applications/

15 years ago

103 upvotes – 10 comments

How dead is dead?

http://www.economist.com/node/21526321

15 years ago

93 upvotes – 21 comments

What Every Computer Science Major Should Know

http://matt.might.net/articles/what-cs-majors-should-know/

15 years ago

87 upvotes – 29 comments

DoubleRecall (YC S11) Turns Paywalls Into Advertising Dollars

http://www.nytimes.com/external/gigaom/2011/08/23/23gigaom-doublerecall-turns-paywalls-into-advertising-dolla-4130.html

15 years ago

86 upvotes – 25 comments

BankSimple moves to Portland

http://banksimple.com/blog/BankSimple/were-moving-to-portland/

15 years ago

82 upvotes – 96 comments

Fastest sort of fixed length 6 int array

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2786899/fastest-sort-of-fixed-length-6-int-array/

15 years ago

80 upvotes – 17 comments

Online IDE - C/C++, Java, PHP, Python, Perl and 40+ compilers and intepreters

http://www.ideone.com/

15 years ago

79 upvotes – 28 comments

Google to Settle with U.S. Government for $500 Million

http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/24/google-to-settle-with-u-s-government-for-500-million/

15 years ago

76 upvotes – 45 comments

Lessons Learned from a Software Developer’s First Attempt at Launching a Startup

http://www.softwarebyrob.com/2011/08/24/lessons-learned-from-a-software-developers-first-attempt-at-launching-a-startup/

15 years ago

74 upvotes – 14 comments

Stack Overflow is now the official support platform for Facebook Developers

http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/08/facebook-stackoverflow/

15 years ago

67 upvotes – 12 comments

Russian space freighter lost

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-14653371?

15 years ago

63 upvotes – 25 comments

Yes and yes: 31 Things I've Learned in 31 Years

http://www.yesandyes.org/2010/09/31-things-ive-learned-in-31-years.html

15 years ago

60 upvotes – 11 comments

What Your Old Graphing Calculator Says About Technology

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/08/what-your-old-graphing-calculator-says-about-technology/244028/#.TlUaOxId6Os.hackernews

15 years ago

59 upvotes – 71 comments

Why McDonald's wins in any economy

http://management.fortune.cnn.com/2011/08/23/why-mcdonalds-wins-in-any-economy/

15 years ago

59 upvotes – 65 comments

Of Python and Road Maps (or the lack thereof)

http://www.boredomandlaziness.org/2011/08/of-python-and-road-maps-or-lack-thereof.html

15 years ago

58 upvotes – 2 comments

Closures – A Simple Explanation (Using Ruby)

http://www.skorks.com/2010/05/closures-a-simple-explanation-using-ruby/

15 years ago

54 upvotes – 30 comments
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