top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-08-29

Microsoft UI has officially entered the realm of self-parody

http://seldo.tumblr.com/post/9549775746/this-is-genuinely-microsofts-idea-of-a

15 years ago

Learn Vim Progressively

http://yannesposito.com/Scratch/en/blog/Learn-Vim-Progressively/

15 years ago

Mari0 - Super Mario Bros. + Portal

http://stabyourself.net/mari0/

15 years ago

The "overlearning the game" problem

http://andrewoneverything.com/the-overlearning-the-game-problem

15 years ago

Misadventures in VC Funding: The $24 Million Moz Almost Raised

http://randfishkin.com/blog/128/misadventures-venture-capital-funding

15 years ago

Gmail.com being MITM'd by Iran using this certificate

http://pastebin.com/ff7Yg663

15 years ago

H-P's One-Year Plan

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111904787404576535211589514334.html

15 years ago

Applications Open for Winter 2012 YC Funding

http://ycombinator.com/apply.html?2012

15 years ago

Why no Steam, Notch?

http://notch.tumblr.com/post/9550850116/why-no-steam-notch

15 years ago

Play on Heroku

http://blog.heroku.com/archives/2011/8/29/play/

15 years ago

Improvements in Windows Explorer - Building Windows 8

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2011/08/26/improvements-in-windows-explorer.aspx

15 years ago

Lodsys in a Panic to Keep Apple Out of Suit

http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20110828073533134

15 years ago

Bushido (YC S11): An App Store For The Web That Can Kickstart Your Side Projects

http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/29/yc-funded-bushido-an-app-store-for-the-web-that-can-kickstart-your-side-projects/

15 years ago

Is it wrong to note 100m winners are always black?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-14679657

15 years ago

Best SSDs For The Money: August 2011

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ssd-solid-state-nand-reliability,2998.html

15 years ago

Understanding JIT spray

http://blog.cdleary.com/2011/08/understanding-jit-spray/

15 years ago

On Minimalism

http://chriseidhof.tumblr.com/post/9539831015/on-minimalism

15 years ago

What Kills Startups? A study.

http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/29/what-kills-startups-blackbox-releases-reportapp-to-help-founders-avoid-the-deadpool/

15 years ago

Is learning Assembly Language worth the effort?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/82432/is-learning-assembly-language-worth-the-effort

15 years ago

BitTorrent users don't "act in concert," so judge slashes mass P2P case

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/08/bittorrent-users-dont-act-in-concert-so-judge-slashes-mass-p2p-case.ars

15 years ago

US Incorporation for Canadian Startups

http://blog.carlmercier.com/2011/08/29/us-incorporation-for-canadian-startups/

15 years ago

Book on Third-Party JavaScript from engineers at Disqus (YC 07)

http://thirdpartyjs.com

15 years ago

Why I blog

http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/2011/08/why-i-blog.html

15 years ago

Speech Recognition Leaps Forward

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/news/features/speechrecognition-082911.aspx

15 years ago

Arch Linux moves up to Linux 3.0

http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS2477413399.html

15 years ago

Get 10 GB of space on the new Minus.com

http://minus.com

15 years ago

Masked Protesters Aid Time Warner’s Bottom Line

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/29/technology/masked-anonymous-protesters-aid-time-warners-profits.html

15 years ago

Hard work and high skills - notch and the value of the individual hacker

http://thestartuptoolkit.com/blog/Hard_work_and_high_skills/

15 years ago

Every generation gets the self-help guru it deserves

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/09/05/110905fa_fact_mead

15 years ago

Gold Coins: The Mystery of the Double Eagle

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/gold-coins-the-mystery-of-the-double-eagle-08252011.html

15 years ago

Account Chooser - for the next generation of web sign in

http://accountchooser.com/

15 years ago

Crustache is a fast C implementation of Mustache

https://github.com/tanoku/crustache

15 years ago

Fech: The NYT's new Gem for F.E.C. Filings

http://open.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/08/29/introducing-fech/

15 years ago

Death Threats and Hate Crimes, Attacks On Women Bloggers Escalating

http://ittybiz.com/death-threats-online/

15 years ago