top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-09-01

First employee of startup? You are probably getting screwed

http://blog.itlater.com/first-employee-of-startup-you-are-probably-getting-screwed/

15 years ago

389 upvotes – 198 comments

You can't google 9999999..99999999999999999999999

http://www.google.com/search?q=9999999..99999999999999999999999

15 years ago

364 upvotes – 80 comments

Tilemill: Maps done right

http://tilemill.com/pages/index.html

15 years ago

323 upvotes – 42 comments

Iran forged the wrong SSL certificate

http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2011-09-01-Iran-forged-the-wrong-SSL-certificate.html

15 years ago

254 upvotes – 108 comments

Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (September 2011)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2949787

15 years ago

249 upvotes – 232 comments

Netflix to lose Starz, its most valuable source of new movies

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/entertainmentnewsbuzz/2011/09/netflix-to-lose-starz-its-most-valuable-source-of-new-movies.html

15 years ago

239 upvotes – 147 comments

Why Developers Never Use State Machines

http://www.skorks.com/2011/09/why-developers-never-use-state-machines/

15 years ago

237 upvotes – 92 comments

Release day economics

http://uniformmotion.tumblr.com/post/9659997039/release-day-economics

15 years ago

218 upvotes – 74 comments

Linode Reduces Transfer Pricing (Incoming Data is now Free)

http://blog.linode.com/2011/09/01/linode-reduces-transfer-pricing/

15 years ago

177 upvotes – 58 comments

Confirmed: All Wikileaks Cables to be Released in next 24 hours

http://www.wikileaks.org/Guardian-journalist-negligently.html

15 years ago

157 upvotes – 78 comments

A History of Bayes' Theorem

http://lesswrong.com/lw/774/a_history_of_bayes_theorem/

15 years ago

149 upvotes – 35 comments

How I name my apps

http://blog.zachwaugh.com/post/9666969587/how-i-name-my-apps

15 years ago

145 upvotes – 35 comments

Why The UK Startup Scene Is Doomed

http://zachinglis.com/2011/why-the-uk-startup-scene-is-doomed/

15 years ago

131 upvotes – 69 comments

Doodle or Die - our "bizarrely addictive" Node Knockout game

http://doodle.no.de

15 years ago

123 upvotes – 66 comments

Yes, Virginia, Scala is hard

http://goodstuff.im/yes-virginia-scala-is-hard

15 years ago

113 upvotes – 82 comments

Standing desks are on the rise

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111904199404576541011003270644.html

15 years ago

113 upvotes – 83 comments

Michael Arrington launching venture fund

http://finance.fortune.cnn.com/2011/09/01/michael-arrington-venture-capital-fund/

15 years ago

101 upvotes – 48 comments

The “designers should code” bullshit and a not so new idea

http://intenseminimalism.com/2011/designers-shouldnt-code-the-digital-duo/

15 years ago

99 upvotes – 98 comments

Chrome Beats Internet Explorer To Become #2 Browser in India

http://blog.arpitnext.com/2011/09/chrome-beats-internet-explorer.html

15 years ago

97 upvotes – 24 comments

Linus Torvalds and Others on Community Burnout

http://www.datamation.com/open-source/linus-torvalds-and-others-on-community-burnout-1.html

15 years ago

94 upvotes – 2 comments

The Cheap Android Phone Is Here, But It's Not What You'd Expect.

http://www.osnews.com/story/25118/The_Cheap_Android_Phone_Is_Here_But_It_s_Not_What_You_d_Expect

15 years ago

93 upvotes – 59 comments

Germany lifts Doom sales ban after 17 years

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-14748027

15 years ago

92 upvotes – 25 comments

Lab-grown meat might be only 6 months away

http://blastr.com/2011/09/lab-grown-meat-might-be-only-6-months-away-yum-we-think.php

15 years ago

92 upvotes – 95 comments

After working at a startup, I'll never work at a big company again

http://kencochrane.net/blog/2011/08/ill-never-work-for-a-big-company-again/

15 years ago

87 upvotes – 35 comments

If You Can Think, Design & Code, You Win

http://flyosity.com/application-design/if-you-can-think-design-code-you-win.php

15 years ago

86 upvotes – 32 comments

Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancers? (September 2011)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2949790

15 years ago

84 upvotes – 68 comments

How I got a burnout

http://chriseidhof.tumblr.com/post/9667398258/how-i-got-a-burnout

15 years ago

82 upvotes – 48 comments

Awesome Services We Pay for at HelloFax

http://blog.hellofax.com/uncategorized/services-we-pay-for-at-hellofax/

15 years ago

82 upvotes – 20 comments

Why Governments Don’t Get Startups

http://steveblank.com/2011/09/01/why-governments-don%E2%80%99t-get-startups/

15 years ago

81 upvotes – 19 comments

SSL Certificate Scandal Exposes Bug in Mac OS X

http://securitywatch.pcmag.com/apple/287205-ssl-certificate-scandal-exposes-bug-in-mac-os-x

15 years ago

78 upvotes – 19 comments

Why Startups Fail (infographic based on Startup Genome data)

http://visual.ly/why-startups-fail

15 years ago

76 upvotes – 14 comments

Why the Linux kernel is hardly at risk

http://www.linux.com/news/featured-blogs/171-jonathan-corbet/491001-the-cracking-of-kernelorg

15 years ago

76 upvotes – 35 comments

Sublets Just Got Easier

http://blog.airbnb.com/sublets-just-got-easier

15 years ago

73 upvotes – 24 comments

Show HN: My weekend project (split screen surfing)

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/aeafbnpnnbfjkngleojanpckkjhkdkdj

15 years ago

71 upvotes – 19 comments

These are not the SSL certs you're looking for

http://dankaminsky.com/2011/08/31/notnotar

15 years ago

68 upvotes – 17 comments

Ready For a Reddit Replacement?

http://www.dailydot.com/business/hubski-reddit-mark-katakowski/

15 years ago

67 upvotes – 80 comments

$25 PC priced like a textbook, works with old analog TVs

http://www.geek.com/articles/chips/why-a-25-pc-because-its-the-price-of-a-textbook-2011091/

15 years ago

65 upvotes – 60 comments

I went through YC as an intern, here’s what I learned

http://swizec.com/blog/i-went-through-yc-as-an-intern-heres-what-i-learned/swizec/2345

15 years ago

63 upvotes – 11 comments

"He started programming when he was 6"

http://mjohn5ton.com/blog/2011/9/1/he-started-programming-when-he-was-6.html

15 years ago

61 upvotes – 61 comments

Server-side JavaScript development and hosting

http://www.akshell.com/#

15 years ago

60 upvotes – 18 comments

Unity and Flash : a sneak peek.

http://blogs.unity3d.com/2011/09/01/unity-and-flash-a-sneak-peek/

15 years ago

58 upvotes – 18 comments

Port scanner written in x86 assembly (32-bit)

https://github.com/edma2/asmscan

15 years ago

★ 101 Assembly
56 upvotes – 28 comments

Why Summer Vacations--and the Internet--Really Make You More Productive

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2011/08/why-summer-vacations-and-the-internet-make-you-more-productive/244289/

15 years ago

55 upvotes – 4 comments

HTML5 game: Adslife

http://adslifegame.com

15 years ago

48 upvotes – 4 comments

Firefox on Mac textarea edit bug open since 2005

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=289384

15 years ago

47 upvotes – 32 comments
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