top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-09-02

Google Correlate by Drawing

http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/draw

15 years ago

475 upvotes – 77 comments

Michael Arrington Resigns From Techcrunch

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111904583204576545302082353610.html

15 years ago

322 upvotes – 74 comments

Amazon’s Kindle Tablet Is Very Real. I’ve Seen It, Played With It.

http://techcrunch.com/2011/09/02/amazon-kindle-tablet/

15 years ago

302 upvotes – 191 comments

Highly Successful Bootstrapped Startups

http://www.softwarebyrob.com/2011/09/01/ten-highly-successful-bootstrapped-startups/

15 years ago

226 upvotes – 68 comments

Google App Engine Pricing Angers Developers, Kills PlusFeed

http://www.readwriteweb.com/hack/2011/09/google-app-engine-pricing-ange.php

15 years ago

223 upvotes – 143 comments

Automate download, install, config of IE-only VM's with VirtualBox (Linux/OSX)

https://github.com/xdissent/ievms#readme

15 years ago

★ 9.7k Shell
219 upvotes – 59 comments

How to Write Good iOS Apps

http://coffeetimerapp.com/index.php/2011/09/how-to-write-ios-apps/

15 years ago

171 upvotes – 62 comments

Arthur C. Clarke Predicts the Future in 1964 … And Kind of Nails It

http://www.openculture.com/2011/09/arthur_c_clarke_looks_into_the_future_1964.html

15 years ago

152 upvotes – 68 comments

A fall spring-cleaning - Google products getting shut down

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/09/fall-spring-clean.html

15 years ago

147 upvotes – 79 comments

The conversation that led to Ruby being called Ruby

http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/88819

15 years ago

146 upvotes – 33 comments

The College For-Profits Should Fear

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/septemberoctober_2011/features/the_college_forprofits_should031640.php

15 years ago

122 upvotes – 67 comments

The $100K Taxi Ride, One Year Later

http://baydin.com/blog/2011/09/the-100k-taxi-rideone-year-later/

15 years ago

118 upvotes – 28 comments

Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot Beta 1, Released

http://www.webupd8.org/2011/09/ubuntu-1110-beta-1-has-been-released.html

15 years ago

114 upvotes – 66 comments

Ridiculously Transparent

http://bhorowitz.com/2011/09/02/ridiculously-transparent/

15 years ago

111 upvotes – 19 comments

Bootstrapping a $30k profit/month company from our undergrad internship earnings

http://blog.fiplab.com/bootstrapping-a-company-straight-out-of-unive

15 years ago

110 upvotes – 34 comments

Aspect Ratios

http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2011/09/01/Screen-Sizes

15 years ago

92 upvotes – 34 comments

Deploying Node.js on Amazon EC2

http://blog.carbonfive.com/2011/09/01/deploying-node-js-on-amazon-ec2/

15 years ago

89 upvotes – 17 comments

Follow up emails work

http://www.gettingmoreawesome.com/2011/08/24/followup/

15 years ago

79 upvotes – 27 comments

U.S. Set to Sue a Dozen Big Banks Over Mortgages

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/02/business/us-is-set-to-sue-dozen-big-banks-over-mortgages.html?_r=1&hp

15 years ago

78 upvotes – 77 comments

Scala is for drivers

http://blog.fogus.me/2011/09/02/scala-is-for-drivers/

15 years ago

74 upvotes – 46 comments

Pyweek13 is coming. Learn python the hardest way: make a game in a week

http://pyweek.org/13/

15 years ago

74 upvotes – 8 comments

Using jQuery’s Data APIs

http://www.learningjquery.com/2011/09/using-jquerys-data-apis

15 years ago

67 upvotes – 12 comments

Clojure Hills of Abstraction

http://tech.puredanger.com/2011/09/02/clojure-hills-of-abstraction/

15 years ago

66 upvotes – 13 comments

Sneaking into the Fortune 500 through the back door

http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2997-sneaking-into-the-fortune-500-through-the-back-door

15 years ago

65 upvotes – 20 comments

Steve Jobs's Law: Why Founders Make the Best Leaders

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2011/09/steve-jobss-law-why-founders-make-better-leaders/244439/?google_editors_picks=true

15 years ago

64 upvotes – 25 comments

Apple Investigators Posed as Police in New Lost iPhone Prototype Search?

http://www.macrumors.com/2011/09/02/apple-investigators-posed-as-police-in-new-lost-iphone-prototype-search/

15 years ago

63 upvotes – 62 comments

A set of useful mixins for LESS CSS

http://lesselements.com/

15 years ago

61 upvotes – 11 comments

Rob Pike (2001): Presentation looking back on 1 billion seconds of Unix. [pdf]

http://www.herpolhode.com/rob/ugly.pdf

15 years ago

57 upvotes – 22 comments

Part 2: How I dealt with a burnout

http://chriseidhof.tumblr.com/post/9700449196/how-i-dealt-with-a-burnout

15 years ago

56 upvotes – 24 comments

Technical Explanation (of Bayes' theorem)

http://yudkowsky.net/rational/technical

15 years ago

56 upvotes – 5 comments

What Every Government (Except One) Doesn't Get About Startups

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2011/09/what-every-government-except-one-doesnt-get-about-startups/244467/

15 years ago

54 upvotes – 23 comments

Apple relents, begins selling "old" Final Cut Studio again

http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2011/09/apple-relents-begins-selling-old-final-cut-studio-again.ars

15 years ago

51 upvotes – 51 comments

The Book "A=B" - now downloadable

http://www.math.upenn.edu/~wilf/AeqB.html

15 years ago

50 upvotes – 13 comments

Listen to EFF's Courtroom Arguments Against Warrantless Wiretapping

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/09/listen-effs-courtroom-arguments-against

15 years ago

47 upvotes – 6 comments

Show HN: readfa.st - learn to read faster

http://readfa.st

15 years ago

46 upvotes – 27 comments

IPhone App Helps You Discover Upcoming Movies (YCS11)

http://mashable.com/2011/09/01/cantwait/

15 years ago

46 upvotes – 34 comments

Google Bought Motorola for More Than Patents, Schmidt Says

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-09-02/he-couldn-t-stand-apple-s-board-schmidt.html

15 years ago

42 upvotes – 10 comments
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