Top 50% Hacker News Stories for 2011-09-06

top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-09-06

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Don't dumb girls down

http://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/dont-dumb-girls-down-20110829-1jh86.html

15 years ago

344 upvotes – 261 comments

334

115

Reddit becomes reddit Inc.

http://blog.reddit.com/2011/09/independence.html

15 years ago

334 upvotes – 115 comments

308

103

TechCrunch As We Know It May Be Over

http://techcrunch.com/2011/09/06/the-end/

15 years ago

308 upvotes – 103 comments

299

142

"I've got an idea for an app"

http://chriseidhof.tumblr.com/post/9873846899/ive-got-an-idea-for-an-app

15 years ago

299 upvotes – 142 comments

291

144

Carol Bartz Out at Yahoo; CFO Interim CEO

http://allthingsd.com/20110906/exclusive-carol-bartz-out-at-yahoo-cfo-interim-ceo/

15 years ago

291 upvotes – 144 comments

253

Writing Vim Plugins

http://stevelosh.com/blog/2011/09/writing-vim-plugins/

15 years ago

253 upvotes – 20 comments

249

GoDaddy's New "Selective DNS Blackouts" Policy

http://rscott.org/dns/GoDaddy_Selective_DNS_Blackouts.htm

15 years ago

249 upvotes – 85 comments

215

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Michael Arrington: Editorial Independence

http://techcrunch.com/2011/09/06/editorial-independence/

15 years ago

215 upvotes – 111 comments

183

Seriously, stop with the booth babes

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:rt452e6onIcJ:www.standalone-sysadmin.com/blog/2011/09/seriously-stop-with-the-booth-babes/+http://www.standalone-sysadmin.com/blog/2011/09/seriously-stop-with-the-booth-babes/&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

15 years ago

183 upvotes – 72 comments

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193

Ultrabook: Intel's $300 million plan to beat Apple at its own game

http://arstechnica.com/hardware/news/2011/09/ultrabook-intels-300-million-plan-to-beat-apple-at-its-own-game.ars

15 years ago

173 upvotes – 193 comments

166

Bootstrapping a $30k profit/month company from our internship earnings (Part 2)

http://blog.fiplab.com/bootstrapping-a-30k-profitmonth-company-from

15 years ago

166 upvotes – 17 comments

149

The wrong question: “I want to learn to code, what should I do?”

http://495west.com/post/9885249988/the-wrong-question-i-want-to-learn-to-code-what?73331330

15 years ago

149 upvotes – 46 comments

141

How to process a million songs in 20 minutes

http://musicmachinery.com/2011/09/04/how-to-process-a-million-songs-in-20-minutes/

15 years ago

141 upvotes – 15 comments

134

Moot's Canvas now public.

http://canv.as/

15 years ago

134 upvotes – 56 comments

134

Lanyrd (YC W11) Secures $1.4m In Seed Funding To Make Conferences More Social

http://techcrunch.com/2011/09/06/lanyrd-secures-1-4-million-in-seed-funding-to-make-conferences-more-social/

15 years ago

134 upvotes – 27 comments

134

Book Conan's TV studio on AirBnB

http://www.airbnb.com/rooms/200419

15 years ago

134 upvotes – 13 comments

117

Setting Up A New Machine for Ruby Development - as used at 37signals these days

http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2998-setting-up-a-new-machine-for-ruby-development

15 years ago

117 upvotes – 32 comments

115

Scala use is less good than Java use for at least half of all Java projects

http://goodstuff.im/scala-use-is-less-good-than-java-use-for-at-l

15 years ago

115 upvotes – 83 comments

112

How Google +1 Widgets "Break Out" of their IFRAMEs

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7313037/how-do-google-1-widgets-break-out-of-their-iframe/7313430#7313430

15 years ago

112 upvotes – 11 comments

Groupon IPO on hold

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/09/06/groupon-ipo-idUSN1E7851CF20110906

15 years ago

97 upvotes – 49 comments

Do happier people work harder?

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/04/opinion/sunday/do-happier-people-work-harder.html

15 years ago

95 upvotes – 25 comments

Google Goes Big With Its Hulu Bid

http://allthingsd.com/20110906/google-goes-big-with-its-hulu-bid/

15 years ago

90 upvotes – 21 comments

Cross-Browser Testing Tool Will Rock Your Socks Off

http://www.browserstack.com/

15 years ago

88 upvotes – 34 comments

The Secret To Rails OO Design

http://blog.steveklabnik.com/2011/09/06/the-secret-to-rails-oo-design.html

15 years ago

87 upvotes – 33 comments

Every City Should Have an API: Let’s Start With Watertown, MA

http://blog.programmableweb.com/2011/09/06/every-city-should-have-an-api-lets-start-with-watertown-ma/

15 years ago

87 upvotes – 21 comments

How practical is Clojure?

http://johnfn.github.com/johnfn/post3.html

15 years ago

85 upvotes – 20 comments

Easy Facebook Scripting in Python

http://blog.carduner.net/2011/09/06/easy-facebook-scripting-in-python/

15 years ago

77 upvotes – 7 comments

GitHub - Shiny new commit styles

https://github.com/blog/926-shiny-new-commit-styles

15 years ago

74 upvotes – 26 comments

SF Port Authority Shuts Down Tech-Hub Pier 38

http://techcrunch.com/2011/09/06/pier-38-shut-down/

15 years ago

73 upvotes – 24 comments

Node.js vs jRuby vs Java (Nobody cares about your technology) ...

https://github.com/nddrylliog/blog/blob/master/nodejs-vs-jruby.md

15 years ago

72 upvotes – 13 comments

Node Knockout Winners

http://blog.nodeknockout.com/post/9895206272/node-knockout-winners

15 years ago

70 upvotes – 19 comments

The Dark Art of Pricing

http://www.jessicahische.is/obsessedwiththeinternet/

15 years ago

70 upvotes – 23 comments

The dark side of an MIT brain

http://tech.mit.edu/V131/N34/normandin.html

15 years ago

69 upvotes – 47 comments

Condé Nast Spins Out Reddit, Without Letting Go

http://allthingsd.com/20110906/conde-nast-spins-out-reddit-without-letting-go/

15 years ago

63 upvotes – 30 comments

Stanford's 6Dot seeks to become an Apple for the Blind

http://spiritofsv.blogspot.com/2011/09/stanfords-6dot-seeks-to-become-apple.html

15 years ago

61 upvotes – 8 comments

Let's Build a Superpower: see within and behind objects

http://kck.st/voxel-vision

15 years ago

58 upvotes – 17 comments

Google misspellings stats for "britney spears"

http://www.google.com/jobs/britney.html

15 years ago

55 upvotes – 35 comments

Even pure functions have side-effects

http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2010/05/18/pure-functions-have-side-effects/

15 years ago

53 upvotes – 16 comments

Philosophy and Theoretical Computer Science (MIT Course 6.893)

http://stellar.mit.edu/S/course/6/fa11/6.893/index.html

15 years ago

52 upvotes – 6 comments

Facebook has the world's largest Hadoop cluster

http://hadoopblog.blogspot.com/2010/05/facebook-has-worlds-largest-hadoop.html

15 years ago

51 upvotes – 12 comments

Convergence, distributed, secure strategy replacing certificate authorities

http://www.convergence.io/

15 years ago

51 upvotes – 27 comments

Cutting the Gordian Knot of Web Identity

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2011/09/cutting-the-gordian-knot-of-web-identity.html

15 years ago

51 upvotes – 22 comments

Glue Languages Make You a Better Coder

http://zachholman.com/posts/glue-languages/

15 years ago

50 upvotes – 31 comments

Google investors sue Page, Schmidt over $500M settlement with DOJ

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9219708/Google_investors_sue_Page_Schmidt_over_500M_settlement_with_DOJ?source=rss_managementcareers&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+computerworld%2Fs%2Ffeed%2Ftopic%2F213+%28Computerworld+IT+Leadership+News%29

15 years ago

50 upvotes – 27 comments

Show HN: LightWrite, A Free Online WriteRoom Clone

http://gun.io/w/

15 years ago

47 upvotes – 17 comments

HP to produce 100,000-200,000 TouchPads to clear out supplier inventories

http://www.precentral.net/digitimes-hp-produce-100-000-200-000-touchpads-clear-out-supplier-inventories

15 years ago

46 upvotes – 26 comments

Entrepreneurial Sales Lessons

http://onstartups.com/tabid/3339/bid/65497/3-Quick-Entrepreneurial-Sales-Lessons.aspx

15 years ago

45 upvotes – 1 comments

Closed, Says Google, but Shops’ Signs Say Open

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/06/technology/closed-in-error-on-google-places-merchants-seek-fixes.html?pagewanted=all

15 years ago

44 upvotes – 13 comments

What unemployment? Nothing like that in United States of Software

http://college2startup.tumblr.com/post/9878209155/what-unemployment-nothing-like-that-in-united-states