top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-09-08

Google to announce "new programming language for structured web programming"

http://gotocon.com/aarhus-2011/presentation/Opening%20Keynote:%20Dart,%20a%20new%20programming%20language%20for%20structured%20web%20programming

15 years ago

312 upvotes – 197 comments

The Tricks Investors Use Against Founders

http://www.theprivateequiteer.com/investor-tricks/

15 years ago

309 upvotes – 44 comments

Ask HN: How do you promote your web apps?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2973404

15 years ago

292 upvotes – 77 comments

~/.osx — a collection of sensible defaults for OS X Lion

https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles/blob/master/.osx

15 years ago

★ 31.3k Shell MIT
291 upvotes – 87 comments

Google buys Zagat

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/09/google-just-got-zagat-rated.html

15 years ago

243 upvotes – 70 comments

Notifo (YC W10) Will be Shutting Down

http://blog.notifo.com/notifo

15 years ago

231 upvotes – 84 comments

The $700 Million Yogurt Startup

http://www.forbes.com/sites/christophersteiner/2011/09/08/the-700-million-yogurt-startup/

15 years ago

221 upvotes – 89 comments

Amazon is More Interesting than Google

http://www.abtinforouzandeh.com/2011/09/07/Amazon-is-More-Interesting-than-Google.html

15 years ago

209 upvotes – 79 comments

Fouling Out and Moving On (re: Notifo Shutdown)

http://blog.jazzychad.net/2011/09/08/fouling-out-moving-on.html

15 years ago

190 upvotes – 56 comments

Kernel module for advanced rickrolling replaces open() call

https://github.com/fpletz/kernelroll

15 years ago

★ 230 C GPL-3.0
177 upvotes – 63 comments

Java 8 lambda syntax decided - same as C# and Scala

http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/lambda-dev/2011-September/003936.html

15 years ago

169 upvotes – 78 comments

Most Pressed Keys and Programming Syntaxes

http://www.mahdiyusuf.com/post/9947002105/most-pressed-keys-and-programming-syntaxes

15 years ago

152 upvotes – 93 comments

Mozilla Openness facts

http://paulrouget.com/e/openness/

15 years ago

149 upvotes – 17 comments

Raspberry Pi demos $25 PC running 1080p video, promises CD-quality audio

http://www.geek.com/articles/chips/raspberry-pi-demos-25-pc-running-1080p-video-promises-cd-quality-audio-2011098/

15 years ago

149 upvotes – 108 comments

Building your own secure storage space that mirrors Dropbox's functionality

https://www.defcon.org/images/defcon-19/dc-19-presentations/Cryer/DEFCON-19-Cryer-Taking-Your-Ball-and-Going-Home.pdf

15 years ago

137 upvotes – 55 comments

EU votes to extend music copyright to 70 years

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-14829373

15 years ago

131 upvotes – 90 comments

Show HN: Bitcoinica - Advanced Bitcoin Trading Platform

https://www.bitcoinica.com

15 years ago

129 upvotes – 93 comments

Arrington out at AOL (for real this time)

http://finance.fortune.cnn.com/2011/09/07/exclusive-arrington-out-at-aol-for-real-this-time/

15 years ago

115 upvotes – 80 comments

Senate passes Patent Reform Bill

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_CONGRESS_PATENTS?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2011-09-08-17-49-38

15 years ago

113 upvotes – 48 comments

$200,000 from Kickstarter = 1 year of runway for Diaspora

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/345057/DIASPORA%207312011%20Profit%20and%20Loss%20Statement%20B.pdf

15 years ago

113 upvotes – 111 comments

TrollScript, an esoteric dialect of Brainfuck.

https://github.com/tombell/trollscript

15 years ago

111 upvotes – 43 comments

Why Some Languages Sound Faster Than Others

http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,2091477,00.html

15 years ago

110 upvotes – 55 comments

RIP Michael S. Hart: founder of Project Gutenberg

http://radar.oreilly.com/2011/09/rip-michael-s-hart.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+oreilly%2Fradar%2Fatom+%28O%27Reilly+Radar%29

15 years ago

104 upvotes – 6 comments

Former TechCrunch Writer Spills the Truth about TechCrunch

http://www.medacity.com/1029/cry-me-a-river-techcrunch/

15 years ago

95 upvotes – 26 comments

Google to Android Developers: 'Do Not Develop in the Open'

http://www.readwriteweb.com/hack/2011/09/google-to-android-developers-d.php

15 years ago

95 upvotes – 74 comments

Grouper Sets You Up With Three Facebook Strangers, But ‘It’s Not a Date’

http://www.betabeat.com/2011/09/08/grouper-sets-you-up-with-three-facebook-strangers-but-its-not-a-date/

15 years ago

93 upvotes – 54 comments

Zero to Profitable - LiberWriter Lessons Learned

http://journal.dedasys.com/2011/09/08/zero-to-profitable-liberwriter-lessons-learned

15 years ago

90 upvotes – 12 comments

Firefox and IE's "View source" can be spoofed to show anything

http://www.scriptjunkie.us/2011/09/original-source-forgery/

15 years ago

85 upvotes – 40 comments

Amazon.com cuts California sales tax deal in stunning turnabout

http://www.mercurynews.com/california-budget/ci_18849537

15 years ago

85 upvotes – 76 comments

Minecraft Makes Little Girls Cry

http://jeff-vogel.blogspot.com/2011/03/minecraft-makes-little-girls-cry.html

15 years ago

79 upvotes – 25 comments

Deprecating the Observer Pattern

http://infoscience.epfl.ch/record/148043/files/DeprecatingObserversTR2010.pdf

15 years ago

77 upvotes – 19 comments

ForthOS - standalone operating system written in Forth

http://www.forthos.org/

15 years ago

75 upvotes – 20 comments

Ldapjs: A reprise of LDAP

http://blog.nodejs.org/2011/09/08/ldapjs-a-reprise-of-ldap/

15 years ago

72 upvotes – 1 comments

Meet Amazon.com’s first employee: Shel Kaphan

http://www.geekwire.com/2011/meet-shel-kaphan-amazoncom-employee-1/1

15 years ago

72 upvotes – 22 comments

Show HN: Ernie's, Click & Collect Groceries

http://erniesgrocery.com

15 years ago

71 upvotes – 60 comments

The post-Jobs era: Tim Cook brings philanthropy back to Apple

http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2011/09/the-post-jobs-era-tim-cook-brings-philanthropy-back-to-apple.ars

15 years ago

68 upvotes – 24 comments

IOS source code for Wolfenstein 3D & Doom classic

http://www.bethblog.com/index.php/2011/09/08/ios-updates-source-code-for-wolfenstein-3d-classic-platinum-doom-classic/

15 years ago

68 upvotes – 15 comments

What teachers want to tell parents

http://www.cnn.com/2011/09/06/living/teachers-want-to-tell-parents/index.html

15 years ago

62 upvotes – 99 comments

Low-end Linux

http://jeelabs.org/2011/09/08/low-end-linux/

15 years ago

61 upvotes – 11 comments

What People Don't Get About My Job: From A(rmy Soldier) to Z(ookeeper)

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2011/09/what-people-dont-get-about-my-job-from-a-rmy-soldier-to-z-ookeeper/244231/

15 years ago

61 upvotes – 38 comments

The three secrets of business analytics (no rocket science here)

http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3002-the-three-secrets-of-business-analytics-no-rocket-science-here

15 years ago

53 upvotes – 4 comments
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