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

Technical Papers Every Programmer Should Read (At Least Twice)

http://blog.fogus.me/2011/09/08/10-technical-papers-every-programmer-should-read-at-least-twice/

15 years ago

467 upvotes – 57 comments

The Best Science Fiction Books (According to Reddit)

http://blamcast.net/articles/best-science-fiction-books

15 years ago

466 upvotes – 287 comments

Share of Income Gains by Quintile - Great Depression til Now

http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2011/09/04/opinion/04reich-graphic.html?ref=sunday

15 years ago

321 upvotes – 285 comments

Show HN: Smozzy (for Android/T-Mobile) - browse the web without a data plan

http://smozzy.com

15 years ago

293 upvotes – 105 comments

Vim Cheat Sheet - For Programmers By Programmers

http://michael.peopleofhonoronly.com/vim/

15 years ago

268 upvotes – 62 comments

Bootstrapping a Software Product

http://bootstrapping.sifterapp.com

15 years ago

264 upvotes – 49 comments

More information on Google's new web language, Dash

http://markmail.org/message/uro3jtoitlmq6x7t

15 years ago

256 upvotes – 141 comments

Java's Comb-Over

http://raganwald.posterous.com/javas-comb-over

15 years ago

154 upvotes – 60 comments

Bootstrapping a $30k profit/month company from our internship earnings (Part 3)

http://blog.fiplab.com/bootstrapping-a-30k-profitmonth-company-from-18973

15 years ago

153 upvotes – 36 comments

Delivering fast boot times in Windows 8

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2011/09/08/delivering-fast-boot-times-in-windows-8.aspx

15 years ago

138 upvotes – 119 comments

Our Vacation Policy: Take Some

http://blogs.balsamiq.com/team/2011/09/09/vacation-policy/

15 years ago

137 upvotes – 112 comments

CoffeeScript: JavaScript without the Fail (slides)

http://bodil.github.com/coffeescript/

15 years ago

131 upvotes – 74 comments

Google's expert report in Oracle case explains complexities in plain English

http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20110907141407472

15 years ago

131 upvotes – 9 comments

Groupon Sales Team Files Class-Action Suit

http://paidcontent.org/article/419-more-bad-news-for-groupon-sales-team-files-class-action-suit/

15 years ago

128 upvotes – 67 comments

Searching for "semicolon injection" bugs in embedded Linux devices

http://newsoft-tech.blogspot.com/2010/09/d-link-dcs-2121-and-state-of-embedded.html

15 years ago

121 upvotes – 15 comments

28th Chaos Communication Congress (Berlin) CFP

http://events.ccc.de/2011/09/09/cfp-for-28th-chaos-communication-congress/

15 years ago

114 upvotes – 8 comments

How to Design Classes (in Ruby, Python, Java or any OOP)

http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/matthias/htdc.html

15 years ago

112 upvotes – 24 comments

Saylor offers millions of dollars in bounties for open textbooks

http://www.saylor.org/otc/

15 years ago

97 upvotes – 25 comments

Twitters new and blazingly fast interface

http://www.jacquesmattheij.com/Twitters+new+and+blazingly+fast+interface

15 years ago

96 upvotes – 69 comments

Hiring advice for startups from Hackruiter (YC S10)

http://www.hackruiter.com/advice

15 years ago

95 upvotes – 22 comments

Ideas Are Overrated: Startup Guru Eric Ries' Radical New Theory

http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/08/st_qareis/

15 years ago

94 upvotes – 52 comments

Y Combinator by the Numbers

http://youtu.be/6ERQ7ZtseWo

15 years ago

93 upvotes – 17 comments

Microsoft online services hit by major failure

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-14851455

15 years ago

88 upvotes – 39 comments

New chapter of Learn You Some Erlang

http://learnyousomeerlang.com/relups

15 years ago

80 upvotes – 11 comments

White House proposes crowdfunding exemption

http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2011/09/08/president-s-american-jobs-act-fueling-innovation-and-entrepreneurship

15 years ago

77 upvotes – 39 comments

Cheaper alternative to AirBnB: CampInMyGarden.com

http://campinmygarden.com/

15 years ago

68 upvotes – 24 comments

Google Docs: What Happened Wednesday

http://googledocs.blogspot.com/2011/09/what-happened-wednesday.html

15 years ago

67 upvotes – 10 comments

Comparing Go with Lua

http://steved-imaginaryreal.blogspot.com/2011/09/comparing-go-with-lua.html

15 years ago

64 upvotes – 14 comments

A few adjustments to App Engine’s upcoming pricing changes

http://googleappengine.blogspot.com/2011/09/few-adjustments-to-app-engines-upcoming.html

15 years ago

62 upvotes – 21 comments

The tech world deserves better than TechCrunch

http://www.xconomy.com/national/2011/09/09/the-tech-world-deserves-better-than-techcrunch/

15 years ago

62 upvotes – 17 comments

Next Hacker News DC Meetup on Tuesday, September 13th

http://meetup.hackernewsdc.org/events/31553492/

15 years ago

59 upvotes – 8 comments

Researchers’ Typosquatting Stole 20 GB of E-Mail From Fortune 500

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/09/doppelganger-domains/

15 years ago

58 upvotes – 33 comments

Why UK startups should stop trying to be US startups

http://not100percentaccurate.com/why-uk-startups-should-stop-trying-to-be-us-startups

15 years ago

57 upvotes – 25 comments

A Visual Introduction to Chef

http://www.mynameiskate.com/blog/2011/09/09/a-visual-introduction-to-chef/

15 years ago

56 upvotes – 20 comments

Bing: What’s More Evil Than Satan Himself? 10^100

http://siliconfilter.com/bing-whats-more-evil-than-satan-himself-10100/

15 years ago

56 upvotes – 15 comments

How to learn Clojure effectively

http://fronx.posterous.com/how-to-learn-clojure-effectively

15 years ago

55 upvotes – 2 comments

Y Combinator Challenged By Growing Seedcamp

http://www.forbes.com/sites/parmyolson/2011/09/09/y-combinator-challenged-by-growing-rival-seedcamp/

15 years ago

55 upvotes – 13 comments

Twitter will start serving you promoted tweets from accounts you don’t follow

http://venturebeat.com/2011/09/08/promoted-tweets-dont-follow/

15 years ago

52 upvotes – 62 comments

Ask HN: tiny VMs

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2978173

15 years ago

50 upvotes – 34 comments

Increased performance ten-fold by switching to a superior language

https://github.com/Marak/node_mailer/pull/46

15 years ago

★ 386 JavaScript MIT
46 upvotes – 15 comments

My project, updated: Trending Tech News. Feedback appreciated

http://technosplode.com

15 years ago

46 upvotes – 20 comments

Tracer: new visual tool for student program understanding (Racket)

http://planet.plt-scheme.org/package-source/tracer/tracer.plt/1/7/planet-docs/tracer/index.html

15 years ago

46 upvotes – 0 comments

UK joins laser nuclear fusion project

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-14842720

15 years ago

45 upvotes – 14 comments

Google Maps founder Lars Rasmussen talks start-ups and his Google Wave failure

http://www.startupsmart.com.au/growth/google-mapping-a-way-to-the-top.html

15 years ago

45 upvotes – 3 comments

Low Cost, Low Power DIY Cellular Network

http://www.shareable.net/blog/a-low-cost-low-power-diy-cellular-data-network

15 years ago

44 upvotes – 1 comments

How TwitchTV Is Changing the Game

http://www.forbes.com/sites/johngaudiosi/2011/09/09/starcraft-ii-pro-gamer-steven-destiny-bonnell-explains-how-twitchtv-is-changing-the-game/

15 years ago

43 upvotes – 3 comments
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