top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-09-16

Be Careful when Speaking to Federal Agents - 18 U.S.C. Section 1001

http://library.findlaw.com/2004/May/11/147945.html

15 years ago

390 upvotes – 176 comments

Break Google

http://www.mahdiyusuf.com/post/10246392773/break-google-search

15 years ago

383 upvotes – 87 comments

Opening *.txt file is dangerous on Windows

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/bulletin/ms11-071

15 years ago

372 upvotes – 46 comments

What's wrong with this code, really?

http://cvmountain.com/2011/09/whats-wrong-with-this-code-really/

15 years ago

298 upvotes – 196 comments

Sony to ban gamers from PSN unless they waive right sue over security breaches.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-14948701

15 years ago

288 upvotes – 102 comments

SingleHop Are Cheats

http://charlie.bz/articles/singlehop_are_cheats.html

15 years ago

208 upvotes – 50 comments

Arch Linux – "It is what you make it"

http://www.h-online.com/open/features/Arch-Linux-It-is-what-you-make-it-1343717.html

15 years ago

200 upvotes – 98 comments

5 subtle ways you’re using MySQL as a queue, and why it’ll bite you

http://www.engineyard.com/blog/2011/5-subtle-ways-youre-using-mysql-as-a-queue-and-why-itll-bite-you/

15 years ago

184 upvotes – 65 comments

Show HN: Fluid iPad App Concept

http://momo.brauchtman.net/2011/09/16/ipad-app-concept-based-on-a-fluid-layout/

15 years ago

179 upvotes – 40 comments

Iran blocks Tor; Tor releases same-day fix

https://blog.torproject.org/blog/iran-blocks-tor-tor-releases-same-day-fix

15 years ago

177 upvotes – 23 comments

Modern GPU: a collection of well-written GPGPU programming tutorials

http://www.moderngpu.com/

15 years ago

175 upvotes – 20 comments

The app that was fixed by a crash

http://ridiculousfish.com/blog/archives/2011/09/15/The-app-that-was-fixed-by-a-crash/index.html

15 years ago

169 upvotes – 19 comments

iOS is anti-Unix and anti-programmer

http://blog.dbpatterson.com/post/10244529137

15 years ago

156 upvotes – 140 comments

Academic papers are hidden from the public. Here's some direct action.

http://www.badscience.net/2011/09/academic-papers-are-hidden-from-the-public-heres-some-direct-action/

15 years ago

156 upvotes – 50 comments

Home-made bombs are being sent to physicists in Mexico

http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110822/full/476373a.html

15 years ago

154 upvotes – 40 comments

Will It Optimize?

http://ridiculousfish.com/blog/archives/2010/07/23/will-it-optimize/index.html

15 years ago

132 upvotes – 29 comments

The $2 Billion UBS Incident: 'Rogue Trader' My Ass

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/the-2-billion-ubs-incident-rogue-trader-my-ass-20110915?print=true

15 years ago

131 upvotes – 68 comments

StackRocket: Build and share virtualized dev stacks, start coding in minutes

http://stackrocket.com

15 years ago

127 upvotes – 61 comments

Should you launch at a conference?

http://joelonsoftware.com/items/2011/09/15.html

15 years ago

120 upvotes – 20 comments

Humble pie.

http://www.humbledmba.com/humble-pie

15 years ago

115 upvotes – 18 comments

Yahoo employees: Get out now before the vultures descend

http://www.itworld.com/software/204139/now-would-be-excellent-time-yahoo-employees-jump-ship

15 years ago

104 upvotes – 95 comments

From Pi to Puzzles: continued fraction of pi new record by a 13 years old

http://blog.wolfram.com/2011/09/15/from-pi-to-puzzles/

15 years ago

99 upvotes – 16 comments

Ligament.js, the smallest, lightest-weight JS MVC Framework

https://gist.github.com/313496e6ba9160dc6eb5

15 years ago

96 upvotes – 25 comments

How much traffic being on a Google doodle gives

http://stats.grok.se/en/201109/Albert_Szent-Gy%C3%B6rgyi

15 years ago

91 upvotes – 34 comments

Wordpress on Heroku

http://young-journey-5257.herokuapp.com

15 years ago

90 upvotes – 23 comments

Node.js Has 1 Gb Memory Limit

http://code.google.com/p/v8/issues/detail?id=847

15 years ago

85 upvotes – 43 comments

Frugality won’t make you rich, it makes it possible for you to get rich

http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2011/09/13/frugality-wont-make-you-rich/

15 years ago

75 upvotes – 68 comments

Launch is for Amateurs: Focus on Building a Product & a Brand

http://bostinnovation.com/2011/09/16/launch-is-for-amateurs-focus-on-building-a-product-a-brand/

15 years ago

74 upvotes – 16 comments

How Whole Foods "Primes" You to Shop

http://www.fastcompany.com/1779611/priming-whole-foods-derren-brown

15 years ago

70 upvotes – 41 comments

Chrome 14 released

http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2011/09/stable-channel-update_16.html

15 years ago

69 upvotes – 46 comments

Google removes religious organizations from non-profit discount list

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-09-15/google-do-gooder-discount-lets-churches-beg-commentary-by-stephen-carter.html

15 years ago

69 upvotes – 85 comments

SellStage (YC S11) Wants To Help You Better Showcase Your Products

http://techcrunch.com/2011/09/16/y-combinator-backed-sellstage-wants-to-help-you-better-showcase-your-products-with-video/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Techcrunch+%28TechCrunch%29

15 years ago

67 upvotes – 11 comments

OpenShift by Red Hat

http://openshift.redhat.com/

15 years ago

65 upvotes – 12 comments

Why ML/OCaml are good for writing compilers

http://flint.cs.yale.edu/cs421/case-for-ml.html

15 years ago

64 upvotes – 30 comments

Google Chrome disables search engine selection in Russia

http://shamrin.posterous.com/70580913

15 years ago

60 upvotes – 31 comments

Shirky: A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy

http://www.shirky.com/writings/group_enemy.html

15 years ago

57 upvotes – 15 comments

Clear First, Clever Second — Wording your UI (with slidedeck)

http://contrast.ie/blog/the-language-of-interfaces/

15 years ago

54 upvotes – 9 comments

Paul Carr resigns from TC

http://techcrunch.com/2011/09/16/last-post/

15 years ago

51 upvotes – 16 comments

Meet Studio Ghibli’s PlayStation 3 game, Ni No Kuni

http://venturebeat.com/2011/09/16/studio-ghibli-ps3/

15 years ago

51 upvotes – 8 comments

Posterous Raises $5 Million

http://techcrunch.com/2011/09/16/back-to-our-regularly-scheduled-program-posterous-raises-5-million/

15 years ago

50 upvotes – 10 comments

Ask HN: What % of your job interviewees pass FizzBuzz type questions?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3004471

15 years ago

50 upvotes – 117 comments

Show HN: A jQuery plugin for easy single page web sites.

https://github.com/cmpolis/Pagify

15 years ago

★ 487 JavaScript
49 upvotes – 13 comments

Lean

http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2011/09/lean.html

15 years ago

48 upvotes – 16 comments
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