top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-09-19

Twitter's Storm (complex event processing system) is now open source

https://github.com/nathanmarz/storm

15 years ago

★ 8.7k Java Apache-2.0
461 upvotes – 56 comments

Tim O'Reilly on OccupyWallStreet

https://plus.google.com/107033731246200681024/posts/Sy8Z2uWy655?hl=en

15 years ago

305 upvotes – 91 comments

Netflix Splits DVD And Streaming Businesses

http://techcrunch.com/2011/09/18/netflix-qwikster/

15 years ago

301 upvotes – 197 comments

SSL broken. (TLS 1.0 cryptographic attack that works. Not just fake certs.)

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/09/19/beast_exploits_paypal_ssl/

15 years ago

281 upvotes – 84 comments

Why 80 Percent of Web Projects Are Total Bullshit: A Freelancer’s Rant

http://www.betabeat.com/2011/09/19/why-80-percent-of-web-projects-are-total-bullshit-a-freelancers-rant/

15 years ago

280 upvotes – 123 comments

Urban Airship: Postgres to NoSQL and back

http://wiki.postgresql.org/images/7/7f/Adam-lowry-postgresopen2011.pdf

15 years ago

239 upvotes – 100 comments

SSH Tricks

http://tychoish.com/rhizome/9-awesome-ssh-tricks/

15 years ago

223 upvotes – 59 comments

Mining of Massive Datasets

http://infolab.stanford.edu/~ullman/mmds.html

15 years ago

213 upvotes – 11 comments

A resume template in TeX

http://github.com/sc932/resume

15 years ago

★ 524 TeX MIT
197 upvotes – 87 comments

Pyrasite - Inject code into a running Python process

https://fedorahosted.org/pyrasite/

15 years ago

174 upvotes – 18 comments

All papers published by Microsoft Research

http://research.microsoft.com/c/1043

15 years ago

169 upvotes – 11 comments

Bootstrapping a $30k profit/month company from our internship earnings (Part 4)

http://blog.fiplab.com/70617419

15 years ago

163 upvotes – 20 comments

Greedy Register Allocation in LLVM 3.0

http://blog.llvm.org/2011/09/greedy-register-allocation-in-llvm-30.html

15 years ago

155 upvotes – 9 comments

Gamers Unlock Protein Mystery That Baffled AIDS Researchers For Years

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2393200,00.asp

15 years ago

149 upvotes – 24 comments

Ask HN: good, quick algorithms course to prepare for big tech interviews?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3011964

15 years ago

143 upvotes – 27 comments

Don't make my eyes bleed: a rant about business plans by Neil Davidson

http://www.neildavidson.com/dontmakemyeyesbleed.html

15 years ago

143 upvotes – 37 comments

Placebos Are Getting More Effective. Drugmakers Are Desperate to Know Why (2009)

http://www.wired.com/medtech/drugs/magazine/17-09/ff_placebo_effect?currentPage=all

15 years ago

141 upvotes – 60 comments

Linode announces new datacenter location, Japan

http://blog.linode.com/2011/09/19/linode-cloud-asia-pacific/

15 years ago

134 upvotes – 37 comments

Reed Hastings responds to criticisms and announces Qwikster

http://blog.netflix.com/2011/09/explanation-and-some-reflections.html

15 years ago

130 upvotes – 108 comments

Richard Dawkins: A Knack for Bashing Orthodoxy

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/20/science/20dawkins.html?hp=&pagewanted=all

15 years ago

129 upvotes – 131 comments

The Most Patriotic Thing You Can Do

http://blogmaverick.com/2011/09/19/the-most-patriotic-thing-you-can-do-2/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed:+blogmaverick/tyiP+(blog+maverick)

15 years ago

121 upvotes – 79 comments

I develop free software because of CUNY and Blackboard

http://teleogistic.net/2011/09/i-develop-free-software-because-of-cuny-and-blackboard/

15 years ago

120 upvotes – 60 comments

Investigation: Is Your SSD More Reliable Than A Hard Drive?

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ssd-reliability-failure-rate,2923.html

15 years ago

120 upvotes – 52 comments

How to find a job for hackers

http://voltsteve.blogspot.com/2011/09/how-to-find-job-for-hackers.html

15 years ago

116 upvotes – 90 comments

Launching Google Wallet on Sprint and working with Visa, AmEx and Discover

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/09/launching-google-wallet-on-sprint-and.html

15 years ago

113 upvotes – 49 comments

Lessons for Software Industry Novices

http://www.tenpoundhammer.com/2011/07/33-lessons-for-software-industry.html

15 years ago

111 upvotes – 42 comments

Crit-bit Trees: the best way to store sets

http://cr.yp.to/critbit.html

15 years ago

106 upvotes – 40 comments

Show HN: Crowd² - A viral marketing campaign creator I wrote in 72 hours

http://crowdsquared.com/

15 years ago

106 upvotes – 72 comments

IPad in Business: St. Louis Urgent Cares

http://www.apple.com/ipad/business/profiles/st-louis-urgent-cares/

15 years ago

94 upvotes – 46 comments

The Wealthiest 5% Grabbed Most of the America’s Gains

http://blogs.wsj.com/wealth/2011/09/16/the-top-5-grabbed-most-of-the-americas-gains/

15 years ago

90 upvotes – 121 comments

How Batman.js can Help you Build Apps

http://www.shopify.com/technology/4080092-how-batman-can-help-you-build-apps

15 years ago

85 upvotes – 35 comments

The Great Lie - Lorem Ipsum

http://ignoredbydinosaurs.com/2011/09/great-lie-lorem-ipsum

15 years ago

83 upvotes – 40 comments

New Patent Law Actually Makes Life Harder For Startups

http://www.betabeat.com/2011/09/19/new-patent-law-first-to-file-startups/

15 years ago

83 upvotes – 31 comments

The amazing shipping container: How it changed the world

http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2011/09/19/keith_tatlinger_shipping_container_inventor_dies/

15 years ago

82 upvotes – 21 comments

Peter Cooper launches Ruby 1.8.7 - 1.9.2 guide

http://www.rubyinside.com/19walkthrough/

15 years ago

75 upvotes – 11 comments

The Google Wallet, a lifetime log of your purchases

http://www.jacquesmattheij.com/The+Google+Wallet-a+lifetime+log+of+your+purchases

15 years ago

71 upvotes – 75 comments

Arduino announces its first ARM-based prototyping board, the Arduino Due

http://www.thinq.co.uk/2011/9/19/arduino-goes-arm-due-board/

15 years ago

71 upvotes – 28 comments

Publications by Googlers

http://research.google.com/pubs/papers.html

15 years ago

63 upvotes – 9 comments

Early SourceForge Developer Tim Perdue Passes Away

http://www.lockergnome.com/news/2011/09/18/early-sourceforge-developer-tim-perdue-passes-away/

15 years ago

59 upvotes – 6 comments

Sell to Teachers

http://blog.jarredsumner.com/2011/09/18/sell-to-teachers/

15 years ago

58 upvotes – 46 comments

Don't confuse it with Quickster, QuickStar, Quik-Star, Kwik Star, or Kwikster.

http://technologizer.com/2011/09/19/qwikster-not-to-be-confused-with-quixtar-quickstar-kwikster-quickster-kwik-star-quik-star-or-kickstar/

15 years ago

55 upvotes – 19 comments

Berlin's new Pirate Party might be here to stay

http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,15397528,00.html

15 years ago

55 upvotes – 32 comments
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