top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-09-20

What Netflix Could Have Said This Week

http://www.appleoutsider.com/2011/09/20/netflixpr/

15 years ago

367 upvotes – 110 comments

Quake 2 Source Code Review

http://fabiensanglard.net/quake2/index.php

15 years ago

347 upvotes – 19 comments

Google+ Opens to All

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/09/google-92-93-94-95-96-97-98-99-100.html

15 years ago

300 upvotes – 175 comments

Help, I’m on the IRS hit list

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/opinion/help-im-on-the-irs-hit-list/article2171697/

15 years ago

284 upvotes – 219 comments

OnStar Begins Spying On Customers’ GPS Location For Profit

http://www.zdziarski.com/blog/?p=1270

15 years ago

264 upvotes – 92 comments

Wikileaks Takes Down the Head of Al Jazeera

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/wikileaks_takes_down_the_head_of_al_jazeera.php

15 years ago

250 upvotes – 60 comments

Running a startup on Haskell

http://bos.github.com/strange-loop-2011/talk/talk.html#(1)

15 years ago

213 upvotes – 70 comments

John Carmack coded Quake on a 28-inch 16:9 1080p monitor in 1995

http://www.geek.com/articles/games/john-carmack-coded-quake-on-a-28-inch-169-1080p-monitor-in-1995-20110920/

15 years ago

203 upvotes – 93 comments

Richard Stallman: “Android Phones Do Not Respect Your Freedom”

http://digitizor.com/2011/09/20/richard-stallman-android-free-software/

15 years ago

192 upvotes – 104 comments

Scala school

http://twitter.github.com/scala_school/

15 years ago

185 upvotes – 25 comments

How Apple badly messed up with in-app purchases on Lion and didn’t tell anyone

http://gorban.org/post/10455358440/apple-messed-up-in-app-purchases

15 years ago

173 upvotes – 48 comments

$1,279-per-hour, 30,000-core cluster built on Amazon EC2 cloud

http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2011/09/30000-core-cluster-built-on-amazon-ec2-cloud.ars

15 years ago

160 upvotes – 35 comments

Is Printing a Gun the Same as Buying a Gun?

http://techcrunch.com/2011/09/20/is-printing-a-gun-the-same-as-buying-a-gun/

15 years ago

157 upvotes – 96 comments

Patent trolls have cost innovators half a trillion dollars

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/09/study-patent-trolls-have-cost-innovators-half-a-trillion-bucks.ars

15 years ago

149 upvotes – 27 comments

Hire For The Ability To Get Shit Done

http://blog.eladgil.com/2011/09/hire-for-ability-to-get-shit-done.html

15 years ago

145 upvotes – 94 comments

Git Reference

http://gitref.org/

15 years ago

142 upvotes – 11 comments

Inside Amazon.com warehouse workers complain of brutal conditions

http://articles.mcall.com/2011-09-17/news/mc-allentown-amazon-complaints-20110917_1_warehouse-workers-heat-stress-brutal-heat

15 years ago

140 upvotes – 74 comments

Twilio has an incredible API

http://callinwith.us/

15 years ago

131 upvotes – 64 comments

Why Entrepreneurs Can't Sleep

http://www.humbledmba.com/why-entrepreneurs-cant-sleep

15 years ago

131 upvotes – 63 comments

Full Tilt Ponzi

http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2011/09/20/full-tilt-ponzi/

15 years ago

127 upvotes – 68 comments

Samuel L. Ipsum

http://slipsum.com

15 years ago

122 upvotes – 14 comments

Great developer tattoo, even better explanation.

http://www.sangwine.net/jim/index.php/2011/09/what-you-tattooed-code-on-your-arm/

15 years ago

118 upvotes – 88 comments

India to topple Japan as world's 3rd-largest economy

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/india-business/India-to-topple-Japan-as-worlds-3rd-largest-economy/articleshow/10052481.cms

15 years ago

117 upvotes – 102 comments

The 3D Software Rendering Technology of 1998's Thief: The Dark Project

http://nothings.org/gamedev/thief_rendering.html

15 years ago

112 upvotes – 15 comments

Microsoft milks Casio for using Linux

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/09/20/signs_deal_with_casio_for_undisclosed_sum/

15 years ago

111 upvotes – 64 comments

Practicing 2000 hrs (The Dan Plan: a 10,000 hr deliberate practice experiment)

http://thedanplan.com/blog/?p=910

15 years ago

111 upvotes – 38 comments

Why I regret going to TechCrunch Disrupt

http://openera.wordpress.com/2011/09/20/why-i-regret-going-to-techcrunch-disrupt/

15 years ago

110 upvotes – 31 comments

Declassified US Spy Satellites Reveal Rare Look at Secret Cold War Space Program

http://www.space.com/12996-secret-spy-satellites-declassified-nro.html

15 years ago

102 upvotes – 43 comments

The greatest joke ever told - lessons for pitching

http://thestartuptoolkit.com/blog/The_greatest_joke_ever_told/

15 years ago

99 upvotes – 21 comments

How an arcane statistical law could have prevented the Greek disaster

http://economicsintelligence.com/2011/07/28/how-an-arcane-statistical-law-could-have-prevented-the-greek-disaster/?blogsub=confirming#subscribe-blog

15 years ago

96 upvotes – 31 comments

Feeling Dirty on Hacker News

http://blog.interfacevision.com/index.php/2011/09/feeling-dirty-on-hacker-news/

15 years ago

83 upvotes – 38 comments

scales: Greplin's new open source Python server metrics library

https://github.com/Greplin/scales

15 years ago

Python Apache-2.0
83 upvotes – 14 comments

Google+ Suddenly Looks Pretty Busy For A Ghost Town

http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2011/09/google-plus-open/all/1

15 years ago

79 upvotes – 35 comments

A Fifth of Telecommuters Work Less Than An Hour Per Day

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/09/20/pjs_every_day/

15 years ago

76 upvotes – 57 comments

MIT's $1000 House Project

http://web.mit.edu/1khouse/contents.htm

15 years ago

74 upvotes – 25 comments

Show HN: Bootstrap your startup with high end gigs

http://grouptalent.com/welcome/startups

15 years ago

71 upvotes – 46 comments

The two ways to build a product, according to Bezos

http://tomasztunguz.com/2011/09/20/the-two-ways-to-build-a-product-according-to-bezos/

15 years ago

61 upvotes – 10 comments

Four tips for learning how to program

http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3014-four-tips-for-learning-how-to-program

15 years ago

59 upvotes – 5 comments

Storm: distributed and fault-tolerant realtime computation (slides)

http://www.slideshare.net/nathanmarz/storm-distributed-and-faulttolerant-realtime-computation

15 years ago

52 upvotes – 3 comments

Quad-core Kal-El’s Stealth Fifth Core Lets it Save on Energy

http://blogs.nvidia.com/2011/09/quad-core-kal-el%E2%80%99s-stealth-fifth-core-lets-it-save-on-energy/

15 years ago

47 upvotes – 8 comments
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