top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-09-23

I was once a Facebook fool

http://public.numair.com/2011_fbfool.html

15 years ago

1390 upvotes – 163 comments

This is what happens when one guy practices art every day for nine years

http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=870

15 years ago

664 upvotes – 99 comments

Ask HN: Small product, single founder success stories?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3029771

15 years ago

327 upvotes – 151 comments

Direct the Patent Office to Cease Issuing Software Patents

https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions/%21/petition/direct-patent-office-cease-issuing-software-patents/vvNslSTq?utm_source=wh.gov&utm_medium=shorturl&utm_campaign=shorturl

15 years ago

315 upvotes – 44 comments

Groupon Restates Revenue, Revenue Fell In Half, COO Exits

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111903791504576589211214409214.html

15 years ago

236 upvotes – 127 comments

CERN press release regarding neutrino experiment

http://press.web.cern.ch/press/PressReleases/Releases2011/PR19.11E.html

15 years ago

213 upvotes – 80 comments

SPDY: What I Like About You

http://bitsup.blogspot.com/2011/09/spdy-what-i-like-about-you.html

15 years ago

211 upvotes – 38 comments

Petition: Direct the Patent Office to Cease Issuing Software Patents

https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions/!/petition/direct-patent-office-cease-issuing-software-patents/vvNslSTq

15 years ago

194 upvotes – 39 comments

One Million Concurrent TCP connections

http://blog.whatsapp.com/index.php/2011/09/one-million/

15 years ago

192 upvotes – 65 comments

The Facebook Timeline is creepy as hell

http://benwerd.com/2011/09/facebook-timeline-nearest-digital-identity-creepy-hell/

15 years ago

179 upvotes – 78 comments

Payment processing for Django

https://github.com/agiliq/merchant

15 years ago

★ 1k Python BSD-3-Clause
165 upvotes – 19 comments

Lovelace's Leap

http://blog.jgc.org/2011/09/lovelaces-leap.html

15 years ago

160 upvotes – 24 comments

Fuckit, I'm launching

http://colevscode.posterous.com/fuckit-im-launching

15 years ago

153 upvotes – 54 comments

A Business Insider retrospective

http://www.marco.org/2011/09/23/business-insider

15 years ago

142 upvotes – 26 comments

Clojure 1.3 Released

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/clojure/w5Nmx5rPaQs

15 years ago

140 upvotes – 15 comments

Not Sharing Is Caring

http://www.slate.com/id/2304425/

15 years ago

135 upvotes – 51 comments

Distributed Systems with ZeroMQ and gevent

https://raw.github.com/strangeloop/2011-slides/master/Lindsay-DistributedGeventZmq.pdf

15 years ago

134 upvotes – 17 comments

UC Berkeley Scientists Translate Brainwaves into Imagery

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/MindMoodNews/scientists-youtube-videos-mind/story?id=14573442

15 years ago

119 upvotes – 45 comments

Bill on CA Governor's desk would ban mobile device searches without a warrant

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/09/smartphone-warrant/

15 years ago

116 upvotes – 19 comments

The Teacher

http://marioaquino.blogspot.com/2011/09/teacher.html

15 years ago

116 upvotes – 13 comments

USBTypewriter - new and groundbreaking innovation in the field of obsolescence.

http://www.usbtypewriter.com/

15 years ago

113 upvotes – 47 comments

Mind-reading technology reconstructs videos from brain

http://www.theage.com.au/technology/sci-tech/mindreading-technology-reconstructs-videos-from-brain-20110923-1ko5s.html

15 years ago

111 upvotes – 26 comments

Lifepath.me on eBay

http://www.ebay.com/itm/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=140610305563#ht_500wt_1036

15 years ago

100 upvotes – 48 comments

Lulzsec fiasco - from HideMyAss VPN provider

http://blog.hidemyass.com/2011/09/23/lulzsec-fiasco/

15 years ago

95 upvotes – 61 comments

Armstrong to Nasa: You're embarrassing

http://news.discovery.com/space/armstrong-congress-nasa-embarrassing-110922.html

15 years ago

88 upvotes – 61 comments

Why Silverlight was rigged to fail and my time leading it

http://www.riagenic.com/archives/722

15 years ago

81 upvotes – 29 comments

Simple Two-Factor SSH Authentication

https://moocode.com/posts/5-simple-two-factor-ssh-authentication

15 years ago

77 upvotes – 46 comments

154 Startups Selected in Start-Up Chile’s 2nd Round of 2011

http://www.startupchile.org/154-startups-selected-in-start-up-chiles-2nd-round-of-2011/

15 years ago

72 upvotes – 54 comments

Show HN: A drag drop webpage builder in 10k HTML/JS/CSS

http://10k.aneventapart.com/Entry/Details/659

15 years ago

69 upvotes – 17 comments

Why Silicon Valley Is Running Scared From Health Care

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2011/09/why-silicon-valley-is-running-scared-from-health-care/245534/

15 years ago

67 upvotes – 43 comments

Free course: How to buy ads for your startup w/ founder of MixRank (YC S11)

http://mixergy.com/free-first-sections-ad-buying-course-weekend2

15 years ago

64 upvotes – 20 comments

The Valve Way: Gabe Newell And Erik Johnson Speak

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/6471/the_valve_way_gabe_newell_and_.php

15 years ago

62 upvotes – 9 comments

Chrome and the BEAST

http://www.imperialviolet.org/2011/09/23/chromeandbeast.html

15 years ago

61 upvotes – 5 comments

How much money do you really need to start your company?

http://blog.kveton.com/2011/09/23/how-much-money-do-you-really-need-to-start-your-company/

15 years ago

58 upvotes – 17 comments

2011 Git user survey

https://www.survs.com/survey/VCAGZA8CT5

15 years ago

57 upvotes – 7 comments

QA? We don't need no stinking QA

http://thecodist.com/article/qa_qa_we_don_39_t_need_no_stinking_qa

15 years ago

54 upvotes – 58 comments
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