top 20 hacker news stories for 2011-09-24

Facebook is scaring me

http://scripting.com/stories/2011/09/24/facebookIsScaringMe.html

15 years ago

553 upvotes – 270 comments

Why you should not go to medical school

http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/abinazir/2005/05/23/why-you-should-not-go-to-medical-school-a-gleefully-biased-rant/

15 years ago

351 upvotes – 173 comments

White House Petition to End Software Patents Is a Hit

http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/mimssbits/27194/

15 years ago

318 upvotes – 70 comments

SICP optimized for Kindle

https://github.com/jonathanpatt/sicp-kindle

15 years ago

★ 436 Ruby
242 upvotes – 40 comments

Chrome Privacy

http://mikewest.org/2011/09/chrome-privacy

15 years ago

200 upvotes – 99 comments

Feynman On The Importance Of Playing

http://pythonwise.blogspot.com/2011/09/on-importance-of-playing.html

15 years ago

190 upvotes – 25 comments

37signals sent me a gift for pwning their leaderboard

http://www.bengarvey.com/2011/09/23/37signals-sent-me-a-gift-for-pwning-their-leaderboards/

15 years ago

185 upvotes – 18 comments

All of life has been utterly, profoundly changed thanks to Facebook...

http://realdanlyons.com/blog/2011/09/23/all-of-life-has-been-utterly-profoundly-changed-thanks-to-facebooks-new-changes-and-nothing-will-ever-be-the-same-and-all-i-can-do-is-sit-here-and-weep-at-the-beauty-and-magic-that-mark-zuckerber/

15 years ago

175 upvotes – 69 comments

Hey CS Paper writers, please show your code

http://jacquesmattheij.com/Hey+CS+Paper+writers+please+show+your+code

15 years ago

140 upvotes – 53 comments

OpenBSD imports nginx into tree as future apache replacement

http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=131673440721777&w=2

15 years ago

137 upvotes – 37 comments

Show HN: TweetBoard.me

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3033667

15 years ago

124 upvotes – 46 comments

How to Create a Million-Dollar Business This Weekend

http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2011/09/24/how-to-create-a-million-dollar-business-this-weekend-examples-appsumo-mint-chihuahuas/

15 years ago

124 upvotes – 36 comments

Burnout Prevention and Recovery (the MIT stance)

http://www.evenmere.org/~bts/Random-Collected-Documents/MIT-views.html

15 years ago

101 upvotes – 9 comments

Ruby 1.9.3 RC1 is out

http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/388203

15 years ago

96 upvotes – 23 comments

The Milo Criterion

http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2011/09/23/the-milo-criterion

15 years ago

95 upvotes – 15 comments

Today a programmer was born. And you are my mother.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3032943

15 years ago

83 upvotes – 31 comments

Jerry Seinfeld’s Productivity Secret

http://lifehacker.com/281626/jerry-seinfelds-productivity-secret?tag=softwaremotivation

15 years ago

83 upvotes – 37 comments

Category Theory for Dummies [pdf]

http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/jcheney/presentations/ct4d1.pdf?

15 years ago

71 upvotes – 23 comments

MIT Startup Bootcamp [Livestream]

http://startupbootcamp.mit.edu/?

15 years ago

69 upvotes – 9 comments

Ask HN: What API to the physical world do you wish existed?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3033728

15 years ago

67 upvotes – 81 comments
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