top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-09-26

How to Rock an Algorithms Interview

http://blog.palantir.com/2011/09/26/how-to-rock-an-algorithms-interview/

15 years ago

435 upvotes – 163 comments

Spotify now requires a Facebook account to sign up.

http://getsatisfaction.com/spotify/topics/can_you_sign_up_for_spotify_without_facebook?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheBrooksReview+%28The+Brooks+Review%29

15 years ago

423 upvotes – 224 comments

Textmate 2 - Alpha this year

http://blog.macromates.com/2011/whats-next/

15 years ago

341 upvotes – 198 comments

Show HN: Write a sort, watch it go

http://visualsort.appspot.com/

15 years ago

292 upvotes – 80 comments

Size is the best predictor of code quality

http://blog.vivekhaldar.com/post/10669678292/size-is-the-best-predictor-of-code-quality

15 years ago

225 upvotes – 123 comments

It’s the end of the web as we know it

http://adrianshort.co.uk/2011/09/25/its-the-end-of-the-web-as-we-know-it/

15 years ago

225 upvotes – 67 comments

Neutrinos Faster Than Light, or FPGA artifacts?

http://blog.zorinaq.com/?e=58

15 years ago

223 upvotes – 57 comments

One of the Best Bits of Programming Advice I ever Got

http://objology.blogspot.com/2011/09/one-of-best-bits-of-programming-advice.html?spref=tw

15 years ago

218 upvotes – 86 comments

When the rules prevented Kenneth Cole from launching, he broke the rules

http://dlewis.net/nik-archives/the-birth-of-a-shoe-company/

15 years ago

191 upvotes – 41 comments

Dead Sea Scrolls Now Available Online

http://dss.collections.imj.org.il/project

15 years ago

180 upvotes – 40 comments

Guy builds nightvision drone to hunt feral pigs

http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1478852.

15 years ago

179 upvotes – 54 comments

Root access to MySQL.com sold for $3k - now serving malware

http://krebsonsecurity.com/2011/09/mysql-com-sold-for-3k-serves-malware/

15 years ago

173 upvotes – 48 comments

It's Time to End the War on Salt

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=its-time-to-end-the-war-on-salt&WT.mc_id=SA_20110721

15 years ago

155 upvotes – 51 comments

Netflix Secures Streaming Deal With DreamWorks

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/26/business/media/netflix-secures-streaming-deal-with-dreamworks.html?_r=1&hp

15 years ago

148 upvotes – 42 comments

Stack Overflow Scala Tutorial

http://stackoverflow.com/tags/scala/info

15 years ago

143 upvotes – 25 comments

GTK+ 3.2 released - allows rendering applications in HTML5-capable web browsers

http://www.webupd8.org/2011/09/gtk-32-released-with-html5-allows.html

15 years ago

142 upvotes – 18 comments

Drawing Machine Using Arduino, Processing, a Sharpie, and String

http://www.triangulationblog.com/2011/06/polargraph-by-sandy-noble.html

15 years ago

138 upvotes – 15 comments

The cloud's my-mom-cleaned-my-room problem

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/09/the-clouds-my-mom-cleaned-my-room-problem/245648/

15 years ago

122 upvotes – 22 comments

Show HN: I built a tool I wanted to have, but didn’t exist

http://www.madebypixelate.com/blog/introducing-promoter

15 years ago

119 upvotes – 35 comments

MySQL.com currently Hacked (and serving javascript malware)

http://blog.sucuri.net/2011/09/mysql-com-hacked-javascript-malware.html

15 years ago

118 upvotes – 20 comments

Amazon to Unveil the "Kindle Fire"

http://techcrunch.com/2011/09/26/amazon-kindle-fire/

15 years ago

111 upvotes – 71 comments

Angry Reaction To Spotify's New Facebook ID Requirement

http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/26/angry-reaction-to-spotifys-new-facebook-id-requirement/?src=twr

15 years ago

105 upvotes – 31 comments

Why I Quit Algorithmic Trading to Do Web Startups

http://www.codusoperandi.com/posts/why-i-quit-algorithmic-trading-to-do-web-startups

15 years ago

101 upvotes – 7 comments

Amazon Has High Hopes for Its iPad Competitor

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/26/technology/anticipated-amazon-tablet-to-take-aim-at-apple-ipad.html

15 years ago

99 upvotes – 59 comments

Show HN: I built a webapp to help web "designers" create logos and fonts quickly

http://use.fontorie.com

15 years ago

99 upvotes – 33 comments

UK government response to my letter about programming in schools

http://blog.jgc.org/2011/09/letter-to-michael-gove-secretary-of.html

15 years ago

98 upvotes – 83 comments

Sergey Brin’s Resume In 1996. Before Founding Google

http://immaturebusiness.com/1615/sergey-brins-resume-in-1996-before-founding-google/

15 years ago

98 upvotes – 36 comments

Google releases a fix for flash, before Adobe

http://securitywatch.pcmag.com/google/288014-google-patches-flash-zero-day-bug-jumps-the-gun-on-adobe-again#fbid=H3-jfJu-C9Z

15 years ago

96 upvotes – 30 comments

Show HN: textlaundry.com

http://textlaundry.com/

15 years ago

91 upvotes – 51 comments

The Facebook Chart That Freaks Google Out

http://allthingsd.com/20110926/the-facebook-chart-that-freaks-google-out/?mod=tweet

15 years ago

87 upvotes – 42 comments

High-Resolution Mandelbrot in Obfuscated Python

http://preshing.com/20110926/high-resolution-mandelbrot-in-obfuscated-python

15 years ago

86 upvotes – 12 comments

Facebook Defends Getting Data From Logged-Out Users

http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2011/09/26/facebook-defends-getting-data-from-logged-out-users/

15 years ago

86 upvotes – 74 comments

747s as flying Unix hosts: SCADA in the sky

http://boingboing.net/2011/09/25/747s-as-flying-unix-hosts-scada-in-the-sky.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+boingboing%2FiBag+%28Boing+Boing%29

15 years ago

77 upvotes – 18 comments

Scalable and Modular Architecture for CSS

http://smacss.com/book/

15 years ago

76 upvotes – 16 comments

Joe Hewitt - What the web is and is not

http://joehewitt.com/post/what-the-web-is-and-is-not/

15 years ago

72 upvotes – 32 comments

68% of the Fortune 100 are Clueless

http://cloudability.com/blog/68-of-the-fortune-100-are-clueless

15 years ago

71 upvotes – 27 comments

Facebook’s iPad App Has Been Done Since May, But They Won’t Release It

http://techcrunch.com/2011/09/26/facebook-ipad-app-saga/

15 years ago

64 upvotes – 24 comments

Tumblr Lands $85 Million in Funding

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/26/tumblr-lands-85-million-in-funding/

15 years ago

62 upvotes – 50 comments

Why aren't you building your startup for early adopters?

http://www.humbledmba.com/build-your-startup-for-early-adopters

15 years ago

61 upvotes – 17 comments

Minimum Viable Pants

http://minimumviablepants.com/

15 years ago

60 upvotes – 6 comments

Scheme vs. Commmon Lisp

http://philip.greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0006XQ

15 years ago

60 upvotes – 25 comments

Show HN: Pytroj - Infect .pyc files

https://github.com/jgeralnik/Pytroj

15 years ago

★ 125 Python
53 upvotes – 20 comments

Today is Petrov Day

http://lesswrong.com/lw/jq/926_is_petrov_day/#2011

15 years ago

51 upvotes – 0 comments

A Brief History of the Brain

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21128311.800-a-brief-history-of-the-brain.html

15 years ago

49 upvotes – 3 comments
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