top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-09-29

Stripe: instant payment processing for developers

https://stripe.com

15 years ago

1249 upvotes – 348 comments

Academics should stop doing free peer-review for non-open-access journals.

http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=417576&c=1

15 years ago

551 upvotes – 89 comments

"Algorithm" is not a four letter word

http://www.jamisbuck.org/presentations/rubyconf2011/index.html

15 years ago

443 upvotes – 65 comments

Pre-branded domain names for startups

http://stylate.com/

15 years ago

389 upvotes – 204 comments

Minimum Viable Personality

http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2011/09/minimum-viable-personality.html

15 years ago

322 upvotes – 51 comments

Promising HIV vaccine passes phase one human trials with 90% success rate

http://www.gizmag.com/spanish-hiv-vaccine-90-percent-immune-response/19973/

15 years ago

316 upvotes – 97 comments

IEEE Refuses to Accept Public-Domain Papers?

http://cr.yp.to/writing/ieee.html

15 years ago

262 upvotes – 80 comments

Scaling GitHub's Employees

http://zachholman.com/posts/scaling-github-employees/

15 years ago

224 upvotes – 39 comments

Fixing the callback spaghetti in node.js

https://github.com/koush/node/wiki/%22async%22-support-in-node.js

15 years ago

★ 166 JavaScript
222 upvotes – 101 comments

Try Ruby

http://tryruby.org

15 years ago

212 upvotes – 43 comments

Web Designers should all be using this idea by now: Font Icons.

http://somerandomdude.com/articles/design-technology/font-embedding-icons/

15 years ago

210 upvotes – 76 comments

Chrome to take No. 2 browser spot from Firefox

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9220396/Chrome_poised_to_take_No._2_browser_spot_from_Firefox

15 years ago

179 upvotes – 121 comments

H1B Salaries in the US

http://smokinn.com/blog/2011/09/28/h1b-salaries-in-the-us/

15 years ago

177 upvotes – 79 comments

Earn money in your sleep

http://www.netmagazine.com/features/earn-money-your-sleep

15 years ago

161 upvotes – 44 comments

SpaceX reveals fully reusable, vertically landing rocket design [video]

http://www.spacex.com/assets/video/spacex-rtls-green.mp4

15 years ago

152 upvotes – 86 comments

Finding Love Optimally

http://mat.tepper.cmu.edu/blog/?p=1392

15 years ago

150 upvotes – 41 comments

The three terrifying minutes that created The Gunstringer

http://www.joystiq.com/2011/09/26/the-three-terrifying-minutes-that-created-the-gunstringer/

15 years ago

143 upvotes – 9 comments

Introducing Google JS Test

http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2011/09/introducing-google-js-test.html

15 years ago

125 upvotes – 24 comments

Google Analytics Blog: What’s happening on your site right now?

http://analytics.blogspot.com/2011/09/whats-happening-on-your-site-right-now.html

15 years ago

125 upvotes – 25 comments

AVOS’ Delicious Disaster: Lessons from a Complete Failure

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/violetblue/avos-delicious-disaster-lessons-from-a-complete-failure/705?tag=nl.e539

15 years ago

122 upvotes – 64 comments

Learning the hard way: Moving from NYC to Palo Alto and back in 1.5 months

http://joshrweinstein.com/

15 years ago

120 upvotes – 104 comments

There is no such thing as a CEO of pre-product startup. Get off of it.

http://www.humbledmba.com/there-is-no-such-thing-as-a-ceo-at-a-startup

15 years ago

119 upvotes – 44 comments

Bank of America to charge monthly fee to debit card users

http://bucks.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/29/banks-adding-debit-card-fees/?hp

15 years ago

109 upvotes – 130 comments

Natural Language Processing with Python

http://www.nltk.org/book

15 years ago

101 upvotes – 15 comments

This Developer's Life

http://thisdeveloperslife.com

15 years ago

100 upvotes – 24 comments

Richard Branson on Time Management

http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/220418

15 years ago

94 upvotes – 9 comments

Moot: "sterile Facebook comments over provocative YouTube comments?"

http://www.atroundtable.com/onlinecommunities

15 years ago

94 upvotes – 59 comments

Cambrian explosion: genetic algorithm experiment

http://www.cambrianexplosion.com/

15 years ago

75 upvotes – 24 comments

Improving open source hardware: Visual diffs

http://www.evilmadscientist.com/article.php/visdiff

15 years ago

74 upvotes – 9 comments

Oracle Calls Out Autonomy CEO

http://oracle.com/PleaseBuyAutonomy

15 years ago

74 upvotes – 57 comments

Hipmunk comes to Android with a surprisingly slick app

http://gigaom.com/2011/09/29/hipmunk-android-app

15 years ago

70 upvotes – 19 comments

Introducing Google Analytics Premium

http://analytics.blogspot.com/2011/09/introducing-google-analytics-premium.html

15 years ago

70 upvotes – 50 comments

GNOME 3.2 Released

http://library.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/3.2

15 years ago

68 upvotes – 50 comments

Asynchronous Programming with Async and Await (C# and Visual Basic)

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh191443(v=VS.110).aspx

15 years ago

67 upvotes – 18 comments

RIM reportedly bails on PlayBook, considers exiting tablet market

http://www.bgr.com/2011/09/29/rim-reportedly-bails-on-playbook-considers-exiting-tablet-market/

15 years ago

66 upvotes – 59 comments
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