top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-09-30

“I hate almost all software” — Ryan Dahl

https://plus.google.com/115094562986465477143/posts/Di6RwCNKCrf

15 years ago

397 upvotes – 292 comments

Try Python, Ruby, Lua, Scheme, QBasic, Forth ...

http://repl.it/

15 years ago

390 upvotes – 78 comments

Write your app in HTML5, upload it and get back app-store ready apps

https://build.phonegap.com/

15 years ago

330 upvotes – 93 comments

Single psilocybin dose may make lasting personality change

http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-dose-hallucinogen-personality.html

15 years ago

190 upvotes – 158 comments

Sharding and IDs at Instagram

http://instagram-engineering.tumblr.com/post/10853187575/sharding-ids-at-instagram

15 years ago

183 upvotes – 50 comments

Amazon in talks with HP to buy Palm

http://venturebeat.com/2011/09/29/amazon-buy-palm/

15 years ago

175 upvotes – 98 comments

MIT’s ‘Artificial leaf’ makes fuel from sunlight

http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2011/artificial-leaf-0930.html

15 years ago

166 upvotes – 28 comments

Client asks for 100% uptime

http://serverfault.com/questions/316637/100-uptime-for-web-application

15 years ago

164 upvotes – 96 comments

The Slashdot Effect from the Other Side

http://cmdrtaco.net/2011/09/the-slashdot-effect-from-the-other-side/

15 years ago

163 upvotes – 41 comments

How to Give Your Product Personality

http://www.jasonshen.com/2011/how-to-give-your-product-personality/?

15 years ago

131 upvotes – 30 comments

Microsoft security tools nuking Chrome browser

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/security/microsoft-security-tools-nuking-chrome-browser/9515

15 years ago

125 upvotes – 38 comments

Basho Releases Riak v1.0.0

http://blog.basho.com/2011/09/30/Riak-1-dot-0-is-Official/

15 years ago

122 upvotes – 20 comments

The Stack Exchange Architecture

http://blog.serverfault.com/post/the-stack-exchange-architecture-2011-edition-episode-1/

15 years ago

110 upvotes – 29 comments

The world economy is heading towards a black hole unless bold action taken

http://www.economist.com/node/21530986

15 years ago

109 upvotes – 135 comments

What’s contained in a boarding pass barcode?

http://shaun.net/2011/05/whats-contained-in-a-boarding-pass-barcode/

15 years ago

98 upvotes – 18 comments

Ask HN: European startup looking for a service for recurring billing

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3056714

15 years ago

95 upvotes – 67 comments

Bored? Try Doodling To Keep The Brain On Task

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=101727048

15 years ago

94 upvotes – 22 comments

Berlios closing down

http://developer.berlios.de/forum/forum.php?forum_id=37450

15 years ago

93 upvotes – 24 comments

How Much Money Do The Top Grossing YouTube Partners Make?

http://socialtimes.com/money-youtube-partners_b21335

15 years ago

92 upvotes – 28 comments

Try the Flask web framework in your Browser

https://tryflask.ep.io/

15 years ago

91 upvotes – 31 comments

The Geoffrey Moore talk that Joel Spolsky said changed his business.

http://thebln.com/2011/09/context-core-geoffrey-moore-at-business-of-software-video-transcript/

15 years ago

91 upvotes – 7 comments

Tips for applying to YC

http://entreposeur.com/yc-feedback-sharing

15 years ago

89 upvotes – 24 comments

Parse adds easy caching support for iOS and Android

http://blog.parse.com/2011/09/30/easy-caching-with-parse/

15 years ago

81 upvotes – 11 comments

Ludumdare October challenge: Finish a game — Take it to market — Earn $1

http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/2011/09/28/announcing-october-challenge-2011/

15 years ago

81 upvotes – 16 comments

Googler Builds Site That Shows You What Top Tech Companies Pay

http://techcrunch.com/2011/09/29/googler-builds-site-that-shows-you-what-top-tech-companies-pay/

15 years ago

75 upvotes – 21 comments

Join EFF in Demanding a Digital Upgrade to 25-Year-Old Electronic Privacy Law

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/09/eff-and-coalition-government-no-snooping-without

15 years ago

74 upvotes – 5 comments

Why use Amiga in 2011? (AmigaOS 4, MorphOS, AROS, AmigaOS 3.9)

http://www.feelgoodtech.com/retro/why-use-amiga-in-2011-amigaos-4-morphos-aros-amigaos-3-9/

15 years ago

67 upvotes – 22 comments

Code your own Multi-User Private Git Server

https://moocode.com/posts/6-code-your-own-multi-user-private-git-server-in-5-minutes

15 years ago

64 upvotes – 16 comments

Why You Should Bootstrap in Montreal or Join Startup Chile

http://nextmontreal.com/naysawn-naderi-art-sumo-start-up-chile/

15 years ago

63 upvotes – 36 comments

Peter Norvig: A Look Back at a 1966 Scientific American Article

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/at-scientific-american/2011/08/23/systems-analysis-look-back-1966-scientific-american-article/#

15 years ago

63 upvotes – 1 comments

The JavaScript Comma Operator

http://javascriptweblog.wordpress.com/2011/04/04/the-javascript-comma-operator/

15 years ago

62 upvotes – 19 comments

Inbound Hiring

http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/2011/09/inbound-hiring.html

15 years ago

59 upvotes – 12 comments

Getting Creative with MapReduce

http://sritchie.github.com/2011/09/29/getting-creative-with-mapreduce.html

15 years ago

58 upvotes – 7 comments

Apocalypse Later: The End of Europe Has Been Delayed Indefinitely

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2011/09/apocalypse-later-the-end-of-europe-has-been-delayed-indefinitely/245944/

15 years ago

57 upvotes – 63 comments

Python: Myths about Indentation

http://www.secnetix.de/olli/Python/block_indentation.hawk

15 years ago

56 upvotes – 73 comments

Who said Android apps can’t look good?

http://devblog.bu.mp/who-said-android-apps-cant-look-good

15 years ago

55 upvotes – 46 comments

Can anyone explain why Windows is so bad at copying files?

http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/2545455.html

15 years ago

51 upvotes – 56 comments

Excavating the microprocessor responsible for the home computing revolution

http://www.archaeology.org/1107/features/mos_technology_6502_computer_chip_cpu.html

15 years ago

49 upvotes – 6 comments

My apology and why the tech world is awesome

http://jerryguo.tumblr.com/

15 years ago

49 upvotes – 11 comments

IBM Tops Microsoft to Become Second-Most Valuable in Technology

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-09-30/ibm-tops-microsoft-to-become-second-most-valuable-in-technology.html

15 years ago

45 upvotes – 15 comments
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