top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-10-01

How the FRA is Regulating Passenger Rail Out of Existence

http://www.ebbc.org/rail/fra.html

15 years ago

304 upvotes – 109 comments

VC Decries Airbnb’s Recent Funding for Founder Control and Cashout

http://allthingsd.com/20111001/vcs-unite-chamath-palihapitiya-decries-airbnbs-recent-112m-funding-for-excessive-founder-control-and-cashout-in-email/

15 years ago

296 upvotes – 151 comments

Neal Stephenson: Innovation Starvation

http://www.worldpolicy.org/journal/fall2011/innovation-starvation

15 years ago

264 upvotes – 121 comments

Mozilla's secure coding guidelines for web developers

https://wiki.mozilla.org/WebAppSec/Secure_Coding_Guidelines

15 years ago

250 upvotes – 65 comments

Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (October 2011)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3060221

15 years ago

238 upvotes – 273 comments

Distrusting git

http://benno.id.au/blog/2011/10/01/git-recursive-merge-broken

15 years ago

201 upvotes – 130 comments

Zynga open sources panning and zooming library for HTML and Canvas

https://github.com/zynga/scroller

15 years ago

★ 3.9k JavaScript MIT
116 upvotes – 17 comments

Find apartments by commute times

http://www.walkscore.com/apartments/

15 years ago

113 upvotes – 39 comments

Dropbox Easter Egg?

http://forums.dropbox.com/topic.php?id=45299&replies=22

15 years ago

107 upvotes – 25 comments

The Great Cul-De-Sac Problem And How To Alleviate It.

http://www.chrisnorstrom.com/2011/10/the-great-cul-de-sac-problem-and-how-to-fix-alleviate-it/

15 years ago

97 upvotes – 134 comments

Raphaël 2.0 is available

https://github.com/DmitryBaranovskiy/raphael

15 years ago

★ 11.2k JavaScript MIT
93 upvotes – 21 comments

When TDD Fails

http://bitroar.posterous.com/when-tdd-fails

15 years ago

93 upvotes – 101 comments

Map Reduce in Python - transparently done over a network

http://remembersaurus.com/mincemeatpy/

15 years ago

89 upvotes – 11 comments

Justin Kan: Hack your culture

http://techcrunch.com/2011/10/01/hack-your-culture/

15 years ago

87 upvotes – 17 comments

Global average response times from EC2 regions

http://www.cloudconnectevent.com/2011/presentations/free/76-marty-kagan.pdf

15 years ago

87 upvotes – 23 comments

Emscripten, an LLVM-to-JavaScript compiler

https://github.com/kripken/emscripten

15 years ago

★ 27.3k C++
81 upvotes – 13 comments

Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancers? (October 2011)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3060222

15 years ago

81 upvotes – 87 comments

New Boom Reshapes Oil World, Rocks North Dakota

http://www.npr.org/2011/09/25/140784004/new-boom-reshapes-oil-world-rocks-north-dakota

15 years ago

79 upvotes – 46 comments

Feynman diagrams by Edward Tufte

http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0003oo

15 years ago

73 upvotes – 7 comments

It’s official: Google+ will be connected to everything

http://gigaom.com/2011/09/30/its-official-google-will-be-connected-to-everything/

15 years ago

73 upvotes – 72 comments

Grained.org - Online grained gradient image generator

http://www.grained.org

15 years ago

72 upvotes – 31 comments

IPhone 4S with iPhone 4 design, leaked by iTunes

http://9to5mac.com/2011/10/01/iphone-4s-with-iphone-4-design-dual-mode-capability-leaked-by-itunes/

15 years ago

69 upvotes – 47 comments

Buy This Movie Or Legally Download It For Free: Your Call

http://techcrunch.com/2011/10/01/buy-presspauseplay-or-legally-download-it-for-free-your-call/

15 years ago

58 upvotes – 30 comments

Facebook is showing a real time like count on Mark Zuckerberg's status updates

http://www.facebook.com/zuck/posts/999900229761

15 years ago

57 upvotes – 43 comments

The Humble Programmer by Edsger W. Dijkstra

http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD03xx/EWD340.html

15 years ago

56 upvotes – 3 comments

Why not just use an IDE if you want IDE features?

http://davidlynch.org/blog/2011/09/why-not-just-use-an-ide-if-you-want-ide-features/

15 years ago

53 upvotes – 83 comments

Sinatra 1.3 is out Featuring streaming

http://thechangelog.com/post/10872694552/sinatra-1-3-is-out-adds-streaming-extensions

15 years ago

52 upvotes – 6 comments

Introducing Aurora 9

http://hacks.mozilla.org/2011/09/introducing-aurora-9/

15 years ago

44 upvotes – 11 comments

How GHC and LLVM work together, and how they can improve

http://dterei.blogspot.com/2011/09/ghc-project-for-all.html

15 years ago

43 upvotes – 3 comments

Notificon: Client-side favicon notifications

https://github.com/makeable/Notificon

15 years ago

★ 921 JavaScript
41 upvotes – 13 comments

Beautify the Git commit hash (have a look at the commit hashes on the right)

https://github.com/vog/beautify_git_hash/commits/master

15 years ago

★ 109 Python
39 upvotes – 26 comments

Alibaba's Ma: "very interested" in buying Yahoo

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/01/us-yahoo-alibaba-idUSTRE78T5TG20111001

15 years ago

39 upvotes – 17 comments
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