top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-10-03

Bitbucket now rocks Git

http://blog.bitbucket.org/2011/10/03/bitbucket-now-rocks-git/

15 years ago

726 upvotes – 173 comments

The State of the Art is Terrible

http://zackarymorris.tumblr.com/post/10973087527/the-state-of-the-art-is-terrible

15 years ago

462 upvotes – 228 comments

FeeFighters Loses BBB Accreditation Over Investigative Blog Post

http://feefighters.com/blog/bbb-accreditation/

15 years ago

455 upvotes – 78 comments

Homemade GPS Receiver

http://www.holmea.demon.co.uk/GPS/Main.htm

15 years ago

329 upvotes – 13 comments

An open letter to Stripe: please come to Europe

http://blog.handcraft.com/2011/10/an-open-letter-to-stripe/

15 years ago

292 upvotes – 94 comments

Ryan Bates launches RailsCasts Pro

http://railscasts.com/pro

15 years ago

233 upvotes – 61 comments

I own a domain that a big corporation wants to sue me into acquiring. Help

http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kyde9/i_own_a_domain_that_a_big_corporation_wants_to/

15 years ago

227 upvotes – 74 comments

Patent Troll: Anyone Using WiFi Infringes; Won't Sue Individuals 'At This Stage'

http://www.techdirt.com/blog/wireless/articles/20111001/00365416161/patent-troll-says-anyone-using-wifi-infringes-wont-sue-individuals-this-stage.shtml

15 years ago

220 upvotes – 94 comments

Node-fib: Fast non-blocking fibonacci server

https://github.com/glenjamin/node-fib

15 years ago

★ 139 JavaScript MIT
194 upvotes – 118 comments

Politician Violates His Own Two-Strikes Anti-Piracy Plan

https://torrentfreak.com/politician-violates-his-own-two-strikes-anti-piracy-plan-111001/

15 years ago

192 upvotes – 30 comments

How to get into Y Combinator

http://samaltman.com/how-to-get-into-y-combinator

15 years ago

182 upvotes – 53 comments

Adobe acquires Typekit

http://blog.typekit.com/2011/10/03/adobe-acquires-typekit/

15 years ago

179 upvotes – 35 comments

Is Haskell the Cure?

http://mathias-biilmann.net/posts/2011/10/is-haskell-the-cure

15 years ago

175 upvotes – 89 comments

When "clever" goes wrong: how Etsy overcame poor architectural choices

http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2011/10/when-clever-goes-wrong-how-etsy-overcame-poor-architectural-choices.ars

15 years ago

163 upvotes – 86 comments

Node.js cures cancer

http://blog.brianbeck.com/post/node-js-cures-cancer

15 years ago

156 upvotes – 89 comments

Goodbye to the Yakuza

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/global/2011/10/goodbye-yakuza/43206/

15 years ago

148 upvotes – 51 comments

I helped drive Adobe's acquisitions of Typekit and Nitobi. AMA

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3068122

15 years ago

132 upvotes – 66 comments

Diggnation to End in December

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/04/business/media/diggnation-popular-web-talk-show-to-end-in-december.html

15 years ago

131 upvotes – 38 comments

Scala on Heroku

http://blog.heroku.com/archives/2011/10/3/scala/

15 years ago

126 upvotes – 20 comments

Adobe acquires Nitobi (Founders of Phonegap)

http://blogs.nitobi.com/andre/index.php/2011/10/03/nitobi-enters-into-acquisition-agreement-with-adobe/

15 years ago

121 upvotes – 18 comments

How to Procrastinate and still get things done

http://chronicle.com/article/How-to-ProcrastinateStill/93959

15 years ago

120 upvotes – 24 comments

Are you a programmer with chronic headaches? If so please read

http://jacquesmattheij.com/Programmers+with+chronic+headaches+please+read

15 years ago

117 upvotes – 113 comments

Meeting People

http://hangger.com/posts/meeting-people

15 years ago

115 upvotes – 36 comments

What it costs to live in Japan

http://bemmu.posterous.com/what-it-costs-to-live-in-japan

15 years ago

112 upvotes – 70 comments

The Fans Are All Right

http://blog.pinboard.in/2011/10/the_fans_are_all_right/

15 years ago

109 upvotes – 16 comments

Git-dude: desktop notifications for git

https://github.com/sickill/git-dude

15 years ago

★ 940 Shell GPL-3.0
96 upvotes – 7 comments

Sprint to 'Bet the Company' on iPhone

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203405504576603053795839250.html

15 years ago

95 upvotes – 99 comments

Oracle on why you shouldn't use NOSQL (PDF)

https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:G4pI4ZOkzWYJ:www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/debunking-nosql-twp-399992.pdf+oracle+debunking+nosql&hl=en&gl=uk&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESiaUPuEdyJ9cnDc_GzgsfsNq6UytDZeO5f0pgDJyUeo7x-xfe2W091nseq4s1cIl9lZ79jmGT0TRpE5PF8svROWbJSjcbrm6TXb2AWfM2TaAa6Z80dEupN3oSFzZG6y9mWBsgTd&sig=AHIEtbSXOrH6n87xP4yC4bqqMaLHSMBBNg

15 years ago

95 upvotes – 98 comments

25% of Yale goes to Consulting, Finance

http://www.yaledailynews.com/news/2011/sep/30/even-artichokes-have-doubts/

15 years ago

94 upvotes – 76 comments

Dropbox is my publish button

http://joehewitt.com/2011/10/03/dropbox-is-my-publish-button

15 years ago

90 upvotes – 66 comments

Patent Troll suing coffee shops, restaurants or hotels for offering Wifi

http://patentexaminer.org/2011/09/innovatios-infringement-suit-rampage-expands-to-corporate-hotels/

15 years ago

89 upvotes – 20 comments

The Linear Theory of Battleship

http://thevirtuosi.blogspot.com/2011/10/linear-theory-of-battleship.html

15 years ago

87 upvotes – 23 comments

The Elite Programming Language Fallacy

http://blog.fogus.me/2011/10/02/the-elite-programming-language-fallacy/

15 years ago

87 upvotes – 54 comments

Adobe Acquires Web Typography Innovator Typekit

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/adobe-acquires-web-typography-innovator-typekit-2011-10-03

15 years ago

86 upvotes – 27 comments

Welcome To CrunchFund, MG Siegler

http://uncrunched.com/2011/10/03/welcome-to-crunchfund-mg-siegler/

15 years ago

85 upvotes – 36 comments

Adobe Aquires PhoneGap

http://techcrunch.com/2011/10/03/adobe-acquires-developer-of-html5-mobile-app-framework-phonegap-nitobi/

15 years ago

84 upvotes – 11 comments

A response to Node.js is cancer - The Diagnosis

http://joshuakehn.com/2011/10/3/Diagnosis-No-Cancer.html

15 years ago

78 upvotes – 51 comments

How Ruby is beating Python in the battle for the Soul of System Administration

http://devopsanywhere.blogspot.com/2011/09/how-ruby-is-beating-python-in-battle.html

15 years ago

73 upvotes – 44 comments

Scaling Twilio

http://www.twilio.com/engineering/2011/10/03/scaling-twilio/

15 years ago

71 upvotes – 11 comments

Oracle NoSQL Database

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/nosqldb/overview/index.html

15 years ago

67 upvotes – 25 comments

Fear of Repression Spurs Scholars and Activists to Build Alternate Internets

http://chronicle.com/article/Fear-of-Repression-Spurs/129049/

15 years ago

65 upvotes – 6 comments

How to Kill Start-up Distractions

http://andygcook.com/2011/10/how-to-kill-start-up-distractions/

15 years ago

64 upvotes – 5 comments

CSS Shader - Adobe brings WebGL to CSS

http://www.adobe.com/devnet/html5/articles/css-shaders.html

15 years ago

62 upvotes – 12 comments

Groom your programming skills and make some money

http://www.amebopost.com/index.php

15 years ago

56 upvotes – 29 comments

Show HN: Export your data from Twitter/Facebook/Gowalla/Google+ as JSON

http://export.synack.me/

15 years ago

53 upvotes – 12 comments
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