top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-10-04

Flash Game Simulates Living on $9/hr.

http://playspent.org/

15 years ago

421 upvotes – 375 comments

I Think Your App Should Be Free

http://blog.earbits.com/online_radio/i-think-your-app-should-be-free/

15 years ago

334 upvotes – 231 comments

Node.js has jumped the shark

http://www.unlimitednovelty.com/2011/10/nodejs-has-jumped-shark.html

15 years ago

321 upvotes – 126 comments

Wikipedia shuts down Italian site because of Berlusconi's "Wiretapping Act"

http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Comunicato_4_ottobre_2011/en

15 years ago

271 upvotes – 59 comments

Apple's 1987 Knowledge Navigator, Only One Month Late

http://waxy.org/2011/10/apples_1987_knowledge_navigator_only_one_month_late/

15 years ago

244 upvotes – 45 comments

Google’s Management Doesn’t Use Google+

http://theunderstatement.com/post/11018308302/googles-management-doesnt-use-google

15 years ago

214 upvotes – 80 comments

Isaac Asimov on Security Theatre.

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2011/10/isaac_asimov_on.html

15 years ago

176 upvotes – 46 comments

Comparing Hacker News & the Slashdot Effect

http://cmdrtaco.net/2011/10/then-along-came-hacker-news/

15 years ago

163 upvotes – 54 comments

Kindle Fire pre-orders exceeding 2,000 per hour

http://www.geek.com/articles/gadgets/kindle-fire-pre-orders-exceeding-2000-per-hour-2011104/

15 years ago

161 upvotes – 81 comments

Knowing when to quit - an under-rated skill.

http://www.freakonomics.com/2011/09/30/the-upside-of-quitting-full-transcript/

15 years ago

159 upvotes – 18 comments

A Tour of Go

http://go-tour.appspot.com/

15 years ago

131 upvotes – 15 comments

Tilt-Shift Using CSS

http://lab.simurai.com/css/tilt-shift/

15 years ago

125 upvotes – 16 comments

US, Aus, Canada, Japan, Morocco, New Zealand, Singapore, and S. Korea sign ACTA

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/10/us-signs-international-anti-piracy-accord.ars

15 years ago

124 upvotes – 34 comments

Apple's 'Let's Talk iPhone' keynote liveblog

http://www.engadget.com/2011/10/04/apples-lets-talk-iphone-keynote-liveblog/

15 years ago

120 upvotes – 115 comments

Why code review beats testing: evidence from decades of programming research

http://kev.inburke.com/kevin/the-best-ways-to-find-bugs-in-your-code/

15 years ago

117 upvotes – 47 comments

Apple Reveals Siri Voice Interface: The “Intelligent Assistant”

http://techcrunch.com/2011/10/04/apple-reveals-siri-voice-interface-the-intelligent-assistant/

15 years ago

116 upvotes – 173 comments

Did a reporter just solve the bitcoin mystery?

https://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2011/10/03/141011155/did-a-reporter-just-solve-the-bitcoin-mystery

15 years ago

114 upvotes – 52 comments

YC Application Checklist (apps due in 1 week)

http://www.giftrocket.com/blog/yc-application-checklist

15 years ago

110 upvotes – 25 comments

A Quick Look Into The Math Of Animations With JavaScript

http://coding.smashingmagazine.com/2011/10/04/quick-look-math-animations-javascript/

15 years ago

107 upvotes – 12 comments

First Ride in Tesla Model S

http://translogic.aolautos.com/2011/10/03/exclusive-first-ride-in-the-tesla-model-s-video/

15 years ago

102 upvotes – 62 comments

WebGL Endless Forest

http://oos.moxiecode.com/js_webgl/forest/index.html

15 years ago

100 upvotes – 19 comments

LibreOffice is one

http://blogs.computerworlduk.com/simon-says/2011/10/libreoffice-is-one/index.htm

15 years ago

98 upvotes – 25 comments

Notch offered to not (tm) Scrolls etc, but Bethesda sue ahead anyway

http://notch.tumblr.com/post/10990169550/a-short-response

15 years ago

95 upvotes – 66 comments

All numbers lead to one

http://www.jasondavies.com/collatz-graph/

15 years ago

95 upvotes – 15 comments

Kickstarter threatened by business-method patent owner?

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/kickstarter-patent-fan-funded-artistshare-243632

15 years ago

89 upvotes – 28 comments

.Net Developer Shortage

http://techcrunch.com/2011/10/04/tech-job-site-dice-reports-shortage-of-net-developers/

15 years ago

87 upvotes – 97 comments

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2011

http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/2011/

15 years ago

83 upvotes – 15 comments

About concurrency and the GIL

http://merbist.com/2011/10/03/about-concurrency-and-the-gil/

15 years ago

82 upvotes – 50 comments

An Easy Way to Build Scalable Network Programs

http://blog.nodejs.org/2011/10/04/an-easy-way-to-build-scalable-network-programs/

15 years ago

81 upvotes – 35 comments

Lies, Damn Lies and Photoshop

http://blog.timparkinson.net/2011/09/30/lies-damn-lies-and-photoshop/

15 years ago

79 upvotes – 42 comments

The future of work: What happens when talent trumps capital?

http://crashdev.blogspot.com/2011/10/future-of-work-what-happens-when-talent.html

15 years ago

77 upvotes – 24 comments

The KimKlone: a radical 6502 redesign

http://www.laughtonelectronics.com/arcana/BrideOfSonPg1.html

15 years ago

73 upvotes – 24 comments

iPhone 5 Keynote Predictions: Mainstreaming AI?

https://plus.google.com/111121259089480098657/posts/NGvHrVZdtg1

15 years ago

73 upvotes – 60 comments

Perl Weekly - An e-mail round-up of hand-picked news and articles about Perl

http://perlweekly.com/

15 years ago

71 upvotes – 6 comments

The Original Siri App Gets Pulled From The App Store, Servers Killed

http://techcrunch.com/2011/10/04/the-original-siri-app-gets-pulled-from-the-app-store-servers-killed/

15 years ago

69 upvotes – 35 comments

"Unobtrusive Ruby" in Practice

http://practicingruby.com/articles/shared/ozkzbsdmagcm

15 years ago

66 upvotes – 6 comments

IPhone 4S: A5 chip, 8MP camera, and Siri voice recognition

http://www.apple.com/iphone/#4s

15 years ago

66 upvotes – 127 comments

Mozilla Firefox and silent updates

http://www.brianbondy.com/blog/id/125/

15 years ago

60 upvotes – 27 comments

GitHub: Recent Load Balancer Problems (RCA)

https://github.com/blog/949-recent-load-balancer-problems

15 years ago

58 upvotes – 9 comments

Am I burnt out? Or just not suited for this job?

http://chenzihui.com/49/is-this-the-dreaded-burn-out

15 years ago

56 upvotes – 28 comments

World's Most Complex Radio Telescope Snaps Stunning 1st Photo of the Cosmos

http://www.space.com/13146-alma-radio-telescope-1st-image-released.html

15 years ago

56 upvotes – 14 comments

Tech behind Klout.com - Node.js and Open Source

http://corp.klout.com/blog/2011/10/the-tech-behind-klout-com/

15 years ago

54 upvotes – 4 comments

Microsoft Explains Why the Start Menu Needed to Die

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2394101,00.asp#fbid=STAXx2f_Lig

15 years ago

52 upvotes – 64 comments

Bank of America website disrupted for 4th day in a row

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/10/03/bank_of_america_website_outage/

15 years ago

51 upvotes – 29 comments

Creating an Entrepreneurial Startup Culture

http://www.mikekarnj.com/blog/2011/10/03/creating-an-entrepreneurial-startup-culture

15 years ago

50 upvotes – 6 comments

Six Reasons for Sudden Drop in Math Grade

http://parents.sabioacademy.com/2011/09/30/six-reasons-for-math-grade/

15 years ago

49 upvotes – 12 comments

How to Overcome Your Fatal Flaw

http://trevorowens.tumblr.com/post/11021493592/how-to-overcome-your-fatal-flaw

15 years ago

48 upvotes – 13 comments

The 10x product launch

http://www.ashmaurya.com/2011/10/the-10x-product-launch/#comment-326360995

15 years ago

46 upvotes – 1 comments

Are Top Students Getting Short Shrift?

http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2011/10/02/are-top-students-getting-short-shrift/acknowledging-the-trade-offs-in-differentiation

15 years ago

44 upvotes – 43 comments

Show HN: Bookmark events across the web and receive automatic reminders.

https://www.tentative.ly/invite

15 years ago

43 upvotes – 7 comments

Red Hat buys Gluster

http://www.redhat.com/promo/storage/

15 years ago

43 upvotes – 10 comments

We built a cloud platform for PHP. Wait… what?

http://blog.webspecies.co.uk/2011-10-03/we-built-a-cloud-platform-for-php-wait-what.html

15 years ago

43 upvotes – 36 comments
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