top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-10-12

Steve's Google Platform rant

https://plus.google.com/110981030061712822816/posts/WugKtXSp7We

15 years ago

1196 upvotes – 393 comments

I quit my job last March and it was a bad idea.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3102143

15 years ago

745 upvotes – 325 comments

Google Wave and the mythical man month

http://rethrick.com/#mmm

15 years ago

398 upvotes – 103 comments

Stop asking me for my phone number

http://spottedsun.com/stop-asking-me-for-my-phone-number/

15 years ago

246 upvotes – 80 comments

Show HN: Who's Hiring? (postings mined from Twitter)

http://www.jobstractor.com/new

15 years ago

220 upvotes – 63 comments

Why The 99% Should Protest Against Y Combinator

http://nickoneill.com/why-the-99-should-protest-against-ycombinator-2011-10/

15 years ago

191 upvotes – 107 comments

Siri says some weird things

http://thisismynext.com/2011/10/12/siri-weird-things-iphone-4s/

15 years ago

186 upvotes – 61 comments

Steve Yegge on Steve Yegge's Amazon Google post

https://plus.google.com/110981030061712822816/posts/bwJ7kAELRnf

15 years ago

185 upvotes – 43 comments

Daring Fireball: The iPhone 4S

http://daringfireball.net/2011/10/iphone_4s

15 years ago

180 upvotes – 141 comments

One heck of a bio

http://worrydream.com/Bio/

15 years ago

173 upvotes – 26 comments

Cringely predicts the second coming of Java

http://www.cringely.com/2011/10/the-second-coming-of-java/

15 years ago

169 upvotes – 129 comments

Google Page Speed Online

https://developers.google.com/pagespeed/

15 years ago

135 upvotes – 15 comments

How My Lifestyle Business Became a Startup

http://faso.com/code618/34150/how-my-lifestyle-business-became-a-startup

15 years ago

134 upvotes – 30 comments

Monsanto chooses Cloudant to power its genome analytics

http://blog.cloudant.com/monsanto-chooses-cloudant/

15 years ago

130 upvotes – 252 comments

Akamai close to being acquired by Google

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/12/akamai-google-idUSN1E79B1TA20111012

15 years ago

129 upvotes – 43 comments

Github's new look: The Code Tab

https://github.com/blog/958-the-code-tab

15 years ago

127 upvotes – 23 comments

University of California teachers’ union aims to block online classes

http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2011/10/11/university_of_california_lecturers_union_says_it_can_block_online_programs

15 years ago

126 upvotes – 63 comments

Apple’s iOS 5 Update Now Available For iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch

http://techcrunch.com/2011/10/12/apples-ios-5-update-now-available-for-iphone-ipad-and-ipod-touch/

15 years ago

125 upvotes – 82 comments

Siri: Apple's trojan horse

http://fabiandesimone.com/siri-apple-trojan-horse/

15 years ago

121 upvotes – 44 comments

Coding Horror: The Gamification

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2011/10/the-gamification.html

15 years ago

115 upvotes – 28 comments

Google not acquiring Akamai

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-10-12/google-is-said-not-to-plan-akamai-takeover-after-report-raised-speculation.html

15 years ago

101 upvotes – 33 comments

The Spider of Doom

http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/The_Spider_of_Doom.aspx

15 years ago

94 upvotes – 21 comments

PyPy: NumPy funding and status update

http://morepypy.blogspot.com/2011/10/numpy-funding-and-status-update.html

15 years ago

92 upvotes – 17 comments

What Is Wrong About 17259 Lines Of Code?

http://webreflection.blogspot.com/2011/10/what-is-wrong-about-17259-lines-of-code.html

15 years ago

90 upvotes – 20 comments

Benford's Law and the Decreasing Reliability of Accounting Data for US Firms

http://econerdfood.blogspot.com/2011/10/benfords-law-and-decreasing-reliability.html

15 years ago

78 upvotes – 12 comments

Wolfram Alpha's Secure Password Service

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=secure+password

15 years ago

77 upvotes – 37 comments

Facebook Says Some of Your Personal Data Is Its 'Intellectual Property'

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20111011/12190216306/facebook-says-some-your-personal-data-is-its-trade-secrets-intellectual-property.shtml

15 years ago

76 upvotes – 24 comments

2 is a code smell

http://tech.puredanger.com/2011/10/12/2-is-a-smell/

15 years ago

73 upvotes – 30 comments

The Speaker (Or: why the iPhone's speaker is on the bottom of the phone)

http://dcurt.is/2011/10/12/the-speaker/

15 years ago

69 upvotes – 46 comments

Google+ gets hashtag support and real-time search

https://plus.google.com/107117483540235115863/posts/dXovwc1hSyY

15 years ago

69 upvotes – 13 comments

Hitting the ground running: A Python programmer builds a Rails 3.1 app in a day

http://derwiki.tumblr.com/post/11356448340/hitting-the-ground-running-a-python-programmer-builds

15 years ago

66 upvotes – 18 comments

An End to Negativity in the Tech Community

http://jsconf.eu/2011/an_end_to_negativity.html

15 years ago

66 upvotes – 14 comments

Python as a statistics workbench

http://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/1595/python-as-a-statistics-workbench

15 years ago

66 upvotes – 5 comments

AMD's 8-core cpu for desktops arrives

http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/display/amd-fx-8150.html

15 years ago

63 upvotes – 49 comments

Facebook presents its mobile development framework

https://developers.facebook.com/docs/guides/mobile/

15 years ago

63 upvotes – 12 comments

Diaspora — Share the love.

http://blog.diasporafoundation.org/2011/10/12/we-love-you.html?

15 years ago

62 upvotes – 52 comments

Turn your iPad into a 3D controller

http://www.maideinc.com

15 years ago

59 upvotes – 11 comments

Kiva is matching loans for first time donors

http://www.kiva.org/celebrate6

15 years ago

58 upvotes – 14 comments

Robert W. Galvin, Who Led Motorola Into the Modern Age, Dies at 89

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/13/technology/robert-w-galvin-who-led-motorola-dies-at-89.html?src=twr

15 years ago

57 upvotes – 5 comments

More Evidence Against Vitamin Use

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/11/more-evidence-against-vitamin-use/?ref=todayspaper

15 years ago

56 upvotes – 27 comments
show: top 10top 20top 50%
go to date: prev next
sort by: datescorecomments