top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-10-17

Ask HN: What programming blogs do you read daily?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3120380

15 years ago

OpenClassroom: Free video courses from Stanford University

http://openclassroom.stanford.edu/MainFolder/HomePage.php

15 years ago

Introducing Instapaper 4.0 for iPad and iPhone

http://www.marco.org/2011/10/17/instapaper-4-released

15 years ago

Inserting Artificial Objects into Photographs

http://www.cgchannel.com/2011/10/cool-tech-demo-match-3d-models-into-archive-photos/

15 years ago

Amazon Signs Up Authors, Writing Publishers Out of Deal

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/17/technology/amazon-rewrites-the-rules-of-book-publishing.html

15 years ago

Mobile UI Patterns

http://mobile-patterns.com/

15 years ago

Ask HN: Screwed out of $12.8 million. Being Extorted. No Money for attorneys.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3120052

15 years ago

Hacked

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2011/10/hacked/8673/

15 years ago

Ask PG: Is there any chance of getting points displayed again

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3122233

15 years ago

Why Not Haskell?

http://neugierig.org/software/blog/2011/10/why-not-haskell.html

15 years ago

Vim Text Objects : The Definitive Guide

http://blog.carbonfive.com/2011/10/17/vim-text-objects-the-definitive-guide/

15 years ago

Bitcoin value falls from above $33 to below $3

http://www.betabeat.com/2011/10/17/price-of-bitcoin-still-dropping-falls-below-the-price-of-mining/

15 years ago

Why I'm learning to code - Roy Bahat, President at IGN Entertainment

http://also.roybahat.com/post/11574823708/why-im-learning-to-code

15 years ago

Occupy George

http://occupygeorge.com/

15 years ago

24 Claims of Lodsys '565 Patent Rejected

http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=2011101614244373

15 years ago

It's not too late to learn how to code

http://www.jeanhsu.com/2011/10/16/not-too-late-to-learn-how-to-code/

15 years ago

Cassandra 1.0: 400% read performance improvement

http://www.datastax.com/dev/blog/whats-new-in-cassandra-1-0-performance

15 years ago

The Great Tech War Of 2012

http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/160/tech-wars-2012-amazon-apple-google-facebook

15 years ago

Why are you still deploying overnight?

http://briancrescimanno.com/2011/09/29/why-are-you-still-deploying-overnight/

15 years ago

Commit logs from last night

http://www.commitlogsfromlastnight.com/

15 years ago

Google and Pearson Announce Free LMS Service to Compete with Blackboard/Moodle

http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/pearson-and-google-jump-into-learning-management-systems/33636?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+chronicle%2Fwiredcampus+%28The+Chronicle%3A+Wired+Campus%29

15 years ago

iPhone 4S First Weekend Sales Top Four Million

http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2011/10/17iPhone-4S-First-Weekend-Sales-Top-Four-Million.html

15 years ago

Securing PHP

http://www.jamescun.com/2011/10/securing-php/

15 years ago

In defence of Objective-C

http://splinter.com.au/in-defence-of-objective-c

15 years ago

Show HN: validate.js - lightweight JavaScript form validation library

http://rickharrison.github.com/validate.js/

15 years ago

Peter Norvig talks how search is evolving, thanks to AI algorithms

http://www.stonetemple.com/search-algorithms-with-google-director-of-research-peter-norvig/

15 years ago

"Embarrassing" open problems in maths

http://angryfaic.wordpress.com/2011/02/26/embarrassing-open-problems-in-maths

15 years ago

The Setup: William Gibson

http://william.gibson.usesthis.com/

15 years ago

PayPal is now an identity provider

https://www.x.com/identity

15 years ago

Mojolicious 2.0 released: Perl real-time web framework

http://blog.kraih.com/mojolicious-20-released-perl-real-time-web-fr

15 years ago

Shopify Raises $15 Million in Series B Funding

http://www.shopify.com/blog/4344032-shopify-raises-15-million-in-series-b-funding

15 years ago

The First Step for Ruby on Rails

http://www.jamesjohnson.me/

15 years ago

Four months with Android (An iOS user's exploration)

http://dinnerwithandroid.tumblr.com/post/11571096718/four-months-with-android-reflections-grievances-and

15 years ago

Curebit (YC W11) Wants To Optimize Your Referral System

http://techcrunch.com/2011/10/17/y-combinator-alum-curebit-wants-to-optimize-your-referral-system-to-turn-your-customers-into-marketers/

15 years ago

The ultimate startup lesson: knowing what matters

http://gigaom.com/cleantech/the-ultimate-startup-lesson-knowing-what-matters/

15 years ago

Detroit Startup List

http://www.growdetroit.com/detroit-startup-list/

15 years ago

Introducing the YouTube Insult Generator

http://www.holovaty.com/writing/youtube-insults/

15 years ago

Mustache, ERB and the future of templating

http://warpspire.com/posts/mustache-style-erb/

15 years ago

Alice.js - (A Lightweight Independent CSS Engine)

http://blackberry.github.com/Alice/

15 years ago

Why is Microsoft basically licensing Google's products?

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20111013/17205316345/can-we-just-admit-that-its-insane-when-microsoft-has-licensing-program-someone-elses-products.shtml

15 years ago

How I Did It: Hartley Peavey of Peavey Electronics

http://www.inc.com/magazine/201110/how-i-did-it-harley-peavey-electronics.html

15 years ago

Why Bundler 1.1 will be much faster

http://patshaughnessy.net/2011/10/14/why-bundler-1-1-will-be-much-faster

15 years ago

Deep dive: Cancellation rate in SaaS business models

http://blog.asmartbear.com/cancellation-rate-in-saas-business-models.html

15 years ago

End of the line for Code Quarterly

http://gigamonkeys.wordpress.com/2011/10/17/end-of-the-line-for-code-quarterly/

15 years ago

Icelandic data center run on 100 percent renewable energy

http://www.itworld.com/data-centerservers/213395/what-s-behind-iceland-s-first-major-data-center

15 years ago