top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-10-19

We now have an effective vaccine for Malaria

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/18/us-malaria-vaccine-scientist-idUSTRE79H59220111018

15 years ago

622 upvotes – 138 comments

Signs that you are a bad programmer

http://www.yacoset.com/Home/signs-that-you-re-a-bad-programmer

15 years ago

450 upvotes – 168 comments

Programming Language Development: The Past 5 Years

http://blog.fogus.me/2011/10/18/programming-language-development-the-past-5-years/

15 years ago

284 upvotes – 53 comments

Google AI Challenge 2011

http://aichallenge.org/

15 years ago

275 upvotes – 68 comments

Supreme Court of Canada: No Liability for Linking

http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/6069/125/

15 years ago

215 upvotes – 38 comments

Startup Ideas We'd Be Willing To Pay For

http://www.giftrocket.com/blog/startup-ideas-we-would-pay-for

15 years ago

207 upvotes – 123 comments

Lytro cameras are ready for preorder.

https://www.lytro.com/camera

15 years ago

207 upvotes – 94 comments

Android 4.0 SDK Now Available

http://developer.android.com/sdk/android-4.0.html

15 years ago

182 upvotes – 78 comments

How does the iPhone 4S camera stack up against other cameras?

http://campl.us/iPhone-Camera-Comparison

15 years ago

171 upvotes – 64 comments

Secret iOS business; what you don’t know about your apps

http://www.troyhunt.com/2011/10/secret-ios-business-what-you-dont-know.html

15 years ago

168 upvotes – 57 comments

Unofficial Google Advanced Search

http://jwebnet.net/advancedgooglesearch.html

15 years ago

161 upvotes – 15 comments

Remembering Steve Jobs: A Million Tributes From Around The World

http://www.apple.com/stevejobs/?hn=2

15 years ago

153 upvotes – 23 comments

Remember The Milk can sync with your iPhone calendar

http://blog.rememberthemilk.com/2011/10/we-taught-siri-to-add-tasks-to-remember-the-milk/

15 years ago

150 upvotes – 56 comments

Google now tells you your IP when you ask it in search

http://www.google.com/search?q=what+is+my+ip&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en&client=safari

15 years ago

144 upvotes – 89 comments

Ask HN: Please review my site "Smoke Signal"

http://www.getsmokesignal.com

15 years ago

143 upvotes – 80 comments

How to turn a biased coin into a Fair Coin

http://carlos.bueno.org/2011/10/fair-coin.html

15 years ago

137 upvotes – 47 comments

We Can All Become Job Creators

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/18/opinion/nocera-we-can-all-become-job-creators.html

15 years ago

136 upvotes – 93 comments

Matias Duarte on the philosophy of Ice Cream Sandwich

http://thisismynext.com/2011/10/18/exclusive-matias-duarte-ice-cream-sandwich-galaxy-nexus/

15 years ago

130 upvotes – 48 comments

IPhone 4S has GLONASS in addition to GPS

http://www.apple.com/iphone/specs.html

15 years ago

129 upvotes – 89 comments

Is Nokia's CEO a Microsoft mole?

http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/europe/111014/nokia-workers-ceo-microsoft-iphone-linux

15 years ago

123 upvotes – 86 comments

Paul Graham, Dropbox and The Single Founder Exception

http://www.forbes.com/sites/bruceupbin/2011/10/18/paul-graham-dropbox-and-the-single-founder-exception/

15 years ago

118 upvotes – 62 comments

Google Surrenders in the Nymnwars

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/10/victory-google-surrenders-nymwars

15 years ago

111 upvotes – 29 comments

From South Africa, a faster and easier way to apply condoms

http://www.springwise.com/health_wellbeing/south-africa-faster-easier-apply-condoms/

15 years ago

108 upvotes – 35 comments

Khan Academy Triples Unique Users To 3.5 Million

http://techcrunch.com/2011/10/19/khan-academy-triples-unique-users-to-3-5-million/

15 years ago

96 upvotes – 45 comments

Go Ahead, Sell My Data

http://www.kevinjcurtin.com/home/2011/10/18/go-ahead-sell-my-data.html

15 years ago

91 upvotes – 109 comments

Stanford on-line Data Mining Courses ($10k for a certificate)

http://scpd.stanford.edu/ppc/iframes/dataMiningCourses.html

15 years ago

90 upvotes – 36 comments

Google, Samsung unveil Ice Cream Sandwich-powered Galaxy Nexus

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-20122278-94/google-samsung-unveil-ice-cream-sandwich-powered-galaxy-nexus/

15 years ago

86 upvotes – 130 comments

FinalTouch Income Report #1

http://000fff.org/incomereport/

15 years ago

82 upvotes – 20 comments

Andrew Ng's Classroom Lectures for ML

http://171.64.93.201/ClassX/system/users/web/pg/view_subject.php?subject=CS229_FALL_2011_2012

15 years ago

82 upvotes – 13 comments

How to create a (fictional) language in one day

http://www.sicher.org/2011/10/18/how-to-create-a-language-in-one-day/

15 years ago

81 upvotes – 19 comments

Work has started on Ruby 2.0

https://github.com/ruby/ruby/commit/6b8d4ab840b2d76d356ba30dbccfef4f5fd10767

15 years ago

★ 23.5k Ruby
80 upvotes – 61 comments

Google+ for Google Apps users - it's a matter of days

https://plus.google.com/100535338638690515335/posts/6QRgDAToF58

15 years ago

79 upvotes – 36 comments

Show HN: BackboneScreencasts.com

http://joeybeninghove.com/2011/10/17/announcing-backbone-dot-js-quickly-a-90-plus-minute-screencast

15 years ago

77 upvotes – 29 comments

How Diaspora Found Its Tiger Stripe in the Midst of a Paypal Fiasco

http://blog.diasporafoundation.org/2011/10/19/how-diaspora-found-its-tiger-stripe-in-the-midst-of-a-paypal-fiasco.html

15 years ago

72 upvotes – 49 comments

ARM reveals little dog A7 processor

http://www.eetimes.com/electronics-news/4229867/ARM-reveals-little-dog-A7-processor

15 years ago

63 upvotes – 25 comments

Dennis Ritchie: "So fsck was originally called something else"

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/alt.sysadmin.recovery/tsGbbkvHo2c/6T-Pj9d3A6wJ

15 years ago

62 upvotes – 10 comments

Wikipedia is a wild success and an utter failure

http://stdout.be/2011/10/19/a-wild-success-and-an-utter-failure/

15 years ago

62 upvotes – 34 comments

How Dropbox Started As A Minimal Viable Product

http://techcrunch.com/2011/10/19/dropbox-minimal-viable-product/

15 years ago

61 upvotes – 9 comments

Ask HN: Getting back into the working world with a negative track record

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3130007

15 years ago

60 upvotes – 91 comments

Can TTAGG Create Stock Market Alpha?

http://www.forbes.com/sites/petercohan/2011/10/18/can-ttagg-create-stock-market-alpha/

15 years ago

55 upvotes – 39 comments

Smartphones' accelerometer can track strokes on nearby keyboards

http://digitallounge.gatech.edu/digitallife/index.html?nid=71506

15 years ago

55 upvotes – 12 comments

The Agony and The Ecstasy of Steve Jobs

http://www.betabeat.com/2011/10/18/steve-jobs-sold-out-says-playwright-behind-powerful-drama-i-steve/

15 years ago

48 upvotes – 39 comments

Google confirms Nexus S will get Ice Cream Sandwich (Gingerbread devices too)

http://www.engadget.com/2011/10/19/google-confirms-nexus-s-will-get-ice-cream-sandwich-for-real/

15 years ago

48 upvotes – 15 comments
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