top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-10-20

List.js

http://listjs.com/

15 years ago

441 upvotes – 83 comments

Jwz: Google's pseudonym support "obvious bullshit"

http://www.jwz.org/blog/2011/10/eff-declares-premature-victory-in-nymwars/

15 years ago

438 upvotes – 168 comments

New HTTP Codes

https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-nottingham-http-new-status-02

15 years ago

360 upvotes – 80 comments

Rich Hickey: "Simple Made Easy" from Strange Loop 2011 [video]

http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy

15 years ago

356 upvotes – 99 comments

Starting is easy. Finishing is hard. Finish something at Finish Weekend.

http://finishweekend.com/

15 years ago

315 upvotes – 69 comments

2D Game Art for Programmers

http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/ChrisHildenbrand/20111019/8692/2D_Game_Art_For_Programmers__Part_2.php

15 years ago

282 upvotes – 38 comments

What If We Paid Off The Debt? The Secret Government Report

http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2011/10/20/141510617/what-if-we-paid-off-the-debt-the-secret-government-report?ft=1&f=93559255

15 years ago

237 upvotes – 220 comments

TechStars, Lies & Videotape

http://melanie.io/?p=258

15 years ago

234 upvotes – 100 comments

The coffeeshop fallacy

http://thestartuptoolkit.com/blog/The_coffeeshop_fallacy/

15 years ago

233 upvotes – 96 comments

DuckDuckGo included in Opera

http://duck.co/topic/duckduckgo-in-opera

15 years ago

189 upvotes – 44 comments

Animate.css - a bunch of plug-and-play CSS animations

https://github.com/daneden/animate.css

15 years ago

★ 82.5k CSS
166 upvotes – 28 comments

Amateur rocket launch reaches 121,000 feet

http://ddeville.com/derek/Qu8k.html

15 years ago

165 upvotes – 54 comments

65k Open TCP Ports

http://open.zorinaq.com/about/

15 years ago

164 upvotes – 27 comments

Brin on Yegge's post: "I stopped reading it after the first 1,000 pages"

http://news.cnet.com/8301-19882_3-20122701-250/sergey-brin-i-was-wrong-about-google

15 years ago

161 upvotes – 146 comments

The Styrofoam Cube In This Letter Serves A Bureaucratic Purpose

http://consumerist.com/2011/10/the-styrofoam-cube-in-this-letter-serves-a-bureaucratic-purpose.html

15 years ago

158 upvotes – 44 comments

CNN, NYTimes, Mashable all vulnerable to XSS

http://davidlynch.org/blog/2011/10/xss-is-fun/

15 years ago

154 upvotes – 68 comments

Immigrant entrepreneur arrested to meet quotas

http://www.tenthcave.com/2011/10/plea-for-help.html

15 years ago

151 upvotes – 174 comments

An HN style social news site written in Ruby/Sinatra/Redis/JQuery by Antirez

https://github.com/antirez/lamernews

15 years ago

★ 1.3k Ruby
145 upvotes – 57 comments

Google Reader cutting internal social features, integrating into Google+

http://googlereader.blogspot.com/2011/10/upcoming-changes-to-reader-new-look-new.html

15 years ago

140 upvotes – 101 comments

Biographer: Jobs refused early and potentially life-saving surgery

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/10/20/60minutes/main20123269.shtml

15 years ago

126 upvotes – 108 comments

I Hate My Smartphone

http://rs.io/2011/10/19/i-hate-my-smartphone.html

15 years ago

120 upvotes – 121 comments

Foundation: HTML/CSS boilerplate that responds to changing screen dimensions

http://foundation.zurb.com/

15 years ago

118 upvotes – 22 comments

Buy a home, get a US visa, Senators propose

http://bottomline.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/10/20/8413642-buy-a-home-get-a-us-visa-senators-propose

15 years ago

107 upvotes – 119 comments

Kurzweil's rebuttal to Paul Allen

http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/guest/27263/?p1=blogs

15 years ago

102 upvotes – 121 comments

Real world Clojure

http://tech.puredanger.com/2011/10/20/real-world-clojure/

15 years ago

97 upvotes – 34 comments

Kindle Format 8: Announcing HTML5 Support in Kindle Format 8

http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?docId=1000729511

15 years ago

96 upvotes – 34 comments

Qaddafi Is Dead, Libyan Officials Say

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/21/world/africa/libyan-fighters-say-qaddafi-stronghold-has-fallen.html?_r=1&hp

15 years ago

95 upvotes – 88 comments

Google confirms Android 4.0 ICS is open source

http://www.thinq.co.uk/2011/10/20/google-confirms-android-40-ics-open-source/

15 years ago

93 upvotes – 79 comments

Steve Jobs Worked on Apple Until His Last Day

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2394927,00.asp#fbid=STqWIhLQlPv

15 years ago

90 upvotes – 56 comments

The case for piracy

http://www.abc.net.au/technology/articles/2011/10/20/3344351.htm

15 years ago

88 upvotes – 60 comments

David Pogue: Dropbox Will Simplify Your Life

http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/20/dropbox-will-simplify-your-life/?src=twr

15 years ago

86 upvotes – 56 comments

Postme.me - idea to sales in 3 days

http://swizec.com/blog/postme-me-idea-to-sales-in-3-days/swizec/2690

15 years ago

84 upvotes – 17 comments

How Two Teenagers Broke In To Silicon Valley - And The Music Industry

http://forbes.com/sites/tomiogeron/2011/10/19/how-two-teenagers-broke-in-to-silicon-valley-and-the-music-industry/

15 years ago

82 upvotes – 28 comments

Ask HN: Open-source alternatives of Gmail?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3134363

15 years ago

75 upvotes – 52 comments

Ordasity: Building Stateful Clustered Services on the JVM

http://blog.boundary.com/2011/10/20/Ordasity-Building-Stateful-Clustered-Services-on-the-JVM.html

15 years ago

72 upvotes – 18 comments

The HTML5 Development Reading List

http://www.popstardefense.com/blog/js-development-reading-list

15 years ago

66 upvotes – 3 comments

50% of All Workers Made Less than $26,000 in 2010

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2011/10/50-of-all-workers-made-less-than-26-000-in-2010/247059/

15 years ago

66 upvotes – 98 comments

Ask HN: Can I Help You with Anything?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3137573

15 years ago

65 upvotes – 39 comments

What I Learned From Launching on HN

http://blog.sidwyn.com/post/11696185581/what-i-learned-from-launching-on-hn

15 years ago

59 upvotes – 17 comments

My Heroes

http://www.jacquesmattheij.com/My+Heroes

15 years ago

59 upvotes – 25 comments

Send Youtube videos to your Dropbox folder

http://samrat.github.com/blog/videodropper.html

15 years ago

52 upvotes – 22 comments

Up and Running with Clojure

http://blog.carbonfive.com/2011/10/20/up-and-running-with-clojure/

15 years ago

52 upvotes – 18 comments
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