top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-10-21

Steve Yegge: Follow Up to His Accidentally Public Rant

https://plus.google.com/u/0/110981030061712822816/posts/AaygmbzVeRq

15 years ago

558 upvotes – 171 comments

printf("goodbye, Dennis");

http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2011/10/obituary-0?fsrc=nlw|newe|10-21-2011|new_on_the_economist

15 years ago

497 upvotes – 105 comments

Tangle is a JavaScript library for creating reactive documents.

http://worrydream.com/Tangle/

15 years ago

440 upvotes – 62 comments

Steve Jobs left designer Jony Ive more power than anyone at Apple

http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/11/10/21/steve_jobs_left_designer_jony_ive_more_power_than_anyone_at_apple.html

15 years ago

353 upvotes – 155 comments

Massive 15-year Study finds no link between cell phones, cancer

http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2011/10/massive-15-year-study-finds-no-link-between-cell-phones-cancer.ars

15 years ago

262 upvotes – 70 comments

The + operator has been replaced.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&biw=1280&bih=869&q=hacker+%2Bnews&oq=hacker+%2Bnews&aq=f&aqi=&aql=1&gs_sm=e&gs_upl=924l3214l0l3294l15l10l1l1l0l1l167l921l1.6l8l0

15 years ago

261 upvotes – 165 comments

The Dropbox API

http://blog.dropbox.com/?p=915

15 years ago

237 upvotes – 45 comments

Who You Are

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/21/opinion/brooks-who-you-are.html

15 years ago

187 upvotes – 34 comments

The Greatest Hacks of My Life

http://wesleytansey.com/the-10-greatest-hacks-of-my-life/

15 years ago

183 upvotes – 43 comments

Stanford Computer Science '10-'11 Salary Survey Results

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3141716

15 years ago

180 upvotes – 71 comments

Walking man animation using only CSS3

http://andrew-hoyer.com/experiments/walking/

15 years ago

175 upvotes – 32 comments

GitHub Secrets

https://github.com/blog/967-github-secrets

15 years ago

172 upvotes – 13 comments

If you can't remember why onions are in there, take 'em out.

http://garry.posterous.com/if-you-cant-remember-why-onions-are-in-there

15 years ago

151 upvotes – 59 comments

SICP in Python

http://www-inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cs61a/fa11/61a-python/content/www/index.html

15 years ago

149 upvotes – 49 comments

How the R-project is taking over statistical analysis software

https://sites.google.com/site/r4statistics/popularity

15 years ago

138 upvotes – 60 comments

Steve Jobs to Obama: “You’re headed for a one-term presidency”

http://9to5mac.com/2011/10/20/jobs-to-obama-youre-headed-for-a-one-term-presidency-because-the-us-cant-build-factories-and-us

15 years ago

137 upvotes – 121 comments

The Greatest Game You Will Ever Play

http://thegreatestgameyouwilleverplay.com

15 years ago

132 upvotes – 49 comments

Design mistakes in mixed C/C++ and Lua projects

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.lua.general/84483

15 years ago

127 upvotes – 28 comments

Duckhunt using HTML5 and Javascript

http://mattsurabian.com/duckhunt/

15 years ago

124 upvotes – 22 comments

Anyone with a smart cover can break into your iPad2

http://9to5mac.com/2011/10/20/anyone-with-a-smart-cover-can-break-into-your-ipad-2/

15 years ago

102 upvotes – 44 comments

Python library for symbolic mathematics

http://code.google.com/p/sympy/

15 years ago

90 upvotes – 10 comments

After the iPhone 4S, Android just feels wrong

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/mobile-news/after-the-iphone-4s-android-just-feels-wrong/5068

15 years ago

88 upvotes – 109 comments

BitTorrent Throttling Internet Providers Exposed

http://torrentfreak.com/bittorrent-throttling-internet-providers-exposed-111020/

15 years ago

87 upvotes – 35 comments

Monte Carlo profiling

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3045556/how-to-profile-my-code/3068045#3068045

15 years ago

86 upvotes – 19 comments

Image manipulation library for PHP 5.3

http://imagine.readthedocs.org

15 years ago

83 upvotes – 28 comments

OCZ's Octane SSD - 1TB in a Consumer Drive

http://www.anandtech.com/show/4995/oczs-octane-ssd-indilinx-everest-up-to-1tb-in-a-consumer-drive

15 years ago

75 upvotes – 14 comments

So you want to write JavaScript for a living?

http://www.nczonline.net/blog/2011/10/20/so-you-want-to-write-javascript-for-a-living-repost/

15 years ago

72 upvotes – 32 comments

Contribute to the Qt Project

http://qt-project.org/

15 years ago

72 upvotes – 14 comments

Apple Store App knows when you walk into an Apple Store

http://thenextweb.com/apple/2011/10/20/apple-makes-magic-happen-when-you-walk-into-its-store/

15 years ago

72 upvotes – 33 comments

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS to get extra-long desktop support cycle

http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2011/10/ubuntu-1204-lts-to-get-extra-long-desktop-support-cycle.ars

15 years ago

70 upvotes – 30 comments

Cardpool (YC W10) acquired by BlackHawk Network

http://www.cardpool.com/blog/2011/10/21/cardpool-has-been-acquired-by-blackhawk-network

15 years ago

69 upvotes – 13 comments

Steve Jobs: “I’m going to destroy Android, because it’s a stolen product.”

http://9to5mac.com/2011/10/20/steve-jobs-im-going-to-destroy-android-because-its-a-stolen-product-im-willing-to-go-thermonuclear-war-on-this/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+9To5Mac-MacAllDay+%289+to+5+Mac+-+Apple+Intelligence%29

15 years ago

65 upvotes – 112 comments

On cryptography and dogmas

http://antirez.com/post/crypto-dogmas.html

15 years ago

64 upvotes – 107 comments

RailwayJS MVC Framework for Node.js

http://railwayjs.com/#

15 years ago

61 upvotes – 15 comments

The Qt Project is live

http://labs.qt.nokia.com/2011/10/21/the-qt-project-is-live/

15 years ago

60 upvotes – 6 comments

Microsoft’s Augmented Reality 3D HoloDesk Lets You Play With Balls In Real Time

http://techcrunch.com/2011/10/21/microsofts-augmented-reality-3d-holodesk-lets-you-play-with-balls-in-real-time/

15 years ago

60 upvotes – 17 comments

Apple director says Steve Jobs told team not to ask "What would Steve do?"

http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/11/10/20/apple_board_member_says_steve_jobs_told_team_not_to_ask_what_would_steve_do.html

15 years ago

60 upvotes – 20 comments

America's Healthy Infatuation With Entrepreneurs

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2011/10/americas-healthy-infatuation-with-entrepreneurs/247153/#.TqGm_DT18w4.twitter

15 years ago

56 upvotes – 15 comments

Re-inventing Android : Ice Cream Sandwich

http://microreviews.org/re-inventing-android-ice-cream-sandwich/

15 years ago

55 upvotes – 31 comments

Location matters for your startup (with city comparisons)

http://scott-allison.net/2011/10/21/location-matters-for-your-startup/

15 years ago

55 upvotes – 49 comments

Why you Should Bury your Sign Up Button

http://bokardo.com/archives/why-you-should-bury-your-sign-up-button/

15 years ago

55 upvotes – 28 comments

Deep inside ARM's new Intel killer

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/10/20/details_on_big_little_processing/

15 years ago

54 upvotes – 42 comments

Little Wars

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/3691/3691-h/3691-h.htm

15 years ago

53 upvotes – 14 comments

The bursting of the Bitcoin bubble

http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2011/10/virtual-currencies?fsrc=scn/fb/wl/bl/bitcoin

15 years ago

51 upvotes – 36 comments

Groupon Sets Nov. 4 IPO - $11.4B

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204618704576644632834963512.html

15 years ago

50 upvotes – 51 comments

Unity is the end of Ubuntu

http://www.jemmatzan.com/2011/10/unity-is-the-end-of-ubuntu.html

15 years ago

49 upvotes – 113 comments

Making Seattle my home

http://matt-welsh.blogspot.com/2011/07/making-seattle-my-home.html

15 years ago

47 upvotes – 51 comments

Rocketcharts, Open-source HTML5 Financial/Statistical Charts

http://blog.chasegale.com/introducing-rocketcharts-open-source-html5-financialstatistical-charts/

15 years ago

46 upvotes – 2 comments
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