top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-10-23

How to hire an idiot

http://nukemanbill.blogspot.com/2008_07_01_archive.html

15 years ago

407 upvotes – 179 comments

Facebook privacy fuckup reveals who has your number in their phone

http://www.alexmuir.com/2011/10/facebook-reveals-who-has-your-number-in-their-phone/

15 years ago

262 upvotes – 117 comments

Lamer News

http://lamernews.com/news/1

15 years ago

229 upvotes – 126 comments

The Food Bubble (2010)

http://theglobalrealm.com/2011/02/04/the-food-bubble-how-wall-street-starved-millions-and-got-away-with-it/

15 years ago

204 upvotes – 121 comments

It’s Not China; It’s Efficiency That Is Killing Our Jobs

http://dyske.com/paper/945

15 years ago

195 upvotes – 195 comments

The Volkswagen Group is using IE6 as standard for displaying web pages

http://www.vwgroupsupply.com/b2b/vwb2b_folder/supply2public/en/die_plattform/sicherheit_und_technik.html

15 years ago

179 upvotes – 89 comments

FaceCash Files Formal Complaints Against Stanford, USC, Pomona, and AAU

http://www.aarongreenspan.com/writing/brown.html

15 years ago

158 upvotes – 99 comments

The Coding Zone

http://paulstamatiou.com/coding-zone

15 years ago

157 upvotes – 65 comments

My Obsession with Chess

http://www.scottmccloud.com/1-webcomics/chess/chess-one/chess-one.html

15 years ago

156 upvotes – 29 comments

Expired patent of the day: Lego

http://boingboing.net/2011/10/21/expired-patent-of-the-day-lego.html

15 years ago

147 upvotes – 27 comments

Reality of budget VPS services

http://www.justkez.com/reality-of-budget-vps/

15 years ago

145 upvotes – 66 comments

Google's Introduction to Parallel Programming and MapReduce

http://code.google.com/edu/parallel/mapreduce-tutorial.html

15 years ago

136 upvotes – 26 comments

PUT vs POST in REST

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/630453/put-vs-post-in-rest

15 years ago

127 upvotes – 23 comments

Quicksilver Roars (new features, Lion support)

http://lovequicksilver.com/post/11814325098/quicksilver-roars

15 years ago

104 upvotes – 20 comments

Git for Computer Scientists

http://eagain.net/articles/git-for-computer-scientists/

15 years ago

103 upvotes – 15 comments

Add An External GPU To Your Laptop

http://forum.notebookreview.com/gaming-software-graphics-cards/418851-diy-egpu-experiences.html

15 years ago

99 upvotes – 9 comments

Show HN: Tubalr.com, taking advantage of all the great music content on YouTube.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3146182

15 years ago

98 upvotes – 79 comments

FreeBSD 9.0-RC1 Available...

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2011-October/064321.html

15 years ago

92 upvotes – 42 comments

Knitting machine from the 80s hacked to "print" digital images

http://andrewsalomone.com/blog/2011/09/27/recursive-cosby-sweater/

15 years ago

90 upvotes – 7 comments

How to Seem (and Be) Deep

http://lesswrong.com/lw/k8/how_to_seem_and_be_deep/

15 years ago

88 upvotes – 21 comments

Finally, a Markdown editor for Windows

http://markdownpad.com/index.html

15 years ago

79 upvotes – 38 comments

Designers need engineers

http://stdout.be/2011/10/23/designers-need-engineers/

15 years ago

75 upvotes – 18 comments

NewsBlur (hosted feed reader)

http://www.newsblur.com/

15 years ago

70 upvotes – 25 comments

“The Mythical Man Month” is still a good read

http://www.win-vector.com/blog/2011/10/the-mythical-man-month-is-still-a-good-read/

15 years ago

63 upvotes – 21 comments

Show HN: Bookmarklet to Visualize Hacker News Polls

http://blog.eike.se/2011/10/bookmarklet-to-visualize-hacker-news.html

15 years ago

58 upvotes – 9 comments

Introducing Ixoth, Siri's little helper. Webhooks for Siri

http://ixoth.com

15 years ago

53 upvotes – 9 comments

Spreedly doubles pricing.

http://henrydillon.com/post/11765998401/spreedly-doubles-their-pricing-and-then-some

15 years ago

53 upvotes – 37 comments

A Silicon Valley School That Doesn’t Compute

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/23/technology/at-waldorf-school-in-silicon-valley-technology-can-wait.html?hpw

15 years ago

45 upvotes – 40 comments

UX Week 2011 - Videos

http://uxweek.com/2011/videos/

15 years ago

45 upvotes – 5 comments
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