top 20 hacker news stories for 2011-10-24

John McCarthy Has Died

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McCarthy_(computer_scientist)

15 years ago

1619 upvotes – 218 comments

Amit Gupta needs you

http://amitguptaneedsyou.com/

15 years ago

886 upvotes – 143 comments

Give this company a child's drawing and they'll make it into a stuffed toy

http://www.childsown.com/

15 years ago

536 upvotes – 76 comments

Jeff Atwood On Parenthood

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2011/10/on-parenthood.html

15 years ago

334 upvotes – 165 comments

Using an LCD’s poor viewing angle to your advantage

http://chrisharrison.net/index.php/Research/ObliqueLCD

15 years ago

308 upvotes – 28 comments

The Roots of Lisp

http://www.paulgraham.com/rootsoflisp.html

15 years ago

296 upvotes – 56 comments

Ixoth

http://ixoth.com/

15 years ago

242 upvotes – 43 comments

John McCarthy: The Robot and the Baby

http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/robotandbaby/robotandbaby.html

15 years ago

234 upvotes – 9 comments

What I learned from raising venture capital

http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/2011/10/what-i-learned-from-raising-venture-capital.html

15 years ago

211 upvotes – 30 comments

Netflix loses 800,000 subscribers (stock drops 28%)

http://money.cnn.com/2011/10/24/technology/netflix_earnings/

15 years ago

199 upvotes – 186 comments

Wikileaks Is Running Out Of Cash

http://techcrunch.com/2011/10/24/wikleaks-is-running-out-of-cash/

15 years ago

179 upvotes – 126 comments

Economics in One Lesson

http://steshaw.org/economics-in-one-lesson/

15 years ago

175 upvotes – 86 comments

The Economics of Bike Lanes

http://economicsintelligence.com/2011/03/11/the-economics-of-bike-lanes-%E2%80%93-how-can-john-cassidy-get-it-so-wrong/

15 years ago

171 upvotes – 193 comments

Adding a picture of me to your site will improve conversions by 788%

http://blog.thestartuptoolkit.com/2011/10/adding-a-picture-of-me-to-your-site-will-improve-conversions-by-788/

15 years ago

168 upvotes – 34 comments

Recursive Functions of Symbolic Expressions and Their Computation by Machine

http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/recursive.html

15 years ago

165 upvotes – 4 comments

It's Never Really About Dropping Out

http://www.ihany.com/2011/10/its-never-really-about-dropping-out/

15 years ago

155 upvotes – 68 comments

GoodData threatens our student startup with lawsuit

http://www.start2cloud.com/the-$28-5-million-backed-company-gooddata-threatens-our-student-startup-start2cloud-com-with-lawsuit.aspx

15 years ago

152 upvotes – 38 comments

The Full Walter Isaacson/Steve Jobs Interview From 60 Minutes

http://www.macrumors.com/2011/10/23/the-full-walter-isaacsonsteve-jobs-interview-from-60-minutes/

15 years ago

147 upvotes – 62 comments

Guy Steele Interviews John McCarthy, Father of Lisp (2009)

http://www.infoq.com/news/2009/04/Steele-Interviews-John-McCarthy

15 years ago

132 upvotes – 3 comments

Perl is no more accurate than randomly-generated language

http://www.neverworkintheory.org/?p=197

15 years ago

131 upvotes – 53 comments
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