top 50% 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

Badass JS is back

http://badassjs.com/post/11867989702/badass-js-is-back-with-a-new-look-heres-a-little

15 years ago

130 upvotes – 5 comments

Assault by GC

http://marcgravell.blogspot.com/2011/10/assault-by-gc.html

15 years ago

129 upvotes – 68 comments

Announcing Testling - Automated Cross-Browser JavaScript Testing

http://www.catonmat.net/blog/announcing-testling/

15 years ago

125 upvotes – 28 comments

Solar PV rapidly becoming the cheapest option to generate electricity

http://www.grist.org/solar-power/2011-10-11-solar-pv-rapidly-becoming-cheapest-option-generate-electricity

15 years ago

125 upvotes – 102 comments

Slide Design for Developers

http://zachholman.com/posts/slide-design-for-developers/

15 years ago

121 upvotes – 16 comments

Let me see your Lisp implementation. Here's mine.

https://github.com/krig/LISP

15 years ago

★ 535 Odin MIT
120 upvotes – 50 comments

I hate cut-and-paste

http://jacquesmattheij.com/I+hate+cut-and-paste

15 years ago

120 upvotes – 66 comments

John McCarthy's proposal for the language of the future

http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/elephant.pdf

15 years ago

115 upvotes – 1 comments

Proposed law allows federal government to lie about public records' existence

http://www.propublica.org/article/government-could-hide-existence-of-records-under-foia-rule-proposal

15 years ago

115 upvotes – 20 comments

Elsevier's profits alone could fund all academic publications as open access

http://svpow.wordpress.com/2011/10/22/economics-of-open-source-publishing/

15 years ago

114 upvotes – 26 comments

Closed access means people die

http://blogs.ch.cam.ac.uk/pmr/2011/10/23/open-research-reports-what-jenny-and-i-said-and-why-i-am-angry/

15 years ago

105 upvotes – 17 comments

A Celebration of Steve Jobs' Life

http://events.apple.com.edgesuite.net/10oiuhfvojb23/event/index.html

15 years ago

97 upvotes – 29 comments

Apple upgrades MacBook Pro line with faster processors, gfx cards, more storage

http://thisismynext.com/2011/10/24/macbook-pro-specs-update-october-2011/

15 years ago

86 upvotes – 117 comments

Siri Co-Founder Quits Apple

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/10/24/siri-co-founder-quits-apple/

15 years ago

85 upvotes – 28 comments

Dalio, Biggest Hedge Fund Manager: "developed world has reached its debt limit"

http://nerdinvest.blogspot.com/2011/10/dalio-biggest-hedge-fund-manager.html

15 years ago

84 upvotes – 45 comments

In College, Working Hard to Learn High School Material

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/24/education/24winerip.html?_r=1&ref=education

15 years ago

75 upvotes – 41 comments

The Lisp Interpreter

http://books.google.com/books?id=68j6lEJjMQwC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA70#v=onepage&q&f=false

15 years ago

69 upvotes – 1 comments

Choosing the right sleep schedule to maximize time and keep you healthy

http://lemikegao.com/startup-sleep-setting-up-a-sleep-schedule-to-19349

15 years ago

69 upvotes – 28 comments

The Register accidentally emails 46,524 user details to 3,521 of them

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/10/24/email_blunder/

15 years ago

69 upvotes – 11 comments

List of Linux kernel names

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Linux_kernel_names

15 years ago

62 upvotes – 11 comments

Why Stack Exchange performs so well under incredible load

http://highscalability.com/blog/2011/10/24/stackexchange-architecture-updates-running-smoothly-amazon-4.html

15 years ago

60 upvotes – 6 comments

Announcing The jQuery Standards Team

http://blog.jquery.com/2011/10/24/announcing-the-jquery-standards-team/

15 years ago

60 upvotes – 15 comments

Dropbox: Startup Lessons Learned

http://www.slideshare.net/startuplessonslearned/dropbox-startup-lessons-learned-2011

15 years ago

60 upvotes – 6 comments
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