top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-10-28

My dad taught me cashflow with a soda machine

http://blog.thestartuptoolkit.com/2011/10/my-dad-taught-me-cashflow-with-a-soda-machine/

15 years ago

1060 upvotes – 101 comments

Hacker News Needs Honeypots

http://www.nashcoding.com/2011/10/28/hackernews-needs-honeypots/

15 years ago

450 upvotes – 150 comments

Why Is This Cargo Container Emitting So Much Radiation?

http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/10/ff_radioactivecargo/all/1

15 years ago

419 upvotes – 119 comments

Why I take sketch breaks instead of surfing the Internet

http://blog.glenelkins.com/why-i-take-sketch-breaks-instead-of-internet-surfing/

15 years ago

234 upvotes – 73 comments

Mass-scale Cold Fusion either becomes reality or proved a scam today

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2011-10/28/cold-fusion

15 years ago

230 upvotes – 138 comments

Arrington, Race, and Silicon Valley

http://whydoeseverythingsuck.com/2011/10/arrington-race-and-silicon-valley-i.html

15 years ago

212 upvotes – 121 comments

How I Quickly Test and Validate Startup Ideas

http://startupbound.com/how-i-quickly-test-and-validate-startup-ideas/

15 years ago

205 upvotes – 75 comments

40 Hour Work Weeks Suck

http://blog.regehr.org/archives/619?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+EmbeddedInAcademia+%28Embedded+in+Academia%29&utm_content=Google+Reader

15 years ago

184 upvotes – 62 comments

On Stack Overflow's recent battles with the .NET Garbage Collector

http://samsaffron.com/archive/2011/10/28/in-managed-code-we-trust-our-recent-battles-with-the-net-garbage-collector

15 years ago

183 upvotes – 72 comments

Gates to students: Don’t try to be a billionaire, it’s overrated

http://www.geekwire.com/2011/gates-tells-uw-students-billionaire-overrated

15 years ago

183 upvotes – 124 comments

Ask HN: Is brogrammer a sexist term?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3168038

15 years ago

177 upvotes – 201 comments

Everything I Ever Learned About JVM Performance Tuning At Twitter

http://www.slideshare.net/aszegedi/everything-i-ever-learned-about-jvm-performance-tuning-twitter

15 years ago

146 upvotes – 66 comments

Body hacking trick: cooling the hands for better performance

http://www.stanfordalumni.org/news/magazine/2005/julaug/features/cool.html

15 years ago

144 upvotes – 47 comments

A JavaScript H.264 decoder

https://github.com/mbebenita/Broadway

15 years ago

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142 upvotes – 41 comments

The implications of UEFI "Secure Boot" for Linux users

http://blog.canonical.com/2011/10/28/white-paper-secure-boot-impact-on-linux/

15 years ago

132 upvotes – 45 comments

Samsung Overtakes Apple as World’s Biggest Smartphone Seller

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-10-28/samsung-overtakes-apple-as-world-s-biggest-smartphone-seller.html

15 years ago

129 upvotes – 91 comments

Codecademy (YC S11) Raises $2.5 Million To Teach You How To Code

http://techcrunch.com/2011/10/27/codecademy-raises-2-5-million-to-teach-you-how-to-code/

15 years ago

128 upvotes – 39 comments

Apple's iTV: Apps Are the New Channels

http://daringfireball.net/2011/10/apps_are_the_new_channels

15 years ago

113 upvotes – 92 comments

The iPhone 4S Has Been Jailbroken

http://www.iclarified.com/entry/index.php?enid=17645

15 years ago

106 upvotes – 106 comments

Tesla’s Musk Says Model S Sold Out; Should Turn Profit in 2013

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-10-28/tesla-s-musk-says-model-s-sold-out-should-turn-profit-in-2013.html

15 years ago

104 upvotes – 66 comments

Your FAQ could be answering 40% of support requests and save you 8 hrs/mo

http://blog.uservoice.com/entries/40-percent-of-your-customer-service-emails-could-be-answered-by-FAQ

15 years ago

101 upvotes – 34 comments

Skype Goes After Reverse-Engineering

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTAwNzI

15 years ago

90 upvotes – 25 comments

Grab your own images from NOAA weather satellites

http://hackaday.com/2011/10/20/grab-your-own-images-from-noaa-weather-satellites/

15 years ago

89 upvotes – 9 comments

Why I’m Kissing Spotify Goodbye

http://nerdgap.com/why-im-kissing-spotify-goodbye/

15 years ago

84 upvotes – 108 comments

Build a Simple Twilio Customer Support Line in 10 minutes

https://moocode.com/posts/7-build-a-simple-twilio-customer-support-line-in-10-minutes

15 years ago

81 upvotes – 2 comments

2D Game Art for Programmers: Part 3

http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/ChrisHildenbrand/20111027/8713/2D_Game_Art_For_Programmers__Part_3.php

15 years ago

76 upvotes – 12 comments

Ridejoy (YC S11): Make Some Dough On Your Next Roadtrip

http://techcrunch.com/2011/10/28/yc-funded-ridejoy-hitch-a-ride-on-the-cheap-or-make-some-dough-on-your-next-roadtrip/

15 years ago

74 upvotes – 44 comments

Brain-like, massively parallel computer made from organic molecules

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/102187-scientists-create-brain-like-massively-parallel-computer-from-molecules?1

15 years ago

74 upvotes – 19 comments

Do It Now

http://www.stevepavlina.com/articles/do-it-now.htm

15 years ago

71 upvotes – 39 comments

Copyright troll Righthaven ordered to pay $120k in attorney fees

http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2011/oct/26/righthaven-ordered-pay-nearly-120000/

15 years ago

71 upvotes – 6 comments

Show HN: iPad RSS Reader App I spent 7 months on

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/read/id448477454?ls=1&mt=8

15 years ago

69 upvotes – 29 comments

Oh Shit, I’m A Racist

http://uncrunched.com/2011/10/28/oh-shit-im-a-racist/

15 years ago

58 upvotes – 12 comments

Solo founder or small team? Fix your life with a real-life non-virtual assistant

http://blog.thestartuptoolkit.com/2011/10/small-team-fix-your-life-with-a-non-virtual-assistant/

15 years ago

57 upvotes – 8 comments

Javascript Hero: Change Computer History Forever

http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/3375

15 years ago

56 upvotes – 24 comments

How Visa Protects Your Data

http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/160/visa-secret-security-center

15 years ago

56 upvotes – 20 comments

Measuring monthly actives on a site, and whether you count the signup visit

http://www.richardprice.io/post/8845463442/measuring-monthly-actives-on-a-social-site-and-whether

15 years ago

55 upvotes – 5 comments

Bill Gates tells students being a billionaire is "quite strange"

http://www.xconomy.com/seattle/2011/10/27/bill-gates-uw/

15 years ago

52 upvotes – 24 comments
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