top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-10-31

Dave Winer: Why I stand up for Stallman

http://scripting.com/stories/2011/10/31/whyIStandUpForStallman.html

15 years ago

423 upvotes – 259 comments

How One Missing `var` Ruined our Launch

http://blog.meloncard.com/post/12175941935/how-one-missing-var-ruined-our-launch

15 years ago

317 upvotes – 209 comments

Steve Jobs' memo to startups

http://omis.me/2011/10/31/steve-jobs-memo-to-startups/

15 years ago

308 upvotes – 126 comments

The Book That Every Programmer Should Read

http://onlinehut.org/2011/10/the-book-that-every-programmer-should-read/

15 years ago

247 upvotes – 70 comments

I also stand up for Stallman

http://raganwald.posterous.com/i-also-stand-up-for-stallman

15 years ago

191 upvotes – 59 comments

Why Palantir Makes My Head Hurt

http://kellblog.com/2011/06/27/why-palantir-makes-my-head-hurt/

15 years ago

180 upvotes – 18 comments

The (logarithmic) calendar I want

http://abstractfactory.blogspot.com/2011/01/logarithmic-calendar-i-want.html

15 years ago

173 upvotes – 33 comments

Do Not Start A Startup: Or, What I Learned At Startup School 2011

http://andybrett.com/startup-school-2011

15 years ago

167 upvotes – 40 comments

Slider.js: Slideshows with jQuery, CSS Transitions and Canvas

http://greweb.fr/slider/

15 years ago

160 upvotes – 17 comments

The ¬NED pin goes low on detection of a nuclear detonation [pdf]

http://www.maxwell.com/products/microelectronics/docs/HSN1000_REV3.PDF

15 years ago

146 upvotes – 77 comments

New in Reader: a fresh design, and Google+ sharing

http://googlereader.blogspot.com/2011/10/new-in-reader-fresh-design-and-google.html

15 years ago

138 upvotes – 122 comments

Good books for hackers interested in quant finance?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3177815

15 years ago

137 upvotes – 59 comments

Ruby is beautiful (but I'm moving to Python)

http://wit.io/posts/ruby-is-beautiful-but-im-moving-to-python

15 years ago

122 upvotes – 64 comments

Running a Startup on Haskell

http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Running-a-Startup-on-Haskell

15 years ago

121 upvotes – 37 comments

EA's Origin may be glorified spyware, causes mass upset

http://www.destructoid.com/ea-s-origin-may-be-glorified-spyware-causes-mass-upset-209745.phtml

15 years ago

115 upvotes – 63 comments

People paid us $10,000 last week to learn how to program. Lessons learned...

http://niroka.posterous.com/people-paid-us-10000-last-week-to-learn-how-t

15 years ago

114 upvotes – 39 comments

SimpleGeo To Be Acquired By Urban Airship

http://uncrunched.com/2011/10/31/simplegeo-to-be-acquired-by-urban-airship/

15 years ago

110 upvotes – 43 comments

The Demon Machine

http://blog.jgc.org/2011/10/demon-machine.html

15 years ago

101 upvotes – 11 comments

The right to dual-boot: Linux groups plead case prior to Windows 8 launch

http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2011/10/the-right-to-dual-boot-linux-groups-plead-case-prior-to-windows-8-launch.ars

15 years ago

92 upvotes – 62 comments

Stuff Harvard people Like

http://blog.echen.me/tag/mit/

15 years ago

87 upvotes – 10 comments

Chart.io (YC S10) raises 3.2 million Series A

http://techcrunch.com/2011/10/31/the-google-analytics-for-business-data-chart-io-raises-3-2-million/

15 years ago

86 upvotes – 16 comments

We have a real-time API and we're not afraid to use it. Are you?

http://ducksboard.com/hackathon/

15 years ago

84 upvotes – 34 comments

Sweet n' Salty Capacitor

http://www.emilydaniels.com/2011/10/sweet-n-salty-capacitor/

15 years ago

80 upvotes – 7 comments

MongoDB rocks my world

http://blog.pythonisito.com/2011/10/mongodb-rocks-my-world.html

15 years ago

77 upvotes – 34 comments

The Humble Voxatron Debut

http://www.humblebundle.com/#voxatron

15 years ago

75 upvotes – 39 comments

How to Rock a Systems Design Interview

http://blog.palantir.com/2011/10/28/how-to-rock-a-systems-design-interview/

15 years ago

75 upvotes – 18 comments

How To Build A Site That Looks Great On Every Screen

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/how_to_build_a_site_that_looks_great_on_every_scre.php

15 years ago

63 upvotes – 19 comments

The China Startup Report

http://slidesha.re/ucUsGq

15 years ago

62 upvotes – 23 comments

NYC isn't catching the Valley anytime soon: Reflections on Startup School

http://blog.tutorspree.com/post/12165674875/nyc-isnt-silicon-valley

15 years ago

61 upvotes – 64 comments

The FSF is papering over a binary blob

http://lwn.net/Articles/460654/

15 years ago

60 upvotes – 45 comments

Using Video to lift landing page conversion [Case Study]

http://unbounce.com/conversion-rate-optimization/case-study-using-video-to-lift-landing-page-conversion-rate-by-100/

15 years ago

60 upvotes – 9 comments

Term Sheet Negotiation Tells

http://permanentrecord.firstround.com/2011/10/31/term-sheet-negotiation-tells/

15 years ago

59 upvotes – 14 comments

Nodejs and MongoDB, A Beginner's Approach

http://blog.ksetyadi.com/2011/10/nodejs-and-mongodb-a-beginners-approach/

15 years ago

59 upvotes – 33 comments

Aligning your Git logs

http://pyrtsa.posterous.com/aligning-your-git-logs

15 years ago

56 upvotes – 8 comments

The Graphing Calculator Story

http://www.pacifict.com/Story/

15 years ago

56 upvotes – 8 comments

Beaglebone: new version of BeagleBoard

http://beagleboard.org/bone

15 years ago

55 upvotes – 9 comments

Announce Day - YC W12 Applicants Chat on Wompt

http://wompt.com/chat/yc#

15 years ago

54 upvotes – 10 comments

Show HN: Startup Tools (and who actually uses them)

http://b2brev.com/business-tools/

15 years ago

54 upvotes – 18 comments

Visualizing how a population grows to 7 billion.

http://www.npr.org/2011/10/31/141816460/visualizing-how-a-population-grows-to-7-billion

15 years ago

51 upvotes – 14 comments

A Screencast On Refactoring JavaScript

http://watchmecode.net/refactoring-javascript

15 years ago

50 upvotes – 26 comments

How to get a Knuth cheque

http://kevinlawler.com/knuth

15 years ago

48 upvotes – 8 comments

Bootstrapping - the secret work week

http://onepix.me/blogs/6-Bootstrapping-the-secret-work-week

15 years ago

47 upvotes – 40 comments

When passwords attack: the problem with aggressive password policies

http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2011/10/when-passwords-attack-the-problem-with-aggressive-password-policies.ars

15 years ago

45 upvotes – 25 comments

How the new Chrome Web Store increased signups by 1000%

http://blog.handcraft.com/2011/10/how-the-new-chrome-web-store-increased-signups-to-handcraft-by-1000/

15 years ago

44 upvotes – 9 comments

Driving, and the art of running a business

http://swombat.com/2011/10/31/art-of-running-a-business

15 years ago

44 upvotes – 6 comments

Startup School notes

http://dylanv.org/2011/10/30/startup-school-notes/

15 years ago

44 upvotes – 5 comments

Dart Editor

http://www.dartlang.org/docs/getting-started/editor/index-linux.html

15 years ago

43 upvotes – 11 comments

Paper on Ni-H Fusion by Focardi

http://www.lenr-canr.org/acrobat/FocardiSlargeexces.pdf

15 years ago

42 upvotes – 27 comments

Did Y Combinator send out the acceptance/ rejection emails yet?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3179780

15 years ago

41 upvotes – 69 comments
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