top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-11-09

Watch Me Make Mistakes

http://paulgraham.com/stypi.html

15 years ago

603 upvotes – 116 comments

Adobe ceases development on mobile browser Flash, refocuses efforts on HTML5

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/perlow/exclusive-adobe-ceases-development-on-mobile-browser-flash-refocuses-efforts-on-html5/19226

15 years ago

597 upvotes – 154 comments

The Social Graph is Neither

http://blog.pinboard.in/2011/11/the_social_graph_is_neither/

15 years ago

434 upvotes – 60 comments

SEO tricks from Patio11

http://melmiranda.com/post/12529167823/seo-tricks-from-patio11-aka-patrick-mckenzie

15 years ago

409 upvotes – 118 comments

"I've isolated the bug to a database query"

http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/The-Query-of-Despair.aspx

15 years ago

394 upvotes – 165 comments

Lesser Known Ways to Persuade People

http://conversionxl.com/17-lesser-known-ways-to-persuade-people/

15 years ago

310 upvotes – 66 comments

Swearing

http://zachholman.com/posts/swearing/

15 years ago

207 upvotes – 174 comments

Microsoft may halt development work on Silverlight plugin after next release

http://www.theverge.com/2011/11/9/2548975/microsoft-may-halt-development-work-on-silverlight-after-next-release

15 years ago

193 upvotes – 137 comments

Timsort

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

15 years ago

189 upvotes – 27 comments

Mozilla launched popcorn.js

http://blog.mozilla.com/blog/2011/11/05/popcorn-1-0-launch-and-world-premier-of-one-millionth-tower/

15 years ago

186 upvotes – 27 comments

Half of China's millionaires want to leave country

http://business.blogs.cnn.com/2011/11/01/report-half-of-chinas-rich-want-to-leave/

15 years ago

186 upvotes – 104 comments

10gen's response to MongoDB's slams

http://www.readwriteweb.com/cloud/2011/11/hacker-news-and-the-damage-don.php

15 years ago

121 upvotes – 30 comments

Google ate my email address

http://rondam.blogspot.com/2011/11/google-ate-my-email-address.html

15 years ago

121 upvotes – 33 comments

Offer HN: I will work for free this Thursday in San Francisco

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3216323

15 years ago

120 upvotes – 17 comments

Hacker News Instant

http://hninstant.org/

15 years ago

105 upvotes – 59 comments

Comcast begins IPV6 deployment

http://blog.comcast.com/2011/11/ipv6-deployment-technology.html

15 years ago

104 upvotes – 55 comments

Linus Torvalds creates G+ page for Linux release announcements

https://plus.google.com/109995262342451767357/posts

15 years ago

97 upvotes – 6 comments

Open letter to the Mac/iOS dev community regarding conduct

http://wildchocolate.tumblr.com/post/12555879965/a-letter-to-the-developer-community

15 years ago

95 upvotes – 117 comments

Show HN: Random Google Street View

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3215460

15 years ago

93 upvotes – 39 comments

Google scores most effective TV ad with Dear Sophie

http://tideart.com/?id=4ebaafd6

15 years ago

88 upvotes – 43 comments

Parse, The ‘Heroku For Mobile’, Raises $5.5 Million Series A

http://techcrunch.com/2011/11/09/parse-the-heroku-for-mobile-raises-5-5-million-series-a/

15 years ago

88 upvotes – 41 comments

Nvidia introduces Tegra 3 five-core CPU

http://tideart.com/?id=4eba193c

15 years ago

86 upvotes – 31 comments

What happened to "asking for help"?

http://www.alwinhoogerdijk.com/2011/11/09/what-happened-to-asking-for-help/

15 years ago

80 upvotes – 49 comments

Enterprisify your Java Class Names

http://projects.haykranen.nl/java/

15 years ago

80 upvotes – 42 comments

A two-year NoSQL case study: technologies, trade-offs, tips

http://www.dataversity.net/archives/6714?t=1320768580

15 years ago

78 upvotes – 11 comments

The mobile app is going the way of the CD-ROM: To the dustbin of history

http://venturebeat.com/2011/11/09/mobile-web/

15 years ago

78 upvotes – 80 comments

RIAA Admits It Wants DMCA Overhaul; Blames Judges For 'Wrong' Interpretation

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20111108/00352916675/riaa-admits-it-wants-dmca-overhaul-blames-judges-wrong-interpretation.shtml

15 years ago

74 upvotes – 14 comments

Alla Klein: a fake person in charge of customer support

http://code.dblock.org/alla-klein-a-fake-person-in-charge-of-customer-support

15 years ago

72 upvotes – 34 comments

Kindle Fire demand surpasses iPad ahead of launch, could be a threat

http://www.bgr.com/2011/11/09/kindle-fire-demand-surpasses-ipad-ahead-of-launch-could-be-a-threat/

15 years ago

71 upvotes – 50 comments

$19/month cell carrier Republic Wireless overwhelmed on release day

https://www.republicwireless.com/home/wow.html

15 years ago

71 upvotes – 61 comments

Big Data Is Useless Without Science

http://kaleidoscope.kontagent.com/2011/11/09/big-data-is-useless-without-science/

15 years ago

70 upvotes – 7 comments

Estimate how many slaves work for you based on your possessions and lifestyle.

http://slaveryfootprint.org/

15 years ago

69 upvotes – 52 comments

Flatironjs: an unobtrusive framework initiative for node.js

http://flatironjs.org/

15 years ago

69 upvotes – 25 comments

SendWrite launches API for physical mail

https://sendwrite.com/developer/

15 years ago

69 upvotes – 35 comments

NASA creates groundbreaking super black light absorbing material

http://www.geek.com/articles/geek-cetera/nasa-creates-groundbreaking-super-black-light-absorbing-material-2011119/

15 years ago

68 upvotes – 44 comments

Russians Desperately Try to Save Mars Moon Probe

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2011/11/09/world/europe/AP-EU-Russia-Mars-Moon-Mission.html?hp&pagewanted=all

15 years ago

65 upvotes – 38 comments

Use Angel List for customer development...and then raise money.

http://www.humbledmba.com/i-was-wrong-the-sooner-you-start-on-angel-lis

15 years ago

65 upvotes – 17 comments

FBI takes out $14M DNS malware operation

http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/fbi-takes-out-14m-dns-malware-operation

15 years ago

59 upvotes – 12 comments

Backbone on Rails: a ruby gem based on thoughtbot's 'Backbone.js on Rails'

https://github.com/meleyal/backbone-on-rails

15 years ago

★ 799 Ruby MIT
59 upvotes – 17 comments

Keep your job for five years, get $50,000

http://money.cnn.com/2011/11/08/smallbusiness/bonus/

15 years ago

58 upvotes – 62 comments

New AWS region: US West (Oregon)

http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2011/11/now-open-us-west-portland-region.html

15 years ago

58 upvotes – 23 comments

Barnes & Noble Urges U.S. to Probe Microsoft on Patents

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-11-08/barnes-noble-urges-u-s-regulators-to-probe-microsoft-on-mobile-patents.html

15 years ago

53 upvotes – 3 comments

Comprehend Systems (YC W11) Closes $1.2mm Seed Round

http://www.comprehend.com/comprehend-systems-secures-1-2mm-in-seed-funding/

15 years ago

52 upvotes – 13 comments
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