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

In defense of the Google chef

http://rondam.blogspot.com/2011/11/in-defense-of-google-chef.html

15 years ago

994 upvotes – 188 comments

If You’re Busy, You’re Doing Something Wrong

http://calnewport.com/blog/2011/11/11/if-youre-busy-youre-doing-something-wrong-the-surprisingly-relaxed-lives-of-elite-achievers/

15 years ago

259 upvotes – 55 comments

Why Gmail's new design is unsuitable for heavy use

http://www.readwriteweb.com/cloud/2011/11/5-problems-with-gmails-new-des.php

15 years ago

253 upvotes – 132 comments

Linux Mint: The new Ubuntu?

http://www.extremetech.com/computing/104581-linux-mint-the-new-ubuntu

15 years ago

238 upvotes – 186 comments

Google Engineer: What I learned in the war

http://postcards.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2011/11/11/google-engineer-war/

15 years ago

232 upvotes – 73 comments

Father's homemade machine helps disabled son to walk (video)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-15695991

15 years ago

224 upvotes – 44 comments

Machine Vision made Easy - SimpleCV

http://www.simplecv.org/

15 years ago

221 upvotes – 43 comments

EMI music is sold to Universal. We're down to three major labels.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-15697973

15 years ago

212 upvotes – 113 comments

Shapecatcher - draw the unicode character you want

http://shapecatcher.com/

15 years ago

210 upvotes – 63 comments

10x XSS on apple.com

http://www.nilsjuenemann.de/2011/11/applecom-xss-gallery.html

15 years ago

172 upvotes – 51 comments

"I would dial the 300 baud dial-up number, and scream the carrier tone."

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2011/11/11/10235970.aspx

15 years ago

166 upvotes – 69 comments

Instagram Engineering Challenge: The Unshredder

http://instagram-engineering.tumblr.com/post/12651721845/instagram-engineering-challenge-the-unshredder

15 years ago

156 upvotes – 66 comments

Fakecall: helping polite introverts stay productive

http://www.fakecall.net/

15 years ago

142 upvotes – 56 comments

Vertical vs. grid product listings - a surprising AB test

http://westiseast.co.uk/blog/product-listing-ab-test-results/

15 years ago

131 upvotes – 57 comments

YC Interview Advice From a Guy Who Got An Interview and Didn’t Get Accepted

https://plus.google.com/u/0/117964673266913360417/posts/FyFtW4FqpaB

15 years ago

125 upvotes – 21 comments

Technologies often called part of HTML5 that aren't

https://developer.mozilla.org/en/HTML/HTML5#Technologies_often_called_part_of_HTML5_that_aren%27t

15 years ago

121 upvotes – 35 comments

All Programming is Web Programming

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2009/08/all-programming-is-web-programming.html

15 years ago

115 upvotes – 36 comments

Online services our startup subscribes to

http://ye.gg/subscribe2

15 years ago

111 upvotes – 29 comments

The Go Programming Language turns two

http://blog.golang.org/2011/11/go-programming-language-turns-two.html

15 years ago

109 upvotes – 25 comments

NYTimes November 11, 1911

http://timesmachine.nytimes.com/browser/1911/11/11/P1

15 years ago

104 upvotes – 44 comments

Redditor finds list of 47k email addresses with passwords

http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/m8uuc/reddit_i_just_came_across_a_list_of_about_47k/

15 years ago

103 upvotes – 27 comments

Our Pointless Pursuit Of Semantic Value

http://coding.smashingmagazine.com/2011/11/11/our-pointless-pursuit-of-semantic-value/

15 years ago

92 upvotes – 26 comments

Sonnet for Dennis Ritchie

http://www.edmundjorgensen.com/2011/11/09/sonnet-for-dennis-ritchie.html

15 years ago

87 upvotes – 17 comments

The Real Pirates Of Silicon Valley?

http://techcrunch.com/2011/11/10/the-real-pirates-of-silicon-valley/

15 years ago

81 upvotes – 27 comments

Scaling Erlang to run on machines with hundreds of thousands of cores

http://www.erlang-solutions.com/news/1/entry/1277

15 years ago

75 upvotes – 23 comments

Creating Languages in Racket: Sometimes you just have to make a better mousetrap

http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2068896

15 years ago

74 upvotes – 8 comments

Developer: “Losing Control of Our Destiny to Apple”

http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/developer_losing_control_of_our_destiny_to_apple/

15 years ago

69 upvotes – 31 comments

BicaVM: A JVM in JavaScript

https://github.com/nurv/BicaVM

15 years ago

★ 583 Python GPL-3.0
66 upvotes – 25 comments

Demo Days compared: Seattle TechStars VS San Francisco AngelPad

http://blog.shopobot.com/demo-days-compared-seattle-techstars-vs-san-f

15 years ago

59 upvotes – 14 comments

In Defense Of The Stylus

http://techcrunch.com/2011/11/11/in-defense-of-the-stylus/

15 years ago

55 upvotes – 30 comments

Offer HN: I'll work on interesting projects for free

http://goshakkk.name/dev-freebie.html

15 years ago

55 upvotes – 45 comments

Logitech CEO: Google TV a 'gigantic mistake'

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/11/11/logitech_googletv_gigantic_mistake/

15 years ago

54 upvotes – 37 comments

China's minimum-wage increase will raise prices around the world

http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/asia-pacific/china/111109/china-economy-manufacturing-guangdong

15 years ago

53 upvotes – 58 comments

Portable sunshine: Earbuds that shine light into your ears

http://www.wired.co.uk/magazine/archive/2011/02/start/portable-sunshine

15 years ago

51 upvotes – 54 comments

How To Log Bash History to Syslog

http://jablonskis.org/2011/howto-log-bash-history-to-syslog/

15 years ago

50 upvotes – 13 comments

Clojure Conj Slides

https://github.com/relevance/clojure-conj/tree/master/2011-slides

15 years ago

★ 134
49 upvotes – 10 comments

Personal Branding Without Being a Douche

http://www.jasonshen.com/2011/ive-heard-great-things-about-you-a-nondouchey-guide-to-personal-branding-and-self-promotion/

15 years ago

49 upvotes – 31 comments
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