top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-12-09

HP to Contribute webOS to Open Source

http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/newsroom/press/2011/111209xa.html?mtxs=rss-corp-news

15 years ago

751 upvotes – 194 comments

Apple using patents to undermine open standards again

http://my.opera.com/haavard/blog/2011/12/09/apple-w3c

15 years ago

415 upvotes – 60 comments

At the End of a Procrastinated Day

http://removed.posterous.com/at-the-end-of-a-procrastinated-day

15 years ago

316 upvotes – 110 comments

We've invented waterfall

http://epicenterconsulting.com/method

15 years ago

285 upvotes – 168 comments

Snake game in a data: URI

http://bytex64.net/code/datasnake/

15 years ago

257 upvotes – 73 comments

The Crunchpad is proof of obviousness in iPad design

http://nikcub.appspot.com/posts/crunchpad-proof-obviousness-in-ipad-design

15 years ago

246 upvotes – 133 comments

Obama Announces $2B Fund for Startups

http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2011/12/08/we-can-t-wait-obama-administration-announces-2-billion-resources-support?spMailingID=2405268&spJobID=34909673&spReportId=MzQ5MDk2NzMS1&spUserID=ODQ5NDAwOTg1S0

15 years ago

239 upvotes – 164 comments

The diagnosis

http://boingboing.net/2011/12/09/the-diagnosis.html

15 years ago

233 upvotes – 39 comments

JQuery plugins site accidentally deleted - last backup one year old.

http://blog.jquery.com/2011/12/08/what-is-happening-to-the-jquery-plugins-site/#pluginstldr

15 years ago

180 upvotes – 66 comments

Over 40% of cancers due to lifestyle, says review

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-16031149

15 years ago

177 upvotes – 124 comments

MPAA Boss: If The Chinese Censor The Internet, Why Can't The US?

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20111208/14521817014/mpaa-boss-if-chinese-censor-internet-without-problem-why-cant-us.shtml

15 years ago

177 upvotes – 60 comments

Motorola wins patent suit against Apple in Germany, iPhone/iPad to be banned

http://thenextweb.com/apple/2011/12/09/motorola-wins-patent-suit-against-apple-in-germany-iphoneipad-to-be-banned/

15 years ago

163 upvotes – 60 comments

Your Idea Is Worthless. Worry about finding smart nerds.

https://plus.google.com/110581693083408452344/posts/cMCwLee5Wn9

15 years ago

147 upvotes – 80 comments

Moving to Stripe: Fixing the Biggest Mistake I've Made to Date

http://www.centernetworks.com/stripe-from-paypal-google-checkout

15 years ago

146 upvotes – 49 comments

Clinton Urges Countries Not to Restrict Internet

https://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/09/world/at-hague-hillary-rodham-clinton-urges-countries-not-to-restrict-internet.html?_r=all

15 years ago

143 upvotes – 39 comments

Notes on Programming in C - Rob Pike, February 21, 1989

http://doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/pikestyle

15 years ago

139 upvotes – 43 comments

Redis for win32 and the Microsoft patch

http://antirez.com/post/redis-win32-msft-patch.html

15 years ago

138 upvotes – 165 comments

It's Insanely Hard to Make a Kick-Ass iPhone App

http://www.georgesaines.com/?p=513

15 years ago

137 upvotes – 90 comments

'WildChords' is One of the Coolest Things I've Seen the iPad Do

http://toucharcade.com/2011/12/09/wildchords-is-one-of-the-coolest-things-ive-seen-the-ipad-do/

15 years ago

137 upvotes – 15 comments

Facebook Is Making Us Miserable

http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2011/12/facebook_is_making_us_miserabl.html

15 years ago

122 upvotes – 75 comments

What’s New In Emacs 24

http://www.masteringemacs.org/articles/2011/12/06/what-is-new-in-emacs-24-part-1/

15 years ago

109 upvotes – 39 comments

Do fewer things; do them better; know why you're doing them

http://calnewport.com/blog/2009/03/27/what-the-hell-is-study-hacks/

15 years ago

95 upvotes – 14 comments

The HipHop Virtual Machine

https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-engineering/the-hiphop-virtual-machine/10150415177928920

15 years ago

90 upvotes – 35 comments

Why “direct” PostScript makes sense

http://www.anastigmatix.net/postscript/direct.html

15 years ago

90 upvotes – 27 comments

Dianne Hackborn responds again about android graphics

https://plus.google.com/u/0/105051985738280261832/posts/XAZ4CeVP6DC

15 years ago

87 upvotes – 50 comments

How To Optimize Your Site With HTTP Caching

http://betterexplained.com/articles/how-to-optimize-your-site-with-http-caching/

15 years ago

85 upvotes – 29 comments

Stack Exchange's Really Big Monitor Setup

http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/12/the-stack-big-board/

15 years ago

81 upvotes – 25 comments

WikiLeaks Posts Spy Firm Videos Offering Tools For Hacking iTunes, Gmail, Skype

http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2011/12/08/wikileaks-posts-spy-firm-videos-offering-tools-for-hacking-itunes-gmail-skype/

15 years ago

78 upvotes – 8 comments

TNT Is Not TeX

http://bit-player.org/2011/tnt-is-not-tex

15 years ago

76 upvotes – 25 comments

Google nabs Square Enix and other game developers for native client Chrome games

http://venturebeat.com/2011/12/08/google-nabs-square-enix-and-other-game-developers-to-do-native-chrome-games/

15 years ago

74 upvotes – 45 comments

The condescending UI

http://www.theverge.com/2011/12/9/2616204/the-condescending-ui

15 years ago

72 upvotes – 76 comments

The biggest iOS 5 bug you've never heard of

http://watilo.com/the-biggest-ios-5-bug-youve-never-heard-of

15 years ago

72 upvotes – 31 comments

Open Source Needs a New UI

http://blog.cobychapple.com/blog/2011/12/07/open-source-needs-a-new-ui/

15 years ago

71 upvotes – 71 comments

WordPress Security: Seven Ways I Could Hack Into Your WordPress Site

http://markmaunder.com/2011/12/08/wordpress-security-ways-hack-wordpress-site/

15 years ago

71 upvotes – 22 comments

Chinese Internet Users Relish Irony Of SOPA's Great Firewall Of America

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20111208/07411217009/chinese-internet-users-relish-irony-sopas-great-firewall-america.shtml

15 years ago

70 upvotes – 27 comments

California Cuts Budget Transparency Website From Budget

http://www.transparency.ca.gov/

15 years ago

66 upvotes – 5 comments

Online payment options for SaaS (includes those supported in UK)

http://blog.ontestpad.com/2011/12/online-payments-for-saas-billing.html

15 years ago

64 upvotes – 30 comments

LocalWiki, a really easy to use geographically-based wiki, released

http://localwiki.org

15 years ago

63 upvotes – 21 comments

App Store Spam - 28 identical apps, one developer

http://objectivesea.tumblr.com/post/13988481450/appstorespam28

15 years ago

59 upvotes – 32 comments

Writing Eloquent JavaScript Without CoffeeScript

http://oscargodson.com/#!/article/55075016

15 years ago

57 upvotes – 53 comments

HP's decision means webOS could end up more open than Android

http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2011/12/hps-decision-means-webos-could-end-up-more-open-than-android.ars

15 years ago

57 upvotes – 19 comments

OpenShift offers five free 512 MB app/MongoDB instances

https://www.redhat.com/openshift/blogs/its-big-its-free-its-easy-mongodb-on-openshift-keeps-getting-better

15 years ago

54 upvotes – 11 comments

A Bill Gates Comeback?

http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2011/12/08/bill-gates-comeback/

15 years ago

52 upvotes – 32 comments

A Month With Scala

http://www.w2lessons.com/2011/12/month-with-scala.html

15 years ago

51 upvotes – 8 comments

Stress and creation

http://germanforblack.com/articles/stress-and-creation

15 years ago

51 upvotes – 4 comments
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