top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-12-14

Louis C.K. experiment results: over $500,000 in 4 days

https://buy.louisck.net/statement

15 years ago

868 upvotes – 279 comments

Trolls (2008)

http://www.paulgraham.com/trolls.html

15 years ago

360 upvotes – 303 comments

The real reason you can't hire developers....

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3351699

15 years ago

324 upvotes – 266 comments

Nvidia Opens CUDA Platform, Releases Compiler Source Code

http://developer.nvidia.com/content/cuda-platform-source-release

15 years ago

302 upvotes – 28 comments

From zero to Go: launching on the Google homepage in 24 hours

http://blog.golang.org/2011/12/from-zero-to-go-launching-on-google.html

15 years ago

274 upvotes – 73 comments

Scott Hanselman's 2011 Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/ScottHanselmans2011UltimateDeveloperAndPowerUsersToolListForWindows.aspx

15 years ago

226 upvotes – 81 comments

Job placement program for top students in Stanford's online AI class

http://pastebin.com/JiczaBxb

15 years ago

201 upvotes – 111 comments

New Blender 3D with Motion Tracking, new rendering engine, dynamic paint

http://www.blender.org/development/release-logs/blender-261/

15 years ago

191 upvotes – 49 comments

Apps are too much like 1990's CD-ROMs and not enough like the Web

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/AppsAreTooMuchLike1990sCDROMsAndNotEnoughLikeTheWeb.aspx?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ScottHanselman+%28Scott+Hanselman+-+ComputerZen.com%29

15 years ago

163 upvotes – 70 comments

HTTP Cats

http://httpcats.herokuapp.com/

15 years ago

150 upvotes – 30 comments

Things Highly Productive People Do

http://www.inc.com/ilya-pozin/7-things-highly-productive-people-do.html

15 years ago

147 upvotes – 43 comments

Elevator Algorithms

http://www.lisazhang.ca/2009/12/elevator-algorithms.html

15 years ago

144 upvotes – 71 comments

Python co-routines: follow-up to Python generators presentation [pdf]

http://www.dabeaz.com/coroutines/Coroutines.pdf

15 years ago

134 upvotes – 14 comments

When Banks Use Facebook Friends To Determine Your Credit Score

http://www.betabeat.com/2011/12/13/as-banks-start-nosing-around-facebook-and-twitter-the-wrong-friends-might-just-sink-your-credit/

15 years ago

128 upvotes – 152 comments

Writers Guild Realizes That SOPA Goes Too Far

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20111213/17373717070/writers-guild-realizing-that-sopa-goes-too-far-union-support-censoring-internet-begins-to-crack.shtml

15 years ago

123 upvotes – 18 comments

The Real Story Behind Apple's 'Think Different' Campaign

http://www.forbes.com/sites/onmarketing/2011/12/14/the-real-story-behind-apples-think-different-campaign/

15 years ago

118 upvotes – 40 comments

EFF: Some Facts About Carrier IQ

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/12/carrier-iq-architecture

15 years ago

115 upvotes – 9 comments

How SOPA Affects Students, Educators, and Libraries

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/12/how-sopa-affects-students-and-educators

15 years ago

108 upvotes – 1 comments

Erlang R15B Released

http://erlang.org/pipermail/erlang-questions/2011-December/063155.html

15 years ago

108 upvotes – 21 comments

Introducing Palantir's first open source releases

http://blog.palantir.com/2011/12/14/introducing-palantirs-first-open-source-releases/

15 years ago

105 upvotes – 37 comments

Microsoft Co-Founder Paul Allen Unveils Giant Plane for Private Space Launches

http://www.space.com/13915-paul-allen-giant-plane-stratolaunch-systems-private-space.html

15 years ago

104 upvotes – 76 comments

Don't put BASIC code in your emails

http://pastebin.com/JLRJxm4g

15 years ago

101 upvotes – 28 comments

The scandal of the Alabama poor cut off from water

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-16037798

15 years ago

97 upvotes – 126 comments

On Intellectual Dishonesty

http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/intellectualdishonesty

15 years ago

92 upvotes – 34 comments

Reversing Industrial Firmware for Fun and Backdoors I

http://reversemode.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=80&Itemid=1

15 years ago

86 upvotes – 23 comments

The Milky Way's black hole may spring to life in 2013

http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2011/12/the-milky-ways-black-hole-may-spring-to-life-in-2013.ars

15 years ago

85 upvotes – 43 comments

Clojure Desktop Applications with Swing

http://spin.atomicobject.com/2011/12/14/clojure-desktop-applications-with-swing/

15 years ago

82 upvotes – 20 comments

Research Tools class

http://vislab-ccom.unh.edu/~schwehr/Classes/2011/esci895-researchtools/

15 years ago

75 upvotes – 8 comments

Russian space designer Boris Chertok dies at 99

http://news.yahoo.com/russian-space-designer-boris-chertok-dies-99-085641590.html

15 years ago

66 upvotes – 4 comments

Big Data Now: Current Perspectives from O'Reilly Radar 

http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920022640.do

15 years ago

65 upvotes – 8 comments

Apple to set up first dev center outside of CA in Israel

http://www.globes.co.il/serveen/globes/docview.asp?did=1000706928

15 years ago

51 upvotes – 44 comments

TaskRabbit Gets $17.8M, Wants To Grow Internationally And Beyond

http://techcrunch.com/2011/12/13/taskrabbit-gets-17-8m-for-aggressive-expansion-wants-to-grow-internationally-and-beyond/

15 years ago

49 upvotes – 16 comments

Carwoo (YC S09) raises $6MM

http://techcrunch.com/2011/12/14/carwoo-raises-6-million-to-spare-you-the-car-dealership-blues/

15 years ago

47 upvotes – 10 comments

I don’t like the Ruby 1.9 hash syntax

http://logicalfriday.com/2011/06/20/i-dont-like-the-ruby-1-9-hash-syntax/

15 years ago

46 upvotes – 28 comments
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