top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-01-07

This is why I don't give you a job

http://andorjakab.blog.hu/2012/01/06/this_is_why_i_don_t_give_you_a_job

15 years ago

588 upvotes – 529 comments

Color Thief, script for grabbing the color palette from an image

http://lokeshdhakar.com/projects/color-thief/

15 years ago

212 upvotes – 40 comments

The Art of Unix Programming

http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/taoup/

15 years ago

178 upvotes – 40 comments

Facebook intimidates developer, bans him and his code for life

http://www.reddit.com/r/facebook/comments/o76m7/facebook_intimidates_developer_bans_him_and_his/

15 years ago

172 upvotes – 83 comments

Man Embraces Useless Machines, and Absurdity Ensues

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/08/nyregion/brooklyns-joseph-herscher-and-his-rube-goldberg-machines.html?_r=1&ref=technology

15 years ago

143 upvotes – 21 comments

Drone captured by Iran may mean military GPS RSA "red key" has been compromised

http://cryptome.org/2012/01/0016.htm

15 years ago

121 upvotes – 95 comments

How to register a company in the UK

http://swombat.com/2012/1/7/how-to-register-a-company

15 years ago

121 upvotes – 75 comments

Everything I need to know about startups, I learned from a crime boss

http://gigaom.com/2012/01/07/desantis-startups-crime-boss/

15 years ago

107 upvotes – 26 comments

The Economist on Intel versus ARM

http://www.economist.com/node/21542402

15 years ago

97 upvotes – 29 comments

Facebook could reboot and we'd mess it up again

http://www.hunterwalk.com/2012/01/sorry-mike-facebook-could-reboot-and.html

15 years ago

96 upvotes – 31 comments

Jane Street releases open source alternative to OCaml's stdlib

https://ocaml.janestreet.com/

15 years ago

90 upvotes – 12 comments

The Critics Rave... for Microsoft?

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/08/technology/microsoft-defying-image-has-a-design-gem-in-windows-phone.html?&pagewanted=all

15 years ago

81 upvotes – 68 comments

Anatomy of a Kernel Hack

http://www.linuxchix.org/content/courses/kernel_hacking/Akk_hack

15 years ago

78 upvotes – 10 comments

"mbox" is a family of several mutually incompatible mailbox formats

http://homepage.ntlworld.com./jonathan.deboynepollard/FGA/mail-mbox-formats.html

15 years ago

77 upvotes – 36 comments

Debunking a Computer Chess Scandal

http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=7791

15 years ago

77 upvotes – 38 comments

Ask HN: Is there a repository of failed startups (re-usable startups idea)?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3438079

15 years ago

76 upvotes – 38 comments

Why Data Structures Matter

http://joelneely.wordpress.com/2011/03/05/why-data-structures-matter

15 years ago

72 upvotes – 8 comments

Thoughts on yesterday's paid vs free visitor.js

http://www.tristara.com/blog/2012/hacker-news-and-saas/

15 years ago

70 upvotes – 31 comments

EasyDNS is under DoS attack

http://blog.easydns.org/2012/01/07/dns-resolution-issues/

15 years ago

69 upvotes – 18 comments

Show HN: My weekend project, DailyPag.es

http://DailyPag.es

15 years ago

69 upvotes – 21 comments

How to parse HTML

http://blogs.perl.org/users/jeffrey_kegler/2011/11/how-to-parse-html.html

15 years ago

68 upvotes – 32 comments

The Real Story On That "Antidepressant Surge"

http://neuroskeptic.blogspot.com/2012/01/real-story-on-that-antidepressant-surge.html

15 years ago

53 upvotes – 23 comments

CLI tool for GitHub Issues

https://github.com/vesln/issues

15 years ago

★ 211 JavaScript
52 upvotes – 17 comments

Case study: How & why to build consumer apps with Node.js

http://venturebeat.com/2012/01/07/building-consumer-apps-with-node/

15 years ago

50 upvotes – 15 comments

Moore's Law may work for years to come due to quantum anomaly

http://www.nature.com/news/nanoscale-wires-defy-quantum-predictions-1.9747

15 years ago

49 upvotes – 4 comments

Ask HN: Do startups hire 50+ year old programmers?(US)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3437233

15 years ago

49 upvotes – 56 comments

Minimal TODOs for Linux

http://www.adrianmouat.com/bit-bucket/2012/01/minimal-todos-for-linux/

15 years ago

46 upvotes – 24 comments

New slow-motion DoS attack: just a few PCs, little fear of detection

http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2012/01/new-slow-motion-dos-attack-just-a-few-pcs-little-fear-of-detection.ars

15 years ago

45 upvotes – 11 comments

FIRST Robotics Competition kickoff live stream (10:30am eastern)

http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/robotics/

15 years ago

45 upvotes – 23 comments

The Timeless Genius of Kodak’s George Eastman

http://technologizer.com/2012/01/07/the-timeless-genius-of-kodaks-george-eastman/

15 years ago

43 upvotes – 4 comments
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