top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-01-29

What if Hollywood had to use tech like we have to watch movies?

http://www.aaronklein.com/2012/01/hollywood-edition/

15 years ago

663 upvotes – 112 comments

If your client has a problem with a site, send them here and ask for details

http://supportdetails.com/

15 years ago

377 upvotes – 54 comments

Tim O'Reilly: Really, Google is evil now? Let's Get Real. How About Apple?

https://plus.google.com/107033731246200681024/posts/fWJtC2mb3Eq

15 years ago

295 upvotes – 145 comments

The ethics of brain boosting

http://www.ox.ac.uk/media/science_blog/brainboosting.html

15 years ago

232 upvotes – 130 comments

25 Startup Ideas for 2012

http://www.judegomila.com/2012/01/challengeyourself-in-2012-ivelisted.html

15 years ago

208 upvotes – 164 comments

Ritalin Gone Wrong

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/29/opinion/sunday/childrens-add-drugs-dont-work-long-term.html

15 years ago

200 upvotes – 154 comments

Single-block collision for MD5

http://marc-stevens.nl/research/md5-1block-collision/

15 years ago

191 upvotes – 56 comments

Sorry, this blog post is not available in your country.

http://jelmerdejong.com/blog/1664/sorry-this-blog-post-is-not-available-in-your-country/

15 years ago

186 upvotes – 69 comments

Ask HN: How do I start freelancing?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3525861

15 years ago

184 upvotes – 53 comments

FTP Must Die

http://mywiki.wooledge.org/FtpMustDie

15 years ago

174 upvotes – 116 comments

Stack Overflow answer explaining JS in the "Wat" talk

http://stackoverflow.com/a/9033306/63225

15 years ago

152 upvotes – 23 comments

Why are column oriented databases so much faster than row oriented databases?

http://siganakis.com/using-bitmap-indexes-in-query-processing

15 years ago

139 upvotes – 42 comments

Old Techies Never Die; They Just Can’t Get Hired as an Industry Moves On

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/29/us/bay-area-technology-professionals-cant-get-hired-as-industry-moves-on.html

15 years ago

134 upvotes – 172 comments

Duck.com (not the search engine you might expect)

http://www.duck.com

15 years ago

114 upvotes – 63 comments

Stanford profs from DB & Machine Learning class are founding a company Coursera

https://plus.google.com/b/107809899089663019971/107809899089663019971/posts/4VuN2RsRggB

15 years ago

108 upvotes – 38 comments

$270 Spark Linux tablet is powered by KDE Active Plasma

http://www.geek.com/articles/mobile/270-spark-linux-tablet-is-powered-by-and-generates-funds-for-kde-active-plasma-20120129/

15 years ago

108 upvotes – 37 comments

Scientific Community to Elsevier: Drop Dead

http://cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/weblog/864.html

15 years ago

106 upvotes – 14 comments

German hackers plan DIY space program

http://www.popsci.com.au/technology/space/german-hackers-plan-diy-space-program

15 years ago

105 upvotes – 24 comments

How GitHub Uses GitHub to Build GitHub

http://confreaks.com/videos/706-rubyconf2011-how-github-uses-github-to-build-github

15 years ago

103 upvotes – 15 comments

The man who hand-draws fractals

http://www.newappsblog.com/2012/01/the-man-who-hand-draws-mathematical-fractals.html

15 years ago

102 upvotes – 18 comments

Your Users Won't Read

http://www.w2lessons.com/2012/01/your-users-wont-read.html

15 years ago

101 upvotes – 23 comments

The Real Problem with Facebook's Timeline

http://remarkedly.com/2012/01/29/the-real-problem-with-facebooks-timeline/

15 years ago

99 upvotes – 54 comments

I want to help you learn or practice iOS development

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3525829

15 years ago

94 upvotes – 14 comments

Simple Responsive Design Test Page - bookmarklet

http://www.benjaminkeen.com/misc/bricss/

15 years ago

92 upvotes – 20 comments

The Early Early Stage

http://blog.keen.io/post/16663334473/the-early-early-stage

15 years ago

90 upvotes – 9 comments

Context Free - a program that generates images from written instructions

http://www.contextfreeart.org/

15 years ago

82 upvotes – 11 comments

Pixar and RenderMan: Changing the distributed rendering game

http://icrontic.com/article/pixar-renderman-distributed-rendering

15 years ago

79 upvotes – 13 comments

Clojure is One Answer

http://onbeyondlambda.blogspot.com/2012/01/my-last-post-was-link-to-video-talking.html

15 years ago

77 upvotes – 16 comments

Django ORM vs. SQLAlchemy

http://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/p03yh/sqlalchemy_vs_django_db/

15 years ago

72 upvotes – 24 comments

India Factory Workers Revolt, Kill Company President

http://www.forbes.com/sites/kenrapoza/2012/01/27/india-factory-workers-revolt-kill-company-president/

15 years ago

69 upvotes – 30 comments
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