Hacker News Top Charts - 2010-11-12 to 2010-11-19

Go dark

Jan

Feb

Mar

Apr

May

Jun

Jul

Aug

Sep

Oct

Nov

Dec

W1

W2

W3

W4

W5

W6

W7

W8

W9

W10

W11

W12

W13

W14

W15

W16

W17

W18

W19

W20

W21

W22

W23

W24

W25

W26

W27

W28

W29

W30

W31

W32

W33

W34

W35

W36

W37

W38

W39

W40

W41

W42

W43

W44

W45

W46

W47

W48

W49

W50

W51

W52

Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

The day Steve Jobs dissed me hard

567

2

How Israel handles airport security

550

3

When we got to the scanner, I opted out. Then they opted out.

422

4

The ~200 Line Linux Kernel Patch That Does Wonders

420

5

An Awesome Book

409

6

Do you read HackerNews all day and never actually do anything?

389

7

Reddit’s Astonishing Altruism

372

8

Y Combinator announces two new partners, Paul Buchheit and Harj Taggar

344

9

Rails for Zombies - Learn Rails from the comfort of your browser

336

10

Open ID Is A Nightmare

311

Top Ask HN

1

Inspirational movies

105

2

How do I crawl out of the "Senior Engineer" hole?

96

3

Anyone using Haskell in production?

91

4

is the pushdown of TSA backscatter stories algorithmic or manual?

87

5

Has HN been slow/spotty loading for you?

81

6

What do geeks in Palo Alto do on weekend nights?

65

7

Berlin - costs of living, python jobs?

58

8

Good Reading/Immersion in Mathematics

48

9

Open source web app html/css templates?

46

10

Modern approach to web application development with Common Lisp

44

Top Show HN

1

Our telepresence setup

38

2

"Why Am I Doing It?", (sort of) OhLife for developers

20

3

Are you a Climber? I made a site for you.

20

4

My wednesday project Unsocialize This

16

5

shrtn.co - a revenue generating affiliate tool for the masses

11

6

our November Startup Month submission, collabacode

4

7

How to involve your significant other in your work

3

8

Yet Another Way to Find a Cofounder

2

9

I made a JavaScript demo app for a talk recently.

2

10

My Android app (Allows you to send encrypted sms messages)

1

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Facebook’s Gmail Killer, Project Titan, Is Coming On Monday

231

2

Gmail Creator Paul Buchheit Leaves Facebook for Y Combinator

215

3

How To Mass Export All Of Your Facebook Friends’ Private Email Addresses

199

4

Google offers engineer $3.5M to not leave for Facebook

191

5

100 Naked Citizens: 100 Leaked Body Scans

162

6

Dear Foursquare, Gowalla: Please Let’s Stop Pretending This Is Fun

160

7

Steve Wozniak: Android will be the dominant smartphone platform

105

8

National Opt-Out Day Called Against Invasive Body Scanners

98

9

Woz misquoted 'Almost every app that I have is better on the iPhone'

87

10

Kayak Files for $50 million IPO

83

News [?]

1

Budget Puzzle: You Fix the US Budget

190

2

The Things He Carried

127

3

Warren Buffett: Pretty Good for Government Work

111

4

Why the U.S. needs a new visa for foreigners who want to start businesses here.

79

5

Drinking Water Before Meals Aids Weight Loss

76

6

Sweden Seeks to Detain Assange

74

7

Too Good to Check

64

8

Scientists propose one-way trips to Mars

62

9

Resurrecting a Village by Buying Up Main Street

59

10

Chinese workers build 15-story hotel in just six days

57

Scientific publications [?]

1

30-year-old black hole discovered by

71

2

An exceptional object in our cosmic neighborhood discovered

63

3

The announcement: NASA discovers 30 year old black hole

3

Dev Blogs [?]

1

The ~200 Line Linux Kernel Patch That Does Wonders

420

2

Life after X: Plans for getting rid of the X server in the future

65

3

Functional Languages Discussion by Joe, Odersky & Don Syme

59

4

Unsolicited Terrorism Tips to the U.S. Government

17

5

Airplane Terrorism Twenty Years Ago

9

6

Internet Quarantines

6

7

Instant Notifications

6

8

4

9

Michael Meeks talks about LibreOffice and copyright assignment policies

4

10

2

Tech blogs [?]

1

EFF: How to Deploy HTTPS Correctly

167

2

Apple iPad rival HP Slate sees demand fizzle at 9,000 units

25

3

The Beatles Appear In iTunes

11

4

Hints of 'iTunes LiveStream' found in iTunes 10.1

3

5

New Claim of iOS 4.2 Launch on November 24th as Revised iPad Build Surfaces

2

6

Apple approves official Google Voice application for iPhone

2

7

2

8

How to add iOS printer sharing back to Mac OS X

1

9

Apple envisions interactive, augmented reality iPhone multiplayer games

1

10

Chinese lawsuit seeks to invalidate Apple's iPhone design patents

1

FAANG+ [?]

1

Oracle and Apple Announce OpenJDK Project for Mac OS X

200

2

SICP review by Peter Norvig (2000)

75

3

Douglas Crockford's review of The Little Schemer

33

4

Apple Announces Beatles Availability on iTunes

10

5

Announcing Cluster GPU Instances for Amazon EC2

8

6

IOS 4.2 Software Update Features for iPad

8

7

Microsoft Launches New Casual Games Hub

6

8

A day you'll never forget? Yeah, right.

6

9

AWS: High Performance Computing

3

10

[Book] Do More Faster: TechStars Lessons to Accelerate Your Startup

2

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Making your explicit reasoning trustworthy

19

2

University Begins Reporting All P2P Users to the Police

5

3

[math-ish] How to pick your categories

3

4

Diplomacy as a Game Theory Laboratory

2

5

Working at Google vs. Working at Meetup

2

6

The creative Internet - Creative Lab

1

7

Diplomacy as a game theory laboratory.

1

8

Senate Passes Bill To Quash Pirate Websites

1

Science News [?]

1

Physicists carry out Maxwell's "demon" thought experiment

43

2

US scientists significantly more likely to publish fake research, study finds

32

3

Is this evidence we can see into the future?

15

4

Scientists identify antivirus system

13

5

'Space-time cloak' to conceal events

4

6

I'm Not a Real Scientist, And That's Okay

3

7

Machine learning technique designed to improve consumer medical searches

2

8

Maxwell's demon may be possible, with information converted to energy.

2

9

Magnetic Memory Breakthrough

2

10

New Standards Proposed for Supercomputing

2

Social [?]

1

Minecraft CPU now available

35

2

Github is down :(

28

3

3D Video Capture with Kinect [VIDEO]

26

4

The Underlying Technology of Messages

20

5

Ron Paul introduces legislation against TSA groping

15

6

Please help a fellow hacker identify the guy who assaulted him in Vancouver, BC

14

7

Demo Video of a new Operating System

14

8

Video of 3 year old being frisked by TSA against her will

13

9

Reddit Revolts Against TSA's Invasive Screening Protocol

11

10

Quantitative Easing Explained

11

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Cause of today's Github outage

214

2

Expose any Ruby object over the web. An interesting little snippet...

88

3

Trie matches 10,000 strings against 9,720 patterns in 0.6s, in JavaScript

14

4

A jQuery plugin to embed a HN thread in a webpage (uses api.ihackernews.com)

13

5

Painless Command Line Argument Parsing in C

10

6

PHP Port of Docco (First Release)

9

7

GitHub is Temporarily Offline

8

8

Node-mysql - A pure node.js client implementing the MySQL protocol

7

9

Node-canvas - a Cairo backed Canvas implementation for NodeJS.

5

10

Write your docs with gitdown

5

Wikipedia [?]

1

27

2

Alternative Periodic Tables

8

3

Assassination market

7

4

Extract, transform, load

4

5

2

6

Wikipedia + Verizon et. al. vandals = 67 million blocks

2

7

Delayed Sleep Phase Syndrome

2

8

1

9

Berners Street Hoax

1

10

Partial map of the Internet

1

Blogs [?]

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Creating a Lisp Executable

73

2

C is 38 years old. K&R V2 is 22 years old. What's the best modern C book?

17

3

Bash commandline tricks (stackoverflow)

8

4

How can I improve this PHP/MySQL news feed?

3

5

Why should casting be avoided?

2

6

HTML5 Localstorage and sync across devices

1

7

Any statistics regarding relative popularity of OpenId providers available?

1

Substack [?]