365 top stories on Hacker News | 2011

Jan/01 The rules for using "ſ" (long s)
Jan/02 New cave found in Vietnam: "A skyscraper could fit"
Jan/03 Dating Denial of Service attack
Jan/04 An introduction to the Haiku OS
Jan/05 Pizza And Ramen Are Hurting Your Startup
Jan/06 A warning to hackers: be careful building on Twitter's API
Jan/07 When Bad Patents Hurt Good People: Patent Threat Shuts Down Flight Planning Site
Jan/08 Node.JS 0.3.4 out (with experimental HTTPS)
Jan/09 Steve's story - Google employee #13
Jan/10 Why Chinese Mothers are Not Superior (from a female Chinese engineer)
Jan/11 Google Removing H.264 Support in Chrome
Jan/12 Carnegie Mellon CS Professor challenges Sony by mirroring Geohot's PS3 hacks
Jan/13 MIT OpenCourseWare introduces courses designed for independent learners
Jan/14 Garry Tan moving on from Posterous and joining YC
Jan/15 Shortchanging Your Business with User-Hostile Platforms
Jan/16 How Much Does a Single Search Cost Google?
Jan/17 Brisbane floods: before and after
Jan/18 Ask HN/PG: Why are comments being paginated?
Jan/19 DuckDuckGo Challenges Google on Privacy (With a Billboard in San Francisco)
Jan/20 Eric Schmidt: On April 4th I Will Step Down, Larry Page to be CEO
Jan/21 JavaScript ( (__ = $ + $)[+$] + ({} + $)[_/_] +({} + $)[_/_] )
Jan/22 Mathematician, Artist, Maker, I find myself looking for a job...
Jan/23 Tim Cook Is Running Apple, but Not Imitating Steve Jobs
Jan/24 Mythbusting: Why Firefox 4 won’t score 100 on Acid3
Jan/25 New in Gmail Labs: Unread message icon
Jan/26 My biggest frustration with Google AdWords
Jan/27 Egypt has shut off the Internet (update: not everywhere)
Jan/28 Github now publishes all DMCA takedown notices they receive here.
Jan/29 GitHub major issues - repos have "lost" commits and site is erroring
Jan/30 Should You Really Be A Startup Entrepreneur?
Jan/31 Some weekend work that will (hopefully) enable more Egyptians to be heard
Feb/01 Microsoft’s Bing uses Google search results—and denies it
Feb/02 Paul Buchheit: The two paths to success
Feb/03 I'm a pregnant hacker. Please review my side project.
Feb/04 Google open sources "Contracts for Java"
Feb/05 Debian 6.0 “Squeeze” released
Feb/06 Using git to manage a website
Feb/07 "You've angered the hive"
Feb/08 Nokia CEO: Nokia is "standing on a burning platform"
Feb/09 Full Instapaper API now available
Feb/10 TechCrunch Tours Dropbox Offices
Feb/11 How I Got Kicked Out of Y Combinator and Then Raised $1.5m for My Startup
Feb/12 Guy commits his genome to Github, smartass forks and issues a pull request
Feb/13 HD 555 to HD 595 mod (or: how Sennheiser cripples cheaper headphones)
Feb/14 Nokia Plan B
Feb/15 Startups in stealth mode need one piece of advice.
Feb/16 Why Isn't Wall Street in Jail?
Feb/17 Host Your Static Website on Amazon S3
Feb/18 Don't waste your time by cd-ing in the terminal
Feb/19 Natural Language Processing with Python [pdf, 491 pages]
Feb/20 Show HN: Breakup Notifier
Feb/21 HelloFax (YC W11): Sign And Send Faxes From Your Browser, Without The Hassle
Feb/22 Buying VMWare Fusion: A lesson in how to drive customers away
Feb/23 Optimizely (YC W10) Launches Interactive Mode, Cross-Browser Testing, and More
Feb/24 Google Forecloses on Content Farms with "Farmer" Algorithm Update
Feb/25 Tell HN: Breakup Notifier is now Crush Notifier
Feb/26 Man with ALS writes patch for Gnome using morse code (with touching story)
Feb/27 What it's like building a real website in Node.js
Feb/28 TellFi (YC W11) Is Google Voice For Companies
Mar/01 Full Text RSS Feed: Get the whole feed and nothing but the feed
Mar/02 Pixel Perfect map of china
Mar/03 Noteleaf (YC W11) Takes Mobile Meeting Notifications To A Whole New Level
Mar/04 YCPages - List of Y Combinator companies, founders and jobs with statistics
Mar/05 If iPads are “post-pc devices” why must I sync with iTunes before I can use one
Mar/06 Facebook Comments Have Silenced The Trolls — But Is It Too Quiet?
Mar/07 (YC W11) YC-Backed Like.fm Is A Social Network For Tracking Songs
Mar/08 I took "abusing the HTML5 History" to the next level.
Mar/09 Earbits (YC W11) Brings A Twist: Online Radio Where Bands Can Pay For Playtime
Mar/10 Recruiters: My fee for referrals is 5%
Mar/11 Twitter to developers: no new Twitter clients
Mar/12 Turn any page into Katamari Damacy
Mar/13 Git is as revolutionary as Unix pipes (2008)
Mar/14 Apple's Role in Japan during the Tohoku Earthquake
Mar/15 AOL Asks Us If We Can Tone It Down
Mar/16 Is This The 16 Year Old Girl That Hacked HBGary?
Mar/17 Entreporn, The Fallacy That Wastes Your Life
Mar/18 Cosmonaut Crashed Into Earth 'Crying In Rage'
Mar/19 Apple's Safari Browser Gives Search Marketers Headaches
Mar/20 Cω
Mar/21 GitHub now has view modes for image diffs.
Mar/22 How We Got Owned by a Few Teenagers (and Why It Will Never Happen Again)
Mar/23 Sequoia gives photo-sharing startup more money than they gave Google
Mar/24 Burned by Twitter, Developers Launch Distributed Microblogging Service
Mar/25 At least now we know why Color really got that funding
Mar/26 Review my weekend project: Webapp to add CSS to any website and share the result
Mar/27 It's Time to Fix HTTPS
Mar/28 Quadrocopters juggle balls cooperatively
Mar/29 Evan Williams on leaving Twitter
Mar/30 AIDS vaccine in final testing
Mar/31 Angry Nerds
Apr/01 Why I went with them and not you: feedback to an interviewer
Apr/02 Success, and Farming vs. Mining
Apr/03 Show HN: My weekend project, tracking the services you can't have in Canada
Apr/04 Where can I get large datasets open to the public?
Apr/05 Meet news:yc, the open source Hacker News client for your iPhone.
Apr/06 Before I Die...
Apr/07 Physics Engines for Dummies
Apr/08 We need a GitHub of Science
Apr/09 GitHub launches Issues 2.0
Apr/10 White Hat SEO: It F$#ing Works
Apr/11 IPad 2 gets glasses-free 3D display using front-facing camera for head tracking
Apr/12 The Programmer Salary Taboo
Apr/13 Poll: Display points on comments?
Apr/14 Rackspace cloud beats Amazon EC2, by a lot
Apr/15 FBI seized PokerStars.com, FullTiltPoker.com, UB.com,... domain names
Apr/16 Cellular Automaton Music Generator
Apr/17 Git can't be made consistent
Apr/18 DuckDuckGo and Wolfram Alpha are now official partners
Apr/19 Hashify.me - store entire website content in the URL
Apr/20 2-D Glasses
Apr/21 AWS is down, but here's why the sky is falling
Apr/22 Amazon’s $23,698,655.93 book about flies
Apr/23 Dear Dr. Stallman: An Open Letter
Apr/24 Tanking the YC interview, some lessons learned
Apr/25 Dropbox Attempts To Kill Open Source Project
Apr/26 Sony: All personal data stolen from PSN
Apr/27 How to parse a sentence and decide if to answer "that's what she said"?
Apr/28 If You’re Going To Kill It, Open Source It
Apr/29 Bose founder makes big stock donation to MIT
Apr/30 Patent 5,893,120 reduced to mathematical formulae
May/01 Hacker News Analysis
May/02 Sony hit with second attack, loses 12,700 credit card numbers
May/03 Colourlovers Raises $1 Million To Make Everyone An Artist
May/04 Mysterious US Helicopter Used in Bin Laden Raid
May/05 The author of Nginx on node.js and why V8 is not suitable for web servers
May/06 Joe Hewitt : I'm an indie developer now.
May/07 “Inside Apple” Reveals Steve Jobs Anecdotes, Apple’s Little Known Facts
May/08 LastPass Disclosure Shows Why We Can't Have Nice Things
May/09 Microsoft to buy Skype for $7 billion
May/10 FBI: If you knew what your phone company tells us, you'd probably sue
May/11 Why Geeks Should Love HP WebOS
May/12 The Ballmer Days Are Over
May/13 Lockitron (YC S09) Lets You Unlock Your Door With Your Phone
May/14 Honestly.com – Not acting so honestly
May/15 Telescopictext
May/16 Mono Developers start their own company
May/17 How to Quit Your Job, Move to Paradise, and Get Paid to Change the World
May/18 Twitter’s Shit Sandwich
May/19 Guy Asks For Software Crack, Creator Provides Free App Instead
May/20 Einstein Was Right: NASA Announces Results of Epic Space-Time Experiment
May/21 Google blocks movie service on rooted Android devices
May/22 The failure of Second Life
May/23 CNN confirms: Twitter buys Tweetdeck for $40Million
May/24 google drops another turd in the punchbowl (jwz on webp)
May/25 Announcing SproutCore 2.0 Developer Preview
May/26 HTC sides with consumers - no more locked bootloaders in Android phones
May/27 Why should anyone ever use a Google API again?
May/28 Poll: Should HN display comment scores?
May/29 Linux 3.0-rc1 is here
May/30 Loren wants to work at Airbnb
May/31 Google open sourcing voice and video engine for the web
Jun/01 Previewing Windows 8 (Video)
Jun/02 How Perceptual Hashes Work
Jun/03 Amazon: Ponzi Scheme or Wal-Mart of the Web? (2000)
Jun/04 Hacker News Search
Jun/05 Show HN: Log.io (Realtime log monitoring, powered by node.js + socket.io)
Jun/06 What Safari’s Reading List means for Instapaper
Jun/07 IPv6 Day Has Started
Jun/08 Advanced Computer Science Courses
Jun/09 Facebook Acquires Sofa
Jun/10 Redditor Explains Why Apple Continue Making Frail Power Cables
Jun/11 The Reduceron, a CPU designed for functional programs
Jun/12 Facebook users drop in the US and Canada
Jun/13 What the hell is happening to rails?
Jun/14 Troubled Startup Color Loses Cofounder Peter Pham
Jun/15 CIA.gov Possibly Down, LulzSec Claims Responsibility
Jun/16 Advice From An Old Programmer
Jun/17 Facebook PR: Tonight We Dine In Hell
Jun/18 Google acquires SageTV
Jun/19 Show HN: HN Trends - like Google Trends, but for Hacker News
Jun/20 I'm the guy who bought 259684 Bitcoins for under $3000 yesterday
Jun/21 F.B.I. Seizes Web Servers, Knocking Sites Offline
Jun/22 Poll: What database does your company use?
Jun/23 LulzSec releases trove of AZ law enforcement documents
Jun/24 Gay Marriage Approved by NY Senate
Jun/25 LulzSec: 50 Days of Lulz statement
Jun/26 Hacked Gmail Account
Jun/27 Photography Is "Copying;" More Fallout from Maisel vs. Baio
Jun/28 Dotjs — hack the web
Jun/29 Sal Khan has started videos about Python
Jun/30 A preview of Gmail’s new look - Official Gmail Blog
Jul/01 Faster JavaScript parsing
Jul/02 "Learn C the hard way": Zed Shaw's started work on a book about C programming
Jul/03 Nobody Understands REST or HTTP
Jul/04 Question for PG/HN: Where do you think we stand on your list of "ideas"?
Jul/05 Why I read hacker news even though I understand very little of it
Jul/06 Lessons Learned: The Lean Startup Book is here
Jul/07 DuckDuckGo Twitter ad by the numbers
Jul/08 EFF: forced disclosure of encryption password violates 5th Amendment
Jul/09 What technologies are under your site
Jul/10 So you want to write a fast Python?
Jul/11 Own Your Identity
Jul/12 Matz (creator of Ruby) joins Heroku
Jul/13 The Problem With Silicon Valley Is Itself
Jul/14 Old TechCrunch + really fast, clean, customizable layouts
Jul/15 How BrowserID differs from OpenID
Jul/16 Why Social Marketing Doesn’t Work
Jul/17 Why I will never pursue cheating again
Jul/18 You are not running out of time
Jul/19 Remove any Site From Google (even if you don't control it)
Jul/20 ClojureScript
Jul/21 Greece defaults
Jul/22 Android account passwords are stored on disk in plain text
Jul/23 Emacs follow-mode
Jul/24 A note to Google recruiters (and on Google hiring practices)
Jul/25 Poll: Do you use Google Reader on a daily basis?
Jul/26 When Patents Attack
Jul/27 On Safety: A Word From Airbnb
Jul/28 Putting "Search" into Google yields a surprising result
Jul/29 Researchers Expose Cunning Online Tracking Service That Can’t Be Dodged
Jul/30 A Billion Dollars Isn’t Cool. You Know What’s Cool? Basic Human Decency
Jul/31 I don't know how to IE6
Aug/01 Our Commitment to Trust & Safety
Aug/02 On SproutCore 2.0
Aug/03 SICP is Under Attack
Aug/04 How to seem good at everything: Stop doing stupid shit
Aug/05 United States loses AAA credit rating from S&P
Aug/06 Mark Cuban: If you want to see more jobs created -- change patent laws
Aug/07 Jonathan's Card
Aug/08 Large-scale Amazon EC2 Outage
Aug/09 Why are restaurant websites so awful? Because of restaurant culture.
Aug/10 Munch On Me (YC S11) Helps You Discover Tasty Dishes
Aug/11 Show HN: We built Callroulette, a chatroulette for phones
Aug/12 Leaked AT&T Letter Demolishes Case For T-Mobile Merger
Aug/13 Requests: HTTP for Humans
Aug/14 WebGL Water Simulation
Aug/15 MarketBrief (YC S11) Makes Obtuse SEC Documents Human-Friendly
Aug/16 Science Exchange (YC S11): A Central Database For Core Research Facilities
Aug/17 Apple, It’s Time To Block iOS 5 Beta Users From Reviewing Apps
Aug/18 Show HN: Codecademy.com, the easiest way to learn to code
Aug/19 Twitter Bootstrap
Aug/20 I am nothing
Aug/21 Do all first links on Wikipedia lead to philosophy?
Aug/22 Codecademy Surges To 200,000 Users, 2.1 Million Lessons Completed In 72 Hours
Aug/23 How Karma Should Be Measured
Aug/24 Steve Jobs Resigns as CEO of Apple
Aug/25 Max Levchin to Leave Google As Slide Is Shut Down
Aug/26 Walking on a cube-shaped planet
Aug/27 Try D3 Now - D3 Visualization Tutorial
Aug/28 Javascript Cryptography Considered Harmful
Aug/29 Mari0 - Super Mario Bros. + Portal
Aug/30 Physicist cuts plane boarding time in half
Aug/31 The Patent Pledge
Sep/01 Netflix to lose Starz, its most valuable source of new movies
Sep/02 DigiNotar root CA trust removal follow-up
Sep/03 Linus Torvalds now on GitHub
Sep/04 Linux is now hosted on GitHub
Sep/05 One base class to rule them all.
Sep/06 Carol Bartz Out at Yahoo; CFO Interim CEO
Sep/07 Obituary for Michael Stern Hart, Project Gutenberg Founder
Sep/08 Notifo (YC W10) Will be Shutting Down
Sep/09 The New Apple Advantage
Sep/10 The Drupal Crisis
Sep/11 Fucking Sue Me
Sep/12 New Boston Globe website design - taking fluid layout to a new level
Sep/13 Joel Spolsky Launches Trello - Organize Anything Together
Sep/14 TinyProj connects developers, designers, etc. with paid, short-term projects.
Sep/15 Break Google
Sep/16 NowJS Real-time Trials: Build a 2-week hack, win sweet prizes
Sep/17 Bada Bing, Bada Boom: Culture inside Bing
Sep/18 Cracking OSX Lion passwords
Sep/19 Tim O'Reilly on OccupyWallStreet
Sep/20 Windows 8 OEM specs may block Linux booting
Sep/21 GitHub Hits 1,000,000 users
Sep/22 Speed-of-light experiments yield baffling result at LHC
Sep/23 I was once a Facebook fool
Sep/24 SICP optimized for Kindle
Sep/25 Netflix will stream Dreamworks
Sep/26 Zynga's Profits Down by 95%
Sep/27 I want to pay for TextMate 2
Sep/28 Python and Django on Heroku
Sep/29 Stripe: instant payment processing for developers
Sep/30 Dropbox Easter Egg?
Oct/01 VC Decries Airbnb’s Recent Funding for Founder Control and Cashout
Oct/02 Goodbye to the Yakuza
Oct/03 Bitbucket now rocks Git
Oct/04 Searching for Mark Pilgrim
Oct/05 Steve Jobs has passed away.
Oct/06 3.5 Inches
Oct/07 Time to fork the FSF
Oct/08 Overtone
Oct/09 Subtle Patterns: Free textures for your next web project
Oct/10 Billing with Stripe
Oct/11 Steve Jobs Book Excerpt: Why he wore the Black Mock Turtleneck uniform
Oct/12 Rob Pike: Dennis Ritchie has died
Oct/13 250x Speed Improvements with Microcaching (and no new code)
Oct/14 Renee, the friendly rack-based framework
Oct/15 Dizzying but invisible depth
Oct/16 Amazon Signs Up Authors, Writing Publishers Out of Deal
Oct/17 Video: Quantum Levitation
Oct/18 Programming Language Development: The Past 5 Years
Oct/19 Jwz: Google's pseudonym support "obvious bullshit"
Oct/20 Starting is easy. Finishing is hard. Finish something at Finish Weekend.
Oct/21 printf("goodbye, Dennis");
Oct/22 Will Dropouts Save America?
Oct/23 How to hire an idiot
Oct/24 John McCarthy Has Died
Oct/25 A little game to demonstrate timing attacks.
Oct/26 Codify: native coding environment for iPad
Oct/27 Apple Lossless Audio Codec is now open source (Apache license)
Oct/28 Don't Call Yourself a Programmer
Oct/29 Ubuntu should zig to Apple’s zag
Oct/30 A Sister’s Eulogy for Steve Jobs
Oct/31 How One Missing `var` Ruined our Launch
Nov/01 Anonymous Cancels Operation Cartel as Los Zetas Track Hacktivists
Nov/02 My offer to Google Reader
Nov/03 Apple's 1978 office floor plan
Nov/04 Eclipse launches new language to cut down Java boilerplate - Extend
Nov/05 Facebook detects if you are logged in Gmail
Nov/06 Teachers write their own online textbook, save district $175,000
Nov/07 Security researcher Charlie Miller booted from Apple Developer Program
Nov/08 A Brief Rant on the Future of Interaction Design
Nov/09 Warner Bros: we issued takedowns for files we never saw
Nov/10 Steam loses user database
Nov/11 Why Gmail's new design is unsuitable for heavy use
Nov/12 How Color raised money: Bill Nguyen: The Boy In The Bubble
Nov/13 An Open Letter to Peldi Guilizzoni of Balsamiq
Nov/14 Google releases full Android 4.0.1 source code, includes Honeycomb too
Nov/15 Tell congress to stop SOPA with a physical letter
Nov/16 Internet giants place full-page anti-SOPA ad in NYT
Nov/17 Nancy Pelosi, Ron Paul join SOPA opposition
Nov/18 New Arrested Development will appear exclusively on Netflix Streaming
Nov/19 90% Good parts of jQuery - at only 13% of the size
Nov/20 Is SpaceX changing the rocket equation?
Nov/21 Esther Dyson vs Bill Campbell: 2002 − 2012
Nov/22 Doom 3 source released
Nov/23 The Closed, Unfriendly World of Wikipedia
Nov/24 China to cancel college majors that don't pay
Nov/25 Suddenly, Hacker News is not the first result for 'Hacker News'
Nov/26 Solving Instagram's Unshredder with Mechanical Turk and $0.50
Nov/27 Fliers Must Turn Off Devices, but It’s Not Clear Why
Nov/28 Watch a VC use my name to sell a con.
Nov/29 The Rest of the Story (Yammer & Scala)
Nov/30 HN: Amit Gupta hasn't found a marrow transplant match; today's your last chance.
Dec/01 LLVM 3.0 Released
Dec/02 Facebook buys Gowalla
Dec/03 Firefox 11 Targeted for SPDY Support
Dec/04 Convert Any Webpage to an Image | LinkPeek.com
Dec/05 Google can be used as a graphic calculator
Dec/06 Don't Be A Free User
Dec/07 The Unintended Effects of Driverless Cars
Dec/08 Why we ditched PayPal for Stripe
Dec/09 HP to Contribute webOS to Open Source
Dec/10 What is 1e100.net?
Dec/11 WebSockets RFC is now official
Dec/12 CommonCrawl: an open repository of web crawl data that is universally accessible
Dec/13 Louis C.K. experiment results: over $500,000 in 4 days
Dec/14 Trolls (2008)
Dec/15 The nightmarish SOPA hearings
Dec/16 Focus on building 10x teams, not on hiring 10x developers
Dec/17 I'm turning 30 and I've produced no amazing art.
Dec/18 N. Korean leader Kim Jong Il dies
Dec/19 Rails 3.2 RC1: Faster dev mode & routing, explain queries, tagged logger, store
Dec/20 Dropping a Magnet Through a Copper Pipe
Dec/21 LinkedIn open sources IndexTank: search engine and service
Dec/22 Paul Graham: SOPA Supporting Companies No Longer Allowed At YC Demo Day
Dec/23 GoDaddy is scrambling to do damage control
Dec/24 GoDaddy has not withdrawn its official congressional support for SOPA
Dec/25 Christmas tree made out of form elements (webkit)
Dec/26 GoDaddy: A glimpse of the Internet under SOPA
Dec/27 Coming soon
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