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| 1. | Coming Home to Vim (stevelosh.com) | |
| 285 points | 2010 | author stevelosh showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread | on Y Recombinator
“I'm the author and submitter of the post and for what it's worth I don't mind his comment at all. It's relevant because OS X Vim users would probably like to use Vim…” | ||
| 2. | Did Americans in 1776 have British accents? (nicholasjohnpatrick.com) | |
| 268 points | 2010 | author nickpatrick showed up | their comment | thread
“I'm a longtime HN lurker, so I was very excited to see it shared here. I've really enjoyed reading the discussion. A quick disclaimer: I have zero background in…” | ||
| 3. | Youtube Instant creator gets instant job offer (venturebeat.com) | |
| 240 points | 2010 | author feross showed up | their comment | thread
“Actually, I never "announced" this site anywhere. I posted a status update to some friends to get their feedback. They shared it and it spread from there. I woke up this…” | ||
| 4. | How two Pythonistas accidentally fell in love with Rails (blog.brandonbloom.name) | |
| 222 points | 2010 | author snprbob86 showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Yeah, there is a non-zero chance of that happening. However, I keep discovering more and more Rails design choices that either match or closely align with my…” | ||
| 5. | JQuery Sparklines (omnipotent.net) | |
| 201 points | 2010 | author xeno42 showed up | their comment | thread
“I wrote this a couple of years ago and it's been very nice to see the amount of attention it's received; I probably receive an email a day about it on average. Just wish…” | ||
| 6. | The pros and cons of 'fuck you' money. (jacquesmattheij.com) | |
| 199 points | 2010 | author jacquesm showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I wrote that in response to another HN article that used that term. May I suggest:” | ||
| 7. | Experimenting with Node.js (jeffkreeftmeijer.com) | |
| 171 points | 2010 | author jkreeftmeijer showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“While building this thing, the Node server had the tendency to drop out. I'm monitoring it with God () now, so it restarts whenever anything goes wrong. I'm genuinely…” | ||
| 8. | Need a Job? Build Something Cool. | |
| 154 points | 2010 | author feross showed up | their comment | thread
“Thanks for all the nice comments. This discussion has been quite interesting to read.” | ||
| 9. | Yacc is dead (arxiv.org) | |
| 154 points | 2010 | author mattmight showed up | their comment | thread
“I'm delighted to see this get some attention here. I absolutely love these techniques for parsing, but as my primary research areas is static analysis, I haven't had…” | ||
| 10. | Texas Hold'em Experiment (benjoffe.com) | |
| 148 points | 2010 | author benjoffe showed up | their comment | thread
“I also recently put up similar decks for Omaha: Feel free to ask questions.” | ||
| 11. | Hacker News Instant Search (instantise.com) | |
| 146 points | 2010 | author TamDenholm showed up | their comment | thread
“thanks all for the kind words. It's nice to see it reaching the front page of HN when someone with decent karma submits it. Just to let you all know I've only spent…” | ||
| 12. | Land of Lisp: Learn to Program in Lisp, One Game at a Time (oreilly.com) | |
| 141 points | 2010 | author drcode showed up | their comment | thread
“I'm the author- The book is printing as we speak and should be hitting the stores late Oct/early Nov. Around that time a lot more info on the book will also be available…” | ||
| 13. | CDE: Easily run a program on any linux without thinking about dependencies (stanford.edu) | |
| 132 points | 2010 | author pgbovine showed up | their comment | thread
“so please feel free to ping me if you have questions, complaints, or bug reports. i'm in the midst of fixing a bunch of silly bugs now and improving the documentation.” | ||
| 14. | Facebook Messaging: scorned by nerds, built for teens like candy-covered crack (brokenbottleboy.tumblr.com) | |
| 121 points | 2010 | author Brokenbottleboy showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“1 works initially but then 2 takes over in time. Apple isn't about "hackers", it's about people who want ease of use and style. Linux boxes and the like are hacker…” | ||
| 15. | Lambda-style anonymous functions for C++ in less than 500 lines of code (matt.might.net) | |
| 111 points | 2010 | author fadmmatt showed up | their comment | thread
“I'd love to use Haskell, but I'm helping out on an exascale DoE project, and C++ is all we're allowed to use. Ugh. Of course, lambdas don't make C++ more powerful, but…” | ||
| 16. | Lisphp is a Lisp dialect written in PHP. (github.com) | |
| 110 points | 2010 | author dahlia showed up | their comment | thread
“I made the web REPL also. Well, of course, it uses a sandbox environment.” | ||
| 17. | 500MB download? Why didn't Wired Magazine use HTML5 for their iPad app? (interfacelab.com) | |
| 107 points | 2010 | author jawngee showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Have you used it? It really is pretty much a slideshow. Even if you write it using webkit, you can ape whatever wonderful interactions you seem to be having (that I must…” | ||
| 18. | Touristiness heatmap by number of public photos (maps.google.com) | |
| 105 points | 2010 | author ahtih showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“and I just added a "Interesting Remote Places" map where I take in population data from geonames.org. It is on the same webpage as the Touristiness Map: I swear I picked…” | ||