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| 1. | Patio11 says Hello Ladies (akshat.posterous.com) | |
| 699 points | 2011 | author patio11 showed up | their comment | thread | on Y Recombinator
“I wrote that into the slide primarily because you had seemed so affected by it. Thanks for calling it out for me.” | ||
| 2. | Twitter's Storm (complex event processing system) is now open source (github.com) | |
| 461 points | 2011 | author nathanmarz showed up | their comment | thread
“Just wanted to point you to a few resources: I've written a lot of documentation on the wiki, which you can find here: There's a few companion projects to Storm. These…” | ||
| 3. | Signs that you are a bad programmer (yacoset.com) | |
| 450 points | 2011 | author clawrencewenham showed up | their comment | thread
“and after Infogami went to the big web host in the sky I ported it and my other nonsense to Google Sites. The slightly updated version of the same article is now here:” | ||
| 4. | Android Orphans: Visualizing a Sad History of Support (theunderstatement.com) | |
| 450 points | 2011 | author degusta showed up | their comment | thread
“Happy to answer any questions or comments people might have.” | ||
| 5. | Building a Web Application that makes $500 a Month – Part I (tbbuck.com) | |
| 421 points | 2011 | author mootothemax showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Over the last 18 months I've learned an incredible amount from the users here on Hacker News, and I figured that it's about time I started giving something back. None of…” | ||
| 6. | Give 100 Percent? (samanthadouglas.wordpress.com) | |
| 375 points | 2011 | author samanthadouglas showed up | their comment | thread
“and just want to clarify, I have had the top grades of my class for my entire life. This is more so concerning with the need for grading and assessment more than…” | ||
| 7. | Rapid DHCP: Or, how do Macs get on the network so fast? (cafbit.com) | |
| 354 points | 2011 | author simmons showed up | their comment | thread | on Y Recombinator
“I also ran my tests with a Samsung Series 5 Chromebook. Its DHCP Vendor-Class string is "dhcpcd 5.1.4". The DHCP performance seems fair, around 2 seconds. However, the…” | ||
| 8. | Node.js Guide (nodeguide.com) | |
| 346 points | 2011 | author felixge showed up | their comment | thread
“Thanks for your feedback. You made some great points about real time systems, I'll try to rework that section. This reminds me of school : ). The difference here however…” | ||
| 9. | Life lessons learned in travelling the world for 8 years straight (fluentin3months.com) | |
| 340 points | 2011 | author irishpolyglot showed up | their comment | thread
“I'm the author and I agree with Vacri's interpretation.” | ||
| 10. | Birth and Death of Microsoft Bing (myprasanna.posterous.com) | |
| 322 points | 2011 | author myprasanna showed up | their comment | thread
“I'm the author of this post and by no means I expected this to be on the top of HN today. It was a surprise. I din't do any good editing on this, since it was my…” | ||
| 11. | Why I left Google. What happened to my book. What I work on at Facebook. (thinkoutsidein.com) | |
| 321 points | 2011 | author padday showed up | their comment | thread
“Just my own thoughts - I think it's pretty balanced. Wanted to get some facts out there as people were speculating.” | ||
| 12. | The Node Beginner Book, an introduction to Node.js, is now complete (nodebeginner.org) | |
| 314 points | 2011 | author ManuelKiessling showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I would like to add much more relevant content to the book, but I need to be realistic about how much time I can spare for this currently. We will see how it works out.” | ||
| 13. | Carrier IQ references discovered in Apple's iOS (theverge.com) | |
| 305 points | 2011 | author Xuzz showed up | their comment | thread
“I think that is the case: it is using the same "diagnostics are enabled?" function call that the Crash Report submission is using, and the binary logs "This is not…” | ||
| 14. | The Rise of Developeronomics (forbes.com) | |
| 282 points | 2011 | author vgr showed up | their comment | thread
“You can contact me via my blog” | ||
| 15. | Last.fm co-founder: Apple just fucked over online music subs for the iPhone (downloadsquad.switched.com) | |
| 271 points | 2011 | author mrseb showed up | their comment | thread
“I've put 'co-founder' back into the post's title -- sorry about the ambiguity.” | ||
| 16. | Realistic Skin Rendering in WebGL (alteredqualia.com) | |
| 270 points | 2011 | author bd showed up | their comment | thread
“It's approximation of subsurface scattering, modeled by combination of multiple Gaussian blurs done in texture space (there are 4 blur layers plus original normal mapped…” | ||
| 17. | How to Make Money in 6 Easy Steps (inc.com) | |
| 261 points | 2011 | author jasonfried showed up | their comment | thread
“just not the headlines/subheads. My editor always tweaks a few words here and there, but I always review prior to publication. So I'd say it's a 9.9.” | ||
| 18. | What Makes Android Revolutionary (osnews.com) | |
| 246 points | 2011 | author thomholwerda showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Nope. It doesn't mean "reaches the most people". It means "has the most impact on the world". I think that Android will be the technology that allows people in poorer…” | ||
| 19. | Engineering management at Facebook (algeri-wong.com) | |
| 238 points | 2011 | author yishan showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Someone alerted me that this showed up on HN, so I figured I should come by to clarify. I believe my statement might be clear. What I mean by that is "it's [everyone's]…” | ||
| 20. | OpenVim: Learn Vim in Your Browser (openvim.com) | |
| 237 points | 2011 | author mushishi showed up | their comment | thread
“Sorry about that. I didn't mean that this should get into the wild this fast. I fixed the link (I had renamed Bitbucket repository). Also, it is not supposed to cover…” | ||
| 21. | What Powers Instagram: Hundreds of Instances, Dozens of Technologies (instagram-engineering.tumblr.com) | |
| 237 points | 2011 | author mikeyk showed up | their comment | thread
“To clarify, our uploads go to our servers first (where we resize for thumbnails, etc) then go to S3.” | ||
| 22. | Git is as revolutionary as Unix pipes (2008) (apenwarr.ca) | |
| 235 points | 2011 | author apenwarr showed up | their comment | thread
“The comments here make me think (again) that the article wasn't clear enough: admittedly, when I first wrote it, I was just discovering git, as some of the comments…” | ||
| 23. | Google’s Management Doesn’t Use Google+ (theunderstatement.com) | |
| 214 points | 2011 | author degusta showed up | their comment (+3 more) | thread
“Your last point is very true, and the chart tries to make it very clear it's only talking about public posts. Obviously entirely true that they could be using it purely…” | ||
| 24. | Python For The Web (gun.io) | |
| 213 points | 2011 | author Mizza showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I wrote this for a friend who is just getting started out in python/web stuff. It might be a little n00bly for lots of people here, but it could be interesting for…” | ||
| 25. | Show HN: Hacker News Mobile - A fast and readable mobile HN website (hn.gethifi.com) | |
| 209 points | 2011 | author KrisJordan showed up | their comment | thread
“It's actually a tiny coffee script program that caches iHN.net's API calls in redis. We cache/proxy the successful responses and toss out the 500s. When a cached copy of…” | ||
| 26. | Javascript Cryptography Considered Harmful (matasano.com) | |
| 207 points | 2011 | author tptacek showed up | their comment | thread | on Y Recombinator
“I wrote the article and I don't think TLS is hard.” | ||
| 27. | Node-fib: Fast non-blocking fibonacci server (github.com) | |
| 194 points | 2011 | author glenjamin showed up | their comment | thread
“didn't really expect this to get picked up anywhere but since it has I'd like to point out the idea was to demonstrate that computationally expensive algorithms can be…” | ||
| 28. | A practical use for space-filling curves (www2.isye.gatech.edu) | |
| 192 points | 2011 | author jjb3 showed up | their comment | thread
“Hello All! I am one of the authors. Thanks for the interesting comments. The web page is not intended to be a study but rather an enticement to read the technical papers…” | ||
| 29. | LulzSec supposedly claims its biggest coup yet: The entire UK 2011 Census (thenextweb.com) | |
| 192 points | 2011 | author m4tt showed up | their comment | thread
“I wrote the article and have been trying to trace the authenticity of the release. I am still waiting to hear back from the Office of National Statistics, which at the…” | ||
| 30. | Firefox 4, 5, 6 and 7 to be released before the end of 2011 (downloadsquad.switched.com) | |
| 188 points | 2011 | author mrseb showed up | their comment | thread
“There are 64-bit nightly builds of FF4, but _only_ nightlies: This suggests that there won't be an official 64-bit build of Firefox 4 -- we'll have to wait for Firefox…” | ||
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