Hacker News new | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit | 2010-10-10 login
Stories from October 10, 2010
Go back a day, month, or year. Go forward a day, month, or year.
1. Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat) (ubuntu.com)
214 points by tzury on Oct 10, 2010 | 86 comments
2. The Evaporative Cooling Effect in Online Communities (bumblebeelabs.com)
163 points by shalmanese on Oct 10, 2010 | 35 comments
3. My zero-equity co-founders (daemonology.net)
134 points by cperciva on Oct 10, 2010 | 48 comments
4. Ask HN: Cost of living across the world (Ramen PPP Index for hackers)
126 points by nileshtrivedi on Oct 10, 2010 | 176 comments
5. Try Ubuntu 10.10 Server in Amazon EC2, entirely on our dime (ubuntu.com)
125 points by yungchin on Oct 10, 2010 | 29 comments
6. Countries ranked by ease of starting a business (doingbusiness.org)
119 points by chaosmachine on Oct 10, 2010 | 98 comments
7. How to Make Visa Obey Your Every Desire: The Credit Card Concierge Experiment (fourhourworkweek.com)
112 points by urbannomad on Oct 10, 2010 | 62 comments
8. How NASA engineered the Chilean miners' escape pod (aolnews.com)
106 points by jaxonrice on Oct 10, 2010 | 28 comments
9. Ten Theses on Tablets (tbray.org)
91 points by jackowayed on Oct 10, 2010 | 35 comments
10. Help HN: Want to build small web app for learning and side income.
85 points by maheshs on Oct 10, 2010 | 42 comments
11. An Object Lesson in How to Respond to Criticism (eflorenzano.com)
78 points by twampss on Oct 10, 2010 | 4 comments
12. Free programming E-books (citizen428.net)
78 points by J3L2404 on Oct 10, 2010 | 7 comments
13. How teenage poker prodigy Steven Silverman won, and lost, millions (washingtonpost.com)
71 points by cwan on Oct 10, 2010 | 57 comments
14. Innovative Android/iPhone app uses camera and flash to check your heart rate (androidandme.com)
62 points by borismus on Oct 10, 2010 | 22 comments
15. Self-learning is overrated (in programming) (mikhanov.com)
59 points by smikhanov on Oct 10, 2010 | 36 comments
16. How we improved signups by 30% by doing nothing. (historio.us)
55 points by stavros on Oct 10, 2010 | 44 comments
17. TC Teardown: 13 Ways To Get To $10 Million In Revenues (Part I) (techcrunch.com)
53 points by cwan on Oct 10, 2010 | 12 comments
18. Open source RTMP streaming server written in Erlang (erlyvideo.org)
50 points by andrew_k on Oct 10, 2010 | 6 comments
19. You've Won The Nobel Prize -- Wait, Don't Hang Up (npr.org)
48 points by danhak on Oct 10, 2010 | 5 comments
20. Angry Birds developer claims MS jumped the gun,'not committed' to Win Phone 7 (engadget.com)
48 points by transburgh on Oct 10, 2010 | 28 comments
21. Why we hate Lisp (c2.com)
43 points by helwr on Oct 10, 2010 | 40 comments
22. Greg Mankiw: I Can Afford Higher Taxes. But They’ll Make Me Work Less. (nytimes.com)
43 points by cwan on Oct 10, 2010 | 92 comments
23. Ubuntu 10.10 – What’s New? [Screenshots] (digitizor.com)
41 points by dkd903 on Oct 10, 2010 | 8 comments
24. Dear Zed, please throw the bikeshedders a bone (crazybear.posterous.com)
41 points by yummyfajitas on Oct 10, 2010 | 25 comments
25. Web traffic redirected to China still a mystery (cnet.com)
39 points by _b8r0 on Oct 10, 2010 | 5 comments
26. Mongrel2 Cannot Defeat Ninjas (sheddingbikes.com)
38 points by spahl on Oct 10, 2010 | 16 comments
27. How I got to Google (googleblog.blogspot.com)
38 points by siddhant on Oct 10, 2010 | 2 comments
28. Node.js screencasts : Nodecasts.org (nodecasts.org)
34 points by briandek on Oct 10, 2010 | 11 comments
29. Samsung Galaxy S sales surpass five million (engadget.com)
35 points by Garbage on Oct 10, 2010 | 14 comments
30. I shared his post at HN and he landed a job on Zendesk (rodrigogalindez.com)
34 points by armandososa on Oct 10, 2010 | 13 comments

Consider applying for YC's W25 batch! Applications are open till Nov 12.

Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: