Hacker News

Hacker News

1.		Using Flat Files So Elections Don’t Break Your Server (nytimes.com)
		88 points by tysone 1 hour ago \| 13 comments
2.		AOL Acquires Personal Profile Startup About.Me (techcrunch.com)
		40 points by MichaelApproved 55 minutes ago \| 23 comments
3.		Realtime encoding - over 150x faster (transloadit.com)
		75 points by felixge 2 hours ago \| 45 comments
4.		Android Developers Blog: It’s not “rooting”, it’s openness (android-developers.blogspot.com)
		77 points by twapi 3 hours ago \| 14 comments
5.		Avoiding Burnout in a Software Startup (tophatmonocle.com)
		24 points by amackera 1 hour ago \| 4 comments
6.		The puzzle that started complexity theory. (nyu.edu)
		52 points by gnosis 3 hours ago \| 13 comments
7.		You don't really want a million dollars (ryanwaggoner.com)
		126 points by ryanwaggoner 4 hours ago \| 103 comments
8.		Free calling in Gmail extended through 2011 (gmailblog.blogspot.com)
		38 points by Uncle_Sam 2 hours ago \| 10 comments
9.		Impact HTML5 Game Engine released (phoboslab.org)
		148 points by helium 7 hours ago \| 57 comments
10.		Pandora, Angry Birds, other apps selling private info to advertisers (lifehacker.com)
		108 points by dshankar 6 hours ago \| 62 comments
11.		Instant On (dadgum.com)
		10 points by silentbicycle 54 minutes ago \| 2 comments
12.		Planning to hack over the holidays? Heroku & Indextank Search contest (heroku.com)
		8 points by diego 39 minutes ago \| 2 comments
13.		A collection of apps the 37signals team started using in the past year (37signals.com)
		36 points by duck 3 hours ago \| 6 comments
14.		Kevin Smith’s Secrets To A Successful Life (connectedcomedy.com)
		126 points by moge 8 hours ago \| 39 comments
15.		The Internet is made out of meat (antipope.org)
		37 points by keyist 4 hours ago \| 14 comments
16.		New at Tropo: SSL and REST APIs for provisioning & remote control (tropo.com)
		28 points by caseorganic 3 hours ago \| 5 comments
17.		Undue process: how Uncle Sam seized BitTorrent domain names (arstechnica.com)
		12 points by mycroftiv 1 hour ago \| discuss
18.		Farewell NYC (and YCW11 rejection next steps) (richpalmer.org)
		36 points by richpalmer2 4 hours ago \| 19 comments
19.		Forrst v3 Launched Today (forrst.com)
		49 points by philtoronto 6 hours ago \| 30 comments
20.		InnoDB faster than NoSQL solutions? (mysqldba.blogspot.com)
		20 points by petervandijck 3 hours ago \| 8 comments
21.		Cardpool (YC W10) Speeds Up Gift Card Selling By Removing The Snail Mail Option (techcrunch.com)
		23 points by anson 4 hours ago \| 10 comments
22.		An Open Letter to JavaScript Leaders Regarding Semicolons (izs.me)
		59 points by tswicegood 7 hours ago \| 42 comments
23.		Why Google's Chrome notebook will succeed (msn.com)
		46 points by duck 6 hours ago \| 41 comments
24.		Who Can Name the Bigger Number? (scottaaronson.com)
		42 points by shawndumas 6 hours ago \| 19 comments
25.		Vertical farming: Does it really stack up? (economist.com)
		60 points by ph0rque 8 hours ago \| 39 comments
26.		Paul Irish's call for development help and research (paulirish.com)
		12 points by CWIZO 3 hours ago \| 2 comments
27.		Netflix: Use Less Chatty Protocols In The Cloud - Plus 26 Fixes (highscalability.com)
		19 points by yarapavan 4 hours ago \| 1 comment
28.		NASA's CIO - Santa Baby, I’d sit on your lap for a shower cap (nasa.gov)
		22 points by markbnine 4 hours ago \| 11 comments
29.		Jason Fried's talk at Big Omaha 2010 (siliconprairienews.com)
		6 points by atrain34 57 minutes ago \| discuss
30.		Facebook Fellowships (facebook.com)
		8 points by jonlevine 2 hours ago \| 2 comments
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