Hacker News

Hacker News

1.		MIT OpenCourseWare introduces courses designed for independent learners (mit.edu)
		220 points by ashwinl 9 hours ago \| 24 comments
2.		US Patent system so dysfunctional you can patent a stick from a tree (google.com)
		101 points by lotusleaf1987 7 hours ago \| 22 comments
3.		Spray-on liquid glass is about to revolutionize almost everything (physorg.com)
		199 points by morganpyne 13 hours ago \| 112 comments
4.		Encoder Is Not a State Machine (subfurther.com)
		19 points by zoul 3 hours ago \| 3 comments
5.		How to win with an online store (hint: don't sell things available on Amazon) (gettingmoreawesome.com)
		77 points by rishi 9 hours ago \| 21 comments
6.		Google's dropping H.264 in Chrome is not a step backward for openness. (opera.com)
		274 points by martythemaniak 18 hours ago \| 111 comments
7.		Why Indian Startups need to get off their asses and learn to program (indianstartupgyaan.wordpress.com)
		77 points by rohitarondekar 9 hours ago \| 56 comments
8.		MapReduce from the basics to the actually useful (in under 30 minutes) (cloudant.com)
		79 points by cloudant 9 hours ago \| 10 comments
9.		“OK, but there are two rules…” (andyswan.com)
		189 points by speek 15 hours ago \| 58 comments
10.		Warning: Software Startups are Not as Easy as Everyone Says (2007) (softwarebyrob.com)
		32 points by dshah 6 hours ago \| 14 comments
11.		Are 10-11 hour programming days feasible? (slashdot.org)
		28 points by dholowiski 6 hours ago \| 20 comments
12.		WhiteProxy: only allow yourself the Internet that's relevant (github.com)
		21 points by diiq 5 hours ago \| 7 comments
13.		"Should I still learn Java?" Answered: Yes. (beginwithjava.blogspot.com)
		27 points by Garbage 2 hours ago \| 37 comments
14.		How to write a simple operating system (berlios.de)
		196 points by motxilo 19 hours ago \| 14 comments
15.		Hack Week at Dropbox (dropbox.com)
		90 points by aston 13 hours ago \| 13 comments
16.		I love async, but I can't code like this (google.com)
		101 points by vamsee 14 hours ago \| 53 comments
17.		Groupon Readies for An I.P.O. (nytimes.com)
		39 points by ssclafani 8 hours ago \| 18 comments
18.		Carnegie Mellon CS Professor challenges Sony by mirroring Geohot's PS3 hacks (cmu.edu)
		589 points by elliottcarlson 1 day ago \| 80 comments
19.		News Corp says looking at spinout or sale of MySpace (reuters.com)
		3 points by jacquesm 1 hour ago \| discuss
20.		IE9 beta's HTML5 support isn't there yet: 3 big canvas gotchas (deviantart.com)
		67 points by kemayo 12 hours ago \| 24 comments
21.		What is a functional programming language? (enfranchisedmind.com)
		40 points by bendmorris 9 hours ago \| 21 comments
22.		Show HN: My silly twist on the Facebook Like button (zuupy.com)
		5 points by fezzl 2 hours ago \| 9 comments
23.		Show HN: cubeduel (our side project) (cubeduel.com)
		86 points by webwright 14 hours ago \| 43 comments
24.		The Practical vs. Idealistic Scenarios for the Near-Term Future of Online Video (daringfireball.net)
		54 points by danilocampos 12 hours ago \| 31 comments
25.		How to get your startup on Hacker News (swombat.com)
		139 points by swombat 19 hours ago \| 38 comments
26.		Steve Pavlina releases 1000+ personal development articles into public domain (stevepavlina.com)
		45 points by ximeng 11 hours ago \| 15 comments
27.		Thoughts on Webmatrix (Microsoft's simple website development tool) (wekeroad.com)
		43 points by ttrashh 11 hours ago \| 18 comments
28.		Beyond the RDBMS: the Brave New (Old) World of NoSQL (greenspun.com)
		12 points by mattmcknight 5 hours ago \| 2 comments
29.		The Security Threat of Forged Law-Enforcement Credentials (schneier.com)
		90 points by wglb 17 hours ago \| 10 comments
30.		Slick CSS3 overlay system (js) (learnboost.com)
		34 points by rgbrgb 10 hours ago \| 6 comments
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