Hacker News

Hacker News

1.		Harvard's 1899 Entrance Exam [pdf] [scribd] (nytimes.com)
		65 points by benjaminfox 4 hours ago \| 35 comments
2.		Google Opens Y Combinator-like incubator...in Africa (techcrunch.com)
		20 points by timlindinct 2 hours ago \| 5 comments
3.		MPlayer - Monday 18.4.2011 I will stop providing any service to MPlayer (mplayerhq.hu)
		109 points by Uncle_Sam 7 hours ago \| 18 comments
4.		Crash Course: Design for Startups (paulstamatiou.com)
		374 points by PStamatiou 17 hours ago \| 29 comments
5.		We need a GitHub of Science (marciovm.com)
		173 points by marciovm123 12 hours ago \| 47 comments
6.		Scott Adams on How to Get a Real Education (wsj.com)
		59 points by mvs 7 hours ago \| 18 comments
7.		Javascript hack weekend: Unique projects to inspire awesome hacks (nowjs.com)
		43 points by ericz 5 hours ago \| 4 comments
8.		Lorempixum: Generate placeholder images (not just gray boxes) (lorempixum.com)
		144 points by rondevera 14 hours ago \| 23 comments
9.		Glasnost: Test if your ISP is shaping your traffic (mpi-sws.org)
		40 points by drey 7 hours ago \| 6 comments
10.		Why T-shirts matter at tech companies (adamnash.com)
		200 points by rondevera 17 hours ago \| 120 comments
11.		The Megabus Effect (businessweek.com)
		36 points by dangoldin 7 hours ago \| 16 comments
12.		YouTube is going Live (youtube-global.blogspot.com)
		181 points by Uncle_Sam 18 hours ago \| 75 comments
13.		My startup story: from big idea to thriving business in 8 short years (traysoft.com)
		117 points by jv22222 15 hours ago \| 18 comments
14.		The loudness wars: Why music sounds worse (npr.org)
		5 points by aycangulez 1 hour ago \| discuss
15.		New engine shakes up auto industry (msn.com)
		81 points by pjy04 13 hours ago \| 33 comments
16.		Why Can't Developers Estimate Time? (patchspace.co.uk)
		219 points by ashleymoran 22 hours ago \| 122 comments
17.		Google acquires ITA Software (googleblog.blogspot.com)
		145 points by rondevera 18 hours ago \| 63 comments
18.		Birth and Death of Microsoft Bing (myprasanna.posterous.com)
		285 points by domino 1 day ago \| 109 comments
19.		Using prime numbers to make better backgrounds (designfestival.com)
		890 points by jimsteinhart 1 day ago \| 49 comments
20.		The JavaScript Age (metamarketsgroup.com)
		86 points by hanifvirani 15 hours ago \| 40 comments
21.		Mint’s Original Marketing Plan (circa 2007) (thestartupfoundry.com)
		93 points by g0atbutt 16 hours ago \| 12 comments
22.		Meet the IOIO - USB breakout board for android w/48 digital+analog IO pins (ytai-mer.blogspot.com)
		130 points by JonnieCache 21 hours ago \| 28 comments
23.		Are grains making us fat? If so, we should be much thinner than 1914. (theatlantic.com)
		61 points by yummyfajitas 13 hours ago \| 48 comments
24.		Facebook open sources its servers and data centers (gigaom.com)
		509 points by arithmetic 1 day ago \| 97 comments
25.		Physics Engines for Dummies (wildbunny.co.uk)
		346 points by twodayslate 1 day ago \| 14 comments
26.		Five Easy Pieces of Online Identity (evhead.com)
		30 points by hornokplease 11 hours ago \| 14 comments
27.		Nikki and the Robots: Open Source Videogame Written in Haskell (joyridelabs.de)
		53 points by swannodette 15 hours ago \| 15 comments
28.		Google has developed speech-recognition technology that actually works. (slate.com)
		92 points by pelf 20 hours ago \| 47 comments
29.		Why Facebook open-sourced its datacenters (arstechnica.com)
		24 points by lotusleaf1987 10 hours ago \| 4 comments
30.		We mistakenly marked about 50 applications as late
		120 points by pg 14 hours ago \| 53 comments
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