Hacker News

Hacker News

1.		Harvard's 1899 Entrance Exam [pdf] [scribd] (nytimes.com)
		74 points by benjaminfox 5 hours ago \| 40 comments
2.		Google Opens Y Combinator-like incubator...in Africa (techcrunch.com)
		27 points by timlindinct 3 hours ago \| 9 comments
3.		Crash Course: Design for Startups (paulstamatiou.com)
		381 points by PStamatiou 18 hours ago \| 30 comments
4.		The bare essential guide to Emacs (eatingair.com)
		8 points by hanszeir 1 hour ago \| 1 comment
5.		The loudness wars: Why music sounds worse (npr.org)
		15 points by aycangulez 2 hours ago \| 1 comment
6.		Scott Adams on How to Get a Real Education (wsj.com)
		70 points by mvs 8 hours ago \| 19 comments
7.		We need a GitHub of Science (marciovm.com)
		179 points by marciovm123 13 hours ago \| 47 comments
8.		MPlayer - Monday 18.4.2011 I will stop providing any service to MPlayer (mplayerhq.hu)
		114 points by Uncle_Sam 8 hours ago \| 19 comments
9.		Javascript hack weekend: Unique projects to inspire awesome hacks (nowjs.com)
		49 points by ericz 6 hours ago \| 8 comments
10.		Lorempixum: Generate placeholder images (not just gray boxes) (lorempixum.com)
		146 points by rondevera 15 hours ago \| 24 comments
11.		Why T-shirts matter at tech companies (adamnash.com)
		203 points by rondevera 18 hours ago \| 124 comments
12.		Glasnost: Test if your ISP is shaping your traffic (mpi-sws.org)
		44 points by drey 8 hours ago \| 9 comments
13.		OpenTLD - The predator TLD source code is online (github.com)
		6 points by daralthus 2 hours ago \| discuss
14.		YouTube is going Live (youtube-global.blogspot.com)
		185 points by Uncle_Sam 19 hours ago \| 76 comments
15.		My startup story: from big idea to thriving business in 8 short years (traysoft.com)
		121 points by jv22222 16 hours ago \| 18 comments
16.		The Megabus Effect (businessweek.com)
		39 points by dangoldin 9 hours ago \| 16 comments
17.		New engine shakes up auto industry (msn.com)
		83 points by pjy04 14 hours ago \| 34 comments
18.		Why Can't Developers Estimate Time? (patchspace.co.uk)
		220 points by ashleymoran 23 hours ago \| 122 comments
19.		Birth and Death of Microsoft Bing (myprasanna.posterous.com)
		286 points by domino 1 day ago \| 109 comments
20.		Google acquires ITA Software (googleblog.blogspot.com)
		146 points by rondevera 19 hours ago \| 63 comments
21.		Using prime numbers to make better backgrounds (designfestival.com)
		891 points by jimsteinhart 1 day ago \| 49 comments
22.		The JavaScript Age (metamarketsgroup.com)
		88 points by hanifvirani 16 hours ago \| 43 comments
23.		Mint’s Original Marketing Plan (circa 2007) (thestartupfoundry.com)
		94 points by g0atbutt 17 hours ago \| 12 comments
24.		Facebook open sources its servers and data centers (gigaom.com)
		510 points by arithmetic 1 day ago \| 97 comments
25.		Meet the IOIO - USB breakout board for android w/48 digital+analog IO pins (ytai-mer.blogspot.com)
		130 points by JonnieCache 22 hours ago \| 29 comments
26.		Physics Engines for Dummies (wildbunny.co.uk)
		348 points by twodayslate 1 day ago \| 14 comments
27.		Are grains making us fat? If so, we should be much thinner than 1914. (theatlantic.com)
		64 points by yummyfajitas 14 hours ago \| 52 comments
28.		Garage48 hackatons go to Africa - Lagos is first (garage48.org)
		3 points by jkaljundi 2 hours ago \| discuss
29.		Nikki and the Robots: Open Source Videogame Written in Haskell (joyridelabs.de)
		55 points by swannodette 16 hours ago \| 15 comments
30.		Google has developed speech-recognition technology that actually works. (slate.com)
		94 points by pelf 21 hours ago \| 47 comments
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