Hacker News

Hacker News

1.		Why Microsoft bought Skype (cringely.com)
		86 points by evo_9 4 hours ago \| 42 comments
2.		Maybe Americans aren't dumb enough to keep buying houses? (harvard.edu)
		107 points by spottiness 5 hours ago \| 91 comments
3.		Beats Drum Machine (beatsdrummachine.com)
		41 points by thmzlt 3 hours ago \| 8 comments
4.		Parc Fires Back at New Yorker, Claims Gladwell Misses How Innovation Works (xconomy.com)
		7 points by robertbud1 47 minutes ago \| discuss
5.		America's Achilles' heel: the Mississippi River's Old River Control Structure (wunderground.com)
		33 points by cypherpunks01 3 hours ago \| 7 comments
6.		The Arduino project gets a core memory accessory (thinq.co.uk)
		19 points by ColinWright 2 hours ago \| 3 comments
7.		Learning to Love JavaScript (ontwik.com)
		25 points by ahmicro 4 hours ago \| discuss
8.		Is it hard to build a web app that makes at least $1000 a month? (quora.com)
		170 points by ljdk 13 hours ago \| 77 comments
9.		Conway's Game of Life in one line of APL (catpad.net)
		42 points by rbanffy 6 hours ago \| 7 comments
10.		Comments Are Dead. We Need You to Help Reinvent Them (pbs.org)
		44 points by miraj 6 hours ago \| 41 comments
11.		GNU SIP Witch 1.0 released for peer-to-peer next gen VoIP (gnu.org)
		6 points by Grauwolf 1 hour ago \| 2 comments
12.		Forget Me Not - How to win the U.S. memory championship. (slate.com)
		7 points by senthil_rajasek 2 hours ago \| 5 comments
13.		Creator of "Dirty Jobs" Mike Rowe testifies to Congress (discovery.com)
		596 points by goldins 1 day ago \| 193 comments
14.		Lender 2.0: Kiva's Premal Shah (latimes.com)
		9 points by edw519 3 hours ago \| 2 comments
15.		Proudcloud Ramaze (Lightweight Ruby Framework) Presentation (proudcloud.net)
		18 points by bougyman 5 hours ago \| 3 comments
16.		Thoughts on Learning Emacs (wideaperture.net)
		47 points by codeup 11 hours ago \| 16 comments
17.		Dropbox Lied to Users about Data Security, Complaint to FTC Alleges (wired.com)
		225 points by schwanksta 22 hours ago \| 92 comments
18.		Listia (YC S09) is hiring hackers to help us build a better marketplace (listia.com)
		3 hours ago
19.		Lockitron (YC S09) Lets You Unlock Your Door With Your Phone (techcrunch.com)
		121 points by RyanAmos 19 hours ago \| 87 comments
20.		Is Rejection Painful? Actually, It Is (nytimes.com)
		32 points by robg 8 hours ago \| 11 comments
21.		Mental Illness and Startups (tesser.org)
		146 points by fractalcat 22 hours ago \| 48 comments
22.		Pay Enough or Don't Pay at All (behind-the-enemy-lines.blogspot.com)
		108 points by Panos 19 hours ago \| 19 comments
23.		Following the White Rabbit: Software Attacks Against Intel VT-d (theinvisiblethings.blogspot.com)
		29 points by wglb 9 hours ago \| 3 comments
24.		Should Smallpox Be Put To Death? (uchicago.edu)
		33 points by davi 11 hours ago \| 27 comments
25.		Why Cloud is Like Email in the 1980's (internetnews.com)
		20 points by pwg 7 hours ago \| 9 comments
26.		CEO of Svpply: I have no idea what I'm doing (pieratt.tumblr.com)
		162 points by j2d2j2d2 1 day ago \| 67 comments
27.		Google Go on App Engine (theregister.co.uk)
		27 points by hanszeir 8 hours ago \| 1 comment
28.		Mailgun (YC W11) Raises $1.1 Million For Its "Twilio For Email" (techcrunch.com)
		158 points by old-gregg 1 day ago \| 63 comments
29.		Muting annoying users on Twitter without unfollowing them (rmontanaro.com)
		20 points by rmontanaro 8 hours ago \| 16 comments
30.		Namecoin: Distributed (p2p) domain registration system based on bitcoin (dot-bit.org)
		95 points by elliottcarlson 18 hours ago \| 29 comments
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