Hacker News

Hacker News

1.		Never create Ruby strings longer than 23 characters (patshaughnessy.net)
		140 points by there 2 hours ago \| 46 comments
2.		Why do we pay sales commissions? (fogcreek.com)
		77 points by buzzcut 2 hours ago \| 31 comments
3.		Apple ][ game server (asciiexpress.net)
		36 points by steveb 1 hour ago \| 8 comments
4.		A Man. A Van. A Surprising Business Plan. (npr.org)
		314 points by slamdunc 7 hours ago \| 71 comments
5.		Being recruited in the USA (calepin.co)
		90 points by masylum 3 hours ago \| 53 comments
6.		Ifttt raises $1.5M Seed Round From Top Investors (techcrunch.com)
		54 points by wisp 2 hours ago \| 41 comments
7.		Google+ Is Going To Mess Up The Internet (readwriteweb.com)
		152 points by jonmwords 5 hours ago \| 90 comments
8.		Why the Movie Industry Can't Innovate and the Result is SOPA (steveblank.com)
		160 points by grellas 6 hours ago \| 32 comments
9.		SOPA Track - Check How Congress Votes on SOPA (sopatrack.com)
		11 points by taylorbuley 36 minutes ago \| 2 comments
10.		Bill Joy - vi was written for a world that doesn't exist anymore (theregister.co.uk)
		239 points by sytelus 9 hours ago \| 93 comments
11.		Letter from Orwell to his publicist regarding 1984 (lettersofnote.com)
		63 points by alexholehouse 4 hours ago \| 26 comments
12.		Why Attacking Application Exceptions is Important (37signals.com)
		24 points by themcgruff 2 hours ago \| discuss
13.		[Emacs]Org-Mode « Musings of a Software Engineering Student (nflath.com)
		15 points by drieddust 1 hour ago \| 1 comment
14.		Using AI to design board games (boardgamegeek.com)
		63 points by chaddeshon 5 hours ago \| 8 comments
15.		E-mail is the Universal Platform (contactually.com)
		15 points by skevvis 1 hour ago \| 9 comments
16.		Markdown Editor (joncom.be)
		35 points by alexchamberlain 3 hours ago \| 19 comments
17.		Google Chrome HTTPS Address Bar Spoofing (acrossecurity.com)
		73 points by dielel 6 hours ago \| 3 comments
18.		The economic incentive to violate the GPL (dreamwidth.org)
		32 points by chalst 3 hours ago \| 4 comments
19.		Uber - not a great experience at peak times (eg: New Year's Eve) (venturebeat.com)
		11 points by Roedou 1 hour ago \| 7 comments
20.		Credit Karma Launches Free Credit Monitoring, Enrolls 100,000 Users In A Day (techcrunch.com)
		4 points by FluidDjango 19 minutes ago \| 1 comment
21.		Upgrading Airbnb from Rails 2.3 to Rails 3.0 (airbnb.com)
		7 points by Airbnb-Nerds 1 hour ago \| 2 comments
22.		GoDaddy support for SOPA aftermath - daily domain transfer impact graph (github.com)
		51 points by zeratul 6 hours ago \| 47 comments
23.		The Unsustainability of Never-ending Workplace Marathons (triplepundit.com)
		36 points by vital101 5 hours ago \| 16 comments
24.		Microphone turns any surface into a multitouch interface (extremetech.com)
		47 points by mrsebastian 6 hours ago \| 15 comments
25.		We need a designer to help us build the most exciting product in travel [global] (adioso.com)
		5 hours ago
26.		(take 5 sam-aaron) (clojure.com)
		21 points by llambda 3 hours ago \| discuss
27.		LRU implementation in C++ (demon.co.uk)
		24 points by ahanjura 4 hours ago \| 11 comments
28.		PayPal forces buyer to destroy $2500 pre-WWII antique violin in dispute (regretsy.com)
		932 points by tfe 21 hours ago \| 268 comments
29.		The 20% Project (like Google) In My Class (educationismylife.com)
		56 points by ajjuliani 7 hours ago \| 18 comments
30.		Google Hackathon winners: Wolfram Alpha & Minesweeper right in your spreadsheet (googleappsdeveloper.blogspot.com)
		5 points by pents90 50 minutes ago \| discuss
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