For the best experience on desktop, install the Chrome extension to track your reading on news.ycombinator.com
Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit | history | 2010-08-14register
Stories from August 14, 2010
Go back a day, month, or year. Go forward a day, month, or year.
1.
Brilliant talk by John Cleese on creativity. (youtube.com)
170 points by pistoriusp on Aug 14, 2010 | 35 comments
2.
Protesters Gather At Google; 600 Employees Sign Petition, Organizers Claim (sfweekly.com)
141 points by mcantelon on Aug 14, 2010 | 102 comments
3.
Sorry, Steve: Here's Why Apple Stores Won't Work (2001) (businessweek.com)
138 points by decadentcactus on Aug 14, 2010 | 57 comments
4.
Threads (in Ruby): Enough Already (yehudakatz.com)
116 points by wycats on Aug 14, 2010 | 36 comments
5.
Scott Aaronson explains his $200k bet (8 Signs A Claimed P≠NP Proof Is Wrong) (scottaaronson.com)
106 points by kam on Aug 14, 2010 | 16 comments
6.
Ask HN: How have you learned a speaking language?
95 points by kyro on Aug 14, 2010 | 111 comments
7.
America: Land of Loners? (wilsonquarterly.com)
90 points by jamesbritt on Aug 14, 2010 | 26 comments
8.
The Python yield keyword explained (stackoverflow.com)
89 points by iamelgringo on Aug 14, 2010 | 14 comments
9.
The Oracle-Google Mess (groklaw.net)
85 points by stanleydrew on Aug 14, 2010 | 24 comments
10.
Worlds first 20 minute voice call from a Free Software GSM stack on a phone (gnumonks.org)
83 points by bluesmoon on Aug 14, 2010 | 10 comments
11.
Barefoot shoes try to outrace the black market (cnn.com)
81 points by edw519 on Aug 14, 2010 | 55 comments
12.
Oracle v Google: Why? What does Oracle hope to gain? (redmonk.com)
70 points by bensummers on Aug 14, 2010 | 53 comments
13.
The Last Journey of a Genius (video.google.com)
62 points by sr3d on Aug 14, 2010 | 13 comments
14.
The End Of Stuff (bitworking.org)
60 points by alexandros on Aug 14, 2010 | 33 comments
15.
Hotkeys for Hacker News (dtrejo.com)
59 points by daleharvey on Aug 14, 2010 | 16 comments
16.
Ask HN: What can kill Facebook?
57 points by twidlit on Aug 14, 2010 | 123 comments
17.
Darwin (programming game) (wikipedia.org)
49 points by Sandman on Aug 14, 2010 | 7 comments
18.
Is Portugal's Liberal Drug Policy a Model for US? (aolnews.com)
48 points by cwan on Aug 14, 2010 | 17 comments
19.
Ask HN: Sorting massive text files?
44 points by JBerlinsky on Aug 14, 2010 | 68 comments
20.
When Polymorphism Fails (sites.google.com)
44 points by raju on Aug 14, 2010 | 22 comments
21.
Why most smart people are better at solving other people’s problems… (rajeshsetty.com)
37 points by adammichaelc on Aug 14, 2010 | 55 comments
22.
Illumos's response to Oracle killing OpenSolaris (gdamore.blogspot.com)
37 points by mapleoin on Aug 14, 2010 | 11 comments
23.
Cobol on cogs (coboloncogs.org)
32 points by catalinist on Aug 14, 2010 | 8 comments
24.
The longest tweet? (twitter.com/sskhybrid)
31 points by catalinist on Aug 14, 2010 | 24 comments
25.
4Food: Restaurant adds game mechanics to lunch (nytimes.com)
29 points by jmtame on Aug 14, 2010 | 10 comments
26.
Ask HN: Suggestions for Starting with Ruby on Rails?
26 points by NathanKP on Aug 14, 2010 | 19 comments
27.
Joe Nocera on Hurd & HP (nytimes.com)
24 points by julius_geezer on Aug 14, 2010 | 3 comments
28.
E Ink touts e-readers with color, capacitive touch (linuxfordevices.com)
22 points by surki on Aug 14, 2010 | 3 comments
29.
Why Does College Cost So Much? (forbes.com)
19 points by cwan on Aug 14, 2010 | 25 comments
30.
Modified Google Analytics XSS
19 points by holdenc on Aug 14, 2010 | 3 comments

Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search:

HN For You