2009-08-05 front | Hacker News

Stories from August 5, 2009

Go back a day, month, or year. Go forward a day, month, or year.

1.		Apple now censoring dictionaries in the App Store (daringfireball.net)
		327 points by ajg1977 on Aug 5, 2009 \| 80 comments
2.		The 7 vices of highly creative people (salon.com)
		123 points by ivankirigin on Aug 5, 2009 \| 43 comments
3.		(chromium) Issue 18385: Head in place of close button (code.google.com)
		119 points by mlLK on Aug 5, 2009 \| 7 comments
4.		I'm Moving To San Francisco, I Need A Job (zedshaw.com)
		108 points by nailer on Aug 5, 2009 \| 75 comments
5.		Listia (YC S09) Is An Awesome Way To Give And Get Free Stuff (techcrunch.com)
		98 points by moses1400 on Aug 5, 2009 \| 28 comments
6.		Complete computer designed and built from logic gates (homebrewcpu.com)
		98 points by jgrahamc on Aug 5, 2009 \| 29 comments
7.		NoSQL: If only it was that easy (bjclark.me)
		88 points by bjclark on Aug 5, 2009 \| 43 comments
8.		Just give me a simple CPU and some I/O ports (jgc.org)
		87 points by jgrahamc on Aug 5, 2009 \| 54 comments
9.		Set Up Your Server Right, Part 1 (envylabs.com)
		74 points by edw519 on Aug 5, 2009 \| 27 comments
10.		Google Buys Video Company On2 for $106.5M (gigaom.com)
		72 points by procyon on Aug 5, 2009 \| 27 comments
11.		Arc 3.1 (works on latest MzScheme) (arclanguage.org)
		60 points by pogos on Aug 5, 2009
12.		How to Create a Self-Referential Tweet (spinellis.gr)
		58 points by Autre on Aug 5, 2009 \| 25 comments
13.		Massacre Gmail Ads with These Two Sentences (and Some Tragic Words) (lifehacker.com)
		59 points by divia on Aug 5, 2009 \| 58 comments
14.		Other Companies Should Have To Read This Internal Netflix Presentation (techcrunch.com)
		49 points by edw519 on Aug 5, 2009 \| 13 comments
15.		What's faster - a supercomputer or EC2? (ianfoster.typepad.com)
		46 points by timf on Aug 5, 2009 \| 29 comments
16.		In-Field Labels: A Better Way + jQuery Plugin (fuelyourcoding.com)
		43 points by sant0sk1 on Aug 5, 2009 \| 24 comments
17.		How I (almost) use my computer without a mouse (hwanger.com)
		37 points by psycovic23 on Aug 5, 2009 \| 32 comments
18.		Transforming the Law into Code (cornell.edu)
		34 points by fogus on Aug 5, 2009 \| 25 comments
19.		40hr App Build (lesseverything.com)
		31 points by lessallan on Aug 5, 2009 \| 4 comments
20.		It’s Time We Stopped Rewarding Projects with Crappy Documentation (cforcoding.com)
		31 points by cletus on Aug 5, 2009 \| 35 comments
21.		A beginners guide to OCaml internals (rwmj.wordpress.com)
		30 points by fogus on Aug 5, 2009 \| 7 comments
22.		My Inbox Is Not A TV (myinboxisnota.tv)
		29 points by twampss on Aug 5, 2009 \| 13 comments
23.		Nokia in Trouble? How Fast Can a Mobile Device Giant React? (meownewsletter.com)
		28 points by blasdel on Aug 5, 2009 \| 14 comments
24.		Windows 7 review - Gizmodo (gizmodo.com)
		29 points by CodeChutney on Aug 5, 2009 \| 23 comments
25.		Google Acquires Video Compression Technology Company On2 For $106 Million (techcrunch.com)
		27 points by GVRV on Aug 5, 2009 \| 19 comments
26.		Fast vector graphics word art with HTML canvas (paulsawaya.com)
		27 points by psawaya on Aug 5, 2009 \| 9 comments
27.		Eight New Startups Pop Out Of The LaunchBox (techcrunch.com)
		26 points by vaksel on Aug 5, 2009 \| 7 comments
28.		Mozilla, Google, and Opera announce support for built-in 3D graphics (venturebeat.com)
		25 points by marcusbooster on Aug 5, 2009 \| 18 comments
29.		Disco Project: Erlang and Python Mapreduce (discoproject.org)
		24 points by rw on Aug 5, 2009 \| 2 comments
30.		Unmarked surveillance vehicles in Central London (jgc.org)
		25 points by MaysonL on Aug 5, 2009 \| 12 comments
		More

HN For You