Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit | 2011-10-12login
Stories from October 12, 2011
Go back a day, month, or year. Go forward a day, month, or year.
1.I quit my job last March and it was a bad idea. [ext]
745 points by mannicken on Oct 12, 2011 [ext] | 325 comments [ext]
2.Google Wave and the mythical man month (rethrick.com)
398 points by michaelneale on Oct 12, 2011 [ext] | 103 comments [ext]
3.Stop asking me for my phone number (spottedsun.com)
246 points by veb on Oct 12, 2011 [ext] | 80 comments [ext]
4. The Trump Adviser Openly Calling Treasury Reserve Status A Burden (archive.ph)
308 points by gsm5278 368 days ago | hide | 168 comments
4.Show HN: Who's Hiring? (postings mined from Twitter) (jobstractor.com)
220 points by robinwarren on Oct 12, 2011 [ext] | 63 comments [ext]
5.Why The 99% Should Protest Against Y Combinator (nickoneill.com)
191 points by biznickman on Oct 12, 2011 [ext] | 107 comments [ext]
6.Steve Yegge on Steve Yegge's Amazon Google post (plus.google.com)
185 points by DanielRibeiro on Oct 12, 2011 [ext] | 43 comments [ext]
7. Compound AI Unmasks Insiders Betting on OpenAI Launch Dates (x.com)
404 points by mul4924 58 days ago | hide | 13 comments
7.Siri says some weird things (thisismynext.com)
186 points by Toddward on Oct 12, 2011 [ext] | 61 comments [ext]
8.Daring Fireball: The iPhone 4S (daringfireball.net)
180 points by mcobrien on Oct 12, 2011 [ext] | 141 comments [ext]
9.One heck of a bio (worrydream.com)
173 points by Hitchhiker on Oct 12, 2011 [ext] | 26 comments [ext]
10. Montreux convention traps Russia's Mediterranean task force (theconversation.com)
67 points by jek5337 490 days ago | hide | 26 comments
10.Cringely predicts the second coming of Java (cringely.com)
169 points by keveman on Oct 12, 2011 [ext] | 129 comments [ext]
11.Google Page Speed Online (developers.google.com)
135 points by ot on Oct 12, 2011 [ext] | 15 comments [ext]
12.How My Lifestyle Business Became a Startup (faso.com)
134 points by epi0Bauqu on Oct 12, 2011 [ext] | 30 comments [ext]
13. Stealth Lock-In Is Actually Locking Your Customers Out (joelonsoftware.com)
292 points by ksk4362 203 days ago | hide | 110 comments
13.Akamai close to being acquired by Google (reuters.com)
129 points by scommab on Oct 12, 2011 [ext] | 43 comments [ext]
14.Monsanto chooses Cloudant to power its genome analytics (cloudant.com)
130 points by cloudant on Oct 12, 2011 [ext] | 252 comments [ext]
15.University of California teachers’ union aims to block online classes (insidehighered.com)
126 points by cwan on Oct 12, 2011 [ext] | 63 comments [ext]
16. A Basket of Tiny Currencies Is Eating the Dollar's Reserve Share (wolfstreet.com)
488 points by gon322 114 days ago | hide | 68 comments
16.Apple’s iOS 5 Update Now Available For iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch (techcrunch.com)
125 points by llambda on Oct 12, 2011 [ext] | 82 comments [ext]
17.Github's new look: The Code Tab (github.com/blog)
127 points by latch on Oct 12, 2011 [ext] | 23 comments [ext]
18.Siri: Apple's trojan horse (fabiandesimone.com)
121 points by fabiandesimone on Oct 12, 2011 [ext] | 44 comments [ext]
19. Why Whoever Reaches AGI First Won't Actually Own Intelligence ()
215 points by fik8005 57 days ago | hide | 155 comments
19.Coding Horror: The Gamification (codinghorror.com)
115 points by Anon84 on Oct 12, 2011 [ext] | 28 comments [ext]
20.Google not acquiring Akamai (bloomberg.com)
101 points by tatsuke95 on Oct 12, 2011 [ext] | 33 comments [ext]
21.The Spider of Doom (thedailywtf.com)
94 points by powertower on Oct 12, 2011 [ext] | 21 comments [ext]
22. The Hidden Architecture of How Biology Labs Actually Get Funded (guzey.com)
271 points by prl1591 602 days ago | hide | 193 comments
22.PyPy: NumPy funding and status update (morepypy.blogspot.com)
92 points by kingkilr on Oct 12, 2011 [ext] | 17 comments [ext]
23.What Is Wrong About 17259 Lines Of Code? (webreflection.blogspot.com)
90 points by necrodome on Oct 12, 2011 [ext] | 20 comments [ext]
24.Benford's Law and the Decreasing Reliability of Accounting Data for US Firms (econerdfood.blogspot.com)
78 points by phoyd on Oct 12, 2011 [ext] | 12 comments [ext]
25. Private Equity's Denominator Effect Returns as Markets Crater (archive.ph)
344 points by aul1104 368 days ago | hide | 7 comments
25.Wolfram Alpha's Secure Password Service (wolframalpha.com)
77 points by shawndumas on Oct 12, 2011 [ext] | 37 comments [ext]
26.Facebook Says Some of Your Personal Data Is Its 'Intellectual Property' (techdirt.com)
76 points by nextparadigms on Oct 12, 2011 [ext] | 24 comments [ext]
27.2 is a code smell (puredanger.com)
73 points by puredanger on Oct 12, 2011 [ext] | 30 comments [ext]
28. A German philologist explains how dictatorship hides inside daily busyness (press.uchicago.edu)
129 points by bsk2489 211 days ago | hide | 32 comments
28.The Speaker (Or: why the iPhone's speaker is on the bottom of the phone) (dcurt.is)
69 points by chrysb on Oct 12, 2011 [ext] | 46 comments [ext]
29.Google+ gets hashtag support and real-time search (plus.google.com)
69 points by mindcrime on Oct 12, 2011 [ext] | 13 comments [ext]
30.An End to Negativity in the Tech Community (jsconf.eu)
66 points by cramforce on Oct 12, 2011 [ext] | 14 comments [ext]
31. From BankAmericard to mRNA-1273: A Catalog of Improbable Speed (patrickcollison.com)
98 points by oem2878 253 days ago | hide | 150 comments

Consider applying for YC's Summer 2026 batch! Applications are open till May 4

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

Search: