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Stories from October 23, 2011
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1. How to hire an idiot (nukemanbill.blogspot.com)
407 points by tyn on Oct 23, 2011 | 179 comments
2. Facebook privacy fuckup reveals who has your number in their phone (alexmuir.com)
262 points by AlexMuir on Oct 23, 2011 | 117 comments
3. Lamer News (lamernews.com)
229 points by gbrindisi on Oct 23, 2011 | 126 comments
4. Poll: How much do you make as a programmer?
222 points by vaksel on Oct 23, 2011 | 147 comments
5. The Food Bubble (2010) (theglobalrealm.com)
204 points by smilliken on Oct 23, 2011 | 121 comments
6. It’s Not China; It’s Efficiency That Is Killing Our Jobs (dyske.com)
195 points by mattm on Oct 23, 2011 | 195 comments
7. The Volkswagen Group is using IE6 as standard for displaying web pages (vwgroupsupply.com)
179 points by rmoriz on Oct 23, 2011 | 89 comments
8. My Obsession with Chess (scottmccloud.com)
156 points by gnosis on Oct 23, 2011 | 29 comments
9. The Coding Zone (paulstamatiou.com)
157 points by tortilla on Oct 23, 2011 | 65 comments
10. FaceCash Files Formal Complaints Against Stanford, USC, Pomona, and AAU (aarongreenspan.com)
158 points by thinkcomp on Oct 23, 2011 | 99 comments
11. Expired patent of the day: Lego (boingboing.net)
147 points by gmodena on Oct 23, 2011 | 27 comments
12. Reality of budget VPS services (justkez.com)
145 points by datadon on Oct 23, 2011 | 66 comments
13. Google's Introduction to Parallel Programming and MapReduce (code.google.com)
136 points by ahalan on Oct 23, 2011 | 26 comments
14. PUT vs POST in REST (stackoverflow.com)
127 points by zengr on Oct 23, 2011 | 23 comments
15. Quicksilver Roars (new features, Lion support) (lovequicksilver.com)
104 points by zdw on Oct 23, 2011 | 20 comments
16. Git for Computer Scientists (eagain.net)
103 points by humanfromearth on Oct 23, 2011 | 15 comments
17. Add An External GPU To Your Laptop (notebookreview.com)
99 points by gbrindisi on Oct 23, 2011 | 9 comments
18. Show HN: Tubalr.com, taking advantage of all the great music content on YouTube.
98 points by cjstewart88 on Oct 23, 2011 | 79 comments
19. FreeBSD 9.0-RC1 Available... (freebsd.org)
92 points by Uncle_Sam on Oct 23, 2011 | 42 comments
20. Knitting machine from the 80s hacked to "print" digital images (andrewsalomone.com)
90 points by invisiblefunnel on Oct 23, 2011 | 7 comments
21. How to Seem (and Be) Deep (lesswrong.com)
88 points by yarapavan on Oct 23, 2011 | 21 comments
22. Finally, a Markdown editor for Windows (markdownpad.com)
79 points by egw on Oct 23, 2011 | 38 comments
23. Designers need engineers (stdout.be)
75 points by stdbrouw on Oct 23, 2011 | 18 comments
24. NewsBlur (hosted feed reader) (newsblur.com)
70 points by swah on Oct 23, 2011 | 25 comments
25. “The Mythical Man Month” is still a good read (win-vector.com)
63 points by jmount on Oct 23, 2011 | 21 comments
26. Show HN: Bookmarklet to Visualize Hacker News Polls (eike.se)
58 points by 3ds on Oct 23, 2011 | 9 comments
27. Introducing Ixoth, Siri's little helper. Webhooks for Siri (ixoth.com)
53 points by qrush on Oct 23, 2011 | 9 comments
28. Spreedly doubles pricing. (henrydillon.com)
53 points by happyfeet on Oct 23, 2011 | 37 comments
29. A Silicon Valley School That Doesn’t Compute (nytimes.com)
45 points by lsr7 on Oct 23, 2011 | 40 comments
30. UX Week 2011 - Videos (uxweek.com)
45 points by eneveu on Oct 23, 2011 | 5 comments

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