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Stories from November 18, 2007
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1. Ask YC: Should Fridays and Saturday nights matter to a young hacker?
26 points by samson on Nov 18, 2007 | 31 comments
2. Scribd in the Wall Street Journal (scribd.com)
22 points by macrov on Nov 18, 2007 | 7 comments
3. Ask YC: Getting In the Zone?
21 points by Goladus on Nov 18, 2007 | 27 comments
4. Saul Griffith on winning a MacArthur, entrepreneurship, and dumpster diving (cnn.com)
21 points by toffer on Nov 18, 2007 | 5 comments
5. Origin of Quake3's Fast InvSqrt() (beyond3d.com)
17 points by hhm on Nov 18, 2007 | 3 comments
6. Einstein's Arrogance (overcomingbias.com)
17 points by Neoryder on Nov 18, 2007 | 17 comments
7. Race, genes and intelligence (slate.com)
15 points by Alex3917 on Nov 18, 2007 | 18 comments
8. Facebook's Brilliant but Evil design (bokardo.com)
14 points by toffer on Nov 18, 2007 | 4 comments
9. Paying People to Argue With You (or How a Guy Found a Novel Use for Amazon's Mech Turk) (slashdot.org)
12 points by chaostheory on Nov 18, 2007 | 4 comments
10. Knuth vs. Email (stanford.edu)
12 points by nickb on Nov 18, 2007
11. 7 Handy CSS Hacks (noupe.com)
11 points by charzom on Nov 18, 2007
12. Firefox 3.0: 11,000 Bugs Fixed, and Counting (crn.com)
10 points by nickb on Nov 18, 2007 | 6 comments
13. The god of small things - Hawking bets that Higgs particle will never be found (guardian.co.uk)
9 points by nickb on Nov 18, 2007
14. Do you have a favorite tv show?
8 points by rokhayakebe on Nov 18, 2007 | 46 comments
15. Why Lisp is different (dyndns.org)
8 points by nickb on Nov 18, 2007
16. Artists tend to portray human faces with the Fourier statistics of complex natural scenes (scienceblogs.com)
8 points by asdflkj on Nov 18, 2007
17. Upon further review, surfer's new Theory of Everything severely deficient (arstechnica.com)
8 points by nickb on Nov 18, 2007 | 14 comments
18. Ask YC: Paul Graham's 18 Mistakes that Kill Startups: Which are no longer an issue when developing Facebook apps?
7 points by amichail on Nov 18, 2007 | 29 comments
19. The BellKor solution to the Netflix Prize (att.com)
7 points by blackswan on Nov 18, 2007 | 4 comments
20. San Francisco Startup Weekend: HelpHookup.com (live progress) (helphookup.com)
7 points by waleedka on Nov 18, 2007 | 1 comment
21. Adding Math to List of Security Threats - Adi Shamir (S in RSA) discovers a new bug (nytimes.com)
6 points by nickb on Nov 18, 2007
22. Google's Secret 10GbE Switch (nyquistcapital.com)
5 points by nickb on Nov 18, 2007
23. pg on Symbolics (news.ycombinator.com)
5 points by nickb on Nov 18, 2007 | 1 comment
24. Interview with John Carmack, about Id Mobile (1up.com)
4 points by hhm on Nov 18, 2007
25. Your number's up (ft.com)
3 points by davidw on Nov 18, 2007 | 2 comments
26. The hack of the year - TOR operator sniffs everything passing through - publishes hundreds of passwords online - gets arrested (smh.com.au)
2 points by nickb on Nov 18, 2007
27. 23AndMe Will Decode Your DNA for $1,000. Welcome to the Age of Genomics (wired.com)
2 points by amichail on Nov 18, 2007
28. Javascript scoping problems? Is it Firefox, IE or... Prototype? (kunosure.blogspot.com)
2 points by nickb on Nov 18, 2007
29. Is This the End of Cursive Writing? (go.com)
2 points by amichail on Nov 18, 2007
30. Firefox3 has too many bugs - 80% of 700 bugs marked as blockers will not be fixed in Firefox3 (techworld.com)
2 points by nickb on Nov 18, 2007 | 1 comment

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