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Stories from April 26, 2011
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1. Tell HN: Please bring back comment scores
442 points by Maro on April 26, 2011 | 164 comments
2. Why programmers are not paid in proportion to their productivity (johndcook.com)
285 points by shawndumas on April 26, 2011 | 187 comments
3. SETI Institute suspends search for aliens (mercurynews.com)
240 points by sage_joch on April 26, 2011 | 100 comments
4. Pixar's Library (pixar.com)
217 points by DanielRibeiro on April 26, 2011 | 32 comments
5. Rails Hotline (live phone help with RoR) (railshotline.com)
189 points by stevefink on April 26, 2011 | 62 comments
6. How to beat Apple (kottke.org)
182 points by locopati on April 26, 2011 | 118 comments
7. Protip for salary seekers pt 2: Results from some mining of the H1-B database (the-interweb.com)
179 points by lawnchair_larry on April 26, 2011 | 74 comments
8. Hacker Typer - now you can type like a hacker in movies (hackertyper.net)
162 points by keyle on April 26, 2011 | 43 comments
9. A “perfect” voting system (drmaciver.com)
158 points by cavedave on April 26, 2011 | 146 comments
10. Richard Feynman on education in Brazil (v.cx)
152 points by btmorex on April 26, 2011 | 73 comments
11. How to write a Haskell program (haskell.org)
148 points by fogus on April 26, 2011 | 32 comments
12. Google acquires TalkBin (YC W11) (techcrunch.com)
131 points by qasar on April 26, 2011 | 34 comments
13. Usefulness of inventing programming languages (emilis.github.com)
125 points by emilis_info on April 26, 2011 | 40 comments
14. AWK-ward Ruby (tomayko.com)
124 points by remi on April 26, 2011 | 31 comments
15. The Sagan Series: A Pale Blue Dot (saganseries.com)
119 points by Indyan on April 26, 2011 | 16 comments
16. The myth of the Lisp genius (johndcook.com)
113 points by rsaarelm on April 26, 2011 | 108 comments
17. Warning: How Google Checkout Screwed Project Zomboid (projectzomboid.com)
106 points by e1ven on April 26, 2011 | 47 comments
18. Forking with the Edit Button (github.com/blog)
104 points by remi on April 26, 2011 | 9 comments
19. 1 + 1 (pat. pending) — Mathematics, Software and Free Speech (groklaw.net)
97 points by wisesage5001 on April 26, 2011 | 34 comments
20. Your personal corkboard (corkboard.me)
93 points by t3rcio on April 26, 2011 | 38 comments
21. Is 80-100k salary real? there's an app for that, a weekend project (geolary.com)
92 points by rjyo on April 26, 2011 | 56 comments
22. Ask HN: Review my startup, http://UpOut.com
85 points by martinshen on April 26, 2011 | 93 comments
23. I Hope You Don’t Have a Borders Rewards Card (mediabistro.com)
84 points by mikecane on April 26, 2011 | 17 comments
24. Response to John Cook's "Myth of the Lisp Genius" (rondam.blogspot.com)
85 points by lisper on April 26, 2011 | 46 comments
25. The scoop on reCAPTCHA founder's new startup Duolingo. (tedxcmu.com)
84 points by gregg1982 on April 26, 2011 | 34 comments
26. Visualize your iPhone's location tracking map in 100% client-side Javascript (markolson.github.com)
83 points by willvarfar on April 26, 2011 | 22 comments
27. Why not Lua (danjou.info)
82 points by sedachv on April 26, 2011 | 43 comments
28. Signal processing to music audio -- synthesis, effects, and analysis. (columbia.edu)
81 points by gourneau on April 26, 2011 | 13 comments
29. Shutter - excellent screenshot tool for linux (shutter-project.org)
80 points by gorm on April 26, 2011 | 18 comments
30. Facebook - The Send Button, Because Sometimes It’s Private (facebook.com)
72 points by Uncle_Sam on April 26, 2011 | 53 comments

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