| 1. | | Internet giants place full-page anti-SOPA ad in NYT (boingboing.net) |
| 687 points by andrewdumont on Nov 16, 2011 | 111 comments |
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| 2. | | SOPA Hearing is Streaming Live (house.gov) |
| 485 points by bproper on Nov 16, 2011 | 253 comments |
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| 3. | | Asynchronous UIs - the future of web user interfaces (alexmaccaw.co.uk) |
| 485 points by maccman on Nov 16, 2011 | 148 comments |
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| 4. | | Airport full-body X-ray scanners banned across Europe as unsafe (geek.com) |
| 422 points by ukdm on Nov 16, 2011 | 122 comments |
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| 5. | | A shuffled deck of cards is unique in all human history (matthewweathers.com) |
| 272 points by pud on Nov 16, 2011 | 66 comments |
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| 6. | | Sweet sanity: 75% of Americans say infringement fines should be under $100 (arstechnica.com) |
| 207 points by evo_9 on Nov 16, 2011 | 122 comments |
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| 7. | | Williams: Master of the "Come From" (github.com/raganwald) |
| 195 points by ColinWright on Nov 16, 2011 | 40 comments |
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| 8. | | What Jeff Bezos Knew Back in 1997 That Made Amazon a Gorilla (forbes.com/sites/ericjackson) |
| 176 points by andrewvalish on Nov 16, 2011 | 33 comments |
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| 9. | | RIAA claims you do not own your iTunes music purchases (extremetech.com) |
| 168 points by mrsebastian on Nov 16, 2011 | 76 comments |
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| 10. | | TSA Puts Off Safety Study of X-ray Body Scanners (propublica.org) |
| 165 points by danso on Nov 16, 2011 | 36 comments |
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| 11. | | Graphene improves lithium-ion battery capacity and recharge rate by 10x (extremetech.com) |
| 158 points by mrsebastian on Nov 16, 2011 | 71 comments |
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| 12. | | Computer scientist Roger Craig built an app to prepare for Jeopardy domination. (thenextweb.com) |
| 157 points by soy714 on Nov 16, 2011 | 24 comments |
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| 13. | | Readability service to become free (readability.com) |
| 154 points by andycroll on Nov 16, 2011 | 61 comments |
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| 14. | | John Gruber Has Some Career Advice For Developers (cycle-gap.blogspot.com) |
| 152 points by rams on Nov 16, 2011 | 142 comments |
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| 15. | | Ask PG: Could we have the SOPA censorship label up on HN's logo today? |
| 144 points by Archio on Nov 16, 2011 | 24 comments |
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| 16. | | Scoble: Why I'm treating startups more critically lately (plus.google.com) |
| 140 points by domino on Nov 16, 2011 | 63 comments |
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| 17. | | How StackOverflow Scales with SQL Server (brentozar.com) |
| 132 points by jswinghammer on Nov 16, 2011 | 54 comments |
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| 18. | | Show HN: Tunebox, Dropbox + iPhone = cloud music service (itunes.apple.com) |
| 131 points by phil on Nov 16, 2011 | 38 comments |
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| 19. | | Why programmers are not paid in proportion to their productivity (2009) (johndcook.com) |
| 123 points by ColinWright on Nov 16, 2011 | 76 comments |
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| 20. | | Why we’re working our young people too hard (lkd.cc) |
| 124 points by ZenJosh on Nov 16, 2011 | 109 comments |
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| 21. | | Life Below 600px (iampaddy.com) |
| 121 points by bmaeser on Nov 16, 2011 | 36 comments |
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| 22. | | How to forcibly eject a CD/DVD from a MacBook Air USB SuperDrive (jgc.org) |
| 119 points by jgrahamc on Nov 16, 2011 | 111 comments |
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| 23. | | The Rootkit Of All Evil – CIQ (xda-developers.com) |
| 120 points by maqr on Nov 16, 2011 | 20 comments |
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| 24. | | Show HN: HourlyPuppy (heroku.com) |
| 118 points by jfi on Nov 16, 2011 | 52 comments |
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| 25. | | Why Is Payroll Hard - Ron Jeffries (c2.com) |
| 108 points by chrismealy on Nov 16, 2011 | 52 comments |
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| 26. | | Yipit Django Blog: Why You Need a Git Pre-Commit Hook (yipit.com) |
| 108 points by nantes on Nov 16, 2011 | 19 comments |
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| 27. | | Ask HN: Please stop "This." |
| 102 points by juiceandjuice on Nov 16, 2011 | 71 comments |
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| 28. | | Wow: Intel unveils 1 teraflop chip with 50-plus cores (nwsource.com) |
| 101 points by jhack on Nov 16, 2011 | 39 comments |
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| 30. | | Announcing Cappuccino 0.9.5 (cappuccino.org) |
| 94 points by Me1000 on Nov 16, 2011 | 20 comments |
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Everyone who thinks "I should be developing for platform X" is thinking far too small. Take a look around you.. how many of the great companies were formed developing for a particular platform (unless it's their own)? Almost none. In 10 years, do you want to be the old and busted equivalent of the MFC expert whose software was hot in year 2000?
You don't make the Googles, Facebooks, Twitters, of the world by developing just for iOS. Or just for Android. If that's your business plan, tear it up and start over. Because $0.99 a pop doesn't amount to jack-all unless you're Angry Birds. And even they, if they got $1 for each of their 500MM downloads, have still not made as much as Modern Warfare 3 made last week ($738MM in revenue).
Go create a market. Stop being part of Apple's/Google's market for drumming up hardware sales and/or serving ads.