| 1. | | The alternative Internet, WiFi based (omegasdg.com) |
| 230 points by tawm on June 18, 2011 | 81 comments |
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| 2. | | JSON users: Avoid CSRFs by not using top-level arrays (pocoo.org) |
| 186 points by Jach on June 18, 2011 | 81 comments |
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| 3. | | High school grad builds 8-bit computer from scratch (digitaltrends.com) |
| 183 points by neovive on June 18, 2011 | 70 comments |
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| 4. | | Geeky Stats About Magic Mushrooms (motherjones.com) |
| 138 points by sganesh on June 18, 2011 | 69 comments |
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| 5. | | Theoretical limit to how hard it can rain (reddit.com) |
| 106 points by soundsop on June 18, 2011 | 13 comments |
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| 6. | | Google Already had a Like Button (and other redundancy) (gosdot.com) |
| 103 points by jongos on June 18, 2011 | 18 comments |
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| 7. | | Chrome at 20% market share, IE9 less than IE7 (pingdom.com) |
| 105 points by nextparadigms on June 18, 2011 | 57 comments |
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| 8. | | Django Setup using Nginx and Gunicorn (senko.net) |
| 104 points by senko on June 18, 2011 | 35 comments |
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| 9. | | Reverse engineering the Mac ‘breathing’ LED (adafruit.com) |
| 94 points by aitor on June 18, 2011 | 47 comments |
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| 10. | | What if the Web never happened (ibiblio.org) |
| 79 points by Luyt on June 18, 2011 | 49 comments |
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| 11. | | Mark Suster: Raise Money Now So When The Party’s Over You’re Sitting Pretty (techcrunch.com) |
| 72 points by websirnik on June 18, 2011 | 27 comments |
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| 12. | | The Linux desktop experience is killing Linux on the desktop, Part II (batsov.com) |
| 69 points by bozhidar on June 18, 2011 | 87 comments |
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| 13. | | Bitcoin thefts at MTGOX (Bitcoin exchange) confirmed to be CSRF vulnerability (bitcoin.org) |
| 68 points by ezl on June 18, 2011 | 48 comments |
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| 14. | | Earbits (YC W11) Snags $605K From Charles River Ventures And Others (techcrunch.com) |
| 68 points by earbitscom on June 18, 2011 | 8 comments |
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| 15. | | Smooth CoffeeScript (issuu.com) |
| 64 points by telemachos on June 18, 2011 | 16 comments |
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| 16. | | How do you act on all that product feedback? (gabrielweinberg.com) |
| 62 points by unfasten on June 18, 2011 | 9 comments |
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| 17. | | Firefox 5 slips out ahead of schedule, gets official June 21st (engadget.com) |
| 56 points by shawndumas on June 18, 2011 | 29 comments |
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| 18. | | Ask HN: How do Tumblr & Posterous make money? |
| 56 points by dropshopsa on June 18, 2011 | 30 comments |
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| 19. | | 14 Years of Waiting Have Come to an End: Duke Nukem Forever (nytimes.com) |
| 54 points by rdamico on June 18, 2011 | 16 comments |
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| 20. | | Cheap and Nasty (unprotocols.org) |
| 52 points by jhawk28 on June 18, 2011 | 10 comments |
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| 21. | | Student Loans and DOE S.W.A.T. Teams (wendymcelroy.com) |
| 48 points by billswift on June 18, 2011 | 34 comments |
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| 22. | | Magic Trumps Math at Web Start-Ups (NYT) (nytimes.com) |
| 47 points by kingkawn on June 18, 2011 | 3 comments |
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| 23. | | Liking Is for Cowards. Go for What Hurts. (nytimes.com) |
| 46 points by yuvadam on June 18, 2011 | 4 comments |
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| 24. | | Ask HN: Does Your Startup Improve Lives? |
| 45 points by qF on June 18, 2011 | 42 comments |
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| 25. | | The Art of Assembly Language Programming (Linux edition) [book] (mac.com) |
| 45 points by gnosis on June 18, 2011 | 25 comments |
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| 26. | | Know Your Engines - How to Make Your JavaScript Fast [pdf] (people.mozilla.com) |
| 44 points by sharmajai on June 18, 2011 | 6 comments |
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| 28. | | Ask HN: Any alternative to JavaScript in sight? |
| 42 points by digamber_kamat on June 18, 2011 | 51 comments |
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| 29. | | Perfect eavesdropping on a quantum cryptography system (arxiv.org) |
| 40 points by husein10 on June 18, 2011 | 6 comments |
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| 30. | | The Toughest Companies for Job Interviews (fins.com) |
| 42 points by cwan on June 18, 2011 | 30 comments |
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The Intel X-25 series seem to be doing OK, but the Vertex2 and Vertex3 (brand new SandForce 2k-based drives) have really terrible failure rates. I've heard mixed things about the Crucial drives.
I am sure you guys have read Jeff Atwood's post[1] about how every SSD they've put into machines in the last year has failed. I shared that around with a group of friends scattered around Chicago and the bay area - the friend in Chicago has a company with 30 employees. They have put SSDs in 12 of the developer machines, by the end of the year 10 had failed (Vertex2 drives).
I think SSDs have a lot to offer, the performance is there for the right use-cases (which is almost every disk I/O scenario save for a few), but for a lot of folks the idea of having drives fail regularly is a suicide-inducing though (current company included).
I'm sitting on my hands for an SSD not because I don't think they are awesome, too expensive or not big enough... I'm waiting because the failure rate seems to be painfully high in these things. I want some more time in the oven before I start sticking them in my work machines.
There also seem to be other non-failure related issues as seen with the Vertex3 launch that everyone jumped on; Lookup "Windows BSOD Vertex3"[2] for a long list of issues. At least enough to make you take pause in buying one.
I have a 11 year old Fujitsu drive that is still running, an 8 year old Seagate 15k SCSI drive that is still chugging and the two SATA's in my desktop now are both 3 years old (no RAID)... I expect 5 years out of a drive at this point, turning the speed up to 11 at the expense of digging back into my workstations or servers to replace busted drives and rebuild RAID arrays... uggggg... at least for me that sounds super painful.
The only SSDs I would consider at this point if for some reason I had to get one are the Intel series, namely the 500 series. The X-25's (as mentioned) are still going strong with low failure rates and there is nothing to suggest the newer releases are any different. I'd rather see some 5-year results from those things before pulling the trigger though, which is why I haven't yet. I also haven't needed the insane speed.
[1] http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2011/05/the-hot-crazy-solid...
[2] http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8...