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1.Introducing Anonymous Login and an Updated Facebook Login (fb.com)
454 points by adidash on April 30, 2014 | 205 comments
2.Web Fundamentals: A handbook for best practices (developers.google.com)
379 points by isopod on April 30, 2014 | 64 comments
3.Antibiotic resistance now 'global threat', WHO warns (bbc.co.uk)
359 points by basisword on April 30, 2014 | 213 comments
4.Poll: Were you banned by AdSense? When in the cycle were you notified?
316 points by chrisBob on April 30, 2014 | 161 comments
5.Designer Duds (medium.com/design-founders)
235 points by dilap on April 30, 2014 | 95 comments
6.The greatest juggler alive quit to open a construction business (grantland.com)
227 points by mhb on April 30, 2014 | 96 comments
7.One of my Drupal sites was hacked (github.com/wouters-frederik)
209 points by woutersf on April 30, 2014 | 97 comments
Within 4 days of a payout
189 points | parent
9.A free cookbook for people living on $4/day (leannebrown.ca)
197 points by sillysaurus3 on April 30, 2014 | 85 comments
10.Popcorn Time is back (popcorntimewar.com)
181 points by galapago on April 30, 2014 | 138 comments
11.TDD, Straw Men, and Rhetoric (destroyallsoftware.com)
177 points by gary_bernhardt on April 30, 2014 | 88 comments
12.Show HN: Life Goes On, my side project game that turned into a release on Steam (lifegoesongame.com)
160 points by erik on April 30, 2014 | 44 comments
13.US Supreme Court reverses patent judges again in 9-0 decision on lawyer fees (gigaom.com)
170 points by acgourley on April 30, 2014 | 45 comments
14.Things I Learned Writing a JIT in Go (nelhagedebugsshit.tumblr.com)
169 points by ConceitedCode on April 30, 2014 | 21 comments
15.Imagining the Post-Antibiotics Future (medium.com/editors-picks)
157 points by basisword on April 30, 2014 | 51 comments
16.Ask HN: AdSense alternatives?
152 points by _7siz on April 30, 2014 | 87 comments

I can't believe people still use LinkedIn.

And when I say that, I am talking about the HN crowd. It's one thing to say "I can't believe people use IE6", but this is tech-savvy people using a joke of a social media.

Guys, if you want to look professional, buy your own domain name. Something professional, like yourname.me, or clever like "yourna.me". Build your own web page with your own damn profile and don't leave control over a company on how you look on the web. Be in control of the first point of entry to your identity.

For god sake guys. LinkedIn has had so many security issues, so much scummy behaviour regarding spam, user retention etc... yet you are still blessing them with your presence. (Obviously this doesn't apply to those that don't)

PS: Use gandi.net as a registrar for your name. They offer a free ssl cert along with the domain (and support almost every tld) for added "professional-looking" value to your site. I am not affiliated with them, I just love Gandi.

Edit: I'm being called out for "living in my own bubble" it seems. Yet LinkedIn is the very definition of a bubble. I used to have a LinkedIn profile and from it all I got were the most awful recruiting experiences, and all of them through cold calls. Your own site with CV + portfolio + Github + contact details is a LOT better.

PS2: Downvote or not I don't care, but please reply if you disagree; I'd love to disagree even harder!

Edit 2: I'm starting to think there is correlation between finding LinkedIn useful and not having a Github profile. A lot of the points people are bringing up here are solved in a very similar way by Github (which is in many ways a social network). This does bring me back to my original point though, why use LinkedIn when you can use a company that isn't scummy and actually have your real work experience on there and a link back to your personal website with more portfolio etc?

18.Experimenting with CoreOS, CloudFormation, confd, etcd, and fleet (marceldegraaf.net)
151 points by marceldegraaf on April 30, 2014 | 34 comments
19.The Deadliest Animal in the World (gatesnotes.com)
145 points by beniaminmincu on April 30, 2014 | 142 comments
20.GNU Screen v.4.2.1 (savannah.gnu.org)
146 points by sikhnerd on April 30, 2014 | 74 comments

I can't believe people don't use Linkedin. I've been a software engineer and more recently a delivery lead within the professional service consulting space working with massive enterprise clients for a few years now.

Everybody I've ever spoken to (outside of small JS type devs) has got a linkedin profile and expected me to have one. So many recruiters (I contract now) have used linkedin to contact me based on searches they've done which I have converted into 6 separate projects now (and at £650 per day that's a lot of money).

Depending what circles you move in (I move in big enterprise software and services circles) it's just a given that you will have a linkedin. I have a domain name which directs to my blog and one page profile but even then people still ask for my linkedin.

I don't know what the smaller time software dev world is like but for me linkedin is essential..

Saying you can't believe why anybody in the HN crowd would use linkedin probably shows that you only know about the bubble that you operate in.

22.Twitter Analytics (analytics.twitter.com)
145 points by _hoa8 on April 30, 2014 | 45 comments
23.Think OS: A Brief Introduction to Operating Systems (greenteapress.com)
143 points by yla92 on April 30, 2014 | 7 comments
24.Uncleftish Beholding: English minus the non-Germanic words (1998) (groups.google.com)
141 points by _pfxa on April 30, 2014 | 82 comments
25.“var functionName” vs “function functionName” (stackoverflow.com)
141 points by baptou12 on April 30, 2014 | 78 comments
26.App Links: Link Anywhere on Mobile (applinks.org)
146 points by _pius on April 30, 2014 | 43 comments
27.Co-routines as an alternative to state machines (2009) (thegreenplace.net)
131 points by adamnemecek on April 30, 2014 | 69 comments
28.The Morality Police in Your Checking Account (eff.org)
138 points by panarky on April 30, 2014 | 68 comments
29.How slow is Python really? Or how fast is your language? (codegolf.stackexchange.com)
128 points by kisamoto on April 30, 2014 | 101 comments
30.Driver caught using cell phone jamming device (myfoxny.com)
134 points by WritelyDesigned on April 30, 2014 | 201 comments

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