top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-02-12

Standalone sandboxed IE6, IE7, IE8 executables (Recovered after a takedown)

http://www.iecss.com/spoon/

15 years ago

281 upvotes – 70 comments

White House: What's Blocking Innovation in America? My Answer: IP Laws

http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=2011021108493059

15 years ago

259 upvotes – 176 comments

New string search algorithm

http://volnitsky.com/project/str_search/

15 years ago

181 upvotes – 59 comments

Continuous Deployment

http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2011/02/continuous-deployment.html

15 years ago

179 upvotes – 82 comments

Man places his genome in public domain, on Github

http://manu.sporny.org/2011/public-domain-genome/

15 years ago

125 upvotes – 24 comments

Stackoverflow: Are there any famous one-man-army programmers?

http://stackoverflow.com/q/529757/47846

15 years ago

123 upvotes – 46 comments

Why Starting Justin.tv Was A Really Bad Idea, But I’m Glad We Did It Anyway

http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/12/starting-justin-tv/

15 years ago

119 upvotes – 23 comments

Exercise #1: Learning awk Basics

http://bashshell.net/stream-filtering-utilities/exercise-1-learning-awk-basics/

15 years ago

99 upvotes – 20 comments

The Netscape Dorm (1994)

http://www.jwz.org/gruntle/nscpdorm.html

15 years ago

98 upvotes – 28 comments

Generating Worlds in a Minecraft-like Game

http://archive.gamedev.net/community/forums/mod/journal/journal.asp?jn=259175

15 years ago

95 upvotes – 21 comments

Help The Startup Genome Project Bring Silicon Valley To The Rest Of The World

http://startupgenome.cc/

15 years ago

92 upvotes – 25 comments

Warning signs for the year 10,000

http://www.damninteresting.com/this-place-is-not-a-place-of-honor

15 years ago

92 upvotes – 54 comments

Search Optimization and Its Dirty Little Secrets

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/13/business/13search.html

15 years ago

91 upvotes – 30 comments

Apple sets deadline for Amazon's Kindle app to change - They want 30% per book

http://www.tecca.com/news/2011/02/03/apple-sets-deadline-for-amazons-kindle-app-to-change/

15 years ago

81 upvotes – 104 comments

The Reality of Teaching in a Small School in the Bronx

http://www.anurbanteacherseducation.com/2011/01/could-you-make-my-job-more-difficult.html

15 years ago

71 upvotes – 40 comments

Volatile is Evil

http://www.bluebytesoftware.com/blog/2010/12/04/SayonaraVolatile.aspx

15 years ago

70 upvotes – 20 comments

Anon claims that it has the source code to Stuxnet

http://blogs.forbes.com/chrisbarth/2011/02/11/anonymous-claims-possession-of-insidious-stuxnet-virus/

15 years ago

70 upvotes – 41 comments

Some notes on making a random Erlang program (egitd) faster

http://andrew.hijacked.us/article/324/optimizing-egitd-introduction

15 years ago

69 upvotes – 6 comments

Elopocalypse survivor — save what you can by forking, before it gets too late

http://piacentini.blog.br/2011/02/elop-is-after-me/

15 years ago

68 upvotes – 7 comments

Hackers Highlight Offers of Corporate Espionage

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/12/us/politics/12hackers.html?hp

15 years ago

62 upvotes – 8 comments

Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol (HTCPCP/1.0)

http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2324

15 years ago

60 upvotes – 10 comments

Introducing The Microsoft Puppet

http://parislemon.com/post/3237400800/introducing-the-microsoft-puppet

15 years ago

59 upvotes – 63 comments

The trouble with volatile

http://lwn.net/Articles/233479/

15 years ago

54 upvotes – 8 comments

Pandora Used to Spend 119% Of Revenue on Royalties

http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/20110212/pandoras-music-fees-are-huge-and-not-that-bad/

15 years ago

51 upvotes – 23 comments

Intel kept in the dark over Nokia’s MeeGo plans; operators reject first device

http://eu.techcrunch.com/2011/02/12/intel-kept-in-the-dark-over-nokia’s-meego-plans-operators-reject-first-device/

15 years ago

48 upvotes – 6 comments

The Engineer-Driven culture at Nokia and its problems

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/11/for-nokia-design-will-be-key-to-future/

15 years ago

48 upvotes – 58 comments

$1.5M Robbery of Bellagio Casino Foiled Thanks to RFID Chips

http://singularityhub.com/2011/02/12/1-5m-robbery-of-bellagio-casino-foiled-thanks-to-rfid-chips/

15 years ago

47 upvotes – 19 comments

Ask HN: Self-marketing?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2210512

15 years ago

45 upvotes – 21 comments

General factor of intelligence g, a Statistical Myth

http://cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/weblog/523.html

15 years ago

42 upvotes – 33 comments

Proposal: consider scientific research papers like open source software

http://lemire.me/blog/archives/2011/02/11/taking-scientific-publishing-to-the-next-level/

15 years ago

40 upvotes – 16 comments

Nokia USA president is out, replaced by Microsoft vet Chris Weber

http://www.engadget.com/2011/02/12/nokia-usa-president-is-out-replaced-by-microsoft-vet-chris-webe/

15 years ago

39 upvotes – 32 comments

Former CIA agent tells a horror story: Possible misuse of state secret privilege

http://www.ndtv.com/article/world/former-cia-agent-tells-a-horror-story-84785

15 years ago

39 upvotes – 7 comments

The Joy of Coding

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2210290

15 years ago

38 upvotes – 16 comments

A Lack Of Rigor Leaves Students 'Adrift' In College

http://www.npr.org/2011/02/09/133310978/in-college-a-lack-of-rigor-leaves-students-adrift

15 years ago

38 upvotes – 13 comments

Ruby Enterprise Edition 1.8.7-2011.01 released

http://blog.phusion.nl/2011/02/12/ruby-enterprise-edition-1-8-7-2011-01-released/

15 years ago

38 upvotes – 8 comments

A SuperAngel’s Investment Guide

http://www.fabricegrinda.com/personal-musings/a-superangel%E2%80%99s-investment-guide/

15 years ago

36 upvotes – 10 comments

Low-cost video chat robot

http://hackaday.com/2011/02/09/low-cost-video-chat-robot/

15 years ago

36 upvotes – 25 comments
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