top 20 hacker news stories for 2011-02-13

Guy commits his genome to Github, smartass forks and issues a pull request

https://github.com/msporny/dna/pull/1

15 years ago

★ 442
476 upvotes – 72 comments

HD 555 to HD 595 mod (or: how Sennheiser cripples cheaper headphones)

http://mikebeauchamp.com/misc/sennheiser-hd-555-to-hd-595-mod/

15 years ago

395 upvotes – 207 comments

Stuxnet is now on GitHub

https://github.com/Laurelai/decompile-dump

15 years ago

★ 407 C
248 upvotes – 66 comments

Nerd Fort

http://nerdfort.com/

15 years ago

200 upvotes – 95 comments

Why Non-engineers Think Engineers Are Better Off Joining Startups

http://dbasch.posterous.com/why-non-engineers-think-engineers-are-better

15 years ago

181 upvotes – 74 comments

EFF Finds Evidence Of Over 40,000 Intelligence Violations By The FBI

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110202/03320812922.shtml

15 years ago

169 upvotes – 19 comments

Yes, The Khan Academy is the Future of Education

http://singularityhub.com/2011/02/13/yes-the-khan-academy-is-the-future-of-education-video/

15 years ago

169 upvotes – 70 comments

Ask HN: How Many of You Are Like Me?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2214051

15 years ago

156 upvotes – 133 comments

Acetaminophen and the War on Drugs (2009)

http://www.paleonu.com/panu-weblog/2009/7/7/acetaminophen-and-the-war-on-drugs.html

15 years ago

154 upvotes – 58 comments

How to Get a Raise

http://www.sebastianmarshall.com/how-to-get-a-raise

15 years ago

146 upvotes – 46 comments

Remnants of a Disappearing UI

http://news.designlanguage.com/post/1611663345/

15 years ago

126 upvotes – 29 comments

Free university lectures on computer science

http://lecturefox.com/computerscience/

15 years ago

120 upvotes – 12 comments

New Chat Thing Convore Is Google Wave Minus the Suck

http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/mimssbits/26367/

15 years ago

115 upvotes – 59 comments

The rise and fall of Lisp at the Jet Propulsion Lab (2002)

http://flownet.com/gat/jpl-lisp.html

15 years ago

97 upvotes – 36 comments

Peter Norvig: The machine age

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/the_machine_age_tM7xPAv4pI4JslK0M1JtxI

15 years ago

95 upvotes – 52 comments

Ask HN: Burned out. How can I make the most of a sabbatical leave?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2213417

15 years ago

89 upvotes – 112 comments

Streeme - a private, HTML5 based music server (alpha release)

http://code.google.com/p/streeme/

15 years ago

86 upvotes – 18 comments

What is the future of Qt?

http://blog.qt.nokia.com/2011/02/12/nokia-new-strategic-direction-what-is-the-future-for-qt/

15 years ago

82 upvotes – 23 comments

Falling Off The Ladder: How Not To Succeed In Academia

http://sciencecareers.sciencemag.org/career_magazine/previous_issues/articles/2011_02_04/caredit.a1100011

15 years ago

80 upvotes – 56 comments

Difficult is Good

http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2011/02/difficult-is-good.html

15 years ago

78 upvotes – 22 comments
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