top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-02-15

How we fed ourselves for a year & sold a startup...with only 300 lines of code

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2222522

15 years ago

488 upvotes – 109 comments

Show HN: Our new $149 hackable Bluetooth wristwatch

http://www.getinPulse.com

15 years ago

460 upvotes – 143 comments

Is IE9 a modern browser?

http://people.mozilla.com/~prouget/ie9/

15 years ago

378 upvotes – 173 comments

Startups in stealth mode need one piece of advice.

http://www.humbledmba.com/startups-in-stealth-mode-need-one-piece-of-ad

15 years ago

288 upvotes – 64 comments

How I made an HDTV antenna so I could watch Jeopardy last night

http://blamcast.net/articles/how-to-make-an-hdtv-antenna

15 years ago

263 upvotes – 68 comments

The Sweden Solar System

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweden_Solar_System

15 years ago

195 upvotes – 26 comments

Middle-earth according to Mordor - The Lord of the Rings retold

http://www.salon.com/entertainment/movies/the_lord_of_the_rings/index.html?story=/books/laura_miller/2011/02/15/last_ringbearer

15 years ago

186 upvotes – 105 comments

C++ in Coders at Work

http://gigamonkeys.wordpress.com/2009/10/16/coders-c-plus-plus/

15 years ago

178 upvotes – 185 comments

Coca Cola's secret recipe revealed?

http://newsfeed.time.com/2011/02/15/is-this-the-real-thing-coca-colas-secret-formula-discovered/

15 years ago

157 upvotes – 101 comments

Why Your Startup Needs a Visual Dashboard

http://mygengo.com/talk/blog/why-your-startup-needs-a-visual-dashboard/

15 years ago

150 upvotes – 32 comments

How India's banks killed the future of commerce

http://blog.cleartrip.com/journal/2011/2/14/how-indias-banks-killed-the-future-of-commerce.html

15 years ago

130 upvotes – 58 comments

Day 1: IBM Watson Ties for first on Jeopardy

http://venturebeat.com/2011/02/14/in-man-vs-machine-challenge-ibms-watson-ties-for-first-on-jeopardy/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+Venturebeat+(VentureBeat)

15 years ago

124 upvotes – 96 comments

Apple Launches Subscriptions on the App Store

http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2011/02/15appstore.html

15 years ago

119 upvotes – 130 comments

Hong Kong gets 1 Gbps broadband service for $26 a month

http://www.geek.com/articles/news/hong-kong-gets-1-gbps-broadband-service-for-26-a-month-20100420/

15 years ago

119 upvotes – 88 comments

Google doesn't get 'social', but Apple doesn't understand the Internet

http://www.decipher.org/2011/02/blind-spots.html

15 years ago

113 upvotes – 87 comments

HTTP Status 418 I'm a teapot

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_HTTP_status_codes

15 years ago

112 upvotes – 33 comments

Racket 5.1 Released

http://blog.racket-lang.org/2011/02/racket-v51.html

15 years ago

110 upvotes – 9 comments

Why did Google feel that Google Wave was a good product?

http://www.quora.com/Why-did-Google-feel-that-Google-Wave-was-a-good-product/answers/380212

15 years ago

99 upvotes – 64 comments

Nokia Plan C

http://nokiaplanc.com/

15 years ago

98 upvotes – 23 comments

A Modern Browser

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tims/archive/2011/02/15/a-modern-browser.aspx

15 years ago

96 upvotes – 86 comments

Redis at Bump: many roles, best practices, and lessons learned

http://devblog.bu.mp/how-we-use-redis-at-bump

15 years ago

94 upvotes – 31 comments

12,000 Requests per second with Nginx, PHP and Memcached

http://blog.martinfjordvald.com/2010/09/12000-requests-per-second-with-nginx-php-and-memcached/

15 years ago

87 upvotes – 61 comments

List of content farms to block with Google Personal Blocklist

http://www.jongales.com/blog/2011/02/14/list-of-content-farms/

15 years ago

87 upvotes – 46 comments

Hi-Res Panorama of the Sistine Chapel

http://www.vatican.va/various/cappelle/sistina_vr/index.html

15 years ago

83 upvotes – 24 comments

Court confirms: IP addresses aren’t people (and P2P lawyers know it)

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/02/court-confirms-ip-addresses-arent-people-and-p2p-lawyers-know-it.ars

15 years ago

83 upvotes – 11 comments

CoSupport: Outsourced customer support by former 37signals-er Sarah Hatter

http://cosupport.us/

15 years ago

82 upvotes – 38 comments

Using Real Names has Real Consequences

http://open.salon.com/blog/kent_pitman/2011/02/12/using_real_names_has_real_consequences

15 years ago

82 upvotes – 45 comments

Re-using Backbone.js Models on the server with Node.js and Socket.io

http://andyet.net/blog/2011/feb/15/re-using-backbonejs-models-on-the-server-with-node/

15 years ago

76 upvotes – 22 comments

Security is Mathematics

http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2008-03.html

15 years ago

73 upvotes – 46 comments

Why I no longer trust EMC

http://dbmsmusings.blogspot.com/2011/02/why-i-no-longer-trust-emc.html

15 years ago

70 upvotes – 36 comments

If you own the infrastructure you get to charge rent

http://garry.posterous.com/if-you-own-the-infrastructure-you-get-to-char

15 years ago

70 upvotes – 45 comments

Httpstat.us: API for generating different HTTP codes.

http://httpstat.us/

15 years ago

69 upvotes – 37 comments

RIP Microsoft Zune brand

http://www.geek.com/articles/mobile/microsoft-to-kill-off-zune-branding-20110215/

15 years ago

66 upvotes – 45 comments

Valve Makes More Money Per Employee Than Google Or Apple

http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/15/valve-makes-more-money-per-employee-than-google-or-apple/

15 years ago

66 upvotes – 54 comments

Reflections on Objective-C

http://alblue.bandlem.com/2011/02/reflections-on-objective-c.html

15 years ago

63 upvotes – 13 comments

The decline of the $10 million IPO, and why it matters

http://www.urgentspeed.com/applied_disruption/2010/04/why-ten-million-dollar-ipos-matter.html

15 years ago

58 upvotes – 25 comments

190,000 req/seq (micro benchmarks) ... Haskell webserver shootout continues

http://docs.yesodweb.com/blog/warp-speed-ahead

15 years ago

54 upvotes – 18 comments

Android Gmail App: Stealing Emails via XSS

http://spareclockcycles.org/2011/02/11/android-gmail-app-stealing-emails-via-xss/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+spareclockcycles+(Spare+Clock+Cycles)

15 years ago

53 upvotes – 11 comments

How Greg Lindsay Beat IBM's Watson at Jeopardy

http://www.fastcompany.com/1726969/how-i-beat-ibms-watson-at-jeopardy-3-times

15 years ago

47 upvotes – 11 comments

Blekko Partners With Stack Overflow To Improve Search Results

http://searchengineland.com/blekko-partners-with-stack-overflow-64795

15 years ago

46 upvotes – 4 comments

Apple’s Next Greedy Move: Exclusivity

http://mikecanex.wordpress.com/2011/02/15/apples-next-greedy-move-exclusivity/

15 years ago

45 upvotes – 37 comments

Appsumo reveals its A/B testing secret: only 1 out of 8 tests produce results

http://visualwebsiteoptimizer.com/split-testing-blog/a-b-testing-tips/

15 years ago

44 upvotes – 26 comments

IBooks detects jailbroken iphones

http://socialapples.com/blog/2011/02/15/apple-cripples-ibooks-for-jailbreakers/

15 years ago

44 upvotes – 30 comments

The perils of walking slow: scientists analyze sidewalk rage

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703786804576138261177599114.html?mod=WSJ_LifeStyle_LeadStoryNA

15 years ago

43 upvotes – 63 comments

Hudson moves to Github

http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Now-Hudson-moves-to-Github-1190087.html

15 years ago

42 upvotes – 23 comments

IndexTank, a New Startup Offers Hosted Search as a Service

http://gigaom.com/2011/02/15/indextank/

15 years ago

41 upvotes – 9 comments
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