top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-02-18

Don't waste your time by cd-ing in the terminal

http://www.huyng.com/archives/quick-bash-tip-directory-bookmarks/492/

15 years ago

449 upvotes – 118 comments

Nissan Leaf

http://www.nissanusa.com/leaf-electric-car/

15 years ago

352 upvotes – 185 comments

Host Your Static Website on Amazon S3

http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2011/02/host-your-static-website-on-amazon-s3.html

15 years ago

315 upvotes – 92 comments

How to become Batman

http://www.quora.com/Given-our-current-technology-and-with-the-proper-training-would-it-be-possible-for-someone-to-become-Batman/answer/Mark-Hughes-1

15 years ago

286 upvotes – 77 comments

Goodbye to academic research

http://blog.devicerandom.org/2011/02/18/getting-a-life/

15 years ago

270 upvotes – 92 comments

Why I stopped travelling to the US and largely stopped doing business in the US

http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/fngfo/why_i_stopped_travelling_to_the_us_and_i_largely/

15 years ago

267 upvotes – 186 comments

Real Life Model of M.C. Escher’s “Waterfall”

http://laughingsquid.com/real-life-model-of-m-c-eschers-waterfall/

15 years ago

254 upvotes – 50 comments

Is Scheme Faster than C?

http://www.cs.indiana.edu/~jsobel/c455-c511.updated.txt

15 years ago

216 upvotes – 62 comments

Black ops: how HBGary wrote backdoors for the government

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/02/black-ops-how-hbgary-wrote-backdoors-and-rootkits-for-the-government.ars

15 years ago

209 upvotes – 39 comments

MIT OpenCourseWare programming lecture videos (in Python)

http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-computer-science/6-00-introduction-to-computer-science-and-programming-fall-2008/video-lectures/

15 years ago

160 upvotes – 27 comments

How reddit became reddit - the biggest smallest community online

http://alexisohanian.com/how-reddit-became-reddit-the-smallest-biggest

15 years ago

153 upvotes – 76 comments

Show HN: What Do You Think Of My Resume?

http://on.fb.me/foaQCC

15 years ago

141 upvotes – 79 comments

12 new file formats in the Google Docs Viewer

http://googledocs.blogspot.com/2011/02/12-new-file-formats-in-google-docs.html

15 years ago

136 upvotes – 34 comments

When to Use PayPal vs. Merchant Account

http://feefighters.com/paypal-calculator

15 years ago

136 upvotes – 82 comments

Modern Browsers Ship

http://bethesignal.org/blog/2011/02/19/modern-browsers-ship/

15 years ago

127 upvotes – 99 comments

Twitter Suspends UberTwitter And Twidroyd For Violating Policies

http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/18/twitter-suspends-ubermedia-clients-ubertwitter-and-twidroyd-for-violating-policies/

15 years ago

117 upvotes – 68 comments

Bootstrap your startup: become a hacker tutor

http://blog.tutorspree.com/bootstrap-your-startup-become-a-hacker-tutor

15 years ago

102 upvotes – 16 comments

Native Client: Getting Ready for Takeoff

http://blog.chromium.org/2011/02/native-client-getting-ready-for-takeoff.html

15 years ago

100 upvotes – 44 comments

Two Factor SSH with Google Authenticator

http://www.mnxsolutions.com/security/two-factor-ssh-with-google-authenticator.html

15 years ago

97 upvotes – 26 comments

Leonardo da Vinci's Resume

http://www.cenedella.com/job-search/leonardo-da-vincis-resume/

15 years ago

96 upvotes – 25 comments

Solve Homelessness: Cut Out The Middle Man

http://www.economist.com/node/17420321?story_id=17420321&fsrc=scn/tw/te/rss/pe

15 years ago

87 upvotes – 97 comments

Next Hacker News DC Meetup on Wednesday, Feb 23rd

http://meetup.hackernewsdc.org/events/16465705/

15 years ago

84 upvotes – 18 comments

Neurons can operate in reverse

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2011-02/nu-rtt021711.php

15 years ago

79 upvotes – 32 comments

Let them eat veggies: Obama has dinner with Steve

http://www.cringely.com/2011/02/let-them-eat-veggies-obama-has-dinner-with-steve/

15 years ago

79 upvotes – 75 comments

Free Online Crash Course in Startups from The Founder Institute

http://www.readwriteweb.com/start/2011/02/take-an-online-crash-course-in.php?sms_ss=hackernews&at_xt=4d5edc873ab33369%2C0

15 years ago

76 upvotes – 13 comments

Learn WebGL in 16 lessons

http://learningwebgl.com/blog/?page_id=1217?

15 years ago

76 upvotes – 13 comments

Google IPO? No Thanks (2004)

http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2004/04/30/google-ipo-no-thanks.aspx

15 years ago

71 upvotes – 32 comments

PyCon 2011: Interview with Zed Shaw

http://pycon.blogspot.com/2011/02/title-pycon-2011-interview-with-zed.html

15 years ago

67 upvotes – 16 comments

My Company Is Using OCaml for web development. Why?

http://www.nicollet.net/2011/02/objective-caml-web-programming/

15 years ago

65 upvotes – 66 comments

Can you use PHP without frameworks nowadays?

http://css.dzone.com/articles/can-you-use-php-without

15 years ago

64 upvotes – 86 comments

If Libya Shuts Down the Internet, What Happens To .ly Domains?

http://www.centernetworks.com/libya-shuts-down-the-internet-domains

15 years ago

64 upvotes – 60 comments

Toyota's Recall Crisis: What Have We Learned?

http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2011/02/toyotas_recall_crisis_full_of.html

15 years ago

59 upvotes – 35 comments

HIV as you've never seen it before

http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/nstv/2011/02/hiv-as-youve-never-seen-it-before.html

15 years ago

57 upvotes – 13 comments

Obscurity: Does Changing Your SSH Port Lower Your Risk?

http://danielmiessler.com/blog/security-and-obscurity-does-changing-your-ssh-port-lower-your-risk

15 years ago

54 upvotes – 93 comments

Why Most Facebook Marketing Doesn't Work

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/why_most_facebook_marketing_doesnt_work.php

15 years ago

54 upvotes – 12 comments

San Francisco Wants to Tax Your Stock Options – All of Them

http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/18/san-francisco-wants-to-tax-your-stock-options-all-of-them/

15 years ago

49 upvotes – 37 comments

VoiceRally: Live Twitter Stream of the Wisconsin Union Protests

http://voicerally.com

15 years ago

49 upvotes – 7 comments

JSHint: An Community Driven Fork of JSLint

http://badassjs.com/post/3364925033/jshint-an-community-driven-fork-of-jslint

15 years ago

48 upvotes – 26 comments

Regulators probe Apple 30% subscription plan

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/02/18/us-apple-doj-idUSTRE71H4DU20110218

15 years ago

48 upvotes – 73 comments

Look Out Quora, InboxQ (YC W10) Takes Q&A Off-Site And Onto Twitter

http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/17/inboxq/

15 years ago

45 upvotes – 13 comments

SourceForge.net Gets A Makeover

http://sourceforge.net/?

15 years ago

43 upvotes – 23 comments

World’s first hummingbird-like unmanned aircraft system takes flight

http://www.gizmag.com/aerovironment-nano-hummingbird/17918/

15 years ago

42 upvotes – 7 comments
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