top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-02-20

Geohot seeking donations for legal defense against Sony.

http://geohot.com/#2/19/2011

15 years ago

336 upvotes – 82 comments

Why I don't care very much about tablets anymore

http://arstechnica.com/staff/carthage/2011/02/why-i-dont-care-very-much-about-tablets.ars

15 years ago

185 upvotes – 141 comments

Google May Kill Chrome URL Bar

http://www.conceivablytech.com/5746/products/google-may-kill-chrome-url-bar/

15 years ago

160 upvotes – 124 comments

Ask HN: Is TDD/BDD hampering your startup's agility?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2240595

15 years ago

156 upvotes – 122 comments

Libya Shuts Down Internet

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/libya_shuts_down_internet.php#more

15 years ago

152 upvotes – 84 comments

Quora vs. StackExchange: Why, Joel, Why?

http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/20/quora-vs-stackexchange/

15 years ago

142 upvotes – 137 comments

Website Layouts

http://designshack.co.uk/articles/layouts/10-rock-solid-website-layout-examples

15 years ago

141 upvotes – 10 comments

I finally understand why I'm not allowed to use Lisp

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.lisp/browse_thread/thread/41c23db25ddcd899

15 years ago

134 upvotes – 114 comments

Why Nobody Can Match the iPad’s Price

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/02/ipad-price/

15 years ago

133 upvotes – 108 comments

At St. Paul 'wet house,' liquor can be their life - and death

http://www.twincities.com/ci_16774107?nclick_check=1

15 years ago

124 upvotes – 77 comments

Hash tables with O(1) worst-case lookup and space efficiency [pdf]

http://www.ru.is/faculty/ulfar/CuckooHash.pdf

15 years ago

118 upvotes – 43 comments

Visualizing dynamic programming

http://blog.ezyang.com/2010/11/dp-zoo-tour/

15 years ago

116 upvotes – 11 comments

Google C++ Style Guide

http://google-styleguide.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/cppguide.xml

15 years ago

96 upvotes – 39 comments

Born This Way

http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/20/born-this-way/

15 years ago

95 upvotes – 69 comments

Riseup

https://riseup.net/

15 years ago

92 upvotes – 28 comments

Chicken Scheme looks mighty fine

http://lenz.unl.edu/wordpress/?p=18

15 years ago

92 upvotes – 15 comments

Rabbits v. Tigers

http://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2011/01/31/nick-holdstock/rabbits-v-tigers/

15 years ago

88 upvotes – 8 comments

The real HTML5 boilerplate

http://csswizardry.com/2011/01/the-real-html5-boilerplate/

15 years ago

84 upvotes – 30 comments

Show HN: My weekend project, written on Friday and Today

http://fasterdev.com

15 years ago

79 upvotes – 44 comments

Deploy Websites on Amazon S3 using Jekyll and Git

http://openfoo.org/blog/jekyll-s3.html

15 years ago

78 upvotes – 17 comments

Lisp vs Python

http://amitp.blogspot.com/2007/04/lisp-vs-python-syntax.html

15 years ago

76 upvotes – 89 comments

Programmer as Market

http://www.whattofix.com/blog/archives/2011/02/programmer-as-m.php

15 years ago

74 upvotes – 15 comments

Tornado 1.2

http://groups.google.com/group/python-tornado/browse_thread/thread/62d598b0e4e06b62/87f3c68827130bdf?show_docid=87f3c68827130bdf

15 years ago

69 upvotes – 36 comments

Python's Mutable Default Problem

http://blog.objectmentor.com/articles/2008/05/22/pythons-mutable-default-problem

15 years ago

68 upvotes – 62 comments

Nearly All US Universities Lose Money on Sports

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=easterbrook/101207_tuesday_morning_quarterback&sportCat=nfl

15 years ago

67 upvotes – 70 comments

Verizon iPhone selling mostly to existing iPhone owners?

http://www.marco.org/3408938814

15 years ago

65 upvotes – 45 comments

Google is a surveillance company

http://www.securitytube.net/Changing-Threats-To-Privacy-From-TIA-to-Google-(Blackhat-2010)-video.aspx

15 years ago

63 upvotes – 28 comments

The 1972 Chouinard Catalog that changed a business – and climbing – forever

http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2776-on-writing-the-1972-chouinard-catalog-that-changed-a-business-and-climbing-forever

15 years ago

63 upvotes – 11 comments

My Lisp Experiences and the Development of GNU Emacs

http://www.gnu.org/gnu/rms-lisp.html?

15 years ago

62 upvotes – 6 comments

An Interactive Voice Response System for $0.00 in 10 Minutes

http://asymmetrical-view.com/2011/02/20/twilio-in-ten-minutes.html

15 years ago

61 upvotes – 13 comments

Learn Computer Graphics with Processing

http://www.processing.org/learning/

15 years ago

59 upvotes – 11 comments

Couchfuse - FUSE filesystem exposes Couchdb databases as filesystem folder

http://narkisr.github.com/couch-fuse/

15 years ago

49 upvotes – 4 comments

Gonorrhea Acquires Piece of Human DNA

http://www.northwestern.edu/newscenter/stories/2011/02/gonorrhea-human-dna.html

15 years ago

49 upvotes – 8 comments

Your startup gets $20k cash + 20 mentors this summer CapitalFactory 2011

http://blog.asmartbear.com/capital-factory-2011.html

15 years ago

47 upvotes – 9 comments

"t-" : A less-than-minimal task list "manager"

http://www.penzba.co.uk/t-/t-.html?HN1

15 years ago

46 upvotes – 33 comments

Node.js 0.4.1 released, fixes bugs

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/nodejs/lyJOuUHF-04

15 years ago

45 upvotes – 12 comments

JSONloops, open-source real-time multiuser audio sequencer

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1141308765/jsonloops-open-source-real-time-multiuser-audio-se?ref=live

15 years ago

45 upvotes – 13 comments

Show HN: Engelbart's Chorded Keyboard - Built at SHDH42 yesterday

http://paulisageek.com/chord/

15 years ago

43 upvotes – 29 comments
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