top 20 hacker news stories for 2011-02-21

Money Won’t Buy You Health Insurance

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/20/opinion/20Dubinsky.html?src=twrhp

15 years ago

596 upvotes – 423 comments

An Open Letter to Apple on the Readability App rejection

http://blog.readability.com/2011/02/an-open-letter-to-apple/

15 years ago

478 upvotes – 199 comments

Why nothing can go faster than the speed of light

http://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/fjwkh/why_exactly_can_nothing_go_faster_than_the_speed/

15 years ago

431 upvotes – 222 comments

The Boy Who Stole Half-Life 2

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-02-21-the-boy-who-stole-half-life-2-article?page=1

15 years ago

401 upvotes – 125 comments

Show HN: Breakup Notifier

http://www.breakupnotifier.com/

15 years ago

264 upvotes – 118 comments

Homeowner forecloses on Wells Fargo office, becomes folk hero

http://agentgenius.com/real-estate-news-events/single-homeowner-forecloses-on-wells-fargo-office-becomes-folk-hero/

15 years ago

256 upvotes – 122 comments

Changes to my life as a result of just four weeks of daily meditation

http://philosophistry.com/archives/2011/02/benefits-of-meditation.html

15 years ago

182 upvotes – 94 comments

Redis at Disqus

http://bretthoerner.com/2011/2/21/redis-at-disqus/

15 years ago

153 upvotes – 41 comments

The secret life of punctuation - ¶ (The Pilcrow)

http://www.shadycharacters.co.uk/2011/02/the-pilcrow-part-1/

15 years ago

148 upvotes – 20 comments

Typical programming interview questions.

http://maxnoy.com/interviews.html

15 years ago

147 upvotes – 107 comments

TinyGrab abandons iOS because of new App Store rules

http://blog.tinygrab.com/2011/02/21/tinygrab-apples-app-stores/

15 years ago

142 upvotes – 74 comments

Microsoft confirms Kinect hackers to get official developer kit

http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/38701/microsoft-kinect-sdk-officially-confirmed

15 years ago

142 upvotes – 37 comments

Python 3.2 Released

http://www.python.org/download/releases/3.2/

15 years ago

142 upvotes – 51 comments

PS3 Hacker Raised All the Legal Funds Needed to Beat Sony in a Weekend

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/107899-PS3-Hacker-Raised-All-the-Legal-Funds-Needed-to-Beat-Sony-in-a-Weekend

15 years ago

136 upvotes – 21 comments

Google Font Directory (expanded, moved to new URL)

http://www.google.com/webfonts

15 years ago

133 upvotes – 30 comments

Using an oscilloscope as a Gameboy display

http://flashingleds.wordpress.com/2011/02/13/nintendoscope/

15 years ago

131 upvotes – 8 comments

Ultima Underworld bugs

http://dfan.org/blog/2011/02/21/ultima-underworld-bugs/

15 years ago

109 upvotes – 17 comments

rbtrace: like strace, but for ruby code

https://github.com/tmm1/rbtrace

15 years ago

★ 1.7k Ruby MIT
101 upvotes – 11 comments

Selling Kiko: How Justin Kan sold his first YC startup on eBay

http://areallybadidea.com/selling-kiko

15 years ago

98 upvotes – 25 comments

Wherein my Kiss was Rejected

http://www.jamesaltucher.com/2010/10/wherein-my-kiss-was-rejected/

15 years ago

94 upvotes – 32 comments
show: top 10top 20top 50%
go to date: prev next
sort by: datescorecomments