top 50% 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

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

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

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

No more desktop Linux systems in the German Foreign Office

http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/No-more-desktop-Linux-systems-in-the-German-Foreign-Office-1191122.html

15 years ago

94 upvotes – 80 comments

CD3WD Archives the Information Necessary to Rebuild Society

http://www.cd3wd.com/cd3wd_40/cd3wd/index.htm

15 years ago

91 upvotes – 18 comments

Can Montreal Become an Open Source Startup Hub?

http://nextmontreal.com/can-montreal-become-an-open-source-startup-hub/

15 years ago

88 upvotes – 84 comments

Jacques Mattheij on: Networking without going places

http://swombat.com/2011/2/21/jacques-mattheij-networking-without-going-places

15 years ago

77 upvotes – 13 comments

New Ruby 1.9 Features, Tips & Tricks

http://www.igvita.com/2011/02/03/new-ruby-19-features-tips-tricks/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+igvita+%28igvita.com%29&utm_content=feed

15 years ago

76 upvotes – 26 comments

Google tries new angle on hiring

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/80ab3af0-3226-11e0-a820-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1EZht6AS5

15 years ago

73 upvotes – 64 comments

Preparing CS students for programming interviews from day one

http://etilevich.wordpress.com/2011/02/19/preparing-cs-students-for-programming-interviews-from-day-one

15 years ago

72 upvotes – 45 comments

When to Buy Airline Tickets

http://dlo.me/when-to-buy-airline-tickets/

15 years ago

62 upvotes – 21 comments

What is the best advice for a startup applying to Y Combinator?

http://www.quora.com/What-is-the-best-advice-for-a-startup-applying-to-Y-Combinator/answer/Harjeet-Taggar

15 years ago

60 upvotes – 37 comments

Forth vs Lisp

http://www.c2.com/cgi/wiki?ForthVsLisp

15 years ago

57 upvotes – 15 comments

The Legend of Zelda Turns 25

http://games.slashdot.org/story/11/02/21/1930238/The-Legend-of-Zelda-Turns-25

15 years ago

55 upvotes – 19 comments

Interview with IMVU: The Startup Dashboard

http://blog.chart.io/2011/interview-with-imvu-the-startup-dashboard/

15 years ago

54 upvotes – 4 comments

Use lambdas for Rails 3 Route Constraints

http://intridea.com/2011/2/21/use-lambdas-for-rails3-route-constraints

15 years ago

51 upvotes – 4 comments

Google Won’t Kill The Chrome URL Bar

http://antimatter15.com/wp/2011/02/google-probably-wont-kill-chrome-url-bar/

15 years ago

48 upvotes – 2 comments

WebSocket whiteboard with chat

http://184.106.155.145/ws.html

15 years ago

47 upvotes – 39 comments

It's Time for Server-Side Browsers

http://camendesign.com/writing/headless_foxes

15 years ago

47 upvotes – 43 comments

Concurrency Kit provides concurrency primitives & lockless data structures in C

http://repnop.org/ck/

15 years ago

46 upvotes – 0 comments

Agile’s Second Chasm (and how we fell in)

http://agilefocus.com/2011/02/21/agiles-second-chasm-and-how-we-fell-in/

15 years ago

45 upvotes – 16 comments

The Mythical Man-Month

http://www.hn-books.com/Books/The-Mythical-Man-Month.htm

15 years ago

45 upvotes – 20 comments
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