top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-02-24

Pattern: A web mining & natural language processing system for Python

http://www.clips.ua.ac.be/pages/pattern

15 years ago

356 upvotes – 22 comments

Calculus Revisited - a complete self-study calculus course from MIT OCW

http://ocw.mit.edu/resources/res-18-006-calculus-revisited-fall-2010/index.htm

15 years ago

332 upvotes – 44 comments

Thunderbolt

http://www.apple.com/thunderbolt/

15 years ago

320 upvotes – 197 comments

New MacBook Pro series

http://apple.com/macbookpro/

15 years ago

276 upvotes – 347 comments

JQuery 1.5.1 released, includes full IE 9 support

http://blog.jquery.com/2011/02/24/jquery-151-released/

15 years ago

184 upvotes – 41 comments

Apple releases dev preview of Mac OS X 10.7 Lion with AirDrop, FileVault

http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/11/02/24/apple_releases_preview_of_mac_os_x_10_7_lion_with_airdrop_filevault.html

15 years ago

156 upvotes – 140 comments

Why We Stick With PHP (and don't move to Ruby or Python)

http://blog.liip.ch/archive/2011/02/24/why-we-stick-to-php.html

15 years ago

151 upvotes – 133 comments

How to build your own "Watson Jr." in your basement

https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/blogs/InsideSystemStorage/entry/ibm_watson_how_to_build_your_own_watson_jr_in_your_basement7?lang=en

15 years ago

147 upvotes – 27 comments

The lost art of pickpockets

http://www.slate.com/id/2286010/pagenum/all/

15 years ago

137 upvotes – 64 comments

Chrome Developer Tools: Back to Basics

http://blog.chromium.org/2011/02/chrome-developer-tools-back-to-basics.html

15 years ago

133 upvotes – 43 comments

Paul Graham's Search for the Next Facebook

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/11_10/b4218038672660.htm

15 years ago

125 upvotes – 37 comments

1 million nights booked at Airbnb (YC W09)

http://blog.airbnb.com/airbnb-celebrates-1000000-nights-booked

15 years ago

123 upvotes – 50 comments

Use git+github in the classroom

https://github.com/edu

15 years ago

117 upvotes – 29 comments

FreeBSD 8.2 released

http://www.freebsd.org/releases/8.2R/announce.html

15 years ago

109 upvotes – 20 comments

New Mac OS X Lion features announced: Version Control, Instant Resume

http://www.apple.com/macosx/lion/?

15 years ago

102 upvotes – 79 comments

The next operating system: building an OS for hundreds, thousands of cores

http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2011/multicore-series-2-0224.html

15 years ago

101 upvotes – 38 comments

Be careful of who you work with

http://chadfowler.com/2011/02/24/be-careful-of-who-you-work-with

15 years ago

100 upvotes – 36 comments

Show HN: I'll help you name your next startup/product for $50

http://startupgods.com/

15 years ago

98 upvotes – 93 comments

Optimizely (YC W10) Launches Interactive Mode, Cross-Browser Testing, and More

http://blog.optimizely.com/lots-of-new-features-from-optimizely-test-dyn

15 years ago

89 upvotes – 12 comments

Don’t scale: 99.999% uptime is for Wal-Mart

http://37signals.com/svn/archives2/dont_scale_99999_uptime_is_for_walmart.php

15 years ago

84 upvotes – 54 comments

PayPal Freezes Support Account For Bradley Manning

http://www.couragetoresist.org/x/content/view/891/1

15 years ago

83 upvotes – 70 comments

The Development of the C Language

http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/chist.html

15 years ago

76 upvotes – 7 comments

Kill yr ads… the don’ts of iPhone app marketing

http://taptaptap.com/blog/kill-yr-ads-the-donts-of-iphone-app-marketing/

15 years ago

74 upvotes – 23 comments

The Azul Garbage Collector

http://www.infoq.com/articles/azul_gc_in_detail

15 years ago

73 upvotes – 13 comments

Hacking your apartment's electronic entry system

http://jmtame.posterous.com/hacking-your-apartments-electronic-entry-syst

15 years ago

72 upvotes – 35 comments

Hummingbird, Real Time Web Traffic Visualization

http://projects.nuttnet.net/hummingbird/

15 years ago

72 upvotes – 17 comments

Find yourself covered in slime? You're being mugged.

http://shazow.posterous.com/find-yourself-covered-in-slime-youre-being-mu

15 years ago

71 upvotes – 40 comments

Advice to newbie on learning Lisp/Clojure

http://www.learningclojure.com/2011/02/advice-to-newbie.html

15 years ago

70 upvotes – 27 comments

The Hyperpublic Programming Challenge

http://hyperpublic.com/challenge

15 years ago

68 upvotes – 41 comments

AnandTech Motorola Xoom Review

http://www.anandtech.com/show/4191/motorola-xoom-review-first-honeycomb-tablet-arrives

15 years ago

68 upvotes – 44 comments

Intel Launches Next Gen Itanium Monster Processor

http://hothardware.com/Reviews/Intel-Previews-RecordBreaking-32nm-Itanium-Poulson-Processor/

15 years ago

64 upvotes – 35 comments

140Fire (YC W10) Lets You Create Real-time Overlay Ads For Your Video Content

http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/24/mark-cuban-backed-140fire-lets-you-create-real-time-overlay-ads-for-your-video-content/

15 years ago

61 upvotes – 7 comments

How do programmers in the west see programmers in the east?

http://programmers.stackexchange.com/q/50831/468

15 years ago

61 upvotes – 43 comments

Stomp.io for social adventures (launch conference)

http://stomp.io

15 years ago

59 upvotes – 9 comments

Fancy: first bootstrapped language targeting Rubinius VM other than Ruby

http://rubini.us/2011/02/23/introduction-to-fancy/

15 years ago

58 upvotes – 17 comments

Happy 18th Birthday, Ruby

http://www.rubyinside.com/happy-18th-birthday-ruby-4416.html

15 years ago

57 upvotes – 5 comments

Ask HN: Review my investment website startup, StockYoyo.com

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2257982

15 years ago

56 upvotes – 25 comments

How Microsoft mobile tags are killing QR codes

http://blog.getsharesquare.com/wild/how-microsoft-mobile-tag-and-att-are-killing-consumer-qr-code-scanning-in-utero/

15 years ago

56 upvotes – 59 comments

A/B test anything with Var.to, a link shortener with variable destinations

http://var.to/

15 years ago

53 upvotes – 14 comments

A Real-Time API for Next-Generation Apps

http://instagr.am/blog/42/realtime-api

15 years ago

51 upvotes – 6 comments

Million song dataset available for download

http://flowingdata.com/2011/02/24/million-song-dataset-available-for-download/

15 years ago

48 upvotes – 11 comments

Review My App: WhoMails.Me. Scrape Your GMail Account For Contacts

http://whomails.me/

15 years ago

47 upvotes – 14 comments

San Diego: Join us for Hacker News meetup #14 (Fri 2/25)

http://anyvite.com/hkbggjx8u1

15 years ago

42 upvotes – 4 comments

Paulina Sygulska on: How to network effectively

http://swombat.com/2011/2/24/paulina-sygulska-how-to-network-effectively

15 years ago

41 upvotes – 11 comments

Find All The Broadband Options At Any Street Address

http://www.broadbandmap.gov/

15 years ago

40 upvotes – 23 comments

ElephantDB: a distributed database specialized in exporting data from Hadoop

http://tech.backtype.com/introducing-elephantdb-a-distributed-database

15 years ago

40 upvotes – 8 comments

Canonical to take 75% of Banshee Amazon Sales

http://gburt.blogspot.com/2011/02/canonicals-new-plan-for-banshee.html

15 years ago

39 upvotes – 18 comments

Xoom With Honeycomb

http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2011/02/23/Xoom-Honeycomb

15 years ago

38 upvotes – 1 comments

Google adds collaboration support to Microsoft Office

http://googledocs.blogspot.com/2011/02/google-cloud-connect-for-microsoft.html

15 years ago

38 upvotes – 17 comments
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