top 20 hacker news stories for 2011-02-26

Why didn't the Romans have hot air balloons?

http://chronopause.com/index.php/2011/02/07/67/

15 years ago

280 upvotes – 130 comments

Japan Airlines' CEO pays himself less than the pilots, takes the bus to work

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/01/28/eveningnews/main4761136.shtml

15 years ago

232 upvotes – 74 comments

Free Kindle This November

http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2011/02/free_kindle_thi.php

15 years ago

188 upvotes – 101 comments

The Unofficial Guide to Migrating Off of Google App Engine

http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~silver/gae.html

15 years ago

163 upvotes – 57 comments

Super Mario Brothers GameBoy (and all GameBoy games) ported to HTML5

http://www.grantgalitz.org/SuperMarioBros/

15 years ago

162 upvotes – 46 comments

IPhone 4 films final Discovery launch from 30,000 feet up.

http://thebln.com/2011/02/iphone-4-video-of-discovery-launching-on-sts-133-from-commercial-plane/

15 years ago

142 upvotes – 43 comments

Berkshire Hathaway Shareholder Letters 2010 [pdf]

http://www.berkshirehathaway.com/letters/2010ltr.pdf

15 years ago

120 upvotes – 65 comments

Crawl Bank Accounts with the Ghost of Wesabe

http://www.readwriteweb.com/hack/2011/02/crawl-your-bank-account-with-w.php

15 years ago

116 upvotes – 20 comments

Python: language moratorium is lifted

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.devel/121459

15 years ago

113 upvotes – 29 comments

Life Without Photoshop

http://www.quora.com/Joel-Lewenstein/Life-Without-Photoshop

15 years ago

111 upvotes – 66 comments

Unicode In Python, Completely Demystified

http://farmdev.com/talks/unicode/

15 years ago

107 upvotes – 19 comments

Crush Notifier backlash: if Dan Lowenherz is a crook so is your favorite company

http://jarinheit.posterous.com/the-crush-notifier-backlash-if-dan-lowenherz

15 years ago

104 upvotes – 39 comments

How Demand Media Used PR Spin to Have Google Kill Their Competitors

http://www.seobook.com/google-kills-ehows-competitors

15 years ago

102 upvotes – 65 comments

Steve Huffman on Lessons Learned at Reddit

http://thinkvitamin.com/code/steve-huffman-on-lessons-learned-at-reddit/

15 years ago

100 upvotes – 24 comments

Redis Sharding at Craigslist

http://blog.zawodny.com/2011/02/26/redis-sharding-at-craigslist/

15 years ago

97 upvotes – 16 comments

Tell HN: Breakup Notifier is now Crush Notifier

http://blog.crushnotifier.com/

15 years ago

94 upvotes – 52 comments

DuckDuckGo FOSS Donations 2010

http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/2011/02/duckduckgo-foss-donations-2010.html

15 years ago

93 upvotes – 26 comments

The Scheme Programming Language, Fourth Edition

http://scheme.com/tspl4/

15 years ago

92 upvotes – 6 comments

Types Considered Harmful

http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/2828

15 years ago

83 upvotes – 23 comments

Zotonic - The Erlang CMS

http://zotonic.com/

15 years ago

82 upvotes – 11 comments
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