top 50% 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

Why I Deleted My AngelList Account

http://bryce.vc/post/3520840379/why-i-deleted-my-angellist-account

15 years ago

81 upvotes – 40 comments

Which websites dropped the most in the latest Google algorithm change?

http://www.quora.com/Which-websites-dropped-the-most-in-the-latest-Google-algorithm-change

15 years ago

80 upvotes – 49 comments

Chess Music

http://jonathanwstokes.com/2011/02/14/chess-music/

15 years ago

77 upvotes – 1 comments

Why Use Rubinius

http://rubini.us/2011/02/25/why-use-rubinius/

15 years ago

73 upvotes – 20 comments

Ask HN: I'm renovating a house, what clever stuff should I build in?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2265315

15 years ago

66 upvotes – 111 comments

Apple’s iPad Still Has No Competition

http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/26/ipad-no-competition/

15 years ago

64 upvotes – 53 comments

Marcus du Sautoy's "Brief History of Mathematics" (10 MP3 episodes)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/maths

15 years ago

60 upvotes – 9 comments

Testing Google's New Algorithm: It Really Is Better

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/02/testing-googles-new-algorithm-it-really-is-better/71720/

15 years ago

55 upvotes – 5 comments

Graph Databases Intrigue Me

http://blog.jlank.com/2011/02/26/graph-databases-intrigue-me/

15 years ago

52 upvotes – 21 comments

Rob Pike on Google Go: Concurrency, Type System, Memory Management and GC

http://www.infoq.com/interviews/pike-google-go

15 years ago

51 upvotes – 1 comments

Ask HN: Bitcoin mining: anyone doing it?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2265338

15 years ago

51 upvotes – 19 comments

Security concerns over new Thunderbolt I/O technology

http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/Security-concerns-over-new-Thunderbolt-I-O-technology-1198476.html

15 years ago

50 upvotes – 13 comments

Whoa... Groupon Generated $760M in Revenue in 2010

http://mashable.com/2011/02/25/groupon-760-million/

15 years ago

49 upvotes – 30 comments

What’s The Real Deal With AngelList?

http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/26/angelist/

15 years ago

48 upvotes – 9 comments

The Utility of Mathematics

http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/utility-of-math/

15 years ago

45 upvotes – 6 comments

JSend: a specification for how JSON responses should be formatted

http://labs.omniti.com/labs/jsend

15 years ago

44 upvotes – 29 comments

Poisoning ruby: on language design with the rubinius VM

http://confreaks.net/videos/454-rubyconf2010-poisoning-rubinius-the-_why-and-how

15 years ago

44 upvotes – 0 comments

Asynchronous Iteration Patterns (in Node.js)

http://metaduck.com/post/2675027550/asynchronous-iteration-patterns-in-node-js

15 years ago

42 upvotes – 21 comments

Random defendant outlawyers P2P attorney, gets lawsuit tossed

http://arstechnica.com/#!/tech-policy/news/2011/02/random-defendant-outlawyers-p2p-attorney-gets-lawsuit-tossed.ars

15 years ago

42 upvotes – 8 comments

Why bryce is a really leaving Angel List

http://calacanis.com/2011/02/26/my-response-to-bryce-crying-about-anglelist/

15 years ago

42 upvotes – 19 comments
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