top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-02-27

Man with ALS writes patch for Gnome using morse code (with touching story)

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=78514#c19

15 years ago

This is what it's like for an innocent man to spend thirty years in jail

http://www.esquire.com/print-this/ray-towler-profile-0311?page=all

15 years ago

Designers, how do we get you guys to contribute to open source projects?

http://forrst.com/posts/Designers_how_do_we_get_you_guys_to_contribute-gVn

15 years ago

Beautiful Time-Lapse of Milky Way over Lake Tahoe

http://laughingsquid.com/beautiful-time-lapse-of-milky-way-over-lake-tahoe/

15 years ago

Joyent: 54+ hours of downtime

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2269329

15 years ago

Gmail accidentally resetting accounts

http://www.engadget.com/2011/02/27/gmail-accidentally-resetting-accounts-years-of-correspondence-v/

15 years ago

Custora (YC W11) Helps Online Businesses Improve Customer Retention

http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/27/custora-helps-online-businesses-improve-customer-retention/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+Techcrunch+(TechCrunch)&utm_content=FeedBurner

15 years ago

The joys of maintenance programming

http://typicalprogrammer.com/?p=122

15 years ago

Startup Tools

http://steveblank.com/tools-and-blogs-for-entrepreneurs/

15 years ago

I Don't Want to be a Teacher Any More

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/02/26/950079/-I-Dont-Want-to-be-a-Teacher-Any-More

15 years ago

The Haves and Have-Nots: The True Story of a Reader Suddenly De-Invited from TED

http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/27/the-haves-and-have-nots-the-true-story-of-a-reader-suddenly-de-invited-from-ted/

15 years ago

BitMate - BitTorrent For The Less Privileged

http://www.dritte.org/bitmate.html

15 years ago

Abstract Algebra: Theory and Applications (A Free Textbook)

http://abstract.ups.edu/

15 years ago

My 10 UNIX Command Line Mistakes

http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/my-10-unix-command-line-mistakes.html

15 years ago

Free (Creative Commons) Book on How To Do Proofs

http://www.people.vcu.edu/~rhammack/BookOfProof/index.html

15 years ago

RIM's reply to jammur's open letter

http://devblog.blackberry.com/2011/02/thanks-for-the-open-letter-to-rim-developer-relations/

15 years ago

SwipeGood (YC W11) Gives Its Start Fund Cash To Charity

http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/27/swipegood-gives-its-start-fund-cash-to-charity/

15 years ago

Things I Won't Work With: Chlorine Azide

http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2011/02/25/things_i_wont_work_with_chlorine_azide.php

15 years ago

The Very Rich Indie Writer

http://www.novelr.com/2011/02/27/rich-indie-writer

15 years ago

10.7 Lion allows multi-user remote computing

http://www.9to5mac.com/54102/10-7-lion-allows-multi-user-remote-computing?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+9To5Mac-MacAllDay+%289+to+5+Mac+-+Apple+Intelligence%29&utm_content=Google+Reader

15 years ago

Burning Chrome

http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/27/burning-chrome/

15 years ago

Don’t be fooled. 24-bit will not fix computer audio

http://gadgets.itwriting.com/?p=140

15 years ago

Common Lisp, Clojure and Evolution

http://www.adrianmouat.com/bit-bucket/2011/02/common-lisp-clojure-and-evolution/

15 years ago

How many users do you need for a 100MM / year consumer Internet product?

http://andrewchenblog.com/2011/02/26/quora-what-is-considered-a-significant-number-of-users-for-a-free-consumer-internet-product/

15 years ago

Algorithms, A Dropbox Challenge and Dynamic Programming

http://www.skorks.com/2011/02/algorithms-a-dropbox-challenge-and-dynamic-programming/

15 years ago

Brief Thoughts on Angel List

http://500hats.typepad.com/500blogs/2011/02/brief-thoughts-on-angel-list.html

15 years ago

Mac OS X 10.7, still no DHCPv6

http://seclists.org/nanog/2011/Feb/1906

15 years ago

I Disagree with Fred; Marketing is for Companies that Have Great Products

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/i-disagree-with-fred-marketing-is-for-companies-that-have-great-products

15 years ago

The Myth of Japan's 'Lost Decades'

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2011/02/the-myth-of-japans-lost-decades/71741/

15 years ago

Logic and Mathematics - an overview.

http://www.solipsys.co.uk/new/LogicAndMathematicsOverview.html?HN

15 years ago

Is Tor Safe? Think Again.

http://cryptogon.com/?p=624

15 years ago