top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-02-28

Pictures of kittens for use as placeholders in your designs or code

http://placekitten.com/

15 years ago

569 upvotes – 116 comments

Linus Torvalds: Pearls before swine

http://torvalds-family.blogspot.com/2011/02/pearls-before-swine.html

15 years ago

410 upvotes – 132 comments

Working at Microsoft – Day to Day Coding

http://foredecker.wordpress.com/2011/02/27/working-at-microsoft-day-to-day-coding/

15 years ago

288 upvotes – 164 comments

RStudio,a new IDE for R

http://www.rstudio.org/

15 years ago

271 upvotes – 33 comments

When you want to quit because it's just not worth it

http://blog.asmartbear.com/startups-emotionally-draining.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+blogspot/smartbear+(A+Smart+Bear:+Startups+%2B+Marketing+%2B+Geekery)&utm_content=Google+UK

15 years ago

262 upvotes – 53 comments

How to Make Money in 6 Easy Steps

http://www.inc.com/magazine/20110301/making-money-small-business-advice-from-jason-fried.html

15 years ago

261 upvotes – 55 comments

What is the single most influential book every programmer should read?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1711/what-is-the-single-most-influential-book-every-programmer-should-read

15 years ago

244 upvotes – 103 comments

2000 as Seen in 1910 (23 pics)

http://acidcow.com/pics/17678-futur-imagined-23-pics.html

15 years ago

196 upvotes – 104 comments

Interesting photos from Google Street View

http://9-eyes.com/

15 years ago

189 upvotes – 49 comments

Wolfram Alpha doesn't "get it"

http://blog.agiletortoise.com/post/3564424414/wolfram-alpha-doesnt-get-it

15 years ago

187 upvotes – 100 comments

What it's like building a real website in Node.js

http://www.travisglines.com/web-coding/what-its-like-building-a-real-website-in-node-js

15 years ago

158 upvotes – 29 comments

How much money can you make in the iOS App Store?

http://blog.riverofnewsapp.com/2010/10/how-much-money-can-you-make-on-app.html

15 years ago

148 upvotes – 31 comments

Djangy is shutting down

http://blog.djangy.com/2011/02/27/final-djangy-newsletter/

15 years ago

148 upvotes – 48 comments

Insufficiently known Posix shell features

http://apenwarr.ca/log/?m=201102#28

15 years ago

140 upvotes – 34 comments

Tell HN: Our VC turned the process of getting acquired into a nightmare

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2273458

15 years ago

134 upvotes – 48 comments

Google App Engine to support SQL

http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine/browse_thread/thread/9740dd2a8bdf4206

15 years ago

120 upvotes – 32 comments

HBGary Federal CEO Aaron Barr Steps Down

http://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/hbgary-federal-ceo-aaron-barr-steps-down-022811

15 years ago

119 upvotes – 71 comments

Drop out. Or don't.

http://areallybadidea.com/drop-out-or-dont

15 years ago

110 upvotes – 46 comments

Comprehend Systems (YC W11) Wants To Make Data Analysis Less Of A Pain

http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/27/comprehend-systems/

15 years ago

101 upvotes – 8 comments

Essential JavaScript design patterns

http://addyosmani.com/blog/essentialjsdesignpatternsupdate1/

15 years ago

101 upvotes – 11 comments

Impossible colors

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impossible_color

15 years ago

90 upvotes – 30 comments

It’s time to adopt modern Bayesian data analysis as standard procedure

http://www.indiana.edu/~kruschke/AnOpenLetter.htm

15 years ago

89 upvotes – 52 comments

Is employer-based health insurance a barrier to entrepreneurship?

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6V8K-512K1KY-1&_user=10&_coverDate=01/31/2011&_rdoc=1&_fmt=high&_orig=search&_origin=search&_sort=d&_docanchor=&view=c&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=ae336445c13e1f5172d6f65d0c420f4d&searchtype=a

15 years ago

85 upvotes – 140 comments

Programmer problem solving sequence: should it be like this?

http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2010/10/22/programmer-problem-solving-sequence/

15 years ago

85 upvotes – 58 comments

First SciPy release to support Python 3

http://sourceforge.net/projects/scipy/files/scipy/0.9.0/

15 years ago

83 upvotes – 14 comments

How To Disrupt And "Hipmunk" An Industry

http://onstartups.com/tabid/3339/bid/41534/9-Ways-To-Disrupt-And-Hipmunk-An-Industry.aspx

15 years ago

83 upvotes – 25 comments

Programmers without computers

http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2011/02/28/programmers-without-computers/

15 years ago

83 upvotes – 34 comments

Gameduino: an Arduino game adapter

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2084212109/gameduino-an-arduino-game-adapter

15 years ago

81 upvotes – 11 comments

Immaterials: Light painting WiFi

http://yourban.no/2011/02/22/immaterials-light-painting-wifi/

15 years ago

80 upvotes – 8 comments

Ask HN: Who's Hiring? (March 2011 Edition)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2270790

15 years ago

80 upvotes – 32 comments

Ask HN: Who Is Hiring Remote Workers? (March 2011 Edition)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2270791

15 years ago

79 upvotes – 42 comments

Republicans: No compromise possible on net neutrality

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/02/republicans-no-compromise-possible-on-net-neutrality.ars

15 years ago

74 upvotes – 142 comments

(Android) Developer Income Report #7

http://www.kreci.net/reports/developer-income-report-7/

15 years ago

71 upvotes – 22 comments

How Chris Sacca And J.P. Morgan Acquired 10% Of Twitter

http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/27/jp-morgan-twitter-chris-sacca-10-percent-secondary/

15 years ago

70 upvotes – 18 comments

Check in to Facebook Places from your inPulse watch

http://blog.getinpulse.com/checkin-to-facebook-places-from-your-watch

15 years ago

63 upvotes – 13 comments

How To Start A Business With No Money

http://www.startbreakingfree.com/273/46-ways-to-start-a-business-with-no-money/

15 years ago

60 upvotes – 13 comments

Making an RPG in Clojure (part one of many?)

http://briancarper.net/blog/520/making-an-rpg-in-clojure-part-one-of-many

15 years ago

59 upvotes – 8 comments

The JRR Tolkien Estate Can Go Fuck Itself

http://www.giro.org/2011/02/23/the-jrr-tolkien-estate-can-go-fuck-itself/

15 years ago

58 upvotes – 31 comments

SeaMicro drops another Atom bomb on the server market

http://venturebeat.com/2011/02/27/seamicro-64bit-atom-servers/

15 years ago

58 upvotes – 18 comments

Show HN: My weekend project, a graphics/cellular automata playground

http://demoseen.com/langton.html

15 years ago

56 upvotes – 16 comments

Senators to Debate Patent Bill

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/28/business/28patent.html

15 years ago

54 upvotes – 21 comments

Facebook Investor Peter Thiel: Palantir Is The Next Facebook Or Google

http://blogs.forbes.com/oliverchiang/2011/02/28/facebook-investor-peter-thiel-palantir-is-the-next-facebook-or-google/

15 years ago

53 upvotes – 52 comments

How To Turn A Laser Into A Tractor Beam

http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/26448/?ref=rss

15 years ago

52 upvotes – 9 comments

I Hate CSS

http://blog.aaziz.org/i-hate-css

15 years ago

51 upvotes – 100 comments

Use curiosity

http://lesswrong.com/lw/4ku/use_curiosity/

15 years ago

49 upvotes – 6 comments

Yammer introduces HTML5 document collaboration (powered by Crocodoc, YC W10)

http://blog.yammer.com/blog/2011/02/yammer-introduces-new-html5-document-viewer.html

15 years ago

48 upvotes – 5 comments

Agner - Erlang Package Index

http://erlagner.org/

15 years ago

47 upvotes – 0 comments
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