top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-04-03

Ask HN: How to stave off decline of HN?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2403696

15 years ago

465 upvotes – 680 comments

Predator Object Tracking Algorithm

http://www.gottabemobile.com/2011/04/01/predator-object-tracking-algorithm-the-future-of-computer-interface/

15 years ago

460 upvotes – 76 comments

Zed's new project: Vulnerability Arbitration

http://vulnarb.com/

15 years ago

238 upvotes – 90 comments

Formatting your web content to be a pleasure to read

http://www.informationarchitects.jp/en/100e2r/

15 years ago

200 upvotes – 54 comments

Nuclear Power is Safest Way to Make Electricity

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/nuclear-power-is-safest-way-to-make-electricity-according-to-2007-study/2011/03/22/AFQUbyQC_print.html

15 years ago

167 upvotes – 248 comments

Clever algorithms in Ruby

http://www.cleveralgorithms.com/nature-inspired/index.html

15 years ago

146 upvotes – 7 comments

On Bushido, launch apps from github repos

http://jacquesmattheij.com/the+best+thing+since+sliced+bread

15 years ago

135 upvotes – 43 comments

Alan Turing Documentary

http://www.adafruit.com/blog/2011/04/03/alan-turing-documentary/

15 years ago

128 upvotes – 26 comments

Withdrawing from Hacker News

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

15 years ago

123 upvotes – 103 comments

More screen is better for productivity, studies show

http://skeptics.stackexchange.com/q/1700/96

15 years ago

116 upvotes – 55 comments

Maloder: OSX binary loader for Linux.

https://github.com/shinh/maloader#readme

15 years ago

★ 626 C GPL-3.0
106 upvotes – 27 comments

Natty Narwhal with Unity: Worst Ubuntu beta ever

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/04/01/ubuntu1004_beta_review/

15 years ago

98 upvotes – 91 comments

My experience with the computer language shootout

http://alexgaynor.net/2011/apr/03/my-experience-computer-language-shootout/

15 years ago

95 upvotes – 59 comments

ARPANET dialogues - fictional chat logs

http://www.arpanetdialogues.net/

15 years ago

87 upvotes – 23 comments

Of the 1%, by the 1%, for the 1%

http://www.vanityfair.com/society/features/2011/05/top-one-percent-201105?currentPage=all

15 years ago

86 upvotes – 79 comments

Is McAfee's siteadvisor.com a scam?

http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/ghal9/mcafee_is_running_a_scam_siteadvisorcom_is_just_a/

15 years ago

85 upvotes – 30 comments

Clojure is almost as big as Common Lisp

http://arcanesentiment.blogspot.com/2011/04/clojure-is-almost-as-big-as-common-lisp.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ArcaneSentiment+%28Arcane+Sentiment%29

15 years ago

79 upvotes – 8 comments

CSS3 3D Slideshow Framework [Chromium 12 or Safari]

http://hakim.se/experiments/css3-3d-slideshow

15 years ago

77 upvotes – 12 comments

Microsoft, the end of evolution?

http://www.geekculture.com/joyoftech/joyarchives/1523.html

15 years ago

71 upvotes – 16 comments

Windows 8 Welcome Screen And Windows Explorer Screenshots Leaked

http://digitizor.com/2011/04/03/windows-8-screenshots-leaked/

15 years ago

68 upvotes – 90 comments

Immutability and Blocks, Lambdas and Closures

http://algorithm.com.au/blog/files/immutability-blocks-lambdas-closures.php

15 years ago

67 upvotes – 16 comments

Facebook Comments Epitomizes Everything I Hate About Facebook

http://techcrunch.com/2011/04/03/facebook-comments-epitomizes-everything-i-hate-about-facebook/

15 years ago

63 upvotes – 41 comments

Students paying to get internships?

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/03/opinion/03perlin.html?src=tptw

15 years ago

62 upvotes – 72 comments

Periodic Table of the (HTML5) Elements

http://joshduck.com/periodic-table.html

15 years ago

61 upvotes – 14 comments

What you can't say

http://apenwarr.ca/log/?m=201104

15 years ago

60 upvotes – 26 comments

I Encourage Entrepreneurs To Ignore The Word “Bubble”

http://www.feld.com/wp/archives/2011/04/i-encourage-entrepreneurs-to-ignore-the-word-bubble.html

15 years ago

56 upvotes – 19 comments

Portable C Compiler 1.0 released

http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20110403095326

15 years ago

56 upvotes – 19 comments

Surface [WebGL]

http://lab.aerotwist.com/webgl/surface

15 years ago

55 upvotes – 12 comments

Encrypt a file so that only a SSL site's private key can decrypt

http://dpaste.de/61O8/

15 years ago

55 upvotes – 43 comments

How Slavery Really Ended in America

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/03/magazine/mag-03CivilWar-t.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all

15 years ago

52 upvotes – 5 comments

Whatever happened to Quora?

http://www.google.com/trends?q=quora&ctab=0&geo=all&date=ytd&sort=0

15 years ago

52 upvotes – 41 comments

Startups: not for the faint of heart

http://www.pixelmonkey.org/2011/04/02/not-for-the-faint-of-heart

15 years ago

51 upvotes – 11 comments

First Look: Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal) Beta 1

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/hardware/first-look-ubuntu-1104-natty-narwhal-beta-1/12155

15 years ago

51 upvotes – 25 comments

How to know when to launch your startup

http://viniciusvacanti.com/2010/11/22/how-we-knew-when-to-launch-our-startup/

15 years ago

49 upvotes – 6 comments

A Developer's Worst Nightmare (The TinyGrab Story)

http://cocoacoding.com/2011/04/03/developers-worst-nightmare/

15 years ago

48 upvotes – 46 comments

It's Time To Kill New User Confirmation Email Links

http://quist.co/post/4296898464/its-time-to-kill-new-user-confirmation-email-links

15 years ago

47 upvotes – 47 comments

Largest quantum computer yet: 14 qubits

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-04-quantum-bits-physicists-limits.html

15 years ago

46 upvotes – 18 comments

Earth as a nuclear furnace (geothermal heat is mostly from radioactive decay)

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

15 years ago

44 upvotes – 14 comments
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