top 10 hacker news stories for 2011-04-07

Using prime numbers to make better backgrounds

http://designfestival.com/the-cicada-principle-and-why-it-matters-to-web-designers/

15 years ago

975 upvotes – 52 comments

Facebook open sources its servers and data centers

http://gigaom.com/cloud/facebook-open-sources-its-servers-and-data-centers/

15 years ago

530 upvotes – 98 comments

Chinese Infinite Magical Hard-Drive

http://blog.jitbit.com/2011/04/chinese-magic-drive.html

15 years ago

522 upvotes – 118 comments

Before I Die...

http://candychang.com/before-i-die-in-nola/

15 years ago

449 upvotes – 70 comments

Physics Engines for Dummies

http://www.wildbunny.co.uk/blog/2011/04/06/physics-engines-for-dummies/

15 years ago

375 upvotes – 14 comments

If you applied to YC this cycle, please put your email address in your profile

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2420344

15 years ago

275 upvotes – 35 comments

Introducing Pow, a zero-configuration Rack server for Mac OS X

http://pow.cx/

15 years ago

253 upvotes – 133 comments

Anonymous goes after Sony, makes it personal... very personal

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/04/anonymous-goes-after-sony-makes-it-personal-very-personal.ars

15 years ago

208 upvotes – 132 comments

Life beyond HTTP 1.1: Google’s SPDY

http://www.igvita.com/2011/04/07/life-beyond-http-11-googles-spdy/

15 years ago

204 upvotes – 53 comments

C Craft: C is the desert island language.

http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~blynn/c/ch01.html

15 years ago

188 upvotes – 109 comments
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