top 20 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

7.1 magnitude earthquake hits Japan

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Quakes/usc0002ksa.php

15 years ago

176 upvotes – 70 comments

Dropbox authentication: insecure by design

http://dereknewton.com/2011/04/dropbox-authentication-static-host-ids/

15 years ago

162 upvotes – 60 comments

SICP in ePub format on Github

https://github.com/ieure/sicp

15 years ago

★ 997 TeX
157 upvotes – 32 comments

Microsoft's office: Why insiders think top management has lost its way

http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2011/03/31/microsofts-office-why-insiders-think-top-management-has-lost-its-way/

15 years ago

148 upvotes – 111 comments

Pure browser qrcode generation as simple as $('#contain').qrcode('foobar')

http://notes.jetienne.com/2011/04/07/jquery-qrcode.html

15 years ago

146 upvotes – 29 comments

Google offers researchers 1 billion computing core-hours

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/04/1-billion-computing-core-hours-for.html

15 years ago

120 upvotes – 25 comments

Is gravity not actually a force? Forcing theory to meet experiments

http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2011/04/is-gravity-a-result-of-thermodynamics.ars

15 years ago

107 upvotes – 40 comments

WebGL + Node.js + WebSockets = A Web Technology Perfect Storm

http://www.travisglines.com/uncategorized/webgl-node-js-websockets-a-web-technology-perfect-storm

15 years ago

106 upvotes – 61 comments

Startups And Work/Life Balance

http://mygengo.com/talk/blog/startups-work-life-balance/

15 years ago

102 upvotes – 22 comments

Html5 Fractal

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/21087540/fractalviewer.html#maxI=500$centerX=0$centerY=0$viewWidth=5$cyclePeriod=10$cyclePhase=0$smoothColors=true$trackParameters=true

15 years ago

102 upvotes – 18 comments
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