top 50% 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

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

Startups And Work/Life Balance

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

15 years ago

102 upvotes – 22 comments

Google Makes Massive Counteroffers To Retain Employees

http://techcrunch.com/2011/04/06/google-said-to-have-high-level-mole-at-twitter-makes-massive-counteroffers-to-retain-employees/

15 years ago

95 upvotes – 64 comments

IKEA's delayed gratification results in 60% impulse buying

http://blogs.wsj.com/ideas-market/2011/04/06/ikea-as-rat-maze/

15 years ago

81 upvotes – 31 comments

Taxi Surfer, From Pitch to Lawsuit in Five Days

http://taxisurfer.com/blog/

15 years ago

75 upvotes – 47 comments

Show HN: Patternify, a CSS Pattern Generator

http://www.patternify.com/

15 years ago

74 upvotes – 24 comments

Pandora app found to be sending DOB, gender and location info to ad servers

http://www.engadget.com/2011/04/07/pandora-mobile-app-found-to-be-sending-birth-date-gender-and-lo/

15 years ago

73 upvotes – 32 comments

Founders Now Take the Money and Maintain Control

http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2011/04/07/founders-now-take-the-money-and-maintain-control/?hpw

15 years ago

72 upvotes – 9 comments

Common Lisp - Myths and Legends

http://www.lispworks.com/products/myths_and_legends.html

15 years ago

71 upvotes – 38 comments

AppCode: Objective-C IDE from JetBrains goes public

http://blog.jetbrains.com/objc/

15 years ago

71 upvotes – 53 comments

Node Nerd - node.js links and tutorials

http://nodenerd.net/

15 years ago

71 upvotes – 12 comments

Bloom distributed programming language released

http://www.bloom-lang.net/

15 years ago

69 upvotes – 16 comments

LLVM 2.9 Released

http://llvm.org/releases/2.9/docs/ReleaseNotes.html

15 years ago

69 upvotes – 19 comments

Ars Technica on GNOME3

http://arstechnica.com/open-source/reviews/2011/04/ars-reviews-gnome-30-a-shiny-new-ornament-for-your-linux-lawn.ars

15 years ago

68 upvotes – 33 comments

The One-second War (What Time Will You Die?)

http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1967009

15 years ago

66 upvotes – 18 comments

Cappuccino developer conference

http://cappcon.org/

15 years ago

66 upvotes – 11 comments

A practical guide to varnish

http://devblog.factual.com/practical-guide-to-varnish

15 years ago

65 upvotes – 2 comments

Goodbye Outlook - Gmail now lets you paste images directly from clipboard

http://beerpla.net/2011/04/06/goodbye-outlook-i-dont-need-you-anymore-gmail-now-lets-you-paste-images-directly-from-clipboard/

15 years ago

65 upvotes – 38 comments

A web startup, circa 2004

http://www.skrenta.com/2011/04/web_startup_circa_2004.html

15 years ago

63 upvotes – 8 comments

Google kicks GrooveShark out of the Android Market

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2011/04/google-kicks-grooveshark-out-of-the-android-market.ars

15 years ago

63 upvotes – 46 comments

The Designer Fund will invest in startups where the founders are designers

http://www.thedesignerfund.com/

15 years ago

62 upvotes – 27 comments

Data Science Hand Tools: Unix Power tools Revisited

http://radar.oreilly.com/2011/04/data-hand-tools.html

15 years ago

60 upvotes – 8 comments

Fixing the little things in Gmail

http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2011/04/fixing-little-things.html

15 years ago

57 upvotes – 31 comments

Announce Day - YC S11 Applicants Chat on Wompt

http://wompt.com/chat/yc

15 years ago

56 upvotes – 8 comments

Vatican magazine says hackers do God’s work

http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/42459193/

15 years ago

54 upvotes – 46 comments

Chirply Raises $1.1 Million, Launches Redesign

http://techcrunch.com/2011/04/07/crowd-sourced-design-startup-chirply-raises-1-1-million-launches-redesign/

15 years ago

53 upvotes – 3 comments

Bringing Google I/O direct to you with I/O Live

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/04/bringing-google-io-direct-to-you-with.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2FMKuf+%28Official+Google+Blog%29&utm_content=Google+Reader

15 years ago

50 upvotes – 8 comments

The Startup Kids trailer, a documentary about web entrepreneurs

http://techcrunch.com/2011/04/07/lets-back-the-startup-kids-a-documentary-that-needs-to-be-seen/

15 years ago

50 upvotes – 5 comments

OCamlPro and the future of OCaml

http://ocaml.janestreet.com/?q=node/89

15 years ago

49 upvotes – 22 comments
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