top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-04-09

Bittersweet news from Groklaw: mission accomplished, signing off

http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20110409161444432

15 years ago

303 upvotes – 64 comments

Modern Microprocessors: A 90 Minute Guide

http://www.lighterra.com/papers/modernmicroprocessors/

15 years ago

283 upvotes – 30 comments

Scott Adams on How to Get a Real Education

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704101604576247143383496656.html?mod=WeekendHeader_Right

15 years ago

269 upvotes – 46 comments

One Way to Deal with Internet Thieves

http://pzxc.com/internet-is-still-wild-west

15 years ago

193 upvotes – 69 comments

Wozniak: Innovative projects, not tests, should determine a student's grade

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9215637/DVR_box_is_dying_Woz_wisdom_and_other_cool_things_learned_at_SNW

15 years ago

192 upvotes – 55 comments

Harvard's 1899 Entrance Exam [pdf]

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/education/harvardexam.pdf

15 years ago

189 upvotes – 91 comments

Larry Page's first blunder

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9215666/Larry_Page_s_first_blunder

15 years ago

162 upvotes – 120 comments

MPlayer - Monday 18.4.2011 I will stop providing any service to MPlayer

http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/mplayer-dev-eng/2011-April/068016.html

15 years ago

143 upvotes – 22 comments

House tells FCC to drop net neutrality

http://www.boston.com/news/politics/articles/2011/04/09/house_urges_blockage_of_net_neutrality_rules/

15 years ago

127 upvotes – 93 comments

Bootstrapping a simple compiler from nothing

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/edmund.grimley-evans/bcompiler.html

15 years ago

124 upvotes – 27 comments

Rate my App: Tea for iPhone--getting quantitative about tea

http://www.teaapp.com

15 years ago

108 upvotes – 59 comments

How Richard Feynman Thought

http://www.freakonomics.com/2011/04/08/how-richard-feynman-thought/

15 years ago

105 upvotes – 3 comments

Russ Cox Uses This

http://russ.cox.usesthis.com/

15 years ago

98 upvotes – 21 comments

Javascript hack weekend: Unique projects to inspire awesome hacks

http://blog.nowjs.com/weekends-are-for-hacking-heres-some-un-cruddy

15 years ago

83 upvotes – 11 comments

Opera launches Opera Mail web app

http://my.opera.com/mailteam/blog/welcome-to-my-opera-mail

15 years ago

75 upvotes – 59 comments

Metrics Metrics Everywhere - Coda Hale at CodeConf

https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0Bztc3_adHzlDNTA5N2VmY2MtYTdmYy00MGRmLWFkODItNDlkNTY5M2U0Yjdk&hl=en

15 years ago

74 upvotes – 14 comments

Glasnost: Test if your ISP is shaping your traffic

http://broadband.mpi-sws.org/transparency/bttest-mlab.php

15 years ago

73 upvotes – 12 comments

Ask HN: Has anyone had negative experiences with zeromq?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2428004

15 years ago

70 upvotes – 26 comments

Perlin Noise

http://freespace.virgin.net/hugo.elias/models/m_perlin.htm

15 years ago

67 upvotes – 16 comments

Java: Execution in the Kingdom of Nouns

http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2006/03/execution-in-kingdom-of-nouns.html

15 years ago

66 upvotes – 12 comments

Amb in JavaScript

http://mihai.bazon.net/blog/amb-in-javascript

15 years ago

66 upvotes – 5 comments

Marco Arment on the Open Compute Project

http://www.marco.org/4458987911

15 years ago

65 upvotes – 5 comments

Wikipedia over DNS

https://dgl.cx/wikipedia-dns

15 years ago

64 upvotes – 16 comments

The Megabus Effect

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/11_16/b4224062391848.htm

15 years ago

63 upvotes – 35 comments

Don't Reinvent the Wheel

http://oscargodson.posterous.com/dont-reinvent-the-wheel

15 years ago

60 upvotes – 68 comments

Silicon South Africa: Google Launches Incubator For African Startups

http://techcrunch.com/2011/04/08/silicon-south-africa-google-launches-incubator-for-african-startups/

15 years ago

53 upvotes – 38 comments

`gosh` is security theater for piped shell scripts

https://github.com/sstephenson/gosh

15 years ago

48 upvotes – 26 comments

The bare essential guide to Emacs

http://www.eatingair.com/post/4463441219/the-bare-essential-guide-to-emacs

15 years ago

48 upvotes – 17 comments
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