top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-04-12

Nginx 1.0.0 is out

http://nginx.org/

15 years ago

549 upvotes – 75 comments

The Programmer Salary Taboo

http://www.thurn.ca/the_programmer_salary_taboo

15 years ago

421 upvotes – 319 comments

Mac OS X hidden features and nice tips & tricks

http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/400/mac-os-x-hidden-features-and-nice-tips-trickS

15 years ago

341 upvotes – 76 comments

Can a complete novice become a golf pro with 10,000 hours of practice?

http://www.tampabay.com/features/can-a-complete-novice-become-a-golf-pro-with-10000-hours-of-practice/1159357

15 years ago

297 upvotes – 164 comments

VMware launches Node.js, Rails and Spring PaaS

http://cloudfoundry.com/

15 years ago

225 upvotes – 56 comments

Soldering is easy - 7 page comic book about how to solder

http://log.andie.se/post/4529161438/soldering-is-easy-the-comic-book

15 years ago

193 upvotes – 35 comments

The Humble Frozenbyte Bundle

http://www.humblebundle.com/?frozenbyte

15 years ago

189 upvotes – 37 comments

Edw519 wrote a book compiling his best HN Comments

http://edweissman.com/i-turned-my-hacker-news-comments-into-an-eboo

15 years ago

184 upvotes – 49 comments

That dev's salary is higher than mine

http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/entdev/article.php/3930466/That-Developers-Salary-is-Bigger-than-Mine.htm

15 years ago

178 upvotes – 162 comments

Flock is dead

http://www.flock.com/

15 years ago

176 upvotes – 56 comments

How to hack yourself a standing desk - an illustrated guide

http://gregschlom.com/post/4555981908/standing-desk

15 years ago

173 upvotes – 70 comments

CSS: Our best practices are killing us

http://www.slideshare.net/stubbornella/our-best-practices-are-killing-us

15 years ago

168 upvotes – 53 comments

Ioerror's tweets after yet another detention (this time in Texas)

http://www.exquisitetweets.com/tweets?eids=eqt3bK9L1E.equdE5Igj8.equjFUYMxM.equunSrA96.equCze0DXU.equKkjGTC1.equM9wJJv2.equQJD8Dcb.equZBWohCT.equ7xm9arQ.eqvwgwlvIO.eqvMBtk8s0.eqvQUsu0Zx.eqvT74Lriu.eqvXEyMNzg.eqwgPKYFRl.eqwnDO4580.eqwrITBTY4.eqwFo79nem.eqwKW5rqhg.eqwM5rUpOu.eqwX9Hr7GS.eqxbeyCo1s

15 years ago

164 upvotes – 59 comments

Run iPhone Apps Directly From Your Browser With Pieceable Viewer

http://techcrunch.com/2011/04/11/pieceable-viewer/

15 years ago

149 upvotes – 24 comments

Here's the Email That Could Cost Mark Zuckerberg Half of Facebook

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/technology/2011/04/heres-email-could-cost-mark-zuckerberg-half-facebook/36579/

15 years ago

116 upvotes – 94 comments

IE10 platform preview available - with native HTML 5

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2011/04/12/native-html5-first-ie10-platform-preview-available-for-download.aspx

15 years ago

115 upvotes – 105 comments

Start-ups Rejected By Y Combinator (And Investors) Flock To YC Reject

http://blogs.forbes.com/tomiogeron/2011/04/11/start-ups-rejected-by-y-combinator-and-investors-flock-to-yc-rejects/

15 years ago

102 upvotes – 41 comments

Friends Don’t Let Friends Take Education Advice From Peter Thiel

http://techcrunch.com/2011/04/12/friends-don%e2%80%99t-let-friends-take-education-advice-from-peter-thiel/

15 years ago

102 upvotes – 82 comments

Advanced programming languages

http://matt.might.net/articles/best-programming-languages/

15 years ago

100 upvotes – 40 comments

How Dropbox sacrifices user privacy for cost savings

http://paranoia.dubfire.net/2011/04/how-dropbox-sacrifices-user-privacy-for.html

15 years ago

100 upvotes – 88 comments

The iPhone Tab Bar

http://www.significantpixels.com/2011/04/04/the-iphone-tab-bar/

15 years ago

97 upvotes – 20 comments

Cisco To Shut Down Flip Video Business; Will Give Pink Slips To 550 Employees

http://techcrunch.com/2011/04/12/cisco-to-shut-down-flip-video-business-will-give-pink-slips-to-550-employees/

15 years ago

94 upvotes – 63 comments

How I got a blank book to the top of the Amazon charts

http://realbusiness.co.uk/news/how-i-got-a-blank-book-to-the-top-of-the-amazon-charts/page:1

15 years ago

91 upvotes – 21 comments

How Facebook likes are calculated

http://almightylink.ksablan.com/statistics/facebook-like-count-39-accurate/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=tweet&utm_campaign=facebooklike39accurate

15 years ago

88 upvotes – 33 comments

Fogus: Node.js should become its own language

http://blog.fogus.me/2011/04/12/node-js-is-dead-long-live-node/

15 years ago

83 upvotes – 73 comments

Sony v. Hotz Ends with a Whimper, I Mean a Gag Order

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/04/sony-v-hotz-ends-whimper-i-mean-gag-order

15 years ago

82 upvotes – 22 comments

Scaling python for high load websites

http://yougov.github.com/pycon/slides/

15 years ago

77 upvotes – 9 comments

Legal techniques the rich use to avoid paying taxes

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/11_16/b4224045265660.htm

15 years ago

71 upvotes – 41 comments

Are You Following a Bot?

http://m.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2011/05/are-you-following-a-bot/8448/

15 years ago

69 upvotes – 17 comments

C++ repl (IGCC)

http://www.artificialworlds.net/wiki/IGCC/IGCC

15 years ago

68 upvotes – 19 comments

Should top CS schools offer Software Engineering as a separate major?

http://nerdcollider.com/challenges/3/responses/64

15 years ago

68 upvotes – 46 comments

Buyer of SCO assets mistakenly thinks it bought Unix trademarks

http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20110411195227234

15 years ago

68 upvotes – 15 comments

Unexpected physics engine stability joy

http://altdevblogaday.org/2011/04/11/unexpected-speculative-stability/

15 years ago

67 upvotes – 11 comments

Postagram Transforms Any Instagram Into A Postcard And Delivers It For $0.99

http://techcrunch.com/2011/04/12/postagram/

15 years ago

67 upvotes – 31 comments

Node.js wikipedia entry marked for deletion for not being notable

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Node.js

15 years ago

67 upvotes – 27 comments

Bushido: the future of hosting

http://swombat.com/2011/4/12/bushido

15 years ago

64 upvotes – 11 comments

Ask HN: Review my Startup - http://Cardnap.com

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2437205

15 years ago

62 upvotes – 38 comments

Meet the guy who offered to pay Zaarly for a two-month contract and was hired

http://www.siliconprairienews.com/2011/04/jeff-morris-id-pay-zaarly-to-hire-me-for-a-two-month-contract

15 years ago

61 upvotes – 10 comments

CSS animations just landed for Firefox

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=435442

15 years ago

59 upvotes – 5 comments

Attacking your sucky excuses for not blogging

http://blog.asmartbear.com/start-blogging.html

15 years ago

59 upvotes – 17 comments

Imagine a Beowulf Cluster of JavaScript Frameworks

http://tomdale.net/2011/04/imagine-a-beowulf-cluster-of-javascript-frameworks/

15 years ago

58 upvotes – 26 comments

Livecomments.go - Tutorial in Go, backbone.js, socket.io, and redis

http://paulbellamy.com/2011/04/livecomments-go/

15 years ago

57 upvotes – 8 comments

Google Invests $168MM in World's Largest Solar Power Tower Plant

http://mashable.com/2011/04/12/ivanpah-google-solar-energy/

15 years ago

55 upvotes – 23 comments

How to hire a Rails developer

http://matschaffer.com/2011/04/how-to-hire-rails-developer/

15 years ago

50 upvotes – 14 comments

Best of ZSH Tips

http://www.rayninfo.co.uk/tips/zshtips.html

15 years ago

50 upvotes – 3 comments

The "Buy Root Friendly" list: Android devices ordered by ease of root

http://unrevoked.com/rootwiki/doku.php/public/root_friendly

15 years ago

49 upvotes – 14 comments

Are graphical calculators pointless?

http://www.walkingrandomly.com/?p=3418

15 years ago

47 upvotes – 44 comments

Amazon Studios

http://studios.amazon.com/

15 years ago

47 upvotes – 17 comments

Thoughts on Clojure Hacking

http://coreyhoffstein.com/2011/04/11/more-thoughts-on-hacking-with-clojure/

15 years ago

47 upvotes – 19 comments

Three.js - Javascript 3D Engine

https://github.com/mrdoob/three.js/

15 years ago

★ 112.1k JavaScript MIT
43 upvotes – 7 comments

Once Again, Twitter Drops Ruby for Java

http://www.readwriteweb.com/cloud/2011/04/twitter-drops-ruby-for-java.php?utm_source=ReadWriteCloud&utm_medium=rwchomepage&utm_campaign=ReadWriteCloud_posts&utm_content=Once%20Again,%20Twitter%20Drops%20Ruby%20for%20Java

15 years ago

42 upvotes – 43 comments

inPulse (YC W11) smartwatch hackathon on Apr 17 in Mountain View

http://blog.getinpulse.com/inpulse-hackathon-april-17-hacker-dojo-in-mou

15 years ago

40 upvotes – 2 comments

In Norway, personal income is a matter of public record

http://articles.sfgate.com/2009-10-23/news/17186807_1_tax-records-norway-tax-list

15 years ago

40 upvotes – 39 comments

Ask PG: Can we see the response to the HN changes?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2438556

15 years ago

40 upvotes – 70 comments

Are slide rules still useful?

http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2011/04/11/sliderules/

15 years ago

39 upvotes – 33 comments

Easy(and free) CouchDB Hosting

http://www.iriscouch.com/

15 years ago

39 upvotes – 15 comments

50th Anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's flight into space

http://yurigagarin50.org/

15 years ago

38 upvotes – 5 comments

Red Hat to provide Linux trading platform for NYSE

http://www.computerworlduk.com/news/open-source/3272943/nyse-and-deutsche-borse-merger-chiefs-size-up-single-red-hat-linux-trading-platform/

15 years ago

38 upvotes – 2 comments
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