top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-04-13

Rails 3.1 shipping with CoffeeScript

https://github.com/rails/rails/compare/9333ca7...23aa7da

15 years ago

★ 58.3k Ruby MIT
320 upvotes – 199 comments

Show HN: Let's end the Programmer Salary Taboo

http://salaryshare.me/

15 years ago

278 upvotes – 147 comments

Leaving in a Huff

http://www.ericdsnider.com/snide/leaving-in-a-huff/

15 years ago

189 upvotes – 33 comments

Stanford CS enrollment increase "downright scary"

http://computinged.wordpress.com/2011/04/13/guest-post-eric-roberts-on-the-dangers-of-escalating-enrollments/

15 years ago

186 upvotes – 173 comments

Is Sugar Toxic?

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/17/magazine/mag-17Sugar-t.html?pagewanted=all

15 years ago

185 upvotes – 135 comments

Dear Internet: Take the reset buttons off your damn forms

http://f00li5h.pin21.com/blog/Dear-Internet:-Take-the-reset-buttons-off-your-damn-forms.html?feed=feedburner

15 years ago

181 upvotes – 76 comments

My first six months of programming: from man-rodent to partyman

http://www.whitakerblackall.com/blog/first-six-months/

15 years ago

179 upvotes – 36 comments

Ask HN: How are lean startups easily accepting CC payments?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2444709

15 years ago

167 upvotes – 120 comments

Legal Mistakes Made by Entrepreneurs

http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/3348.html

15 years ago

161 upvotes – 24 comments

Great Unsolved Problem In Computer Science

http://algeri-wong.com/yishan/great-unsolved-problems-in-computer-science.html

15 years ago

155 upvotes – 55 comments

John Carmack Interview

http://www.nowgamer.com/print/feature/1308

15 years ago

148 upvotes – 19 comments

Blender 2.57 released (first stable release with completely new UI)

http://www.blender.org/development/release-logs/blender-257/

15 years ago

141 upvotes – 17 comments

2011: The Year the Check-in Died

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/2011_the_year_the_check-in_died.php

15 years ago

124 upvotes – 59 comments

Another Way to View the "Decline" of HN

http://www.georgesaines.com/

15 years ago

122 upvotes – 140 comments

How food-breaks sway the decisions of judges

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2011/04/11/justice-is-served-but-more-so-after-lunch-how-food-breaks-sway-the-decisions-of-judges/

15 years ago

120 upvotes – 29 comments

Showing up

http://cdixon.org/2011/04/12/showing-up/

15 years ago

105 upvotes – 10 comments

Don't tell StackOverflow I'm a hacker (they think I'm a bot)

http://blog.medusis.com/dont-tell-stackoverflow-im-a-hacker-they-thin

15 years ago

100 upvotes – 46 comments

Show HN: A Y Combinator for Objective-C

https://github.com/jballanc/objc-ycomb

15 years ago

★ 59 Objective-C MIT
97 upvotes – 4 comments

Red Hat's top secret Java Killer/Successor: The Ceylon Project

http://blog.talawah.net/2011/04/gavin-king-unviels-red-hats-top-secret.html

15 years ago

96 upvotes – 87 comments

Play Framework (full stack Java framework with Scala) v1.2 released

http://www.playframework.org/documentation/1.2/releasenotes-1.2

15 years ago

95 upvotes – 40 comments

Ask HN: What are the changes you made in your life and never look back?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2441102

15 years ago

95 upvotes – 166 comments

Name.com: Another Unscrupulous Registrar

http://www.nathanhammond.com/namedotcom-another-unscrupulous-registrar

15 years ago

95 upvotes – 88 comments

Doozer: a consistent, highly-available data store from Heroku labs

http://xph.us/2011/04/13/introducing-doozer.html

15 years ago

94 upvotes – 14 comments

Ask HN: Help, my $150,000 student debt is ruining my life, and my future

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2440054

15 years ago

92 upvotes – 81 comments

Hacker Gains Access To WordPress.com Servers

http://techcrunch.com/2011/04/13/hacker-gains-access-to-wordpress-com-servers/

15 years ago

90 upvotes – 42 comments

RIM CEO terminates BBC Click interview

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/click_online/9456798.stm

15 years ago

85 upvotes – 75 comments

How we almost didn’t raise $800K in the worst investment market in years

http://blog.uservoice.com/entries/how-we-almost-didnt-raise-800k-in-the-worst-investment-market-in-years

15 years ago

85 upvotes – 22 comments

Startups: Don't just collect my email address

http://jamespanderson.tumblr.com/post/4578587507/startups-dont-just-collect-my-email

15 years ago

85 upvotes – 28 comments

Stop Telling Students Recursion is Hard

http://jinfiesto.posterous.com/stop-telling-students-recursion-is-hard

15 years ago

83 upvotes – 107 comments

New Zealand Government Rushes Through Controversial Anti-Piracy Law

http://torrentfreak.com/new-zealand-government-rushes-through-controversial-anti-piracy-law-110413/

15 years ago

80 upvotes – 16 comments

Steam Lisp

http://www.loper-os.org/?p=388

15 years ago

78 upvotes – 15 comments

Chomsky was wrong: evolutionary analysis shows languages obey few rules

http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2011/04/chomsky-was-wrong-evolutionary-analysis-shows-languages-obey-few-rules.ars

15 years ago

76 upvotes – 69 comments

Building a human-powered airplane in only six months

http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2861-how-nature-and-naivet-helped-paul-maccready-build-a-human-powered-airplane-in-only-six-months

15 years ago

74 upvotes – 5 comments

Erlang vs Java memory architecture

http://www.javacodegeeks.com/2011/04/erlang-vs-java-memory-architecture.html

15 years ago

71 upvotes – 29 comments

Greplin opensources Lucene Utils and Bloom Filters

http://tech.blog.greplin.com/lucene-utilities-and-bloom-filters

15 years ago

71 upvotes – 27 comments

Building Teams: Hire People, Not Skills

http://bostinnovation.com/2011/04/13/building-teams-why-i-hire-people-not-skills/

15 years ago

67 upvotes – 23 comments

Apple Announces Final Cut Pro X

http://www.macstories.net/news/apple-announces-final-cut-pro-x-at-supermeet/

15 years ago

67 upvotes – 22 comments

Security Incident

http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2011/04/13/security/

15 years ago

65 upvotes – 12 comments

Ask HN: What are your side projects?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2441771

15 years ago

63 upvotes – 112 comments

Zencoder Raises $2M for Video Encoding in the Cloud

http://gigaom.com/cloud/zencoder-raises-2m-for-cloud-based-video-encoding/

15 years ago

62 upvotes – 0 comments

New Zealand to sneak in Internet disconnection with quake emergency legislation

http://www.boingboing.net/2011/04/13/new-zealand-to-sneak.html

15 years ago

57 upvotes – 5 comments

Entrepreneur Manual: Paul Graham's Essays in ePub Format

https://github.com/davidyang/Paul-Graham-s-Essays-Epub

15 years ago

★ 115
57 upvotes – 19 comments

2011: Current And Future Programming Languages For Videogames

http://c0de517e.blogspot.com/2011/04/2011-current-and-future-programming.html

15 years ago

54 upvotes – 12 comments

The MIT Mood Meter

http://kdivvela.posterous.com/the-mit-mood-meter

15 years ago

54 upvotes – 6 comments

If you want to build something great, it shouldn't matter where you live.

http://blog.mexican.vc/if-you-want-to-build-something-great-it-shoul

15 years ago

54 upvotes – 18 comments

Opera embraces Google's open source JPEG killer

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/04/12/opera_eleven_dot_one_zero_released/

15 years ago

54 upvotes – 29 comments

Things overheard on the WiFi from my Android smartphone

http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/dwallach/things-overheard-wifi-my-android-smartphone

15 years ago

54 upvotes – 16 comments

Even Great Mathematicians Guess Wrong

http://rjlipton.wordpress.com/2011/04/13/even-great-mathematicians-guess-wrong/

15 years ago

54 upvotes – 10 comments

Drowning in a C of Interviews

http://blog.bitquabit.com/2011/04/13/drowning-in-a-c-of-interviews/

15 years ago

54 upvotes – 23 comments

Neo4j Graph Database re-licensed under GPLv3

http://blogs.neotechnology.com/emil/2011/04/graph-databases-licensing-and-mysql.html

15 years ago

53 upvotes – 15 comments

Mozilla Introduces Aurora, The Pre-Beta, Post-Nightly Firefox

http://techcrunch.com/2011/04/13/mozilla-aurora/

15 years ago

52 upvotes – 21 comments

Asteroids played on an Oscilloscope - Tek Contest

http://bcove.me/ddch2up0

15 years ago

47 upvotes – 29 comments

Programming Contests, Algorithms, and the Real World Steven Skiena

http://www.cs.sunysb.edu/~skiena/talks/topcoder.pdf

15 years ago

44 upvotes – 11 comments

Google admits Android 'both open and closed'

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/04/12/google_says_android_both_open_and_closed/

15 years ago

43 upvotes – 55 comments

PHP Performance by Rasmus Lerdorf

http://ontwik.com/php/php-performance-by-rasmus-lerdorf/

15 years ago

41 upvotes – 4 comments

What do you want to know about a company to work there?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2442149

15 years ago

41 upvotes – 26 comments

Ask HN: What weekend projects actually make money

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2443629

15 years ago

40 upvotes – 6 comments

Show HN: Implementing durability for in-memory databases, on SSDs

http://eferm.com/implementing-durability-for-in-memory-databases-on-ssds

15 years ago

40 upvotes – 4 comments

Hacker 'handshake' hole found in common firewalls

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/041211-hacker-exploit-firewalls.html

15 years ago

40 upvotes – 17 comments

Show HN: My weekend project for those who obsessively follow AAPL, GOOG & MSFT

http://tech3some.com/

15 years ago

39 upvotes – 22 comments

DRM authentication servers stop Dragon Age: Origins from working

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2011/04/drm-run-amok-how-bioware-and-ea-are-screwing-users-right-now.ars

15 years ago

39 upvotes – 14 comments

Seedbombs

http://www.adafruit.com/blog/2011/04/13/seedbombs/

15 years ago

38 upvotes – 14 comments

Attitude does not scale

http://jacquesmattheij.com/attitude+does+not+scale

15 years ago

38 upvotes – 9 comments
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