Top 50% Hacker News Stories for 2011-04-18

top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-04-18

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396

The unofficial Google shell

http://www.goosh.org

15 years ago

396 upvotes – 50 comments

309

Hacking The Status Game

http://blog.amirkhella.com/2011/04/18/the-status-game/

15 years ago

309 upvotes – 90 comments

297

DuckDuckGo and Wolfram Alpha are now official partners

http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/2011/04/duckduckgo-and-wolframalpha-are-now-official-partners.html

15 years ago

297 upvotes – 56 comments

287

Oracle gives up on OpenOffice after community forks the project

http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2011/04/oracle-gives-up-on-ooo-after-community-forks-the-project.ars

15 years ago

287 upvotes – 74 comments

237

New CSS Techniques and Tools

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2011/04/18/powerful-new-css-techniques-and-tools/

15 years ago

237 upvotes – 3 comments

199

Dropbox Hits 25 Millions Users, 200 Million Files Per Day

http://techcrunch.com/2011/04/17/dropbox-hits-25-millions-users-200-million-files-per-day/

15 years ago

199 upvotes – 74 comments

187

Insight From Dropbox: Failure Is Not The Worst Outcome, Mediocrity Is

http://onstartups.com/tabid/3339/bid/47646/Insight-From-Dropbox-Failure-Is-Not-The-Worst-Outcome-Mediocrity-Is.aspx

15 years ago

187 upvotes – 73 comments

170

Spine -- A lightweight framework for building JavaScript web applications

http://maccman.github.com/spine/

15 years ago

170 upvotes – 47 comments

166

Git can't be made consistent

http://bramcohen.livejournal.com/74462.html

15 years ago

166 upvotes – 36 comments

164

140

Peter Thiel Is Wrong About Higher Education (It’s Worse Than A Bubble)

http://robinoula.com/institutions/peter-thiel-is-wrong-about-higher-education-its-a-lot-worse-than-a-bubble/

15 years ago

164 upvotes – 140 comments

141

Show HN: An isometric marble run build in CoffeeScript

http://marbleo.us/#GQIAAP8AAAYvAgAA_wAAFDwAAAA_AAAABwICAP8AAAQAAAAAAAAAABgCAgD_AAALAQEAAP8AAAYpAQAAGgcIAf8AAAU_AAAAPwEAAP8AAAU_AAAAPwEAAP8AAAU_AAAAKwAAAB4CBQD_AAAEAAAAAAAAAAAwBwgA_wAABAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACwHCQD_AAADAQEAAP8AAAYpAQAA_wAAIgAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABAAD_AAADKQEAAP8AAAYpAQAA_wAAKQEBAAD_AAAGKQEAAP8AACkBAQAAFAAAARUAAAAVAAAAFQAAABUAAAAFBwkAKQEAABYAAAEVAAAAFQAAABUAAAAFBwkA_wAAARUAAAAVAAAAFQAAABUAAAAVAAAABQIGAP8AAA8AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAFAEAAP8AAAIAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMAIAAP8AAAIFAgAA_wAABjECAAAA=

15 years ago

141 upvotes – 25 comments

136

Jon Bentley's Programming Pearls: 25 years old, still brilliant

http://reprog.wordpress.com/2011/04/18/programming-books-part-5-programming-pearls/

15 years ago

136 upvotes – 26 comments

128

A PHP clone of Panic's status board

https://github.com/anchepiece/statuspanic

★ 491 PHP MIT 15 years ago

★ 491 PHP MIT

128 upvotes – 19 comments

117

Future Timeline

http://www.futuretimeline.net/

15 years ago

117 upvotes – 45 comments

111

106

Web development is just broken

http://dutherenverseauborddelatable.wordpress.com/2011/04/18/rant-web-development-is-just-broken/

15 years ago

111 upvotes – 106 comments

107

Web scale: Facebook's architecture

http://www.quora.com/What-is-Facebooks-architecture

15 years ago

107 upvotes – 10 comments

105

Comparing images in pure Ruby (and how Github's image diff works)

http://jeffkreeftmeijer.com/2011/comparing-images-and-creating-image-diffs/

15 years ago

105 upvotes – 3 comments

Lispy - Code-as-data in Ruby, without the metaprogramming madness.

https://github.com/ryan-allen/lispy

★ 124 Ruby MIT 15 years ago

★ 124 Ruby MIT

90 upvotes – 38 comments

Righthaven reeling: secret doc could doom a copyright troll

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/04/righthaven-reeling-secret-doc-could-doom-a-copyright-troll.ars

15 years ago

89 upvotes – 13 comments

Bridge.me meetings that call you

http://bridg.me/

15 years ago

86 upvotes – 40 comments

The Downside of "Demo Day"

http://jordancooper.wordpress.com/2011/04/18/the-downside-of-demo-day/

15 years ago

85 upvotes – 21 comments

Why HTTP Streaming?

http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2011/4/18/why-http-streaming

15 years ago

84 upvotes – 33 comments

The Haskell Heap

http://blog.ezyang.com/2011/04/the-haskell-heap/

15 years ago

83 upvotes – 9 comments

The Unbearable Triviality Of Social Networking

http://blogs.forbes.com/rogerkay/2011/04/18/the-unbearable-triviality-of-social-networking/

15 years ago

82 upvotes – 35 comments

Moving bikes stay upright but not for the reasons we thought

http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2011/04/moving-bikes-stay-uprightbut-not-for-the-reasons-we-thought.ars

15 years ago

79 upvotes – 22 comments

Power On/Off: Symbology Explained

http://www.unplggd.com/unplggd/good-questions/power-onoff-symbology-explained-144370

15 years ago

75 upvotes – 12 comments

Twitter in Talks to Buy TweetDeck

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704004004576271262772728114.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

15 years ago

74 upvotes – 34 comments

Pure python bitcoin miner to understand how it works

https://github.com/jgarzik/pyminer

★ 868 Python MIT 15 years ago

★ 868 Python MIT

70 upvotes – 22 comments

Thoughts on Software Quality

https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-engineering/thoughts-on-software-quality/10150154181208920

15 years ago

69 upvotes – 20 comments

Raskin about how plane wings lift

http://karmak.org/archive/2003/02/coanda_effect.html

15 years ago

63 upvotes – 36 comments

Why OS X just doesn't cut it

http://cloudhead.io/2011/04/18/why-osx-doesnt-cut-it/

15 years ago

62 upvotes – 84 comments

Is Facebook geared to dullards?

http://www.roughtype.com/archives/2011/04/is_facebook_gea.php

15 years ago

60 upvotes – 54 comments

Next Hacker News DC Meetup on Thursday, April 21st

http://meetup.hackernewsdc.org/events/17147276/

15 years ago

56 upvotes – 4 comments

106

Apple Files Patent Suit Against Samsung Over Galaxy Line of Phones and Tablets

http://mobilized.allthingsd.com/20110418/apple-files-patent-suit-against-samsung-over-galaxy-line-of-phones-and-tablets/

15 years ago

56 upvotes – 106 comments

Larry Page and Wall Street: Who needs who?

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/04/17/us-google-page-idUSTRE73G1GZ20110417

15 years ago

53 upvotes – 53 comments

Principles of pitching

http://swombat.com/2011/4/18/pitching

15 years ago

53 upvotes – 7 comments

Context.IO Makes Your Inbox into an easily queryable Datastore

http://blog.programmableweb.com/2011/04/18/context-io-makes-your-inbox-into-a-datastore/

15 years ago

53 upvotes – 3 comments

Dropbox Tech Blog: Translating Dropbox

http://tech.dropbox.com/?p=1

15 years ago

52 upvotes – 0 comments

Bootstrapped. 10 Months. Learned Rails. Finally Launched. Feedback Please?

http://www.compversions.com

15 years ago

50 upvotes – 58 comments

Vim undo tree visualization

http://briancarper.net/blog/573/vim-undo-tree-visualization

15 years ago

49 upvotes – 8 comments

Multi-drug resistant staph in 1 of 4 supermarket meat samples

http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2011/04/multi-drug-resistant-staph-in-1-of-4-supermarket-meat-samples.ars

15 years ago

46 upvotes – 48 comments

Tutorial: VMware Cloud Foundry + Rails + MongoDB

http://blog.mongodb.org/post/4719358003/getting-started-with-vmware-cloudfoundry-mongodb-and

15 years ago

45 upvotes – 11 comments

Denial of Science

http://m.motherjones.com/politics/2011/03/denial-science-chris-mooney

15 years ago

45 upvotes – 19 comments

How to set up a Redis cluster (preview, not production-ready)

http://antirez.com/post/2-4-and-other-news.html

15 years ago

45 upvotes – 15 comments

Some advice on teaching FP

http://existentialtype.wordpress.com/2011/04/17/some-advice-on-teaching-fp/

15 years ago

44 upvotes – 18 comments

The fallen Aussie tycoon who aced poker giants for FBI, to beat life behind bars

http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/technology/technology-news/fallen-aussie-tycoon-aces-poker-giants-for-fbi-to-beat-life-behind-bars-20110418-1dkkr.html

15 years ago

43 upvotes – 20 comments

Android vs. iOS Growth