top 20 hacker news stories for 2011-04-20

Showoff

https://showoff.io/

15 years ago

805 upvotes – 214 comments

IPhones and 3G iPads log your location in an unencrypted file on the device

http://radar.oreilly.com/2011/04/apple-location-tracking.html

15 years ago

415 upvotes – 190 comments

The Sad, Beautiful Fact That We're All Going To Miss Almost Everything

http://www.npr.org/blogs/monkeysee/2011/04/19/135508305/the-sad-beautiful-fact-that-were-all-going-to-miss-almost-everything?sc=tw&cc=share

15 years ago

345 upvotes – 135 comments

Steve Yegge v. Rich Hickey re: "Clojure just needs to start saying Yes"

http://groups.google.com/group/seajure/msg/2d2ec7ac9f2b4713

15 years ago

218 upvotes – 153 comments

Joel Spolsky is doing an IAmA on reddit

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/gulpx/iama_cofounder_of_stack_exchange_and_fog_creek/

15 years ago

211 upvotes – 52 comments

Recommended Readings in AI - a list by Russell and Norvig

http://aima.cs.berkeley.edu/books.html

15 years ago

183 upvotes – 34 comments

iPhone Tracker - map a history of your iPhone's locations.

http://petewarden.github.com/iPhoneTracker/

15 years ago

183 upvotes – 46 comments

Jellyfish Simulation using Javascript, WebGL

http://chrysaora.com/

15 years ago

118 upvotes – 48 comments

Venuetastic (YC W11) Makes Booking Event Spaces a Breeze

http://techcrunch.com/2011/04/20/venuetastic-makes-booking-an-event-space-a-breeze/

15 years ago

118 upvotes – 33 comments

A personal Dropbox replacement based on Git

http://www.mayrhofer.eu.org/dvcs-autosync

15 years ago

109 upvotes – 35 comments

OpenBSD: a puffy in the aquarium

http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20110420080633

15 years ago

102 upvotes – 55 comments

Michigan Police Search Cell Phones During Traffic Stops

http://www.thenewspaper.com/news/34/3458.asp

15 years ago

101 upvotes – 56 comments

Pythex: a Python regular expression editor

http://pythex.org/

15 years ago

97 upvotes – 25 comments

How do people in different countries spend their time?

http://www.economist.com/blogs/dailychart/2011/04/time_use

15 years ago

95 upvotes – 20 comments

GitHub passes 2M repos, 1M projects

https://github.com/blog/841-those-are-some-big-numbers

15 years ago

95 upvotes – 27 comments

Gawker's Traffic Numbers Are Worse Than Anyone Anticipated

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/04/gawkers-traffic-numbers-are-worse-than-anyone-anticipated/237594/

15 years ago

94 upvotes – 52 comments

Ask HN: I hate the code in my popular open source app; do I put it on my resume?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2465051

15 years ago

93 upvotes – 59 comments

Gut Bacteria Divide People Into 3 Types, Scientists Say

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/21/science/21gut.html?hp&gwh=B3370770269FAE03C441A9D0FD531184

15 years ago

87 upvotes – 8 comments

The music industry finds another way to shoot itself in the foot

http://reprog.wordpress.com/2011/04/20/the-music-industry-finds-another-way-to-shoot-itself-in-the-foot/

15 years ago

85 upvotes – 39 comments

How Apple tracks your location without consent, and why it matters

http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2011/04/how-apple-tracks-your-location-without-your-consent-and-why-it-matters.ars

15 years ago

84 upvotes – 35 comments
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