top 50% 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

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

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

15 years ago

183 upvotes – 46 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

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

GitHub passes 2M repos, 1M projects

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

15 years ago

95 upvotes – 27 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

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

Advice for a young entrepreneur

http://www.stubbleblog.com/index.php/2011/04/advice-for-a-young-entrepreneur/

15 years ago

79 upvotes – 13 comments

The Dangers of Relying on Facebook

http://blog.pixamid.com/post/4773404191/the-dangers-of-relying-on-facebook

15 years ago

78 upvotes – 41 comments

Rubular: a Ruby regular expression editor and tester

http://rubular.com/

15 years ago

73 upvotes – 19 comments

How to get a job at a startup if you aren’t a developer

http://estromberg.com/post/4778188872/how-to-get-a-job-at-a-startup-if-you-arent-a-developer

15 years ago

69 upvotes – 41 comments

NetBeans 7.0 released

http://netbeans.org/downloads/index.html

15 years ago

68 upvotes – 44 comments

DC Tech Summer: Common internship application for major startups in DC

http://dctechsummer.com/

15 years ago

68 upvotes – 7 comments

Announcing Duo’s two-factor authentication for Unix

http://blog.duosecurity.com/2011/04/announcing-duos-two-factor-authentication-for-unix/

15 years ago

67 upvotes – 23 comments

Code which every programmer must read before dying

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2466129

15 years ago

67 upvotes – 34 comments

Evolution of a Prototypal Language User

http://blog.izs.me/post/4731036392/evolution-of-a-prototypal-language-user

15 years ago

64 upvotes – 21 comments

Abcjs - an open-source JavaScript musical notes rendering engine

http://www.drawthedots.com/abcjs

15 years ago

62 upvotes – 7 comments

Intuition & Data-Driven Machine Learning

http://www.igvita.com/2011/04/20/intuition-data-driven-machine-learning/

15 years ago

60 upvotes – 4 comments

Investor Concern Grows Over Founders Cashing Out Too Much, Too Early

http://www.pehub.com/102796/concern-grows-over-founders-cashing-out-too-much-too-early/

15 years ago

57 upvotes – 29 comments

Show HN: A designer friend and I made ffffallback.com for testing fallback fonts

http://ffffallback.com

15 years ago

56 upvotes – 11 comments

Socialcam 2.0 lands on the iPhone

http://techcrunch.com/2011/04/20/socialcam-2-0-lands-on-the-iphone/

15 years ago

52 upvotes – 2 comments

Why I Ditched The Cushy VC World To Start Kohort

http://www.businessinsider.com/should-vcs-become-entrepreneurs-2011-4

15 years ago

51 upvotes – 0 comments

Why are you not using a SSD yet?

http://debuggable.com/posts/why-are-you-not-using-a-ssd-yet:4d64ad6f-22d8-4eca-99e8-765acbdd56cb

15 years ago

49 upvotes – 95 comments

Amazon to offer Library Lending to Kindle through Overdrive

http://www.crunchgear.com/2011/04/20/amazon-partnering-with-overdrive-to-bring-kindle-library-lending-to-11000-libraries-across-the-us/

15 years ago

49 upvotes – 23 comments

"Trickle" attack on Minecraft servers, or Don't Use Thread-Per-Connection

http://corbinsimpson.com/entry/take-a-bow

15 years ago

44 upvotes – 26 comments

Some technical details on Watson

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/industry/library/ind-watson/

15 years ago

44 upvotes – 5 comments

Turning windows into powerplants

http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2011/transparent-solar-windows-0415.html

15 years ago

44 upvotes – 16 comments

What Happens When Solar Power Is as Cheap as Coal

http://www.fastcompany.com/1745113/what-happens-when-solar-power-is-as-cheap-as-coal

15 years ago

44 upvotes – 41 comments

All you need to know about calling conventions in programming

http://jjinux.blogspot.com/2011/04/call-me-crazy-calling-conventions.html

15 years ago

42 upvotes – 6 comments

Ask HN: How do you do graphic design?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2465131

15 years ago

41 upvotes – 31 comments

Brad Feld: A message to graduating MBAs

http://finance.fortune.cnn.com/2011/04/19/a-message-to-graduating-mbas/

15 years ago

41 upvotes – 18 comments

Google To Sell Chrome OS on a Subscription-Based Model?

http://www.thechromesource.com/google-to-sell-chrome-os-on-a-subscription-base-model/

15 years ago

40 upvotes – 13 comments
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