top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-04-22

Linus Torvalds on Garbage Collection (2002)

http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2002-08/msg00552.html

15 years ago

279 upvotes – 204 comments

Doom engine code review

http://fabiensanglard.net/doomIphone/doomClassicRenderer.php

15 years ago

265 upvotes – 28 comments

Questions you’ll (probably) get asked at your YC interview

http://www.hyperinkpress.com/news/2011/04/22/5-questions-youll-probably-get-asked-at-your-yc-interview/

15 years ago

196 upvotes – 39 comments

Why Twilio Wasn’t Affected by Today’s AWS Issues

http://www.twilio.com/engineering/2011/04/22/why-twilio-wasnt-affected-by-todays-aws-issues/

15 years ago

183 upvotes – 36 comments

Super Mario 64 was built with a system written in Lisp

http://www.franz.com/success/customer_apps/animation_graphics/nichimen.lhtml

15 years ago

165 upvotes – 50 comments

Basics of Compiler Design

http://www.diku.dk/hjemmesider/ansatte/torbenm/Basics/

15 years ago

158 upvotes – 10 comments

Court rules Linux kernel infringes on patents. Lawsuit avalanche to follow.

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/google/google-infringes-on-linux-patent-5-million-judgment/2912

15 years ago

152 upvotes – 65 comments

Amazon’s problem isn’t the outage, it’s the communication

http://www.geekwire.com/2011/amazoncoms-real-problem-outage-communication

15 years ago

135 upvotes – 30 comments

The Dark Side of Hadoop

http://tech.backtype.com/the-dark-side-of-hadoop

15 years ago

132 upvotes – 41 comments

Show HN: Amazon EC2 instance comparison table

http://www.ec2instances.info

15 years ago

122 upvotes – 33 comments

Review: Learn You a Haskell for Great Good

http://www.jerf.org/iri/post/2910

15 years ago

115 upvotes – 18 comments

Why Retired Aircraft are Stored in the Desert

http://murderousmusings.blogspot.com/2010/05/bone-yard.html

15 years ago

110 upvotes – 38 comments

What the future of browsers looked like when IE6 was released

http://www.t3.org/tangledwebs/06/tw0605.html

15 years ago

109 upvotes – 25 comments

Show HN: my boilerplate CSS code for new designs, written in Less.

http://mgeraci.github.com/Less-Boilerplate/

15 years ago

108 upvotes – 19 comments

There Is No Magic

http://deconstructinggenius.wordpress.com/2011/04/22/there-is-no-magic/

15 years ago

107 upvotes – 26 comments

Elon Musk's space ship Dragon 'can land on Mars'

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/04/21/musk_mars_dragon_claim/print.html

15 years ago

103 upvotes – 32 comments

Firefox 4: 100 million downloads in 1 month

http://glow.mozilla.com/

15 years ago

102 upvotes – 58 comments

WebGL Sonic the Hedgehog Game Engine

http://forums.sonicretro.org/index.php?showtopic=24965

15 years ago

101 upvotes – 18 comments

$1.39 for 1000 decoded CAPTCHAs

http://www.deathbycaptcha.com/

15 years ago

101 upvotes – 52 comments

SPDY server on node.js

https://github.com/donnerjack13589/node-spdy

15 years ago

100 upvotes – 5 comments

Lasers to replace spark plugs in gasoline engines

http://scienceblog.com/44560/laser-sparks-revolution-in-internal-combustion-engines/

15 years ago

93 upvotes – 43 comments

Announcing the Founder's Library

http://swombat.com/2011/4/22/founders-library

15 years ago

88 upvotes – 20 comments

Sequoia Leads $4.7 Million Investment in Humble Bundle (YC W11)

http://finance.fortune.cnn.com/2011/04/22/sequoia-capital-backs-online-gaming-bundler/

15 years ago

85 upvotes – 38 comments

Inside Google's Secretive Data Centers

http://mashable.com/2011/04/22/google-data-center-video/

15 years ago

82 upvotes – 24 comments

The one second war: Finding a lasting solution to the leap seconds problem

http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2011/5/107699-the-one-second-war/fulltext

15 years ago

81 upvotes – 27 comments

Programmer salary in mainland Europe?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2473544

15 years ago

77 upvotes – 113 comments

Scalable SQL: How do large-scale sites and applications remain SQL-based?

http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1971597

15 years ago

72 upvotes – 39 comments

Jedberg on Reddit's most recent outage

http://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/gva4t/on_reddits_outage/

15 years ago

59 upvotes – 24 comments

VorePad - Convore for iPad

http://blog.jazzychad.net/2011/04/22/vorepad-convore-for-ipad.html

15 years ago

56 upvotes – 16 comments

On Cascading Failures and Amazon's Elastic Block Store

http://joyeur.com/2011/04/22/on-cascading-failures-and-amazons-elastic-block-store/

15 years ago

53 upvotes – 8 comments

Mark Suster: The Entrepreneur Thesis

http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2010/03/01/the-entrepreneur-thesis/

15 years ago

49 upvotes – 3 comments

Vayable Is A Marketplace For Unique Travel Experiences

http://techcrunch.com/2011/04/22/vayable-is-a-marketplace-for-unique-travel-experiences/

15 years ago

47 upvotes – 12 comments

Law enforcement have known about iPhone tracking since at least last year

http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-20056344-281.html

15 years ago

47 upvotes – 10 comments

Reddit has now been down for 30+ hours

http://www.reddit.com/?down

15 years ago

47 upvotes – 43 comments

Show HN: my new project, an app to tell your friends what you need

http://grople.com

15 years ago

46 upvotes – 29 comments

Why the AWS Crash is a Good Thing.

https://signnow.com/blog/2011/04/22/why-the-aws-crash-is-a-good-thing/

15 years ago

45 upvotes – 16 comments

Little Bets

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704570704576274962717655144.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEFTTopOpinion

15 years ago

42 upvotes – 3 comments

Fancy a self-hosted programming language for the Rubinius VM

http://www.fancy-lang.org/

15 years ago

41 upvotes – 13 comments

Levels of Infinity

http://www.xamuel.com/levels-of-infinity/

15 years ago

40 upvotes – 22 comments
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