top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-04-23

Amazon’s $23,698,655.93 book about flies

http://www.michaeleisen.org/blog/?p=358

15 years ago

711 upvotes – 140 comments

Dear Dr. Stallman: An Open Letter

http://alexeymk.com/dear-dr-stallman-an-open-letter

15 years ago

493 upvotes – 199 comments

Company was hosting cardiac patient monitoring on EC2

https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?threadID=65649&tstart=0

15 years ago

442 upvotes – 80 comments

A minimalistic desk to handle cables and electronic clutter elegantly

http://elzr.com/blag/a-new-desk

15 years ago

294 upvotes – 45 comments

Finally someone makes sense of JavaScript's this keyword

http://javascriptweblog.wordpress.com/2010/08/30/understanding-javascripts-this/

15 years ago

239 upvotes – 52 comments

Joel Spolsky: Can your programming language do this?

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/08/01.html

15 years ago

222 upvotes – 110 comments

Ask PG: How has voting habit/volume changed since being hidden?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2477479

15 years ago

144 upvotes – 74 comments

Google Tech Talks: "All Questions Answered" by Donald Knuth

http://www.clicker.com/web/google-tech-talks/-all-questions-answered-by-donald-knuth-1558044/

15 years ago

130 upvotes – 16 comments

The Linux Security Circus: On GUI isolation

http://theinvisiblethings.blogspot.com/2011/04/linux-security-circus-on-gui-isolation.html

15 years ago

126 upvotes – 47 comments

Python for Android | Linux Journal

http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/10940

15 years ago

110 upvotes – 12 comments

MLPY - high-performance Python library for predictive modeling

https://mlpy.fbk.eu/

15 years ago

102 upvotes – 9 comments

Dropbox as a CMS - DropPages

http://droppages.com/

15 years ago

100 upvotes – 11 comments

Mozilla JavaScript 2011

http://blog.mozilla.com/dmandelin/2011/04/22/mozilla-javascript-2011/

15 years ago

100 upvotes – 0 comments

Why you should use talloc for your next C project

http://blogs.fedoraproject.org/wp/sgallagh/2010/03/17/why-you-should-use-talloc-for-your-next-project/

15 years ago

98 upvotes – 57 comments

Warren Buffett is now betting against the US dollar

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/the-dollar-less-almighty-big-investors-see-possible-long-term-currency-weakness/2011/04/19/AFxVaKLE_story.html

15 years ago

95 upvotes – 82 comments

Ask HN: How Would You Architect Around Potential AWS Failures?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2477877

15 years ago

88 upvotes – 40 comments

Complexity is the enemy

http://neugierig.org/software/blog/2011/04/complexity.html

15 years ago

86 upvotes – 26 comments

The curious case of the number 3435

http://www.blog.republicofmath.com/archives/4727

15 years ago

81 upvotes – 14 comments

Githits

http://githits.me

15 years ago

79 upvotes – 45 comments

Interview with a cracker

http://successfulsoftware.net/2011/04/07/interview-with-a-cracker/

15 years ago

77 upvotes – 15 comments

Linux Power Usage Regression in 2.6.38+

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=OTM2NQ

15 years ago

65 upvotes – 16 comments

Startups: How to Hustle with AngelList in 10 Steps

http://www.quora.com/Brendan-Baker/Startups-How-to-Hustle-with-AngelList-in-10-Steps

15 years ago

64 upvotes – 5 comments

On Meeting People from the Internet

http://www.zaccohn.com/2011/04/meeting-people/

15 years ago

61 upvotes – 21 comments

Remembering the Magic of Supreme Court Briefs Before Technology Took Over

http://blogs.forbes.com/benkerschberg/2011/04/22/remembering-the-magic-of-supreme-court-briefs-before-technology-took-over/

15 years ago

59 upvotes – 7 comments

Libstdc++ has a "diagnostics" mode that suggests alternate containers

http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/libstdc++/manual/bk01pt03ch19s07.html

15 years ago

57 upvotes – 4 comments

How Libya's phone network evaded shutdown

http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/features/2011/04/20114233530919767.html

15 years ago

57 upvotes – 0 comments
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