top 20 hacker news stories for 2011-06-12

All these Brilliant People at Facebook Make Me Sad

http://hueniverse.com/2010/11/all-these-brilliant-people-at-facebook-make-me-sad/

15 years ago

316 upvotes – 168 comments

Guy makes a knife from scratch. He has to make a smelter first.

http://www.arscives.com/bladesign/tamahagane/main.htm

15 years ago

278 upvotes – 132 comments

Tower Bridge bot killed by Twitter, replaced with marketing

http://infovore.org/archives/2011/06/12/wheres-towerbridge/

15 years ago

235 upvotes – 45 comments

Aha Moments When Learning Git

http://betterexplained.com/articles/aha-moments-when-learning-git/

15 years ago

219 upvotes – 34 comments

The Reduceron, a CPU designed for functional programs

http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/fp/reduceron/

15 years ago

194 upvotes – 11 comments

Python idioms

http://jaynes.colorado.edu/PythonIdioms.html

15 years ago

169 upvotes – 39 comments

Steve Jobs: Thank you for disobeying me

http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=Hide_Under_This_Desk.txt

15 years ago

156 upvotes – 30 comments

Scala: The Static Language that Feels Dynamic (Bruce Eckel)

http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=328540

15 years ago

151 upvotes – 62 comments

How to become a proficient Python programmer

http://blog.dispatched.ch/2011/06/12/how-to-become-a-proficient-python-programmer/

15 years ago

140 upvotes – 27 comments

Ask HN: Advice for a young, self-taught programmer

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2647301

15 years ago

136 upvotes – 73 comments

Scala moving to Github

https://github.com/scala/scala/wiki/Github-Move

15 years ago

★ 14.4k Scala Apache-2.0
101 upvotes – 7 comments

Mac OS X Lion Can Run in Chrome OS-Like Browser Only Mode

http://www.macrumors.com/2011/06/12/mac-os-x-lion-can-run-in-chrome-os-like-browser-only-mode/

15 years ago

97 upvotes – 30 comments

Localtunnel: Quickly expose your local web server to the Internet

https://github.com/progrium/localtunnel/

15 years ago

★ 3.2k Go MIT
93 upvotes – 25 comments

Gridless: a responsive HTML5 and CSS3 boilerplate

http://thatcoolguy.github.com/gridless-boilerplate/

15 years ago

87 upvotes – 19 comments

Linux is Not Windows

http://linux.oneandoneis2.org/LNW.htm

15 years ago

86 upvotes – 94 comments

U.S. Underwrites Internet Detour Around Censors

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/12/world/12internet.html?pagewanted=all

15 years ago

85 upvotes – 76 comments

The one slide your startup should never have in its deck.

http://poorbuthappy.com/ease/archives/2011/06/12/4875/more-features-competitive-advantage-for-a-startup

15 years ago

84 upvotes – 29 comments

Keynesian beauty contest

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keynesian_beauty_contest

15 years ago

81 upvotes – 27 comments

Ask HN: How much time did you invest in your startup until ramen profitable?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2646047

15 years ago

78 upvotes – 39 comments

RIP Eliyahu M. Goldratt

http://kevinrutherford.posterous.com/rip-eli-goldratt

15 years ago

75 upvotes – 26 comments
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