top 50% 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

Which tech giants will still be around after 100 years?

http://www.economist.com/node/18805483?story_id=18805483

15 years ago

75 upvotes – 66 comments

Why Computer Science

http://carterac.tumblr.com/post/6355435845/why-i-majored-in-computer-science

15 years ago

69 upvotes – 18 comments

Canonical creates a custom 40-processor ARM build machine

http://thetanktheory.squarespace.com/this-8-bit-life/2011/6/10/ubuntu-linux-pandabuilder.html

15 years ago

68 upvotes – 21 comments

Put a thousand books from the British Library on your iPad for free

http://www.tuaw.com/2011/06/12/put-a-thousand-books-from-the-british-library-on-your-ipad-for-f/

15 years ago

66 upvotes – 29 comments

Cloud Save

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/omiekjeapoonbhiemenfoccbdpeagdah?hl=ko#

15 years ago

63 upvotes – 19 comments

Launch Your Site Too Soon

http://housefed.tumblr.com/post/6460403580/launch-your-site-too-soon

15 years ago

57 upvotes – 25 comments

The New C++: Lay down your guns, knives, and clubs

http://m.theregister.co.uk/2011/06/11/herb_sutter_next_c_plus_plus/

15 years ago

56 upvotes – 37 comments

The Zipcar Prize proposal: enabling one-way car sharing trips

http://troy.yort.com/zipcar-prize-user-sourced-car-sharing-assignm

15 years ago

53 upvotes – 20 comments

Ask HN: How do I start with Machine Learning?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2645671

15 years ago

51 upvotes – 43 comments

Self-quantifiers: Silicon Valley types who treat their bodies like computers

http://www.slate.com/id/2296731/

15 years ago

49 upvotes – 12 comments

NLP with Prolog in IBM Watson

http://www.cs.nmsu.edu/ALP/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/PrologAndWatson1.pdf

15 years ago

49 upvotes – 14 comments

Contributors to Debian code per country

http://www.perrier.eu.org/weblog/2011/06/12#devel-countries-201106-3

15 years ago

49 upvotes – 21 comments

The Math of TechCrunch: Is TechCrunch Still About Startups?

http://techcrunch.com/2011/06/12/math-of-techcrunch-startups/

15 years ago

46 upvotes – 22 comments

Human cell becomes living laser with jellyfish protein.

http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110612/full/news.2011.365.html

15 years ago

45 upvotes – 8 comments

Classic Books Reviewed in The Atlantic

http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2011/06/15-classic-books-reviewed-in-the-atlantic/239690/

15 years ago

45 upvotes – 5 comments
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