top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-06-14

Tell HN: Our experience with Groupon

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2654788

15 years ago

562 upvotes – 105 comments

What’s Up With All These Changes in Rails?

http://yehudakatz.com/2011/06/14/what-the-hell-is-happening-to-rails/

15 years ago

353 upvotes – 107 comments

Earth may be headed into a mini Ice Age within a decade

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/06/14/ice_age/

15 years ago

318 upvotes – 167 comments

ResizeMyBrowser

http://resizemybrowser.com/

15 years ago

291 upvotes – 54 comments

Duke Nukem Forever: barely playable, not funny, rampantly offensive

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/reviews/2011/06/duke-nukem-forever-review-barely-playable-unfunny-and-rampantly-offensive.ars/

15 years ago

285 upvotes – 74 comments

ASCII diagram creator

http://www.asciiflow.com

15 years ago

269 upvotes – 39 comments

If you develop web apps, don't do this.

http://sneak.datavibe.net/20110614/please-dont-do-this/

15 years ago

239 upvotes – 110 comments

What to Say To Someone Who is Sick

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/12/fashion/what-to-say-to-someone-whos-sick-this-life.html?pagewanted=1&ref=general&src=me

15 years ago

234 upvotes – 87 comments

WTH is happening to Rails? I'll tell you.

http://metautonomo.us/2011/06/14/wth-is-happening-to-rails-ill-tell-you/

15 years ago

219 upvotes – 77 comments

My weekend project - AES encryption for Gmail or anything else

http://encipher.it/

15 years ago

152 upvotes – 67 comments

A Whole Bunch of Amazing Stuff Pseudo Elements Can Do

http://css-tricks.com/pseudo-element-roundup/

15 years ago

144 upvotes – 3 comments

A possible flaw in open-source bcrypt implementations

http://rondam.blogspot.com/2011/06/possible-flaw-in-open-source-bcrypt.html

15 years ago

124 upvotes – 58 comments

Guess What: iCloud Uses Windows Azure Services For Hosting Data

http://www.redmondpie.com/guess-what-icloud-uses-windows-azure-services-for-hosting-data/

15 years ago

114 upvotes – 80 comments

The Difference Between A Developer, A Programmer And A Computer Scientist

http://www.skorks.com/2010/03/the-difference-between-a-developer-a-programmer-and-a-computer-scientist/

15 years ago

101 upvotes – 26 comments

Unlocked iPhone 4 up for sale

http://store.apple.com/us/product/MC603LL/A?mco=MjI4NTM2NTM

15 years ago

100 upvotes – 82 comments

LulzSec Topples EVE Online, Minecraft, League of Legends and other Servers

http://www.gamepro.com/article/news/220418/updated-lulzsec-topples-eve-online-escapist-magazine-minecraft-and-league-of-legends-servers/

15 years ago

97 upvotes – 107 comments

Computer compromise leads to theft of bitcoins valued at $500,000 USD

https://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=16457.0

15 years ago

96 upvotes – 136 comments

How I Taught Third Graders Binary Numbers

http://www.exploringbinary.com/how-i-taught-third-graders-binary-numbers/

15 years ago

95 upvotes – 11 comments

Don't Get Burned By Heatmaps

http://www.gazehawk.com/blog/dont-get-burned-by-heatmaps/

15 years ago

87 upvotes – 23 comments

It's All Software

http://daringfireball.net/2011/06/its_all_software

15 years ago

86 upvotes – 71 comments

Google Search By Image

http://techcrunch.com/2011/06/14/google-search-by-image-use-a-snapshot-as-your-search-query/

15 years ago

81 upvotes – 28 comments

Build your business around an idea

http://warpspire.com/posts/idea-businesses/

15 years ago

73 upvotes – 4 comments

The changing face of Computer Science education

http://matt-welsh.blogspot.com/2011/06/changing-face-of-computer-science.html

15 years ago

72 upvotes – 57 comments

The Economist Debates: Are we in a new tech bubble?

http://www.economist.com/debate/days/view/710

15 years ago

70 upvotes – 17 comments

Miraculous New Spray On Skin Technology Treats Burns Without Scars

http://singularityhub.com/2011/06/14/miraculous-new-spray-on-skin-technology-treats-burns-without-scars/

15 years ago

68 upvotes – 28 comments

Reeder for Mac's HTML5 Homepage

http://reederapp.com/mac/

15 years ago

66 upvotes – 26 comments

How Working Out Makes Us Better Entrepreneurs

http://www.derekflanzraich.com/2011/06/how-working-out-makes-better-entrepreneurs/

15 years ago

62 upvotes – 43 comments

EU: "Making hacking tools should be illegal"

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/06/14/making_hacking_tools_should_be_criminal_act_say_eu_ministers/

15 years ago

61 upvotes – 62 comments

Why All The Daily Deal Hate?

http://techcrunch.com/2011/06/14/why-daily-deal-hate/

15 years ago

60 upvotes – 23 comments

Amazon Tells States: 'Drop Dead' Over Sales Tax

http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2011/06/amazon-conn-ark/

15 years ago

60 upvotes – 43 comments

Mixpanel Streams: Watch What Your Users Are Doing On Your Site, In Real Time

http://techcrunch.com/2011/06/14/mixpanel-streams-watch-what-your-users-are-doing-on-your-site-in-real-time/

15 years ago

58 upvotes – 13 comments

VC per capita, Europe: $7, U.S.: $72, Israel: $144.

http://blogs.wsj.com/tech-europe/2011/06/14/technology-is-cheap-as-chips-but-venture-capitalists-fail-to-cash-in/

15 years ago

58 upvotes – 46 comments

Automatic Login Links

http://collectiveidea.com/blog/archives/2011/06/14/automatic-login-links/

15 years ago

57 upvotes – 28 comments

Insight into CD Baby's Customer Support - An Interview with Derek Sivers

http://blog.supportbee.com/2011/06/14/cd-baby-customer-support-an-interview-with-derek-sivers/

15 years ago

53 upvotes – 10 comments

Rails 3.1 Asset Pipeline in the Real World

http://blog.nodeta.com/2011/06/14/rails-3-1-asset-pipeline-in-the-real-world/

15 years ago

52 upvotes – 5 comments

Universities 'dumbing down on maths' to fill places

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-13751233

15 years ago

49 upvotes – 44 comments

HW accelerated WebGL fallback using Java

http://code.google.com/p/jebgl/

15 years ago

49 upvotes – 12 comments

Clojure Conj 2011 Early Registration Open

http://clojure-conj.org/

15 years ago

48 upvotes – 20 comments

Why Facebook is Losing US Users

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2386884,00.asp

15 years ago

48 upvotes – 38 comments

Leaked NPD(German right wing party) donors-list meets Google maps

http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=de&msa=0&msid=209605995929772957059.0004a4b90d8086e514339&ll=51.727028,11.513672&spn=13.792979,39.462891&z=5

15 years ago

48 upvotes – 44 comments

Why are business schools failing at the education of entrepreneurship?

http://www.humbledmba.com/why-are-business-schools-failing-at-the-educa

15 years ago

46 upvotes – 18 comments

The ReadyForZero Programming Challenge

https://www.readyforzero.com/challenge

15 years ago

45 upvotes – 56 comments
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