top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-06-27

Testing Benford's Law

http://testingbenfordslaw.com

15 years ago

546 upvotes – 88 comments

SearchYC is shutting down

http://blog.searchyc.com/#so-long-and-thanks-for-all-the-fish

15 years ago

303 upvotes – 59 comments

Why mobile apps suck when you're mobile (TCP over 3G)

http://blog.davidsingleton.org/mobiletcp

15 years ago

298 upvotes – 68 comments

Paper.js — The Swiss Army Knife of Vector Graphics Scripting

http://paperjs.org

15 years ago

267 upvotes – 41 comments

Learn Python The Hard Way 2nd Edition Released

http://learnpythonthehardway.org/

15 years ago

243 upvotes – 58 comments

Why founding a 3-person startup with 0 revenue is better than working for GS

http://adgrok.com/why-founding-a-three-person-startup-with-zero-revenue-is-better-than-working-for-goldman-sachs/

15 years ago

211 upvotes – 51 comments

The case of the 500-mile email

http://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail.html

15 years ago

169 upvotes – 18 comments

Google's War on Nonsense

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/06/26/googles-war-on-nonsense/?src=tptw

15 years ago

157 upvotes – 71 comments

You Can’t Make Money Charging $1 Per Month

http://www.softwarebyrob.com/2011/06/27/you-cant-make-money-charging-1-per-month/

15 years ago

154 upvotes – 62 comments

GitHub open sources Linguist

https://github.com/blog/881-linguist

15 years ago

153 upvotes – 2 comments

Groupon May Expire Sooner Than Expected

http://seekingalpha.com/article/274523-groupon-may-expire-sooner-than-expected

15 years ago

148 upvotes – 41 comments

A cron pitfall that will probably snare you at least once in your career

http://www.reddit.com/r/raldi/comments/i8z20/frustrating_unix_pitfall_of_the_day_esoteric_cron/

15 years ago

136 upvotes – 67 comments

Firefox update policy: the enterprise is wrong, not Mozilla

http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2011/06/firefox-update-policy-the-enterprise-is-wrong-not-mozilla.ars

15 years ago

134 upvotes – 95 comments

Sitting for hours can shave years off life

http://www.cnn.com/2011/HEALTH/06/24/sitting.shorten.life/index.html

15 years ago

126 upvotes – 130 comments

Among the costs of war: $20 Billion in Air Conditioning

http://www.npr.org/2011/06/25/137414737/among-the-costs-of-war-20b-in-air-conditioning

15 years ago

121 upvotes – 72 comments

Android's Log.wtf Method

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/util/Log.html#wtf(java.lang.String, java.lang.Throwable)

15 years ago

120 upvotes – 23 comments

HN Points

http://hnpoints.com/

15 years ago

119 upvotes – 48 comments

Legend Of Zelda - Link's Awakening, now playable in HTML5

http://grantgalitz.org/get_the_hell_out/LegendOfZelda_Links_Awakening/

15 years ago

117 upvotes – 26 comments

Supreme Court: first amendment allows mature video games to be sold to minors

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2011/06/us-supreme-court-strikes-down-video-game-law-on-first-amendment-grounds.ars

15 years ago

108 upvotes – 155 comments

“Let's settle this in a Ruby programming contest”

http://jeffkreeftmeijer.com/2011/lets-settle-this-in-a-ruby-programming-contest/

15 years ago

105 upvotes – 17 comments

Type 2 diabetes cure, extreme diet

http://www.latimes.com/health/boostershots/la-heb-diabetes-extreme-diet-06252011,0,7790769.story

15 years ago

103 upvotes – 59 comments

Inc.'s 30 under 30 List

http://www.inc.com/30under30/2011/honorees.html

15 years ago

102 upvotes – 16 comments

Startups Don't Die, They Commit Suicide

http://techcrunch.com/2011/06/27/startups-don%E2%80%99t-die-they-commit-suicide/

15 years ago

100 upvotes – 24 comments

Appsterdam: A Haven for Indie App Makers?

http://venturebeat.com/2011/06/27/appsterdam-a-haven-for-indie-developers/

15 years ago

97 upvotes – 53 comments

Policing the Police: The Apps That Let You Spy on the Cops

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/06/policing-the-police-the-apps-that-let-you-spy-on-the-cops/240916/

15 years ago

95 upvotes – 33 comments

Dutch parliament passes Europe's first net neutrality law

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/06/dutch-parliament-passes-europes-first-net-neutrality-law.ars

15 years ago

94 upvotes – 11 comments

I made a script to automate django deployments on Amazon EC2

https://github.com/gcollazo/Fabulous

15 years ago

★ 566 Python
91 upvotes – 23 comments

Mastering Git Basics by Tom Preston-Werner (video)

http://ontwik.com/git-github/mastering-git-basics-by-tom-preston-werner/

15 years ago

83 upvotes – 6 comments

Open source needs designers

http://benwerd.com/2011/06/open-source-needs-designers/

15 years ago

78 upvotes – 60 comments

Show HN: My weekend project Tigger

http://tiggerlovesdevs.com/

15 years ago

77 upvotes – 56 comments

SSL session caching in nginx

http://hezmatt.org/~mpalmer/blog/general/ssl_session_caching_in_nginx.html

15 years ago

76 upvotes – 17 comments

TripAdvisor Architecture - 40M Visitors, 200M Dynamic Page Views, 30TB Data

http://highscalability.com/blog/2011/6/27/tripadvisor-architecture-40m-visitors-200m-dynamic-page-view.html

15 years ago

73 upvotes – 23 comments

OnSwipe

http://scripting.com/stories/2011/06/26/onswipe.html

15 years ago

72 upvotes – 47 comments

Ask HN: I want to learn how to code. Can anyone tell me how to start learning?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2699965

15 years ago

69 upvotes – 57 comments

RPG JS: Javascript RPG (as in dragons) framework

https://github.com/RSamaium/RPG-JS

15 years ago

★ 1.5k TypeScript MIT
68 upvotes – 15 comments

The Failed Experiment of Software Patents

http://blogs.computerworlduk.com/open-enterprise/2011/06/the-failed-experiment-of-software-patents/index.htm

15 years ago

68 upvotes – 3 comments

Writing a C library, part 1: best practices for writing C libraries

http://davidz25.blogspot.com/2011/06/writing-c-library-part-1.html

15 years ago

67 upvotes – 25 comments

Setting up Django with gunicorn, nginx, supervisord and fabric

http://kencochrane.net/blog/2011/06/django-gunicorn-nginx-supervisord-fabric-centos55/

15 years ago

65 upvotes – 11 comments

Lets just drop the 5 from Perl 5

http://blog.kraih.com/lets-just-drop-the-5-from-perl-5

15 years ago

64 upvotes – 30 comments

How many .com domains are available?

http://blog.nametoolkit.com/

15 years ago

63 upvotes – 97 comments

Skype's Evil Ways, Continued

http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2011/06/27/skypes-evil-ways-cont/

15 years ago

59 upvotes – 23 comments

Hipmunk founders Steve & Adam honored in 30 under 30

http://www.inc.com/30under30/2011/profile-steve-huffman-adam-goldstein-founders-hipmunk.html

15 years ago

58 upvotes – 8 comments

How to value your company for sale (pt 2)

http://blog.asmartbear.com/how-value-company-2.html

15 years ago

57 upvotes – 1 comments

The Billion-Dollar Startup That Almost Never Was

http://www.businessinsider.com/the-billion-dollar-startup-that-almost-never-was-2011-6

15 years ago

56 upvotes – 14 comments

Former YouSendIt CEO pleads guilty to Web attack on his old company

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2011/06/yousendit-guilty-khalid-shaikh.html

15 years ago

53 upvotes – 32 comments

Phoronix successfully git-bisects Linux power regressions for ~15% improvement

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=linux_2638_aspm&num=1

15 years ago

50 upvotes – 20 comments

Next Hacker News DC Meetup TOMORROW, June 28th

http://meetup.hackernewsdc.org/events/21756741/

15 years ago

50 upvotes – 3 comments

Dear Google: Do no evil, or comply with the Patriot Act?

http://sneak.datavibe.net/20110627/google-and-the-patriot-act/

15 years ago

47 upvotes – 41 comments

Yahoo launching HortonWorks, Hadoop spinoff company

http://gigaom.com/cloud/exclusive-yahoo-launching-hadoop-spinoff-this-week/?utm_source=social&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=gigaom

15 years ago

46 upvotes – 5 comments

Take control of your email and achieve inbox zero

http://www.limedaring.com/take-control-of-your-email-and-achieve-inbox-zero/

15 years ago

46 upvotes – 21 comments
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