top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-07-17

Why I will never pursue cheating again

http://behind-the-enemy-lines.blogspot.com/2011/07/why-i-will-never-pursue-cheating-again.html

15 years ago

Estimate your English vocabulary size

http://testyourvocab.com/

15 years ago

Skeleton: A Beautiful Boilerplate for Responsive, Mobile-Friendly Development

http://www.getskeleton.com/

15 years ago

Why My Father Hated India

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304911104576445862242908294.html?mod=WSJ_hp_mostpop_read

15 years ago

Bottle: Single-File Python Web Framework

http://bottlepy.org/docs/dev/index.html

15 years ago

Refuse to be terrorized (2006)

http://www.wired.com/politics/security/commentary/securitymatters/2006/08/71642

15 years ago

Firebug lead developer now working on Web dev tools at Google

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/firebug-working-group/GNCZeL1eWq8

15 years ago

Build your own operating system

http://himmele.blogspot.com/2011/07/build-your-own-operating-system.html

15 years ago

Plan9 has been forked: 9front

http://ninetimes.cat-v.org/news/2011/06/17/0-9front/

15 years ago

Why Quora is in trouble

http://www.attackofdesign.com/why-quora-is-in-trouble/

15 years ago

Replication, atomicity and order in distributed systems

http://afeinberg.github.com/2011/06/17/replication-atomicity-and-order-in-distributed-systems.html

15 years ago

About elnode - EmacsLisp version of node.js

http://nic.ferrier.me.uk/blog/2010_10/elnode

15 years ago

Learn Core Python in a Week – My Way

http://www.curphey.com/2011/07/learn-core-python-in-a-week-my-way/

15 years ago

Microsoft contributes a lot of changes to Linux kernel 3.0

http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Microsoft-contributes-a-lot-of-changes-to-Linux-kernel-3-0-1280528.html

15 years ago

Where the fuck is this

http://wherethefuckisthis.com/wtf_main/

15 years ago

Just work hard

http://thehundreds.com/blog/2011/07/12/just-work-hard-its-not-hard-work/

15 years ago

Ray, a Ruby game library

http://mon-ouie.github.com/projects/ray.html

15 years ago

How the Air Conditioner Made Modern America

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/07/keepin-it-cool-how-the-air-conditioner-made-modern-america/241892/

15 years ago

Shower - nice cross browser presentation template

http://pepelsbey.github.com/shower/?full#Cover

15 years ago

Hadoop & Startups

http://techcrunch.com/2011/07/17/hadoop-startups-where-open-source-meets-business-data/

15 years ago

An incomplete list of HN collaborative Google Docs/Spreadsheets

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2772398

15 years ago

Does one have to be a genius to do maths?

http://terrytao.wordpress.com/career-advice/does-one-have-to-be-a-genius-to-do-maths/

15 years ago

Show HN: I built an app to improve your Vocabulary

http://wordstash.com/

15 years ago

Facial recognition false positives lead to license revocations in Massachusetts

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2011/07/17/man_sues_registry_after_license_mistakenly_revoked/

15 years ago

Kivy: python UI framework. GPU accelerated, multi-input (win,osx,lin,android)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2773488

15 years ago

Ruby Arduino Development

http://rad.rubyforge.org/

15 years ago

How John Perry Barlow gained enlightenment and lost his mind on acid

http://www.synergeticpress.com/JPBForward.pdf

15 years ago

Ask HN: What do you do on the weekends?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2772207

15 years ago