top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-08-09

5000% Increase in the sale of baseball bats on Amazon.co.uk

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/movers-and-shakers/sports/

15 years ago

470 upvotes – 150 comments

How to Level Up as a Developer

http://jasonrudolph.com/blog/2011/08/09/programming-achievements-how-to-level-up-as-a-developer/

15 years ago

386 upvotes – 109 comments

Why are restaurant websites so awful? Because of restaurant culture.

http://www.slate.com/id/2301228/

15 years ago

297 upvotes – 128 comments

Large-scale Amazon EC2 Outage

http://status.aws.amazon.com/

15 years ago

260 upvotes – 141 comments

NASA finds DNA components in meteorites, says they originated in space

http://www.space.com/12569-meteorites-dna-building-blocks-discovery.html

15 years ago

241 upvotes – 87 comments

Gamification is bullshit

http://m.bogost.com/blog/gamification_is_bullshit.shtml

15 years ago

189 upvotes – 63 comments

Accuracy takes power: one man's 3GHz quest to build a perfect SNES emulator

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2011/08/accuracy-takes-power-one-mans-3ghz-quest-to-build-a-perfect-snes-emulator.ars

15 years ago

176 upvotes – 44 comments

Mozilla, WebKit To Support Debugging CoffeeScript and other JS Languages

http://www.infoq.com/news/2011/08/debug-languages-on-javascript-vm

15 years ago

176 upvotes – 41 comments

Apple to Lodsys: you'll have to go through us to sue iOS devs

http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2011/08/apple-tells-judge-intervention-against-lodsys-should-be-granted.ars

15 years ago

154 upvotes – 46 comments

Why HN Got Slow

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2865985

15 years ago

152 upvotes – 58 comments

Underscore.php

http://brianhaveri.github.com/Underscore.php/

15 years ago

142 upvotes – 50 comments

Pingdom is storing passwords in plaintext

http://seldo.tumblr.com/post/8698245004/dear-pingdom-you-should-not-be-storing-my

15 years ago

141 upvotes – 122 comments

200,000 BitTorrent Users Sued In The United States

http://torrentfreak.com/200000-bittorrent-users-sued-in-the-united-states-110808/

15 years ago

140 upvotes – 60 comments

Stypi (YC S11) Is Etherpad Reborn

http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/09/yc-funded-stypi-is-etherpad-reborn/

15 years ago

138 upvotes – 72 comments

Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 banned from Europe (Apple wins injunction)

http://www.thinq.co.uk/2011/8/9/samsung-galaxy-tab-101-banned-europe/

15 years ago

134 upvotes – 92 comments

Stock Market Drops. VCs Hold Partner Meetings. What Happens Next?

http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/09/stock-market-drops-vcs-hold-partner-meetings-what-happens-next/

15 years ago

131 upvotes – 27 comments

2011 Rubyist’s guide to a Mac OS X development environment

http://robots.thoughtbot.com/post/8700977975/2011-rubyists-guide-to-a-mac-os-x-development

15 years ago

130 upvotes – 27 comments

Bloomberg Risk Takers: Elon Musk Documentary

http://www.bloomberg.com/video/73460184/

15 years ago

123 upvotes – 20 comments

Game Development: You Need $100,000

http://whatgamesare.com/2011/04/you-need-100000-game-development.html#more

15 years ago

111 upvotes – 38 comments

Lion Is a Quitter

http://tidbits.com/e/12398

15 years ago

107 upvotes – 82 comments

Bizarre and Annoying Causes of Fiber Cuts

http://blog.level3.com/2011/08/04/the-10-most-bizarre-and-annoying-causes-of-fiber-cuts/

15 years ago

106 upvotes – 20 comments

Apple Now The Most Valuable Company In The World

http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/09/apple-exxon-valuable-company/

15 years ago

99 upvotes – 46 comments

MIT develops a portable, high-resolution 3D imaging solution

http://bostinnovation.com/2011/08/09/mit-develops-a-portable-high-resolution-3d-imaging-solution/

15 years ago

88 upvotes – 10 comments

Move.js

http://movelang.org/

15 years ago

87 upvotes – 31 comments

A Site Launch Checklist

http://www.breccan.com/2011/08/website-launch-checklist.html

15 years ago

81 upvotes – 18 comments

Ruby on Rails to power 13,000 schools with 7million+ students in Kerala, India

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/rubyonrails-talk/FjvEXFIdl58/0a8DaDMvGXAJ

15 years ago

81 upvotes – 17 comments

Google, Mozilla Team Up to Create a Smarter, Action-Based Web

http://www.webmonkey.com/2011/08/google-mozilla-team-up-to-create-a-smarter-action-based-web/

15 years ago

73 upvotes – 14 comments

Calculize: A Mathematical Scripting Language

http://calculize.com/

15 years ago

72 upvotes – 19 comments

Clojure Pattern Matching Lib: literal, seq, map and other patterns

http://groups.google.com/group/clojure/browse_thread/thread/8aa213ce127c5aca

15 years ago

72 upvotes – 10 comments

Amazon EC2 Outage Takes Down Foursquare, Instagram, Quora, Reddit, Etc

http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/08/amazon-ec2-outage/

15 years ago

71 upvotes – 20 comments

Exploit writer spills beans on secret iPhone function

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/08/04/secret_iphone_hacking_tool/

15 years ago

62 upvotes – 8 comments

Increase Conversions with Call-to-Action Buttons

http://pixify.com/blog/increase-conversions-with-call-to-action-buttons/

15 years ago

62 upvotes – 11 comments

PVS-Studio vs Clang

http://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/2011/08/08/pvs-studio-vs-clang/

15 years ago

60 upvotes – 5 comments

MyBitCoin Team Responded to Hacker Attack by Getting Shitfaced

http://www.betabeat.com/2011/08/08/mybitcoin-spokesman-finally-comes-forward-what-did-you-think-we-did-after-the-hack-we-got-shitfaced/

15 years ago

54 upvotes – 27 comments

What features of Java have been dropped in Scala?

http://www.javacodegeeks.com/2011/08/what-features-of-java-have-been-dropped.html

15 years ago

47 upvotes – 33 comments

The Growing User and the Perennial Beginner

http://ignorethecode.net/blog/2011/08/09/the_growing_user_and_the_perennial_beginner/

15 years ago

44 upvotes – 14 comments

Anonymous, LulzSec Dump Data from 70 Sheriffs' Offices

http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Security/Anonymous-LulzSec-Dump-Data-from-70-Sheriffs-Offices-547474/

15 years ago

43 upvotes – 16 comments

Understanding the Ruby object model

http://skilldrick.co.uk/2011/08/understanding-the-ruby-object-model/

15 years ago

43 upvotes – 19 comments

Honey ant queens share a throne

http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/14417917

15 years ago

42 upvotes – 7 comments

Announcing GitHub Issues for iPhone

https://github.com/blog/904-announcing-github-issues-for-iphone

15 years ago

42 upvotes – 12 comments
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