top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-08-13

Requests: HTTP for Humans

http://docs.python-requests.org/en/latest/index.html

15 years ago

404 upvotes – 66 comments

Command line tools for web developers

http://www.coderholic.com/invaluable-command-line-tools-for-web-developers/

15 years ago

322 upvotes – 68 comments

Hyperpolyglot: PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby

http://hyperpolyglot.org/scripting

15 years ago

311 upvotes – 54 comments

Leaked AT&T Letter Demolishes Case For T-Mobile Merger

http://www.broadbandreports.com/shownews/Leaked-ATT-Letter-Demolishes-Case-For-TMobile-Merger-115652

15 years ago

303 upvotes – 41 comments

C++ 11 Approved

http://herbsutter.com/2011/08/12/we-have-an-international-standard-c0x-is-unanimously-approved/

15 years ago

203 upvotes – 71 comments

The Sad Reality of Post-Mature Optimization

http://blog.yafla.com/The_Sad_Reality_of_PostMature_Optimization/

15 years ago

192 upvotes – 62 comments

Silence: Because I talked so rarely, people took the time to listen to me

http://swombat.com/2011/8/13/silence

15 years ago

169 upvotes – 59 comments

AWS Post-Mortem

http://aws.amazon.com/message/2329B7/

15 years ago

145 upvotes – 65 comments

Understanding "Prototypes" in JavaScript

http://yehudakatz.com/2011/08/12/understanding-prototypes-in-javascript/

15 years ago

144 upvotes – 9 comments

"When you're done talking, stop"

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2009/03/-quot-when-you-apos-re-done-talking-stop-quot/9827/

15 years ago

139 upvotes – 13 comments

John Carmack: Script Interpreters Considered Harmful

http://www.codingthewheel.com/game-dev/john-carmack-script-interpreters-considered-harmful

15 years ago

131 upvotes – 87 comments

Jonathan's Card shut down

http://jonathanstark.com/card/?asd

15 years ago

119 upvotes – 103 comments

If We’re Turning Off Social Media, I Want News Channels Shut Down, Too

http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2011/08/turn-off-social-media-and-news/

15 years ago

115 upvotes – 32 comments

Watch Google Map Edits Live

http://www.google.com/mapmaker/pulse

15 years ago

109 upvotes – 21 comments

Should Your Employees Take Naps?

http://www.inc.com/articles/201108/sleeping-on-the-job-should-your-employees-take-naps.html

15 years ago

90 upvotes – 35 comments

Graphwar -- Artillery game where you use mathematical functions

http://www.graphwar.com/index.html

15 years ago

90 upvotes – 20 comments

What is Google's real market share in the US?

http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/2011/08/what-is-googles-real-market-share-in-the-us.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+yegg+%28Gabriel+Weinberg%27s+Blog%29&utm_content=Google+Reader

15 years ago

87 upvotes – 34 comments

How much of an iPhone is made by Samsung?

http://www.economist.com/blogs/dailychart/2011/08/apple-and-samsungs-symbiotic-relationship?repost=true

15 years ago

84 upvotes – 31 comments

Homeless Man Has Three Degrees and Can't Find a Job

http://newsfeed.time.com/2011/08/11/viral-video-homeless-man-has-three-degrees-and-cant-find-a-job/

15 years ago

79 upvotes – 71 comments

Pjscrape: A web-scraping framework written in JS using PhantomJS and jQuery

http://nrabinowitz.github.com/pjscrape/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

15 years ago

79 upvotes – 8 comments

The BBC’s fundamental misunderstanding of copyright

http://pigsonthewing.org.uk/bbc-fundamental-misunderstanding-copyright/

15 years ago

76 upvotes – 21 comments

Raspberry Pi - The alpha boards are here

http://www.raspberrypi.org/?p=78

15 years ago

74 upvotes – 26 comments

Redhat 5.1 Redneck Internationalization

http://www.ninesys.com/fun/

15 years ago

72 upvotes – 9 comments

“The Pleasures and Pains of Coffee”

http://blissbat.net/balzac.html

15 years ago

63 upvotes – 21 comments

Initial Thoughts on Clojure

http://acooke.org/cute/InitialTho0.html

15 years ago

59 upvotes – 36 comments

Updated iOS device and OS version stats from Instapaper

http://www.marco.org/2011/08/13/instapaper-ios-device-and-version-stats-update

15 years ago

57 upvotes – 17 comments

Jonathan's Card 2.0

http://www.talkaboutdesign.com/starbucks/

15 years ago

55 upvotes – 33 comments

On rvm's *cd* script

http://batkin.tumblr.com/post/8847990062/on-rvms-cd-script

15 years ago

54 upvotes – 16 comments

Apple, publishers 'sued for price fixing'

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hg3Qe5XrIb-vs2SxDp7BBT8GFgVg?docId=CNG.a2db03834cda342663b48fb1e7f322ce.2d1

15 years ago

53 upvotes – 42 comments

Think Windows is insecure? You're wrong, says security firm Kaspersky.

http://blogs.computerworld.com/18791/think_windows_is_insecure_youre_wrong_says_security_firm_kapersky

15 years ago

53 upvotes – 72 comments

Update HN: Amazon has thankfully removed my free ebook

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2879988

15 years ago

49 upvotes – 2 comments

Sign Into Websites Directly From Your Browser

http://identity.mozilla.com/post/8841090082/sign-into-websites-directly-from-your-browser

15 years ago

48 upvotes – 10 comments
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