top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-08-14

WebGL Water Simulation

http://madebyevan.com/webgl-water/

15 years ago

463 upvotes – 85 comments

Ask HN: How can I do something meaningful?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2882356

15 years ago

278 upvotes – 152 comments

Perlis Languages

http://blog.fogus.me/2011/08/14/perlis-languages/

15 years ago

236 upvotes – 35 comments

The quick website launch checklist

http://newsletter.agiliq.com/the-quick-website-launch-checklist

15 years ago

235 upvotes – 44 comments

Issac Asimov: What Is Intelligence, Anyway?

http://talentdevelop.com/articles/WIIA.html

15 years ago

232 upvotes – 58 comments

A writer leaves Microsoft Word

http://stevenpoole.net/blog/goodbye-cruel-word/

15 years ago

195 upvotes – 154 comments

False confessions

http://www.economist.com/node/21525840

15 years ago

180 upvotes – 66 comments

MIT Scientists Develop a Drug to Fight Any Viral Infection

http://healthland.time.com/2011/08/11/mit-scientists-develop-a-drug-to-fight-any-viral-infection/

15 years ago

141 upvotes – 40 comments

JavaScript Physics Engine

http://code.google.com/p/box2dweb/

15 years ago

140 upvotes – 22 comments

2005 Zuckerberg Didn't Want To Take On The World

http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/13/2005-zuckerberg-didnt-want-to-take-over-the-world/

15 years ago

140 upvotes – 49 comments

The U.S. Postal Service Nears Collapse

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/11_23/b4231060885070.htm?campaign_id=rss_topStories

15 years ago

126 upvotes – 135 comments

Quake Engine source review

http://fabiensanglard.net/quakeSource/index.php

15 years ago

123 upvotes – 15 comments

The Queensway Syndicate: tens of billions in revenue; unknown owners.

http://www.economist.com/node/21525847

15 years ago

118 upvotes – 18 comments

Show HN: Crash into Python

http://stephensugden.com/crash_into_python/

15 years ago

107 upvotes – 14 comments

Do trees communicate? Networks, networks

http://abject.ca/do-trees-communicate/

15 years ago

105 upvotes – 21 comments

Steve, Please Buy Us A Carrier

http://www.mondaynote.com/2011/08/14/steve-please-buy-us-a-carrier/

15 years ago

101 upvotes – 42 comments

Eric Ries: “Don’t Be In A Rush To Get Big, Be In A Rush To Have A Great Product”

http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/14/lean-startup-eric-ries-tctv/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Techcrunch+%28TechCrunch%29

15 years ago

97 upvotes – 30 comments

The Elusive Big Idea

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/14/opinion/sunday/the-elusive-big-idea.html?_r=2

15 years ago

77 upvotes – 36 comments

Cool Illusion - Motion Induced Blindness

http://michaelbach.de/ot/mot_mib/index.html

15 years ago

76 upvotes – 4 comments

Schizophrenic Computer Points to New Theory of Disease

http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/software/schizophrenic-computer-points-to-new-theory-of-disease

15 years ago

69 upvotes – 18 comments

Maybe It’s Time for Plan C

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/14/fashion/maybe-its-time-for-plan-c.html?pagewanted=all

15 years ago

65 upvotes – 14 comments

Try Forth

http://forthfreak.net/jsforth80x25.html

15 years ago

61 upvotes – 17 comments

MyBART Hacked By Anonymous

http://www.djmash.at/release/users.html

15 years ago

60 upvotes – 32 comments

Lies of B-School

http://www.forbes.com/sites/ericjackson/2011/08/10/the-ten-biggest-lies-of-b-school/

15 years ago

59 upvotes – 25 comments

List of Important Publications in Computer Science

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_important_publications_in_computer_science

15 years ago

58 upvotes – 6 comments

Dark matter may be an illusion caused by the quantum vacuum

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-08-dark-illusion-quantum-vacuum.html

15 years ago

58 upvotes – 22 comments

Who is Using Node.js And Why? Yammer, Bocoup, Proxlet and Yahoo

http://bostinnovation.com/2011/08/14/who-is-using-node-js-and-why-yammer-bocoup-proxlet-and-yahoo/?ref=1

15 years ago

58 upvotes – 26 comments

Can You Trademark a Color?

http://www.freakonomics.com/2011/08/12/can-you-trademark-a-color/

15 years ago

56 upvotes – 31 comments

Game theorists offer a surprising insight into the evolution of fair play

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1134/is_5_111/ai_86684497/?tag=mantle_skin;content

15 years ago

55 upvotes – 24 comments

Jonathan's Card Experiments And Outcomes

http://sam.odio.com/2011/08/13/jonathans-card-experiments-and-outcomes/

15 years ago

53 upvotes – 87 comments
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