top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-08-17

How Browsers Work

http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/internals/howbrowserswork/

15 years ago

633 upvotes – 36 comments

Hey, Bethesda Let’s settle this

http://notch.tumblr.com/post/9038258448/hey-bethesda-lets-settle-this

15 years ago

309 upvotes – 97 comments

How GitHub Works: Be Asynchronous

http://zachholman.com/posts/how-github-works-asynchronous/

15 years ago

299 upvotes – 60 comments

I'm a phony. Are you?

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/ImAPhonyAreYou.aspx

15 years ago

244 upvotes – 62 comments

Federal Circuit case renders many broadly written software patents invalid

http://www.patentlyo.com/patent/2011/08/if-the-software-method-is-not-patentable-then-neither-is-the-computer-readable-medium.html

15 years ago

215 upvotes – 72 comments

How DuckDuckGo got in Time's best websites

http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/2011/08/how-duckduckgo-got-in-times-best-websites.html

15 years ago

203 upvotes – 48 comments

The 50 Best Websites of 2011

http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/0,28757,2087815,00.html

15 years ago

202 upvotes – 99 comments

Groupon has no viable business model

http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2011/08/groupon_doomed_by_too_much_of.html#.TktWMsm2TwY.facebook

15 years ago

191 upvotes – 122 comments

Wolfenstein 1D

http://wonder-tonic.com/wolf1d/

15 years ago

174 upvotes – 80 comments

Researchers identify first flaws in AES

http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=11474

15 years ago

155 upvotes – 35 comments

Markets are Efficient if and Only if P = NP

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1773169

15 years ago

154 upvotes – 83 comments

HTC sues Apple over everything

http://gigaom.com/apple/htc-sues-apple-over-everything/

15 years ago

138 upvotes – 70 comments

No Server Required - Jekyll & Amazon S3

http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2011/08/Jekyll-amazon-s3.html

15 years ago

137 upvotes – 35 comments

My ideas are shitty so I'm going on an Internet diet

http://swizec.com/blog/my-ideas-are-shitty-so-im-going-on-an-internet-diet/swizec/2239

15 years ago

134 upvotes – 84 comments

In response to This*: Stop letting engineers get away with social ineptitude

http://www.charleshooper.net/blog/stop-letting-tech-people-be-socially-inept/

15 years ago

132 upvotes – 111 comments

Minecraft released for android.

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.mojang.minecraftpe

15 years ago

127 upvotes – 86 comments

Renting vs Buying, Foreclosures and Job Growth across 50 US Cities

http://insights.truliablog.com/vis/rent-vs-buy-q3/

15 years ago

122 upvotes – 95 comments

Open-sourcing A 200+ Hour Project - The Story Behind It

http://fredwu.me/post/9036730472?e5d340e0

15 years ago

122 upvotes – 12 comments

Moving On...

http://www.thiswebhost.com/blog/2011/08/16/moving-on/

15 years ago

118 upvotes – 114 comments

Why (special agent) Johnny (still) Can't Encrypt

http://www.crypto.com/blog/p25/

15 years ago

115 upvotes – 24 comments

Exercises for a programmer sitting by the PC all day

http://fitness.stackexchange.com/questions/6/exercises-for-a-programmer-sitting-by-the-pc-all-day

15 years ago

113 upvotes – 42 comments

Lanyrd now has 2,500 videos and 3,000 slide decks from events around the world

http://lanyrd.com/blog/2011/thumbnails/

15 years ago

103 upvotes – 8 comments

Paul Meier - Statistican who saved millions of lives

http://www.significancemagazine.org/details/webexclusive/1315465/Paul-Meier---Statistican-who-saved-millions-of-lives.html

15 years ago

100 upvotes – 8 comments

Show HN: Our photo print & ship library for iOS

http://dev.sincerely.com/

15 years ago

96 upvotes – 19 comments

(Android) Developer Income Report #12, #13

http://www.kreci.net/reports/developer-income-reports-12-13/

15 years ago

88 upvotes – 18 comments

Enthusiasm Goes A Long Way Over Email

http://www.gettingmoreawesome.com/2011/08/16/enthusiasm/

15 years ago

78 upvotes – 25 comments

Unemployment Beats Having A Lousy Job

http://www.fyiliving.com/mental-health/depression/jobless-better-than-hatting-your-job/

15 years ago

76 upvotes – 47 comments

The Surprising Worst Browser

http://saucelabs.com/blog/index.php/2011/08/the-surprising-worst-browser/

15 years ago

72 upvotes – 30 comments

Fanbois treat criticism of favorite brands as threat to self-image

http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2011/08/users-treat-criticism-of-favorite-brands-as-threat-to-self-image.ars

15 years ago

70 upvotes – 48 comments

Concurrency in Ruby almost as good as Node.js

http://openhood.com/ruby/node/heroku/sinatra/mongo_mapper/unicorn/express/mongoose/cluster/2011/06/14/benchmark-ruby-versus-node-js/

15 years ago

64 upvotes – 31 comments

Web Development Recipes Now in Beta

http://pragprog.com/book/wbdev/web-development-recipes

15 years ago

57 upvotes – 10 comments

Report: Best Buy tells HP to take back its TouchPads

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2011/08/best-buy-wants-to-give-up-on-hp-touchpad-has-sold-fewer-than-25000-units.ars?comments=1#comments-bar

15 years ago

57 upvotes – 67 comments

China Applauds UK Move To Restrict Access To Social Media

http://www.rfaunplugged.org/2011/08/16/china-applauds-uk-move-to-restrict-access-to-social-media/

15 years ago

52 upvotes – 15 comments

U.K. men get 4-year sentences for Facebook riot posts

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-20093556-93/u.k-men-get-4-year-sentences-for-facebook-riot-posts/

15 years ago

51 upvotes – 66 comments

Major outage hits Microsoft Office 365

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/outage-hits-microsoft-crm-online-office-365-customers/10359

15 years ago

50 upvotes – 38 comments

Are DOM tree elements global variables?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3434278/ie-chrome-are-dom-tree-elements-global-variables-here/3434388

15 years ago

48 upvotes – 7 comments

Standard & Poor's gives Google the U.S. debt treatment

http://www.itworld.com/mobile-wireless/194405/standard-poors-gives-google-us-debt-treatment

15 years ago

47 upvotes – 44 comments

Amazon Set to Publish Tim Ferriss

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/17/technology/amazon-set-to-publish-tim-ferriss.html?_r=1

15 years ago

47 upvotes – 22 comments

Why Philosophers Should Care About Computational Complexity

http://eccc.hpi-web.de/report/2011/108/

15 years ago

45 upvotes – 10 comments
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