top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-08-18

Show HN: Codecademy.com, the easiest way to learn to code

http://www.codecademy.com

15 years ago

787 upvotes – 232 comments

Spin.js, a pure JS spinner

http://fgnass.github.com/spin.js/

15 years ago

548 upvotes – 66 comments

It’s Official: HP Kills Off webOS Phones and the TouchPad

http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/18/its-official-hp-kills-off-webos-phones-and-the-touchpad/

15 years ago

437 upvotes – 305 comments

The Greatest Customer Service Story Ever Told, Starring Morton’s Steakhouse

http://shankman.com/the-best-customer-service-story-ever-told-starring-mortons-steakhouse/

15 years ago

413 upvotes – 139 comments

"Any time you have worked long hours, it is a sign of a broken process."

http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/101988/should-developers-accept-overtime-weekend-work-denied-bonus-payments/101989#101989

15 years ago

323 upvotes – 162 comments

Updated US immigration rules: H1-B can work for own company

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/on-immigration-a-step-in-the-right-direction/2011/08/03/gIQA2bGgsI_story.html

15 years ago

322 upvotes – 91 comments

Who Does Facebook Think You Are Searching For?

http://thekeesh.com/2011/08/who-does-facebook-think-you-are-searching-for/

15 years ago

269 upvotes – 108 comments

A Stick Figure Guide to the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES)

http://www.moserware.com/2009/09/stick-figure-guide-to-advanced.html?

15 years ago

267 upvotes – 24 comments

PyPy 1.6 Released - Full Python 2.7.1 Implementation

http://morepypy.blogspot.com/2011/08/pypy-16-kickass-panda.html

15 years ago

244 upvotes – 54 comments

Show HN: a free multi-user whiteboard with unlimited, zoomable surface

http://sketchub.com/

15 years ago

215 upvotes – 72 comments

Dead Man's Switch

http://beta.deadmansswitch.net/

15 years ago

185 upvotes – 99 comments

Google Reexam Requests Devastating to Lodsys

http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20110817200754569

15 years ago

181 upvotes – 65 comments

Think Twice Before Installing Any Chrome Extension

http://blog.arpitnext.com/2011/08/chrome-extension-awesome-screenshot.html

15 years ago

168 upvotes – 73 comments

Apple, It’s Time To Block iOS 5 Beta Users From Reviewing Apps

http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/17/apple-ios-5-block-app-store-reviews/

15 years ago

163 upvotes – 45 comments

Oh, Adobe... read the copy, then view the source.

http://muse.adobe.com/index.html

15 years ago

143 upvotes – 146 comments

Company Scans Your Books For a Dollar – Ship ‘Em In, Get a PDF via Email

http://singularityhub.com/2011/08/18/company-scans-your-books-for-a-dollar-ship-em-in-get-a-pdf-via-email/

15 years ago

138 upvotes – 94 comments

Why Rounded Corners are Easier on the Eyes

http://uxmovement.com/thinking/why-rounded-corners-are-easier-on-the-eyes/

15 years ago

133 upvotes – 29 comments

Evernote Acquires Skitch

http://allthingsd.com/20110818/evernote-scoops-up-mac-drawing-app-skitch-makes-it-free/

15 years ago

124 upvotes – 9 comments

How GitHub Works: Creativity is Important

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

15 years ago

124 upvotes – 19 comments

Try the A* pathfinding algorithm with HTML5 canvas

http://www.matthewtrost.org/projects/astar/

15 years ago

114 upvotes – 43 comments

How Google's build system works

http://google-engtools.blogspot.com/2011/08/build-in-cloud-how-build-system-works.html

15 years ago

113 upvotes – 18 comments

Google's Rubin split his Android bonus with team

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2391334,00.asp

15 years ago

104 upvotes – 7 comments

Apprenticeships - Employers Must Get Past Degree Snobbery

http://codemanship.co.uk/parlezuml/blog/?postid=1053

15 years ago

101 upvotes – 85 comments

How Elon Musk Thinks: Reasoning from First Principles.

http://www.oninnovation.com/videos/detail.aspx?video=1251

15 years ago

94 upvotes – 41 comments

Minecraft creator challenges Bethesda to winner-take-all Quake deathmatch

http://boingboing.net/2011/08/18/minecraft-creator-challenges-trademark-belligerents-to-winner-take-all-quake-deathmatch.html

15 years ago

82 upvotes – 17 comments

Chrome extension "Awesome Screenshot" messes with Google search results

http://www.seroundtable.com/google-amazon-treatment-13881.html

15 years ago

81 upvotes – 36 comments

IBM produces first working chips modeled on the human brain

http://venturebeat.com/2011/08/17/ibm-cognitive-computing-chips/

15 years ago

80 upvotes – 24 comments

Should UTF-16 be considered harmful?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1049947/should-utf-16-be-considered-harmful

15 years ago

77 upvotes – 45 comments

Paper: The Akamai Network - 61,000 Servers, 1,000 Networks, 70 Countries

http://highscalability.com/blog/2011/8/18/paper-the-akamai-network-61000-servers-1000-networks-70-coun.html

15 years ago

77 upvotes – 16 comments

Weather in Google Maps

http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2011/08/rain-or-shine-see-weather-in-google.html

15 years ago

75 upvotes – 17 comments

Candle flames contain millions of tiny diamonds

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-08-candle-flames-millions-tiny-diamonds.html

15 years ago

75 upvotes – 12 comments

Android 95.2% market share in South Korea

http://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/jm2ut/android_952_market_share_in_south_korea/

15 years ago

68 upvotes – 34 comments

WordPress, Git-ified

https://github.com/markjaquith/WordPress

15 years ago

★ 227 PHP
64 upvotes – 18 comments

Europe's hottest startup capitals

http://www.wired.co.uk/magazine/archive/2011/09/european-startups

15 years ago

64 upvotes – 78 comments

GNOME-Designer Jon McCann about the future of GNOME3

http://derstandard.at/1313024283546/Interview-GNOME-Designer-Jon-McCann-about-the-future-of-GNOME3

15 years ago

60 upvotes – 7 comments

How I made a Principled decision to quit my Six Figure job | TK's weblog

http://www.tawheedkader.com/2010/09/how-i-made-a-principled-decision-to-quit-my-six-figure-day-job/

15 years ago

58 upvotes – 23 comments

The Internet Tidal Wave (Gates, 1995)

http://www.lettersofnote.com/2011/07/internet-tidal-wave.html

15 years ago

55 upvotes – 10 comments

"Avoid Premature Optimization" Does Not Mean "Write Dumb Code"

http://prog21.dadgum.com/106.html

15 years ago

54 upvotes – 15 comments

The technology inside Apple's $50 Thunderbolt cable

http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2011/06/why-apples-2m-thunderbolt-cable-costs-a-whopping-50.ars

15 years ago

51 upvotes – 23 comments

Show HN: Easily compare legal documents with DocCompare

http://doccompare.com

15 years ago

51 upvotes – 24 comments

Understanding Groupon Means Understanding ACSOI

http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/acsoi

15 years ago

49 upvotes – 35 comments
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