top 20 hacker news stories for 2011-08-19

Twitter Bootstrap

http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/

15 years ago

1047 upvotes – 108 comments

13-Year-Old Makes Solar Power Breakthrough by Harnessing the Fibonacci Sequence

http://inhabitat.com/13-year-old-makes-solar-power-breakthrough-by-harnessing-the-fibonacci-sequence/

15 years ago

649 upvotes – 142 comments

Please confirm your email address

http://bvckup.tumblr.com/post/9101329123/please-confirm-your-email-address

15 years ago

422 upvotes – 79 comments

The Secret of the Fibonacci Sequence in Trees

http://www.amnh.org/nationalcenter/youngnaturalistawards/2011/aidan.html

15 years ago

344 upvotes – 26 comments

The Architecture of Open Source Applications

http://www.aosabook.org/en/index.html

15 years ago

184 upvotes – 13 comments

IE9 deletes stuff

http://techno-weenie.net/2011/8/19/ie9-deletes-stuff/

15 years ago

169 upvotes – 35 comments

90 Percent of People Don't Know How to Use CTRL+F (or CMD + F)

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/08/crazy-90-percent-of-people-dont-know-how-to-use-ctrl-f/243840/

15 years ago

162 upvotes – 140 comments

How To Become A Better Programmer By Not Programming

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2007/01/how-to-become-a-better-programmer-by-not-programming.html

15 years ago

152 upvotes – 117 comments

Apple phasing out developer access to the UDID in iOS 5

http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/19/apple-ios-5-phasing-out-udid/

15 years ago

128 upvotes – 62 comments

Can’t Wait (YC S11) is a mobile social network for movie trailers

http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/19/yc-backed-cant-wait-is-a-mobile-social-network-for-movie-trailers/

15 years ago

121 upvotes – 43 comments

New Visual Proportions for the iOS User Interface

http://aentan.com/design/new-visual-proportions-for-the-ios-user-interface/

15 years ago

117 upvotes – 46 comments

GeekStack Postmortem

http://geekstack.com/blog/geekstack-postmortem/

15 years ago

116 upvotes – 36 comments

The stock market hates HP's new strategy

http://www.google.com/finance?q=nyse+hewlett+packard

15 years ago

105 upvotes – 101 comments

HP To Apple: You Win.

http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/18/apple-wins-without-throwing-a-punch/

15 years ago

103 upvotes – 114 comments

Psychologist James Pennebaker reveals the hidden meaning of pronouns

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=the-secret-language-code&offset=2

15 years ago

103 upvotes – 23 comments

Show HN: CodeMatch: IDE autocomplete on overdrive

http://languageinterfaces.com/

15 years ago

102 upvotes – 63 comments

An Introduction to Asynchronous Programming and Twisted

http://krondo.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/twisted-intro.html

15 years ago

99 upvotes – 6 comments

Why Leo Apotheker will be fired from Hewlett Packard (February 2011)

http://www.cringely.com/2011/02/why-leo-apotheker-will-be-fired-from-hewlett-packard/

15 years ago

88 upvotes – 24 comments

Persistant and unblockable browser cookies using last-modified HTTP header

http://nikcub.appspot.com/persistant-and-unblockable-cookies-using-http-headers

15 years ago

87 upvotes – 32 comments

Tagstand (YC S11) Greases The Wheels Of NFC Development

http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/19/yc-funded-tagstand-greases-the-wheels-of-nfc-development/

15 years ago

86 upvotes – 16 comments
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