top 50% 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

Aisle50 (YC S11) is Group Buying for Groceries.

http://mashable.com/2011/08/18/aisle50/

15 years ago

85 upvotes – 15 comments

Microsoft offers webOS developers free Windows Phones and dev tools

http://www.winrumors.com/microsoft-offers-webos-developers-free-windows-phones-and-dev-tools/

15 years ago

82 upvotes – 81 comments

How To Use UTF-8 Throughout Your Web Stack

http://rentzsch.tumblr.com/post/9133498042/howto-use-utf-8-throughout-your-web-stack

15 years ago

79 upvotes – 42 comments

A test which predicts ability to program before the start of training

http://www.eis.mdx.ac.uk/research/PhDArea/saeed/

15 years ago

77 upvotes – 36 comments

Germany vs. Facebook: Like Button Declared Illegal, Sites Threatened With Fine

http://siliconfilter.com/germany-vs-facebook-like-button-declared-illegal-sites-threatened-with-fine/

15 years ago

74 upvotes – 75 comments

"..best direction for evolving Java is to encourage a more functional style"

http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/lambda-dev/2011-August/003877.html

15 years ago

73 upvotes – 42 comments

The Fall of Groupon: Is the Daily-Deals Site Running Out of Cash?

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/08/the-fall-of-groupon-is-the-daily-deals-site-running-out-of-cash/243863/

15 years ago

67 upvotes – 75 comments

Ask HN: Who's Hiring? (Intern Edition)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2904074

15 years ago

65 upvotes – 39 comments

100,000+ Sign Up For Stanford’s Open Class on Artificial Intelligence.

http://singularityhub.com/2011/08/18/100000-sign-up-for-stanfords-open-class-on-artificial-intelligence-classes-with-1-million-next/

15 years ago

64 upvotes – 26 comments

The Dollar-Store Economy: How the lowest end of American retail does business

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/21/magazine/the-dollar-store-economy.html?&pagewanted=all

15 years ago

62 upvotes – 35 comments

The Terrible Cost Of Patents

http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/19/terrible-cost-patents/

15 years ago

59 upvotes – 6 comments

This Man Can Teach You To Make Your Own Stunning Infographics

http://www.slate.com/id/2301425/

15 years ago

57 upvotes – 13 comments

HP to buy Autonomy for $11 billion

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/964fb710-c9d3-11e0-b88b-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1VSChuyXi

15 years ago

54 upvotes – 42 comments

DeployMint: A Git based Staging and Deployment System for WordPress

http://markmaunder.com/2011/08/19/deploymint-a-staging-and-deployment-system-for-wordpress/

15 years ago

54 upvotes – 3 comments

Modified ecstasy 'attacks blood cancers'

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-14572284

15 years ago

54 upvotes – 17 comments
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