top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-08-22

Your problem with Vim is that you don't grok vi

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1218390/what-is-your-most-productive-shortcut-with-vim/1220118#1220118

15 years ago

417 upvotes – 182 comments

Your Code is My Hell

http://avdi.org/devblog/2011/08/22/your-code-is-my-hell/

15 years ago

287 upvotes – 79 comments

Why every programmer should have a Tiddlywiki

http://eriwen.com/tools/wikify-yourself/

15 years ago

243 upvotes – 136 comments

Ask HN: What is your preferred Python stack for high traffic webservices?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2910953

15 years ago

233 upvotes – 67 comments

Goodbye, shitty "Car extends Vehicle" object-orientation tutorial

http://lists.canonical.org/pipermail/kragen-tol/2011-August/000937.html

15 years ago

232 upvotes – 128 comments

Best algorithms book I ever read

http://eriwen.com/books/best-algorithms-book/

15 years ago

208 upvotes – 42 comments

This is CoffeeScript

http://robots.thoughtbot.com/post/9251081564/coffeescript-spartan-javascript

15 years ago

184 upvotes – 89 comments

Notch's 48-hour game: Prelude of the Chambered

http://s3.amazonaws.com/ld48/index.html

15 years ago

180 upvotes – 45 comments

Vidyard (YC S11) Is A YouTube For Businesses

http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/22/yc-backed-vidyard-is-a-youtube-for-businesses/

15 years ago

158 upvotes – 75 comments

How to Improve the quality of your software: find an old computer

http://jacquesmattheij.com/How+to+Improve+the+quality+of+your+software-find+an+old+computer

15 years ago

151 upvotes – 87 comments

Making Wrong Code Look Wrong

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Wrong.html

15 years ago

125 upvotes – 86 comments

Recurly.js library released for secure, customizable checkout forms

http://js.recurly.com

15 years ago

124 upvotes – 36 comments

Continuous Integration Failure? Use USB Missiles

http://www.papercut.com/blog/chris/2011/08/19/who-broke-the-build/

15 years ago

118 upvotes – 30 comments

Do not upgrade to PHP 5.3.7 due to a bug in crypt()

http://www.php.net/archive/2011.php#id2011-08-22-1

15 years ago

108 upvotes – 34 comments

Why Google+ Gets a “+1″ for Browser Security

http://www.barracudalabs.com/wordpress/index.php/2011/07/21/google-gets-a-1-for-browser-security-3/

15 years ago

107 upvotes – 26 comments

The curious case of DuckDuckGo

http://hacksandthoughts.posterous.com/the-curious-case-of-duckduckgo

15 years ago

103 upvotes – 98 comments

Fox’s 8-Day Delay on Hulu Triggers Piracy Surge

http://torrentfreak.com/foxs-8-day-delay-on-hulu-triggers-piracy-surge-110822/

15 years ago

98 upvotes – 104 comments

Thoughts on Picplum Automatic Photo Prints

http://paulstamatiou.com/picplum-automatic-photo-prints-parents

15 years ago

93 upvotes – 43 comments

1 year on, Hipmunk (YC S10) hits 1 million flight + hotel searches a month

http://www.xconomy.com/san-francisco/2011/08/22/hipmunk-on-the-make-the-first-birthday-interview/

15 years ago

91 upvotes – 54 comments

Cause of ALS is found, Northwestern team says

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/ct-met-northwestern-als-breakthrough-20110822,0,6531848.story

15 years ago

86 upvotes – 23 comments

Web Surfing Helps at Work, Study Says

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111904070604576518261775512294.html?mod=WSJ_Tech_LEFTTopNews

15 years ago

86 upvotes – 14 comments

How To Ask Questions The Smart Way

http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

15 years ago

79 upvotes – 29 comments

Parse Releases Their REST API

https://www.parse.com/docs/rest

15 years ago

76 upvotes – 32 comments

Don't Fear the Internet: Basic HTML & CSS for non-Web Designers

http://www.dontfeartheinternet.com/

15 years ago

71 upvotes – 20 comments

Crockford on JavaScript

http://yuiblog.com/crockford/

15 years ago

70 upvotes – 17 comments

Proxino (YC S11): Automated Error Reporting For Your Client-Side JavaScript

http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/22/yc-funded-proxino-automated-error-reporting-for-your-client-side-javascript/

15 years ago

69 upvotes – 21 comments

Hiring – Easy as Pie

http://steveblank.com/2011/08/22/hiring-easy-as-pie/

15 years ago

68 upvotes – 24 comments

Is Randal L Schwartz notable enough for Wikipedia?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randal_L._Schwartz

15 years ago

65 upvotes – 68 comments

Touchdroid - Android for the HP Touchpad

http://rootzwiki.com/showthread.php?t=3327

15 years ago

60 upvotes – 20 comments

Resolution of the human eye

http://clarkvision.com/imagedetail/eye-resolution.html

15 years ago

58 upvotes – 28 comments

Strategy: Run A Scalable, Available, And Cheap Static Site On S3 Or GitHub

http://highscalability.com/blog/2011/8/22/strategy-run-a-scalable-available-and-cheap-static-site-on-s.html

15 years ago

56 upvotes – 19 comments

Graph Theory: Part III (Facebook)

http://20bits.com/articles/graph-theory-part-iii-facebook/

15 years ago

56 upvotes – 10 comments

Why Credit Card Companies Are Scared Of Change

http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/22/a-woman-a-cupcake-a-bank-and-a-square-why-credit-card-companies-are-scared-of-change/

15 years ago

55 upvotes – 15 comments

New Approaches To Designing Log-In Forms

http://uxdesign.smashingmagazine.com/2011/08/22/new-approaches-to-designing-login-forms/

15 years ago

54 upvotes – 27 comments

Chrome Extension that adds anonymous live chat to every site you're browsing.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/affmlbhoebcjponkmlmoeinojjcggbnk

15 years ago

51 upvotes – 32 comments

An Android port for the Touchpad has just started development

http://www.touch-droid.com/

15 years ago

51 upvotes – 24 comments

Why average retention rates can lead to 50% error in CLV

http://blog.custora.com/2011/08/why-average-retention-rates-can-lead-to-50-error-in-clv/

15 years ago

49 upvotes – 31 comments

Windows 8: Building robust USB 3.0 support

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2011/08/22/building-robust-usb-3-0-support.aspx

15 years ago

46 upvotes – 22 comments

What Every Data Programmer Needs to Know About Disks

http://www.oscon.com/oscon2011/public/schedule/detail/20137

15 years ago

46 upvotes – 10 comments

Testing IE6, 7, 8 and 9 on Mac OS X

http://www.xairon.net/2011/06/testing-ie6-7-8-and-9-on-mac-os-x/

15 years ago

44 upvotes – 19 comments

Trying to understand incubator math

http://startupnorth.ca/2011/08/21/trying-to-understand-incubator-math

15 years ago

41 upvotes – 13 comments

Khan Academy Put to the Test

http://jackcwest.wordpress.com/2011/07/08/blended-learning-with-khan-put-to-the-test-edtech-khanacademy-k12-edsurge/

15 years ago

39 upvotes – 8 comments

Validating an Idea and a Market on the Cheap

http://blog.startedby.com/post/9173280672/validating-an-idea-and-a-market-on-the-cheap

15 years ago

39 upvotes – 9 comments

SimpleGeo Cofounder Matt Galligan Steps Down

http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/22/matt-galligan-simplegeo-exit/

15 years ago

39 upvotes – 0 comments

What's the benefit of not using Hungarian notation?

http://programmers.stackexchange.com/q/102689/27757

15 years ago

38 upvotes – 36 comments

Your startup probably isn't a platform

http://finance.fortune.cnn.com/2011/08/22/your-startup-probably-isnt-a-platform/

15 years ago

38 upvotes – 29 comments

Casual Contracting - our contract work website

http://casualcontracting.com/

15 years ago

35 upvotes – 58 comments
show: top 10top 20top 50%
go to date: prev next
sort by: datescorecomments