top 20 hacker news stories for 2011-08-23

Deck.js: A JavaScript library for building modern HTML presentations.

http://imakewebthings.github.com/deck.js/

15 years ago

391 upvotes – 60 comments

Codecademy Surges To 200,000 Users, 2.1 Million Lessons Completed In 72 Hours

http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/22/codecademy-surges-to-200000-users-2-1-million-lessons-completed-in-72-hours/

15 years ago

358 upvotes – 75 comments

A letter from _why

http://aberant.tumblr.com/post/167375099/a-letter-from-why

15 years ago

318 upvotes – 96 comments

Samsung cites Kubrick's "2001" as Prior Art in Patent Case Against Apple

http://www.macrumors.com/2011/08/23/samsung-cites-kubricks-2001-film-as-prior-art-defense-against-apples-injunction-request/

15 years ago

283 upvotes – 110 comments

Google Fiber: 151Mbps down / 92Mbps up

http://www.geek.com/articles/geek-cetera/google-fiber-shows-its-potential-with-151mbps-download-speeds-20110823/

15 years ago

235 upvotes – 150 comments

Introducing WebAPI

http://hacks.mozilla.org/2011/08/introducing-webapi/

15 years ago

218 upvotes – 41 comments

How Karma Should Be Measured

http://www.nashcoding.com/2011/08/23/how-karma-should-be-measured/

15 years ago

211 upvotes – 67 comments

37signals: A/B testing part 3: Finalé

http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2991-behind-the-scenes-ab-testing-part-3-final

15 years ago

181 upvotes – 58 comments

China airs documentary proving military university is hacking U.S. targets

http://www.geek.com/articles/news/china-airs-documentary-proving-military-university-is-hacking-u-s-targets-20110822/

15 years ago

176 upvotes – 91 comments

Today I launched my solo project, Listry. Feedback/suggestions appreciated

http://www.listry.com/

15 years ago

174 upvotes – 80 comments

How to get $12 billion of gold to Venezuela

http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2011/08/23/how-to-get-12-billion-of-gold-to-venezuela/

15 years ago

171 upvotes – 123 comments

Announcing Amazon ElastiCache - Managed Memcached

http://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2011/08/22/announcing-amazon-elasticache/

15 years ago

163 upvotes – 35 comments

Y Combinator Unloads Massive New Batch of Start-Ups

http://allthingsd.com/20110823/y-combinator-unloads-massive-new-batch-of-start-ups/

15 years ago

155 upvotes – 56 comments

Why Are Finland's Schools Successful?

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/people-places/Why-Are-Finlands-Schools-Successful.html

15 years ago

148 upvotes – 85 comments

PyPy - We need Software Transactional Memory

http://morepypy.blogspot.com/2011/08/we-need-software-transactional-memory.html

15 years ago

135 upvotes – 63 comments

Facebook announces new privacy and tagging model

https://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=10150251867797131

15 years ago

133 upvotes – 33 comments

Slovenia gets transparent by revealing all government spending via Supervizor

http://www.funkykaraoke.com/2011/08/transparency.html

15 years ago

130 upvotes – 18 comments

Fallen out of love with LinkedIn?

http://www.swiss-miss.com/2011/08/zerply.html

15 years ago

129 upvotes – 80 comments

Rob Pike on regular expressions in lexing and parsing

http://commandcenter.blogspot.com/2011/08/regular-expressions-in-lexing-and.html

15 years ago

128 upvotes – 39 comments

SeatGeek Blog: What An Earthquake Does To Page Load Time

http://seatgeek.com/blog/dev/what-an-earthquake-does-to-page-response-times

15 years ago

123 upvotes – 29 comments
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