top 50% 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

The Incredible Things NASA Did to Train Apollo Astronauts

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/07/moon-landing-gallery?pid=1688&viewall=true

15 years ago

113 upvotes – 17 comments

The Semantic Grid System: Page Layout For Tomorrow

http://coding.smashingmagazine.com/2011/08/23/the-semantic-grid-system-page-layout-for-tomorrow/

15 years ago

109 upvotes – 24 comments

Fukushima Robot Operator Writes Tell-All Blog

http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/industrial-robots/fukushima-robot-operator-diaries

15 years ago

109 upvotes – 9 comments

What You Don't Get About the Job Search: Voices of the Jobless

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2011/08/what-you-dont-get-about-the-job-search-voices-of-the-jobless/243942/

15 years ago

108 upvotes – 184 comments

Amazon, Dropbox, Google and You Win in Cloud-Music Copyright Decision

http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2011/08/cloudmusic-is-not-a-crime/

15 years ago

105 upvotes – 32 comments

The Due Diligence Survival Guide

http://www.jacquesmattheij.com/Due+Diligence+survival+guide

15 years ago

92 upvotes – 8 comments

TimeHub. Create invoices from Github commits

http://timehub.net

15 years ago

87 upvotes – 14 comments

Google closes Android developer complaint forums

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/08/23/google_forums/

15 years ago

86 upvotes – 35 comments

Dear HP: Please Keep Making Those TouchPads

http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/23/dear-hp-please-keep-making-those-touchpads/

15 years ago

79 upvotes – 38 comments

Facebook Just Bowed Out of the Check In War With Foursquare

http://www.betabeat.com/2011/08/23/facebook-just-bowed-out-of-the-check-in-war-with-foursquare/

15 years ago

76 upvotes – 44 comments

Arq 2 (OS X backup-to-S3 software) has been released.

http://www.haystacksoftware.com/blog/2011/08/arq-2-is-out/

15 years ago

75 upvotes – 29 comments

Phil Zimmermann: Beware of Snake Oil Crypto (1997)

http://www.philzimmermann.com/EN/essays/SnakeOil.html?

15 years ago

70 upvotes – 42 comments

$99 TouchPad a hit, as Ubuntu and Android ports emerge

http://www.linuxfordevices.com/c/a/News/Touchpad-discounted-gains-ports/?kc=rss

15 years ago

70 upvotes – 55 comments

How to Never Miss Writing a Blog Post

http://nathanbarry.com/how-to-never-miss-a-blog-post/

15 years ago

66 upvotes – 19 comments

Web app listing ALL transactions between gov and private sector in Slovenia

http://supervizor.kpk-rs.si/

15 years ago

64 upvotes – 15 comments

Greplin (W2010) Releases Must Have iPhone App

http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/23/greplin-releases-must-have-iphone-app-to-organize-your-life-and-avoid-rabid-googlers/

15 years ago

62 upvotes – 27 comments

Reddit buys the site that's been running their semiannual Secret Santa exchange

http://blog.reddit.com/2011/08/reddit-acquires-redditgiftscom-to.html

15 years ago

61 upvotes – 6 comments

The last woman - How long do countries have until their populations disappear?

http://www.economist.com/blogs/dailychart/2011/08/populations

15 years ago

60 upvotes – 56 comments

Oracle's 'APIs are copyrightable' defense = nightmare for programmers

http://www.itworld.com/mobile-wireless/196381/impact-oracles-defense-api-copyrights

15 years ago

59 upvotes – 22 comments

How I use Emacs and Org-mode to implement GTD

http://members.optusnet.com.au/~charles57/GTD/gtd_workflow.html

15 years ago

57 upvotes – 13 comments

The patent to invalidate software patents

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110822/13094215621/what-idiot-wrote-patent-that-might-invalidate-software-patents-oh-wait-that-was-me.shtml

15 years ago

56 upvotes – 15 comments

Profit Profit Profit

http://daringfireball.net/linked/2011/08/23/arrington

15 years ago

53 upvotes – 63 comments

Amazon ElastiCache Details - Managed Memcache

http://aws.amazon.com/elasticache/

15 years ago

53 upvotes – 13 comments

An unusual hardware architecture: APA (Associative Processing Array)

http://www.yosefk.com/blog/an-unusual-hardware-architecture-apa-associative-processing-array.html

15 years ago

53 upvotes – 4 comments

Building a startup overseas. An acquisition and 100's of employees later.

http://blog.tripfab.com/2011/08/23/starting-a-startup-oversees-100s-of-employees-and-millions-later-what-i-can-tell-you/

15 years ago

52 upvotes – 33 comments

Show HN: Chorus - It tells you what your customers think and feel

http://www.getchorus.com/video/

15 years ago

48 upvotes – 20 comments

Disk space is cheap… That's not the point

http://www.sqlskills.com/BLOGS/KIMBERLY/post/Disk-space-is-cheap.aspx

15 years ago

46 upvotes – 29 comments
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