top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-08-26

Walking on a cube-shaped planet

http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/3011/what-would-it-be-like-walking-around-on-a-cube-shaped-planet

15 years ago

450 upvotes – 78 comments

Want to Write a Compiler? Just Read These Two Papers.

http://prog21.dadgum.com/30.html

15 years ago

399 upvotes – 77 comments

iPhone vs Android app sales: numbers from an indie developer

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2929612

15 years ago

292 upvotes – 91 comments

New gaming laptop with innovative UI by Razer

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2011/08/razer-to-release-stylish-2800-gaming-laptop-complete-with-dynamic-buttons.ars

15 years ago

292 upvotes – 180 comments

How we found the file that was used to Hack RSA

http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/00002226.html

15 years ago

277 upvotes – 78 comments

What does $1265 of bugs look like?

http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2011-08-26-1265-dollars-of-tarsnap-bugs.html

15 years ago

211 upvotes – 31 comments

Online course: Build your own simulated computer, assembler, lang, OS, & game

http://diycomputerscience.com/courses/course/the-elements-of-computing-systems

15 years ago

190 upvotes – 29 comments

Max Levchin to Leave Google As Slide Is Shut Down

http://allthingsd.com/20110825/max-levchin-to-leave-google-as-slide-is-shut-down/?mod=tweet

15 years ago

148 upvotes – 26 comments

Why Clojure doesn't need invokedynamic

http://groups.google.com/group/clojure/msg/dd82cc60855b1ca3?pli=1

15 years ago

148 upvotes – 53 comments

Despite Y Combinator Growth, Paul Graham Still Coding

http://www.forbes.com/sites/tomiogeron/2011/08/25/despite-y-combinator-growth-paul-graham-still-coding/

15 years ago

147 upvotes – 51 comments

Flash: 99% Bad

http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20001029.html

15 years ago

137 upvotes – 103 comments

The economics of good looks

http://www.economist.com/node/21526782

15 years ago

137 upvotes – 75 comments

Introducing Stasis: A new way to build static sites with Ruby

http://stasis.me

15 years ago

133 upvotes – 32 comments

Reddit Traffic has Exploded in 12 Months

http://soshable.com/reddit-traffic-has-exploded-in-12-months/

15 years ago

132 upvotes – 101 comments

Backbone.js Screencast - Introduction and Views

http://joeybeninghove.com/2011/08/16/backbone-screencast-introduction-views

15 years ago

131 upvotes – 20 comments

TinyVM 1.0 released; adds 16 lines of code, registers, a VM stack and more

https://github.com/GenTiradentes/tinyvm/tree/v1.0

15 years ago

★ 3.3k C MIT
121 upvotes – 22 comments

Pics of old SF on a map

http://www.oldsf.org/

15 years ago

116 upvotes – 8 comments

Apple Awards Tim Cook 1,000,000 Shares of Stock as CEO Bonus to Stay Until 2021

http://www.macrumors.com/2011/08/26/apple-awards-tim-cook-1000000-shares-of-stock-as-ceo-bonus/

15 years ago

107 upvotes – 107 comments

Jig, the first product from Tasty Labs

https://www.jig.com/

15 years ago

105 upvotes – 95 comments

How To Get Covered In a Major Tech Blog

http://dshipper.posterous.com/how-to-get-covered-in-a-major-tech-blog

15 years ago

103 upvotes – 30 comments

Steve at NeXT

http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2011/08/25/Steve-at-NeXT

15 years ago

103 upvotes – 16 comments

MIT Unravels the Secrets Behind Collective Intelligence

http://singularityhub.com/2011/08/26/mit-unravels-the-secrets-behind-collective-intelligence-hint-iq-not-so-important/

15 years ago

95 upvotes – 23 comments

Books Every Entrepreneur Should Read

http://davidcancel.com/10-books-every-entrepreneur-should-read/

15 years ago

95 upvotes – 21 comments

Dorm Room Design and Construction

http://web.mit.edu/zacka/www/room.html

15 years ago

90 upvotes – 32 comments

If you wouldn't pay for my app, your pricing advice is worthless

http://tbbuck.com/if-youre-not-giving-me-money-your-pricing-advice-is-worthless/

15 years ago

89 upvotes – 43 comments

One More Thing…

http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/26/one-more-thing/

15 years ago

82 upvotes – 14 comments

Eric Schmidt criticises education in the UK

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14683133

15 years ago

77 upvotes – 29 comments

An XMPP server with Node.js

http://blog.superfeedr.com/node-xmpp-server/

15 years ago

77 upvotes – 20 comments

Beyond Heatmaps: Visualizing Eye Tracking Data

http://www.gazehawk.com/blog/beyond-heatmaps-visualizing-eye-tracking-data/

15 years ago

68 upvotes – 4 comments

How many ways can you slice a URL and name the pieces?

http://tantek.com/2011/238/b1/many-ways-slice-url-name-pieces

15 years ago

66 upvotes – 12 comments

Learning Erlang

http://20bits.com/articles/learning-erlang/

15 years ago

65 upvotes – 11 comments

Astronomers discover planet made of diamond

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/astronomers-discover-planet-made-diamond-014913051.html

15 years ago

65 upvotes – 12 comments

Group Theory in the Bedroom

http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/id.3465,y.0,no.,content.true,page.1,css.print/issue.aspx

15 years ago

65 upvotes – 10 comments

Parse (YC S11): A look at life inside Y Combinator from a two-time alumnus

http://venturebeat.com/2011/08/25/y-combinator-parse/

15 years ago

59 upvotes – 0 comments

"Eyeborg" Replaces Eye With Functioning Wireless Video Camera

http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/26/video-eyeborg-replaces-eye-with-functioning-wireless-video-camera/

15 years ago

54 upvotes – 14 comments

Ruby on Android: Ruboto

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/web/library/wa-ruby/?ca=drs-

15 years ago

52 upvotes – 7 comments

Comex, the Hacker Behind JailbreakMe.com, Hired as Apple Intern

http://www.macrumors.com/2011/08/25/comex-the-hacker-behind-jailbreakme-com-hired-as-apple-intern/

15 years ago

49 upvotes – 21 comments

Ghostbuster: Easier headless testing with PhantomJS (and CoffeeScript)

http://thechangelog.com/post/9412707640/ghostbuster-headless-testing-with-phantomjs-and-coffeesc

15 years ago

48 upvotes – 7 comments

The 3n+1 conjecture: Terry Tao has some thoughts ...

http://terrytao.wordpress.com/2011/08/25/the-collatz-conjecture-littlewood-offord-theory-and-powers-of-2-and-3/

15 years ago

46 upvotes – 8 comments
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