top 20 hacker news stories for 2011-08-27

Pentium-III autopsy

http://www.sciencystuff.com/?p=24

15 years ago

316 upvotes – 23 comments

15 uncoupled simple pendulums of increasing lengths dance together

http://sciencedemonstrations.fas.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k16940&pageid=icb.page80863&pageContentId=icb.pagecontent341734&state=maximize&view=view.do&viewParam_name=indepth.html#a_icb_pagecontent341734

15 years ago

258 upvotes – 25 comments

Why you should learn just a little Awk - A Tutorial by Example

http://gregable.com/2010/09/why-you-should-know-just-little-awk.html#

15 years ago

224 upvotes – 76 comments

What is the exact difference between a terminal, a shell, a tty and a console?

http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/4126/what-is-the-exact-difference-between-a-terminal-a-shell-a-tty-and-a-cons/4132#4132

15 years ago

203 upvotes – 29 comments

History made in India: Govt agrees to anti-corruption bill

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Lok-Sabha-passes-Lokpal-resolution/articleshow/9759752.cms

15 years ago

166 upvotes – 66 comments

Rational Home Buying

http://lesswrong.com/lw/7am/rational_home_buying/

15 years ago

164 upvotes – 72 comments

How Apple Works

http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/howappleworks

15 years ago

164 upvotes – 60 comments

Experiments Show Gravity Is Not an Emergent Phenomenon

http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/27102/?ref=rss

15 years ago

163 upvotes – 38 comments

AT&T Now Charging You an Extra $2/Month For Not Using Enough Long Distance

http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/ATT-Now-Charging-You-For-Not-Using-Enough-Long-Distance-115869

15 years ago

143 upvotes – 57 comments

Try D3 Now - D3 Visualization Tutorial

http://christopheviau.com/d3_tutorial/

15 years ago

137 upvotes – 28 comments

Ask HN: A Well Funded Competitor Has Launched Before Me What Should I do?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2931368

15 years ago

132 upvotes – 75 comments

Thank Steve Jobs

http://www.thankyoustevejobsfor.com/

15 years ago

125 upvotes – 67 comments

Sun-java6 packages removed soon from Debian/Ubuntu (and all other linux distros)

http://sylvestre.ledru.info/blog/sylvestre/2011/08/26/sun_java6_packages_removed_from_debian_u

15 years ago

99 upvotes – 57 comments

Introducing The Floating University

http://floatinguniversity.com/

15 years ago

94 upvotes – 42 comments

Eric Schmidt describes Google+ as an "identity service"

https://plus.google.com/117378076401635777570/posts/2y7vqXBtLny

15 years ago

88 upvotes – 80 comments

Why Ubuntu Linux is now ready for primetime

http://www.redferret.net/?p=28724

15 years ago

87 upvotes – 120 comments

Observing demos hurts learning, and confusion is a sign of understanding

http://computinged.wordpress.com/2011/08/17/eric-mazurs-keynote-at-icer-2011-observing-demos-hurts-learning-and-confusion-is-a-sign-of-understanding/

15 years ago

82 upvotes – 5 comments

A History of Haskell

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/simonpj/papers/history-of-haskell/

15 years ago

79 upvotes – 3 comments

Investigating counterfeit MicroSDs

http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=918

15 years ago

77 upvotes – 8 comments

Show HN: My first Windows Phone 7 app: Colorify

http://ahmetalpbalkan.com/blog/my-first-windows-phone-7-app-colorify/

15 years ago

73 upvotes – 10 comments
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