top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-09-05

Linux is now hosted on GitHub

https://github.com/torvalds/linux

15 years ago

★ 230.8k C
568 upvotes – 93 comments

One base class to rule them all.

https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/blog/2011/one-base-class-to-rule-them-all

15 years ago

325 upvotes – 40 comments

We open-sourced 90 node.js modules at Browserling

http://www.catonmat.net/blog/browserling-open-sources-90-node-modules/

15 years ago

277 upvotes – 32 comments

Game theory article from a professional Starcraft player/caster.

http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=64514

15 years ago

269 upvotes – 82 comments

Giving away my Rails 3.0 book. Code examples also available on Github.

https://github.com/bryanbibat/rails-3_0-tutorial

15 years ago

★ 308
210 upvotes – 34 comments

Vim is hard, I just want to click around

http://jeffkreeftmeijer.com/2011/vim-is-hard-i-just-want-to-click-around/

15 years ago

178 upvotes – 91 comments

I bought a webOS device and went to Taiwan. This is what I learned.

http://paulrouget.com/e/mobilewebapps/

15 years ago

173 upvotes – 57 comments

Google Gravity

http://mrdoob.com/projects/chromeexperiments/google_gravity

15 years ago

158 upvotes – 17 comments

Viewers vs. Doers: The Rise of Spectatoritis

http://artofmanliness.com/2011/08/28/viewers-vs-doers-the-rise-of-spectatoritis/

15 years ago

148 upvotes – 54 comments

Nicholas Taleb: The Great Bank Robbery

http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/taleb1/English

15 years ago

147 upvotes – 77 comments

Hackme: Deconstructing an ELF File

http://manoharvanga.com/hackme/

15 years ago

147 upvotes – 19 comments

Queen's "Don't Stop Me Now" on Google Japan

http://www.google.co.jp/

15 years ago

139 upvotes – 46 comments

Dr. Brian May on Freddie Mercury's creativity

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/09/happy-birthday-freddie-mercury.html

15 years ago

138 upvotes – 15 comments

Just another awesome CSS3 buttons

http://www.red-team-design.com/just-another-awesome-css3-buttons

15 years ago

131 upvotes – 35 comments

People are biased against creative ideas, studies find

http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Aug11/ILRCreativityBias.html

15 years ago

123 upvotes – 37 comments

How to make $250 a day (and get banned from the Android Market)

http://makingmoneywithandroid.com/2011/09/how-to-make-250-a-day-and-get-banned-from-the-android-market/

15 years ago

122 upvotes – 55 comments

Small data structures (online book)

http://www.cix.co.uk/~smallmemory/book.html

15 years ago

112 upvotes – 8 comments

Where’s my reply, OkCupid? (Prelude to a lawsuit)

http://www.avitable.com/2011/09/05/wheres-my-reply-okcupid-prelude-to-a-lawsuit/

15 years ago

108 upvotes – 46 comments

X86 Oddities

http://code.google.com/p/corkami/wiki/x86oddities

15 years ago

97 upvotes – 39 comments

Show HN: Realtime Keyboard Heatmap with heatmap.js

http://patrick-wied.at/projects/heatmap-keyboard?auto=0

15 years ago

96 upvotes – 17 comments

Paladin, a new JS 3D game engine by Mozilla

https://github.com/alankligman/paladin

15 years ago

95 upvotes – 25 comments

A look back and forward at Opera

http://my.opera.com/dstorey/blog/a-look-back-and-forward-at-opera

15 years ago

91 upvotes – 30 comments

America is losing another generation to science illiteracy

http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2011/08/23/america-is-losing-another-generation-to-science-illiteracy/

15 years ago

90 upvotes – 98 comments

Lessons learned from bountying bugs

http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2011-09-05-lessons-learned-from-bountying-bugs.html

15 years ago

84 upvotes – 10 comments

Survival Of The Stupidest

http://www.science20.com/hammock_physicist/survival_stupidest-77846

15 years ago

79 upvotes – 26 comments

Two Mexicans face 30 Years in Jail for a Tweet

http://www.ndtv.com/article/world/two-mexicans-face-30-years-for-tweet-131312

15 years ago

73 upvotes – 34 comments

The Y combinator in Javascript

http://matt.might.net/articles/implementation-of-recursive-fixed-point-y-combinator-in-javascript-for-memoization

15 years ago

70 upvotes – 20 comments

Why I'm (Finally) Switching to CoffeeScript

http://codelikebozo.com/why-im-switching-to-coffeescript

15 years ago

66 upvotes – 44 comments

Learning a new language with Audacity

http://www.pagef30.com/2011/03/most-effective-method-for-learning.html

15 years ago

65 upvotes – 9 comments

The Land of Lisp music video

http://emacsworld.blogspot.com/2011/09/land-of-lisp-music-video.html

15 years ago

65 upvotes – 8 comments

The Dutch government has taken over operational management from DigiNotar.

http://www.govcert.nl/english/service-provision/knowledge-and-publications/factsheets/factsheet-fraudulently-issued-security-certificate-discovered.html

15 years ago

61 upvotes – 18 comments

Netflix launches in Brazil, rest of Latin America to follow shortly.

http://techcrunch.com/2011/09/05/netflix-starts-rolling-out-movie-and-tv-show-streaming-service-to-mexico-latin-america-and-the-caribbean/

15 years ago

53 upvotes – 24 comments

The Immutable Laws of Computer Security

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc722487.aspx

15 years ago

52 upvotes – 37 comments

Getting started with programming

http://code.google.com/edu/

15 years ago

51 upvotes – 3 comments

Cosmos - OS Written in C#

http://www.gocosmos.org/index.EN.aspx

15 years ago

50 upvotes – 20 comments

Programming Can Be Fun Again

http://blog.polyglotprogramming.com/2011/9/5/programming-can-be-fun-again

15 years ago

50 upvotes – 16 comments

Knockout.js vs Backbone.js

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5112899/knockout-js-vs-backbone-js-vs

15 years ago

48 upvotes – 18 comments

Marc Benioff interviews Eric Schmidt

http://youtu.be/JDl5hb0XbfY

15 years ago

47 upvotes – 12 comments

Textmate To Vim: 100 Textmate keyboard shortcuts translated to VIM

http://www.jackkinsella.ie/2011/09/05/textmate-to-vim.html

15 years ago

47 upvotes – 15 comments
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