top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-09-14

Watch other people code

http://www.castingcode.tv/

15 years ago

318 upvotes – 84 comments

Metro

http://daringfireball.net/2011/09/metro

15 years ago

313 upvotes – 158 comments

IOS Boilerplate: A base template for iOS apps

http://iosboilerplate.com/

15 years ago

306 upvotes – 82 comments

JavaScript is Not Web Assembly

http://blog.izs.me/post/10213512387/javascript-is-not-web-assembly

15 years ago

221 upvotes – 83 comments

Cornell Ergonomics Web finds standing desks present their own issues

http://ergo.human.cornell.edu/CUESitStand.html

15 years ago

219 upvotes – 108 comments

David Kadavy's "Design for Hackers" now on Amazon

http://www.amazon.com/dp/1119998956

15 years ago

174 upvotes – 62 comments

What if the Secret to Success Is Failure?

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/18/magazine/what-if-the-secret-to-success-is-failure.html?hp

15 years ago

154 upvotes – 42 comments

Design for Hackers (the book) is here

http://www.kadavy.net/blog/posts/design-for-hackers-the-book-is-here/

15 years ago

142 upvotes – 9 comments

NASA Announces Design for New Deep Space Exploration System

http://www.nasa.gov/exploration/systems/sls/sls1.html

15 years ago

138 upvotes – 79 comments

A monospace that looks like a proportional

http://design.canonical.com/2011/09/ubuntu-monospace-beta/

15 years ago

137 upvotes – 38 comments

Never got around to thanking that teacher?

http://thanksforteaching.us/

15 years ago

135 upvotes – 51 comments

World Domination Using Arduinos and Websockets

http://kevinrohling.wordpress.com/2011/09/14/world-domination-using-arduinos-and-websockets/

15 years ago

132 upvotes – 18 comments

JS 2 CoffeeScript Compiler

http://js2coffee.org

15 years ago

130 upvotes – 44 comments

Mysterious but beautiful paper sculptures

http://community.thisiscentralstation.com/_Mysterious-paper-sculptures/blog/4991767/126249.html

15 years ago

121 upvotes – 17 comments

Check Out The New Blue Screen of Death in Windows 8

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=271674969519070&set=pu.184357191584182&type=1&theater

15 years ago

114 upvotes – 80 comments

Windows 8 Developer Preview is Live

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/home/

15 years ago

112 upvotes – 53 comments

Reasonable Anger In Europe Over Ridiculous Copyright Extension

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110913/03591515929/reasonable-anger-europe-over-ridiculous-copyright-extension.shtml

15 years ago

101 upvotes – 34 comments

UTorrent.com compromised, malware added to installer

http://blog.bittorrent.com/2011/09/13/security-incident/

15 years ago

100 upvotes – 37 comments

Facebook Launches Twitter-Like ‘Subscriptions’

http://techcrunch.com/2011/09/14/facebook-launches-twitter-like-subscriptions-lets-you-share-with-unlimited-users/

15 years ago

95 upvotes – 24 comments

Air Battery Would Last 2.5s on Machine with 1990's Efficiency

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/09/if-a-macbook-air-were-as-efficient-as-a-1991-computer-the-battery-would-last-25-seconds/245041/

15 years ago

92 upvotes – 44 comments

14 Days Later: What I’ve learned in the first 2 weeks of my startup

http://blog.doddcaldwell.com/post/10178334836/startup-launch-lessons-learned-from-bellstrike

15 years ago

91 upvotes – 48 comments

Google buys 1,000 patents from IBM to defend Android

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-09-14/google-purchases-1-023-patents-from-ibm-to-bolster-portfolio.html

15 years ago

83 upvotes – 39 comments

Ask HN: My side project. Is it useful?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2995599

15 years ago

81 upvotes – 61 comments

GoDaddy shared servers compromised – .htaccess redirection to sokoloperkovuskeci

http://blog.sucuri.net/2011/09/godaddy-shared-servers-compromised-htaccess-redirection-to-sokoloperkovuskeci-com.html

15 years ago

81 upvotes – 12 comments

Announcing my second e-book "Sed One-Liners Explained"

http://catonmat.net/blog/sed-book/

15 years ago

80 upvotes – 18 comments

Why Your Business Needs a Chinese Name

http://mygengo.com/about-us/blog/chinese-branding/

15 years ago

72 upvotes – 56 comments

Intel to Universities: No Patents, Please, Just Open Source

http://www.innovationexcellence.com/blog/2011/09/12/intel-to-universities-no-patents-please-just-open-source/

15 years ago

72 upvotes – 19 comments

A/Bingo split testing now on App Engine, built for Khan Academy

http://bjk5.com/post/10171483254/a-bingo-split-testing-now-on-app-engine-built-for-khan

15 years ago

69 upvotes – 8 comments

Opening a Delaware Corporation: an Incorporation Guide for Foreigners

http://myeverwrite.com/opening-a-delaware-corporation-an-incorporation-guide-for-foreigners/

15 years ago

68 upvotes – 42 comments

Hack Day Paris: a 40-hour R&D marathon on November 4-6

http://hackdayparis.org

15 years ago

67 upvotes – 15 comments

Labcss.net - An HTML/CSS snippet, allows direct visual manipulation of CSS

http://labcss.net

15 years ago

67 upvotes – 24 comments

Settings required to run Windows 8 in VirtualBox

http://blogs.lessthandot.com/index.php/SysAdmins/OS/Windows/2003Server/you-need-to-have-hardware

15 years ago

61 upvotes – 13 comments

Puffer - A Rails 3.1 Admin Interface

https://github.com/puffer/puffer

15 years ago

★ 300 JavaScript MIT
60 upvotes – 12 comments

Mapping an EC2 Instance to a Local Drive on OSX

http://falicon.com/post/10203037945/mapping-an-ec2-instance-to-a-local-drive-on-mac

15 years ago

59 upvotes – 24 comments

Oh Good Grep Web Grepper: A New Web Intelligence Feature From Blekko

http://searchengineland.com/oh-good-grep-web-grepper-a-new-web-intelligence-feature-from-blekko-92730

15 years ago

58 upvotes – 17 comments

Facebook puts off IPO until late 2012

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/2b842146-dec3-11e0-a228-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1XxCjKiPg

15 years ago

57 upvotes – 30 comments

Intel and Google join hands on Android development

http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/processors/2011/09/14/intel-and-google-join-hands-on-android-development-40093922/

15 years ago

57 upvotes – 12 comments

Senate agrees to fund the James Webb Space Telescope

http://www.universetoday.com/88928/senate-saves-the-james-webb-space-telescope/

15 years ago

56 upvotes – 9 comments

Basho Blog: Secondary Indexes In Riak

http://blog.basho.com/2011/09/14/Secondary-Indexes-in-Riak/

15 years ago

54 upvotes – 5 comments

Shipping an iPad Children's Book: Soup to Nuts

http://jessbogart.4ormat.com/overview

15 years ago

52 upvotes – 11 comments

The Math of Daily Deals: Can Businesses Profit From Groupons?

http://blog.rushrez.com/post/10205052405/the-math-of-daily-deals-could-groupons-actually-be

15 years ago

52 upvotes – 20 comments

Venture Capitalists With Powerful Blogs May Run Afoul of the SEC

http://www.betabeat.com/2011/09/14/venture-capitalists-with-powerful-blogs-may-run-afoul-of-the-sec/

15 years ago

52 upvotes – 17 comments

The process behind our startup's logo design - draftswork shown

http://blog.groovehq.com/post/10202618882/the-process-behind-our-logo-design-and-communication

15 years ago

51 upvotes – 42 comments

VMware Fusion 4 Released

http://www.vmware.com/products/fusion/overview.html

15 years ago

48 upvotes – 39 comments

IE 10: Metro style browsing - one engine, two experiences

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2011/09/14/metro-style-web-browsing-one-engine-two-experiences-no-compromises.aspx

15 years ago

46 upvotes – 18 comments

YC Ad Innovation Conference Now Live

http://www.justin.tv/ycombinator#/w/1767843872

15 years ago

44 upvotes – 11 comments

The Evolution of Stupidity: File Systems

http://www.enterprisestorageforum.com/storage-management/the-evolution-of-stupidity-file-systems.html

15 years ago

44 upvotes – 25 comments

Code like you're Notch

http://www.mrspeaker.net/2011/09/15/code-like-youre-notch/

15 years ago

44 upvotes – 4 comments

The Pie Chart Challenge

http://blog.jgc.org/2011/09/pie-chart-challenge.html

15 years ago

42 upvotes – 30 comments

Startups: "I take a break" means "I give up"

http://eventlake.posterous.com/why-startups-die-and-why-you-should-be-like-c-30394

15 years ago

41 upvotes – 21 comments

My "Working While Standing" Hack

http://chengsoon.com/2011/09/14/my_working_while_standing_hack.html

15 years ago

41 upvotes – 16 comments

Show HN: Invertris (made by a friend of mine)

https://market.android.com/details?id=au.com.twosquared

15 years ago

41 upvotes – 13 comments

Android Grabs Second Place in Europe

http://blogs.wsj.com/tech-europe/2011/09/14/android-grabs-second-place-in-europe-2/

15 years ago

39 upvotes – 2 comments

Not About Steve

http://kickingbear.com/blog/archives/220

15 years ago

38 upvotes – 2 comments

Habits of Effective Startup Mentors

http://theleanstartupmachine.com/2011/09/10-habits-of-successful-mentors/

15 years ago

38 upvotes – 0 comments

Q&A With BostonGlobe.com Design & Dev Firms

http://bostinnovation.com/2011/09/14/qa-with-bostonglobe-coms-designdev-firms-upstatement-filament-group/

15 years ago

37 upvotes – 4 comments
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