top 20 hacker news stories for 2011-09-17

The Document Which Was Formerly Called The MIT Guide to Lockpicking

http://www.capricorn.org/~akira/home/lockpick/

15 years ago

275 upvotes – 53 comments

ORM is an anti-pattern

http://seldo.com/weblog/2011/08/11/orm_is_an_antipattern

15 years ago

232 upvotes – 128 comments

James Gosling witnesses and blogs Reno airshow crash.

http://nighthacks.com/roller/jag/entry/i_m_alive

15 years ago

164 upvotes – 52 comments

My Family’s Experiment in Extreme Schooling

http://nytimes.com/2011/09/18/magazine/my-familys-experiment-in-extreme-schooling.html

15 years ago

149 upvotes – 41 comments

Firefox Now Scores 100% on Acid3 Test

http://browserfame.com/212/firefox-acid3-test-100

15 years ago

141 upvotes – 47 comments

The Joy of Indexing

http://kylebanker.com/blog/2010/09/21/the-joy-of-mongodb-indexes/

15 years ago

141 upvotes – 11 comments

Show HN: We measure classroom confusion

http://blog.classmetric.com/post/10279085541/postlectureview

15 years ago

133 upvotes – 32 comments

Facebook's Newest Problem: Being Boring

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/technology/2011/09/facebooks-newest-challenge-being-boring/42595/

15 years ago

133 upvotes – 58 comments

I know my lack of extreme excitement can be off-putting

http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/2011/09/my-lack-of-extreme-excitement-can-be-off-putting.html

15 years ago

103 upvotes – 47 comments

Look out for No. 1

http://timharford.com/2011/09/look-out-for-no-1/

15 years ago

102 upvotes – 26 comments

Inferno on Android

http://9fans.net/archive/2011/09/308

15 years ago

100 upvotes – 19 comments

Think in Go: Go's alternative to the multiple-inheritance mindset.

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/golang-nuts/Rj5t1h_ztxI/Fgs6HfLqMHAJ

15 years ago

92 upvotes – 26 comments

Bootstrapping / startup-life-hacks we’ve learned (so far)

http://maplebutter.com/10-bootstrapping-startup-life-hacks-we%e2%80%99ve-learned-so-far/

15 years ago

90 upvotes – 28 comments

Why aren't ◎ܫ◎ and ☺ valid Javascript variable names?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7451524/why-arent-and-valid-javascript-variable-names

15 years ago

86 upvotes – 20 comments

Web Vi

http://code.google.com/p/webvi/

15 years ago

86 upvotes – 25 comments

Run, Python, Run

http://hbfs.wordpress.com/2011/09/13/run-python-run/

15 years ago

84 upvotes – 8 comments

NowJS Real-time Trials: Build a 2-week hack, win sweet prizes

http://nowjs.com/rtt?y=true

15 years ago

80 upvotes – 23 comments

Deploying Django on Heroku

http://blog.abhiomkar.in/2011/09/17/deploying-django-on-heroku-mac-os-x/

15 years ago

76 upvotes – 18 comments

Bitcoin days destroyed - explained

http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/845/what-are-bitcoin-days-destroyed

15 years ago

76 upvotes – 17 comments

Cocoapods: An Objective-C library package manager

https://github.com/alloy/cocoapods

15 years ago

★ 32 Ruby
67 upvotes – 21 comments
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