top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-09-18

PG's Rarely Asked Questions

http://www.paulgraham.com/raq.html

15 years ago

299 upvotes – 213 comments

Cracking OSX Lion passwords

http://www.defenceindepth.net/2011/09/cracking-os-x-lion-passwords.html

15 years ago

281 upvotes – 79 comments

Pirate Party Germany gets into the parliament for the state of Berlin

http://web.piratenpartei.de/

15 years ago

253 upvotes – 65 comments

Bada Bing, Bada Boom: Culture inside Bing

http://worldofsu.com/philipsu/?p=209

15 years ago

245 upvotes – 97 comments

HTML5 Map of the the World Migrations using SVG, Raphael.js and offline storage

http://migrationsmap.net/#/IND/departures

15 years ago

240 upvotes – 64 comments

Show HN: Pulse — A simple pulsating indicator.

http://moeedm.com/sandbox/pulse/

15 years ago

163 upvotes – 40 comments

Show HN: Kerning.js — Take control of your web typography

http://endtwist.github.com/kerning.js/

15 years ago

154 upvotes – 30 comments

Why two men committing the same crime get different chances at a parole

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/21/magazine/do-you-suffer-from-decision-fatigue.html

15 years ago

144 upvotes – 43 comments

Gamers solve molecular puzzle

http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/09/16/7802623-gamers-solve-molecular-puzzle-that-baffled-scientists

15 years ago

137 upvotes – 27 comments

Dear Google Marketing (Re: Your kids policy)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3010687

15 years ago

128 upvotes – 34 comments

Learn REST: A Tutorial

http://rest.elkstein.org/

15 years ago

126 upvotes – 52 comments

Building a Fashion Company on the Internet? Stop. Just stop.

http://melanie.io/?p=139

15 years ago

122 upvotes – 90 comments

Latitude doesn’t exactly mean what I thought

http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2011/09/17/latitude-doesnt-exactly-mean-what-i-thought/

15 years ago

111 upvotes – 21 comments

Notepad of all my startup ideas

http://www.myasmine.com/notepad-of-startup-ideas/

15 years ago

98 upvotes – 31 comments

Obama Signs Patent ‘Reform’ Bill

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/09/obama-signs-patent-reform-bill-crustless-sandwich-still-patented

15 years ago

97 upvotes – 58 comments

Don't Be So F*cking Strategic

http://sriramk.tumblr.com/post/10352374326/dont-be-so-f-king-strategic

15 years ago

96 upvotes – 55 comments

Arduino launches new products in maker faire

http://arduino.cc/blog/2011/09/17/arduino-launches-new-products-in-maker-faire/

15 years ago

86 upvotes – 21 comments

Disaster: MySQL 5.5 Flushing

http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2011/09/18/disaster-mysql-5-5-flushing/

15 years ago

86 upvotes – 52 comments

Ward Cunningham on Exploratory Parsing

http://c2.com/~ward/sao/TechIgnite-v1/

15 years ago

77 upvotes – 6 comments

Are you like me? Or do you have discipline?

http://www.kevinjcurtin.com/home/2011/9/18/are-you-like-me-or-do-you-have-discipline.html

15 years ago

75 upvotes – 30 comments

Mulberry: A Development Framework for Mobile Apps

http://rmurphey.com/blog/2011/09/18/introducing-mulberry/

15 years ago

67 upvotes – 9 comments

Ten principles for a Black Swan-proof world

http://www.fooledbyrandomness.com/tenprinciples.pdf

15 years ago

64 upvotes – 28 comments

Israel Becomes CERN Associate Member

http://www.globes.co.il/serveen/globes/docview.asp?did=1000683450

15 years ago

60 upvotes – 25 comments

Timelapse of the ISS flying over Earth (High-Res)

http://sugar.io/?p=775

15 years ago

58 upvotes – 12 comments

South Korea NIS admits to "packet tapping" Gmail

http://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_national/496473.html

15 years ago

57 upvotes – 40 comments

Google Wallet Likely Launching Tomorrow

http://techcrunch.com/2011/09/18/google-wallet-launch/

15 years ago

56 upvotes – 41 comments

WhatWasThere - Put history in its place

http://whatwasthere.com/

15 years ago

51 upvotes – 10 comments

Iteratee-based IO in Haskell at Tsuru Capital

http://blog.kfish.org/2011/09/iteratees-at-tsuru.html

15 years ago

50 upvotes – 11 comments

Bitcasa and convergent encryption

http://cdixon.posterous.com/bitcasa-and-convergent-encryption

15 years ago

47 upvotes – 13 comments

Ask HN: best language for hiring?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3010120

15 years ago

43 upvotes – 49 comments
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