top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-12-05

How Doctors Die

http://zocalopublicsquare.org/thepublicsquare/2011/11/30/how-doctors-die/read/nexus/

15 years ago

663 upvotes – 177 comments

Fuck passwords

http://me.veekun.com/blog/2011/12/04/fuck-passwords/

15 years ago

655 upvotes – 240 comments

Google can be used as a graphic calculator

https://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&q=sin%28x%29%2b1/2+sin%282x%29%2b1/3+sin%283x%29

15 years ago

400 upvotes – 75 comments

I Don't Understand What Anyone Is Saying Anymore

http://blogs.hbr.org/pallotta/2011/12/i-dont-understand-what-anyone.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+harvardbusiness+%28HBR.org%29&utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher

15 years ago

332 upvotes – 128 comments

Follow up to “Android graphics true facts”, or The Reason Android is Laggy

https://plus.google.com/100838276097451809262/posts/VDkV9XaJRGS

15 years ago

330 upvotes – 115 comments

NASA Confirms Its First Planet in Habitable Zone of Sun-like Star

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/kepler/news/kepscicon-briefing.html

15 years ago

328 upvotes – 111 comments

Man with multiple degrees fails standardized test for children

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/post/when-an-adult-took-standardized-tests-forced-on-kids/2011/12/05/gIQApTDuUO_blog.html

15 years ago

322 upvotes – 221 comments

Knyle Style Sheets

http://warpspire.com/posts/kss/

15 years ago

267 upvotes – 26 comments

Ordered List is a GitHubber

https://github.com/blog/993-ordered-list-is-a-githubber

15 years ago

249 upvotes – 15 comments

MemShrink progress report, week 23

http://blog.mozilla.com/nnethercote/2011/11/23/memshrink-progress-report-week-23/

15 years ago

211 upvotes – 88 comments

Why I Will Never Feel Threatened by Programmers in India

http://blog.jpl-consulting.com/2011/12/why-i-will-never-feel-threatened-by-programmers-in-india/

15 years ago

178 upvotes – 131 comments

Damn Cool Algorithms, Part 1: BK-Trees

http://blog.notdot.net/2007/4/Damn-Cool-Algorithms-Part-1-BK-Trees

15 years ago

177 upvotes – 13 comments

How do you track and decide what topics you want to spend time learning?

http://swanson.github.com/blog/2011/12/04/whats-on-your-learning-list.html

15 years ago

157 upvotes – 67 comments

Researchers 'speak' to dolphins in their own language

http://wakeup-world.com//2011/11/28/the-discovery-of-dolphin-language/

15 years ago

157 upvotes – 34 comments

Be careful what you put in an email

https://om.wordpress.com/2011/11/29/be-careful-what-you-put-in-an-email/

15 years ago

139 upvotes – 70 comments

The Techcrunch Embargo

http://www.arcticstartup.com/2011/12/05/the-techcrunch-embargo

15 years ago

132 upvotes – 39 comments

Tell HN: How to get back at your start-up husband

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3315366

15 years ago

119 upvotes – 20 comments

France starts opening its data

http://www.data.gouv.fr/

15 years ago

111 upvotes – 12 comments

Show HN: "Programming is for Anyone"

http://ruby.bastardsbook.com/about/

15 years ago

105 upvotes – 21 comments

Show HN: Virtual Angel Investing market (built on AngelList)

http://angelsq.co

15 years ago

97 upvotes – 24 comments

Appify-UI - Create the simplest possible Mac OS X apps, using HTML5 for the UI

https://github.com/subtleGradient/Appify-UI

15 years ago

★ 836 TypeScript
93 upvotes – 19 comments

Why Do So Many Gifted Kids Think They Don't like Math?

http://www.talentigniter.com/blog/why-do-so-many-gifted-kids-think-they-dont-math

15 years ago

91 upvotes – 94 comments

Amon - web application debugging and monitoring toolkit

https://github.com/martinrusev/amon

15 years ago

★ 1.3k Python AGPL-3.0
88 upvotes – 28 comments

What is INDECT?

http://www.stopp-indect.info/?page_id=2

15 years ago

87 upvotes – 20 comments

Kaspersky Dumps Anti-Piracy Group in SOPA Protest

http://torrentfreak.com/kaspersky-dumps-anti-piracy-group-in-sopa-protest-111205/

15 years ago

84 upvotes – 20 comments

SQL and NoSQL are two sides of the same coin, mathematically

http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1961297&repost

15 years ago

83 upvotes – 18 comments

India Asks Google, Facebook to Screen User Content

http://india.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/05/india-asks-google-facebook-others-to-screen-user-content/

15 years ago

81 upvotes – 58 comments

Looking for a Job? Learn Ruby, Python and be a Team Player (infographic)

http://blog.infochimps.com/2011/12/05/looking-for-a-job-learn-ruby-python-and-be-a-team-player/

15 years ago

80 upvotes – 38 comments

Most startups are spending money too fast. Slow it down.

http://www.humbledmba.com/most-startups-are-spending-money-too-fast-you

15 years ago

80 upvotes – 33 comments

Behind RIM’s $485M Write-off

http://www.mondaynote.com/2011/12/05/behind-rim%e2%80%99s-485m-write-off/

15 years ago

73 upvotes – 38 comments

Convert Any Webpage to an Image

http://linkpeek.com/website-thumbnail-generator

15 years ago

73 upvotes – 71 comments

Inspiration vs. Imitation

http://www.jessicahische.is/obsessedwiththeinternet/andbeingresponsivelyinspired/inspiration-vs-imitation-2

15 years ago

69 upvotes – 4 comments

Galaxy Nexus + data plan + VoIP support = free calls

http://gigaom.com/mobile/galaxy-nexus-data-plan-sip-voip-support-free-calls/

15 years ago

68 upvotes – 44 comments

How Two Guys Raised $100K To Make A Magical Keyboard

http://techcrunch.com/2011/12/05/the-touchfire-chronicles-how-two-guys-raised-100k-to-make-a-magical-keyboard/

15 years ago

67 upvotes – 16 comments

Don’t ask me for advice; buy me lunch instead

http://thenextweb.com/entrepreneur/2011/12/05/dont-ask-me-for-advice-buy-me-lunch-instead/

15 years ago

67 upvotes – 25 comments

There And Back Again: A Lengthy Weighing Of The Galaxy Nexus And iPhone 4S

http://techcrunch.com/2011/12/04/galaxy-nexus-iphone-4s/

15 years ago

55 upvotes – 42 comments
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