top 20 hacker news stories for 2011-12-13

Suicide

http://raganwald.posterous.com/suicide

15 years ago

880 upvotes – 275 comments

Trillion-frame-per-second video

http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2011/trillion-fps-camera-1213.html

15 years ago

458 upvotes – 61 comments

Bfxr. Make sound effects for your games.

http://www.bfxr.net/

15 years ago

339 upvotes – 29 comments

Why you can't hire

http://startupboy.com/2011/12/13/why-you-cant-hire/

15 years ago

318 upvotes – 72 comments

Amazon.com just closed my seller account. No warning, no details.

http://aaron.kavlie.net/2011/12/web/amazon-com-just-closed-my-seller-account-no-warning-no-details/

15 years ago

305 upvotes – 77 comments

A Case Against Using CoffeeScript

http://ryanflorence.com/2011/2012/case-against-coffeescript/

15 years ago

286 upvotes – 141 comments

Why apps are not the future

http://scripting.com/stories/2011/12/13/whyAppsAreNotTheFuture.html

15 years ago

269 upvotes – 131 comments

TextMate 2 (Public) Alpha

http://blog.macromates.com/2011/textmate-2-0-alpha/

15 years ago

244 upvotes – 171 comments

The Humble Indie Bundle #4 (pay what you want and help charity)

http://humblebundle.com/

15 years ago

238 upvotes – 67 comments

Louis C.K. "I've never seen a check from a [TV] comedy special"

http://www.npr.org/2011/12/13/143581710/louis-c-k-reflects-on-louie-loss-love-and-life?ft=1&f=1008

15 years ago

205 upvotes – 131 comments

(Python) Generator Tricks For Systems Programmer (pdf)

http://www.dabeaz.com/generators/Generators.pdf?

15 years ago

205 upvotes – 24 comments

The Messy Art Of UX Sketching

http://uxdesign.smashingmagazine.com/2011/12/13/messy-art-ux-sketching/

15 years ago

167 upvotes – 28 comments

Facebook releases HHVM, 60 percent faster than its current PHP interpreter

https://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=10150415177928920&hn=2

15 years ago

164 upvotes – 143 comments

Show HN: Blanking all Wikipedia as SOPA Protest Live Stats

http://hacksandthoughts.posterous.com/blanking-all-wikipedia-as-sopa-protest-live-s

15 years ago

163 upvotes – 23 comments

Busted: BitTorrent Pirates at Sony, Universal and Fox

http://torrentfreak.com/busted-bittorrent-pirates-at-sony-universal-and-fox-111213/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Torrentfreak+%28Torrentfreak%29

15 years ago

146 upvotes – 51 comments

Prof. of Constitutional Law at Harvard says that SOPA violates First Amendment

http://www.scribd.com/doc/75153093/Tribe-Legis-Memo-on-SOPA-12-6-11-1

15 years ago

146 upvotes – 30 comments

Mono's Making Money

http://gigaom.com/2011/12/12/xamarin-mono/

15 years ago

146 upvotes – 47 comments

Leaving JSPs in the dust: moving LinkedIn to dust.js client-side templates

https://engineering.linkedin.com/frontend/leaving-jsps-dust-moving-linkedin-dustjs-client-side-templates

15 years ago

134 upvotes – 41 comments

Make your STDERR red

https://github.com/sickill/stderred

15 years ago

★ 1k C MIT
133 upvotes – 88 comments

Torture your data long enough and it'll tell you anything

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/correlation-or-causation-12012011-gfx.html?

15 years ago

129 upvotes – 34 comments
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