top 50% 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

(Python) Generator Tricks For Systems Programmer (pdf)

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

15 years ago

205 upvotes – 24 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

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

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

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

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

Git 1.7.8 changes for the everyday developer

http://johnkary.net/git-1-7-8-changes-for-the-everyday-developer/

15 years ago

123 upvotes – 15 comments

232 sand dollars

http://sivers.org/232

15 years ago

115 upvotes – 5 comments

An Ode to a 'Poor Black Kid' I Never Knew: How Forbes Gets Poverty Wrong

http://www.good.is/post/an-ode-to-a-poor-black-kid-i-never-knew-how-forbes-gets-it-wrong/

15 years ago

114 upvotes – 47 comments

Most Important Open Source Projects of 2011

https://www.linux.com/news/featured-blogs/196:zonker/524082:the-10-most-important-open-source-projects-of-2011

15 years ago

114 upvotes – 51 comments

ThemeForest author to sell more than $1million in WordPress stock themes

http://notes.envato.com/milestones/kriesi-first-to-1000000-on-the-marketplaces/

15 years ago

105 upvotes – 23 comments

Jon Stewart skewers Freemium iOS Games [video]

http://getdenso.com/videos/2711806-december-08-2011-ed-gillespie-part-3

15 years ago

103 upvotes – 78 comments

MixRank (YC S11) Raises $1.5M from Mark Cuban, 500 Startups

http://techcrunch.com/2011/12/13/display-ad-data-intelligence-startup-mixrank-raises-1-5m-from-mark-cubam-500-startups/

15 years ago

101 upvotes – 14 comments

Hacking Scrabble (part 1)

http://blog.zephod.com/post/14167418899/hacking-scrabble-part-1

15 years ago

95 upvotes – 50 comments

Vintage Steve Jobs footage on Apple (1980)

http://www.computerhistory.org/highlights/stevejobs/video/

15 years ago

94 upvotes – 22 comments

New York vs San Francisco in fight for tech start-ups

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-16153167

15 years ago

93 upvotes – 51 comments

Novel Optical Trick Creates Ultra-Secure Cash

http://www.fastcompany.com/biomimicry/never-before-seen-optical-trick-creates-ultra-secure-cash

15 years ago

92 upvotes – 44 comments

CommonCrawl: an open repository of web crawl data that is universally accessible

http://www.commoncrawl.org/

15 years ago

92 upvotes – 8 comments

Beating the Talent Crunch with a Distributed Team

http://hkarthik.me/blog/2011/12/12/beating-the-talent-crunch-with-a-distributed-team/

15 years ago

87 upvotes – 49 comments

JQuery.Gantt

http://taitems.tumblr.com/post/14143450461/ive-just-pushed-some-pretty-hefty-changes-to-the

15 years ago

87 upvotes – 18 comments

The amazing iOS 5 API and iPhone 4S hardware nobody talks about

http://www.de-de.com/blog/14177518904-bluetooth

15 years ago

83 upvotes – 48 comments

Shunning Facebook and Living to Tell About it

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/14/technology/shunning-facebook-and-living-to-tell-about-it.htm

15 years ago

82 upvotes – 47 comments

Offbeat: Scala by the end of 2011 – No Drama but Frustration is Growing

http://gridgaintech.wordpress.com/2011/12/11/offbeat-scala-by-the-end-of-2011-no-drama-but-frustration-is-growing/

15 years ago

76 upvotes – 69 comments

Nvidia GPU enabled machine learning and linear algebra in R

http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/gputools/index.html

15 years ago

76 upvotes – 8 comments

FBI admits to using Carrier IQ data

http://www.geek.com/articles/mobile/fbi-inadvertently-admits-to-using-carrier-iq-data-20111213/

15 years ago

75 upvotes – 23 comments

Alternate Sleep Cycles

http://www.highexistence.com/alternate-sleep-cycles/

15 years ago

74 upvotes – 66 comments

New bill to allow $1m crowdfunding rounds

http://merkley.senate.gov/newsroom/press/release/?id=9E32CE5C-4DF0-4596-BA92-5695F68681F6

15 years ago

67 upvotes – 29 comments

CERN Press Release: Higgs Search Update

http://press.web.cern.ch/press/PressReleases/Releases2011/PR25.11E.html

15 years ago

66 upvotes – 26 comments

Ask HN: Review my startup, gtrot.com

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3349287

15 years ago

57 upvotes – 57 comments
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