top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-01-09

A simple guide for getting started with git

http://rogerdudler.github.com/git-guide/

15 years ago

665 upvotes – 129 comments

The New Web Typography

http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/Graphics/opentype/opentype-fontbureau/index.html

15 years ago

327 upvotes – 132 comments

Hacked memo leaked: Apple, Nokia, RIM supply backdoors for government?

http://blogs.computerworld.com/19531/hacked_memo_leaked_apple_nokia_rim_supply_backdoors_for_govt_intercept

15 years ago

286 upvotes – 53 comments

Alexis Ohanian and Dan Kaminsky will address Congress on Jan 18th

http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2012/01/09/reddit-founder-dns-hacker-and-other-sopa-critics-to-address-congress/

15 years ago

270 upvotes – 82 comments

Your body wasn’t built to last: a lesson from human mortality rates

http://gravityandlevity.wordpress.com/2009/07/08/your-body-wasnt-built-to-last-a-lesson-from-human-mortality-rates/

15 years ago

266 upvotes – 108 comments

In 1951 there was a children's U-238 Atomic Energy Lab playset for $50

http://www.orau.org/ptp/collection/atomictoys/GilbertU238Lab.htm

15 years ago

261 upvotes – 96 comments

Complete, stand alone Stanford machine learning course notes

http://holehouse.org/mlclass/

15 years ago

250 upvotes – 19 comments

Reddit successfully pressures Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) to back off support of SOPA

http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/o9gq7/reddit_successfully_pressures_rep_paul_ryan_rwi/

15 years ago

215 upvotes – 90 comments

The $40 Standup Desk

http://opensoul.org/blog/archives/2012/01/09/the-40-standup-desk/

15 years ago

206 upvotes – 102 comments

UK Government Betrayal of Open Standards Confirmed

http://blogs.computerworlduk.com/open-enterprise/2012/01/uk-cabinet-office-betrayal-of-open-standards-confirmed/index.htm

15 years ago

183 upvotes – 57 comments

True Scala complexity

http://yz.mit.edu/wp/true-scala-complexity/

15 years ago

182 upvotes – 148 comments

84% of the investment gains from hedge fund went to the managers

https://plus.google.com/107033731246200681024/posts/7VmpGHzmY3R

15 years ago

176 upvotes – 87 comments

The "C is Efficient" Language Fallacy (2006)

http://scienceblogs.com/goodmath/2006/11/the_c_is_efficient_language_fa.php

15 years ago

173 upvotes – 127 comments

How To Work From Home Like You Mean It

http://www.fastcompany.com/1806307/how-to-work-from-home-like-you-mean-it

15 years ago

167 upvotes – 73 comments

Twitter’s poor API documentation practices

http://gazit.me/2012/01/09/Twitter-documentation-fail.html

15 years ago

166 upvotes – 39 comments

Glue is a simple command line tool to generate CSS sprites

https://github.com/jorgebastida/glue

15 years ago

★ 2.5k Python BSD-3-Clause
163 upvotes – 32 comments

Mr. Daisey and the Apple Factory

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/454/mr-daisey-and-the-apple-factory

15 years ago

163 upvotes – 53 comments

Finnish ISP forced to block access to ThePirateBay and other sites

http://www.arcticstartup.com/2012/01/09/finnish-operator-required-to-block-access-to-thepiratebay-among-others

15 years ago

147 upvotes – 57 comments

MacGap: Desktop WebKit wrapper for HTML/CSS/JS applications

https://github.com/maccman/macgap

15 years ago

★ 3.5k Objective-C
144 upvotes – 35 comments

Scouting An Abandoned Cold War Missile Base Hidden In The Adirondacks

http://www.scoutingny.com/?p=4765

15 years ago

144 upvotes – 9 comments

Ubuntu TV unveiled

http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/372040/ubuntu-tv-unveiled

15 years ago

141 upvotes – 67 comments

B&N refuses to release source code of Nook Tablet, censors user requests

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1432003

15 years ago

138 upvotes – 38 comments

Disqus Research: Pseudonyms Drive Communities

http://disqus.com/research/pseudonyms/

15 years ago

134 upvotes – 48 comments

Big Data: principles and best practices (new book)

http://manning.com/marz/

15 years ago

132 upvotes – 65 comments

ShowHN: AlreadyHN, a bookmarklet that checks if the current page is on HN

http://elias.kg/post/15568386753/alreadyhn

15 years ago

128 upvotes – 34 comments

Advanced programming languages

http://matt.might.net/articles/best-programming-languages/

15 years ago

125 upvotes – 74 comments

What’s Your Permanent Age? (2007)

http://dilbertblog.typepad.com/the_dilbert_blog/2007/03/whats_your_perm.html

15 years ago

103 upvotes – 37 comments

Two-color Makerbot released

http://www.makerbot.com/blog/2012/01/09/introducing-the-makerbot-replicator/

15 years ago

103 upvotes – 24 comments

We're scheduling an anti-SOPA blackout for 1/18/12. Let Google & FB know.

http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/o7rdz/were_scheduling_an_antisopa_blackout_for_11812/

15 years ago

96 upvotes – 27 comments

From Java to Node.js

http://n0tw0rthy.wordpress.com/2012/01/08/from-java-to-node-js/

15 years ago

94 upvotes – 10 comments

Idea to product in 4 months : End-to-end product and technical development diary

http://cherrypopapp.com/blog/hackernews

15 years ago

85 upvotes – 30 comments

Duck Programming

http://unspace.ca/blog/duck-programming/

15 years ago

81 upvotes – 34 comments

Inner-platform effect

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inner-platform_effect

15 years ago

79 upvotes – 31 comments

PyCon US 2012 Conference Schedule

https://us.pycon.org/2012/

15 years ago

77 upvotes – 30 comments

Thumbtack raises $4.5M, already half the size of Yelp

http://techcrunch.com/2012/01/09/local-services-marketplace-thumbtack-raises-4-5-million/

15 years ago

72 upvotes – 12 comments

Netflix live in the UK

http://www.netflix.co.uk

15 years ago

71 upvotes – 63 comments

The Most Common Way Entrepreneurs Kill Their Business

http://nickoneill.com/the-most-common-way-entrepreneurs-kill-their-business-2012-01/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+thewebpreneur+%28Nick+O%27Neill%29&utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher

15 years ago

71 upvotes – 12 comments

Sherlock Holmes averts world war using mathematics

http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/culturelab/2012/01/the-mathematics-behind-sherlock-holmes.html

15 years ago

69 upvotes – 24 comments

PHP compiler for .NET

http://www.php-compiler.net/features

15 years ago

65 upvotes – 7 comments

Kickstarter 2011: The Stats

http://www.kickstarter.com/blog/2011-the-stats

15 years ago

63 upvotes – 26 comments

Are We in a Social Networking Bubble?

http://rogerandmike.com/post/15563392521/technology-waves-and-valuations-are-we-in-a-social

15 years ago

63 upvotes – 18 comments

Marked.js is a markdown parser built for speed

https://github.com/chjj/marked

15 years ago

★ 36.7k JavaScript
62 upvotes – 7 comments

Alan Turing and the Programmable Universe

http://www.slideshare.net/scaruffi/alan-turing-and-the-programmable-universe

15 years ago

56 upvotes – 11 comments

Google Maps indoor navigation: yeah, it works at CES

http://www.engadget.com/2012/01/08/google-maps-indoor-navigation-las-vegas-ces-2012/

15 years ago

56 upvotes – 2 comments

In .NET, open source does not beget open source

http://bvanderveen.com/a/dot-net-open-source-does-not-beget-open-source/

15 years ago

49 upvotes – 53 comments

Funf is an open-source sensing framework

http://funf.media.mit.edu/

15 years ago

48 upvotes – 2 comments
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