top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-01-26

Fun with math: Dividing one by 998001 yields a surprising result

http://www.iheartchaos.com/post/16393143676/fun-with-math-dividing-one-by-998001-yields-a

15 years ago

754 upvotes – 90 comments

Cars kill cities

http://progressivetransit.wordpress.com/2012/01/25/cars-kill-cities/

15 years ago

553 upvotes – 336 comments

Wat

http://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat

15 years ago

512 upvotes – 98 comments

Show HN: my database engine for GPU

https://sourceforge.net/projects/alenka/files/

15 years ago

364 upvotes – 60 comments

Scaling GitHub

http://zachholman.com/talk/scaling-github

15 years ago

348 upvotes – 67 comments

Applications open for Y Combinator's summer 2012 funding cycle

http://ycombinator.com/apply.html?s2012

15 years ago

310 upvotes – 106 comments

How to Make It on Craigslist

http://blog.priceonomics.com/post/16529584021/how-to-make-it-on-craigslist

15 years ago

269 upvotes – 172 comments

Why we shut down a product that was $75,000/year profitable

http://wildbit.com/blog/2012/01/26/why-we-shut-down-a-product-that-was-75000year-profitable/

15 years ago

227 upvotes – 77 comments

Reddit: 2012 State of the Servers

http://blog.reddit.com/2012/01/january-2012-state-of-servers.html

15 years ago

217 upvotes – 56 comments

Google’s Python Lessons are Awesome

http://blog.hartleybrody.com/2012/01/google-python/

15 years ago

185 upvotes – 13 comments

Mega-man: The fast, fabulous, and fraudulent life of Kim Dotcom

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/01/mega-man-the-bizarre-rise-and-sudden-downfall-of-kim-dotcom.ars?

15 years ago

184 upvotes – 89 comments

ACTA is being signed right now in the EU

http://www.thejournal.ie/ireland-and-eu-to-sign-controversial-acta-treaty-tomorrow-336764-Jan2012/?utm_source=shortlink

15 years ago

158 upvotes – 41 comments

Poles Take anti-ACTA Protests to the Streets

http://torrentfreak.com/poles-take-anti-acta-protests-to-the-streets-120126/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

15 years ago

154 upvotes – 22 comments

PUT or POST: The REST of the Story

http://jcalcote.wordpress.com/2008/10/16/put-or-post-the-rest-of-the-story/

15 years ago

149 upvotes – 49 comments

Comparing JavaScript, CoffeeScript & ClojureScript

http://dosync.posterous.com/comparing-javascript-coffeescript-clojurescri

15 years ago

147 upvotes – 47 comments

Observations from two weeks of SSH brute force attacks

http://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2012/01/25/observations-from-two-weeks-of-ssh-brute-force-attacks/

15 years ago

132 upvotes – 53 comments

Direct Debit API for 1%; max £2

https://gocardless.com/

15 years ago

127 upvotes – 92 comments

Twitter Will Censor Certain Tweets In Certain Countries

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/twitter_will_censor_certain_tweets_in_certain_coun.php

15 years ago

122 upvotes – 65 comments

Show HN: I've created a site about Bone Marrow Donation

http://www.cheekswab.org

15 years ago

120 upvotes – 25 comments

ACTA rapporteur denounces ACTA mascarade

https://www.laquadrature.net/wiki/ACTA_rapporteur_denounces_ACTA_mascarade

15 years ago

120 upvotes – 18 comments

22 EU states sign the ACTA ‘Internet censorship’ treaty

http://thenextweb.com/eu/2012/01/26/the-eu-and-22-member-states-sign-the-controversial-acta-internet-censorship-treaty/

15 years ago

114 upvotes – 31 comments

Today Apple, Google, 5 Others Battle “No Poach” Conspiracy Case

http://techcrunch.com/2012/01/26/apple-google-consipracy/

15 years ago

114 upvotes – 72 comments

Drchrono (YC W11) raises $2.8 Million for iPad Health Record Platform

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/26/drchrono-raises-2-8-million-to-digitize-doctors-visits/

15 years ago

94 upvotes – 41 comments

Skills aren't taught at university; we develop them to cope with university

http://jeffdechambeau.com/skool-sux.html

15 years ago

87 upvotes – 41 comments

Pac-Man Proved NP-Hard

http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/27528/?p1=A2

15 years ago

86 upvotes – 19 comments

The Cleartrip Hurry Algorithm

http://mobocube.com/post/16512228268/cleartrip-hurry-algorithm

15 years ago

83 upvotes – 33 comments

IBM creates 9nm carbon nanotube transistor that outperforms silicon

http://www.extremetech.com/computing/115657-ibm-creates-9nm-carbon-nanotube-transistor-outperforms-silicon

15 years ago

79 upvotes – 31 comments

First look at 37signals big rewrite of basecamp

http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3087-basecamp-next-a-peek-at-early-iterations-of-the-projects-screen

15 years ago

78 upvotes – 20 comments

Testing Backbone.js Best Practices

http://blog.involver.com/2012/01/26/testing-backbone-js-best-practices-2/

15 years ago

72 upvotes – 8 comments

Is Programming Less Exciting Today?

http://blogs.tedneward.com/2012/01/25/Is+Programming+Less+Exciting+Today.aspx

15 years ago

71 upvotes – 79 comments

Linux Package Manager Command Line Comparison

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pacman_Rosetta

15 years ago

71 upvotes – 31 comments

Slated aims to disrupt Hollywood as the AngelList for film funding

http://venturebeat.com/2012/01/25/stephan-paternots-slated-aims-to-disrupt-hollywood-as-the-angellist-for-film-funding/

15 years ago

70 upvotes – 32 comments

Backbone.js localStorage + remote sync

https://github.com/lucian1900/Backbone.dualStorage

15 years ago

★ 797 JavaScript
70 upvotes – 25 comments

Microsoft paid Nokia $250m for Windows Phone use

http://thenextweb.com/microsoft/2012/01/26/microsoft-paid-nokia-250-million-for-its-use-of-windows-phone-platform/

15 years ago

69 upvotes – 62 comments

Google+ opens to teens, launches youth safety features

https://plus.google.com/113116318008017777871/posts/hvXAqqHTkZe

15 years ago

69 upvotes – 30 comments

Make Things Now - pragmatic functional programming

http://code.haskell.org/~dons/talks/padl-keynote-2012-01-24.pdf

15 years ago

67 upvotes – 4 comments

Netflix Regains 600,000 U.S. Subscribers

https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2012/01/25/business/AP-US-Earns-Netflix.html

15 years ago

67 upvotes – 41 comments

Beginning Ember.js on Rails: Part 2

http://www.cerebris.com/blog/2012/01/26/beginning-ember-js-on-rails-part-2/

15 years ago

65 upvotes – 7 comments

Human Costs Are Built Into an iPad

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/26/business/ieconomy-apples-ipad-and-the-human-costs-for-workers-in-china.html?ref=business

15 years ago

65 upvotes – 38 comments

Say Goodbye to the Menu Button

http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2012/01/say-goodbye-to-menu-button.html

15 years ago

64 upvotes – 47 comments

Ask HN: Review our Startup: Wireframing via Recognition (video)

http://www.pentotype.com/

15 years ago

60 upvotes – 38 comments

Visualization of U.S presidents' approval ratings

http://www.clusterize.com/comparisons/5-us-presidents-job-approval-ratings

15 years ago

59 upvotes – 35 comments

Airbnb's Global Growth

http://www.airbnb.com/global-growth

15 years ago

59 upvotes – 16 comments

Announcing BigCouch 0.4

http://blog.cloudant.com/bigcouch-zero-point-four/

15 years ago

54 upvotes – 3 comments

Massively faster DB with async batching

http://williamedwardscoder.tumblr.com/post/16516763725/how-i-got-massively-faster-db-with-async-batching

15 years ago

52 upvotes – 45 comments
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