top 10 hacker news stories for 2012-01-27

Understanding the bin, sbin, usr/bin , usr/sbin split

http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/busybox/2010-December/074114.html

15 years ago

857 upvotes – 151 comments

How Much Is an Astronaut's Life Worth?

http://reason.com/archives/2012/01/26/how-much-is-an-astronauts-life-worth

15 years ago

370 upvotes – 180 comments

What I Learned From Opening a Bookstore

http://open.salon.com/blog/jlsathre/2012/01/11/25_things_i_learned_from_opening_a_bookstore

15 years ago

302 upvotes – 68 comments

Facebook to File for IPO Next Week

http://mashable.com/2012/01/27/facebook-ipo/

15 years ago

282 upvotes – 135 comments

This is what 864GB of RAM looks like now

http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3090-basecamp-nexts-caching-hardware

15 years ago

231 upvotes – 129 comments

Graphene: The perfect water filter

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/115909-graphene-the-perfect-water-filter

15 years ago

204 upvotes – 40 comments

How I Develop Things and Why

http://www.kennethreitz.com/how-i-develop-things-and-why.html

15 years ago

202 upvotes – 33 comments

Coding Horror: Separating Programming Sheep from Non-Programming Goats

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2006/07/separating-programming-sheep-from-non-programming-goats.html

15 years ago

201 upvotes – 129 comments

Show HN: SocialFolders, "Dropbox for social"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3518051

15 years ago

187 upvotes – 73 comments

How I Learned Enough Ruby On Rails In 12 Weeks To Launch Freelancify

http://www.webstartup.me/learned-ruby-rails-12-weeks-launch-freelancify

15 years ago

184 upvotes – 80 comments
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