top 20 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

PyPy funded to begin support for Python 3 and Numpy

http://morepypy.blogspot.com/2012/01/py3k-and-numpy-first-stage-thanks-to.html

15 years ago

178 upvotes – 30 comments

On switching to Arch Linux

http://mikethecoder.com/post/16562751962/on-switching-to-arch-linux

15 years ago

168 upvotes – 168 comments

Teens Photograph Lego Minifigure at Edge of Space for $400

http://www.petapixel.com/2012/01/26/teens-photograph-lego-figure-on-edge-of-space-for-400/

15 years ago

167 upvotes – 40 comments

Ninja Blocks: Connect your world with the web

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ninja/ninja-blocks-connect-your-world-with-the-web

15 years ago

165 upvotes – 66 comments

Curebit (YC W11) Raises $1.2 Million For Online Referral System

http://techcrunch.com/2012/01/27/yc-alum-curebit-raises-1-2-million-for-online-referral-system

15 years ago

143 upvotes – 82 comments

Bill Gates on his last visit with Steve Jobs

http://www.geekwire.com/2012/video-bill-gates-visit-steve-jobs

15 years ago

142 upvotes – 115 comments

MegaUpload users plan to sue the FBI over lost files

http://torrentfreak.com/megaupload-users-plan-to-sue-the-fbi-over-lost-files-120126/

15 years ago

135 upvotes – 58 comments

Welcome Geoff

http://ycombinator.posterous.com/welcome-geoff

15 years ago

133 upvotes – 21 comments

The problem with startups is that they can’t solve the big problems.

http://remarkedly.com/2012/01/27/the-problem-with-startups-is-that-they-cant-solve-the-big-problems/

15 years ago

130 upvotes – 102 comments

Three years later, Mr. Moore is still letting us punt on database sharding

http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3089-three-years-later-mr-moore-is-still-letting-us-punt-on-database-sharding

15 years ago

127 upvotes – 54 comments
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