top 50% 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

Twitter isn't Censoring You. Your Government is.

http://thenextweb.com/twitter/2012/01/27/twitter-isnt-censoring-you-your-government-is/

15 years ago

104 upvotes – 34 comments

A Tale of a Miserable Product Launch

http://www.stangeek.com/a-tale-of-miserable-product-launch

15 years ago

103 upvotes – 66 comments

The best way to learn iOS Programming... well its working for me

https://plus.google.com/114373064968292928213/posts/52UL2K2DSQK

15 years ago

100 upvotes – 41 comments

Chapter 6 of the Rails Tutorial, 2nd Edition is out ("Modeling users")

http://news.railstutorial.org/chapter-6-of-the-rails-tutorial-2nd-edition-i

15 years ago

93 upvotes – 22 comments

Roy: Small functional language that compiles to JavaScript

https://github.com/pufuwozu/roy

15 years ago

★ 841 JavaScript MIT
91 upvotes – 32 comments

Show HN: I made a site that rings a bell every time you have a new customer

http://bellbot.com

15 years ago

85 upvotes – 50 comments

Scott Aaronson on Elsevier

http://www.scottaaronson.com/writings/journal.pdf

15 years ago

84 upvotes – 21 comments

Apple Should Buy Hollywood

http://techcrunch.com/2012/01/26/apple-100-billion-buy-hollywood/

15 years ago

82 upvotes – 59 comments

Show HN: Startup Threads Monthly - Subscription Swag Service

https://www.startupthreadsmonthly.com/

15 years ago

82 upvotes – 55 comments

The WHY of WAT - understanding why 'JavaScript is Crazy'

http://blog.caplin.com/2012/01/27/the-why-of-wat/

15 years ago

82 upvotes – 52 comments

Show HN: Glider, a better email client

http://glider.io/

15 years ago

81 upvotes – 53 comments

Pi Is Wrong

http://www.math.utah.edu/~palais/pi.html

15 years ago

78 upvotes – 64 comments

Simple virtual machine

http://syprog.blogspot.com/2011/12/simple-virtual-machine.html

15 years ago

77 upvotes – 6 comments

Seriously.js: A Realtime, Node-Based Video Compositor for the Web

http://badassjs.com/post/16583192105/seriously-js-a-realtime-node-based-video-compositor

15 years ago

77 upvotes – 10 comments

Twitter uncloaks a year's worth of DMCA takedown notices, 4,410 in all

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/01/twitter-uncloaks-a-years-worth-of-dmca-takedown-notices-4410-in-all.ars

15 years ago

75 upvotes – 13 comments

Anatomy of a virus call centre scam

http://www.troyhunt.com/2011/10/anatomy-of-virus-call-centre-scam.html

15 years ago

62 upvotes – 14 comments

Professional Photographer's Association as out of touch as MPAA and RIAA

http://www.stuckincustoms.com/2012/01/27/the-foolish-ppa-is-pro-pipa-and-sopa/

15 years ago

61 upvotes – 7 comments

The EU signs up to ACTA, but French MEP quits in protest

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-01/26/eu-signs-up-to-acta

15 years ago

61 upvotes – 16 comments

The AngelList 2011 Yearbook

http://angel.co/2011

15 years ago

58 upvotes – 6 comments

Why Eating Fat Doesn't Make You Fat: Sources

http://blog.massivehealth.com/post/16592941482/why-eating-fat-doesnt-make-you-fat-sources

15 years ago

57 upvotes – 80 comments

The Cost of Knowledge: Researchers taking a stand against Elsevier.

http://thecostofknowledge.com/?

15 years ago

54 upvotes – 4 comments

Sky News Infringed My Copyright

http://shkspr.mobi/blog/index.php/2012/01/sky-news-infringed-my-copyright/

15 years ago

53 upvotes – 18 comments

JQuery Mobile 1.0.1 Released

http://jquerymobile.com/blog/2012/01/26/jquery-mobile-1-0-1-released/

15 years ago

52 upvotes – 13 comments

Graphene: Supermaterial goes superpermeable

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/01/120126100639.htm

15 years ago

51 upvotes – 0 comments
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