top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-01-30

The Five Stages of Hosting

http://blog.pinboard.in/2012/01/the_five_stages_of_hosting/

15 years ago

747 upvotes – 179 comments

Ryan Dahl steps down

http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs/browse_thread/thread/85f6a3829bc64cb6

14 years ago

387 upvotes – 64 comments

US bars friends over Twitter joke

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4095372/Twitter-news-US-bars-friends-over-Twitter-joke.html

15 years ago

368 upvotes – 215 comments

Megaupload: A Lot Less Guilty Than You Think

http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/node/6795

14 years ago

352 upvotes – 115 comments

GUM: A better CLI for Git

http://www.saintsjd.com/2012/01/a-better-ui-for-git/

14 years ago

305 upvotes – 78 comments

Fixing the Python subprocess interface

http://amoffat.github.com/pbs

14 years ago

291 upvotes – 61 comments

Silicon Valley’s Productivity Secret

http://blog.idonethis.com/post/16736314554/silicon-valleys-productivity-secret

14 years ago

221 upvotes – 68 comments

Everything You Thought You Knew About Learning Is Wrong

http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2012/01/everything-about-learning/

15 years ago

217 upvotes – 48 comments

Backbone 0.9.0 released

http://backbonejs.org/#changelog

14 years ago

216 upvotes – 39 comments

How to set up a mail server on a GNU / Linux system

http://flurdy.com/docs/postfix/index.html

15 years ago

193 upvotes – 85 comments

The /bin/true Command and Copyright

http://trillian.mit.edu/~jc/humor/ATT_Copyright_true.html

14 years ago

186 upvotes – 28 comments

Crowd Investing: Wefunder

http://wefunder.com/

14 years ago

174 upvotes – 58 comments

Format string vulnerability found in 'sudo'

http://www.sudo.ws/sudo/alerts/sudo_debug.html

14 years ago

171 upvotes – 32 comments

The ongoing fight against GPL enforcement

http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/10437.html

14 years ago

161 upvotes – 90 comments

Ask HN: What successful startups started as "Show HN"?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3526993

15 years ago

158 upvotes – 39 comments

Nearly all binary search and merge sort implementations are broken (2006)

http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2006/06/extra-extra-read-all-about-it-nearly.html

14 years ago

148 upvotes – 69 comments

Codecademy Becomes A Platform: Now Anyone Can Write Programming Tutorials

http://techcrunch.com/2012/01/30/codecademy-becomes-a-platform-now-anyone-can-write-programming-tutorials/

14 years ago

148 upvotes – 24 comments

A Tour of Amazon's DynamoDB

http://www.paperplanes.de/2012/1/30/a-tour-of-amazons-dynamodb.html

14 years ago

143 upvotes – 30 comments

Programming is the new High School Diploma

http://www.whattofix.com/blog/archives/2012/01/programming-is-1.php

14 years ago

137 upvotes – 114 comments

Interview with Facebook's Andrei Alexandrescu

http://www.serversidemagazine.com/news/10-questions-with-facebook-research-engineer-andrei-alexandrescu/

15 years ago

134 upvotes – 24 comments

Fast Lossless Color Image Compression

https://kdepepo.wordpress.com/2012/01/30/fast-lossless-color-image-compression/

14 years ago

131 upvotes – 21 comments

A brief guide to Tech Internships for CS students

http://alexeymk.com/a-brief-guide-to-tech-internships

14 years ago

118 upvotes – 68 comments

The story of TextMate, VIM and SublimeText

http://progfu.com/post/16407410728/the-story-of-textmate-vim-and-sublimetext

15 years ago

118 upvotes – 76 comments

Two Things

http://www.csun.edu/~dgw61315/thetwothings.html

14 years ago

117 upvotes – 46 comments

How going to the gym makes you stronger

http://leostartsup.com/2012/01/how-going-to-the-gym-makes-you-stronger/

15 years ago

113 upvotes – 72 comments

Twitter launches new GitHub page

http://twitter.github.com/

14 years ago

112 upvotes – 30 comments

The Power of Introverts: A Manifesto for Quiet Brilliance

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=the-power-of-introverts&page=2

15 years ago

112 upvotes – 55 comments

Sh*t Entrepreneurs Say

http://grasshopper.com/blog/2012/01/sht-entrepreneurs-say-video/

14 years ago

112 upvotes – 16 comments

Curebit’s at it again, stealing more than code this time

http://venturebeat.com/2012/01/30/curebit-random-rab/

14 years ago

110 upvotes – 50 comments

What's new in Firefox 10 (shipping this week)

http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/10.0/releasenotes/

14 years ago

109 upvotes – 74 comments

Using Wikileaks To Figure Out What The Government 'Redacts'

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120127/16312617573/using-wikileaks-to-figure-out-what-government-redacts.shtml

14 years ago

107 upvotes – 6 comments

Tornado 2.2 released

http://www.tornadoweb.org/documentation/releases/v2.2.0.html

14 years ago

100 upvotes – 19 comments

Super Cheap Virtual Private Servers - the Wild West of Hosting

http://blog.maclawran.ca/96882258

15 years ago

97 upvotes – 63 comments

New MVC client side JavaScript framework - Serenade.js

https://github.com/elabs/serenade.js

14 years ago

★ 522 CoffeeScript
95 upvotes – 52 comments

Codecademy introduces Course Creator

http://www.codecademy.com/creators

14 years ago

95 upvotes – 7 comments

Set of 5 non-trasitive dice shows some remarkable properties (video)

http://www.mathsgear.co.uk/

14 years ago

90 upvotes – 16 comments

Building a Data Science Team at a Startup - An Engineering Perspective

http://kurt.karmalab.org/2012/01/30/building-a-data-team/

14 years ago

88 upvotes – 15 comments

Show HN: TrollBlock, It's Okay to Dislike

http://trollblock.com

15 years ago

88 upvotes – 64 comments

Megaupload data could be deleted this week

http://www.geek.com/articles/geek-pick/megaupload-data-could-be-deleted-this-week-20120130/

15 years ago

85 upvotes – 40 comments

The evil unit test.

http://www.makinggoodsoftware.com/2012/01/27/the-evil-unit-test/

14 years ago

77 upvotes – 52 comments

FBI to monitor Facebook, Twitter, Myspace

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/facebook/fbi-to-monitor-facebook-twitter-myspace/8119

15 years ago

75 upvotes – 34 comments

Five Days in the Valley: An East Coaster's Take on Silicon Valley vs. NYC

http://ventureminded.me/post/16717285524/five-days-in-the-valley

15 years ago

72 upvotes – 70 comments

Memristor-based non-volatile memory matches DRAM performance

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-16725529

15 years ago

70 upvotes – 45 comments

Show HN: Our 5 month project Airtime for Email

https://www.airtimehq.com

14 years ago

66 upvotes – 33 comments

Bootstrapping: Revenues & Momentum is Everything

http://adii.me/2012/01/bootstrapping-revenues-momentum-is-everything/

15 years ago

57 upvotes – 10 comments

What Piracy? The Entertainment Industry is booming

http://torrentfreak.com/what-piracy-the-entertainment-industry-is-booming-120130/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

14 years ago

57 upvotes – 9 comments
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