top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-02-02

Handwriting to LaTeX maths

http://webdemo.visionobjects.com/equation.html?locale=default

14 years ago

652 upvotes – 88 comments

SSH tricks

http://matt.might.net/articles/ssh-hacks/

14 years ago

425 upvotes – 68 comments

You're Overthinking It

http://engineering.gomiso.com/2012/02/01/youre-overthinking-it/

14 years ago

348 upvotes – 53 comments

Why, oh why, do those nutheads use vi?

http://www.viemu.com/a-why-vi-vim.html

14 years ago

232 upvotes – 220 comments

UK chemist on Elsevier's ban on textmining

http://blogs.ch.cam.ac.uk/pmr/2011/11/25/the-scandal-of-publisher-forbidden-textmining-the-vision-denied/

14 years ago

222 upvotes – 29 comments

Jobseekers Invited to “Apply Via API”

http://blog.programmableweb.com/2012/02/02/jobseekers-invited-to-apply-via-api/

14 years ago

211 upvotes – 108 comments

France convicts Google Maps for unfair competition

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hpu8TuRZEBjM30sFn8c7QvMWNjXA?docId=CNG.108b2dd2393721c4759b1eec0730b297.171

14 years ago

198 upvotes – 148 comments

Wikipedia's list of lists of lists

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_lists_of_lists

14 years ago

195 upvotes – 50 comments

Why I signed ACTA

http://metinalista.si/why-i-signed-acta/

14 years ago

192 upvotes – 48 comments

A Moment of Clarity in the Pursuit of Happiness

http://jtaby.com/2012/02/02/a-moment-of-clarity.html

14 years ago

171 upvotes – 73 comments

Do you like online privacy? You may be a terrorist

http://publicintelligence.net/do-you-like-online-privacy-you-may-be-a-terrorist/

14 years ago

135 upvotes – 75 comments

Upverter - Hardware design tools for the web

http://upverter.com/

14 years ago

124 upvotes – 30 comments

VeriSign hit by hackers

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/02/02/us-hacking-verisign-idUSTRE8110Z820120202

14 years ago

115 upvotes – 40 comments

Amazon launches as Junglee in India

http://www.junglee.com/

14 years ago

114 upvotes – 73 comments

Wayland Preparing For 1.0 Stable Release

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTA1MTQ

14 years ago

114 upvotes – 25 comments

Google is reporting itself as a malware distributor.

http://www.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=http://www.google.com

14 years ago

112 upvotes – 40 comments

Hollywood parties with ACTA II reps, public interest groups thrown out

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120131/23161417605/hollywood-gets-to-party-with-tpp-negotiators-public-interest-groups-get-thrown-out-hotel.shtml

14 years ago

110 upvotes – 0 comments

Did Mark Zuckerberg just accidentally leak the new newsfeed design?

http://sefsar.com/post/16915595901/yo-zuck-whats-that

14 years ago

101 upvotes – 41 comments

The Inside Story of a Small Startup Acquisition (Part 2)

http://www.softwarebyrob.com/2012/02/02/the-inside-story-of-a-small-startup-acquisition-part-2/

14 years ago

99 upvotes – 9 comments

Harvard, Princeton Targeted in Asian Discrimination Probe

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-02-02/harvard-targeted-in-u-s-asian-american-discrimination-probe.html

14 years ago

98 upvotes – 116 comments

Modern Language Wishlist

http://www.lispcast.com/modern-language-wishlist

14 years ago

98 upvotes – 72 comments

Show HN: My weekend project to learn Javascript - 'Pinterest for Hacker News'

http://www.hackerest.com

14 years ago

95 upvotes – 53 comments

Startup failed, giving away free Qwerty Arm7 mobile devices for cost of postage

http://www.peek.ly/blog/news/old-peeks-testbeds/

14 years ago

92 upvotes – 52 comments

Building Memory-efficient Java Applications

http://domino.research.ibm.com/comm/research_people.nsf/pages/sevitsky.pubs.html/$FILE/oopsla08%20memory-efficient%20java%20slides.pdf

14 years ago

85 upvotes – 15 comments

My Recent Development Stack: OS X Tools

http://www.renownedmedia.com/blog/my-recent-development-stack-os-x-tools/

14 years ago

83 upvotes – 65 comments

After Years Of Drilling, Antarctic Lake Will Be Reached

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-12275979

14 years ago

80 upvotes – 18 comments

Minecraft Physics

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/02/minecraft-physics/

14 years ago

80 upvotes – 23 comments

Polo Puzzle: What Goes Into a $155 Price Tag?

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204652904577195252388913754.html

14 years ago

78 upvotes – 37 comments

Beyond ACTA: Next secret copyright agreement negotiated this week—in Hollywood

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/02/beyond-acta-next-secret-copyright-agreement-negotiated-this-weekin-hollywood.ars

14 years ago

76 upvotes – 22 comments

The CSS3 Test

http://css3test.com/

14 years ago

73 upvotes – 28 comments

ESR on Facebook

http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=4118

14 years ago

73 upvotes – 31 comments

XFS: the filesystem of the future?

http://lwn.net/Articles/476263/

14 years ago

70 upvotes – 46 comments

PHP and the Lean Startup

http://blog.mayflower.de/archives/819-24.12.-PHP-and-the-Lean-Startup.html

14 years ago

69 upvotes – 54 comments

I Code With Things and Stuff

http://blog.raynes.me/blog/2012/02/01/i-code-with-things-and-stuff/

14 years ago

68 upvotes – 28 comments

You’ll Download Physical Objects Sooner Than You Think

http://mashable.com/2012/01/31/youll-download-physical-objects-sooner-than-you-think-thanks-to-kids-like-these/

14 years ago

67 upvotes – 28 comments

Reddit Founder Alexis Ohanian's Rosy Outlook On The Future of Politics

http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/02/02/reddit-co-founder-alexis-ohanians-rosy-outlook-on-the-future-of-politics/

14 years ago

67 upvotes – 22 comments

IBM takes on Google and Microsoft with a cloud based service called IBM Docs

https://greenhouse.lotus.com/wpsgh/wcm/connect/lotus+greenhouse/lotus+greenhouse+next+site/home/labs/ibm+docs

14 years ago

67 upvotes – 50 comments

Pinterest is not a Virtual Pinboard

http://subprint.com/blog/pinterest-is-not-a-virtual-pinboard

14 years ago

67 upvotes – 45 comments

Microsoft makes fun of Google with Gmail Man video, again

http://www.winbeta.org/news/microsoft-makes-fun-google-gmail-man-video-again

14 years ago

64 upvotes – 45 comments

Windows Phone 8 Apollo detailed, will have Windows 8 integration

http://www.winbeta.org/news/windows-phone-8-apollo-detailed-will-have-windows-8-integration

14 years ago

63 upvotes – 86 comments

Google to Censor Blogger Blogs on a ‘Per Country Basis’

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/01/google-censoring-blogger/

14 years ago

63 upvotes – 12 comments

Most Popular jQuery Plugins of January 2012

http://www.moretechtips.net/2012/02/8-most-popular-jquery-plugins-of.html

14 years ago

62 upvotes – 8 comments

Evolution vs planned design in Linux ext4 filesystem

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.file-systems.ext4/30528

14 years ago

62 upvotes – 5 comments

I Miss Iraq. I Miss My Gun. I Miss My War. (2007)

http://www.esquire.com/features/essay/ESQ0307ESSAY

14 years ago

61 upvotes – 11 comments

Hetzner EX 4S Unixbench, dd and htparm results

https://gist.github.com/1723876

14 years ago

60 upvotes – 42 comments

Ask Matz: why the id of nil is 4?

http://blog.bigbinary.com/2008/06/23/why-the-id-of-nil-is-4-in-ruby.html

14 years ago

58 upvotes – 18 comments

Android and Security

http://googlemobile.blogspot.com/2012/02/android-and-security.html

14 years ago

58 upvotes – 17 comments

Chinese Tablet Manufacturers breaking the GPLv2

http://www.elpauer.org/?p=1146

14 years ago

57 upvotes – 22 comments

Why Task Manager appears slower when you start it from the Ctrl+Alt+Del dialog?

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2012/01/30/10261611.aspx

14 years ago

52 upvotes – 41 comments

Major unsolved problems in theoretical computer science?

http://cstheory.stackexchange.com/questions/174/major-unsolved-problems-in-theoretical-computer-science

14 years ago

49 upvotes – 28 comments

“Think Profit.”

http://techcrunch.com/2012/02/01/is-this-nuts/

14 years ago

48 upvotes – 10 comments
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