top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-02-03

Dear Boss: For a programmer, 10 minutes = 3 hours

http://edweissman.com/dear-boss-for-a-programmer-10-minutes-3-hours

14 years ago

699 upvotes – 157 comments

MusicForProgramming();

http://musicforprogramming.net/

14 years ago

411 upvotes – 180 comments

Facebook hit git performance issue on large repository

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/189776

14 years ago

378 upvotes – 205 comments

Hackful - A Hacker News for Europe

http://hackful.com/

14 years ago

340 upvotes – 165 comments

Never Make Counter-Offers

http://bramcohen.com/2011/12/04/never-make-counter-offers

14 years ago

324 upvotes – 143 comments

My U.S. Border Nightmare

http://zakhomuth.com/my-us-border-nightmare

14 years ago

320 upvotes – 265 comments

Yale Discovers a Fungus That Eats Plastic

http://www.pcworld.com/article/249216/yale_discovers_a_fungus_that_eats_plastic.html

14 years ago

284 upvotes – 80 comments

"They're Made out of Meat?" Short first contact sci-fi story

http://www.terrybisson.com/page6/page6.html

14 years ago

278 upvotes – 62 comments

Anonymous intercepts confidential conference call between FBI and Scotland Yard

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203711104577200872061278502.html

14 years ago

262 upvotes – 96 comments

Reuters totally clueless about the meaning of "hacking"

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/02/03/idUS201473221420120203

14 years ago

215 upvotes – 80 comments

Mac OSX Lion's scroll breaks the web

http://micho.biz/mac-osx-lion-horizontal-scroll-event/

14 years ago

210 upvotes – 157 comments

Polish Prime Minister suspends the ACTA ratification

http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?ie=UTF8&rurl=translate.google.com&sl=pl&tl=en&twu=1&u=http://wiadomosci.gazeta.pl/wiadomosci/1,114884,11084929,Tusk__Zawieszamy_ratyfikacje_ACTA.html&usg=ALkJrhgCMqCs8vdKXp6gBfQmQmA8awpeMQ

14 years ago

164 upvotes – 24 comments

The 'Startup Boom' is a disguised jobs fair for big corporations

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/foremski/silicon-valleys-dirty-little-secret-the-startup-boom-is-a-disguised-jobs-fair-for-big-corporations/2138

14 years ago

158 upvotes – 83 comments

Why Facebook Connect Shouldn't Be Your Only Sign-in Option

http://bijansabet.com/post/16980728547/why-facebook-connect-shouldnt-be-your-only-sign-in

14 years ago

157 upvotes – 105 comments

If you're using Node.js, you're doing life wrong

http://codeslinger.posterous.com/if-youre-using-nodejs-youre-doing-life-wrong

14 years ago

139 upvotes – 93 comments

Show HN: my weekend project, PageBlox

http://pageblox.com

14 years ago

134 upvotes – 32 comments

The Redis Manifesto

http://antirez.com/post/redis-manifesto.html

14 years ago

131 upvotes – 5 comments

The Apple Voice

http://zachholman.com/posts/the-apple-voice/

14 years ago

131 upvotes – 29 comments

VsVim

http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/59ca71b3-a4a3-46ca-8fe1-0e90e3f79329

14 years ago

130 upvotes – 51 comments

Introducing Times (for Python)

http://nvie.com/posts/introducing-times/

14 years ago

128 upvotes – 18 comments

Node.js isn't a silver bullet, but it's still a bullet.

http://crgwbr.com/details/41/nodejs-isnt-a-silver-bullet-but-still-a-bullet/

14 years ago

124 upvotes – 105 comments

Why You Shouldn't Hire More Developers

http://blog.patchspace.co.uk/why-you-shouldnt-hire-more-developers

14 years ago

116 upvotes – 51 comments

Tumblr introduces highlighted posts for $1

http://staff.tumblr.com/post/16980189397/highlighted-posts

14 years ago

97 upvotes – 36 comments

General principles for good URI design for RESTful and HTTP applications

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1619152/how-to-create-rest-urls-without-verbs/1619677#1619677

14 years ago

97 upvotes – 38 comments

Arduino the documentary

http://arduinothedocumentary.org/

14 years ago

96 upvotes – 6 comments

GHC 7.4.1 is out. Now with kind polymorphism. Here's the release notes

http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/7.4.1/html/users_guide/release-7-4-1.html

14 years ago

93 upvotes – 9 comments

Show HN We just launched forking for your Minecraft worlds

http://blog.minefold.com/post/16987166800/gorgeous-maps-cloning-worlds-pro-accounts

14 years ago

92 upvotes – 20 comments

SPDY Brings Responsive and Scalable Transport to Firefox 11

http://hacks.mozilla.org/2012/02/spdy-brings-responsive-and-scalable-transport-to-firefox-11/

14 years ago

91 upvotes – 43 comments

Clojure/core — Functional Relational Programming with Cascalog

http://clojure.com/blog/2012/02/03/functional-relational-programming-with-cascalog.html

14 years ago

90 upvotes – 4 comments

Mozilla developing Web push notification system for Firefox

http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2012/02/mozilla-developing-web-push-notification-system-for-firefox.ars

14 years ago

87 upvotes – 26 comments

Microsoft, Apple, and Google: where does the money come from?

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/bott/microsoft-apple-and-google-where-does-the-money-come-from/4469?tag=mantle_skin;content

14 years ago

85 upvotes – 42 comments

Upverter: Our Y Combinator Experience

http://blog.upverter.com/our-y-combinator-experience

14 years ago

80 upvotes – 13 comments

Listen to your community, but don't let them tell you what to do

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/02/listen-to-your-community-but-dont-let-them-tell-you-what-to-do.html

14 years ago

71 upvotes – 22 comments

Show HN: I've open sourced Bookmarkly, a bookmarking site written in JavaScript

https://github.com/dangrossman/Bookmarkly

14 years ago

★ 602 JavaScript
70 upvotes – 17 comments

Sugar Should Be Regulated As Toxin, Researchers Say

http://news.yahoo.com/sugar-regulated-toxin-researchers-180605186.html;_ylt=Amaj5zLSmK4pdOYz6J.1nJumWot4;_ylu=X3oDMTRzcnNkZHQ3BGNjb2RlA2N0LmMEbWl0A0FydGljbGUgTW9zdCBQb3B1bGFyBHBrZwM5MGM0YzI4NS0xZmNkLTMwYmQtOGMwZi05OWFlYTBhYzM0NGUEcG9zAzMEc2VjA01lZGlhQkxpc3RNaXhlZE1vc3RQb3B1bGFyQ0EEdmVyAzdhZjcyN2FlLTRkZjUtMTFlMS1hNTdiLTZiMzdkYTgyZTI4Yg--;_ylg=X3oDMTNoMDM3N2hhBGludGwDdXMEbGFuZwNlbi11cwRwc3RhaWQDOWI5ZWMzYzMtNTRhNi0zMmUzLTgwN2ItOTZmNmQxYTgyZWE4BHBzdGNhdANwb2xpdGljc3xkZXN0aW5hdGlvbjIwMTIEcHQDc3RvcnlwYWdlBHRlc3QD;_ylv=3

14 years ago

69 upvotes – 98 comments

Stack Exchange: How does noise affect programmer productivity?

http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/132952/studies-on-how-noise-affects-productivity-of-programmers#comment249179_132952

14 years ago

69 upvotes – 31 comments

Motorola vs. Apple: Apple may no longer sell iPhone 3 and 4 in Germany

http://paidcontent.org/article/419-apple-on-motorola-ip-claims-in-germany-this-old-pager-patent-is-invalid/

14 years ago

67 upvotes – 40 comments

Co-Founder of Stripe [YC] Interviewed in Depth (Audio)

http://techzinglive.com/page/939/168-tz-interview-patrick-collison-stripe

14 years ago

66 upvotes – 16 comments
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