top 20 hacker news stories for 2012-02-08

ASCII interactive fluid animation

http://nkwiatek.com/

14 years ago

663 upvotes – 66 comments

We are sorry

http://blog.path.com/post/17274932484/we-are-sorry

14 years ago

533 upvotes – 211 comments

Roger Boisjoly dies at 73; engineer tried to halt Challenger launch

http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-roger-boisjoly-20120207,0,2248999.story

14 years ago

375 upvotes – 101 comments

Advanced Data Structures MIT

http://courses.csail.mit.edu/6.851/spring12/

14 years ago

293 upvotes – 31 comments

Hipster (like Path) uploads your address book emails to its servers

http://markchang.tumblr.com/post/17244167951/hipster-uploads-part-of-your-iphone-address-book-to-its

14 years ago

291 upvotes – 77 comments

Vim University - Screencasts and Articles for Serious Vim Students

http://vimuniversity.com/

14 years ago

270 upvotes – 34 comments

The Ruby on Rails Tutorial, 2nd Edition (full draft)

http://ruby.railstutorial.org/ruby-on-rails-tutorial-book?version=3.2#top

14 years ago

268 upvotes – 45 comments

Stealing Your Address Book

http://dcurt.is/stealing-your-address-book

14 years ago

239 upvotes – 84 comments

BBC confronts Facebook troll

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-57372861-71/bbc-confronts-facebook-troll/

14 years ago

233 upvotes – 127 comments

Fast enough VMs in fast enough time

http://tratt.net/laurie/tech_articles/articles/fast_enough_vms_in_fast_enough_time

14 years ago

228 upvotes – 33 comments

A $5000 Chair

http://battlehardened.wordpress.com/2012/02/07/a-5000-chair/

14 years ago

217 upvotes – 58 comments

Star Trek as a purely symbolic artifact of past times

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2012/02/shitsiskosays.html

14 years ago

215 upvotes – 127 comments

Machine Learning for Hackers

http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920018483.do

14 years ago

182 upvotes – 43 comments

Tribler Makes BitTorrent Impossible to Shut Down

http://torrentfreak.com/tribler-makes-bittorrent-impossible-to-shut-down-120208/

14 years ago

178 upvotes – 60 comments

Magnet-hashes for all torrents on The Pirate Bay: 164 MB

http://thepiratebay.se/torrent/7016365/The_whole_Pirate_Bay_magnet_archive

14 years ago

176 upvotes – 93 comments

Patent troll claims ownership of interactive Web—and might win

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/02/patent-troll-claims-ownership-of-interactive-weband-might-win.ars

14 years ago

155 upvotes – 66 comments

Gumroad Gets $1.1 Million To Turn Any Link Into A Payment System

http://techcrunch.com/2012/02/08/gumroad-gets-1-1-million-from-chris-sacca-max-levchin-and-others-to-turn-any-link-into-a-payment-system/

14 years ago

153 upvotes – 55 comments

Tim Berners-Lee Takes the Stand to Keep the Web Free

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/02/tim-berners-lee-patent/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+wired%2Findex+%28Wired%3A+Index+3+%28Top+Stories+2%29%29

14 years ago

140 upvotes – 22 comments

The New York Times just stole our column. Should we sue?

http://blog.thephoenix.com/BLOGS/phlog/archive/2012/02/08/bill-keller-new-york-times-stole-our-column-should-we-sue.aspx

14 years ago

138 upvotes – 30 comments

Node.native - Node.js in C++0x

https://github.com/d5/node.native

14 years ago

★ 1.1k C++ MIT
138 upvotes – 52 comments
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