top 50% 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

The Zuckerberg Tax

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/08/opinion/the-zuckerberg-tax.html

14 years ago

136 upvotes – 173 comments

Rich Dad Poor Dad... Worst Personal Finance Book of All Time?

http://finchblogs.com/2012/02/07/rich-dad-poor-dad-review/

14 years ago

134 upvotes – 132 comments

Adobe confirms: no Flash for Chrome on Android

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2012/02/adobe-confirms-no-flash-for-chrome-on-android.ars

14 years ago

119 upvotes – 104 comments

History PhD Student Reaches out to Cryptographers to Help Break a Civil War Code

http://diarycodebreak.wordpress.com/

14 years ago

115 upvotes – 20 comments

No Framework Needed

http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3103-no-framework-needed

14 years ago

115 upvotes – 58 comments

Groupon Posts Disappointing 1Q Results, loses $43M

http://on.wsj.com/yhoJKd

14 years ago

114 upvotes – 37 comments

ReactOS 0.3.14 Released

http://www.reactos.org/en/news_page_70.html

14 years ago

110 upvotes – 34 comments

The Curious Story of the Smart Developer Who Couldn't Find a Job (he liked)

http://blog.calbucci.com/2012/02/curious-story-of-smart-microsoft.html

14 years ago

110 upvotes – 65 comments

Magnetic recording breakthrough reported

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/02/120207133506.htm

14 years ago

101 upvotes – 32 comments

Machine Learning for Hackers Table of Contents

http://www.drewconway.com/zia/?p=2864

14 years ago

101 upvotes – 24 comments

Kickstarter Fundraising Record About To Be Broken

http://pandodaily.com/2012/02/08/kickstarter-fundraising-record-about-to-be-broken/

14 years ago

88 upvotes – 41 comments

Lake Vostok Reached

http://en.ria.ru/society/20120208/171219060.html

14 years ago

81 upvotes – 33 comments

Eric Ries explains the 5 why's in three minutes

http://blogs.hbr.org/video/2012/02/the-5-whys.html

14 years ago

81 upvotes – 28 comments

Your Phone Loses Value Pretty Fast (Unless It's an iPhone)

http://priceonomics.com/phones/#cell-phone-depreciation

14 years ago

78 upvotes – 75 comments

Focus: Executive pay and performance

http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2012/02/focus-0?fsrc=scn/tw/te/dc/executivepayandperformance

14 years ago

76 upvotes – 86 comments

Easy Book: book publishing as easy as it should be

http://easybook-project.org/

14 years ago

76 upvotes – 20 comments

Snapjoy’s Flickraft Promised To Rescue Flickr Photos — Until It Was Blocked

http://techcrunch.com/2012/02/07/snapjoys-flickraft-promised-to-rescue-flickr-photos-until-it-was-blocked/

14 years ago

75 upvotes – 34 comments

It’s not a secret. We do monetize social discovery, and it’s great

http://blog.skimlinks.com/2012/02/08/it%E2%80%99s-not-a-secret/

14 years ago

73 upvotes – 21 comments

Behind the scenes: Reinventing our Default Profile Pictures

http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3104-behind-the-scenes-reinventing-our-default-profile-pictures

14 years ago

69 upvotes – 14 comments

TypedJS: Sanity Check your JavaScript

http://typedjs.com/

14 years ago

68 upvotes – 20 comments

Ubuntu 12.04 ARM Performance Becomes Very Compelling

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=ubuntu_1204_omap4460&num=1

14 years ago

65 upvotes – 13 comments

Transactional Synchronization Extension coming to Intel processors

http://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/2012/02/07/transactional-synchronization-in-haswell/

14 years ago

64 upvotes – 6 comments

Chrome to become the standard browser on Android 4.0 and above

http://androidandme.com/2012/02/applications/goodbye-old-browser-chrome-to-become-the-standard-browser-on-android-4-0-and-above/

14 years ago

64 upvotes – 39 comments

T.S. Eliot's day job at Lloyd's Bank

http://therumpus.net/2012/01/a-peaceful-but-very-interesting-pursuit/

14 years ago

64 upvotes – 15 comments

A full draft of the Ruby on Rails Tutorial, 2nd Edition, is now available

http://news.railstutorial.org/a-full-draft-of-the-ruby-on-rails-tutorial-2n

14 years ago

63 upvotes – 1 comments

16-Year-Old MIT Admit Sends Her Admission Letter Into Space & Films the Journey

http://bostinno.com/2012/02/06/after-a-16-year-old-gets-accepted-to-mit-she-sends-her-admission-letter-into-space-films-the-journey-video/

14 years ago

62 upvotes – 24 comments

Startup idea: Do we value our laundry more than our privacy?

http://clearsignal.posterous.com/do-we-value-our-laundry-more-than-our-privacy

14 years ago

60 upvotes – 20 comments

Using Uninitialized Memory for Fun and Profit

http://research.swtch.com/sparse

14 years ago

60 upvotes – 14 comments

Super Bowl Ads on Twitter: Visualizing the Buzz

http://hotspots.io/superbowl

14 years ago

57 upvotes – 11 comments

AirMech goes NaCl

http://carbongames.com/2012/01/Native-Client/

14 years ago

54 upvotes – 18 comments

DARPA's AlphaDog robot pack mule begins real world testing

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/117493-darpas-alphadog-robot-pack-mule-begins-real-world-testing

14 years ago

53 upvotes – 29 comments
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