top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-02-10

Iran Shuts Down Major Websites and Https Protocol

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3575029

14 years ago

399 upvotes – 146 comments

Web Standards

http://dcurt.is/web-standards

14 years ago

358 upvotes – 195 comments

The Story of 2 $1 Million Projects in 24 Hours

http://www.kickstarter.com/blog/24-hours

14 years ago

345 upvotes – 78 comments

Dreamliner spells out "787" & Boeing logo over US during test flight

http://flightaware.com/live/flight/BOE236/history/20120209/2100Z/KBFI/KBFI

14 years ago

315 upvotes – 80 comments

V for Vendetta and the Rise of Anonymous - by Alan Moore

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-16968689

14 years ago

298 upvotes – 86 comments

I am a great programmer, but horrible algorithmist

http://leftnode.com/entry/i-am-a-great-programmer-but-horrible-algorithmist

14 years ago

291 upvotes – 178 comments

Germany refuses to sign ACTA (for now)

http://www.panarmenian.net/eng/news/92920/

14 years ago

271 upvotes – 32 comments

Rules of a Zen programmer

http://www.grobmeier.de/the-10-rules-of-a-zen-programmer-03022012.html

14 years ago

264 upvotes – 42 comments

99 Problems But Money Ain't One

http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3107-99-problems-but-money-aint-one

14 years ago

186 upvotes – 76 comments

Pandas 0.7.0 released: Python data analysis library

http://pandas.pydata.org/

14 years ago

182 upvotes – 26 comments

GitHub: About This Week's Availability

https://github.com/blog/1036-about-this-week-s-availability

14 years ago

182 upvotes – 54 comments

The Future of JavaScript

http://blog.chromium.org/2012/02/future-of-javascript-take-peek-today.html

14 years ago

170 upvotes – 109 comments

PyPy 1.8 - business as usual

http://morepypy.blogspot.com/2012/02/pypy-18-business-as-usual.html

14 years ago

167 upvotes – 22 comments

VEVO Execs Must Face Criminal Charges For Copyright Infringement

http://uncrunched.com/2012/02/09/vevo-execs-must-face-criminal-charges-for-copyright-infringement/2012/02/09/vevo-execs-must-face-criminal-charges-for-copyright-infringement/

14 years ago

162 upvotes – 56 comments

Running Dropbox affiliate ads cost me my Adwords account

http://gravitronic.blogspot.com/2012/02/running-dropbox-referral-ads-got-me.html

14 years ago

158 upvotes – 112 comments

How the Boehm Garbage Collector Works

http://discontinuously.com/2012/02/How-the-Boehm-Garbage-Collector-Works/

14 years ago

120 upvotes – 37 comments

High performance libraries in Java

http://vanillajava.blogspot.com/2012/02/high-performance-libraries-in-java.html

14 years ago

117 upvotes – 21 comments

My experience of runnning Google Ads for Dropbox referrals

http://blog.tim-rogers.co.uk/post/17365936308/as-a-nice-little-experiment-and-after-some-posts

14 years ago

108 upvotes – 46 comments

VEVO CEO tries to explain their hypocritical act of piracy at Sundance

http://techcrunch.com/2012/02/10/vevo-ceo-tries-to-explain-their-hypocritical-act-of-piracy-at-sundance/

14 years ago

100 upvotes – 18 comments

The dirty secret of IP calling, and how it will change the phone industry

http://www.theverge.com/2012/2/9/2782401/phoning-it-in-dirty-secret-ip-calling-phone-industry

14 years ago

96 upvotes – 29 comments

Be better at math: Running causes neurogenesis in spatial reasoning region.

http://www.highiqpro.com/iq-mindware/running-improves-fluid-intelligence

14 years ago

96 upvotes – 25 comments

Inbound.org: Community-curated Marketing News

http://inbound.org/

14 years ago

90 upvotes – 58 comments

WebKit Isn’t Breaking the Web. You Are

http://www.webmonkey.com/2012/02/webkit-isnt-breaking-the-web-you-are/

14 years ago

89 upvotes – 63 comments

Does Facebook Have a Secret Paper Fetish?

http://www.collectorsweekly.com/articles/facebook-secret-paper-fetish/

14 years ago

87 upvotes – 19 comments

Getting started with iOS development on Heroku

http://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/getting-started-ios-development-sinatra-cedar

14 years ago

83 upvotes – 15 comments

Scale of Universe

http://scaleofuniverse.com/

14 years ago

82 upvotes – 26 comments

BitTorrent Piracy Doesn’t Affect US Box Office Returns, Study Finds

https://torrentfreak.com/bittorrent-piracy-doesnt-effect-us-box-office-returns-study-finds-120210/

14 years ago

77 upvotes – 23 comments

There is No Root Cause

http://www.kitchensoap.com/2012/02/10/each-necessary-but-only-jointly-sufficient/

14 years ago

77 upvotes – 19 comments

Why I don't use recent travel startups

http://blog.mozio.com/why-the-recent-wave-of-travel-startups-are-mo

14 years ago

72 upvotes – 40 comments

Cathode: A terminal app for mac that looks really cool

http://itunes.apple.com/en/app/id499233976?mt=12&affId=403761

14 years ago

72 upvotes – 60 comments

Retro design is crippling innovation

http://www.wired.co.uk/magazine/archive/2012/03/ideas-bank/clive-thompson

14 years ago

67 upvotes – 40 comments

Literate Programming Matters

https://github.com/raganwald/homoiconic/blob/master/2012/02/Literate-Programming-Matters.md

14 years ago

★ 1.8k Ruby
67 upvotes – 20 comments

Clojure Tutorial For the Non-Lisp Programmer

http://www.moxleystratton.com/article/clojure/for-non-lisp-programmers

14 years ago

64 upvotes – 4 comments

17 Year Old Developer Goes Up Against 19/yo with $1.1 Million

http://psocha.co.uk/im-a-17-year-old-developer-and-im-up-against-a-19-year-old-his-company-and-a-1-1m-investment

14 years ago

61 upvotes – 43 comments

Sneak peek of the greatest toy robot ever invented

http://www.geek.com/articles/gadgets/sneak-peak-of-the-greatest-toy-robot-ever-invented-20120210/

14 years ago

59 upvotes – 11 comments

Steve Blank releases updated book

http://steveblank.com/2012/02/09/two-giant-steps-forward-for-entrepreneurs

14 years ago

58 upvotes – 24 comments

Hands-on video with Tesla’s electric Model X

http://gigaom.com/cleantech/hands-on-video-with-teslas-electric-suv-the-model-x/

14 years ago

56 upvotes – 27 comments

Where is LL.next?

http://blog.fogus.me/2012/02/10/where-is-ll1-next/

14 years ago

54 upvotes – 4 comments

Get up to 4.5GB of extra space on Dropbox for free

http://lifehacker.com/5881692/get-up-to-45gb-of-extra-space-on-dropbox-for-uploading-photos-and-videos

14 years ago

51 upvotes – 19 comments

EasyXDM – crossdomain javascript done right

http://www.zemanta.com/fruitblog/easyxdm-crossdomain-javascript-done-right/

14 years ago

50 upvotes – 23 comments

Recently Open-Sourced Django Apps from Eldarion

http://eldarion.com/blog/2012/02/10/recent-apps-weve-open-sourced/

14 years ago

49 upvotes – 2 comments

How One Kitchen Table in Brooklyn Became a School for Coders

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/print/2012/02/how-one-kitchen-table-in-brooklyn-became-a-school-for-coders/252809/

14 years ago

48 upvotes – 0 comments
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