top 20 hacker news stories for 2012-02-12

What I've Learned About Smart People.

http://tmac721.tumblr.com/post/17500383225/what-ive-learned-about-smart-people

14 years ago

552 upvotes – 172 comments

Are You a Zen Coder or Distraction-Junkie?

http://www.componentowl.com/blog/2012/02/zen-coder-vs-distraction-junkie/

14 years ago

318 upvotes – 66 comments

Ask HN: What are the good old ideas that still make money on the web?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3581791

14 years ago

224 upvotes – 167 comments

Why Concatenative Programming Matters

http://evincarofautumn.blogspot.com/2012/02/why-concatenative-programming-matters.html

14 years ago

219 upvotes – 40 comments

Reddit: a necessary change in policy

http://www.reddit.com/r/blog/comments/pmj7f/a_necessary_change_in_policy/

14 years ago

175 upvotes – 199 comments

Be Careful When Comparing AWS Costs...

http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2012/02/be-careful-when-comparing-aws-costs.html

14 years ago

163 upvotes – 57 comments

One Story of Nikola Tesla

http://flyingmoose.org/truthfic/tesla.htm

14 years ago

161 upvotes – 44 comments

Post-Mortems For Ten Products I've Built

http://blog.thirdyearmba.com/a-post-mortem-for-ten-projects

14 years ago

131 upvotes – 29 comments

Why Facebook is never safe

http://newmatilda.com/2012/01/23/why-facebook-never-safe

14 years ago

123 upvotes – 57 comments

The 17x17 problem solved

http://blog.computationalcomplexity.org/2012/02/17x17-problem-solved-also-18x18.html

14 years ago

120 upvotes – 37 comments

Ask HN: How to move away from Gmail

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3581613

14 years ago

120 upvotes – 141 comments

Honest People Might Be Dangerous

http://www.sebastianmarshall.com/?p=1416

14 years ago

112 upvotes – 103 comments

Show HN: Very low footprint JSON parser in portable ANSI C

https://github.com/udp/json-parser

14 years ago

★ 1.3k C BSD-2-Clause
111 upvotes – 54 comments

Why so many Python web frameworks?

http://bitworking.org/news/Why_so_many_Python_web_frameworks

14 years ago

110 upvotes – 59 comments

The Cold Reading Technique (How to Read Minds Like a Stage Magician)

http://denisdutton.com/cold_reading.htm

14 years ago

106 upvotes – 24 comments

Anger for Path after Privacy Breach: So Many Apologies, So Much Data Mining

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/12/disruptions-so-many-apologies-so-much-data-mining/

14 years ago

102 upvotes – 62 comments

From r60 to Go 1

http://gophersays.com/from-r60-to-go1/

14 years ago

97 upvotes – 27 comments

Stop the paranoia: it doesn't matter if Google reads our email

http://www.maxmasnick.com/2012/02/12/gmail_paranoia/

14 years ago

95 upvotes – 89 comments

D3: Thinking with Joins

http://bost.ocks.org/mike/join/

14 years ago

94 upvotes – 5 comments

SendHub (YC W12) Lets Businesses Text Their Customers, Teachers Text For Free

http://techcrunch.com/2012/02/12/yc-backed-sendhub-lets-businesses-text-their-customers-and-teachers-text-for-free/

14 years ago

89 upvotes – 33 comments
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