top 50% 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

Are You a Zen Coder or Distraction-Junkie?

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

14 years ago

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

Why Concatenative Programming Matters

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

14 years ago

Reddit: a necessary change in policy

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

14 years ago

Be Careful When Comparing AWS Costs...

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

14 years ago

One Story of Nikola Tesla

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

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Post-Mortems For Ten Products I've Built

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

14 years ago

Why Facebook is never safe

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

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Ask HN: How to move away from Gmail

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

14 years ago

The 17x17 problem solved

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

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Honest People Might Be Dangerous

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

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

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

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★ 1.3k C BSD-2-Clause

Why so many Python web frameworks?

http://bitworking.org/news/Why_so_many_Python_web_frameworks

14 years ago

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

http://denisdutton.com/cold_reading.htm

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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

From r60 to Go 1

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

14 years ago

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

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

14 years ago

D3: Thinking with Joins

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

14 years ago

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

Garry's SF Guide to Where Your Startup Should Be

http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&oe=UTF8&msa=0&msid=111291639665197066699.00048b3c0d910bf1a232a

14 years ago

Ask HN: What would you work on, if money was of no concern?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3581916

14 years ago

Thunderbolt-DMA-land: Hacking Macs through the Thunderbolt interface

http://www.breaknenter.org/2012/02/adventures-with-daisy-in-thunderbolt-dma-land-hacking-macs-through-the-thunderbolt-interface/

14 years ago

Don't say you weren't warned

http://www.roughtype.com/archives/2012/02/dont_say_you_we.php

14 years ago

NASA unplugs last mainframe

http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/nasa-unplugs-last-mainframe

14 years ago

Pet Projects

http://blog.fogus.me/2009/05/29/pet-projects/

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The End of the Mexican Road

http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2012/02/11/the-end-of-the-mexican-road/?awesm=bothsid.es_Hns&utm_campaign=&utm_medium=bothsid.es-twitter&utm_source=t.co&utm_content=awesm-publisher

14 years ago

Happy Family, Successful Start-up. Impossible?

http://www.inc.com/jessica-stillman/your-family-will-pay-for-your-start-up-dreams.html

14 years ago

Want me to download your app? Please do this.

http://www.wheresitworking.com/2012/02/12/want-me-to-download-your-app-please-do-this/

14 years ago

Checking account hacked by Tagged member. 48 hours, no response from Tagged.

http://www.taeyoungwoo.com/checking-account-hacked-by-taggedcom-member-n

14 years ago

Remove Finder from the Application Switcher in Mac OSX

http://blog.joshdzielak.com/blog/2012/02/12/remove-finder-from-the-app-switcher-in-mac-osx/

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