top 20 hacker news stories for 2012-02-13

Hit men, click whores, and paid apologists: Welcome to the Silicon Cesspool

http://www.realdanlyons.com/blog/2012/02/13/hit-men-click-whores-and-paid-apologists-welcome-to-the-silicon-cesspool/

14 years ago

1319 upvotes – 195 comments

Back on Linux (after one year of Apple and OS X)

http://dywypi.org/2012/02/back-on-linux.html

14 years ago

593 upvotes – 321 comments

Tumblr Architecture - 15B Page Views a Month and Harder to Scale than Twitter

http://highscalability.com/blog/2012/2/13/tumblr-architecture-15-billion-page-views-a-month-and-harder.html

14 years ago

457 upvotes – 99 comments

Reddit takes a new direction

http://www.b-list.org/weblog/2012/feb/13/reddit/

14 years ago

392 upvotes – 250 comments

The Management Team - Guest Post From Joel Spolsky

http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2012/02/the-management-team-guest-post-from-joel-spolsky.html

14 years ago

305 upvotes – 60 comments

Build a house for less than $5000

http://ciracar.com/build-a-house-for-less-than-5000

14 years ago

280 upvotes – 103 comments

The Fifty is awake again

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1969/12/iron-giant/8886/

14 years ago

273 upvotes – 85 comments

Why I use DuckDuckGo and You Should Too

http://blog.clifreeder.com/blog/2012/02/12/why-i-use-duckduckgo-and-you-should-too/

14 years ago

237 upvotes – 99 comments

Sample App with Backbone.js and Twitter Bootstrap

http://coenraets.org/blog/2012/02/sample-app-with-backbone-js-and-twitter-bootstrap/

14 years ago

227 upvotes – 14 comments

The story of the hardest platform game ever

http://www.pwnee.com/storyofapwnee/

14 years ago

227 upvotes – 120 comments

I had no idea how to make custom maps, so I learnt by doing. You should too.

http://blog.untogether.co.uk/post/17554554409/i-had-no-idea-how-to-make-custom-maps-so-i-learnt-by

14 years ago

210 upvotes – 23 comments

MITx Opens First Course for Enrollment

http://mitx.mit.edu

14 years ago

196 upvotes – 33 comments

Bootstrap's maintainer hates the semicolon

https://github.com/twitter/bootstrap/issues/search?q=semicolon

14 years ago

★ 174.2k MDX MIT
173 upvotes – 133 comments

All the documents that Google deleted from Google Groups, saved by Archive Team

http://www.archive.org/details/archiveteam-googlegroups

14 years ago

151 upvotes – 21 comments

The Pirate Bay's Peter Sunde: It's evolution, stupid

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-02/13/peter-sunde-evolution

14 years ago

139 upvotes – 87 comments

Wayland - Beyond X

http://www.h-online.com/open/features/Wayland-Beyond-X-1432046.html

14 years ago

132 upvotes – 57 comments

MIT launches free online 'fully automated' course

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-17012968

14 years ago

132 upvotes – 37 comments

YC is One of Fast Company's 50 Most Innovative Companies

http://www.fastcompany.com/most-innovative-companies/2012/y-combinator

14 years ago

130 upvotes – 35 comments

The End of Wall Street As They Knew It

http://nymag.com/news/features/wall-street-2012-2/

14 years ago

120 upvotes – 65 comments

First new U.S. nuclear reactors in decades approved

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-nuclear-20120210,0,3657441.story

14 years ago

114 upvotes – 120 comments
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