top 50% 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

Microsoft Store hacked in India, passwords stored in plain text

http://www.engadget.com/2012/02/12/microsoft-store-hacked-in-india-leaked-passwords-stored-in-plai/

14 years ago

109 upvotes – 35 comments

Firefox 2012 Roadmap published

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Roadmap

14 years ago

100 upvotes – 67 comments

JavaScript Jabber: Backbone.js

http://javascriptjabber.com/004-jsj-backbone-js-with-jeremy-ashkenas/

14 years ago

99 upvotes – 20 comments

Validate your startup idea by asking 3 simple questions

http://paraschopra.com/blog/entrepreneurship/validate-startup-idea.htm

14 years ago

97 upvotes – 46 comments

Final design of VLC 2.0 for Mac

http://feepk.posterous.com/final-design-of-vlc-20-for-mac

14 years ago

96 upvotes – 53 comments

Erlang is a hoarder

http://andy.wordpress.com/2012/02/13/erlang-is-a-hoarder/

14 years ago

90 upvotes – 12 comments

HTML5 Rocks has a whole new look

http://www.html5rocks.com/en/

14 years ago

89 upvotes – 26 comments

Facebook, It's Like Instagram for Birthdays

http://www.jakelevine.me/blog/2012/02/facebook-its-like-instagram-for-birthdays/

14 years ago

89 upvotes – 46 comments

Steve Blank's new book - The Startup Owner's Manual

http://www.stevenblank.com/startup_index_qty.html

14 years ago

86 upvotes – 30 comments

.NET: So long and thanks for all the fish

http://lucisferre.net/2012/02/08/dot-net-so-long-and-thanks-for-all-the-fish/

14 years ago

85 upvotes – 104 comments

Tor's latest project helps Iran get back online

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/02/tors-latest-project-helps-iran-get-back-online-amidst-internet-censorship-regime.ars

14 years ago

84 upvotes – 5 comments

Europe's new rocket, Vega, launches in a few minutes; live stream

http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Vega/SEM8QAWX7YG_0.html

14 years ago

83 upvotes – 28 comments

Rails migrations with no downtime

http://pedro.herokuapp.com/past/2011/7/13/rails_migrations_with_no_downtime/

14 years ago

82 upvotes – 21 comments

How to build the best of breed web apps

http://www.html5rocks.com/webappfieldguide/toc/index/

14 years ago

80 upvotes – 15 comments

Google this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3587567

14 years ago

78 upvotes – 17 comments

Restify 1.0 for Node.js is officially out

http://mcavage.github.com/node-restify/

14 years ago

76 upvotes – 26 comments

California Cuts All State Funding for Libraries

http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/home/893065-264/with_mid-year_cut_california_reduces.html.csp

14 years ago

70 upvotes – 66 comments

An introduction to genetic algorithms

http://www.theprojectspot.com/tutorial-post/creating-a-genetic-algorithm-for-beginners/3

14 years ago

68 upvotes – 14 comments

Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal - Letter to the editor, Datamation July 1983

http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/real.programmers.html

14 years ago

65 upvotes – 41 comments
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