top 20 hacker news stories for 2012-02-14

Game Developer Gives 7-Year-Old Best Birthday Present Ever

http://martinkool.com/post/17611582440/game-developer-gives-7yr-old-best-birthday-present-ever

14 years ago

593 upvotes – 45 comments

Show HN: Hackershelf. Community curated collection of legally free books

http://hackershelf.com

14 years ago

532 upvotes – 121 comments

How Browsers Work: Behind the Scenes of Modern Web Browsers

http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/internals/howbrowserswork/?

14 years ago

282 upvotes – 41 comments

Bret Victor: Inventing on Principle

http://vimeo.com/36579366

14 years ago

233 upvotes – 19 comments

Why Don't Americans Elect Scientists?

http://campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/13/why-dont-americans-elect-scientists/?hp&gwh=5A17EC6C64B96B318FFDF420BAB9B87D

14 years ago

229 upvotes – 187 comments

Meetings: Where Work Goes to Die

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/02/meetings-where-work-goes-to-die.html

14 years ago

219 upvotes – 85 comments

How Far Can You Get From McDonald's?

http://www.datapointed.net/2009/09/distance-to-nearest-mcdonalds/

14 years ago

194 upvotes – 112 comments

Rediscovering the Rsync Algorithm

http://blog.incubaid.com/2012/02/14/rediscovering-the-rsync-algorithm/

14 years ago

185 upvotes – 43 comments

BitTorrent Live: Cheap, Real-Time P2P Video Streaming That Will Kill TV

http://techcrunch.com/2012/02/13/bittorrent-live/

14 years ago

158 upvotes – 50 comments

On Business Madness

http://al3x.net/2012/02/12/on-business-madness.html

14 years ago

157 upvotes – 17 comments

A myth called the Indian programmer

http://avinashsingh.wordpress.com/2007/04/05/a-myth-called-the-indian-programmer/

14 years ago

146 upvotes – 88 comments

Brainstorming Doesn't Really Work

http://newyorker.com/reporting/2012/01/30/120130fa_fact_lehrer?currentPage=all

14 years ago

139 upvotes – 40 comments

MIT Level Introductory Physics - Free Online Course Starts March 1st

http://relate.mit.edu/physicscourse

14 years ago

126 upvotes – 31 comments

Ron was Wrong, Whit is Right

http://eprint.iacr.org/2012/064.pdf

14 years ago

122 upvotes – 59 comments

What Would The End Of Football Look Like?

http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/7559458/cte-concussion-crisis-economic-look-end-football

14 years ago

119 upvotes – 140 comments

Heroku makes sharing SQL data as easy as URL

http://gigaom.com/cloud/heroku-makes-sharing-sql-data-as-easy-as-url/

14 years ago

117 upvotes – 9 comments

JavaScript: Warts and workarounds

http://matt.might.net/articles/javascript-warts/

14 years ago

117 upvotes – 44 comments

Ramos alarm clock

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2074185253/ramos-alarm-clock

14 years ago

109 upvotes – 69 comments

Google Public DNS: 70 billion requests a day and counting

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/02/google-public-dns-70-billion-requests.html

14 years ago

105 upvotes – 52 comments

Flaw found in online encryption method

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/15/technology/researchers-find-flaw-in-an-online-encryption-method.html?_r=2&hp=&pagewanted=all

14 years ago

104 upvotes – 34 comments
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