top 50% 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

Ace - Sinatra for Node with Fibers

https://github.com/maccman/ace#

14 years ago

★ 454 JavaScript
100 upvotes – 37 comments

Crack WPA on the cloud

https://www.cloudcracker.com/

14 years ago

95 upvotes – 28 comments

Kotlin Goes Open Source

http://blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/2012/02/kotlin-goes-open-source-2/

14 years ago

94 upvotes – 37 comments

Snacking Hierarchy

http://habitformed.com/2012/02/13/snacking-hierarchy

14 years ago

93 upvotes – 51 comments

Visualizing YouTube with my home-made JavaScript graph drawing library

http://www.yasiv.com/youtube#/Search?q=Write%20in%20C%20-%20Let%20it%20be%20Cover%20-%20Piano&id=XHosLhPEN3k

14 years ago

88 upvotes – 29 comments

Horde backdoored

http://dev.horde.org/h/jonah/stories/view.php?channel_id=1&id=155

14 years ago

84 upvotes – 40 comments

Facebook already went public, you weren't invited

http://finance.fortune.cnn.com/2012/02/08/facebook-ipo-numbers/

14 years ago

83 upvotes – 26 comments

Python’s Valentines Day Gift to Clojure

http://sunng.info/blog/2012/02/pythons-valentines-day-gift-to-clojure/

14 years ago

80 upvotes – 12 comments

Quantified Self: investigating Vitamin D & sleep with a Zeo

http://www.gwern.net/Zeo#vitamin-d

14 years ago

79 upvotes – 30 comments

How A Missing Favicon Broke My App for Chrome Users

http://allinthehead.com/retro/359/a-favicon-broke-my-app

14 years ago

78 upvotes – 19 comments

When will experiences replace movie theaters?

http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/experiences

14 years ago

77 upvotes – 55 comments

Show HN: Our first iPhone app, built entirely in JavaScript

http://ravn.com/getapp

14 years ago

74 upvotes – 51 comments

NSScreencast: Bite-sized Screencasts for iOS Development

http://nsscreencast.com/

14 years ago

73 upvotes – 17 comments

Happy Anti-Valentine's Day from Grouper

https://www.joingrouper.com/anti-valentines-day

14 years ago

72 upvotes – 16 comments

City Layout Design: A programmer's perspective

http://thedissectionroom.com/ideal-city-design-by-transportation-layout

14 years ago

68 upvotes – 54 comments

How Y Combinator's powerful alumni network operates

http://infographics.fastcompany.com/magazine/163/y-connector-xl.html

14 years ago

68 upvotes – 12 comments

Clojure implemented on top of Python

https://github.com/eigenhombre/PyClojure

14 years ago

★ 113 Python
64 upvotes – 36 comments

Interactive homepage (Canvas + node.js + socket.io)

http://indutny.com/

14 years ago

64 upvotes – 22 comments

Isis: webOS browser, written in WebKit and Enyo

http://isis-project.org/

14 years ago

62 upvotes – 11 comments

8-bit style, old-school adventure game released for Linux, Mac and Windows

http://lunduke.com/?p=2190

14 years ago

61 upvotes – 25 comments

Introducing /etc/os-release - End to distribution specific release files

http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/os-release.html

14 years ago

60 upvotes – 41 comments

In-Depth Tutorial on iOS Push Notifications with Parse in 10 Minutes

https://parse.com/tutorials/ios-push-notifications

14 years ago

60 upvotes – 9 comments

Google's acquisition of Motorola approved by EU and U.S DoJ regulators

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/02/european-commission-clears-motorola.html

14 years ago

58 upvotes – 43 comments

Does Government GIS Data Belong to the People?

http://www.cadalyst.com/gis/does-government-gis-data-belong-people-14283?no_cache=1328735997

14 years ago

53 upvotes – 29 comments

Pssst... your Rails application has a secret to tell you

http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3091-pssst-your-rails-application-has-a-secret-to-tell-you

14 years ago

51 upvotes – 2 comments

What's new in Scala 2.10

http://ochsenreither.posterous.com/whats-new-in-210

14 years ago

50 upvotes – 11 comments

ChefHangout is a genius use of Google+ Hangouts and could actually make money

http://thenextweb.com/apps/2012/02/14/chefhangout-is-a-genius-use-of-google-hangouts-and-could-actually-make-money/

14 years ago

45 upvotes – 13 comments

Show HN: Facebook response to Lovestagram. Our Valentine's weekend project.

http://www.fbmyvalentine.com

14 years ago

43 upvotes – 27 comments

A Schrödinger cat with eight lives: quantum entanglement of eight photons

http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2012/02/a-schrodinger-cat-with-eight-tails-quantum-entanglement-of-eight-photons.ars?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+arstechnica%2Findex+%28Ars+Technica+-+Featured+Content%29

14 years ago

43 upvotes – 8 comments

Old school sierra adventure games ported to HTML + JS

http://sarien.net/

14 years ago

41 upvotes – 15 comments
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