top 20 hacker news stories for 2012-02-15

14 years ago: the day Teller gave me the secret to my career in magic.

http://shwood.squarespace.com/news/2009/9/21/14-years-ago-the-day-teller-gave-me-the-secret-to-my-career.html

14 years ago

797 upvotes – 63 comments

Show HN: Bootswatch, free swatches for your Bootstrap site

http://bootswatch.com

14 years ago

407 upvotes – 53 comments

How a big movie studio (unfairly) forced a student to give up his senior thesis

http://www.reddit.com/r/SOPA/comments/pq8ra/this_is_why_i_oppose_the_mpaa?

14 years ago

369 upvotes – 89 comments

Walter Isaacson’s ‘Steve Jobs’

http://daringfireball.net/2012/02/walter_isaacson_steve_jobs

14 years ago

368 upvotes – 249 comments

The machine's view of time, if nanoseconds were seconds

https://plus.google.com/112493031290529814667/posts/LvhVwngPqSC

14 years ago

355 upvotes – 64 comments

Books every self-taught computer scientist should read

http://eric.themoritzfamily.com/books-every-self-taught-computer-scientist-should-read.html

14 years ago

229 upvotes – 76 comments

The 'Undue Weight' of Truth on Wikipedia

http://chronicle.com/article/The-Undue-Weight-of-Truth-on/130704/

14 years ago

220 upvotes – 134 comments

Apple will require apps to ask users for permission to address books

http://allthingsd.com/20120215/apple-app-access-to-contact-data-will-require-explicit-user-permission/

14 years ago

210 upvotes – 106 comments

Unix as IDE

http://blog.sanctum.geek.nz/series/unix-as-ide/

14 years ago

204 upvotes – 104 comments

Responsive Text

http://www.frankieroberto.com/responsive_text

14 years ago

192 upvotes – 60 comments

Can’t monetize free users? Try threatening them with legal action

http://teamblog.supportbee.com/2012/02/15/cant-monetize-free-users-try-threatening-them-with-legal-action/

14 years ago

188 upvotes – 86 comments

How To Crash A Party

http://www.nevblog.com/how-to-crash-a-party/

14 years ago

180 upvotes – 61 comments

Louis CK inspires Jim Gaffigan to sell comedy special for $5 online

http://www.whosay.com/jimgaffigan/content/218011

14 years ago

174 upvotes – 67 comments

The Ultimate Steve Jobs Collection

http://chill.com/scott/collection/the-ultimate-steve-jobs-collection

14 years ago

151 upvotes – 18 comments

The destructive desktop — Linux in trouble?

http://blog.ngas.ch/archives/2011/12/13/the_destructive_desktop__mdash_linux_in_trouble/index.html

14 years ago

141 upvotes – 76 comments

Simplified Sign-Up and Log-In Flows

http://sachagreif.com/simplified-sign-up-and-log-in/

14 years ago

139 upvotes – 86 comments

Your address book is mine: Many iPhone apps take your data

http://venturebeat.com/2012/02/14/iphone-address-book/

14 years ago

126 upvotes – 54 comments

Major Bitcoin exchange shuts down, blaming regulation and loss of funds

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/02/major-bitcoin-exchange-shuts-down-blaming-regulation-and-loss-of-funds.ars

14 years ago

122 upvotes – 46 comments

MySQL Cluster 7.2 GA Released, Delivers 1 Billion Queries per Minute

http://www.mysql.com/why-mysql/white-papers/mysql-cluster-7.2-ga.html

14 years ago

122 upvotes – 33 comments

What Craigslist Did Right: User Management Without Usernames or Passwords

https://jobpoacher.com/blog/blog/2012/02/13/what-craigslist-did-right-user-management-without-passwords/

14 years ago

120 upvotes – 33 comments
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