top 50% 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

When Will Being a Non-TSA Airport Become a Competitive Advantage?

http://mfshot.com/2012/02/when-will-being-a-non-tsa-airport-become-a-competitive-advantage/

14 years ago

118 upvotes – 74 comments

I Have No Idea [Why Apple Featured My App]

http://blog.mikeswanson.com/post/17160200980/i-have-no-idea

14 years ago

117 upvotes – 21 comments

Female Passengers Say They Were Targeted for TSA Body Scanners

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/02/female-body-scans/

14 years ago

114 upvotes – 58 comments

Anonymous plans to take down the 13 root DNS servers that power the Internet?

http://pastebin.com/NKbnh8q8

14 years ago

105 upvotes – 103 comments

Tetris Game in 140 Bytes of JavaScript

https://gist.github.com/1672254/

14 years ago

104 upvotes – 10 comments

Built in Boston: Why Great Entrepreneurs Are Choosing MA to Build Their Startups

http://bostinno.com/2012/02/14/built-in-boston-why-great-entrepreneurs-are-choosing-ma-to-build-their-startups/

14 years ago

103 upvotes – 60 comments

Author Steven Johnson on what e-books are missing: "Skimming."

http://blog.findings.com/post/17661615384/how-we-will-read-steven-johnson

14 years ago

99 upvotes – 63 comments

The Dangerous "Research Works Act"

http://techcrunch.com/2012/02/15/the-dangerous-research-works-act/

14 years ago

97 upvotes – 31 comments

New D programming language forum, written entirely in D

http://forum.dlang.org/

14 years ago

97 upvotes – 26 comments

Why did the Windows 95 Start button have a secret shortcut for closing it?

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2012/02/13/10267063.aspx

14 years ago

94 upvotes – 19 comments

Engineer rigs nerf gun to shoot himself when his stories are rejected in Pivotal

http://blog.evantahler.com/pivotal-tracker-phidgets-and-nerf-guns

14 years ago

88 upvotes – 13 comments

RubyMine 4 is Here to Make You Feel the Productivity

http://blog.jetbrains.com/ruby/2012/02/rubymine-4-is-here-to-make-you-feel-the-productivity/

14 years ago

85 upvotes – 56 comments

Fun with analytics: pitting Hacker News and /r/programming against each other

http://blog.untogether.co.uk/post/17661390124/fun-with-analytics-pitting-hacker-news-and

14 years ago

83 upvotes – 33 comments

Mammals Made By Viruses

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2012/02/14/mammals-made-by-viruses/

14 years ago

81 upvotes – 8 comments

From encryption to darknets: As governments snoop, activists fight back

http://arstechnica.com/business/the-networked-society/2012/02/from-encryption-to-darknets-as-governments-snoop-activists-fight-back.ars

14 years ago

67 upvotes – 23 comments

A personal appeal from a former Wikipedia editor

http://kevinforsyth.net/weblog/2012/01/please-read-a-personal-appeal-from-a-former-wikipedia-editor/

14 years ago

64 upvotes – 82 comments

Clear: doing for To Do lists what Dropbox did for file syncing

http://www.elezea.com/2012/02/clear-app-review/

14 years ago

64 upvotes – 57 comments

Doing Biotech in My Bedroom

http://www.technologyreview.com/business/39597/?p1=BI

14 years ago

63 upvotes – 22 comments

Fast algorithm for finding RSA keys with shared prime factors

http://11011110.livejournal.com/241173.html

14 years ago

62 upvotes – 4 comments

First FOSDEM video recordings uploaded

http://fosdem.org/2012/news/first-video-recordings-uploaded

14 years ago

59 upvotes – 4 comments

There's no need to panic over factorable keys--just mind your Ps and Qs

https://freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/nadiah/new-research-theres-no-need-panic-over-factorable-keys-just-mind-your-ps-and-qs

14 years ago

57 upvotes – 1 comments

Copyright enforcement and the Internet: we just haven't tried hard enough?

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/02/copyright-enforcement-and-the-internet-we-just-havent-tried-hard-enough.ars

14 years ago

56 upvotes – 31 comments

Download bots are a well-known secret of the iOS eco-system

http://www.insidemobileapps.com/2012/02/14/download-bots-were-the-well-known-secret-of-the-app-ecosystem

14 years ago

56 upvotes – 39 comments
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