top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-02-19

Online Python Tutor

http://people.csail.mit.edu/pgbovine/python/tutor.html#mode=edit

14 years ago

538 upvotes – 45 comments

Our unrealistic views of death, through a doctor’s eyes

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/our-unrealistic-views-of-death-through-a-doctors-eyes/2012/01/31/gIQAeaHpJR_story.html

14 years ago

349 upvotes – 254 comments

How Forbes Stole a New York Times Article and Got All The Traffic

http://nickoneill.com/how-fortune-stole-a-new-york-times-article-and-got-all-the-traffic-2012-02/

14 years ago

247 upvotes – 60 comments

How key-based cache expiration works

http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3113-how-key-based-cache-expiration-works

14 years ago

212 upvotes – 35 comments

Hackathons are nonsense

http://scripting.com/stories/2012/02/19/hackathonsAreNonsense.html

14 years ago

185 upvotes – 71 comments

The Great Web Framework Shootout – On GitHub

https://github.com/seedifferently/the-great-web-framework-shootout

14 years ago

★ 294 PHP
167 upvotes – 72 comments

Parsing Techniques - A Practical Guide

http://dickgrune.com/Books/PTAPG_1st_Edition/

14 years ago

158 upvotes – 20 comments

How to Make and Use a Transparency Grenade

http://transparencygrenade.com/

14 years ago

157 upvotes – 38 comments

Berkeley Computer Vision Class

http://www.vision-class.org/

14 years ago

136 upvotes – 16 comments

The town is no longer friendly for business

http://swombat.com/2012/2/19/friendly-for-business

14 years ago

135 upvotes – 108 comments

Oracle v. Google: "the value of this case keeps getting smaller and smaller"

http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20120218041255197

14 years ago

133 upvotes – 23 comments

Alan Turing's 1950s tiger stripe theory proved

http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-02-alan-turing-1950s-tiger-stripe.html

14 years ago

132 upvotes – 15 comments

The Forgetting Pill Erases Painful Memories Forever

http://www.wired.com/magazine/2012/02/ff_forgettingpill/all/1

14 years ago

131 upvotes – 48 comments

Spicing unix shell scripts

http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/spice-up-your-unix-linux-shell-scripts.html

14 years ago

123 upvotes – 14 comments

Hacker News clone for Python

http://www.pythonmeme.com/

14 years ago

108 upvotes – 30 comments

Objective-C literals for NSDictionary, NSArray, and NSNumber

http://cocoaheads.tumblr.com/post/17757846453/objective-c-literals-for-nsdictionary-nsarray-and

14 years ago

102 upvotes – 57 comments

How casinos distract

http://blog.ketyov.com/2012/02/how-casinos-distract.html

14 years ago

100 upvotes – 36 comments

Show HN: A distributed Recommendation Engine based on Redis + Ruby (and C)

https://github.com/paulasmuth/recommendify

14 years ago

★ 1.6k Ruby
97 upvotes – 11 comments

It's easier to ask for forgiveness than it is to get permission

http://bemmu.posterous.com/its-easier-to-ask-for-forgiveness-than-it-is

14 years ago

94 upvotes – 51 comments

Show HN: StyleBootstrap, create unique Bootstrap design live

http://stylebootstrap.info/

14 years ago

88 upvotes – 7 comments

High-wage skills, or why you might want to learn Clojure if you're not a lawyer

http://onlinelabor.blogspot.com/2012/02/high-wage-skills-on-odesk-or-why-you.html

14 years ago

82 upvotes – 62 comments

Physicists Create a Working Transistor From a Single Atom

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/20/science/physicists-create-a-working-transistor-from-a-single-atom.html

14 years ago

81 upvotes – 14 comments

You Are Not Ruthless Enough

http://playswithfire.com/blog/2012/02/19/you-are-not-ruthless-enough/

14 years ago

79 upvotes – 19 comments

Facebook is losing E-Commerce

http://nikcub.appspot.com/posts/facebook-is-losing-e-commerce

14 years ago

78 upvotes – 32 comments

Show HN: devsigh.com - post all your stories of developer sigh

http://www.devsigh.com

14 years ago

73 upvotes – 33 comments

Save the Libraries. Cut University Funding Instead.

http://jbgst.tumblr.com/post/17854375085/save-the-libraries-cut-university-funding-instead

14 years ago

70 upvotes – 61 comments

My dual core can beat up your quad core, and other mobile CPU mysteries

http://icrontic.com/article/dual-core-faster-than-quad-core-mystery

14 years ago

64 upvotes – 12 comments

Luerl - Lua on the Erlang VM

http://erlang.org/pipermail/erlang-questions/2012-February/064481.html

14 years ago

61 upvotes – 8 comments

Exploit to detect which Social Networks you are logged into

http://www.tomanthony.co.uk/blog/detect-visitor-social-networks/

14 years ago

57 upvotes – 11 comments

The minimal code required in a HTML5 page

http://dev.chetankjain.net/2011/12/minimal-required-code-in-html5.html

14 years ago

57 upvotes – 17 comments

Guilty Developer Syndrome

http://22ideastreet.com/blog/2010/02/02/guilty-developer-syndrome/

14 years ago

54 upvotes – 14 comments

WordPress Functions.php Snippets

http://www.wpfunction.me/

14 years ago

53 upvotes – 5 comments

Mechanical Turk vs oDesk

http://www.behind-the-enemy-lines.com/2012/02/mturk-vs-odesk-my-experiences.html

14 years ago

51 upvotes – 16 comments

Color Bash Prompts

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Color_Bash_Prompt

14 years ago

49 upvotes – 10 comments

JQuery Blend Modes plugin - A new mouse hover idea ..

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/45557606/Envato/CodeCanyon/jQuery-Blend-Modes/index.html

14 years ago

48 upvotes – 24 comments

Pagedown - A JavaScript Markdown converter and editor

http://code.google.com/p/pagedown/

14 years ago

48 upvotes – 8 comments

Safety Nets for Startups

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/02/the-entrepreneur-state-safety-nets-for-startups-capitalism-for-corporations/253211/

14 years ago

47 upvotes – 26 comments
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