top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-02-20

Twitter to move away from Hashbangs

http://storify.com/timhaines/hashbang-conversation

14 years ago

363 upvotes – 77 comments

From the IE Team: Google Bypassing User Privacy Settings

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2012/02/20/google-bypassing-user-privacy-settings.aspx

14 years ago

313 upvotes – 174 comments

Splash screens == sloth

http://asserttrue.blogspot.com/2012/02/splash-screens-sloth.html

14 years ago

258 upvotes – 242 comments

How to Acquire a Domain Name (That Someone Already Owns)

http://blog.domai.nr/post/17910329952/buy-a-domain-that-someone-else-owns

14 years ago

203 upvotes – 83 comments

Computing 10,000x More Efficiently (slides)

http://web.media.mit.edu/~bates/Summary_files/BatesTalk.pdf

14 years ago

185 upvotes – 41 comments

Scamming the scammers – catching the virus call centre scammers red-handed

http://www.troyhunt.com/2012/02/scamming-scammers-catching-virus-call.html

14 years ago

180 upvotes – 42 comments

Why I Still Use Emacs

http://gnuvince.wordpress.com/2012/02/19/why-i-still-use-emacs/

14 years ago

178 upvotes – 108 comments

Amon - server monitoring, simplified logging and error tracking for web apps

http://amon.cx

14 years ago

168 upvotes – 35 comments

Dead for 32,000 Years, an Arctic Plant Is Revived

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/21/science/new-life-from-an-arctic-flower-that-died-32000-years-ago.html

14 years ago

163 upvotes – 21 comments

The shutdown of library.nu

http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings-reloaded/2012/02/the-shutdown-of-library-nu/

14 years ago

144 upvotes – 71 comments

Learn from Haskell - Functional, Reusable JavaScript

http://seanhess.github.com/2012/02/20/functional_javascript.html

14 years ago

139 upvotes – 48 comments

It’s Just Math

http://raganwald.posterous.com/its-just-math

14 years ago

135 upvotes – 50 comments

Convore Shutting Down

http://blog.convore.com/post/17951919109/convore-shutting-down-april-1st

14 years ago

130 upvotes – 87 comments

Using CSS without HTML

http://mathiasbynens.be/notes/css-without-html

14 years ago

125 upvotes – 25 comments

Notifications are Evil

http://www.informationdiet.com/blog/read/notifications-are-evil

14 years ago

121 upvotes – 63 comments

Show HN: QR Pixel encodes pixel art in QR codes.

http://www.qrpixel.com

14 years ago

119 upvotes – 25 comments

Steve Jobs Solved the Innovator's Dilemma

http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2011/10/steve_jobs_solved_the_innovato.html

14 years ago

117 upvotes – 55 comments

Why the NFL bans iPads (and other technology)

http://blog.ericelias.org/blog/2012/02/17/why-the-nfl-bans-ipads-and-other-technology/

14 years ago

111 upvotes – 57 comments

All Conj 2011 Videos Available

http://clojure.com/blog/2012/02/20/all-conj-2011-videos-available.html

14 years ago

100 upvotes – 10 comments

Better than templates, building highly dynamic web pages

http://blog.fastmail.fm/2012/02/20/building-the-new-ajax-mail-ui-part-2-better-than-templates-building-highly-dynamic-web-pages/

14 years ago

95 upvotes – 43 comments

Debian Announces Position on Software Patents

http://www.debian.org/News/2012/20120219

14 years ago

88 upvotes – 35 comments

Advanced caching in Rails

http://broadcastingadam.com/2011/05/advanced_caching_in_rails

14 years ago

86 upvotes – 18 comments

On naming

http://quietlyamused.org/blog/2012/02/19/on-naming/

14 years ago

85 upvotes – 47 comments

Is Writing Style Sufficient to Deanonymize Material Posted Online?

http://33bits.org/2012/02/20/is-writing-style-sufficient-to-deanonymize-material-posted-online/

14 years ago

82 upvotes – 40 comments

Berkeley DB Architecture - NoSQL Before NoSQL Was Cool

http://highscalability.com/blog/2012/2/20/berkeley-db-architecture-nosql-before-nosql-was-cool.html

14 years ago

81 upvotes – 22 comments

Jobs made Apple great by ignoring profit

http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2011/08/29/jobs-made-apple-great-by-ignoring-profit/

14 years ago

81 upvotes – 74 comments

Do browsers parse javascript on every page load?

http://stackoverflow.com/a/9261355/892397

14 years ago

79 upvotes – 19 comments

Another Xcode Version, Another Example of Crappy Apple QA

http://thecodist.com/article/another_xcode_version_another_example_of_crappy_apple_qa

14 years ago

72 upvotes – 54 comments

Google buys what’s left of defunct search startup Cuil

http://venturebeat.com/2012/02/20/google-buys-cuil-patents/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Venturebeat+%28VentureBeat%29

14 years ago

70 upvotes – 28 comments

From 10 Hours a Week, $10 Million a Year

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/13/business/13digi.html?pagewanted=all

14 years ago

58 upvotes – 21 comments

5 years away from programming, boy have things changed

http://dannydo.es/5-years-away-from-programming/

14 years ago

53 upvotes – 9 comments

Why is C++ still a very popular language in quantitative finance?

http://quant.stackexchange.com/questions/1764/why-is-c-still-a-very-popular-language-in-quantitative-finance

14 years ago

52 upvotes – 49 comments

Best Tools to Make Easy CSS3 Development

http://webinsightlab.com/design/8-best-tools-to-make-easy-css3-development/

14 years ago

51 upvotes – 12 comments

Show HN: Our Startup's 404 Page Currently Most Popular On Site (web only)

http://workfu.com/404

14 years ago

51 upvotes – 21 comments

Inflection point: Kickstarter has 3 $1M+ project in 2 weeks

http://venturebeat.com/2012/02/20/kickstarter-million-project-pledge-order-of-the-stick/

14 years ago

50 upvotes – 32 comments

Face of the Faceless

http://www.mikealrogers.com/posts/face-of-the-faceless.html

14 years ago

48 upvotes – 2 comments

Show HN: A Collaborative Code Editor (like EtherPad with Syntax Highlighting)

http://snucode.com

14 years ago

46 upvotes – 20 comments

SkyDrive and Windows 8

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2012/02/20/connecting-your-apps_2c00_-files_2c00_-pcs-and-devices-to-the-cloud-with-skydrive-and-windows-8.aspx

14 years ago

46 upvotes – 28 comments

A thorn in the side for science publishers

http://www.ethlife.ethz.ch/archive_articles/120217_bibliothek_neubauer/index_EN

14 years ago

46 upvotes – 3 comments
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