top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-02-22

The myth of the eight-hour sleep

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-16964783

14 years ago

607 upvotes – 161 comments

"It's A Brick" - Tesla Motors' Devastating Design Problem

http://theunderstatement.com/post/18030062041/its-a-brick-tesla-motors-devastating-design

14 years ago

542 upvotes – 268 comments

EFF Wins Protection for Time Zone Database

https://www.eff.org/press/releases/eff-wins-protection-time-zone-database

14 years ago

457 upvotes – 36 comments

Remove Google Search History Before New Privacy Policy Takes Effect

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/02/how-remove-your-google-search-history-googles-new-privacy-policy-takes-effect

14 years ago

399 upvotes – 150 comments

Hack your way through Stripe's Capture the Flag

https://stripe.com/blog/capture-the-flag

14 years ago

391 upvotes – 199 comments

Cogs bad

http://williamedwardscoder.tumblr.com/post/18065079081/cogs-bad

14 years ago

313 upvotes – 76 comments

How Exercise Fuels the Brain

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/22/how-exercise-fuels-the-brain/?gwh=E719F4F4FBE1F513EB0D1E0E9ACFD189

14 years ago

287 upvotes – 18 comments

Sublime Text 2 Build 2181

http://www.sublimetext.com/blog/articles/sublime-text-2-build-2181

14 years ago

275 upvotes – 111 comments

Flash For Linux Will Only Be Available For Chrome

http://blogs.adobe.com/flashplayer/2012/02/adobe-and-google-partnering-for-flash-player-on-linux.html

14 years ago

240 upvotes – 184 comments

Rapportive (YC S10) Has Been Acquired By LinkedIn

http://blog.rapportive.com/rapportive-acquired-by-linkedin

14 years ago

222 upvotes – 36 comments

Paul Graham: Why Y Combinator Replaces The Traditional Corporation

http://www.fastcompany.com/1818523/paul-graham-why-y-combinator-replaces-the-traditional-corporation

14 years ago

215 upvotes – 93 comments

Github is my resume

http://pydanny.blogspot.com/2011/08/github-is-my-resume.html

14 years ago

154 upvotes – 67 comments

Faster-than-light neutrino result may have been due to bad connection

http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2012/02/breaking-news-error-undoes-faster.html

14 years ago

153 upvotes – 68 comments

HyperDex: A Searchable Distributed Key-Value Store

http://hyperdex.org/performance/

14 years ago

139 upvotes – 88 comments

VoiceBunny: Fast and professional voiceovers (with an API).

http://voicebunny.com/

14 years ago

130 upvotes – 50 comments

Kevin Fox on recent Google UX changes: from strange-to-me to just-plain-crazy

https://plus.google.com/117599103108596130864/posts/47yZLnxcnhv

14 years ago

113 upvotes – 47 comments

Thoughts on Growing Old

http://nerdyfool.blogspot.com/2011/01/thoughts-on-growing-old.html

14 years ago

110 upvotes – 64 comments

W3C Proposal from MS, Google, Netflix for adding copy protection API to html5

http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/html-media/raw-file/tip/encrypted-media/encrypted-media.html

14 years ago

108 upvotes – 102 comments

Scroogled (2007)

http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2007-09-17-n72.html

14 years ago

108 upvotes – 26 comments

SSH Do’s and Don’ts

http://blog.hypergeometric.com/2012/02/22/ssh-dos-and-donts/

14 years ago

107 upvotes – 61 comments

Amazon Simple Workflow - Cloud-Based Workflow Management

http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2012/02/amazon-simple-workflow-cloud-based-workflow-management.html

14 years ago

104 upvotes – 31 comments

Megaupload Founder Kim Dotcom Released From Prison

http://torrentfreak.com/megaupload-founder-kim-dotcom-released-from-prison-120222/

14 years ago

102 upvotes – 53 comments

Intel becomes a foundry, offers up its 22nm process

http://www.extremetech.com/computing/119435-intel-becomes-a-foundry-offers-up-its-22nm-process

14 years ago

93 upvotes – 18 comments

The Problem with Facebook Connect

http://dcurt.is/facebook-connect

14 years ago

83 upvotes – 44 comments

Show HN: The reinvention of the company profile

http://companies.thedailymuse.com/

14 years ago

79 upvotes – 21 comments

Show HN: A PHP parser written in PHP

https://github.com/nikic/PHP-Parser

14 years ago

★ 17.4k PHP BSD-3-Clause
77 upvotes – 39 comments

300 million year old fossilized forest discovered under coal mine in China

http://www.zmescience.com/research/studies/300-million-year-old-fossil-forest-china-906854/

14 years ago

76 upvotes – 7 comments

How the European Internet Rose Up Against ACTA

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/02/europe-acta/

14 years ago

73 upvotes – 9 comments

Google's new "batshit crazy" UX

http://dcurt.is/batshit-crazy

14 years ago

72 upvotes – 49 comments

Clojure Dsl Examples

http://www.clojure.net/2012/02/22/DSL-Examples/

14 years ago

71 upvotes – 0 comments

YC-Funded ScreenLeap: Screen-Sharing Doesn’t Need To Make You Crazy

http://techcrunch.com/2012/02/21/yc-funded-screenleap-because-screen-sharing-doesnt-need-to-make-you-crazy/

14 years ago

71 upvotes – 25 comments

Twitter suspends accounts unfavorable to Sarkozy

http://www.internetsansfrontieres.com/French-Presidential-Election-Twitter-Justifies-A-Liberticidal-Procedure_a401.html

14 years ago

65 upvotes – 12 comments

Now You Need Quora Credits To Ask Questions

http://techcrunch.com/2012/02/21/now-you-need-quora-credits-to-ask-questions-but-can-also-use-them-to-promote-content/

14 years ago

63 upvotes – 20 comments

Opinionated dotfiles for vim, zsh, git and OS X

http://skwp.github.com/dotfiles/

14 years ago

62 upvotes – 30 comments

PostgreSQL benchmarks under giant lock free DragonflyBSD

http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/mailarchive/kernel/2011-11/msg00008.html

14 years ago

61 upvotes – 14 comments

D-Wave Defies World of Critics With ‘First Quantum Cloud’

http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/02/dwave-quantum-cloud/all/1

14 years ago

59 upvotes – 25 comments

Sebastian Thrun wants to teach you how to program a self-driving robotic car

http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/artificial-intelligence/sebastian-thrun-will-teach-you-how-to-build-your-own-self-driving-car-for-free

14 years ago

59 upvotes – 26 comments

How to use the Galaxy Nexus as a desktop replacement

http://www.extremetech.com/computing/119069-how-to-use-the-galaxy-nexus-as-a-desktop-replacement

14 years ago

58 upvotes – 19 comments

SaaS Class is Live

http://www.saas-class.org/?live=true

14 years ago

55 upvotes – 17 comments

You Are Responsible for Getting Your Ideas to Spread

http://timkastelle.org/blog/2012/02/you-are-responsible-for-getting-your-ideas-to-spread/

14 years ago

55 upvotes – 4 comments

Paris Hacker News Meetup on March 14th

http://www.meetup.com/ParisHackers/events/53314342/

14 years ago

54 upvotes – 8 comments

YouPorn passwords available for download, thousands of users exposed

http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2012/02/22/youporn-password-download/

14 years ago

52 upvotes – 88 comments

UN Pushes Plan To Assume Internet Governance Role

http://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/02/22/1659244/un-pushes-plan-to-assume-internet-governance-role

14 years ago

51 upvotes – 11 comments

EInk Screen Acts Nearly Like An LCD Screen

http://mikecanex.wordpress.com/2012/02/22/eink-screen-acts-nearly-like-an-lcd-screen/

14 years ago

50 upvotes – 25 comments

CIA to software vendors: A revolution is coming

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/02/22/us-cia-software-idUSTRE81L03C20120222

14 years ago

50 upvotes – 14 comments
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