top 20 hacker news stories for 2012-02-23

The WorldWideWeb application is now available as an alpha release (1991)

https://groups.google.com/group/comp.sys.next.announce/browse_thread/thread/6af5808c84a771fc/042c02b1b5992dd3?pli=1

14 years ago

438 upvotes – 125 comments

Why Do Some People Learn Faster?

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/10/why-do-some-people-learn-faster-2/

14 years ago

390 upvotes – 84 comments

Tesla: Not so easily bricked

http://idc-insights-community.com/posts/c7c83d1a9d

14 years ago

362 upvotes – 154 comments

The Internet Made Me Sad Today

http://raganwald.posterous.com/the-internet-made-me-sad-today

14 years ago

274 upvotes – 178 comments

A neat way to fold a sheet of paper

http://wheatpond.com/2012/02/22/miuraori.html

14 years ago

268 upvotes – 31 comments

Visual Studio '11' Announced

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudio/archive/2012/02/23/introducing-the-new-developer-experience.aspx

14 years ago

236 upvotes – 192 comments

If Android is a "stolen product," then so was the iPhone

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/02/if-android-is-a-stolen-product-then-so-was-the-iphone.ars

14 years ago

180 upvotes – 131 comments

Piracy and the Four Currencies

http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/LarsDoucet/20120222/9501/Piracy_and_the_four_currencies.php

14 years ago

161 upvotes – 44 comments

Another Piece of the Stuxnet Puzzle

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2012/02/another_piece_o.html

14 years ago

151 upvotes – 14 comments

Evernote blog: WhySQL?

http://blog.evernote.com/tech/2012/02/23/whysql/

14 years ago

150 upvotes – 73 comments

The fake chemical compound Isaac Asimov invented to punk science writers

http://io9.com/5887014/the-fake-chemical-compound-isaac-asimov-invented-to-punk-science-writers

14 years ago

123 upvotes – 19 comments

Journals Warned to Keep a Tight Lid on Diesel Exposure Data

http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2012/02/journals-warned-to-keep-a-tight.html

14 years ago

113 upvotes – 18 comments

Who Expected That? Extreme close-ups create a Klein Bottle.

http://www.thebigquestions.com/2012/02/23/who-expected-that/

14 years ago

110 upvotes – 32 comments

JQAPI - Alternative jQuery Documentation

http://jqapi.com/

14 years ago

105 upvotes – 30 comments

Obama Administration Unveils Blueprint for a “Privacy Bill of Rights”

http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/02/23/we-can-t-wait-obama-administration-unveils-blueprint-privacy-bill-rights

14 years ago

104 upvotes – 56 comments

Why Are Harvard Graduates In The Mailroom

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/26/magazine/why-are-harvard-graduates-in-the-mailroom.html?_r=1

14 years ago

103 upvotes – 87 comments

SPDY Protocol (draft 3) submitted to IETF

https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-mbelshe-httpbis-spdy-00

14 years ago

99 upvotes – 20 comments

Clang: Defending C++ from Murphy's Million Monkeys

http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/GoingNative/GoingNative-2012/Clang-Defending-C-from-Murphy-s-Million-Monkeys

14 years ago

95 upvotes – 16 comments

Mercurial vs Git: Why Mercurial?

http://blogs.atlassian.com/2012/02/mercurial-vs-git-why-mercurial/

14 years ago

95 upvotes – 84 comments

Nuclear Effects Calculator

http://nuclearsecrecy.com/blog/2012/02/03/presenting-nukemap/

14 years ago

94 upvotes – 34 comments
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