top 50% 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

Mercurial vs Git: Why Mercurial?

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

14 years ago

95 upvotes – 84 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

Nuclear Effects Calculator

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

14 years ago

94 upvotes – 34 comments

What not to ask technical people in interviews

http://www.fusioncube.net/index.php/what-not-to-ask-technical-people-in-interviews

14 years ago

93 upvotes – 68 comments

Stochastic Pattern Recognition Dramatically Outperforms Conventional Techniques

http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/27598/

14 years ago

90 upvotes – 16 comments

Oracle vs Google: PTO declares 5th Oracle patent invalid

http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20120223073144912

14 years ago

88 upvotes – 6 comments

What's Wrong with the For Loop

http://notes-on-haskell.blogspot.com/2007/02/whats-wrong-with-for-loop.html

14 years ago

87 upvotes – 74 comments

Performance cost of Ruby ORM model instantiation

http://merbist.com/2012/02/23/quick-dive-into-ruby-orm-object-initialization/

14 years ago

85 upvotes – 21 comments

BGP filter failure brings Aussie Internet down

http://lists.ausnog.net/pipermail/ausnog/2012-February/012202.html

14 years ago

85 upvotes – 17 comments

Why does HN generate unique URL's for the 'more' pages?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3623268

14 years ago

82 upvotes – 42 comments

Ask HN: How to handle acquisition offer from a competitor?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3624505

14 years ago

82 upvotes – 25 comments

Anatomy of the Great Adderall Drought

http://motherboard.vice.com/2012/2/16/anatomy-of-the-great-adderall-drought

14 years ago

82 upvotes – 56 comments

Things You Should Never Do, Part I

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html

14 years ago

81 upvotes – 40 comments

Google Glasses are real, will use two 0.52-inch micro displays

http://www.geek.com/articles/mobile/google-glasses-real-micro-displays-20120223/

14 years ago

77 upvotes – 47 comments

Riak Control

http://basho.com/blog/technical/2012/02/22/Riak-Control/

14 years ago

75 upvotes – 6 comments

My daughter taught me to fail more

http://www.whitetailsoftware.com/2012/02/my-daughter-taught-me-to-fail-more/

14 years ago

73 upvotes – 23 comments

Tumult Hype 1.5 is out with major improvements to the HTML5 builder for Mac OS X

http://tumultco.com/blog/2012/02/23/tumult-hype-1-5-is-here/

14 years ago

73 upvotes – 29 comments

Quartzy (YC S11) Scores $1.2M To Help Life Scientists Stay Organized

http://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2012/02/23/quartzy-scores-1-2m-to-help-life-scientists-stay-organized/

14 years ago

73 upvotes – 14 comments

TylerWM - a tiling window manager for OSX

http://www.tylerwm.com/

14 years ago

67 upvotes – 54 comments

Designing Network Protocols

http://journal.paul.querna.org/articles/2012/02/22/designing-network-protocols/

14 years ago

66 upvotes – 23 comments

Dear Jim Gaffigan, Louis C.K. paid $35k for his website. We'll do yours for $0.

http://dearjimgaffigan.com/

14 years ago

65 upvotes – 38 comments

Errol Morris: The Thinking Man's Detective

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/Errol-Morris-The-Thinking-Mans-Detective.html?c=y&story=fullstory

14 years ago

64 upvotes – 9 comments

Everyone's Trying to Track What You Do on the Web: Here's How to Stop Them

http://lifehacker.com/5887140/everyones-trying-to-track-what-you-do-on-the-web-heres-how-to-stop-them

14 years ago

58 upvotes – 50 comments

Show HN: HTTP Status code directory

http://httpstatus.es

14 years ago

58 upvotes – 22 comments

Mastered for iTunes: how audio engineers tweak tunes for the iPod age

http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2012/02/mastered-for-itunes-how-audio-engineers-tweak-tunes-for-the-ipod-age.ars

14 years ago

57 upvotes – 44 comments

Lisp REPL in Vendetta Online

http://www.a1k0n.net/2005/11/04/lisp-repl-vendetta-online.html

14 years ago

55 upvotes – 9 comments

Her photo was the honeypot local law enforcement couldn't resist

http://www.citypages.com/content/printVersion/2411141/

14 years ago

53 upvotes – 18 comments

Super Simple Mocking For Python

http://pythonwise.blogspot.com/2012/02/super-simple-mocking.html

14 years ago

53 upvotes – 9 comments

Indian Government to intercept phone calls without operator knowledge

http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/article2920844.ece?homepage=true

14 years ago

51 upvotes – 7 comments

Citadel - An Open-Source Malware Project

http://blog.seculert.com/2012/02/citadel-open-source-malware-project.html

14 years ago

50 upvotes – 5 comments

"DevOps is ruining my craft"

http://tatiyants.com/devops-is-ruining-my-craft/

14 years ago

50 upvotes – 36 comments

Every $1 spent on food stamps resulted in $1.73 in GDP growth

http://www.economy.com/mark-zandi/documents/Stimulus-Impact-2008.pdf

14 years ago

47 upvotes – 63 comments

Pinterest isn't feminine: An essay on ladymags and aspirational clipping

http://persephonemagazine.com/2012/02/my-pins-my-self-getting-pinned-and-liking-it/

14 years ago

46 upvotes – 15 comments

Monitoring your health with mobile devices

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/23/technology/personaltech/monitoring-your-health-with-mobile-devices.html?_r=2

14 years ago

45 upvotes – 13 comments

Tinytrunk - Hyperlocal Flea Market

http://tinytrunk.com/

14 years ago

43 upvotes – 29 comments

The YouPorn Chat leak revealed a lot more than email addresses and passwords

http://blog.jgc.org/2012/02/youporn-leak-revealed-lot-more-than.html

14 years ago

42 upvotes – 16 comments

Earth's clouds are getting lower, NASA satellite finds

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/02/120222114358.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily+%28ScienceDaily%3A+Latest+Science+News%29

14 years ago

41 upvotes – 6 comments
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