top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-02-24

TV is broken

http://minimalmac.com/post/18189678921/tv-is-broken

14 years ago

635 upvotes – 258 comments

US Appeals Court: Forced Decryption Is Self-Incrimination

http://volokh.com/2012/02/23/eleventh-circuit-finds-fifth-amendment-right-against-self-incrimination-not-to-decrypt-encyrpted-computer/

14 years ago

518 upvotes – 113 comments

“What’s the waiter doing with the computer screen?”

http://javlaskitsystem.se/2012/02/whats-the-waiter-doing-with-the-computer-screen/

14 years ago

452 upvotes – 89 comments

Should All Web Traffic Be Encrypted?

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/02/should-all-web-traffic-be-encrypted.html

14 years ago

354 upvotes – 128 comments

A Senseless Conversation

https://sites.google.com/site/asenselessconversation/

14 years ago

309 upvotes – 98 comments

Woz on Creativity: Work Alone

http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/01/18/woz-on-creativity-and-innovation/

14 years ago

249 upvotes – 50 comments

Tesla responds to "bricking" issue

http://www.teslamotors.com/blog/plug-it

14 years ago

230 upvotes – 240 comments

The Sun is Setting on Rails-style MVC Frameworks

http://caines.ca/blog/programming/the-sun-is-setting-on-rails-style-mvc-frameworks

14 years ago

222 upvotes – 131 comments

Went Off The Rails: Why I'm Rebuilding Archaeopteryx In CoffeeScript

http://gilesbowkett.blogspot.in/2012/02/rails-went-off-rails-why-im-rebuilding.html

14 years ago

209 upvotes – 138 comments

Microsoft needs Wizards: A 1984 Microsoft job posting

http://groups.google.com/group/net.jobs/msg/4f2cf440919eeda9

14 years ago

207 upvotes – 92 comments

Redis 2.6 is near

http://antirez.com/post/redis-2.6-is-near.html

14 years ago

172 upvotes – 52 comments

Apple Acquires Chomp; App Store Search And Discovery To Be Completely Revamped

http://techcrunch.com/2012/02/23/apple-chomp/

14 years ago

168 upvotes – 41 comments

Don’t lie to me, Argentina. Imagine a world without statistics

http://www.economist.com/node/21548242

14 years ago

155 upvotes – 80 comments

Headphones for Hackers

http://priceonomics.com/headphones/#headphones-for-hackers

14 years ago

144 upvotes – 181 comments

PHP: v8.js

http://www.php.net/manual/en/book.v8js.php

14 years ago

143 upvotes – 41 comments

Why Trigger.io doesn’t use PhoneGap – 5x faster native bridge

http://trigger.io/cross-platform-application-development-blog/2012/02/24/why-trigger-io-doesnt-use-phonegap-5x-faster-native-bridge/

14 years ago

136 upvotes – 62 comments

The desks of 37signals

http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3120-all-hands-battlestations

14 years ago

126 upvotes – 76 comments

How Wired Published Its GitHub Story on GitHub

http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/02/github-revisited/

14 years ago

119 upvotes – 12 comments

IE6 is still trolling developers

http://coderwall.com/blog/2012-02-23-hating-on-IE6

14 years ago

113 upvotes – 21 comments

Forget $3B In Revenue: Things "Don't Look Good" For Facebook

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/forget_3b_in_revenue_things_dont_look_good_for_fac.php

14 years ago

105 upvotes – 78 comments

Giles Bowkett summons monsters

http://raganwald.posterous.com/giles-bowkett-summons-monsters

14 years ago

101 upvotes – 17 comments

NSA Interception Infographic

http://www.aclu.org/blog/national-security/infographic-nsa-unchained

14 years ago

100 upvotes – 24 comments

VIM Modes Transition Diagram

http://stevelosh.com/media/extra/vim.svg

14 years ago

97 upvotes – 36 comments

Every Mobile Social App Site, Ever

http://visualidiot.com/articles/social-apps

14 years ago

95 upvotes – 11 comments

Food Rules for Startups: Eight Delicious Ways to Build a Better Company

http://www.thumbtack.com/engineering/food-rules-for-startups/

14 years ago

94 upvotes – 30 comments

Facebook Shakes Hardware World With Own Storage Gear

http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/02/facebook-builds-storage-gear/

14 years ago

82 upvotes – 24 comments

Microsoft kills Zune, Windows Live brands; Live ID renamed to Microsoft Account

http://www.theverge.com/2012/2/24/2821128/microsoft-kills-zune-windows-live-branding-in-windows-8

14 years ago

81 upvotes – 79 comments

Mozilla partners up with LG to combat Apple and Google with its own device

http://www.extremetech.com/computing/119571-mozilla-partners-up-with-lg-to-combat-apple-and-google-with-its-own-device

14 years ago

81 upvotes – 57 comments

Reddit Writes A Law: First Draft Of The Free Internet Act Emerges

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nei0Q_-th2J0fkqZU0hyBrSKklQqoc-8eXpXEwoLDwE/edit?pli=1

14 years ago

77 upvotes – 25 comments

V8 Engine in PostgreSQL

http://code.google.com/p/plv8js/wiki/PLV8

14 years ago

72 upvotes – 15 comments

Judge awards iPhone user $850 in throttling case

http://news.yahoo.com/judge-awards-iphone-user-850-throttling-case-195042925.html

14 years ago

72 upvotes – 43 comments

Your favourite programming language is not good enough

http://blaag.haard.se/Your-favourite-programming-language-is-not-good-enough/

14 years ago

72 upvotes – 86 comments

Ruby Poetry

http://blog.andrewmcdonough.com/blog/2012/02/23/ruby-poetry/

14 years ago

71 upvotes – 5 comments

Steve Kordek, a game designer who revolutionized pinball, dies at 100

http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-steve-kordek-20120224,0,1021087.story

14 years ago

70 upvotes – 9 comments

The Death Star would't be that expensive

http://motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2012/02/death-star-surprisingly-cost-effective-weapons-system

14 years ago

69 upvotes – 65 comments

Why Dropbox Is A Major Disruption

http://abovethecrowd.com/2012/02/23/why-dropbox-is-a-major-disruption/

14 years ago

69 upvotes – 27 comments

Kickstarter Expects To Provide More Funding To The Arts Than NEA

http://idealab.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/02/kickstarter-expects-to-provide-more-funding-to-the-arts-than-nea.php

14 years ago

67 upvotes – 36 comments

Please, call a spade a spade

http://benwerd.com/blog/2012/02/24/please-call-a-spade-a-spade/

14 years ago

63 upvotes – 35 comments

Popset (YC W12) launches a beautiful app for group photo diaries

http://techcrunch.com/2012/02/24/popset-makes-group-photo-sharing-easy-export-to-facebook-even-easier/

14 years ago

57 upvotes – 4 comments
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