top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-02-26

YouTube Identifies Birdsong As Copyrighted Music

http://c4sif.org/2012/02/youtube-identifies-birdsong-as-copyrighted-music/

14 years ago

289 upvotes – 79 comments

If you want reproducible science, the software needs to be open source

http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2012/02/science-code-should-be-open-source-according-to-editorial.ars

14 years ago

282 upvotes – 68 comments

Apple didn't revolutionize power supplies; new transistors did

http://www.arcfn.com/2012/02/apple-didnt-revolutionize-power.html

14 years ago

246 upvotes – 73 comments

Death Note: L, Anonymity & Eluding Entropy

http://www.gwern.net/Death%20Note%20Anonymity

14 years ago

233 upvotes – 42 comments

Innovation and the Bell Labs Miracle

https://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/26/opinion/sunday/innovation-and-the-bell-labs-miracle.html

14 years ago

200 upvotes – 53 comments

Rails 4.0: PATCH will replace PUT as the primary HTTP method for updates

http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2012/2/26/edge-rails-patch-is-the-new-primary-http-method-for-updates

14 years ago

195 upvotes – 96 comments

Afraid of Your Child's Math Textbook? You Should Be.

http://open.salon.com/blog/annie_keeghan/2012/02/17/afraid_of_your_childs_math_textbook_you_should_be

14 years ago

169 upvotes – 100 comments

FBI Turns Off Thousands of GPS Devices After Supreme Court Ruling

http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2012/02/25/fbi-turns-off-thousands-of-gps-devices-after-supreme-court-ruling/

14 years ago

146 upvotes – 46 comments

500 Words before 8am

http://www.informationdiet.com/blog/read/500-words-before-8am

14 years ago

143 upvotes – 17 comments

Mechanical Turk Stations for the Urban Poor

http://chrismaury.com/post/18320761977/mechanical-turk-stations-for-the-urban-poor

14 years ago

137 upvotes – 155 comments

We're not paying enough for apps

http://news.cnet.com/8301-19882_3-57384178-250/were-not-paying-enough-for-apps/?tag=mncol;editorPicks

14 years ago

119 upvotes – 113 comments

Useful use of cat(1)

http://www.in-ulm.de/~mascheck/various/uuoc/

14 years ago

115 upvotes – 45 comments

Raising funding as a first-time founder

http://joel.is/post/18315636274/raising-funding-as-a-first-time-founder

14 years ago

110 upvotes – 18 comments

Red flags in emails to angel investors

http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/2012/02/red-flags-in-emails-to-angel-investors.html

14 years ago

103 upvotes – 38 comments

Nobody Understands REST or HTTP

http://blog.steveklabnik.com/posts/2011-07-03-nobody-understands-rest-or-http

14 years ago

100 upvotes – 70 comments

How Web Graphics Affect Conversions

http://blog.kissmetrics.com/shocking-truth-about-graphics/

14 years ago

98 upvotes – 39 comments

Show HN: HackerNews News Recommender

http://normansoven.com/blog/?p=651

14 years ago

97 upvotes – 36 comments

WebSockets versus REST?

http://www.infoq.com/news/2012/02/websockets-rest

14 years ago

94 upvotes – 54 comments

Drinking from an open container in microgravity (video)

http://www.physicscentral.com/explore/sots/

14 years ago

93 upvotes – 13 comments

Jennifer Widom's db-class Retrospective: From 100 Students to 100,000

http://wp.sigmod.org/?p=165

14 years ago

90 upvotes – 4 comments

Moving 6 Billion Messages Without Being Noticed

http://dt.deviantart.com/art/Moving-6-Billion-Messages-Without-Being-Noticed-285571516

14 years ago

89 upvotes – 9 comments

Once you take money, the clock starts ticking

http://cdixon.org/2012/02/25/once-you-take-money-the-clock-starts-ticking/

14 years ago

83 upvotes – 16 comments

Former Apple VP now turns to a PhD in bioinformatics

http://www.hhmi.org/bulletin/feb2012/centrifuge/goldstein_grad_student.html#media

14 years ago

79 upvotes – 23 comments

Protecting Your Mails With GnuPG

http://www.furidamu.org/blog/2012/02/26/protecting-your-mails-with-gnupg/

14 years ago

75 upvotes – 26 comments

Lat/Long to Time Zone API

http://www.askgeo.com/

14 years ago

74 upvotes – 41 comments

Facebook, Flickr, others accused of reading text messages

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/facebook-flickr-others-accused-of-reading-text-messages/70237

14 years ago

68 upvotes – 15 comments

How I Beat Repetitive Stress Injury

http://henrikwarne.com/2012/02/18/how-i-beat-rsi/

14 years ago

67 upvotes – 62 comments

Measuring fragmentation in Android

http://pxldot.com/post/18281312362/android-measuring-stick

14 years ago

66 upvotes – 46 comments

Tim Gowers replies to Elsevier's open letter

http://gowers.wordpress.com/2012/02/26/elseviers-open-letter-point-by-point-and-some-further-arguments

14 years ago

64 upvotes – 9 comments

Video lectures & presentations about Clojure

http://alexott.net/en/clojure/video.html

14 years ago

60 upvotes – 4 comments

Up in flames

http://www.cringely.com/2012/02/up-in-flames/

14 years ago

60 upvotes – 14 comments

Facebook spies on phone users' text messages, report says

http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/facebook-spies-on-phone-users-text-messages-report-says/story-e6frfku0-1226282017490

14 years ago

57 upvotes – 18 comments

Show HN: App for learning how to write Japanese

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3635279

14 years ago

55 upvotes – 51 comments

JSONLint, The JSON Validator

http://jsonlint.com/

14 years ago

55 upvotes – 17 comments

Designing HTTP interfaces and RESTful web services

http://www.slideshare.net/Wombert/designing-http-interfaces-and-restful-web-services-phpday11-20110514

14 years ago

52 upvotes – 14 comments
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