top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-02-27

Dear Github, please fix the Watch-Button

http://paulasmuth.com/blog/github_please_fix_the_watch_button/

14 years ago

477 upvotes – 116 comments

WikiLeaks begins publishing 5 million emails from Stratfor

http://pastebin.com/D7sR4zhT

14 years ago

405 upvotes – 128 comments

Balsamiq integrates with UX.StackExchange.com

http://blogs.balsamiq.com/product/2012/02/27/uxstackexchange/

14 years ago

395 upvotes – 28 comments

Open Web Device

http://www.openwebdevice.com/

14 years ago

327 upvotes – 94 comments

I Was a Warehouse Wage Slave: Inside the online-shopping shipping machine

http://motherjones.com/politics/2012/02/mac-mcclelland-free-online-shipping-warehouses-labor

14 years ago

316 upvotes – 197 comments

Gigabit Internet for $80

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/02/gigabit-internet-for-80-the-unlikely-success-of-californias-sonicnet.ars

14 years ago

275 upvotes – 87 comments

How To Build a Naive Bayes Classifier

http://bionicspirit.com/blog/2012/02/09/howto-build-naive-bayes-classifier.html

14 years ago

264 upvotes – 37 comments

A Classic Startup Horror Story

http://venturebeat.com/2012/02/27/a-classic-startup-horror-story-the-ma-bait-and-switch/2/

14 years ago

231 upvotes – 81 comments

Tower.js - JavaScript Framework for Node.js modeled after Ruby on Rails

http://towerjs.org/

14 years ago

221 upvotes – 112 comments

Modafinil and Startups

http://swombat.com/2012/2/27/modafinil-and-startups

14 years ago

217 upvotes – 127 comments

Amazon Prime members buy twice as much, don't compare on price

http://www.lukew.com/ff/entry.asp?1508

14 years ago

211 upvotes – 144 comments

The Copycats at Hacker News

http://www.whattofix.com/blog/archives/2012/02/the-copycats-at.php

14 years ago

207 upvotes – 57 comments

Key Techdirt SOPA/PIPA Post Censored By Bogus DMCA Takedown Notice

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120223/15102217856/key-techdirt-sopapipa-post-censored-bogus-dmca-takedown-notice.shtml

14 years ago

206 upvotes – 29 comments

Clojure Programming

http://www.clojurebook.com/

14 years ago

194 upvotes – 36 comments

Hacker Monthly: best of the Internet, printed out, and it’s turning a profit

http://www.niemanlab.org/2012/02/hacker-monthly-its-the-best-of-the-internet-printed-out-and-its-turning-a-profit/

14 years ago

187 upvotes – 64 comments

Morris.js: Pretty time-series line graphs

http://oesmith.github.com/morris.js/

14 years ago

169 upvotes – 25 comments

Bret Victor's live editable game in ClojureScript

http://www.chris-granger.com/2012/02/26/connecting-to-your-creation/

14 years ago

145 upvotes – 32 comments

Vimbits: submit and vote on .vimrc tricks

http://vimbits.com

14 years ago

140 upvotes – 41 comments

How to Find Facebook Users on Match.com by Using Face Recognition Tools

http://artemyankov.com/post/18307807152/how-to-find-facebook-users-on-match-com-by-using-face

14 years ago

134 upvotes – 55 comments

The Case for a Git-Powered Project Gutenberg

http://neosmart.net/blog/2012/the-case-for-a-git-powered-project-gutenberg/

14 years ago

117 upvotes – 42 comments

How We Built an iOS App, an Android App and a Node.js API in 20 Hours

http://blog.semantics3.com/how-we-built-an-ios-app-an-android-app-and-a-node-js-api-in-20-hours/

14 years ago

111 upvotes – 34 comments

Killing Your Startup By Listening to Customers

http://steveblank.com/2012/02/27/killing-your-startup-by-listening-to-customers/

14 years ago

109 upvotes – 35 comments

Bash Shell Scripting in 10 seconds

http://www.aboutlinux.info/2005/10/10-seconds-guide-to-bash-shell.html

14 years ago

104 upvotes – 32 comments

LLVM Clojure Bindings

https://github.com/jasonjckn/llvm-clojure-bindings

14 years ago

★ 144 Clojure
104 upvotes – 10 comments

A beautiful algorithm that only a very few know of: In-Place Merge in O(n) time

http://delivery.acm.org/10.1145/50000/42403/p348-huang.pdf?ip=129.49.21.121&acc=ACTIVE%20SERVICE&CFID=67964827&CFTOKEN=45973902&__acm__=1330311114_8fad21799284de31f9cd95120989f262

14 years ago

102 upvotes – 30 comments

Worlds Most Expensive Burger: 1/4 million euros

http://www.economist.com/node/21548147

14 years ago

101 upvotes – 85 comments

My Algorithm for Beating Procrastination

http://lesswrong.com/lw/9wr/my_algorithm_for_beating_procrastination/

14 years ago

101 upvotes – 24 comments

How to break the 'rapper code'

http://blog.jgc.org/2012/02/how-to-break-rapper-code.html

14 years ago

99 upvotes – 33 comments

The Day Python Embarassed Imperative Programming

http://the-27th-comrade.appspot.com/blog/ahJzfnRoZS0yN3RoLWNvbXJhZGVyDAsSBUVudHJ5GOFdDA

14 years ago

88 upvotes – 76 comments

KML shapes of any US state, city, or county, made possible by the U.S. Census

https://github.com/GovHubOrg/CensusShapeConverter

14 years ago

84 upvotes – 33 comments

How Bayesian Probability Models Can Make CLV Predictions 12x More Accurate

http://blog.custora.com/2012/02/how-bayesian-probability-models-can-make-clv-predictions-12x-more-accurate/

14 years ago

82 upvotes – 14 comments

Awesome video lectures for Compiler Design & Construction (Univ. of Washington)

http://www.cs.washington.edu/education/courses/csep501/08wi/lectures/index.html

14 years ago

80 upvotes – 2 comments

Stop Writing Project Proposals

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2012/02/17/stop-writing-project-proposals/

14 years ago

80 upvotes – 13 comments

How to write good code with C++11

http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/GoingNative/GoingNative-2012/Keynote-Bjarne-Stroustrup-Cpp11-Style/player

14 years ago

77 upvotes – 33 comments

Coderwall (YC W12) Wants to be the Reputation System for Developers

http://techcrunch.com/2012/02/27/coderwall-hacker-reputation-system/

14 years ago

74 upvotes – 34 comments

Wage slave? Or slave to the wage?

http://ctrlaltdelmylife.weebly.com/2/post/2012/02/wage-slave-or-slave-to-the-wage.html

14 years ago

74 upvotes – 61 comments

Opera Mobile 12, and introducing Opera Mini Next

http://my.opera.com/ODIN/blog/2012/02/25/opera-mobile-12-and-introducing-opera-mini-next

14 years ago

73 upvotes – 13 comments

Google's cloud-based machine learning tools

https://developers.google.com/prediction

14 years ago

73 upvotes – 11 comments

How To Choose Your Co-Founder

http://blog.eladgil.com/2012/02/how-to-choose-co-founder.html

14 years ago

72 upvotes – 6 comments

Nokia launches 808 PureView with 41MP camera

http://www.theverge.com/2012/2/27/2827158/nokia-808-pureview-launch-pictures-video-preview

14 years ago

69 upvotes – 36 comments

Announcing MapBox Streets: A Global Map with Street Level Detail

http://mapbox.com/blog/announcing-mapbox-streets/

14 years ago

69 upvotes – 35 comments

An open source library for laying out iOS user interfaces.

http://charlesmchen.github.com/WeViews/index.html

14 years ago

66 upvotes – 5 comments

Mozilla Partners with Telefonica for Boot 2 Gecko Phone

http://blog.mozilla.com/blog/2012/02/27/mozilla-in-mobile-the-web-is-the-platform/

14 years ago

65 upvotes – 5 comments

HTC’s Answer To iCloud: A New Deal With Dropbox

http://techcrunch.com/2012/02/26/htcs-answer-to-icloud-a-new-deal-with-dropbox/

14 years ago

61 upvotes – 30 comments

Qualities Your Best Employees Should Have

http://www.inc.com/jeff-haden/the-8-qualities-of-remarkable-employees.html?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=socialmedia&utm_campaign=button

14 years ago

61 upvotes – 14 comments

Google Music: The Best Service That Nobody’s Using

http://www.thepowerbase.com/2012/02/google-music-the-best-service-that-nobodys-using/2/

14 years ago

59 upvotes – 75 comments

What Will Replace The Internet? (2000)

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,997263,00.html

14 years ago

59 upvotes – 22 comments

Ask HN: How do you hire contractors?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3641103

14 years ago

59 upvotes – 19 comments

Python and Perl project support on Travis CI

http://about.travis-ci.org/blog/announcing_python_and_perl_support_on_travis_ci/

14 years ago

58 upvotes – 16 comments

Newspaper Ad Revenues Fall to 50-Year Low in 2011

http://mjperry.blogspot.com/2012/02/newspaper-ad-revenues-fall-to-50-year.html

14 years ago

58 upvotes – 42 comments
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