top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-02-28

Introducing Collusion: Discover who’s tracking you online

http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/collusion/

14 years ago

474 upvotes – 126 comments

Why I Don't Do Unpaid Overtime and Neither Should You

http://thecodist.com/article/why_i_don_39_t_do_unpaid_overtime_and_neither_should_you

14 years ago

407 upvotes – 254 comments

Comparing PHP, Perl, Python and Ruby

http://hyperpolyglot.org/scripting

14 years ago

382 upvotes – 87 comments

Submarine Cable Map

http://www.submarinecablemap.com/

14 years ago

317 upvotes – 109 comments

Why Anti-Authoritarians are Diagnosed as Mentally Ill

http://www.madinamerica.com/2012/02/why-anti-authoritarians-are-diagnosed-as-mentally-ill/

14 years ago

304 upvotes – 136 comments

Linus Torvalds on C++

http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/c++/linus

14 years ago

288 upvotes – 181 comments

The Forgotten Founder: A Silicon Valley Tale of Humiliation and Revenge

http://www.inc.com/magazine/201203/burt-helm/a-silicon-valley-tale-of-humiliation-and-revenge.html

14 years ago

271 upvotes – 103 comments

Ask HN: Help a Hacker Out

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3644870

14 years ago

263 upvotes – 94 comments

About normalize.css: a modern, HTML5-ready alternative to CSS resets

http://nicolasgallagher.com/about-normalize-css/

14 years ago

219 upvotes – 23 comments

Raganwald's "How to Do What You Love" is free today

http://leanpub.com/dowhatyoulove

14 years ago

203 upvotes – 82 comments

The uncanny valley of web scraping

http://www.zemanta.com/fruitblog/the-uncanny-valley-of-web-scraping/

14 years ago

172 upvotes – 49 comments

Linus torvalds on security

https://plus.google.com/102150693225130002912

14 years ago

153 upvotes – 128 comments

How PayPal and Apple’s Fraud Policies Punish the Honest User

http://www.lockergnome.com/osx/2012/02/28/paypal-apple-fraud-policies/

14 years ago

135 upvotes – 72 comments

Visualizing Reddit with my graph drawing library

http://www.yasiv.com/reddit#/Search?q=programming

14 years ago

128 upvotes – 40 comments

A Complete Understanding is No Longer Possible

http://prog21.dadgum.com/129.html

14 years ago

122 upvotes – 77 comments

Real World Ocaml announced

http://realworldocaml.org/

14 years ago

116 upvotes – 55 comments

JavaScript at Khan Academy

http://ejohn.org/blog/javascript-as

14 years ago

112 upvotes – 60 comments

Tell President Obama to support the Federal Research Public Access Act

http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=966

14 years ago

105 upvotes – 5 comments

IPad Event Confirmed: Apple Invites Press to 'Touch' Something

http://mashable.com/2012/02/28/ipad-3-event/

14 years ago

104 upvotes – 79 comments

Stratfor Is a Joke and So Is Wikileaks for Taking It Seriously

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/02/stratfor-is-a-joke-and-so-is-wikileaks-for-taking-it-seriously/253681/

14 years ago

101 upvotes – 26 comments

Vitess: Scaling MySQL databases for the web

http://code.google.com/p/vitess/

14 years ago

101 upvotes – 16 comments

Microsoft Research shows off see-through 3D display

http://www.extremetech.com/computing/120293-microsoft-research-shows-off-see-through-3d-display-holoreflector-illumishare

14 years ago

99 upvotes – 20 comments

Vimbits: share snippets of your .vimrc

http://vimbits.com/bits?sort=top

14 years ago

98 upvotes – 7 comments

IBM shows off quantum computing advances, says practical qubit computers close

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/120229-ibm-shows-off-quantum-computing-breakthroughs-says-qubit-computers-are-close

14 years ago

96 upvotes – 30 comments

Can three minutes of exercise a week help make you fit?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-17177251

14 years ago

88 upvotes – 29 comments

Best HTML5/CSS3 Presentation Frameworks

http://zoomzum.com/6-best-html5css3-presentation-frameworks/

14 years ago

82 upvotes – 13 comments

Africa's Amazing Rise and What it Can Teach the World

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/02/africas-amazing-rise-and-what-it-can-teach-the-world/253587/

14 years ago

81 upvotes – 9 comments

2 hour side-project to 2 million visitors

http://blog.gramfeed.com/post/18460554119/2-hour-side-project-to-2-million-visitors

14 years ago

79 upvotes – 12 comments

Breaking Good: How to synthesize Sudafed from crystal meth

http://boingboing.net/2012/02/27/scientific-paper-of-the-day-h.html

14 years ago

78 upvotes – 18 comments

The Mounting Minuses at Google+

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204653604577249341403742390.html

14 years ago

73 upvotes – 56 comments

We started requiring code reviews for everything, and my head hasn't exploded

http://bjk5.com/post/18441794352/required-code-reviews

14 years ago

68 upvotes – 54 comments

We need to kill off the localStorage API

http://paul.kinlan.me/we-need-to-kill-off-the-localstorage-api

14 years ago

68 upvotes – 56 comments

From Consulting to Employee #1 at a YC Startup

http://blog.kicksend.com/from-consulting-to-employee-1

14 years ago

67 upvotes – 5 comments

Evernote Hello

http://www.evernote.com/hello/

14 years ago

67 upvotes – 43 comments

Ask HN: Pet lovers review my startup

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3644436

14 years ago

66 upvotes – 46 comments

How LulzSec kept itself safe during the summer of 'lulz'

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn21524-how-lulzsec-kept-itself-safe-during-the-summer-of-lulz.html

14 years ago

66 upvotes – 33 comments

(take 5 kevin-lynagh)

http://clojure.com/blog/2012/02/28/take5-kevin-lynagh.html

14 years ago

65 upvotes – 10 comments

Linux computer the size of a thumb drive

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2012/02/linux-computer-the-size-of-a-thumb-drive-now-available-for-preorder.ars

14 years ago

65 upvotes – 25 comments

The Inside Story of a Small Startup Acquisition (Part 3)

http://www.softwarebyrob.com/2012/02/28/the-inside-story-of-a-small-startup-acquisition-part-3

14 years ago

63 upvotes – 4 comments

As Staff Flees, TechCrunch’s Traffic Plummets

http://paidcontent.org/article/419-as-staff-flees-techcrunch-traffic-plummets/

14 years ago

62 upvotes – 41 comments

Interacting with ZeroMQ from the browser

http://avalanche123.com/blog/2012/02/25/interacting-with-zeromq-from-the-browser/

14 years ago

62 upvotes – 27 comments

Tell HN: Come learn how to solve Stripe's Capture The Flag

http://www.meetup.com/Stripe/events/54071002/

14 years ago

58 upvotes – 22 comments

Tengine - A variant of Nginx used on #1 Chinese ecommerce site goes open source

http://tengine.taobao.org/

14 years ago

57 upvotes – 37 comments

NASA's employee-written maths guides to Finite Element Modeling

http://femci.gsfc.nasa.gov/femcibook.html

14 years ago

53 upvotes – 1 comments

$205,000,000 of Funding For Big Data Startups

http://datascience101.wordpress.com/2012/02/28/funding-for-big-data-startups/

14 years ago

53 upvotes – 11 comments
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