top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-02-29

Raspberri PI Release Announcement

http://www.raspberrypi.org/#foundation

14 years ago

543 upvotes – 255 comments

How Not To Sell Software in 2012

http://al3x.net/2012/02/29/how-not-to-sell-software-in-2012.html

14 years ago

466 upvotes – 139 comments

TSA: Fail

http://gmancasefile.blogspot.in/2012/01/tsa-fail.html

14 years ago

452 upvotes – 116 comments

Verisign seizes .com domain registered via foreign registrar

http://blog.easydns.org/2012/02/29/verisign-seizes-com-domain-registered-via-foreign-registrar-on-behalf-of-us-authorities/

14 years ago

387 upvotes – 147 comments

Windows 8 Consumer Preview released.

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-8/iso

14 years ago

265 upvotes – 200 comments

Standing invitation: if you want to talk software, I want to talk to you

http://www.kalzumeus.com/standing-invitation/

14 years ago

222 upvotes – 21 comments

How To Be Happy Anywhere

http://www.fastcompany.com/1820974/buyology-martin-lindstrom-global-happiness

14 years ago

211 upvotes – 100 comments

Blizzard Lays Off 600, Including About 60 Developers

http://www.gamespot.com/news/blizzard-laying-off-600-6360584

14 years ago

199 upvotes – 121 comments

Collection of Richard Feynman talks on the scientific method, learning, and CS

http://chill.com/brian/collection/richard-feynman-talks

14 years ago

190 upvotes – 20 comments

Ruby Patterns from GitHub's Codebase

http://zachholman.com/talk/ruby-patterns

14 years ago

187 upvotes – 32 comments

Justin Kan Launches Exec (YC W12) For Real-Time Mobile Jobs

http://www.forbes.com/sites/tomiogeron/2012/02/29/justin-kan-launches-exec-for-real-time-mobile-jobs/

14 years ago

186 upvotes – 70 comments

How I got a job from a Hacker News post

http://bostinno.com/channels/a-little-bit-of-luck-and-a-whole-lot-of-backend-as-a-service/

14 years ago

179 upvotes – 21 comments

Insurgent Games Makes All Games Free, Releases Everything as Open Source

http://www.insurgentgames.com/open-source/

14 years ago

179 upvotes – 56 comments

Rebuild of the Debian archive with clang

http://clang.debian.net/

14 years ago

175 upvotes – 54 comments

CoffeePhysics: A JS/CS Physics Engine

http://soulwire.co.uk/coffeephysics/

14 years ago

174 upvotes – 50 comments

Pretty Lisp

http://pretty-lisp.org/

14 years ago

170 upvotes – 112 comments

Like Instapaper, but for Developers

http://api.thequeue.org/v1/

14 years ago

161 upvotes – 48 comments

Microsoft's Azure cloud down and out for 8 hours

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/02/29/windows_azure_outage/

14 years ago

151 upvotes – 56 comments

Linode: Native IPv6 now available in all locations

http://blog.linode.com/2012/02/28/native-ipv6-now-available-in-all-locations/

14 years ago

148 upvotes – 7 comments

How Apple's Top Secret Product Development Process Works

http://thenextweb.com/apple/2012/01/24/this-is-how-apples-top-secret-product-development-process-works/

14 years ago

148 upvotes – 33 comments

Make your website fast. (And why you should).

http://www.scirra.com/blog/74/making-a-fast-website

14 years ago

146 upvotes – 67 comments

How to Hustle SXSW for Fun & Profit

http://www.daniellemorrill.com/2012/02/how-to-hustle-sxsw-for-fun-profit/

14 years ago

136 upvotes – 27 comments

Clojure Implemented in Pure Python

https://github.com/halgari/clojure-py

14 years ago

122 upvotes – 53 comments

The House Y Combinator Should Have Built

http://hellobubs.com/post/18452778324/house-ycombinator-should-have-built

14 years ago

114 upvotes – 72 comments

Julia is a high-level, high-performance dynamic programming language

http://julialang.org/

14 years ago

92 upvotes – 6 comments

Foursquare is joining the OpenStreetMap movement

http://blog.foursquare.com/2012/02/29/foursquare-is-joining-the-openstreetmap-movement-say-hi-to-pretty-new-maps/

14 years ago

90 upvotes – 10 comments

Chrome Now Officially Lets You Open All Email Links In Gmail

http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2012/02/open-email-links-directly-in-gmail.html

14 years ago

82 upvotes – 31 comments

In the Future Everything Will Be A Coffee Shop

http://blog.speculist.com/scenarios/the-coffee-shop-take-over.html

14 years ago

79 upvotes – 64 comments

Free-to-play Microsoft Flight released

http://www.geek.com/articles/games/free-to-play-microsoft-flight-released-20120229/

14 years ago

78 upvotes – 21 comments

Python 2.7 now fully supported on AppEngine

http://googleappengine.blogspot.in/2012/02/announcing-general-availability-of.html

14 years ago

76 upvotes – 7 comments

About 6.002x

https://6002x.mitx.mit.edu/

14 years ago

72 upvotes – 18 comments

Messenger.js - dead simple API for multi-server communication in Node.js

https://github.com/weixiyen/messenger.js

14 years ago

★ 726 CoffeeScript
68 upvotes – 26 comments

France: All your books are belong to us

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/02/29/france_authors_rights_compulsory_acquisition/

14 years ago

63 upvotes – 18 comments

Why wait? How Congress could fix copyright now

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/02/why-wait-six-ways-that-congress-could-fix-copyright-now.ars

14 years ago

61 upvotes – 55 comments

Functional javascript in one page

http://osteele.com/sources/javascript/functional/

14 years ago

60 upvotes – 6 comments

Consider buying a scenic French village and make into a startup/hacker haven?

http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/02/24/you-can-own-an-entire-french-village-for-440000/

14 years ago

60 upvotes – 64 comments

Wireframing Mobile Apps or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Index Cards

http://lytol.com/articles/mobile-wireframing.html

14 years ago

59 upvotes – 9 comments

Ticket engine SeatGeek launches developer platform, offers 50/50 revenue split

http://venturebeat.com/2012/02/29/seatgeek-developer-platform-api-live-events-tickets/

14 years ago

57 upvotes – 12 comments

Google once considered issuing currency - Eric Schmidt

http://www.itworld.com/networking/254124/google-once-considered-issuing-currency

14 years ago

56 upvotes – 29 comments

Visual Studio 11 Beta released

http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/11/

14 years ago

55 upvotes – 55 comments

Over 50% of Nigeria's web traffic is from mobile phones

http://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2012/02/q4_2011_mobile.html

14 years ago

51 upvotes – 19 comments

Learning from Rails' failures

http://merbist.com/2012/02/29/learning-from-rails-failures/

14 years ago

50 upvotes – 35 comments

Facebook acquires team behind YC alum Caffeinated Mind

http://venturebeat.com/2012/02/29/facebook-caffeinated-mind/

14 years ago

49 upvotes – 10 comments

Show HN: an unofficial API for Google Music

https://github.com/simon-weber/Unofficial-Google-Music-API

14 years ago

★ 2.4k Python BSD-3-Clause
48 upvotes – 9 comments

Hosting a Javascript website on github in Seconds for free

http://divinequantum.blogspot.com/2012/02/hosting-web-app-on-github-in-seconds.html

14 years ago

47 upvotes – 18 comments
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