top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-03-17

Stop writing classes...

http://pyvideo.org/video/880/stop-writing-classes

14 years ago

369 upvotes – 197 comments

Handbook of Text manipulation on Unix

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/aix/library/au-unixtext/index.html

14 years ago

316 upvotes – 23 comments

An entire Mobile OS built using HTML, CSS and JS - by Mozilla

http://mobile.dzone.com/articles/mozillas-web-based-phone?mz=46483-html5

14 years ago

289 upvotes – 112 comments

Ambient bus arrival monitor from hacked Linksys WRT54GL

http://blog.jgc.org/2012/03/ambient-bus-arrival-monitor-from-hacked.html

14 years ago

273 upvotes – 48 comments

A Guide to Python's Magic Methods

http://www.rafekettler.com/magicmethods.html

14 years ago

234 upvotes – 27 comments

Sad but true: Napster '99 still smokes Spotify 2012

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/03/17/parker_fanning_on_napster/

14 years ago

206 upvotes – 88 comments

Ingo Molnar on what ails the Linux desktop

https://plus.google.com/109922199462633401279/posts/HgdeFDfRzNe

14 years ago

205 upvotes – 191 comments

Linux Directory Structure (File System Structure) Explained with Examples

http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2010/09/linux-file-system-structure/

14 years ago

182 upvotes – 24 comments

The C Conference

http://cconf.github.com/

14 years ago

165 upvotes – 36 comments

Linux kernel performance: Flame Graphs

http://dtrace.org/blogs/brendan/2012/03/17/linux-kernel-performance-flame-graphs/

14 years ago

148 upvotes – 4 comments

Smoothie Charts: a small javascript charting library for live streaming data

http://smoothiecharts.org/

14 years ago

148 upvotes – 15 comments

SICP (Python Version)

http://www-inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cs61a/sp12/book/index.html

14 years ago

142 upvotes – 18 comments

Add Syntax Highlighting To Your Blog With VIM

http://alexanderle.com/blog/2012/03/17/syntax-highlighting-with-gvim.html

14 years ago

134 upvotes – 39 comments

Introducing Instapaper 4.1 for iPhone, iPad

http://www.marco.org/2012/03/16/instapaper-4-1-released

14 years ago

133 upvotes – 57 comments

Too Much SEO? Google’s Working On An “Over-Optimization” Penalty For That

http://searchengineland.com/too-much-seo-google%E2%80%99s-working-on-an-%E2%80%9Cover-optimization%E2%80%9D-penalty-for-that-115627

14 years ago

131 upvotes – 125 comments

Keymaster.js: micro-library to add keyboard shortcuts

https://github.com/madrobby/keymaster#readme

14 years ago

★ 6.5k JavaScript MIT
119 upvotes – 19 comments

Assange 'to run for Australian senate'

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia-pacific/2012/03/201231783350968878.html

14 years ago

115 upvotes – 39 comments

What I hate about “beginner” programming books

http://allfuzzy.tumblr.com/post/19464639511/3-things-i-hate-about-beginner-programming-books

14 years ago

113 upvotes – 40 comments

Microjs: an index of javascript micro frameworks

http://microjs.com/

14 years ago

104 upvotes – 26 comments

Why we didn't use a bloom filter

http://dr-josiah.blogspot.com/2012/03/why-we-didnt-use-bloom-filter.html

14 years ago

102 upvotes – 36 comments

The Ruby Refresher

http://0xfe.muthanna.com/rubyrefresher/

14 years ago

89 upvotes – 10 comments

Pure CSS Clickable Events Without :target

http://www.ryancollins.me/?p=1041

14 years ago

79 upvotes – 15 comments

Bitcoin War: The First Real Threat to Bitcoin?

https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2012/03/bitcoin-war-the-first-real-threat-to-bitcoin/

14 years ago

74 upvotes – 44 comments

JavaScript Performance MythBusters (via jsPerf)

https://docs.google.com/present/view?id=0Ac0YlG9vMA2LZHE1MnpycF8yMGZ6ZnZxa2hy&pli=1

14 years ago

69 upvotes – 23 comments

The fall of Big Paper

http://www.forbes.com/sites/venkateshrao/2012/03/13/the-end-of-pax-papyra-and-the-fall-of-big-paper/

14 years ago

67 upvotes – 26 comments

Just How Big Are The Eyes Of A Giant Squid?

http://www.npr.org/2012/03/15/148694025/just-how-big-are-the-eyes-of-a-giant-squid

14 years ago

62 upvotes – 12 comments

CyanogenMod 9 will have root disabled by default

http://www.cyanogenmod.com/blog/security-and-you

14 years ago

62 upvotes – 21 comments

Mountain Lion now protects your contacts

http://dcurt.is/mountain-lion-contacts

14 years ago

60 upvotes – 14 comments

Support the Jobs Act and ease regulations on startups and investors

http://angel.co/jobs-act

14 years ago

59 upvotes – 31 comments
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