top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-03-25

The Best Textbooks on Every Subject

http://lesswrong.com/lw/3gu/the_best_textbooks_on_every_subject/

14 years ago

383 upvotes – 62 comments

Legit. Git for humans

http://www.git-legit.org

14 years ago

361 upvotes – 131 comments

James Cameron begins deepest dive

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-17503395

14 years ago

328 upvotes – 70 comments

Always a starter, never a finisher.

https://plus.google.com/u/0/116594037963311275379/posts/5c1Y78Luymg

14 years ago

269 upvotes – 93 comments

How a language can be faster than C

http://beza1e1.tuxen.de/articles/faster_than_C.html

14 years ago

135 upvotes – 29 comments

A Game to Make Games

http://craftstud.io/

14 years ago

135 upvotes – 21 comments

Skype55 deobfuscated version released

http://skype-open-source.blogspot.com/2012/03/skype55-deobfuscated-released.html

14 years ago

133 upvotes – 66 comments

Ark (YC W12) launches a modern people search engine

http://techcrunch.com/2012/03/25/ark-people-search/

14 years ago

132 upvotes – 53 comments

Why Node.js streams are awesome

http://blog.dump.ly/post/19819897856/why-node-js-streams-are-awesome

14 years ago

129 upvotes – 65 comments

Why I decided to skip college, and how I've fared (10 months later)

http://joshmlewis.posterous.com/why-i-decided-to-skip-college-and-how-ive-far

14 years ago

127 upvotes – 116 comments

Haskell as fast as C: working at a high altitude for low level performance

http://donsbot.wordpress.com/2008/06/04/haskell-as-fast-as-c-working-at-a-high-altitude-for-low-level-performance/

14 years ago

123 upvotes – 55 comments

How a web app can download and store over 2GB without you even knowing it

http://jclaes.blogspot.com/2012/03/how-web-application-can-download-and.html

14 years ago

112 upvotes – 33 comments

Multi-player piano

http://www.multiplayerpiano.com/

14 years ago

110 upvotes – 40 comments

TSA Oversight: Tell Us Your TSA Story

http://oversight.house.gov/tsa-oversight-tell-us-your-tsa-story/

14 years ago

103 upvotes – 10 comments

Why you should always use gzip instead of deflate compression

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/388595/why-use-deflate-instead-of-gzip-for-text-files-served-by-apache/9856879#9856879

14 years ago

101 upvotes – 17 comments

x86 Assembly Primer for C Programmers

http://speakerdeck.com/u/vsergeev/p/x86-assembly-primer-for-c-programmers

14 years ago

98 upvotes – 18 comments

Why geeks need to learn how to delegate

http://thenextweb.com/insider/2012/03/25/a-lesson-from-richard-branson-why-geeks-need-to-learn-how-to-delegate/

14 years ago

97 upvotes – 17 comments

PHP-Snow - A concise, dry and beautiful language that compiles to PHP

http://code.google.com/p/php-snow/

14 years ago

90 upvotes – 94 comments

Functional programming and the death of the Unix Way

http://newcome.wordpress.com/2012/03/06/functional-programming-and-the-death-of-the-unix-way/

14 years ago

90 upvotes – 33 comments

Doing vs Telling

http://sachagreif.com/doing-vs-telling/

14 years ago

87 upvotes – 32 comments

Xv6 - Unix V6 rewritten in modern, ANSI C for MIT 6.828

http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.828/2011/xv6.html

14 years ago

86 upvotes – 14 comments

Rails Is More Than An API

http://www.projectorpm.com/blog/2012/03/25/rails-is-more-than-an-api/

14 years ago

77 upvotes – 6 comments

Who wants a great engineering team in Bucharest?

http://loiclemeur.com/english/2012/03/who-wants-a-great-engineering-team-in-bucharest-please-help-me-spread-the-word.html

14 years ago

72 upvotes – 23 comments

Paying back your launch debt

http://42floors.com/blog/posts/paying-back-your-launch-debt

14 years ago

71 upvotes – 7 comments

I want to go to college

http://restfulpanda.com/6-i-want-to-go-to-college.html

14 years ago

69 upvotes – 102 comments

Beware of Cramming on Your Cellphone Bill

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/25/your-money/beware-of-cramming-on-your-cellphone-bill-the-haggler.html?_r=1&ref=technology

14 years ago

69 upvotes – 35 comments

Common Lisp Quick Reference

http://clqr.boundp.org/

14 years ago

68 upvotes – 9 comments

Logic and Artificial Intelligence

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/logic-ai/

14 years ago

61 upvotes – 6 comments

Draw Something Changes the Game Quickly for Omgpop

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/26/technology/draw-something-changes-the-game-quickly-for-omgpop.html?_r=2

14 years ago

61 upvotes – 10 comments

Apple Has Started Rejecting Apps That Access UDIDs Amid Privacy Concerns

http://techcrunch.com/2012/03/24/apple-udids/

14 years ago

59 upvotes – 63 comments

Exceptions in C with Longjmp and Setjmp

http://www.di.unipi.it/~nids/docs/longjump_try_trow_catch.html

14 years ago

56 upvotes – 33 comments

For High Tech Companies, Going Public Sucks

http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2012/03/ff_facebookipo/

14 years ago

55 upvotes – 24 comments

Show HN: My saturday project. For when your co-founders can't 'Draw Something'.

http://www.omghalp.com/

14 years ago

54 upvotes – 48 comments

Why TeX and LaTeX are the defacto standard for writing math equations

http://tex.stackexchange.com/q/49208/213

14 years ago

51 upvotes – 17 comments

Goliath v. David, AAC style

http://niederfamily.blogspot.com/2012/03/goliath-v-david-aac-style.html

14 years ago

50 upvotes – 11 comments

Cheating our children: Suspicious school test scores across the nation

http://www.ajc.com/news/cheating-our-children-suspicious-1397022.html

14 years ago

50 upvotes – 39 comments

Chess Archives on YouTube

http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=8020

14 years ago

48 upvotes – 11 comments

Using LibC in x86 Assembly Programs

http://jdefr.swippet.com/2012/03/22/using-libc-with-assembly

14 years ago

47 upvotes – 12 comments

Avoiding overflow trick: log(a+b) from log(a) and log(b)

https://facwiki.cs.byu.edu/nlp/index.php/Log_Domain_Computations

14 years ago

45 upvotes – 7 comments

Learn Perl the Hard Way

http://greenteapress.com/perl/index.html

14 years ago

45 upvotes – 11 comments
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