top 20 hacker news stories for 2012-04-02

I hereby resign

http://raganwald.posterous.com/i-hereby-resign

14 years ago

1175 upvotes – 366 comments

Instantly create beautiful GitHub project pages

https://github.com/blog/1081-instantly-beautiful-project-pages

14 years ago

553 upvotes – 46 comments

The Future of Python HTTP

http://kennethreitz.com/the-future-of-python-http.html

14 years ago

336 upvotes – 53 comments

The Photographic Science of Detecting Fake Lottery Tickets

http://www.hackerfactor.com/blog/?/archives/478-Fool-Me-Once.html

14 years ago

254 upvotes – 49 comments

"Linux switch saved city millions and reduced user complaints"

http://www.computerworlduk.com/news/public-sector/3348475/munich-mayor-says-switch-linux-is-much-cheaper-reduced-complaints/

14 years ago

209 upvotes – 135 comments

Ask HN: Why are a large proportion of legit posts being marked [dead]?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3788902

14 years ago

185 upvotes – 103 comments

Subtle Sans: A Free (Pay What You Want) Font

http://www.subtlepatterns.com/subtlesans/

14 years ago

159 upvotes – 43 comments

Humans hot, sweaty, natural-born runners

http://www.physorg.com/news95954919.html

14 years ago

143 upvotes – 88 comments

Selling a startup at the age of 15

http://dkume.com/selling-phenona

14 years ago

139 upvotes – 45 comments

25 years of OS/2: the legendary failure that refuses to die.

http://techland.time.com/2012/04/02/25-years-of-ibms-os2-the-birth-death-and-afterlife-of-a-legendary-operating-system/

14 years ago

136 upvotes – 61 comments

Yahoo’s Mojito is Now Open Source

http://developer.yahoo.com/blogs/ydn/posts/2012/04/yahoo’s-mojito-is-now-open-source/

14 years ago

130 upvotes – 36 comments

Our Culture of Exclusion (or, why I'm not at JSConf this year)

http://ryanfunduk.com/culture-of-exclusion/

14 years ago

130 upvotes – 91 comments

The x86 PlayStation 4 could signal a sea-change in the console industry

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2012/04/the-x86-playstation-4-signals-a-sea-change-in-the-console-industry.ars

14 years ago

130 upvotes – 99 comments

How We Fooled Ourselves Into Waiting Too Long To Launch

http://viniciusvacanti.com/2012/04/02/how-we-fooled-ourselves-into-delaying-our-startups-launch/

14 years ago

128 upvotes – 55 comments

Lean Domain Search Now Checks the Availability of 2,000 Domain Names per Search

http://leandomainsearch.com/2000

14 years ago

117 upvotes – 57 comments

Senator Lieberman proposes to eliminate Section 230 immunity from blogs

http://mcintyre-v-ohio.com/2012/04/section-230-revision-will-likely-impact-anonymous-internet-speech/

14 years ago

115 upvotes – 48 comments

Novocaine: painless high-performance audio on iOS and OS X

http://alexbw.github.com/novocaine/

14 years ago

109 upvotes – 40 comments

A billion thanks to the open source community from Red Hat

http://opensource.com/business/12/3/billion-thanks-open-source-community-red-hat

14 years ago

107 upvotes – 27 comments

The "Hello World" of genetic algorithms

http://www.generation5.org/content/2003/gahelloworld.asp

14 years ago

104 upvotes – 34 comments

60 minutes: Is sugar toxic?

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7403942n&tag=contentBody;storyMediaBox

14 years ago

103 upvotes – 124 comments
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