top 50% 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

CAP_SYS_ADMIN: the new root

http://lwn.net/Articles/486306/

14 years ago

103 upvotes – 32 comments

Professional Traders Show Interest in Bitcoin

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/04/01/traders-bitcoin-idUSL6E8ET5K620120401

14 years ago

101 upvotes – 103 comments

The Pwn Plug is a little white box that can hack your network

http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2012/03/the-pwn-plug-is-a-little-white-box-that-can-hack-your-network.ars

14 years ago

100 upvotes – 24 comments

Don’t Eat Too Much Three Bean Salad. The Server Will Crash.

http://thenubbyadmin.com/2012/03/30/dont-eat-too-much-three-bean-salad-the-server-will-cras/

14 years ago

100 upvotes – 22 comments

Codecademy Adds Beginner Languages HTML and CSS

http://mashable.com/2012/04/02/codecademy-css-html/

14 years ago

84 upvotes – 31 comments

Tattoos and Y Combinator Demo Day

http://www.thisisgoingtobebig.com/blog/2012/4/2/tattoos-and-ycombinator-demo-day.html

14 years ago

84 upvotes – 21 comments

Preserving The Internet... and Everything Else

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/04/preserving-the-internet-and-everything-else.html

14 years ago

81 upvotes – 14 comments

No joke: Ashton Kutcher to play Steve Jobs in biopic

http://venturebeat.com/2012/04/01/ashton-kutcher-steve-jobs-biopic/

14 years ago

76 upvotes – 46 comments

Why Google isn’t worried about Android revenue

http://gigaom.com/mobile/why-google-isnt-worried-about-androids-revenue/

14 years ago

74 upvotes – 42 comments

Secret History of OpenStack, the Free Cloud Software That’s Changing Everything

http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/04/openstack/

14 years ago

67 upvotes – 22 comments

USRobotics PalmPilot Personal review

http://www.engadget.com/2012/04/01/usrobotics-palmpilot-personal-review/

14 years ago

66 upvotes – 32 comments

Android Economics

http://www.asymco.com/2012/04/02/android-economics/

14 years ago

65 upvotes – 10 comments

How to make your github static page a blog

http://alvesjnr.github.com/blog/pages/permalinks/how-to-make-your-github-static-page-a-blog2012-Mar-30.html

14 years ago

61 upvotes – 17 comments

All about Linux signals - Linux Programming Blog

http://www.linuxprogrammingblog.com/all-about-linux-signals

14 years ago

61 upvotes – 36 comments

Google Wallet Co-Founding Engineer Departs Google for Square

http://www.nfctimes.com/news/google-wallet-co-founding-engineer-departs-google-square

14 years ago

56 upvotes – 28 comments

A vim plugin that lets you edit PNG and GIF icons

http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1617

14 years ago

55 upvotes – 11 comments

Win32/64 C Compiler Benchmarks

http://willus.com/ccomp_benchmark2.shtml

14 years ago

51 upvotes – 17 comments

Show How, Don't Tell What - A Management Style

http://tomayko.com/writings/management-style

14 years ago

50 upvotes – 7 comments

Backbone.Rel: Backbone lightweight model relationship manager

https://github.com/masylum/Backbone.Rel

14 years ago

★ 144 JavaScript MIT
48 upvotes – 4 comments

Inadmissible assumptions underlying Internet policy

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2012/04/the-inadmissible-assumptions.html

14 years ago

48 upvotes – 24 comments

Learnings from open-sourcing Bootstrap

http://www.markdotto.com/2012/04/02/learnings-from-open-sourcing-bootstrap/

14 years ago

45 upvotes – 2 comments

A working Firefox Windows 8 Metro prototype, status update 3

http://www.brianbondy.com/blog/id/135/

14 years ago

45 upvotes – 16 comments

How I went from idea to profit in under 24 hours

http://giantrobotbattle.com/2012/04/02/idea-to-profit-in-less-than-24-hours/

14 years ago

44 upvotes – 36 comments

Why I’m taking full responsibility for my education

http://jarredsumner.com/blog/post/20300793172/why-im-taking-full-responsibility-for-my-education

14 years ago

42 upvotes – 40 comments

Bootstrap Illustrator Template

http://www.aaronkwhite.com/2012/artwork/bootstrap-illustrator-template/

14 years ago

41 upvotes – 10 comments

Thoughts on the occasion of the 25th Anniversary of IBM OS/2

https://plus.google.com/106875990476951662693/posts/9aDbieL2ncH

14 years ago

40 upvotes – 29 comments

IBM builds exascale supercomputer for largest telescope

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/124561-ibm-to-build-exascale-supercomputer-for-the-worlds-largest-million-antennae-telescope?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ibm-to-build-exascale-supercomputer-for-the-worlds-largest-million-antennae-telescope

14 years ago

39 upvotes – 4 comments

Abolish The Reference Check

http://www.nirandfar.com/2012/04/abolish-the-reference-check.html

14 years ago

39 upvotes – 43 comments

How I hacked My CompSci Class

http://crypticswarm.com/how-i-hacked-my-compsci-class

14 years ago

39 upvotes – 6 comments

Ask HN: Who, What, Where, Why?

https://plus.google.com/110024759279361022311/posts/7Ff4CUkPWJb

14 years ago

36 upvotes – 10 comments

Types of Tests

http://searls.test-double.com/2012/04/01/types-of-tests

14 years ago

36 upvotes – 6 comments

Internet-induced fear culture (or: Why Girls Around Me isn’t the problem)

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/124531-internet-induced-fear-culture-or-why-girls-around-me-isnt-the-problem

14 years ago

35 upvotes – 17 comments

Justices Approve Strip-Searches for Any Offense

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/03/us/justices-approve-strip-searches-for-any-offense.html?_r=1&smid=tw-nytimes&seid=auto

14 years ago

35 upvotes – 29 comments

Economist on Linux Desktop: Free is too expensive

http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2012/03/desktop-linux?r=2

14 years ago

34 upvotes – 30 comments

Ask PG: Would Less Anonymity Help HN?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3787474

14 years ago

33 upvotes – 44 comments

Simple SVG gauge built with Raphael

https://github.com/gristmill/gauge

14 years ago

★ 78 JavaScript
33 upvotes – 8 comments

Introduction to ASP.NET Web API

http://blog.filipekberg.se/2012/03/19/introducing-the-asp-net-web-api/

14 years ago

32 upvotes – 16 comments

The Moon’s Giant-Collision Theory Proven Incorrect

http://techzwn.com/finding-shows-the-moon-comes-only-from-earth-not-giant-collision/

14 years ago

31 upvotes – 20 comments
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