top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-04-03

How Not To Sort By Average Rating

http://evanmiller.org/how-not-to-sort-by-average-rating.html

14 years ago

750 upvotes – 153 comments

Notch's next game is an MMO

http://0x10c.com/

14 years ago

532 upvotes – 245 comments

Love hotels and Unicode

http://www.reigndesign.com/blog/love-hotels-and-unicode/

14 years ago

329 upvotes – 54 comments

Postgres 9.2 will feature linear read scalability up to 64 cores

http://rhaas.blogspot.com/2012/04/did-i-say-32-cores-how-about-64.html

14 years ago

262 upvotes – 107 comments

C.S. Lewis on Writing

http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012/04/c-s-lewis-on-writing.html

14 years ago

249 upvotes – 65 comments

Building a Product: One month later, $119.50 in the bank

http://www.projectorpm.com/blog/2012/04/03/building-a-product-one-month-later-11950-in-the-bank/

14 years ago

247 upvotes – 83 comments

How my comment on TechCrunch got me a Facebook Cease and Desist

http://rickstratton.com/detail.php?c=2787453&t=my-comment-on-techcrunch-got-me-a-facebook-cease-and-desist

14 years ago

227 upvotes – 86 comments

Leisure Suit Larry

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1451923705/make-leisure-suit-larry-come-again

14 years ago

226 upvotes – 139 comments

Dear Y Combinator, we bet you we can solve a problem of yours in 72 hours.

http://www.seedlauncher.com/blog/2012/04/03/dear-y-combinato-we-bet-you-one-interview-that-we-can-solve-a-nagging-problem-for-you-in-the-next-72-hours/

14 years ago

194 upvotes – 155 comments

A turning point for GNU libc

http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/488847/cb91a5cc3d179f3c/

14 years ago

192 upvotes – 86 comments

Instagram for Android — Available Now.

http://blog.instagram.com/post/20411305253/instagram-for-android-available-now

14 years ago

190 upvotes – 156 comments

How Design Works

http://startupsthisishowdesignworks.com/

14 years ago

181 upvotes – 49 comments

In praise of... text files and protocols

http://blog.jgc.org/2012/04/in-praise-of-text-files-and-protocols.html

14 years ago

176 upvotes – 88 comments

This is Why You Spent All that Time Learning to Program

http://prog21.dadgum.com/132.html#

14 years ago

176 upvotes – 23 comments

Math For Programmers

http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2006/03/math-for-programmers.html

14 years ago

167 upvotes – 50 comments

The Rust Programming Language

http://www.rust-lang.org/

14 years ago

145 upvotes – 126 comments

Google Art Project

http://googleartproject.com

14 years ago

126 upvotes – 34 comments

57 Small Programs that Crash Compilers

http://blog.regehr.org/archives/696

14 years ago

125 upvotes – 13 comments

Rent time with founders from Parse, Hipmunk, Sincerely and Reddit through Exec

http://blog.iamexec.com/post/20415502048/rent-a-tech-company-founder-through-exec-for-donors

14 years ago

108 upvotes – 43 comments

How to apologise to your customers

http://blogs.balsamiq.com/product/2012/04/03/sorry/

14 years ago

105 upvotes – 27 comments

Kickstrap: Enhancements for Bootstrap

http://ajkochanowicz.github.com/Kickstrap/index.html

14 years ago

104 upvotes – 13 comments

How does Y Combinator scale Y Combinator?

http://techcrunch.com/2012/04/02/yc-y-combinator-scaling/

14 years ago

97 upvotes – 61 comments

Everything's Made Up and The Points Don't Matter - raganwald's posterous

http://raganwald.posterous.com/everythings-made-up-and-the-points-dont-matte

14 years ago

91 upvotes – 41 comments

C++ programming pioneer hacks off-grid, DIY, smart home

http://faircompanies.com/videos/view/c-programming-pioneer-hacksf-grid-diy-smart-home/

14 years ago

88 upvotes – 30 comments

Google announces 50 search changes implemented in March

http://insidesearch.blogspot.com/2012/04/search-quality-highlights-50-changes.html

14 years ago

87 upvotes – 42 comments

Rails isn't for beginners

http://rakeroutes.com/blog/rails-is-not-for-beginners/

14 years ago

86 upvotes – 69 comments

New Dropbox API Features: /delta, /copy_ref, OS X SDK

https://www.dropbox.com/developers/announcements/18

14 years ago

85 upvotes – 21 comments

Lisp Hackers: Marijn Haverbeke

http://lisp-univ-etc.blogspot.com/2012/04/lisp-hackers-marijn-haverbeke.html

14 years ago

83 upvotes – 14 comments

Why the Juju Charm Store Will Change the Way You Use Ubuntu Server

http://www.jorgecastro.org/2012/04/03/the-juju-charm-store-will-change-the-way-you-use-ubuntu-server/

14 years ago

83 upvotes – 34 comments

Prismatic Hopes to Create a New Category of Social News

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/03/prismatic-hopes-to-offer-a-new-category-of-social-news/

14 years ago

83 upvotes – 34 comments

Swedish researchers uncover key to China's Tor-blocking system

http://www.v3.co.uk/v3-uk/news/2165733/swedish-researchers-uncover-key-chinas-tor-blocking

14 years ago

82 upvotes – 3 comments

Agile Diagnosis (YC S11) Launches: Helping Doctors With Diagnosis

http://techcrunch.com/2012/04/03/agile-diagnosis-beta-launch/

14 years ago

73 upvotes – 22 comments

Automated Emails & Respecting Your Customers

http://blog.intercom.io/automated-emails-customer-respect/

14 years ago

70 upvotes – 19 comments

A sad story of an Internet Search Giant

http://blog.jitbit.com/2012/04/once-there-was-search-engine.html

14 years ago

69 upvotes – 28 comments

The Real Leadership Lessons of Steve Jobs

http://hbr.org/2012/04/the-real-leadership-lessons-of-steve-jobs/

14 years ago

66 upvotes – 24 comments

"We need to work longer" - Why this is not what you want to say

http://manuel.kiessling.net/2012/04/02/we-need-to-work-longer-why-this-is-not-what-you-want-to-say/

14 years ago

63 upvotes – 25 comments

VMware High-Bandwidth Backdoor ROM Overwrite Privilege Elevation

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/522141

14 years ago

62 upvotes – 21 comments

Email and web monitoring laws 'to be brought in soon' [UK]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-17595209

14 years ago

61 upvotes – 45 comments

Building real-time feed updates for NewsBlur with Redis and WebSockets

http://blog.newsblur.com/post/20371256202/building-real-time-feed-updates-for-newsblur

14 years ago

58 upvotes – 8 comments

Facebook counterclaim accuses Yahoo of infringing 10 patents

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/04/facebook-counterclaim-accuses-yahoo-of-infringing-10-patents.ars

14 years ago

58 upvotes – 26 comments

Brendan Eich of Mozilla gave $1000 to support gay marriage ban

http://projects.latimes.com/prop8/donation/8930/

14 years ago

57 upvotes – 39 comments

Stephen Fry on the History of the Smartphone

http://www.stephenfry.com/2012/04/03/four-and-half-years-on/

14 years ago

56 upvotes – 22 comments
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