top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-04-08

Did everybody see what just happened? The pendulum has swung.

http://42floors.com/blog/posts/did-everybody-see-what-just-happened-the-pendulum-has-swung

14 years ago

300 upvotes – 99 comments

Github is making me feel stupid(er)

http://www.serpentine.com/blog/2012/04/08/github-is-making-me-feel-stupider/

14 years ago

179 upvotes – 52 comments

The Apps are Too Damn Big

http://tobykeller.tumblr.com/post/20657511720/the-apps-are-too-damn-big

14 years ago

176 upvotes – 125 comments

Exploit Linux Machines Through Fun Challenges

http://exploit-exercises.com/

14 years ago

160 upvotes – 14 comments

Getting Things Done For Hackers

http://gtdfh.branchable.com/

14 years ago

140 upvotes – 43 comments

Story behind the animals on O'Reilly book covers

http://oreilly.com/news/lejeune_0400.html#

14 years ago

132 upvotes – 27 comments

While Apple Is Criticized for Foxconn, Other Companies Are Silent

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/08/disruptions-on-worker-conditions-apples-rivals-are-silent/

14 years ago

130 upvotes – 96 comments

Do Not Use Go for 32bit Development

http://www.abtinforouzandeh.com/2012/04/08/Do-Not-Use-Go-For-32bit-Development.html

14 years ago

117 upvotes – 130 comments

A Forth Story...

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.forth/browse_thread/thread/4e15a2197c0aaafe/95c3f82d1c681296?#95c3f82d1c681296

14 years ago

114 upvotes – 26 comments

A 5 Minute Quickstart Guide to Python’s logging Module

http://inventwithpython.com/blog/2012/04/06/stop-using-print-for-debugging-a-5-minute-quickstart-guide-to-pythons-logging-module/

14 years ago

113 upvotes – 25 comments

Show HN: I'll e-mail you in the morning if it's going to be a beautiful day.

http://www.beautifuldaybrian.com/

14 years ago

111 upvotes – 77 comments

LLVM backend for DCPU-16

https://github.com/krasin/llvm-dcpu16/

14 years ago

★ 29 C++
95 upvotes – 46 comments

The effect of Groupon promotions on Yelp ratings

http://mybiasedcoin.blogspot.com/2012/03/groupon-effect-on-yelp-ratings-guest.html

14 years ago

93 upvotes – 27 comments

The MySQL “swap insanity” problem and the effects of the NUMA architecture

http://blog.jcole.us/2010/09/28/mysql-swap-insanity-and-the-numa-architecture/

14 years ago

92 upvotes – 56 comments

The Tyranny of the Diff

http://michaelfeathers.typepad.com/michael_feathers_blog/2012/04/the-tyranny-of-the-diff.html

14 years ago

81 upvotes – 52 comments

New fighter jet camouflage schemes

http://markosun.wordpress.com/2011/02/03/new-fighter-jet-camouflage-schemes/

14 years ago

81 upvotes – 60 comments

Why I'm Learning Node

http://rdegges.com/why-im-learning-node

14 years ago

79 upvotes – 60 comments

MPAA Tech Officer Paul Brigner Switches Sides In Internet Fight

http://m.deadline.com/2012/04/mpaa-tech-officer-paul-brigner-switches-sides-in-internet-fight-report/

14 years ago

67 upvotes – 8 comments

HTML5 Presentation

http://slides.html5rocks.com/#landing-slide

14 years ago

65 upvotes – 19 comments

JavaScript caching framework for client side caching in the browser

https://github.com/d0ugal/locache

14 years ago

★ 925 JavaScript
65 upvotes – 34 comments

The Need for Reproducibility in Academic Research

http://blog.scienceexchange.com/2012/04/the-need-for-reproducibility-in-academic-research/

14 years ago

65 upvotes – 15 comments

Beginners guide to a modern web dev stack, from padrino to javascript

http://coffeespoonsofcode.wordpress.com/2012/04/07/beginners-guide-to-one-modern-web-development-stack/

14 years ago

60 upvotes – 19 comments

O(n) algorithm to find longest palindromic substring w/o suffix trees

http://wcipeg.com/wiki/index.php?title=Longest_palindromic_substring

14 years ago

58 upvotes – 17 comments

"Fail fast" is no excuse for being a moron, flake or scumbag

http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2012/04/08/fail-fast-is-not-an-excuse-for-being-a-moron-a-flake-or-a-scumbag/

14 years ago

57 upvotes – 34 comments

Happy Easter CSS3 animation

http://marynaaleksandrova.info/labs/happy-easter/

14 years ago

55 upvotes – 23 comments

On the eve of Oracle v. Google, the judge takes center stage

http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20120406214549477

14 years ago

52 upvotes – 2 comments

My experience with alternative Android markets

http://martingryner.com/on-alternative-android-app-stores/

14 years ago

51 upvotes – 10 comments

An introduction to jQuery Deferreds

http://javascriptplayground.com/blog/2012/04/jquery-deferreds-tutorial

14 years ago

50 upvotes – 10 comments

Mod_redis

https://github.com/sneakybeaky/mod_redis

14 years ago

★ 127 C
45 upvotes – 9 comments

Germany Is the Place to Go to Block a Rival's Technology

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/09/technology/09iht-patent09.html?_r=1&ref=technology

14 years ago

45 upvotes – 6 comments

Elite trade engine in C

http://www.iancgbell.clara.net/elite/text/index.htm

14 years ago

44 upvotes – 13 comments

The Automated Fake Album Project

https://fakealbum.interviewstreet.com/facemash/

14 years ago

43 upvotes – 18 comments

An R programmer looks at Julia

http://www.r-bloggers.com/an-r-programmer-looks-at-julia/

14 years ago

41 upvotes – 23 comments

Pinterest’s Unlikely Journey To Top Of The Startup Mountain

http://techcrunch.com/2012/04/08/pinterest-startup-mountain/

14 years ago

41 upvotes – 12 comments

Show HN: dcpubin - a pastebin for DCPU-16 programs

http://dcpubin.com/

14 years ago

41 upvotes – 23 comments
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