top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-04-09

Mosh: SSH for 2012

http://mosh.mit.edu/?

14 years ago

900 upvotes – 193 comments

Facebook acquires Instagram

https://www.facebook.com/zuck/posts/10100318398827991

14 years ago

837 upvotes – 374 comments

Jack Tramiel, founder of Commodore, dies at age 83

http://www.forbes.com/sites/davidthier/2012/04/09/computer-legend-and-gaming-pioneer-jack-tramiel-dies-at-age-83/

14 years ago

314 upvotes – 90 comments

Instagram is acquired by Facebook

http://blog.instagram.com/post/20785013897/instagram-facebook

14 years ago

293 upvotes – 88 comments

All The Cheat Sheets An Up To Date Web Designer Needs: CSS3, HTML5 and jQuery

http://designresourcebox.com/all-the-cheat-sheets-an-up-to-date-web-designer-needs-css3-html5-and-jquery/

14 years ago

248 upvotes – 26 comments

An Emacs conference

http://emacsconf.herokuapp.com/

14 years ago

234 upvotes – 44 comments

Why haven't we cured cancer yet?

http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/index.php/personalized-medicine-vs-evolution/

14 years ago

231 upvotes – 158 comments

Show HN: We built real MMO Asteroids

http://www.mmoasteroids.com/

14 years ago

197 upvotes – 64 comments

The Instagram Architecture Facebook Bought for a Cool Billion Dollars

http://highscalability.com/blog/2012/4/9/the-instagram-architecture-facebook-bought-for-a-cool-billio.html

14 years ago

190 upvotes – 60 comments

EU wants to criminalize "Hacking Tools"

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/04/hacking-tools/

14 years ago

169 upvotes – 120 comments

YC Facelift: EXEC

http://kyrobeshay.com/post/20746111679/yc-facelift-exec

14 years ago

168 upvotes – 87 comments

Android: Faster emulator with better hardware support

http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2012/04/faster-emulator-with-better-hardware.html

14 years ago

165 upvotes – 38 comments

Caller ID Made Simple

http://rdegges.com/im-working-on-a-startup?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rdegges+%28rdegges%29&utm_content=Google+Reader

14 years ago

152 upvotes – 64 comments

Twitter open sources its MySQL secret sauce

http://gigaom.com/cloud/twitter-open-sources-its-mysql-secret-sauce/

14 years ago

147 upvotes – 19 comments

Yesod 1.0 - a robust, friendly, high performance web framework for Haskell

http://www.yesodweb.com/blog/2012/04/announcing-yesod-1-0

14 years ago

145 upvotes – 109 comments

Meetings.io - Simple, online meetings

http://meetings.io/

14 years ago

139 upvotes – 62 comments

A Man. A Woman. Just Friends?

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/08/opinion/sunday/a-man-a-woman-just-friends.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all

14 years ago

134 upvotes – 116 comments

Paths to $5M for a startup founder

http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/2010/06/paths-to-5m-for-a-startup-founder.html

14 years ago

126 upvotes – 55 comments

Downloading a file regularly - how hard can it be?

https://adblockplus.org/blog/downloading-a-file-regularly-how-hard-can-it-be

14 years ago

121 upvotes – 42 comments

Bartosz Milewski - The Downfall of Imperative Programming

http://fpcomplete.com/the-downfall-of-imperative-programming/

14 years ago

119 upvotes – 81 comments

Why Reddit switched to Python (2005)

http://blog.reddit.com/2005/12/on-lisp.html

14 years ago

118 upvotes – 42 comments

“She doesn’t deserve to be alive”

http://blog.asmartbear.com/doesnt-deserve-to-be-alive.html

14 years ago

113 upvotes – 59 comments

Depth of field blur: the Swiss army knife that improved the framerate

http://joostdevblog.blogspot.com/2012/04/depth-of-field-blur-swiss-army-knife.html

14 years ago

111 upvotes – 19 comments

Did Facebook panic?

http://finance.fortune.cnn.com/2012/04/09/did-facebook-panic/?hpt=hp_t1

14 years ago

111 upvotes – 54 comments

What comes next: π/2, π/2, π/2, π/2, π/2, π/2, π/2, ...?

http://www.thebigquestions.com/2012/03/26/loose-ends/

14 years ago

106 upvotes – 53 comments

First look: Qt 5 makes JavaScript a first-class citizen for app development

http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2012/04/an-in-depth-look-at-qt-5-making-javascript-a-first-class-citizen-for-native-cross-platform-developme.ars

14 years ago

103 upvotes – 23 comments

Why I prefer scheme to Haskell

http://slidetocode.com/2012/04/09/why-i-prefer-scheme-to-haskell/

14 years ago

103 upvotes – 70 comments

Writing Browser Extensions - Comparing Firefox, Chrome and Opera

http://blog.nparashuram.com/2011/10/writing-browser-extensions-comparing.html?hn

14 years ago

101 upvotes – 32 comments

TIOBE : C overtakes Java as the No.1 programming language

http://pixelstech.net/article/index.php?id=1333969280

14 years ago

94 upvotes – 65 comments

Fundraising: From $1,000 To $1,000,000

http://techcrunch.com/2012/04/08/excerpt-fundraising-from-1000-to-1000000/

14 years ago

87 upvotes – 35 comments

The Newbie’s Guide to Learning Clojure

http://www.elangocheran.com/blog/2012/03/the-newbies-guide-learning-clojure/

14 years ago

86 upvotes – 14 comments

A Short Story About Verbosity

http://prog21.dadgum.com/65.html

14 years ago

82 upvotes – 21 comments

Why most people dream and only some do: The Go-Getter theory

http://www.davykestens.be/self-improvement/why-most-people-dream-and-only-some-do-the-go-getter-theory

14 years ago

81 upvotes – 39 comments

Node-Qt: Build native apps using Node.js + Qt (Windows, Mac, Linux)

https://github.com/arturadib/node-qt

14 years ago

★ 1.6k C++
79 upvotes – 26 comments

Where is the casual programming?

http://iamsamy.blogspot.com/2012/04/where-is-casual-programming.html

14 years ago

79 upvotes – 79 comments

A Man Can’t Live on Image Credit Alone

http://www.petapixel.com/2012/04/06/a-man-cant-live-on-image-credit-alone/

14 years ago

72 upvotes – 62 comments

Microsoft quietly buys Netscape browser technology (and patents)

http://www.slashgear.com/microsoft-quietly-buys-netscape-browser-technology-09222093/

14 years ago

70 upvotes – 30 comments

How Prismatic deals with data storage and aggregation

http://blog.getprismatic.com/blog/2012/4/9/how-prismatic-deals-with-data-storage-and-aggregation.html

14 years ago

69 upvotes – 16 comments

AOL Sells 800 Patents For $1 Billion To Microsoft

http://techcrunch.com/2012/04/09/aol-sells-800-patents-for-1-billion-to-microsoft-memo-to-staff/

14 years ago

68 upvotes – 45 comments

Instagram raised $50M right before acquisition

http://techcrunch.com/2012/04/09/right-before-acquisition-instagram-closed-50m-at-a-500m-valuation-from-sequoia-thrive-greylock-and-benchmark/

14 years ago

67 upvotes – 53 comments

The Computing Trend that Will Change Everything

http://www.technologyreview.in/business/40016/

14 years ago

65 upvotes – 24 comments

The 28 Corporations Supporting CISPA

http://intelligence.house.gov/bill/cyber-intelligence-sharing-and-protection-act-2011

14 years ago

65 upvotes – 26 comments

Parallelism and the Limits of (programming) Languages

http://whilefalse.blogspot.com/2012/04/parallelism-and-limits-of-languages.html

14 years ago

62 upvotes – 22 comments

An Airbnb for Dogs Gets $3.4 Million in Funding

http://allthingsd.com/20120409/woof-rover-com-fetches-3-4-million-to-be-airbnb-for-dogs/?mod=tweet

14 years ago

60 upvotes – 61 comments

Raspberry Pi passes CE and FCC regulations

http://www.geek.com/articles/chips/raspberry-pi-passes-ce-and-fcc-regulations-2012049/

14 years ago

58 upvotes – 15 comments

Websites That Did Really Well on Flippa (and What We Can Learn From It)

http://www.sparklewise.com/7-websites-that-did-really-well-on-flippa/

14 years ago

56 upvotes – 27 comments
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