top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-04-10

Show HN: Meteor, a realtime JavaScript framework

http://www.meteor.com

14 years ago

PHP: A fractal of bad design

http://me.veekun.com/blog/2012/04/09/php-a-fractal-of-bad-design/

14 years ago

Zxcvbn: realistic password strength estimation

http://tech.dropbox.com/?p=165

14 years ago

PHP Sucks But I Like It

http://blog.ircmaxell.com/2012/04/php-sucks-but-i-like-it.html

14 years ago

Take Over The Galaxy with GitHub (DCPU16 support)

https://github.com/blog/1098-take-over-the-galaxy-with-github

14 years ago

Instagram is "worth" more than the New York Times

http://thenextweb.com/insider/2012/04/09/at-a-market-cap-of-950-million-the-new-york-times-is-worth-less-than-instagram/

14 years ago

How to Learn Haskell

http://acm.wustl.edu/functional/haskell.php

14 years ago

PHP Sucks, But It Doesn't Matter

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2008/05/php-sucks-but-it-doesnt-matter.html

14 years ago

CoffeeScript 1.3.0 is out

http://coffeescript.org/#changelog

14 years ago

C Finally Gets A New Standard

http://drdobbs.com/cpp/232800444

14 years ago

A huge listserv. Each day, only one random person can write to it.

http://thelistserve.com/

14 years ago

Discovering a Major Security Hole in Facebook's Android SDK

http://blog.parse.com/2012/04/10/discovering-a-major-security-hole-in-facebooks-android-sdk/

14 years ago

Ziptastic: Isn't a zipcode enough?

http://daspecster.github.com/ziptastic/

14 years ago

Instagram’s founder, a marketer who learned to code at night

http://thenextweb.com/2012/04/10/instagrams-ceo-had-no-formal-programming-training-hes-a-marketer-who-learned-to-code-by-night/

14 years ago

Apple Snubs Firm That Discovered Mac Botnet

http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2012/04/09/apple-snubs-firm-who-discovered-mac-botnet-tries-to-cut-off-its-server-monitoring-infections/

14 years ago

Attention control is critical for changing/increasing/altering motivation

http://lesswrong.com/lw/blr/attention_control_is_critical_for/

14 years ago

A hacker creates his own version of Google Project Glass

http://thenextweb.com/shareables/2012/04/10/think-googles-project-glass-is-sci-fi-this-developer-hacked-it-together-with-existing-parts/?awesm=tnw.to_1DzFX&utm_campaign=social%20media&utm_medium=Spreadus&utm_source=Facebook&utm_content=Think%20Googles%20Project%20Glass%20is%20sci-fi?%20This%20developer%20hacked%20it%20together%20with%20existing%20parts

14 years ago

The Crisis in American Walking

http://www.slate.com/articles/life/walking/2012/04/why_don_t_americans_walk_more_the_crisis_of_pedestrianism_.single.html

14 years ago

Rust's Object System

http://smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/blog/2012/04/09/rusts-object-system/

14 years ago

The Hack Day Manifesto

http://hackdaymanifesto.com/

14 years ago

Remote root hole in Samba

http://lwn.net/Articles/491516/rss

14 years ago

Tmux, for fun and profit

http://reefpoints.dockyard.com/ruby/2012/04/10/tmux-for-fun-and-profit.html

14 years ago

Iran plans to unplug the Internet, launch its own "clean" alternative

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/04/iran-plans-to-unplug-the-internet-launch-its-own-clean-alternative.ars?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+arstechnica%2Findex+%28Ars+Technica+-+Featured+Content%29

14 years ago

NOAA: U.S. Records Warmest March; More than 15,000 Warm Temp Records Broken

http://www.commerce.gov/blog/2012/04/09/noaa-us-records-warmest-march-more-15000-warm-temperature-records-broken

14 years ago

Big Startups vs Little Startups

http://ezliu.com/1-startup-2-startups-big-startups-little-startup/

14 years ago

Everyme (YC S11) Launches Mobile App That Aims To Get Social Circles Right

http://techcrunch.com/2012/04/10/everyme-launch/

14 years ago

Tell Obama And Dodd: No Backroom Dealing, No New SOPA

http://act.demandprogress.org/cms/thanks/new_sopa?action_id=5499002&akid=.327668.cNqkqc&form_name=act&rd=1&taf=1

14 years ago

The Only Reason My App Worked Was Due to a Slow Database

http://justinvincent.com/page/1860/the-only-reason-my-app-worked-was-due-to-a-slow-database

14 years ago

Dental X-Rays linked to Brain Tumors

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-checkup/post/study-links-dental-x-rays-to-brain-tumor-risk/2012/04/09/gIQALz8k6S_blog.html

14 years ago

Kubuntu Breaks With Canonical, Finds New Sponsor

http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Blue-Systems-to-sponsor-Kubuntu-1518345.html

14 years ago

Google (as a company) is more popular than Facebook, Twitter, and even Apple

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/04/poll-googles-more-popular-than-facebook-twitter-and-even-apple/255617/

14 years ago

Event Driven Programming in Clojure

http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Event-Driven-Programming-in-Clojure

14 years ago

Show HN: AutoGlance

http://autoglance.com/search/#1,9,75,10003,0,999999,0,999999,1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10-11

14 years ago

Ninth Circuit Adopts a Narrow Interpretation of Computer Fraud and Abuse Act

http://volokh.com/2012/04/10/ninth-circuit-hands-down-en-banc-decision-in-united-states-v-nosal-adopting-narrow-interpretation-of-computer-fraud-and-abuse-act/

14 years ago

Show HN: Git (& Jekyll) backed websites anyone can edit. Beta

http://www.spintoapp.com

14 years ago

Skype Hits 40 Million Simultaneous Users

http://www.disruptivetelephony.com/2012/04/skype-hits-40-million-simultaneous-users.html

14 years ago

Chrome OS update adds Google's hardware-accelerated Aura UI

http://www.theverge.com/2012/4/10/2937941/chrome-os-aura-ui-hardware-acceleration-update

14 years ago

Open Source projects ranked by awesomeness

http://blog.masterbranch.com/post/20813500731/open-source-projects-ranked-by-awesomeness

14 years ago

14K visits, 17K pageviews, 3 sign-ups: My Hacker News Frontpage Post-mortem

http://www.thetaboard.com/blog/hacker-news-frontpage-post-mortem?r=382

14 years ago

SpaceX considering a new 'Commercial Cape Canaveral' in Texas

http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2012/04/spacex-decides-to-build-a-lil-old-commercial-spaceport-in-texas.ars

14 years ago

TechCrunch is still relevant

http://www.mobiledevhq.com/whytechcrunchisstillrelevant-or-howonearticlerepresented-25k-mo--36/article

14 years ago