top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-04-11

9 year old's DIY Cardboard Arcade gets Flash mobbed: Video

http://danielhope.org/post/20914927615/9-year-old-caine-sets-up-an-arcade-in-his-fathers

14 years ago

603 upvotes – 131 comments

Testing like the TSA

http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3159-testing-like-the-tsa

14 years ago

384 upvotes – 94 comments

Show HN: Our Hackable E-Paper Watch for iPhone and Android

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/597507018/pebble-e-paper-watch-for-iphone-and-android

14 years ago

342 upvotes – 107 comments

Geocoder.ca sued by Canada Post for their open database of postal codes

http://geocoder.ca/?sued=1

14 years ago

288 upvotes – 84 comments

Google+ gets a redesign

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/04/toward-simpler-more-beautiful-google.html

14 years ago

285 upvotes – 177 comments

Are People Finally Getting Bored with the Tech-Blog Circle Jerk?

http://blogs.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/2012/04/tech-blog_pando_daily.php

14 years ago

265 upvotes – 63 comments

How a computer boots up

http://duartes.org/gustavo/blog/post/how-computers-boot-up

14 years ago

245 upvotes – 39 comments

Rendering the world

http://mapbox.com/blog/rendering-the-world/

14 years ago

221 upvotes – 30 comments

"Tap the spacebar with your phone." - Bump unveils new photo uploader

http://photos.bu.mp

14 years ago

195 upvotes – 146 comments

This Internet provider pledges to put your privacy first. Always.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-57412225-281/this-internet-provider-pledges-to-put-your-privacy-first-always/

14 years ago

191 upvotes – 47 comments

When will I ever use math?

http://dimsumthinking.com/2012/04/10/when-will-i-ever-use-this/

14 years ago

189 upvotes – 81 comments

A primer on Python decorators

http://www.thumbtack.com/engineering/a-primer-on-python-decorators/

14 years ago

187 upvotes – 41 comments

1366×768px overtakes 1024×768px as the most popular screen resolution worldwide

http://gs.statcounter.com/press/screen-resolution-alert-for-web-developers

14 years ago

187 upvotes – 119 comments

Groupon Kidz Club

http://www.groupon.com/pages/kidz-club

14 years ago

180 upvotes – 46 comments

US sues Apple and publishers over e-book prices

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-17681137

14 years ago

161 upvotes – 98 comments

German Pirate Party overtakes Greens on latest poll

http://www.todayszaman.com/news-276991-german-pirate-party-overtakes-greens-survey-by-forsa-shows.html

14 years ago

152 upvotes – 90 comments

What is the asymptotic cost of purely functional programming?

http://stackoverflow.com/q/1990464/69755

14 years ago

151 upvotes – 65 comments

Time to ditch the arrogant tech blogs

http://www.kernelmag.com/comment/opinion/1799/time-to-ditch-the-arrogant-tech-blogs/

14 years ago

142 upvotes – 53 comments

Of GitHub and Pull Requests (and comics)

http://rachelnabors.com/2012/04/of-github-and-pull-requests-and-comics/

14 years ago

139 upvotes – 37 comments

What can you do with an Android application with no permissions?

http://leviathansecurity.com/blog/archives/17-Zero-Permission-Android-Applications.html

14 years ago

138 upvotes – 47 comments

Waking up early, 10 tips that worked for me

http://rodrigohaenggi.com/posts/waking-up-early-10-tips-that-work/

14 years ago

125 upvotes – 117 comments

This is the mail system

http://dewith.com/2012/this-is-the-mail-system/

14 years ago

119 upvotes – 74 comments

The demise of the low level Programmer.

http://www.altdevblogaday.com/2011/08/06/demise-low-level-programmer/

14 years ago

117 upvotes – 93 comments

Earthquake of magnitude 8.7 strikes off Sumatra, Indonesia

http://edition.cnn.com/2012/04/11/world/asia/indonesia-earthquake/index.html?hpt=hp_t3

14 years ago

103 upvotes – 41 comments

Maryland bans employers from asking for employee social media passwords

http://dailycaller.com/2012/04/09/maryland-bans-employers-from-asking-for-employee-social-media-passwords/

14 years ago

100 upvotes – 76 comments

Released: Python 2.6.8, 2.7.3, 3.1.5, and 3.2.3

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2012-April/1290792.html

14 years ago

76 upvotes – 36 comments

The Amazing Trajectories of Life-Bearing Meteorites From Earth

http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/27720/?ref=rss

14 years ago

73 upvotes – 21 comments

Source code and manuals of many old Unixes

http://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl

14 years ago

71 upvotes – 4 comments

WP Engine: How A Startup Reached $1M In Sales In Less Than A Year

http://mixergy.com/jason-cohen-wpengine-interview-2/

14 years ago

69 upvotes – 39 comments

Web emulator for DCPU-16

http://0x10co.de/

14 years ago

67 upvotes – 27 comments

Finite Field Arithmetic and Reed-Solomon Coding

http://research.swtch.com/field

14 years ago

64 upvotes – 20 comments

Google Hangouts without the Google: Meetings.io (YC W11) goes live

http://meetings.io

14 years ago

61 upvotes – 46 comments

Learning to Program the Arduino

http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/learning-program-arduino#

14 years ago

60 upvotes – 23 comments

C/C++ Low Level Curriculum Part 7: More Conditionals

http://www.altdevblogaday.com/2012/04/10/cc-low-level-curriculum-part-7-more-conditionals/

14 years ago

59 upvotes – 9 comments

CSS Variables published as First Public Working Draft

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2012Apr/0227.html

14 years ago

55 upvotes – 38 comments

Nokia Projects Disastrous Losses as Shares Plunge 17%

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-17678806

14 years ago

53 upvotes – 43 comments

He Talks in Maths: Why Geeks Love Radiohead

http://www.davidpcheng.com/post/20910078637/he-talks-in-maths-why-geeks-love-radiohead

14 years ago

51 upvotes – 27 comments

Skillshare, Codecademy and the gamification of education

http://plasticresume.wordpress.com/2012/04/11/skillshare-codecademy-and-the-gamification-of-education/

14 years ago

50 upvotes – 28 comments

Comparing Startup Ecosystems: SV, London, NYC

http://techcrunch.com/2012/04/10/startup-genome-compares-top-startup-hubs/

14 years ago

49 upvotes – 18 comments

Part 2 Dart vs Go vs Python (and PyPy) Performance

http://blog.hackingthought.com/2012/04/part-2-dart-vs-go-vs-python-and-pypy.html

14 years ago

49 upvotes – 38 comments

Next Generation Ruby packages for Ubuntu

http://blog.brightbox.co.uk/posts/next-generation-ruby-packages-for-ubuntu

14 years ago

47 upvotes – 18 comments
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