top 20 hacker news stories for 2012-04-12

Show HN: Firebase, a scalable real-time backend

http://firebase.com

14 years ago

526 upvotes – 137 comments

500px Terms of Service

http://500px.com/terms

14 years ago

457 upvotes – 100 comments

Try right clicking GitHub's logo

http://github.com/

14 years ago

353 upvotes – 141 comments

A Baseline for Front-End Developers

http://rmurphey.com/blog/2012/04/12/a-baseline-for-front-end-developers/

14 years ago

311 upvotes – 64 comments

Mozilla may make Flash click-to-play by default in future Firefox

http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2012/04/mozilla-may-make-flash-click-to-play-by-default-in-future-firefox.ars

14 years ago

267 upvotes – 109 comments

Backbone.js Fundamentals

https://github.com/addyosmani/backbone-fundamentals/raw/master/backbone-fundamentals.epub

14 years ago

★ 9.1k Rich Text Format
258 upvotes – 72 comments

Amazon CloudSearch - Start Searching in One Hour for Less Than $100 / Month

http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2012/04/amazon-cloudsearch-start-searching-in-one-hour.html

14 years ago

236 upvotes – 82 comments

The JOBS Act will very nearly legalize fraud in the stock market

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/why-obamas-jobs-act-couldnt-suck-worse-20120409?hn

14 years ago

229 upvotes – 105 comments

ZeroBin, opensource Pastebin where the server has zero knowledge of pasted data

http://sebsauvage.net/paste/

14 years ago

218 upvotes – 71 comments

Lisp as the Maxwell’s equations of software

http://www.michaelnielsen.org/ddi/lisp-as-the-maxwells-equations-of-software/

14 years ago

179 upvotes – 37 comments

Death to MS Word

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2012/04/microsoft_word_is_cumbersome_inefficient_and_obsolete_it_s_time_for_it_to_die_.html?google_editors_picks=true

14 years ago

178 upvotes – 154 comments

Pebble E-Paper Watch Raises $1M In 28 Hours

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/597507018/pebble-e-paper-watch-for-iphone-and-android/posts/206626

14 years ago

167 upvotes – 93 comments

Let's ride this bull

http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3160-lets-ride-this-bull

14 years ago

153 upvotes – 34 comments

Rise4fun - from Microsoft Research

http://www.rise4fun.com/

14 years ago

134 upvotes – 40 comments

'9223372036854775807' == '9223372036854775808'

https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=54547

14 years ago

129 upvotes – 138 comments

‘Firebase’ Does for Apps What Dropbox Did for Docs

http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/04/firebase/

14 years ago

126 upvotes – 20 comments

University of Florida shutting down research in Computer Science department

http://www.change.org/petitions/dean-abernathy-college-of-engineering-university-of-florida-do-not-destroy-the-cise-department

14 years ago

124 upvotes – 71 comments

Programming Music with Overtone

http://blip.tv/clojure/sam-aaron-programming-music-with-overtone-5970273

14 years ago

119 upvotes – 25 comments

Google+ Thank you Google for breaking all my apps and extensions…

https://plus.google.com/116805285176805120365/posts/PZ1RG1QV1w7

14 years ago

118 upvotes – 32 comments

If Google's Really Proud Of Google+, It Should Share Some Real User Figures

http://marketingland.com/if-googles-really-proud-of-google-it-should-share-some-real-user-figures-9796

14 years ago

114 upvotes – 55 comments
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