top 50% 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

Introducing 1% of Nothing

http://blog.1percentof.org/

14 years ago

113 upvotes – 94 comments

How To Scale A $1 Billion Startup (Instagram Co-Founder Mike Krieger)

http://techcrunch.com/2012/04/12/how-to-scale-a-1-billion-startup-a-guide-from-instagram-co-founder-mike-krieger/

14 years ago

110 upvotes – 27 comments

Inside Votizen - Tech, Design, Culture

http://paulstamatiou.com/inside-votizen

14 years ago

101 upvotes – 45 comments

Computer Scientists Build Computer Using Swarms of Crabs

http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/27730/

14 years ago

100 upvotes – 0 comments

The age of sail, visualized

http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2012/04/the-age-of-sail-visualized.html

14 years ago

96 upvotes – 32 comments

Stuxnet worm reportedly planted by Iranian double agent using memory stick

http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2012/04/stuxnet-worm-reportedly-planted-by-iranian-double-agent-using-memory-stick.ars

14 years ago

95 upvotes – 89 comments

Wemux - Set up tmux for party pair programming

http://thechangelog.com/post/20986196780/wemux-multi-user-terminal-multiplexing-for-party-pair-pr

14 years ago

89 upvotes – 25 comments

Damn, Girl: New York Has Almost Double The Female Founders

http://www.betabeat.com/2012/04/11/damn-girl-new-york-has-almost-double-the-female-founders/

14 years ago

88 upvotes – 79 comments

Try pressing 'm' on github

https://github.com

14 years ago

85 upvotes – 16 comments

Microsoft Will Soon Start Charging For Its Bing Search API

http://techcrunch.com/2012/04/12/microsoft-will-soon-start-charging-for-its-bing-search-api/

14 years ago

84 upvotes – 43 comments

From Business Guy to Programmer

http://spencerfry.com/from-business-guy-to-programmer

14 years ago

83 upvotes – 45 comments

German scientists link two labs with ‘universal quantum network’

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/04/11/max_planck_quantum_network/

14 years ago

83 upvotes – 31 comments

HNSummaries.com - algorithmically summarized HN articles to your inbox

http://hnsummaries.com

14 years ago

82 upvotes – 45 comments

Rich Hickey on Clojure 1.4's Extensible Reader, ClojureScript

http://www.infoq.com/interviews/hickey-clojure-reader

14 years ago

78 upvotes – 9 comments

Ukkonen's suffix tree algorithm explained in plain English

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9452701/can-someone-please-explain-ukkonens-suffix-tree-algorithm-in-plain-english#9513423

14 years ago

76 upvotes – 3 comments

Designing a DCPU-16 emulator in Haskell: on determinism and I/O

http://jaspervdj.be/posts/2012-04-12-st-io-dcpu-16.html

14 years ago

74 upvotes – 19 comments

Web server offers true random numbers via fluctuations of the quantum vacuum

http://www.jwz.org/blog/2012/04/random-numbers-via-fluctuations-of-the-quantum-vacuum/

14 years ago

73 upvotes – 50 comments

PhoneGap 1.6 Released

http://phonegap.com/2012/04/11/phonegap-1-6-released/

14 years ago

71 upvotes – 33 comments

Apple TV "single core" A5 actually has two cores, one is off

http://www.chipworks.com/en/technical-competitive-analysis/resources/technology-blog/2012/04/apple-a5-from-the-apple-tv-3-surprise-surprise/

14 years ago

69 upvotes – 58 comments

SQL Injection Tools For Database Pwnage

http://www.darkreading.com/galleries/security/news/232900180/slide-show-10-sql-injection-tools-for-database-pwnage.html

14 years ago

65 upvotes – 9 comments

How Computers Are Creating a Second Economy Without Workers

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/04/how-computers-are-creating-a-second-economy-without-workers/255618/#

14 years ago

63 upvotes – 98 comments

How Apple iPads are Manufactured At Foxconn Factory in China [video]

http://www.techieapps.com/watch-how-apple-ipads-are-manufactured-at-foxconn-factory-in-china-video/

14 years ago

62 upvotes – 20 comments

Google Plans To Split Shares 2-for-1

http://www.forbes.com/sites/ericsavitz/2012/04/12/google-q1-revs-in-line-eps-edges-street-sets-odd-2-for-1-split/

14 years ago

59 upvotes – 71 comments

Show HN: Microryza, crowdfunding research AND sharing results

http://www.microryza.com

14 years ago

58 upvotes – 24 comments

Show HN: Shortly, a serverless pastebin

http://lucaspiller.github.com/shortly/#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9

14 years ago

58 upvotes – 30 comments

False Start's sad demise: Google abandons noble attempt to make SSL less painful

http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2012/04/google-abandons-noble-experiment-to-make-ssl-less-painful.ars?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+arstechnica%2Findex+%28Ars+Technica+-+Featured+Content%29

14 years ago

56 upvotes – 20 comments

Tuning JVM for a VM - Lessons Learned, Directly from VMware

http://marakana.com/s/tuning_jvm_for_a_vm_lessons_learned_directly_from_vmware_video,1138/index.html

14 years ago

53 upvotes – 20 comments

One more way MS will engage with the open source and standards communities

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/interoperability/archive/2012/04/12/announcing-one-more-way-microsoft-will-engage-with-the-open-source-and-standards-communities.aspx

14 years ago

51 upvotes – 19 comments
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