Top 50% Hacker News Stories for 2012-04-13

top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-04-13

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Light Table - a new IDE concept

http://www.chris-granger.com/2012/04/12/light-table---a-new-ide-concept/

14 years ago

1592 upvotes – 291 comments

362

141

A Year with MongoDB

http://blog.engineering.kiip.me/post/20988881092/a-year-with-mongodb

14 years ago

362 upvotes – 141 comments

288

Abrash on Valve: How I Got Here, What It's Like, and What I'm Doing

http://blogs.valvesoftware.com/abrash/

14 years ago

288 upvotes – 86 comments

281

Google BBS Terminal – What Google would have looked like in the 80s

http://www.masswerk.at/googleBBS/

14 years ago

281 upvotes – 77 comments

234

Fire Me, I Beg You

http://robbieabed.com/fire-me-i-beg-you/

14 years ago

234 upvotes – 65 comments

203

197

Don't tell me how to enable JavaScript

http://riversoflambdas.tumblr.com/post/21020201405/dont-tell-me-how-to-enable-javascript

14 years ago

203 upvotes – 197 comments

196

A Guided Tour through the Fundamentals of Git

http://gitimmersion.com

14 years ago

196 upvotes – 21 comments

188

Demonstrating responsive design to clients.

http://jamus.co.uk/demos/rwd-demonstrations/

14 years ago

188 upvotes – 40 comments

174

Concurrency is not Parallelism (it's better) - A talk by Rob Pike

http://concur.rspace.googlecode.com/hg/talk/concur.html#title-slide

14 years ago

174 upvotes – 54 comments

168

Life's too short to write shitty software

http://team.adzerk.com/post/21024440104/lifes-too-short-to-write-shitty-software

14 years ago

168 upvotes – 99 comments

163

Facebook supports horrible proposed Internet bill CISPA

http://boingboing.net/2012/04/13/facebook-supports-horrible-pro.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+boingboing%2FiBag+%28Boing+Boing%29

14 years ago

163 upvotes – 57 comments

161

The Most Dangerous Gamer

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/05/the-most-dangerous-gamer/8928/

14 years ago

161 upvotes – 65 comments

152

Coding is priority number five

http://bitquabit.com/post/coding-is-priority-number-five/

14 years ago

152 upvotes – 32 comments

148

YC Facelift: Flutter

http://kyrobeshay.com/post/20950516669/yc-facelift-flutter

14 years ago

148 upvotes – 53 comments

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115

Meteor meets NoGPL

http://blog.lassus.se/2012/04/meteor-meets-nogpl.html

14 years ago

132 upvotes – 115 comments

129

I told my 2nd year CS students to create a programming language

http://www.dovyski.com/2012/04/i-told-my-2nd-year-cs-students-to-create-a-programming-language

14 years ago

129 upvotes – 63 comments

120

On Anonymity

http://amandapeyton.com/blog/2012/04/on-anonymity/

14 years ago

120 upvotes – 51 comments

119

Why Airport Security Is Broken—And How to Fix It (former head TSA)

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303815404577335783535660546.html?mod=WSJ_hps_editorsPicks_1

14 years ago

119 upvotes – 88 comments

106

The One Product That Makes Apple a Trillion-Dollar Company Overnight

http://www.launch.co/blog/the-one-product-that-makes-apple-a-trillion-dollar-company-o.html

14 years ago

106 upvotes – 70 comments

Evolution of a Web Developer: From PHP Newbie To Python Ninja

http://dev.hubspot.com/bid/85467/Evolution-of-a-Web-Developer-From-PHP-Newbie-To-Python-Ninja

14 years ago

99 upvotes – 27 comments

PG on finding cofounders and being a strong team

http://garrysub.posterous.com/pg-on-finding-cofounders-and-being-a-strong-t

14 years ago

94 upvotes – 17 comments

Netflix never used its $1 million algorithm due to engineering costs

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2012/04/netflix-never-used-its-1-million-algorithm-due-to-engineering-costs.ars

14 years ago

90 upvotes – 23 comments

Java IAQ

http://norvig.com/java-iaq.html

14 years ago

75 upvotes – 31 comments

Apple CEO Tim Cook Spotted at video game designer Valve headquarters

http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/12/04/13/apple_ceo_tim_cook_spotted_at_valves_gaming_headquarters.html

14 years ago

74 upvotes – 63 comments

US slams Australia’s on-shore cloud fixation

http://delimiter.com.au/2012/04/13/us-slams-australias-on-shore-cloud-fixation/

14 years ago

73 upvotes – 50 comments

Artificial Intelligence Could Be on Brink of Passing Turing Test

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/04/turing-test-revisited/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=socialmedia&utm_campaign=wiredscienceclickthru

14 years ago

71 upvotes – 79 comments

On the making of a girl nerd

http://mathbabe.org/2012/04/08/on-the-making-of-a-girl-nerd/

14 years ago

64 upvotes – 71 comments

It's the end of the world as we know it (and I feel fine)

http://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2012/04/its-end-of-world-as-we-know-it-and-i.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+AFewThoughtsOnCryptographicEngineering+%28A+Few+Thoughts+on+Cryptographic+Engineering%29

14 years ago

64 upvotes – 12 comments

MPAA Just Won't Quit: Argues Links & Embeds Are Infringing

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120411/20434818458/mpaa-just-wont-quit-jumps-into-legal-dispute-to-argue-links-embeds-are-infringing.shtml

14 years ago

63 upvotes – 22 comments

Show HN: Word Wars- HTML5 real time word game

http://wordwars.clay.io/

14 years ago

61 upvotes – 40 comments

QArt codes, the better way to put picture in a QR code

http://hackaday.com/2012/04/13/qart-codes-the-better-way-to-put-picture-in-a-qr-code/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+hackaday%2FLgoM+%28Hack+a+Day%29

14 years ago

56 upvotes – 9 comments

Email sucks. This is how you fix it.