top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-04-16

Light Table's Numbers, And What's Happening Next

http://www.chris-granger.com/2012/04/15/light-tables-numbers/

14 years ago

402 upvotes – 75 comments

Tupac image performs at Coachella [video]

http://thenextweb.com/shareables/2012/04/16/amazing-video-technology-brings-tupac-back-to-life-at-coachella/

14 years ago

336 upvotes – 91 comments

From idea to replacing full-time salary in 4 months

http://www.reddit.com/r/Entrepreneur/comments/sblc6/from_an_idea_to_replacing_my_fulltime_salary_in_4/

14 years ago

331 upvotes – 173 comments

Getting around the London 2012 branding police

http://blog.jgc.org/2012/04/getting-around-london-2012-branding.html

14 years ago

227 upvotes – 129 comments

What it takes to build great machine learning products

http://radar.oreilly.com/2012/04/great-machine-learning-products.html

14 years ago

212 upvotes – 47 comments

Why it's OK to leave a tech job at 5 p.m.

http://www.cnn.com/2012/04/16/tech/web/cashmore-facebook-sandberg/index.html?hpt=hp_c1

14 years ago

191 upvotes – 181 comments

Google Drive detailed: 5 GB of free space, launching next week

http://thenextweb.com/google/2012/04/16/google-drive-detailed-5-gb-for-free-launching-next-week-for-mac-windows-android-and-ios/

14 years ago

183 upvotes – 179 comments

SpaceX's Dragon ship set for station visit

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-17732480

14 years ago

179 upvotes – 57 comments

Learn to read the source, Luke

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/04/learn-to-read-the-source-luke.html

14 years ago

170 upvotes – 78 comments

Of parser-fetishists and semi-colons

http://christianheilmann.com/2012/04/16/of-parser-fetishists-and-semi-colons/

14 years ago

153 upvotes – 121 comments

Is There a Y Combinator Valuation Bubble or Not?

http://www.launch.co/blog/is-there-a-ycombinator-valuation-bubble-or-not.html

14 years ago

140 upvotes – 68 comments

Rickshaw: A JS interactive charting library based on D3

http://code.shutterstock.com/rickshaw/

14 years ago

135 upvotes – 22 comments

CryEngine 3 gives us a glimpse at the future of gaming [video]

http://www.bgr.com/2012/04/16/cryengine-3-gives-us-a-glimpse-at-the-future-of-gaming-video/

14 years ago

128 upvotes – 97 comments

Using Non-Newtonian Fluids to Fill Potholes

http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2012/04/silly-putty-for-potholes.html

14 years ago

121 upvotes – 30 comments

YC Facelift: Pebble

http://kyrobeshay.com/post/21217064143/yc-facelift-pebble

14 years ago

116 upvotes – 46 comments

Show HN: Help me launch a weekly HN podcast

http://www.hnpod.com

14 years ago

105 upvotes – 32 comments

Nearing Bankruptcy, Fruugo Burned Through €40 Million to Generate €100K

http://www.arcticstartup.com/2012/04/16/fruugo-financials-bankruptcy

14 years ago

95 upvotes – 54 comments

Wkhtmltopdf, shell utility to convert html to pdf using webkit rendering engine

http://code.google.com/p/wkhtmltopdf/

14 years ago

92 upvotes – 39 comments

Russ Cox puts images into QR codes. Here's how

https://plus.google.com/116810148281701144465/posts/htgyJ4pMhna

14 years ago

88 upvotes – 12 comments

Sergey Brin: Facebook and Apple a threat to Internet freedom

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57414316-93/googles-sergey-brin-facebook-and-apple-a-threat-to-internet-freedom/

14 years ago

88 upvotes – 104 comments

Gamifying Algebra

http://terrytao.wordpress.com/2012/04/15/gamifying-algebra/

14 years ago

82 upvotes – 22 comments

Tell HN: YC Application Responses Are Out

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3850042

14 years ago

82 upvotes – 104 comments

Interviews with Lisp Hackers: Pascal Costanza

http://lisp-univ-etc.blogspot.com/2012/04/lisp-hackers-pascal-costanza.html

14 years ago

81 upvotes – 15 comments

Can you build a startup on .Net?

http://rlacovara.blogspot.com/2012/03/should-you-use-net-for-your-statup.html

14 years ago

79 upvotes – 110 comments

Code Club - after-school code club initiative goes live

http://www.codeclub.org.uk

14 years ago

77 upvotes – 24 comments

Mavericks Invent Future Internet Where Cisco Is Meaningless

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

14 years ago

77 upvotes – 32 comments

Parents: Read the damn box

http://www.extremetech.com/gaming/126017-parents-read-the-damn-box

14 years ago

71 upvotes – 68 comments

Ask HN: Rejected from YC? Who are you?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3850089

14 years ago

68 upvotes – 100 comments

Compare JS MVC frameworks implementing the same site: TodoMVC

http://addyosmani.github.com/todomvc/

14 years ago

67 upvotes – 21 comments

Rackspace launches new OpenStack cloud

http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/nextgen/

14 years ago

63 upvotes – 22 comments

Python object creation sequence

http://eli.thegreenplace.net/2012/04/16/python-object-creation-sequence/

14 years ago

59 upvotes – 2 comments

IOS Tutorial: Creating a chat room using Parse.com

http://attila.tumblr.com/post/21180235691/ios-tutorial-creating-a-chat-room-using-parse-com

14 years ago

59 upvotes – 6 comments

Amazon's knock-off problem (35 Shades of Grey, anyone?)

http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2012/04/16/amazon-knock-off-bestsellers/?iid=HP_LN

14 years ago

59 upvotes – 51 comments

Putting out fires at 37signals: The on-call programmer

http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3162-the-on-call-programmer?

14 years ago

58 upvotes – 47 comments

Moody's downgrades Nokia to near-junk status

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/04/16/moodys_downgrade_nokia_junk/

14 years ago

58 upvotes – 41 comments

Skill Doesn’t Matter If You Lack Taste

http://nathanbarry.com/skill-doesnt-matter-if-you-lack-taste/

14 years ago

58 upvotes – 42 comments

Announcing the Windows 8 Editions

http://windowsteamblog.com/windows/b/bloggingwindows/archive/2012/04/16/announcing-the-windows-8-editions.aspx

14 years ago

57 upvotes – 75 comments

Konami code on French Presidential candidate Bayrou website

http://bayrou.fr/

14 years ago

57 upvotes – 15 comments

The Disturbing Privacy Dangers in CISPA and How To Stop It

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/04/cybersecurity-bill-faq-disturbing-privacy-dangers-cispa-and-how-you-stop-it

14 years ago

57 upvotes – 23 comments

Bye Bye SVN, Hello Git

http://engineering.secondmarket.com/post/21209487839/bye-bye-svn-hello-git

14 years ago

56 upvotes – 62 comments

Syntax Matters...?

http://smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/blog/2012/04/15/syntax-matters-dot-dot-dot/

14 years ago

55 upvotes – 42 comments

Express 3.0.0 alpha1 and Express 4.x Roadmap

http://tjholowaychuk.com/post/21162751096/express-3-0-0-alpha1

14 years ago

51 upvotes – 17 comments

Canada's new 25 cent coin features a dinosaur, glows in the dark and more

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-57412545-1/canadas-newest-coin-glows-in-the-dark/

14 years ago

48 upvotes – 10 comments

Compile .NET in your browser using Compilify

http://blog.appharbor.com/2012/04/16/compile-net-in-your-browser-using-compilify-by-justin-rusbatch

14 years ago

47 upvotes – 12 comments

OneJS lets coders convert NodeJS projects into single, stand-alone files

https://github.com/azer/onejs

14 years ago

47 upvotes – 9 comments

Declining As A Manufacturer, Japan Weighs Reinvention

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/16/world/asia/amid-manufacturing-decline-japan-weighs-a-reinvention.html

14 years ago

47 upvotes – 27 comments

Today's the day that YC invites applicants to interviews

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3848202

14 years ago

46 upvotes – 41 comments

The Greatest Justification For Messed-Up Video Game Graphics

http://kotaku.com/5901905/the-greatest-justification-for-messed+up-video-game-graphics-i-ever-saw

14 years ago

45 upvotes – 11 comments

Google’s Sergey Brin: China, SOPA, Facebook Threaten the ‘Open Web’

http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2012/04/open-web-google-brin/

14 years ago

44 upvotes – 39 comments

A Node.js Framework Author Throwdown

http://nodeup.com/seventeen

14 years ago

41 upvotes – 5 comments

Now Recruiting: Civic Startups

http://codeforamerica.org/accelerator/

14 years ago

41 upvotes – 12 comments

A brief update on NUMA and MySQL

http://blog.jcole.us/2012/04/16/a-brief-update-on-numa-and-mysql/

14 years ago

41 upvotes – 4 comments

JS Humanize (Give data a human touch)

https://github.com/milanvrekic/JS-humanize

14 years ago

★ 396 JavaScript MIT
40 upvotes – 19 comments

Is It Possible to Build an "Unsinkable" Ship?

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=unsinkable-titanic-engineering

14 years ago

40 upvotes – 38 comments

Titanic Struck By Berg but Passengers Saved, Disabled Liner in Tow

http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/titanic1.pdf

14 years ago

40 upvotes – 10 comments

Chartbeat raises $9.5 million to measure the real time web

http://venturebeat.com/2012/04/16/chartbeat-raises-9-5-million-dfj-realtime/

14 years ago

40 upvotes – 28 comments
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