top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-04-17

Light Table Is On Kickstarter

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/306316578/light-table

14 years ago

619 upvotes – 215 comments

Twitter Introduces Innovators Patent Agreement

https://github.com/twitter/innovators-patent-agreement

14 years ago

★ 929
542 upvotes – 107 comments

Prince of Persia source code released (Apple II assembly)

https://github.com/jmechner/Prince-of-Persia-Apple-II

14 years ago

★ 6.7k Assembly
379 upvotes – 70 comments

A High Frequency Trader's Apologia, Part 1

http://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2012/hft_apology.html

14 years ago

375 upvotes – 317 comments

IKamasutra: Apple Hates Brunettes

http://ikamasutra.com/blog/

14 years ago

355 upvotes – 158 comments

I have 404,772 users. Now what?

http://pud.com/post/21248770833/i-have-404-772-users-now-what

14 years ago

345 upvotes – 189 comments

Semicolon: A language of semicolons

http://pksunkara.github.com/semicolon

14 years ago

286 upvotes – 101 comments

Going With The Flow: Google’s Secret Switch To The Next Wave Of Networking

http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/04/going-with-the-flow-google/

14 years ago

262 upvotes – 89 comments

The 501 Developer Manifesto

http://501manifesto.org/

14 years ago

224 upvotes – 116 comments

How we run our agile dev process using only Trello and Google Docs

http://www.uservoice.com/blog/founders/trello-google-docs-product-management/

14 years ago

163 upvotes – 54 comments

Pricing in reverse: use a product's price to figure out what you need to build

http://ninjasandrobots.com/pricing-in-reverse

14 years ago

153 upvotes – 44 comments

A calculator that only shows the answer after you give a suitable estimate

http://qamacalculator.com/qama/

14 years ago

144 upvotes – 53 comments

First hundred days of Clojure

http://www.niclas-meier.de/2012/04/first-hundred-days-of-clojure/

14 years ago

143 upvotes – 42 comments

Pocket Released (Formerly Read It Later)

http://getpocket.com/

14 years ago

142 upvotes – 78 comments

Repository Structure and Python

http://kennethreitz.com/repository-structure-and-python.html

14 years ago

125 upvotes – 36 comments

Never Stop Hacking

http://rdegges.com/never-stop-hacking

14 years ago

119 upvotes – 12 comments

The Slow Web Movement

http://blog.idonethis.com/post/21267449208/the-slow-web-movement

14 years ago

116 upvotes – 8 comments

Shouldn't Robots Be Doing My Taxes By Now?

http://sunlightlabs.com/blog/2012/shouldnt-robots-be-doing-my-taxes/

14 years ago

113 upvotes – 148 comments

Making shit work is everyone's job

http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3163-making-shit-work-is-everyones-job

14 years ago

111 upvotes – 50 comments

PhoneGap vs. Native: Some Thoughts on Going Native

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/phonegap/BFyBYjQp3a8

14 years ago

110 upvotes – 39 comments

BlackMagic 2.5K Cinema Camera with 12bit RAW for $3000

http://www.eoshd.com/content/7927/the-downfall-of-the-big-guys-just-began-blackmagic-2-5k-cinema-camera-with-12bit-raw-for-3000

14 years ago

110 upvotes – 37 comments

NumPy on PyPy progress report

http://morepypy.blogspot.com/2012/04/numpy-on-pypy-progress-report.html

14 years ago

108 upvotes – 1 comments

Why Every Ruby Developer Should Learn Smalltalk

http://victorsavkin.com/post/16375110741/why-smalltalk

14 years ago

106 upvotes – 66 comments

RasberryPi review

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/pcs/2012/04/16/raspberry-pi-review/1

14 years ago

100 upvotes – 37 comments

Day 1 of Oracle v. Google trial

http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20120416085550303

14 years ago

95 upvotes – 19 comments

Add SPDY support to your Apache server with mod_spdy

http://googledevelopers.blogspot.com/2012/04/add-spdy-support-to-your-apache-server.html

14 years ago

93 upvotes – 33 comments

VC Signaling Coming Home To Roost

http://blog.eladgil.com/2012/04/vc-signaling-coming-home-to-roost.html

14 years ago

90 upvotes – 14 comments

When Will The Social Sharing Button Madness Stop

http://www.craigagranoff.com/blog_posts/social-bookmarking-and-sharing-buttons-when-will-the-madness-end/

14 years ago

89 upvotes – 61 comments

Minesweeper implemented in DCPU-16

http://0x10co.de/lqnit

14 years ago

86 upvotes – 33 comments

Clustering related stories

http://blog.getprismatic.com/blog/2012/4/17/clustering-related-stories.html

14 years ago

84 upvotes – 28 comments

Chronic Buckyball Administration Doubles Rat Lifespan

http://extremelongevity.net/2012/04/16/chronic-buckyball-administration-doubles-rat-lifespan/

14 years ago

81 upvotes – 45 comments

How Microsoft Fought True Open Standards I

http://blogs.computerworlduk.com/open-enterprise/2012/04/how-microsoft-lobbied-against-true-open-standards-i/index.htm?cmpid=sbycombinatoranguyen

14 years ago

76 upvotes – 6 comments

IPhone Will Fail in a Late, Defensive Move (2007)

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aRelVKWbMAv0

14 years ago

72 upvotes – 58 comments

Node Streams: How do they work?

http://maxogden.com/node-streams

14 years ago

72 upvotes – 15 comments

Meet The New Boss, Worse Than The Old Boss?

http://thetrichordist.wordpress.com/2012/04/15/meet-the-new-boss-worse-than-the-old-boss-full-post/

14 years ago

71 upvotes – 37 comments

Google's Opening Statement - Language is free

http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/04/google-opening-argument/

14 years ago

67 upvotes – 29 comments

U.S. busts Tor drug market, arrests eight

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/04/17/us-usa-drugs-internet-idUSBRE83G01Q20120417

14 years ago

66 upvotes – 85 comments

Entrepreneurship's Dirty Little Secret

http://www.kernelmag.com/comment/opinion/1861/entrepreneurships-dirty-little-secret/

14 years ago

63 upvotes – 52 comments

Megaupload Worked On A Multi-Billion Dollar IPO

http://torrentfreak.com/megaupload-worked-on-a-multi-billion-dollar-ipo-120417/

14 years ago

63 upvotes – 18 comments

NASA holds a contest for programmers who can improve access to its data archives

http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2012/04/nasa-tournament-lab-holds-a-contest-for-software-ideas.ars

14 years ago

59 upvotes – 17 comments

A Call for Google+ to Enable Posting via its API

http://blog.intigi.com/a-call-for-google-to-enable-posting-via-its-api/

14 years ago

59 upvotes – 59 comments

Codecademy - how not to do a redesign

http://michalbures.com/blog/codecademy-how-not-to-do-a-redesign/

14 years ago

59 upvotes – 50 comments

Websockets and more: awesome node.js npm modules we use every day

http://blog.beyondfog.com/websockets-and-more-20-awesome-node-js-npm-modules-we-use-every-day/

14 years ago

55 upvotes – 11 comments

MPAA Filter Censors Legit Torrent Files on isoHunt

http://torrentfreak.com/mpaa-filter-censors-legit-torrent-files-on-isohunt-120406/

14 years ago

54 upvotes – 3 comments

Chrome For Android Update

http://chrome.blogspot.com/2012/04/chrome-for-android-update.html

14 years ago

54 upvotes – 12 comments

695k TPS with Node.js and VoltDB

http://voltdb.com/company/blog/695k-tps-nodejs-and-voltdb

14 years ago

53 upvotes – 40 comments

YouTube Strategy: Adding Jitter Isn't A Bug

http://highscalability.com/blog/2012/4/17/youtube-strategy-adding-jitter-isnt-a-bug.html

14 years ago

49 upvotes – 11 comments
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