top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-04-18

Why The US Can Beat China: The Facts About SpaceX Costs

http://www.spacex.com/usa.php

14 years ago

497 upvotes – 258 comments

Fake S3 – Save time, money, and develop offline

http://blog.getspool.com/2012/04/18/fake-s3-save-time-money-and-develop-offline/

14 years ago

354 upvotes – 55 comments

I Guess I'm Not A 501 Developer

http://adit.io/posts/2012-04-18-I_guess_Im_not_a_501_Developer.html

14 years ago

295 upvotes – 178 comments

Time To Get Past Facebook And Invent A New Future

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/04/the-jig-is-up-time-to-get-past-facebook-and-invent-a-new-future/256046/

14 years ago

256 upvotes – 92 comments

Rejected By VCs, Pebble Watch Raises $3.8M on Kickstarter

http://go.bloomberg.com/tech-deals/2012-04-17-rejected-by-vcs-pebble-watch-raises-3-8m-on-kickstarter/

14 years ago

216 upvotes – 82 comments

Company backed by James Cameron & Google founders may mine asteroids

http://www.theverge.com/2012/4/18/2957585/planetary-resources-space-exploration-company-james-cameron-google

14 years ago

198 upvotes – 115 comments

Stripe Gallery

https://stripe.com/gallery

14 years ago

190 upvotes – 79 comments

Make Your Email Hacker Proof

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/04/make-your-email-hacker-proof.html

14 years ago

186 upvotes – 156 comments

Sergey Brin's Clarification On Guardian article

https://plus.google.com/u/0/109813896768294978296/posts/44gsPvAm5a5

14 years ago

186 upvotes – 69 comments

Ep.io is closing down, recommending Heroku

https://www.ep.io/blog/epio-closing-down/

14 years ago

157 upvotes – 68 comments

Grc - it's like stylesheets for your terminal

http://wynnnetherland.com/journal/a-stylesheet-author-s-guide-to-terminal-colors

14 years ago

155 upvotes – 37 comments

Clojure 1.4 released

https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/clojure/H4f2nbB6gWI

14 years ago

153 upvotes – 31 comments

Man flies 737 from his garage

http://photos.mercurynews.com/2012/04/video-pleasanton-man-flies-a-boeing-737-in-his-garage/9029/

14 years ago

147 upvotes – 32 comments

The Game Of Go: A Programmer's Perspective

http://needforair.com/blog/2012/04/18/game-of-go/

14 years ago

146 upvotes – 69 comments

Starbucks Style Guide

http://www.starbucks.com/static/reference/styleguide/

14 years ago

142 upvotes – 37 comments

Zuckerberg negotiated Instagram deal without Facebook board approval

http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2012/04/zuckerberg-closed-instagram-deal-without-facebook-board.ars?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+arstechnica%2Findex+%28Ars+Technica+-+Featured+Content%29

14 years ago

138 upvotes – 78 comments

New courses added to Coursera (Humanities, Medicine, ...)

https://www.coursera.org/

14 years ago

125 upvotes – 31 comments

Tim Berners-Lee: Tell Facebook, Google you want your data back

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57415764-93/tim-berners-lee-tell-facebook-google-you-want-your-data-back/

14 years ago

124 upvotes – 50 comments

I Quit My Passion And Took A Boring Job

http://www.getrichslowly.org/blog/2012/03/18/reader-story-i-quit-my-passion-and-took-a-boring-job/

14 years ago

124 upvotes – 50 comments

The Twitter "Patent Hack"

http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2012/04/the-twitter-patent-hack.html

14 years ago

120 upvotes – 51 comments

Can you make yourself smarter?

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/22/magazine/can-you-make-yourself-smarter.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all

14 years ago

118 upvotes – 52 comments

Don't Build APIs

http://ceklog.kindel.com/2012/04/18/dont-build-apis/

14 years ago

117 upvotes – 57 comments

Spain Is Doomed

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/04/spain-is-doomed-why-austerity-is-destroying-europe/256032/

14 years ago

110 upvotes – 222 comments

Wind Turbine Makes 1,000 Liters Of Clean Water A Day In The Desert

http://www.treehugger.com/wind-technology/wind-turbine-makes-clean-water-desert.html

14 years ago

108 upvotes – 46 comments

SpaceX Given Green Light For First Launch To Space Station

http://www.wired.com/autopia/2012/04/spacex-space-station/

14 years ago

105 upvotes – 21 comments

Did Someone Order an Instant Bridge?

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/18/us/rapid-construction-techniques-transform-infrastructure-repair.html?hp

14 years ago

100 upvotes – 37 comments

Why I Can't Use PayPal To Buy Your Product

http://pud.com/post/21336152407/why-i-cant-use-paypal-to-buy-your-product

14 years ago

97 upvotes – 70 comments

Coursera raises $16M

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/18/technology/coursera-plans-to-announce-university-partners-for-online-classes.html

14 years ago

88 upvotes – 30 comments

An easier way to create GitHub repositories

https://github.com/blog/1105-an-easier-way-to-create-repositories

14 years ago

86 upvotes – 26 comments

A New Asteroid Mining Operation supported by Google Execs and James Cameron

http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/mimssbits/27776/?ref=rss

14 years ago

85 upvotes – 40 comments

Steve Jobs' Wilderness Years: The Lost Tapes

http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/165/steve-jobs-legacy-tapes

14 years ago

82 upvotes – 10 comments

Scale Something: How Draw Something Rode Its Rocket Ship Of Growth

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/168799/Scale_Something_How_Draw_Something_rode_its_rocket_ship_of_growth.php

14 years ago

81 upvotes – 22 comments

The Kindle Index

http://priceonomics.com/e-readers/#kindle-index

14 years ago

78 upvotes – 69 comments

Learning Is More Important Than Knowing

http://openmymind.net/2012/4/18/Learning-Is-More-Important-Than-Knowing/

14 years ago

78 upvotes – 19 comments

Taptitude - a Windows Phone Success Story

http://fourbrosstudio.com/taptitude/post/2012/04/17/Taptitude-a-Windows-Phone-Success-Story.aspx

14 years ago

72 upvotes – 29 comments

Berners-Lee: Don't let record labels upset web openness

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/04/berners-lee-dont-let-record-labels-upset-web-openness.ars

14 years ago

70 upvotes – 3 comments

User Authentication with Rails and Backbone.js

http://42floors.com/blog/posts/user-authentication-with-rails-and-backbone-js

14 years ago

69 upvotes – 17 comments

In Facebook Deal, Board Was All But Out of Picture

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304818404577350191931921290.html

14 years ago

69 upvotes – 49 comments

Oracle v. Google - What's The Deal With The Java Specification License?

http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=2012041812230622

14 years ago

68 upvotes – 24 comments

Mozilla Sandstone, Visual style for the Mozilla web universe

https://www.mozilla.org/b/en-US/sandstone/

14 years ago

64 upvotes – 16 comments

Functional programming's smugness problem

http://www.sdtimes.com/content/article.aspx?ArticleID=36534

14 years ago

62 upvotes – 81 comments

Avi Bryant Joins Etsy

http://avibryant.tumblr.com/post/21287677615/etsy

14 years ago

60 upvotes – 36 comments

Ceefax - A love letter

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17745100

14 years ago

60 upvotes – 37 comments

How to think about science and becoming a scientist

http://jseliger.com/2012/04/17/how-to-think-about-science-and-becoming-a-scientist/

14 years ago

58 upvotes – 41 comments

Homeland Security's 'Pre-Crime' Screening Will Never Work

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/04/homeland-securitys-pre-crime-screening-will-never-work/255971/

14 years ago

56 upvotes – 19 comments

CloudFlare Is In Talks to Raise Funding At Near A $1 Billion Valuation

http://techcrunch.com/2012/04/17/cloudflare-billion-valuation/

14 years ago

52 upvotes – 55 comments

PlaceHold.it A simple image placeholder service

http://placehold.it/

14 years ago

47 upvotes – 19 comments

Microsoft is holding back the secure web

http://blog.jgc.org/2012/04/microsoft-is-holding-back-secure-web.html

14 years ago

46 upvotes – 52 comments
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