top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-04-19

Free beautiful UI elements for developers

http://creativemarket.com/free-goods

14 years ago

286 upvotes – 44 comments

Redesign: Users: Thrilled. Conversion Rates: Up. Sales: Unchanged.

http://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/04/19/ab-testing-is-frustrating/

14 years ago

273 upvotes – 107 comments

I Learned to Speak Four Languages in a Few Years: Here’s How

http://lifehacker.com/5903288/i-learned-to-speak-four-languages-in-a-few-years-heres-how

14 years ago

258 upvotes – 174 comments

The War On RSS

http://stage.vambenepe.com/archives/1932

14 years ago

256 upvotes – 124 comments

FBI seizes riseup.net server

https://help.riseup.net/en/seizure-2012-april

14 years ago

253 upvotes – 106 comments

HBO Decides It Still Isn't Difficult Enough To Watch HBO Shows

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120418/08405618545/hbo-decides-it-still-isnt-difficult-enough-to-watch-hbo-shows.shtml

14 years ago

250 upvotes – 176 comments

The origins of the blink HTML element

http://www.montulli.org/theoriginofthe%3Cblink%3Etag

14 years ago

237 upvotes – 66 comments

"If you want to order it, use 'view source' to find the commented-out link."

http://prgmr.com/xen/?viewsource=1

14 years ago

217 upvotes – 92 comments

Amazing optical illusion or "glitch in the Matrix"?

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504784_162-57416477-10391705/amazing-optical-illusion-or-glitch-in-the-matrix/?google_editors_picks=true

14 years ago

215 upvotes – 60 comments

Digramly - build diagrams online with great ease for free

http://www.diagram.ly/

14 years ago

210 upvotes – 65 comments

AWS Marketplace

https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/

14 years ago

201 upvotes – 96 comments

Show HN: Filepicker.io - dead simple file uploads

http://filepicker.io/

14 years ago

193 upvotes – 105 comments

Linus Torvalds winner of the 2012 Millennium Technology Prize

http://www.technologyacademy.fi/blog/2012/04/19/laureates/

14 years ago

188 upvotes – 39 comments

JavaScript in JavaScript (js.js): smaller, faster, and with demos

http://sns.cs.princeton.edu/2012/04/javascript-in-javascript-js-js-sandboxing-third-party-scripts/

14 years ago

174 upvotes – 44 comments

Heap overflow bug in OpenSSL

http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2012-April/086585.html

14 years ago

150 upvotes – 58 comments

Google's Python style guide

http://google-styleguide.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/pyguide.html

14 years ago

130 upvotes – 86 comments

Google's opening slides in the trial v. Oracle

http://www.groklaw.net/pdf3/OraGoogle-Trial-GoogleOpeningStills.pdf

14 years ago

125 upvotes – 86 comments

GIMP 2.8: Preview

http://nicubunu.blogspot.com/2012/04/gimp-28-preview.html

14 years ago

122 upvotes – 95 comments

Chrome 19 doesn't respect basic auth details embedded in the URL

http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=123150

14 years ago

121 upvotes – 57 comments

Circa is a programming language for live coding, in development

http://circa-lang.org/about/introduction.html

14 years ago

116 upvotes – 32 comments

We are in a Bubble

http://sfard.posterous.com/we-are-in-a-bubble

14 years ago

115 upvotes – 93 comments

Sex in the Bathroom and the Problem of Offline Data

http://blog.joingrouper.com/sex-in-the-bathroom-and-the-problem-of-data-g

14 years ago

112 upvotes – 58 comments

Freak waves spotted from space (2004)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/3917539.stm

14 years ago

101 upvotes – 18 comments

Write logic, not mechanics

http://jeditoolkit.com/2012/04/26/code-logic-not-mechanics.html

14 years ago

98 upvotes – 34 comments

You have 404,722 users? Here's what you can do.

http://makeitslick.tumblr.com/post/21289884923/404-772users-whattodo

14 years ago

97 upvotes – 40 comments

‘Big brother’ black boxes to soon be mandatory in all new cars

http://www.bgr.com/2012/04/19/big-brother-black-boxes-to-soon-be-mandatory-in-all-new-cars/

14 years ago

92 upvotes – 128 comments

Show HN: Punch - A Fun and Easy Way to Build Modern Websites

http://laktek.com/2012/04/19/punch-a-fun-and-easy-way-to-build-modern-websites/

14 years ago

91 upvotes – 33 comments

I bought something from a Best Buy vending machine, and it didn't go so well.

http://techland.time.com/2012/04/19/i-bought-something-from-a-best-buy-vending-machine-and-it-didnt-go-so-well/

14 years ago

85 upvotes – 99 comments

Man protests airport security - naked

http://www.komonews.com/news/local/KATU-147866735.html

14 years ago

84 upvotes – 32 comments

Evernote Raising $50 Million To $100 Million At A $1 Billion+ Valuation

http://techcrunch.com/2012/04/19/evernote-1-billion/

14 years ago

84 upvotes – 77 comments

WebSockets: Stable and Ready for Developers

http://www.sitepoint.com/websockets-stable-and-ready-for-developers/

14 years ago

83 upvotes – 30 comments

$4,829-per-hour supercomputer built on Amazon cloud to fuel cancer research

http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2012/04/4829-per-hour-supercomputer-built-on-amazon-cloud-to-fuel-cancer-research.ars

14 years ago

81 upvotes – 35 comments

Day 3 of Oracle v. Google: Larry Page bests David Boies

http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20120418212325628

14 years ago

77 upvotes – 26 comments

Firebase (YC S11) aims to reinvent real-time apps and already has 4,000 sign-ups

http://techcrunch.com/2012/04/19/firebase-post-launch/

14 years ago

76 upvotes – 22 comments

10 graphic examples of the abomination that is iTunes on Windows

http://www.troyhunt.com/2012/04/10-graphic-examples-of-abomination-that.html

14 years ago

72 upvotes – 85 comments

Lots of new Coursera classes throughout 2012 posted

https://www.coursera.org/courses

14 years ago

70 upvotes – 21 comments

Javatari - multiplayer Atari 2600 emulator written in Java with no external libs

http://javatari.org/

14 years ago

70 upvotes – 24 comments

High performance open-source 24bit USB DAC released

http://nwavguy.blogspot.co.nz/2012/04/odac-released.html

14 years ago

68 upvotes – 29 comments

PyCharm 2.5 python IDE released.

http://www.jetbrains.com/pycharm/whatsnew/index.html?PC25US

14 years ago

64 upvotes – 43 comments

Know Your Gmail Stats using Gmail Meter

http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2012/04/know-your-gmail-stats-using-gmail-meter.html

14 years ago

64 upvotes – 30 comments

Lessons Learned After Year One As a Startup Founder

http://www.derekflanzraich.com/2012/04/lessons-learned-year-one-startup-founder/

14 years ago

63 upvotes – 22 comments

Calculating The 5,000 Most Frequently Used Domain Name Prefixes and Suffixes

http://www.leandomainsearch.com/top-domain-name-prefixes-and-suffixes

14 years ago

61 upvotes – 18 comments

Splunk (big data) IPO Raises $229.5 million ($1.6 billion valuation)

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-04-18/splunk-raises-229-dot-5-million-in-ipo-on-demand-for-data-analysis

14 years ago

59 upvotes – 44 comments

Don't Mourn the Space Shuttle. Privatize Interstellar Exploration.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jamespoulos/2012/04/18/dont-mourn-the-space-shuttle-privatize-interstellar-exploration/

14 years ago

59 upvotes – 50 comments

Programming Is a Culture

http://blog.paracode.com/2012/04/19/programming-is-a-culture/

14 years ago

55 upvotes – 34 comments

NumPy aware dynamic Python compiler using LLVM

https://github.com/ContinuumIO/numba

14 years ago

52 upvotes – 9 comments

Ask HN: OLAP and Reporting that feels like 2012

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3861912

14 years ago

51 upvotes – 28 comments

Agni-V, India's first ICBM test-fired successfully

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Agni-V-Indias-first-ICBM-test-fired-successfully/articleshow/12726732.cms

14 years ago

49 upvotes – 36 comments

MakerBot + Pinterest = $250 Million in Sales

http://www.wired.com/design/2012/04/makerbot-pinterest-craft-juggernaut/

14 years ago

48 upvotes – 17 comments
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