top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-04-20

NameCheap Overtakes Go Daddy In Google

http://www.elliotsblog.com/namecheap-overtakes-go-daddy-0675

14 years ago

300 upvotes – 97 comments

Pacman running on DCPU-16

http://fingswotidun.com/dcpu16/pac.html

14 years ago

266 upvotes – 58 comments

Polygonal Map Generation For Games

http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~amitp/game-programming/polygon-map-generation/

14 years ago

263 upvotes – 32 comments

An actual PHP hammer with the claw on both sides

http://flic.kr/s/aHsjz16tWo

14 years ago

226 upvotes – 61 comments

Cook something or get out of the kitchen

http://peternixey.com/post/21437829768/cook-something-or-get-out-of-the-kitchen

14 years ago

223 upvotes – 25 comments

Linus talks about Apple laptops, Linux distributions, his work

http://techcrunch.com/2012/04/19/an-interview-with-millenium-technology-prize-finalist-linus-torvalds?

14 years ago

210 upvotes – 134 comments

HN Podcast #1: Kickstarter, Raspberry Pi, And Instagram

http://hnpod.com/episodes/kickstarter-raspberry-pi-instagram?hn=1

14 years ago

192 upvotes – 62 comments

Megaupload Trial May Never Happen, Judge Says

http://torrentfreak.com/megaupload-trial-may-never-happen-judge-says-120420

14 years ago

184 upvotes – 84 comments

IBM creates breathing, high-density, light-weight lithium-air battery

http://www.extremetech.com/computing/126745-ibm-creates-breathing-high-density-light-weight-lithium-air-battery

14 years ago

176 upvotes – 81 comments

mruby

https://github.com/mruby/mruby

14 years ago

★ 5.5k C MIT
174 upvotes – 55 comments

Ruby on Rails Tutorial, 2nd edition

http://news.railstutorial.org/ruby-on-rails-tutorial-2nd-edition

14 years ago

174 upvotes – 33 comments

Haskell School of Music by Paul Hudak

http://haskell.cs.yale.edu/?page_id=276

14 years ago

145 upvotes – 22 comments

Things I Wished I Learned In Engineering School

http://www.cattell.net/talk/TiwiliesTalk.htm

14 years ago

138 upvotes – 18 comments

Retina.js: Retina graphics for your website

http://retinajs.com/

14 years ago

136 upvotes – 101 comments

What good is experience?

http://justinkan.com/what-good-is-experience?

14 years ago

135 upvotes – 64 comments

The Design of a Signage Typeface

http://ilovetypography.com/2012/04/19/the-design-of-a-signage-typeface/

14 years ago

127 upvotes – 22 comments

4 Months Of eBook Sales

http://jstorimer.com/2012/04/20/4-months-of-ebook-sales.html

14 years ago

122 upvotes – 52 comments

CIA’s Secret Fear: High-Tech Border Checks Will Blow Spies’ Cover

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/04/cia-spies-biometric-tech/all/1

14 years ago

119 upvotes – 39 comments

If You Have A Smartphone, Anyone Can Now Track Your Every Move

http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/mimssbits/27784/

14 years ago

118 upvotes – 87 comments

Peter Thiel’s CS183: Startup - Class 5 Notes Essay

http://blakemasters.tumblr.com/post/21437840885/peter-thiels-cs183-startup-class-5-notes-essay

14 years ago

106 upvotes – 25 comments

Pioneer Anomaly Solved

http://www.planetary.org/blog/article/00003459/

14 years ago

95 upvotes – 10 comments

Front End Engineers - We need you to make Grubwithus (YC W11) beautiful

https://www.grubwithus.com/make-us-beautiful

14 years ago

89 upvotes – 35 comments

Build iOS Apps In Ruby - Available Summer '12

http://mobiruby.org/

14 years ago

89 upvotes – 52 comments

Tim Berners-Lee: we don't need arbitrary new TLDs

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-04/18/tim-berners-lee-tlds

14 years ago

89 upvotes – 71 comments

Show HN: Spacetime locates a contact on a map by texting them a link to click on

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3866047

14 years ago

89 upvotes – 20 comments

GlobaLeaks - Open Source Whistleblowing Framework

http://globaleaks.org/

14 years ago

87 upvotes – 50 comments

Web Analytics Illegal in UK after 26 May? Crazy

http://h30565.www3.hp.com/t5/UK-Edition-start-here/Richi-s-Rant-Web-Analytics-Illegal-after-26-May-Crazy/ba-p/2892

14 years ago

84 upvotes – 98 comments

Google Shuts Down Patent Search Homepage, Picasa for Linux & More

http://techcrunch.com/2012/04/20/spring-cleaning-google-shuts-down-patent-search-one-pass-google-related-more/

14 years ago

83 upvotes – 45 comments

One billionaire's mission to bring a 500-ton asteroid to Earth by 2025

http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2012/04/asteroid-takeout---a-one-billionaire-mission-to-bring-a-500-ton-asteroid-to-high-earth-orbit-by-2025.ars

14 years ago

81 upvotes – 42 comments

The best way to learn something? Teach it.

http://delw.in/the-best-way-to-learn-teach/

14 years ago

79 upvotes – 32 comments

It's definitely a bubble

http://scripting.com/stories/2012/04/19/itsDefinitelyABubble.html

14 years ago

79 upvotes – 62 comments

Fez soundtrack contains hidden data

http://www.geek.com/articles/games/fez-soundtrack-contains-hidden-information-20120420/

14 years ago

78 upvotes – 15 comments

Hollywood loses final appeal in piracy case

http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/hollywood-loses-final-appeal-in-piracy-case-20120420-1xb12.html

14 years ago

74 upvotes – 19 comments

Stop A/B Testing And Make Out Like A Bandit

http://untyped.com/untyping/2011/02/11/stop-ab-testing-and-make-out-like-a-bandit/

14 years ago

73 upvotes – 24 comments

Ruby has an ISO standard now

http://www.iso.org/iso/iso_catalogue/catalogue_tc/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=59579

14 years ago

72 upvotes – 29 comments

Dcpu-lisp: a static Lisp that compiles to DCPU-16

https://github.com/jlongster/dcpu-lisp

14 years ago

★ 76 JavaScript BSD-2-Clause
71 upvotes – 17 comments

YouTube loses court battle over music clips

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-17785613

14 years ago

68 upvotes – 40 comments

Visualizing San Francisco Home Price Ranges In D3.js

http://trends.truliablog.com/vis/pricerange-sf/

14 years ago

67 upvotes – 27 comments

Mruby and MobiRuby

http://matt.aimonetti.net/posts/2012/04/20/mruby-and-mobiruby/

14 years ago

65 upvotes – 13 comments

Kim Dotcom responds to the latest procedural error

http://torrentfreak.com/kim-dotcom-lashes-out-against-corrupt-us-government-120420/

14 years ago

65 upvotes – 19 comments

Re. No NDAs: What Should Idea People Do?

http://blog.jpl-consulting.com/2012/04/re-no-ndas-what-should-idea-people-do/

14 years ago

56 upvotes – 62 comments

Skeumorphism and storytelling

http://tobiasahlin.com/blog/skeumorphism-and-storytelling/

14 years ago

56 upvotes – 11 comments

Amazon CTO: 'You should be able to walk away' from cloud providers

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2012/042012-aws-lockin-258519.html

14 years ago

53 upvotes – 37 comments

How Andreessen Horowitz Fumbled An Instagram Investment

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/20/how-andreessen-horowitz-fumbled-an-instagram-investment/

14 years ago

53 upvotes – 50 comments

Code blocks in Python

http://mtomassoli.wordpress.com/2012/04/20/code-blocks-in-python/

14 years ago

49 upvotes – 68 comments

Darwin (1960s programming game)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_(programming_game)

14 years ago

48 upvotes – 5 comments

Ruby 1.9.3-p194 is released with RubyGems security fixes

http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2012/04/20/ruby-1-9-3-p194-is-released/

14 years ago

46 upvotes – 1 comments

Windows Phone is headed for a life of fragmentation

http://www.extremetech.com/computing/126571-windows-phone-is-headed-for-a-life-of-fragmentation

14 years ago

46 upvotes – 61 comments
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