top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-04-25

How I attacked myself using Google and I ramped up a $1000 bandwidth bill

http://www.behind-the-enemy-lines.com/2012/04/google-attack-how-i-self-attacked.html

14 years ago

775 upvotes – 142 comments

Apollo program source code

http://www.ibiblio.org/apollo/links.html

14 years ago

433 upvotes – 57 comments

Valve is developing Steam for Linux, says Michael Larabel of Phoronix

http://www.theverge.com/2012/4/25/2973484/valve-is-developing-steam-for-linux-says-michael-larabel-of-phoronix

14 years ago

356 upvotes – 215 comments

How the medical supply industry blocks device startups from selling to hospitals

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2010/1007.blake.html

14 years ago

356 upvotes – 153 comments

Andreessen Horowitz to give half their earnings to charity

http://finance.fortune.cnn.com/2012/04/25/andreessen-horowitz-to-give-half-their-earnings-to-charity/

14 years ago

254 upvotes – 184 comments

Introducing the New GitHub Graphs

https://github.com/blog/1093-introducing-the-new-github-graphs

14 years ago

252 upvotes – 37 comments

Descriptive Camera: A camera that prints a description, not an image

http://mattrichardson.com/Descriptive-Camera/?src=twitter

14 years ago

250 upvotes – 78 comments

True 8-bit Color Cycling with HTML5

http://www.effectgames.com/demos/canvascycle/

14 years ago

237 upvotes – 73 comments

Is Psychology About to Come Undone?

http://chronicle.com/blogs/percolator/is-psychology-about-to-come-undone/29045

14 years ago

211 upvotes – 132 comments

How I Collect Passwords

http://xato.net/passwords/how-i-collect-passwords

14 years ago

177 upvotes – 123 comments

Rugged OS (industry, military & power plant OS) has backdoor into SCADA networks

http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2012/Apr/277

14 years ago

171 upvotes – 31 comments

Obama Administration Threatens To Veto CISPA

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120425/12445718657/obama-administration-threatens-to-veto-cispa.shtml

14 years ago

170 upvotes – 51 comments

Git shortcuts like you've never seen before

https://github.com/ndbroadbent/scm_breeze

14 years ago

Shell MIT
160 upvotes – 22 comments

A startup founder's hourly rate

http://ninjasandrobots.com/a-startup-founder-s-hourly-rate

14 years ago

139 upvotes – 41 comments

The Creative Monopoly

http://nytimes.com/2012/04/24/opinion/brooks-the-creative-monopoly.html?_r=1

14 years ago

138 upvotes – 23 comments

Gabe Newell Talks Linux Steam Client, Source Engine

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=valve_linux_dampfnudeln&num=1

14 years ago

133 upvotes – 40 comments

Line-by-line memory usage of a Python program

http://fseoane.net/blog/2012/line-by-line-report-of-memory-usage/

14 years ago

130 upvotes – 10 comments

Onion Browser (iOS Tor web browser, open source) now available in the App Store

http://v3.mike.tig.as/onionbrowser/

14 years ago

123 upvotes – 49 comments

Harvard puts metadata for 12M library items into the public domain

http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2012/04/24/2b2keverythingismiscbig-data-for-books-harvard-puts-metadata-for-12m-library-items-into-the-public-domain/

14 years ago

115 upvotes – 24 comments

Python iteration

http://nedbatchelder.com/text/iter.html

14 years ago

113 upvotes – 26 comments

WWDC 2012 (June 11 - 15)

https://developer.apple.com/wwdc/

14 years ago

109 upvotes – 59 comments

The Invention of Jaywalking

http://www.theatlanticcities.com/commute/2012/04/invention-jaywalking/1837/

14 years ago

104 upvotes – 81 comments

Obama Will Veto CISPA Unless Changes Are Made

http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entries/obama-will-veto-cispa-unless-changes-are-made

14 years ago

102 upvotes – 26 comments

Getting President Obama To Play With Your Product

http://www.feld.com/wp/archives/2012/04/getting-president-obama-to-play-with-your-product.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed:+FeldThoughts+(Feld+Thoughts)

14 years ago

100 upvotes – 9 comments

Mathematics of Eternity Prove The Universe Must Have Had A Beginning

http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/27793/

14 years ago

97 upvotes – 77 comments

Lessons from Sheryl Sandberg: Stop Working More Than 40 Hours a Week

http://www.inc.com/geoffrey-james/stop-working-more-than-40-hours-a-week.html

14 years ago

84 upvotes – 26 comments

Outwitting the Prisoner's Dilemma

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2012/04/amazing_round_o.html

14 years ago

80 upvotes – 38 comments

Multithreaded data structures for parallel computing

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/aix/library/au-multithreaded_structures1/index.html?ca=drs-&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

14 years ago

79 upvotes – 20 comments

Rethinking Programming Language Tutorials

http://prog21.dadgum.com/67.html?0

14 years ago

74 upvotes – 48 comments

The Anatomy Of Search Technology: Blekko’s NoSQL Database

http://highscalability.com/blog/2012/4/25/the-anatomy-of-search-technology-blekkos-nosql-database.html

14 years ago

74 upvotes – 17 comments

Worldwide Mirrors of git.kernel.org

http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2012/04/worldwide-mirrors-of-gitkernelorg.html

14 years ago

72 upvotes – 11 comments

Magnetic Core Memory Reborn (2011)

http://www.corememoryshield.com/

14 years ago

65 upvotes – 8 comments

Tips to succeed as a programmer (Facebook engineering Notes)

https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-engineering/three-tips-to-succeed-as-a-programmer/10150639100788920

14 years ago

65 upvotes – 24 comments

Request an educational account at github

https://github.com/edu

14 years ago

64 upvotes – 22 comments

Startups - Get To Know Your Users

http://blog.intercom.io/get-to-know-your-users/

14 years ago

60 upvotes – 9 comments

Google's coherent bouquet

http://dcurt.is/googles-coherent-bouquet

14 years ago

60 upvotes – 45 comments

Beginning Node.js Development

http://javascriptplayground.com/blog/2012/04/beginning-node-js-express-tutorial

14 years ago

60 upvotes – 11 comments

Online Ruby Programming Course from Pragmatic Studio

http://pragprog.com/news/online-ruby-programming-course-from-pragmatic-studio

14 years ago

60 upvotes – 27 comments

Who is living off their (bootstrapped) startup fulltime?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3891464

14 years ago

56 upvotes – 20 comments

Building a simple multi-player game using node.js, backbone.js, & socket.io

http://tech.loku.com/2012/04/25/tic-tac-node-part-iii-putting-it-all-together/

14 years ago

50 upvotes – 3 comments

Profiling Node.js

http://dtrace.org/blogs/dap/2012/04/25/profiling-node-js/

14 years ago

50 upvotes – 4 comments

Cloud providers found to be leaking data cross-customer via dirty disks

http://www.contextis.co.uk/research/blog/dirtydisks/

14 years ago

47 upvotes – 15 comments

Opera confirms support for WebKit vendor prefixes

http://www.netmagazine.com/news/opera-confirms-webkit-prefix-usage-121923

14 years ago

47 upvotes – 48 comments
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