top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-04-26

How I Tricked Myself Into Being Awesome

http://japhr.blogspot.com/2012/04/366-or-how-i-tricked-myself-into-being.html

14 years ago

457 upvotes – 114 comments

Ubuntu Releases 12.04 LTS Precise Pangolin

http://releases.ubuntu.com/precise/

14 years ago

411 upvotes – 298 comments

"Gangbang Interviews" and "Bikini Shots": Silicon Valley’s Brogrammer Problem

http://motherjones.com/media/2012/04/silicon-valley-brogrammer-culture-sexist-sxsw

14 years ago

278 upvotes – 362 comments

The House passes CISPA with a vote of 248 to 168

http://thenextweb.com/us/2012/04/27/the-house-passes-cispa-with-a-vote-of-248-to-168/?utm_source=HackerNews&utm_medium=share%2Bbutton&utm_content=The%20House%20passes%20CISPA%20with%20a%20vote%20of%20248%20to%20168&utm_campaign=social%2Bmedia

14 years ago

275 upvotes – 117 comments

A High Frequency Trader's Apology, Pt 2

http://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2012/hft_apology2.html

14 years ago

274 upvotes – 230 comments

If We Told You That, We Would Have to Shoot You

http://www.whattofix.com/blog/archives/2010/06/if-we-told-you.php

14 years ago

262 upvotes – 106 comments

Functional Programming in C++

http://www.altdevblogaday.com/2012/04/26/functional-programming-in-c/

14 years ago

246 upvotes – 43 comments

Google Drive vs. Dropbox Terms of Service

http://curiousrat.com/home/2012/4/24/google-drive-terms-vs-dropbox-terms.html

14 years ago

230 upvotes – 123 comments

Classic maths books reset with LaTeX on Project Gutenberg

http://aperiodical.com/2012/04/classic-maths-books-reset-with-latex-on-project-gutenberg/

14 years ago

227 upvotes – 28 comments

Introducing Pinry, a self-hostable Pinterest.

http://overshard.github.com/pinry/

14 years ago

203 upvotes – 50 comments

Google (Potentially) Blows the Door Off Oracle's Copyright Claims

http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20120426075025438

14 years ago

192 upvotes – 128 comments

Consider this a job offer to work at 42Floors

http://42floors.com/blog/posts/consider-this-a-job-offer-to-work-at-42floors

14 years ago

180 upvotes – 106 comments

Ghost.py is a webkit web client written in python

http://jeanphix.me/Ghost.py/

14 years ago

177 upvotes – 15 comments

Animated Bézier Curves

http://www.jasondavies.com/animated-bezier/

14 years ago

171 upvotes – 19 comments

Ask PG: Can you start a HN crowd-funding venture?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3893783

14 years ago

158 upvotes – 82 comments

RSS will never die

http://www.zemanta.com/fruitblog/rss-will-never-die/

14 years ago

128 upvotes – 43 comments

Peter Thiel’s CS183: Startup - Class 7 Notes

http://blakemasters.tumblr.com/post/21869934240/peter-thiels-cs183-startup-class-7-notes-essay

14 years ago

127 upvotes – 24 comments

Soviet Moon Mystery Solved By NASA, 50 Years Later

http://motherboard.vice.com/2012/3/27/soviet-moon-mystery-solved-by-nasa-50-years-later

14 years ago

125 upvotes – 16 comments

The Problem With Marc Andreessen

http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2012/04/26/the-problem-with-marc-andreessen/

14 years ago

122 upvotes – 62 comments

How Twitter’s secret offer for Instagram made Facebook pay $1B

http://venturebeat.com/2012/04/26/facebook-paranoia/

14 years ago

112 upvotes – 38 comments

Counting Pullups

http://jcs.org/notaweblog/2012/04/25/counting_pull-ups/

14 years ago

109 upvotes – 26 comments

Sugar 50x more potent than total calories in explaining diabetes [video]

http://www.uctv.tv/skinny-on-obesity-sickeningly-sweet/

14 years ago

102 upvotes – 79 comments

Show HN: A new A.I. Algorithm for Polygonal Mesh Mazes

http://petercottle.com/liquidGraph/yc.html?demo

14 years ago

101 upvotes – 17 comments

How we made our home page load faster

http://blog.deskaway.com/how-we-made-our-home-page-load-faster

14 years ago

95 upvotes – 37 comments

Show HN: Boomerang Calendar - a smart calendar assistant in your Gmail

http://boomerangcalendar.com/beta.html

14 years ago

86 upvotes – 30 comments

CISPA Just Got Worse, And Then Passed On Rushed Vote

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120426/14505718671/insanity-cispa-just-got-way-worse-then-passed-rushed-vote.shtml

14 years ago

81 upvotes – 11 comments

AnyWall: an iOS geolocation app powered by Parse complete with tutorial

https://parse.com/anywall

14 years ago

80 upvotes – 12 comments

IPv6 is no longer considered optional

http://www.blog.bt.com/viewpoint/index.php/2012/04/23/ipv6ietf/

14 years ago

79 upvotes – 58 comments

How I lost 10% body fat, while launching a startup (and raising kids)

http://ryanleecarson.tumblr.com/post/21845066920/get-healthy

14 years ago

78 upvotes – 99 comments

Google SketchUp and Team Being Acquired by Trimble

http://sketchupdate.blogspot.com/2012/04/new-home-for-sketchup.html

14 years ago

70 upvotes – 30 comments

My Year of Riak

http://inaka.net/blog/2011/08/25/when-to-use-riak/

14 years ago

59 upvotes – 15 comments

The third industrial revolution

http://www.economist.com/node/21553017

14 years ago

58 upvotes – 21 comments

4 Insights from a Hacker News Launch

http://filepicker.tumblr.com/

14 years ago

55 upvotes – 24 comments

TSA agents forced crying 4-year-old to undergo pat-down after hug

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/grandma-tsa-agents-forced-crying-4-year-old-to-undergo-tsa-pat-down-at-kan-airport-after-hug/2012/04/25/gIQAojLohT_story.html

14 years ago

55 upvotes – 58 comments

Laconic: A Sane Method of Generating DOM Content in JavaScript

http://joestelmach.github.com/laconic/

14 years ago

55 upvotes – 47 comments

Show HN: A programming language that uses only parentheses

https://github.com/cammckinnon/Parenthetic

14 years ago

★ 69 Python
55 upvotes – 31 comments

First Gigabit Wi-Fi Routers Ready to Launch

http://www.macrumors.com/2012/04/26/first-gigabit-wi-fi-routers-ready-to-launch/

14 years ago

55 upvotes – 7 comments

How I went from knowing nothing about programming to being a published game dev

http://polymerapp.com/my_story

14 years ago

54 upvotes – 21 comments

Poul-Henning Kamp: The Most Expensive One-byte Mistake

http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2010365

14 years ago

52 upvotes – 15 comments

A Forgotten Principle of Compiler Design

http://prog21.dadgum.com/136.html

14 years ago

52 upvotes – 16 comments

How to make a Text Adventure

http://williamedwardscoder.tumblr.com/post/21865366869/how-to-make-a-text-adventure

14 years ago

51 upvotes – 19 comments

Can an Algorithm Write a Better News Story Than a Human Reporter?

http://m.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/04/can-an-algorithm-write-a-better-news-story-than-a-human-reporter/all/1

14 years ago

51 upvotes – 25 comments

Will Google Drive Snoop Inside Your Data? Google Needs to Be Clearer

http://techland.time.com/2012/04/26/will-google-drive-snoop-inside-your-data-google-needs-to-be-clearer/

14 years ago

50 upvotes – 43 comments

Google tries to destroy Oracle's case, asks for judgment on Java copyrights

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/04/google-tries-to-destroy-oracles-case-asks-for-judgment-on-java-copyrights.ars

14 years ago

50 upvotes – 4 comments

SendHub (YC W12) raises $2M in seed funding

http://venturebeat.com/2012/04/26/sendhub-seed-round/

14 years ago

49 upvotes – 5 comments

AXR: Arbitrary XML Rendering

http://axr.vg

14 years ago

48 upvotes – 67 comments

Former MakerBot exec launches Solidoodle sub-$500 3D printer

http://www.engadget.com/2012/04/25/former-makerbot-exec-launches-solidoodle-sub-500-3d-printer/

14 years ago

48 upvotes – 20 comments

The One Step Every Entrepreneur Should Take Before Launching a Business

http://www.minisprout.com/web-apps/the-one-step-every-entrepreneur-should-take-before-launching-a-business/

14 years ago

47 upvotes – 41 comments
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