top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-04-27

Incredibox - Background music for programming.

http://www.incredibox.com/en/#/application

14 years ago

688 upvotes – 167 comments

An employee, whose last name is Null, kills our employee lookup app

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4456438/how-can-i-pass-the-string-null-through-wsdl-soap-from-as3-to-coldfusion-web

14 years ago

538 upvotes – 148 comments

Zerg Rush Google Easter Egg

https://www.google.com/search?aq=f&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=zerg+rush

14 years ago

504 upvotes – 130 comments

Show HN: iPG - YC Interview Simulator

http://www.jamescun.com/ycs12/

14 years ago

290 upvotes – 77 comments

GMail: designer arrogance and the cult of minimalism

http://jonoscript.wordpress.com/2012/04/26/gmail-designer-arrogance-and-the-cult-of-minimalism/

14 years ago

251 upvotes – 223 comments

At 92, Movie Bootlegger Is Soldiers’ Hero

https://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/27/nyregion/at-92-movie-bootlegger-is-soldiers-hero.html?hp&pagewanted=all

14 years ago

243 upvotes – 85 comments

A $20 Trillion Rock That Could Turn a Startup Into Earth’s Richest Company

http://mashable.com/2012/04/26/planetary-resources-asteroid-mining-trillions/

14 years ago

241 upvotes – 193 comments

Cargo Cults and Interview Questions

http://raganwald.posterous.com/bob-and-carol-and-ted-and-alice

14 years ago

229 upvotes – 158 comments

European server provider Hetzner now offers a 64GB RAM box for 109€/mon

http://www.hetzner.de/en/hosting/produkte_rootserver/ex10

14 years ago

222 upvotes – 193 comments

Your Bash Prompt Needs This

http://jonisalonen.com/2012/your-bash-prompt-needs-this/

14 years ago

215 upvotes – 131 comments

Skype IP Lookup

http://skype-ip-finder.tk/

14 years ago

192 upvotes – 97 comments

Rails 4 will establish a new background job queueing API

https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/adff4a706a5d7ad18ef05303461e1a0d848bd662

14 years ago

★ 58.3k Ruby MIT
172 upvotes – 57 comments

Log Everything as JSON. Make Your Life Easier.

http://blog.treasure-data.com/post/21881575472/log-everything-as-json-make-your-life-easier

14 years ago

155 upvotes – 104 comments

List of those who voted for and against CISPA

http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2012/roll192.xml

14 years ago

150 upvotes – 33 comments

The Haskell / Snap ecosystem is as productive (or more) than Ruby/Rails.

http://blog.dbpatterson.com/post/21885034168

14 years ago

142 upvotes – 98 comments

Name: Illegitimate

http://caterina.net/archive/001011.html

14 years ago

134 upvotes – 78 comments

Evernote CEO to entrepreneurs: "don't do it"

http://thenextweb.com/video/2012/04/27/evernote-ceo-phil-libin-my-advice-to-aspiring-entrepreneurs-dont-do-it-video/

14 years ago

132 upvotes – 94 comments

Writing a CV in LaTeX

http://texblog.org/2012/04/25/writing-a-cv-in-latex/

14 years ago

128 upvotes – 92 comments

New Particle Discovered at CERN

http://www.mediadesk.uzh.ch/articles/2012/uzh-forschende-entdecken-neues-teilchen-am-cern_en.html

14 years ago

127 upvotes – 33 comments

Thinking in a Foreign Language Makes Decisions More Rational

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/04/language-and-bias/

14 years ago

98 upvotes – 38 comments

Show HN: Beautiful Visualization of Agreement Groups in the US Senate

http://friggeri.net/senate/

14 years ago

95 upvotes – 39 comments

Show HN: Sink or Ship - ship your project in time, or else...

http://sinkorship.com

14 years ago

94 upvotes – 40 comments

jQuery Raty - A Star Rating Plugin

http://www.wbotelhos.com/raty/

14 years ago

92 upvotes – 12 comments

Skylon: A British dream of space

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-17851603

14 years ago

92 upvotes – 26 comments

Data and visualization blogs worth following

http://flowingdata.com/2012/04/27/data-and-visualization-blogs-worth-following/

14 years ago

87 upvotes – 8 comments

Million Song Dataset Challenge

http://www.kaggle.com/c/msdchallenge

14 years ago

81 upvotes – 3 comments

ClojureScript Lua backend

http://raphamiard.posterous.com/gsoc-2012-pluggable-backend-infrastructure-an

14 years ago

79 upvotes – 15 comments

Redis 2.6.0 RC1 Released

https://raw.github.com/antirez/redis/2.6/00-RELEASENOTES

14 years ago

77 upvotes – 14 comments

Show HN: Stop wasting money on Saas services you don't use

http://saasly.com

14 years ago

76 upvotes – 36 comments

Out of acqui-hire stage

http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/2012/04/out-of-acqui-hire-stage.html

14 years ago

73 upvotes – 24 comments

Firefox 13 Beta Turns On the ‘SPDY’

http://www.webmonkey.com/2012/04/latest-firefox-beta-turns-on-the-spdy/

14 years ago

69 upvotes – 24 comments

31 Years Later, "Star Castle" Finally Ported to Atari 2600

http://starcastle2600.blogspot.com/p/star-castle-2600-story.html

14 years ago

68 upvotes – 12 comments

How to: Compete with Amazon S3 without Buying Hardware

http://blog.adamsmith.cc/2012/04/how-to-compete-with-amazon-s3-without-buying-hardware.html

14 years ago

66 upvotes – 37 comments

Klouchebag

http://klouchebag.com/

14 years ago

65 upvotes – 12 comments

PyPy STM work update

http://morepypy.blogspot.com/2012/04/stm-update-and-thanks-everybody.html

14 years ago

60 upvotes – 10 comments

The Greatest Machine That Never Was

http://blog.jgc.org/2012/04/greatest-machine-that-never-was.html

14 years ago

59 upvotes – 8 comments

Build a Team that Ships

http://startupboy.com/2012/04/27/build-a-team-that-ships/

14 years ago

58 upvotes – 34 comments

Hand solderable 1GHz ARM Cortex A8 in TQFP package

http://olimex.wordpress.com/2012/04/24/cortex-a8-in-tqfp-sure-allwinner-a13/

14 years ago

55 upvotes – 23 comments

Growth Hacker is the New VP Marketing - Andrew Chen

http://andrewchenblog.com/2012/04/27/how-to-be-a-growth-hacker-an-airbnbcraigslist-case-study/

14 years ago

53 upvotes – 18 comments

The trouble with Javascript

http://www.moock.org/lectures/troublewithjs/

14 years ago

52 upvotes – 60 comments
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