top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-05-09

CSS arrow please

http://cssarrowplease.com/

14 years ago

515 upvotes – 73 comments

JQuery knobs

http://anthonyterrien.com/knob/

14 years ago

472 upvotes – 96 comments

Germany's Leading Technical University Cancels All Elsevier Subscriptions

http://www.ma.tum.de/Mathematik/BibliothekElsevier

14 years ago

350 upvotes – 84 comments

Old People Icons That Don't Make Sense Anymore

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/TheFloppyDiskMeansSaveAnd14OtherOldPeopleIconsThatDontMakeSenseAnymore.aspx

14 years ago

314 upvotes – 267 comments

Netherlands first country in Europe with net neutrality

https://www.bof.nl/2012/05/08/netherlands-first-country-in-europe-with-net-neutrality/

14 years ago

310 upvotes – 60 comments

Pixel-fitting – how antialiasing can ruin your logos and icons

http://dcurt.is/pixel-fitting

14 years ago

291 upvotes – 75 comments

HTML9 Responsive Boilerstrap JS

http://html9responsiveboilerstrapjs.com/

14 years ago

274 upvotes – 48 comments

Say hello to Octicons

https://github.com/blog/1106-say-hello-to-octicons

14 years ago

253 upvotes – 135 comments

Show HN: Simperium, a realtime data layer

http://simperium.com

14 years ago

208 upvotes – 87 comments

Compelling Startup Pitch Archetypes (with examples from YC companies)

http://www.jasonshen.com/2012/eleven-compelling-startup-pitch-archetypes-with-examples-from-yc-companies/

14 years ago

200 upvotes – 28 comments

Play Wolfenstein 3D in a browser

http://wolfenstein.bethsoft.com/

14 years ago

169 upvotes – 46 comments

Vert.x (JVM async) vs Node.js Http benchmarks results

http://vertxproject.wordpress.com/2012/05/09/vert-x-vs-node-js-simple-http-benchmarks/

14 years ago

151 upvotes – 118 comments

I'm calling this Bubble 2.0, and it's ready to burst

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2012/05/bubble-20.html

14 years ago

146 upvotes – 130 comments

Who Wants To Buy Honduras?

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/13/magazine/who-wants-to-buy-honduras.html?_r=2&smid=tw-share&pagewanted=all

14 years ago

143 upvotes – 96 comments

3 Problems AWS Needs to Address

http://blog.jacobelder.com/2012/05/3-problems-aws-needs-to-address/

14 years ago

136 upvotes – 47 comments

First Python 2.7 interpreter to use multiple cores

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/pypy-dev/2012-May/009901.html

14 years ago

130 upvotes – 40 comments

An Effort To Bury A Throwaway Culture One Repair At A Time

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/09/world/europe/amsterdam-tries-to-change-culture-with-repair-cafes.html

14 years ago

130 upvotes – 119 comments

Introducing The App Center

https://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/2012/05/09/introducing-the-app-center/

14 years ago

127 upvotes – 48 comments

SparkFun Gets A Subpoena

http://www.sparkfun.com/news/836

14 years ago

120 upvotes – 54 comments

A story about Miles Davis and the nature of true genius

http://www.elezea.com/2012/05/true-genius/

14 years ago

116 upvotes – 46 comments

TCP doesn't suck, and all the proposed bufferbloat fixes are identical

http://apenwarr.ca/log/?m=201205#08

14 years ago

115 upvotes – 20 comments

You, Too, Can Be on the Cutting Edge of Functional Programming Research

http://prog21.dadgum.com/138.html

14 years ago

112 upvotes – 31 comments

Arduino-Powered Wire Bending Machine

http://blog.makezine.com/2012/05/03/arduino-powered-wire-bending-machine/

14 years ago

105 upvotes – 18 comments

Watch someone else code and learn

http://thecodeplayer.com/

14 years ago

99 upvotes – 17 comments

Why you should ALWAYS CC someone

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3947516

14 years ago

98 upvotes – 68 comments

What Is And Is Not A Technology Company

http://al3x.net/2012/05/08/what-is-and-is-not-a-technology-company.html

14 years ago

95 upvotes – 31 comments

How well do various revision tools handle merge conflicts?

https://plus.google.com/u/0/113507488402105365870/posts/WHCbnMsqLoB

14 years ago

94 upvotes – 34 comments

When Kids Start Doing Root Cause Analysis

http://blog.marksweep.com/post/22692428919/when-kids-start-doing-root-cause-analysis

14 years ago

92 upvotes – 24 comments

Darcs - Another open source version control system

http://darcs.net/

14 years ago

92 upvotes – 78 comments

C (Cbang) - A system oriented programming language

http://blog.lse.epita.fr/articles/12-c---system-oriented-programming.html

14 years ago

90 upvotes – 83 comments

Using A Kalman Filter To Make Sense Of Noisy Data

http://seatgeek.com/blog/dev/using-a-kalman-filter-to-predict-ticket-prices

14 years ago

89 upvotes – 18 comments

Redditor: Am I a scumbag for automating my manual work and making more money?

http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/tenoq/

14 years ago

86 upvotes – 110 comments

Pebble's E-Paper Watch Exceeds $10 Million Raised On Kickstarter

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/597507018/pebble-e-paper-watch-for-iphone-and-android/backers

14 years ago

85 upvotes – 42 comments

Show HN: Test Drive The RubyMotion Console From Your Browser

https://www.pieceable.com/rubymotion-console

14 years ago

84 upvotes – 16 comments

Two Universes

http://www.randsinrepose.com/archives/2012/05/09/two_universes.html

14 years ago

84 upvotes – 24 comments

What we did when a patent troll asked for our help

http://www.lessannoyingcrm.com/articles/262/What_we_did_when_a_patent_troll_asked_for_our_help

14 years ago

83 upvotes – 98 comments

NVIDIA Announces Open-Source CUDA Compiler

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTA5OTU

14 years ago

81 upvotes – 12 comments

The Next SoundCloud

http://next.soundcloud.com

14 years ago

76 upvotes – 37 comments

Htmlshell - generate HTML skeletons

http://htmlshell.com/

14 years ago

73 upvotes – 28 comments

Build An Animated Chart In 19 Lines Of Code With d3.js

http://needforair.com/blog/2012/05/09/d3-tutorial/

14 years ago

71 upvotes – 17 comments

PostgreSQL Magazine #01 is out

http://pgmag.org/01/read

14 years ago

66 upvotes – 14 comments

Mozilla Firefox: Rolling Out HTTPS Google search

https://blog.mozilla.org/privacy/2012/05/07/rolling-out-https-google-search/

14 years ago

58 upvotes – 31 comments

Gitspective - Facebook style timeline for your GitHub feed

http://thechangelog.com/post/22714892171/gitspective-facebook-style-timeline-for-your-github-feed

14 years ago

55 upvotes – 12 comments

Firefox's graphics performance on X11

http://www.hackermusings.com/2012/05/firefoxs-graphics-performance-on-x11/

14 years ago

55 upvotes – 0 comments

Announcing The Simple iPhone App

https://www.simple.com/blog/Simple/announcing-the-simple-iphone-app/

14 years ago

53 upvotes – 40 comments

Bored in grad school? Learn Hadoop

http://commoncrawl.org/learn-hadoop-and-get-a-paper-published/

14 years ago

52 upvotes – 21 comments

Spire.io: A New Platform For Serverless Apps That Work On Web & Mobile

http://techcrunch.com/2012/05/09/spire-io-a-new-platform-for-serverless-apps-that-work-on-web-mobile/

14 years ago

51 upvotes – 37 comments

Study explains how retailers stop Linux from entering the market

http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Study-explains-how-retailers-stop-Linux-from-entering-the-market-1564385.html

14 years ago

51 upvotes – 40 comments

App Engine releases full-text search

http://googleappengine.blogspot.com.es/2012/05/looking-for-search-find-it-on-google.html

14 years ago

50 upvotes – 17 comments

AOL looking to sell TechCrunch and Engadget for $70-$100 million

http://pandodaily.com/2012/05/08/sources-say-aol-seeking-buyers-for-engadget-and-techcrunch-arrington-not-in-the-least-bit-interested/

14 years ago

48 upvotes – 30 comments

The Making Of Octicons

https://github.com/blog/1135-the-making-of-octicons

14 years ago

48 upvotes – 2 comments

Joshfire does for connected things what Wordpress did for the web

http://factory.joshfire.com

14 years ago

46 upvotes – 27 comments
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