top 20 hacker news stories for 2012-08-10

Steve Yegge: Notes from the Mystery Machine Bus

https://plus.google.com/u/0/110981030061712822816/posts/KaSKeg4vQtz

14 years ago

365 upvotes – 180 comments

You'll never be Chinese

http://www.haohaoreport.com/l/37198?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=facebook

14 years ago

340 upvotes – 177 comments

How to crawl a quarter billion webpages in 40 hours

http://www.michaelnielsen.org/ddi/how-to-crawl-a-quarter-billion-webpages-in-40-hours/

14 years ago

323 upvotes – 67 comments

Browserver: a node.js HTTP server, in your browser

http://browserver.org

14 years ago

308 upvotes – 63 comments

How you eat corn on the cob predicts whether you're an analyst or algebraist

http://bentilly.blogspot.com/2010/08/analysis-vs-algebra-predicts-eating.html

14 years ago

290 upvotes – 99 comments

Write any javascript code with just these characters: ()[]{}+

http://patriciopalladino.com/blog/2012/08/09/non-alphanumeric-javascript.html

14 years ago

289 upvotes – 51 comments

New York Underground

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/nyunderground/docs/nymain.html

14 years ago

283 upvotes – 83 comments

Things I didn’t know about the WebKit inspector

http://blog.joocode.com/browsers/12-things-about-the-webkit-inspector-i-didnt-know/

14 years ago

247 upvotes – 51 comments

Entrepreneurs Tell The White House To Focus On Innovation, Not IP Enforcement

http://www.techdirt.com/blog/innovation/articles/20120810/02111919983/entrepreneurs-vcs-tell-white-house-to-focus-innovation-rather-than-ip-enforcement.shtml

14 years ago

232 upvotes – 58 comments

Show HN: Eligible API for 700+ Health Insurance Companies

https://eligibleapi.com/

14 years ago

218 upvotes – 92 comments

Russ Olsen: The Best Programming Advice I Ever Got

http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1926692

14 years ago

214 upvotes – 60 comments

Mars to Earth at an average of 29 kbits/s

http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/mission/communicationwithearth/data/

14 years ago

193 upvotes – 85 comments

Show HN: See Kickstarter successes and failures

http://www.thekickbackmachine.com/

14 years ago

187 upvotes – 63 comments

College was my biggest mistake

http://stevecorona.com/college-was-my-biggest-mistake

14 years ago

170 upvotes – 182 comments

Mars 360-degree panoramic view from Curiosity

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390443991704577579652958963584.html?mod=e2tw

14 years ago

168 upvotes – 99 comments

Show HN: Tweetsheets – Twitter directly from within Google Docs

http://die.socialisten.at/2012/08/tweetsheets-twitter-directly-from-within-google-docs/

14 years ago

160 upvotes – 15 comments

My biggest problem with Vim

http://haldean.org/docstore/?vim-problems

14 years ago

144 upvotes – 184 comments

The Best Advice My Dad Ever Gave Me (for Demo Day)

http://distributionhacks.com/the-best-advice-my-dad-ever-gave-me-1

14 years ago

126 upvotes – 58 comments

Education is Our Generation's Big Problem. Let's Fix it.

http://blog.bloc.io/education-is-our-problem

14 years ago

121 upvotes – 167 comments

A New Way To Solve Linear Equations (over finite fields)

http://rjlipton.wordpress.com/2012/08/09/a-new-way-to-solve-linear-equations?utm_source=twitter

14 years ago

118 upvotes – 32 comments
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