top 50% 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

So long, silicon: Researchers create solar panels from cheap copper oxide

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/134305-so-long-silicon-researchers-create-solar-panels-from-cheap-copper-oxide?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=so-long-silicon-researchers-create-solar-panels-from-cheap-copper-oxide

14 years ago

117 upvotes – 40 comments

D3.js 2.10 Unleashed.

https://github.com/mbostock/d3/wiki/Release-Notes

14 years ago

★ 112.8k Shell ISC
116 upvotes – 16 comments

A First Course in Linear Algebra

http://linear.ups.edu/

14 years ago

114 upvotes – 37 comments

Nobody Cares

http://bennesvig.com/2012/08/09/nobody-cares/

14 years ago

112 upvotes – 69 comments

Javascript Fundamentals: Development for Absolute Beginners

http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/Javascript-Fundamentals-Development-for-Absolute-Beginners

14 years ago

110 upvotes – 9 comments

Scoutzie (YC S12) Is A More Thoughtful Marketplace For Designers

http://techcrunch.com/2012/08/10/scoutzie-is-a-more-curated-thoughtful-marketplace-for-designers/

14 years ago

97 upvotes – 26 comments

Google-An update to our search algorithms - Copyright Related

http://insidesearch.blogspot.com/2012/08/an-update-to-our-search-algorithms.html

14 years ago

94 upvotes – 104 comments

Intro to writing C-extension for Python

http://danfm.ca/posts/python-c-extensions/

14 years ago

89 upvotes – 7 comments

Beware the Nocebo Effect

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/12/opinion/sunday/beware-the-nocebo-effect.html?_r=1&hp&pagewanted=all

14 years ago

86 upvotes – 30 comments

Clojure is not Software Conservative

http://blog.n01se.net/Clojure-is-not-Software-Conservative.html

14 years ago

81 upvotes – 43 comments

App.net to support activitystrea.ms, pubsubhubbub, Webfinger, feeds

http://daltoncaldwell.com/a-response-to-brennan-novak

14 years ago

77 upvotes – 30 comments

One Horrifying Account Of Working At Zynga

http://techcrunch.com/2012/08/09/working-at-zynga/

14 years ago

77 upvotes – 52 comments

Everyday.me (YC S12) - an "Evernote for Your Life"

http://techcrunch.com/2012/08/09/y-combinator-backed-noodle-labs-launches-everyday-me-an-evernote-for-your-life/

14 years ago

75 upvotes – 60 comments

The Singularity is not coming

http://cognitivesocialweb.com/home/2012/8/10/the-singularity-is-not-coming.html

14 years ago

72 upvotes – 76 comments

DataNitro (YC S12) launches Python for Microsoft Excel

http://techcrunch.com/2012/08/10/python-for-microsoft-excel-company-ironspread-comes-out-of-beta-changes-name-to-data-nitro/

14 years ago

70 upvotes – 28 comments

Pay Pad for Stripe

http://pay-pad.com/

14 years ago

68 upvotes – 31 comments

My next text editor

http://www.marco.org/2012/08/10/next-text-editor

14 years ago

61 upvotes – 82 comments

Filepicker.io partners with Aviary

https://www.filepicker.io/products/aviary/

14 years ago

60 upvotes – 10 comments

Is Haskell liberal or conservative?

http://blog.ezyang.com/2012/08/is-haskell-liberal-or-conservative/

14 years ago

58 upvotes – 12 comments

Lua-quick-try-out : A simple, low-barrier Lua IDE

http://www.brischalle.de/Lua-Quick-Try-Out/Lua-Quick-Try-Out_en.html

14 years ago

56 upvotes – 22 comments

Attack of the Acqui-hires

http://finance.fortune.cnn.com/2012/08/10/attack-of-the-acqui-hires/

14 years ago

53 upvotes – 40 comments
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