top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-09-16

Things I've quit doing at my desk

http://justinjackson.ca/i-quit-my-desk/

14 years ago

277 upvotes – 96 comments

The lightbulb reinvented

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/limemouse/lifx-the-light-bulb-reinvented

14 years ago

231 upvotes – 129 comments

How can one manage thousands of IF…THEN…ELSE rules?

http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/103659/how-can-one-manage-thousands-of-if-then-else-rules

14 years ago

187 upvotes – 79 comments

The Probability and Statistics Cookbook

http://matthias.vallentin.net/probability-and-statistics-cookbook/

14 years ago

182 upvotes – 16 comments

Neat Algorithms - Flocking

http://harry.me/2011/02/17/neat-algorithms---flocking/

14 years ago

160 upvotes – 25 comments

Aaron Swartz "JSTOR" case indictment revised/expanded

http://sethf.com/infothought/blog/archives/001476.html

14 years ago

159 upvotes – 81 comments

PostgreSQL 9.2: Full-throttle Database

http://www.pgcon.org/2012/schedule/attachments/230_92_grand_prix.pdf

14 years ago

148 upvotes – 32 comments

Aaron Swartz Legal Defense Fund

https://free.aaronsw.com/

14 years ago

132 upvotes – 137 comments

Kickstarting a hackerspace in Iraq

http://boingboing.net/2012/09/07/kickstarting-a-hackerspace-in.html

14 years ago

129 upvotes – 17 comments

Red Hat's new patent counterclaim: GPL violation

http://www.itworld.com/storage/295325/red-hats-new-patent-troll-weapon-gpl-violation

14 years ago

126 upvotes – 67 comments

Grove.io shutting down

https://grove.io/blog/grove-shutting-down-october-13

14 years ago

125 upvotes – 197 comments

Want to learn Rails? Start here.

http://zackshapiro.com/post/31672964808/want-to-learn-rails-start-here

14 years ago

120 upvotes – 23 comments

Pdf2htmlEX: A PDF to HTML converter

http://coolwanglu.github.com/pdf2htmlEX/

14 years ago

107 upvotes – 61 comments

Smashing Node.JS book is out.

http://smashingnode.com

14 years ago

103 upvotes – 50 comments

Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything

http://www.thegatesnotes.com/Books/Personal/Moonwalking-with-Einstein

14 years ago

98 upvotes – 37 comments

HTTP for Servers

http://www.and.org/texts/server-http

14 years ago

97 upvotes – 28 comments

I have a troubling relationship with time

http://www.randomactsofsentience.com/2012/09/i-have-troubling-relationship-with-time.html

14 years ago

95 upvotes – 11 comments

How do you live your life?

http://www.bogleheads.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=84670&newpost=1490535

14 years ago

86 upvotes – 63 comments

A Silicon Valley Take on ABC’s Shark Tank

http://lsvp.com/a-silicon-valley-take-on-abcs-shark-tank/

14 years ago

80 upvotes – 21 comments

The world's most influential languages

http://www.andaman.org/BOOK/reprints/weber/rep-weber.htm

14 years ago

78 upvotes – 68 comments

Bashttpd - An http server in bash

http://github.com/avleen/bashttpd

14 years ago

★ 1.5k Shell MIT
74 upvotes – 36 comments

William Gibson on Punk Rock, Internet Memes, and "Gangnam Style"

http://www.wired.com/underwire/2012/09/william-gibson-part-3-punk-memes/

14 years ago

72 upvotes – 26 comments

Page Layers - Convert websites to layered Photoshop PSDs

http://www.ralfebert.de/apps/page-layers-photoshop-osx-website-screenshots/

14 years ago

71 upvotes – 16 comments

Achieving Top Mental Performance for Software Developers

http://softwarecreation.org/2012/achieving-top-mental-performance-for-software-developers/

14 years ago

68 upvotes – 8 comments

Geekbench Result for iPhone5

http://browser.primatelabs.com/geekbench2/1030202

14 years ago

67 upvotes – 35 comments

Writers' Writing Sheds

http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/famous-small-offthegrid-worksp-140587

14 years ago

64 upvotes – 21 comments

Google Chrome is detecting malware on The Verge

https://skitch.com/k33l0r/eu3qd/malware-detected

14 years ago

63 upvotes – 27 comments

Self-referential URL

http://www.stanford.edu/~laurik/.book2software/publishing_this_url_is_probited_by_the_license_you_accepted_getting_here_from_the_previous_page.html

14 years ago

62 upvotes – 32 comments

A First: Organs Tailor-Made With Body’s Own Cells

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/16/health/research/scientists-make-progress-in-tailor-made-organs.html?pagewanted=all

14 years ago

61 upvotes – 17 comments

Popular misconceptions about the Golden Ratio (2004)

http://www.maa.org/devlin/devlin_06_04.html

14 years ago

61 upvotes – 7 comments

Why It’s Never Mattered That America’s Schools ‘Lag’ Behind Other Countries

http://techcrunch.com/2012/09/16/why-its-never-mattered-that-americas-schools-lag-behind-other-countries/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Techcrunch+%28TechCrunch%29&utm_content=Google+Reader

14 years ago

61 upvotes – 93 comments

The rise of LinkedIn’s news feed

http://venturebeat.com/2012/09/15/the-rise-of-linkedins-news-feed-and-how-twitter-made-a-big-dumb-mistake/

14 years ago

60 upvotes – 19 comments

Go-powered web-services with Rails

http://areyoufuckingcoding.me/2012/02/27/go-powered-webservices-with-rails/

14 years ago

56 upvotes – 26 comments

DreamHost launches DreamObjects cloud storage service

http://dreamhost.com/press-releases/dreamhost-introduces-dreamobjects-cloud-storage-service/

14 years ago

56 upvotes – 16 comments

NASA Mars Rover Opportunity Reveals Geological Mystery

http://www.marsdaily.com/reports/NASA_Mars_Rover_Opportunity_Reveals_Geological_Mystery_999.html

14 years ago

55 upvotes – 8 comments

Unix and Beyond: An Interview with Ken Thompson

http://genius.cat-v.org/ken-thompson/interviews/unix-and-beyond

14 years ago

51 upvotes – 22 comments

Cryptic Ruby Global Variables and Their Meanings

http://jimneath.org/2010/01/04/cryptic-ruby-global-variables-and-their-meanings.html

14 years ago

49 upvotes – 17 comments
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