top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-09-23

Firefox turns 10 years old today (Phoenix v0.1)

http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/releases/0.1.html#new

14 years ago

255 upvotes – 45 comments

Torvalds' quote about good programmers

http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/163185/torvalds-quote-about-good-programmer

14 years ago

244 upvotes – 104 comments

Why I’m not leaving Python for Go

http://uberpython.wordpress.com/2012/09/23/why-im-not-leaving-python-for-go/

14 years ago

225 upvotes – 239 comments

Apple's HTTP POST caching is a bug

http://www.mnot.net/blog/2012/09/24/caching_POST

14 years ago

175 upvotes – 26 comments

Show HN: Online C/C++ to assembly visualizer [Weekend Project]

http://assembly.ynh.io/

14 years ago

149 upvotes – 44 comments

Facebook's Gen Y Nightmare

http://www.mondaynote.com/2012/09/23/facebooks-gen-y-nightmare/

14 years ago

149 upvotes – 145 comments

Fokus - new UI concept that emphasizes text-selection

http://lab.hakim.se/fokus/

14 years ago

143 upvotes – 28 comments

The Last PC Laptop

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/09/the-last-pc-laptop.html

14 years ago

141 upvotes – 150 comments

Rescuing Resque: Let's do this

http://blog.steveklabnik.com/posts/2012-09-22-resque--let-s-do-this

14 years ago

140 upvotes – 43 comments

World `countries` – database table for MySQL

http://echobehind.wordpress.com/2012/09/23/world-countries-database-table-for-mysql/

14 years ago

131 upvotes – 41 comments

Vim Koans

http://blog.sanctum.geek.nz/vim-koans/

14 years ago

129 upvotes – 13 comments

Genetic Algorithms in CoffeeScript

http://janmonschke.com/Genetic-Algorithms/presentation

14 years ago

123 upvotes – 46 comments

Mypy - An experimental Python variant with dynamic and static typing

http://www.mypy-lang.org/

14 years ago

108 upvotes – 39 comments

Say Hello to Transit

http://thetransitapp.com/

14 years ago

107 upvotes – 72 comments

Cray T94 Supercomputer on Ebay

http://www.ebay.com/itm/CRAY-T94-SUPER-COMPUTER-VINTAGE-MAINFRAME-LIQUID-COOLED-/271057315817?pt=US_Vintage_Computers_Mainframes&hash=item3f1c4667e9

14 years ago

104 upvotes – 56 comments

Reading Other People's Code

http://www.mahdiyusuf.com/post/32154944661/reading-other-peoples-code

14 years ago

104 upvotes – 44 comments

Riot breaks out at Foxconn's Taiyuan plant

http://www.engadget.com/2012/09/23/foxconn-taiyuan-riot/

14 years ago

99 upvotes – 54 comments

Why Kids Should Grade Teachers

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/10/why-kids-should-grade-teachers/309088/?single_page=true

14 years ago

95 upvotes – 69 comments

Megaupload Readies for Comeback, Code 90% Done

http://torrentfreak.com/megaupload-readies-for-comeback-code-90-done-120923/

14 years ago

94 upvotes – 30 comments

Amazon search results in the Dash

http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/1182

14 years ago

89 upvotes – 86 comments

Sweet.js: Hygienic Macros for JavaScript

https://github.com/mozilla/sweet.js

14 years ago

★ 4.5k JavaScript BSD-2-Clause
84 upvotes – 19 comments

Flight Hacking: 5 Music Festivals, 6 Weeks, 3 Continents

http://flightfox.com/blog/ultimate-music-festival-trip

14 years ago

79 upvotes – 18 comments

Winning on Product, not on Price

http://iamvictorio.us/post/32128826754/winning-on-product-not-on-price

14 years ago

76 upvotes – 20 comments

Source: Apple Aggressively Recruiting Ex-Google Maps Staff To Build Out iOS Maps

http://techcrunch.com/2012/09/23/source-apple-aggressively-recruiting-ex-google-maps-staff-to-build-out-ios-maps/

14 years ago

70 upvotes – 54 comments

FBI renews broad Internet surveillance push

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57518265-38/fbi-renews-broad-internet-surveillance-push/

14 years ago

69 upvotes – 28 comments

Cloudant on Google's Spanner

https://cloudant.com/blog/cloudant-labs-on-google-spanner/

14 years ago

69 upvotes – 13 comments

Homebrew Cray-1A

http://www.chrisfenton.com/homebrew-cray-1a/

14 years ago

63 upvotes – 9 comments

The End of the Future (2011)

http://www.nationalreview.com/blogs/print/278758

14 years ago

62 upvotes – 45 comments

I Was a Warehouse Wage Slave

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/02/mac-mcclelland-free-online-shipping-warehouses-labor

14 years ago

60 upvotes – 49 comments

How a space train was brought to life

http://cosmiclog.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/09/21/14019028-how-a-space-train-was-brought-to-life

14 years ago

59 upvotes – 11 comments

Glacier CLI

https://github.com/basak/glacier-cli

14 years ago

★ 612 Python
58 upvotes – 2 comments

Toom–Cook multiplication

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toom%E2%80%93Cook_multiplication

14 years ago

55 upvotes – 12 comments

Iran readies domestic Internet system, blocks Google

http://af.reuters.com/article/energyOilNews/idAFL5E8KN2S420120923?sp=true

14 years ago

55 upvotes – 51 comments

Intro to Bitcoin [video]

http://nhcaptv.com/episode/224

14 years ago

54 upvotes – 0 comments

Flutter Updated with Next and Previous Song Gestures For Mac

http://flutterapp.com

14 years ago

53 upvotes – 62 comments
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