top 20 hacker news stories for 2012-09-26

Bret Victor: Learnable Programming

http://worrydream.com/LearnableProgramming/

14 years ago

1080 upvotes – 183 comments

Subtle Patterns

http://subtlepatterns.com/

14 years ago

408 upvotes – 49 comments

A Conversation With Randall Munroe, the Creator of XKCD

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/09/a-conversation-with-randall-munroe-the-creator-of-xkcd/262851/

14 years ago

288 upvotes – 20 comments

Why I think Rust is the "language of the future" for systems programming

http://winningraceconditions.blogspot.com/2012/09/rust-0-index-and-conclusion.html

14 years ago

243 upvotes – 181 comments

MMO in loving tribute to xkcd-1110

http://1110.n01se.net/

14 years ago

204 upvotes – 61 comments

Formlabs: High Resolution 3D Printer

http://www.formlabs.com/

14 years ago

191 upvotes – 111 comments

Mathematics at Google

http://research.google.com/pubs/pub38331.html

14 years ago

188 upvotes – 50 comments

OStatus: like Twitter, but open

http://chrismdp.com/2012/09/ostatus-like-twitter-but-open/

14 years ago

185 upvotes – 124 comments

Great Barrier Reef underwater panoramas in Google Maps

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/09/dive-into-great-barrier-reef-with-first_25.html

14 years ago

183 upvotes – 44 comments

Proposed new HTML tag: IMG (1993)

http://1997.webhistory.org/www.lists/www-talk.1993q1/0182.html

14 years ago

169 upvotes – 62 comments

Light Table - Embracing Abstraction

http://www.chris-granger.com/2012/09/25/light-table---embracing-abstraction/

14 years ago

163 upvotes – 74 comments

German state parliament bans laptops - Pirate party show up with typewriters

http://www.crackajack.de/2012/09/26/typewriter-protest-der-piraten-gegen-computerverbot/

14 years ago

137 upvotes – 47 comments

Twilio’s Biggest Partnership: AT&T Will Resell Its Cloud Telecom Apps And API

http://techcrunch.com/2012/09/26/twilio-att-advanced-communications-suite/

14 years ago

137 upvotes – 30 comments

Developer interest in Windows 8 is stagnant, new line of worry for Microsoft

http://thenextweb.com/microsoft/2012/09/25/developer-interest-windows-8-appears-subdued-opening-new-line-worry-microsoft/

14 years ago

132 upvotes – 168 comments

Wordpress.com serves 70k requests/second using Nginx

http://highscalability.com/blog/2012/9/26/wordpresscom-serves-70000-reqsec-and-over-15-gbitsec-of-traf.html

14 years ago

131 upvotes – 91 comments

Is Alzheimer's Type 3 Diabetes?

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/25/bittman-is-alzheimers-type-3-diabetes/?src=me&ref=general

14 years ago

129 upvotes – 53 comments

French Government To Use PostgreSQL, LibreOffice In Free Software Adoption Push

http://www.computerworlduk.com/news/open-source/3400404/french-govt-use-postgresql-libreoficce-in-free-software-adoption-push/

14 years ago

120 upvotes – 55 comments

Meet the Man Who Built a 30-Story Building in 15 Days

http://www.wired.com/design/2012/09/broad-sustainable-building-instant-skyscraper/all/

14 years ago

107 upvotes – 67 comments

As We May Think (1945)

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1945/07/as-we-may-think/303881/?single_page=true

14 years ago

106 upvotes – 34 comments

Why Bloom filters work the way they do

http://www.michaelnielsen.org/ddi/why-bloom-filters-work-the-way-they-do/

14 years ago

95 upvotes – 7 comments
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