top 50% 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

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

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

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

Wizard for Mac - a tool for statistics and data analysis

http://wizard.evanmiller.org/

14 years ago

92 upvotes – 34 comments

Appeals Court Caves to TSA Over Nude Body Scanners

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/09/appeals-court-caves/

14 years ago

90 upvotes – 44 comments

The science behind what motivates us to get up for work every day

http://blog.bufferapp.com/the-science-of-what-motivates-us-to-get-up-for-work-every-day

14 years ago

87 upvotes – 41 comments

Fictional peer reviews rejecting famous papers (2005)

http://th.informatik.uni-mannheim.de/People/Lucks/reject.pdf

14 years ago

86 upvotes – 51 comments

Google Drive SDK

https://developers.google.com/drive/index

14 years ago

86 upvotes – 37 comments

Google Docs Ditching Old Microsoft Export Formats(.doc, .xls, .ppt) on October 1

http://thenextweb.com/google/2012/09/26/google-announces-huge-change-apps-will-remove-office-2003-2007-format-support-october-1/

14 years ago

84 upvotes – 51 comments

Python is doing just fine

http://data.geek.nz/python-is-doing-just-fine

14 years ago

84 upvotes – 85 comments

Turbolinks for Rails (like pjax)

https://github.com/rails/turbolinks

14 years ago

★ 3.5k CoffeeScript MIT
82 upvotes – 52 comments

Lumia 920 low-light shootout with iPhone 5, HTC One X and Galaxy S III

http://www.engadget.com/2012/09/26/lumia-920-low-light-shootout

14 years ago

74 upvotes – 40 comments

Coinbase (YC S12), First Crowd Funded Bitcoin Company, Raises Over $600K

https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2012/09/coinbase-first-crowd-funded-bitcoin-company-raises-over-600k/

14 years ago

72 upvotes – 34 comments

Longtime tech recruiter shatters the engineering shortage myth

http://venturebeat.com/2012/09/25/startup-stories-recruiter/

14 years ago

71 upvotes – 57 comments

Rent-to-Own Laptops Secretly Photographed Users Having Sex, FTC Says

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/09/laptop-rental-spyware-scandal/

14 years ago

70 upvotes – 50 comments

Context-aware HTTP caching (with Varnish)

http://asm89.github.com/2012/09/26/context-aware-http-caching.html?hn

14 years ago

69 upvotes – 21 comments

Embark Plans 1.3M Transit Trips Since Apple’s Release Of iOS 6

http://techcrunch.com/2012/09/26/transit-app-embark-sees-100k-downloads-1-3m-trips-planned-since-apples-release-of-ios-6/

14 years ago

68 upvotes – 40 comments

Why Codecademy is overrated and missing its target audience

http://www.attendly.com/why-codecademy-is-overrated-and-missing-its-target-audience/

14 years ago

60 upvotes – 28 comments

Ostrich Pillow - take a nap anywhere

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ostrich-pillow/ostrich-pillow

14 years ago

59 upvotes – 44 comments

The Windows Store... why did I sign up with this mess again?

http://weblogs.asp.net/fbouma/archive/2012/09/12/the-windows-store-why-did-i-sign-up-with-this-mess-again.aspx

14 years ago

58 upvotes – 15 comments

Kim Dotcom teases details of music service Megabox with preview video

http://thenextweb.com/insider/2012/09/26/kim-dotcom-teases-new-music-service-megabox-preview-video/

14 years ago

58 upvotes – 21 comments

Share stuff from Dropbox in your Facebook Groups

https://blog.dropbox.com/index.php/share-stuff-from-dropbox-in-your-facebook-groups/

14 years ago

58 upvotes – 14 comments

Show HN: goodbre.ws, a fully open source recommendation engine for beer

https://goodbre.ws/

14 years ago

57 upvotes – 50 comments

What do you do with the Brilliant Jerk?

http://boss.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/26/what-do-you-do-with-the-brilliant-jerk/

14 years ago

56 upvotes – 86 comments

Actual OIS performance: Lumia 920 against iPhone 5, Galaxy S III, HTC One X

http://www.engadget.com/2012/09/25/iphone-5-lumia-920-image-stabilization-face-off/

14 years ago

54 upvotes – 54 comments

20 Hours of Tent.is

https://tent.is/blog/20-hours-of-tent-is

14 years ago

54 upvotes – 45 comments
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