top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-01-02

Make the Metric system the standard in the United States

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/make-metric-system-standard-united-states-instead-imperial-system/FndsKXLh

14 years ago

820 upvotes – 530 comments

Ubuntu for phones

http://www.ubuntu.com/devices/phone

14 years ago

513 upvotes – 156 comments

Canonical announces Ubuntu for smartphones

http://www.engadget.com/2013/01/02/ubuntu-for-smartphones/

14 years ago

474 upvotes – 207 comments

Regexper: Beautiful regexp visualizations

http://www.regexper.com/

14 years ago

466 upvotes – 127 comments

SQL Injection Vulnerability in Ruby on Rails; affects all versions

https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/rubyonrails-security/DCNTNp_qjFM

14 years ago

402 upvotes – 205 comments

A world without power

http://jacquesmattheij.com/a-world-without-power

14 years ago

309 upvotes – 140 comments

Avis acquires car sharing company Zipcar for $500 million

http://thenextweb.com/insider/2013/01/02/vehicle-rental-giant-avis-acquires-car-sharing-company-zipcar-for-500-million/

14 years ago

262 upvotes – 144 comments

The physics of that ‘kickalicious’ kick

http://www.empiricalzeal.com/2012/12/31/the-physics-of-that-kickalicious-kick/?src=search

14 years ago

247 upvotes – 33 comments

Patent trolls want $1,000 per employee for using scanners

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/01/patent-trolls-want-1000-for-using-scanners/

14 years ago

235 upvotes – 180 comments

Why did a Train Carrying Biofuel Cross the Border 24 Times and Never Unload?

http://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/Why-did-a-Train-Carrying-Biofuel-Cross-the-Border-24-Times-and-Never-Unload.html

14 years ago

219 upvotes – 93 comments

How fast could you travel across the U.S. in the 1800s?

http://www.mnn.com/green-tech/transportation/stories/how-fast-could-you-travel-across-the-us-in-the-1800s

14 years ago

211 upvotes – 124 comments

Python: The Dictionary Playbook

http://blog.amir.rachum.com/post/39501813266/python-the-dictionary-playbook

14 years ago

193 upvotes – 55 comments

Dear Apple, DUNS is a scam, but you already know that

http://blog.metamorphium.com/2012/12/03/apple-duns/#

14 years ago

186 upvotes – 54 comments

Meet Microsoft, the world's best kept R&D secret

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2020268/meet-microsoft-the-worlds-best-kept-randd-secret.html

14 years ago

180 upvotes – 125 comments

Programming is Terrible

http://programmingisterrible.com/

14 years ago

170 upvotes – 68 comments

Code Interview Reading List

http://codingforinterviews.com/books

14 years ago

166 upvotes – 45 comments

The Income Rich Take One For The Team. Thanks!

http://techcrunch.com/2013/01/01/the-income-rich-take-one-for-the-team-thanks/

14 years ago

119 upvotes – 151 comments

The Web Book Boilerplate - Writing books for almost every platform

https://github.com/PascalPrecht/wbb

14 years ago

118 upvotes – 35 comments

From AS3 to Haxe

http://www.grantmathews.com/43

14 years ago

111 upvotes – 12 comments

There's no avoiding Google+

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324731304578193781852024980.html?mod=WSJ_hps_LEFTTopStories

14 years ago

108 upvotes – 107 comments

The Quantum Earthworm

http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2012/12/24/the-quantum-earthworm/

14 years ago

107 upvotes – 3 comments

A business meeting

http://www.morna.nl/post/4185018780/a-business-meeting

14 years ago

107 upvotes – 27 comments

Show HN: a small weekendish project - JSON Blob

http://jsonblob.com/

14 years ago

106 upvotes – 28 comments

ScriptCraft: Building cool things using Javascript in Minecraft

http://walterhiggins.net/blog/ScriptCraft

14 years ago

103 upvotes – 33 comments

Font Awesome 3.0 Released - sub-setting, pixel perfect at 14px, better license

http://fortawesome.github.com/Font-Awesome/?v=3.0.0

14 years ago

100 upvotes – 27 comments

Scheme vs Common Lisp: war stories

http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/41045/scheme-vs-common-lisp-which-characteristics-made-a-difference-in-your-project

14 years ago

94 upvotes – 29 comments

Go vs. Python for a simple web server

http://blog.kowalczyk.info/article/4dep/Go-vs-Python-for-a-simple-web-server.html

14 years ago

93 upvotes – 43 comments

Come to terms with being “only” an engineer

http://pandodaily.com/2013/01/01/your-2013-resolution-come-to-terms-with-being-only-an-engineer/

14 years ago

93 upvotes – 33 comments

Bitcoin in 2012: By the Numbers

http://www.thebitcointrader.com/2012/12/bitcoin-in-2012-by-numbers.html

14 years ago

93 upvotes – 33 comments

Automating the setup of my perfect developer environment on OSX 10.8

http://vanderveer.be/blog/2013/01/02/automating-the-setup-of-my-perfect-developer-environment-on-osx-10-dot-8-mountain-lion/

14 years ago

89 upvotes – 31 comments

Chuck Close on Creativity, Work Ethic, and Problem-Solving vs. Problem-Creating

http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/12/27/chuck-close-on-creativity/

14 years ago

89 upvotes – 41 comments

A love affair with PostgreSQL

http://blog.remarkablelabs.com/2012/12/a-love-affair-with-postgresql-rails-4-countdown-to-2013

14 years ago

88 upvotes – 21 comments

The tux3 filesystem returns

http://lwn.net/Articles/531126/rss

14 years ago

83 upvotes – 3 comments

"DCI" in Ruby is completely broken

http://tonyarcieri.com/dci-in-ruby-is-completely-broken

14 years ago

83 upvotes – 66 comments

Codular - Tutorials for New Web Developers

http://codular.com/

14 years ago

83 upvotes – 20 comments

Chromebook (Exynos 5, 2GB) Takes Top Place In Laptop Sales On Amazon

http://www.amazon.com/Best-Sellers-Electronics-Laptop-Computers/zgbs/electronics/565108/

14 years ago

82 upvotes – 78 comments

Why C# is the best language for mobile development

http://blog.xamarin.com/eight-reasons-c-sharp-is-the-best-language-for-mobile-development/

14 years ago

77 upvotes – 123 comments

Show HN: My weekend project - Codestagram

http://codestagram.com/

14 years ago

75 upvotes – 38 comments

A New Look for Vagrant

http://www.hashicorp.com/blog/a-new-look-for-vagrant.html

14 years ago

74 upvotes – 9 comments

The Mindful Programmer - mindfully get more stuff done.

http://mindfulprogrammer.com

14 years ago

72 upvotes – 39 comments

MySQL to Redis in One Step

http://dcw.ca/blog/2013/01/02/mysql-to-redis-in-one-step/

14 years ago

71 upvotes – 9 comments

Shorten excessive copyright terms

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/shorten-excessive-copyright-terms/XMc72zjc

14 years ago

70 upvotes – 19 comments

Top ten algorithms preprints of 2012

http://11011110.livejournal.com/260838.html

14 years ago

70 upvotes – 5 comments

Basecamp Breeze - Private Email Mailing Lists from 37signals

http://basecamp.com/breeze

14 years ago

70 upvotes – 54 comments

What a Dead Man Named FM-2030 can tell us about the future of user names

http://mcdowall.info//posts/what-a-dead-man-named-fm-2030-can-tell-us-about-the-future-of-user-names

14 years ago

63 upvotes – 52 comments
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