top 20 hacker news stories for 2013-01-05

How My Start-Up Failed

http://alumni.stanford.edu/get/page/magazine/article/?article_id=41260

14 years ago

330 upvotes – 101 comments

Negative temperatures are not colder than absolute zero

http://www.empiricalzeal.com/2013/01/05/what-the-dalai-lama-can-teach-us-about-temperatures-below-absolute-zero/

14 years ago

266 upvotes – 41 comments

Math notes to take you from one year of college calculus to grad student level

http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/Alex_Alaniz_Lie.pdf

14 years ago

217 upvotes – 63 comments

Why I Program in Go

http://tech.t9i.in/2013/01/why-program-in-go/

14 years ago

204 upvotes – 168 comments

Who wrote the 'Death Note' script?

http://www.gwern.net/Death%20Note%20script

14 years ago

183 upvotes – 79 comments

English Letter Frequency Counts: Mayzner Revisited

http://norvig.com/mayzner.html

14 years ago

180 upvotes – 26 comments

My Father's "Eviscerated" work - Son of J.R.R. Tolkien finally speaks out

http://www.worldcrunch.com/culture-society/my-father-039-s-quot-eviscerated-quot-work-son-of-hobbit-scribe-j.r.r.-tolkien-finally-speaks-out/hobbit-silmarillion-lord-of-rings/c3s10299/

14 years ago

153 upvotes – 191 comments

The "well-calibrated interviewer" curse

http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2013/01/04/cal/

14 years ago

151 upvotes – 111 comments

Deconstructing K&R C (2010)

http://c.learncodethehardway.org/book/krcritique.html

14 years ago

149 upvotes – 128 comments

Junior - A Native-Looking and Feeling Mobile HTML5 Front-End Framework

http://justspamjustin.github.com/junior/

14 years ago

147 upvotes – 31 comments

Be Wrong as Fast as You Can

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/06/magazine/be-wrong-as-fast-as-you-can.html?_r=0

14 years ago

146 upvotes – 18 comments

All My Life I’ve Been Told I Was Special. It Was A Lie.

http://kotaku.com/5972316/all-my-life-ive-been-told-i-was-special-it-was-a-lie

14 years ago

139 upvotes – 157 comments

AngularStrap - Bootstrap directives for AngularJS

http://mgcrea.github.com/angular-strap

14 years ago

133 upvotes – 29 comments

Reeddit - Minimalist, elastic and read-only web app client for Reddit

http://berbaquero.github.com/reeddit/about/

14 years ago

132 upvotes – 95 comments

Show HN: Send SMS to your number for free from shell

https://github.com/oxplot/gcsms

14 years ago

121 upvotes – 35 comments

The Factory Floor, Part 1 of 4: The Quotation (or, How to Make a BOM)

http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=2776

14 years ago

114 upvotes – 26 comments

A Million First Dates

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2013/01/a-million-first-dates/309195/2/?single_page=true

14 years ago

107 upvotes – 144 comments

The Software Millionaire Next Door

http://journal.dedasys.com/2013/01/04/the-software-millionaire-next-door

14 years ago

103 upvotes – 49 comments

Math even mathematicians don't understand (the sequel)

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/brainiac/2012/12/math_even_mathe.html

14 years ago

95 upvotes – 86 comments

Why Probabilistic Programming Matters

http://zinkov.com/posts/2012-06-27-why-prob-programming-matters/

14 years ago

91 upvotes – 14 comments
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