top 50% 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

An Experiment: My Life With A Nexus 7 As My Phone

http://www.androidpolice.com/2013/01/05/an-experiment-my-life-with-a-nexus-7-as-my-phone/

14 years ago

77 upvotes – 48 comments

Google Maps redirect issue on Windows Phones is a matter of competition

http://thenextweb.com/insider/2013/01/05/calling-shenanigans-on-googles-windows-phone-8-maps-narrative/?awesm=tnw.to_i0aEv

14 years ago

76 upvotes – 83 comments

Awakening (during anesthesia)

http://theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2013/01/awakening/309188/?single_page=true

14 years ago

75 upvotes – 44 comments

Reasons to be excited about Java in 2013

http://jaxenter.com/5-reasons-to-be-excited-about-java-in-2013-45938.html

14 years ago

70 upvotes – 64 comments

Health regulatory and advocacy groups are deliberately corrupted

http://arstechnica.com/science/2013/01/profits-over-your-dead-body/

14 years ago

69 upvotes – 14 comments

Disney Freaks Out Over Patents That May Mean It Can't Keep 3Ding Old Movies

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130104/14162121584/disney-freaks-out-over-patents-that-may-mean-it-cant-keep-3ding-old-movies.shtml

14 years ago

69 upvotes – 10 comments

Cheddar is For Sale

https://cheddarapp.com/buy

14 years ago

66 upvotes – 54 comments

Ask HN: Where are all the programming jobs?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5013138

14 years ago

65 upvotes – 70 comments

Should error messages apologize?

http://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/31359/should-error-messages-apologize

14 years ago

65 upvotes – 46 comments

Google Maps never supported IE on Windows Phone 8, and likely never will

http://thenextweb.com/insider/2013/01/05/the-windows-phone-8-google-maps-kerfuffle-is-contrived-google-maps-never-supported-ie-on-wp8/

14 years ago

64 upvotes – 71 comments

Does CloudFlare really speed up your site? Tests say not really.

http://blog.dh42.com/cloudflare-showdown/

14 years ago

64 upvotes – 56 comments

Hacker news in your terminal

https://github.com/socketubs/pyhn

14 years ago

★ 383 Python MIT
64 upvotes – 33 comments

Explaining Windows 8 PC Sales Over the Holidays

http://winsupersite.com/windows-8/explaining-windows-8-pc-sales-over-holidays

14 years ago

63 upvotes – 53 comments

Science Fraud Site Owner Suspends Site in Response to Legal Threats

http://retractionwatch.wordpress.com/2013/01/03/owner-of-science-fraud-site-suspended-for-legal-threats-identifies-himself-talks-about-next-steps/

14 years ago

61 upvotes – 20 comments

Mark Lynas, environmentalist who opposed GMOs, admits he was wrong.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2013/01/03/mark_lynas_environmentalist_who_opposed_gmos_admits_he_was_wrong.html

14 years ago

59 upvotes – 82 comments

Storm: Distributed and Fault-Tolerant Real-time Computation

http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Storm-Introduction

14 years ago

58 upvotes – 3 comments

iPad, Surface, Ultrabook: Are we there yet?

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/iPadSurfaceUltrabookAreWeThereYet.aspx

14 years ago

55 upvotes – 70 comments

Ask HN: What is your startup?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5014377

14 years ago

54 upvotes – 103 comments
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