top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-01-07

Web Developer Checklist

http://webdevchecklist.com/

14 years ago

426 upvotes – 75 comments

Power surges in Britain caused by millions of people making tea [video]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/britainfromabove/stories/people/teatimebritain.shtml

14 years ago

386 upvotes – 275 comments

Host me in California

http://www.hostmeinca.com

14 years ago

323 upvotes – 101 comments

Here’s what I learned hanging out with Jason Fried

http://danshipper.com/heres-what-i-learned-hanging-out-with-jason-fried

14 years ago

306 upvotes – 43 comments

Introducing Contributions

https://github.com/blog/1360-introducing-contributions

14 years ago

302 upvotes – 89 comments

2012 Personal Annual Report

http://jehiah.cz/one-two/

14 years ago

266 upvotes – 84 comments

Things I learned by pretending to be blind for a week

http://blog.silktide.com/2013/01/things-learned-pretending-to-be-blind-for-a-week/

14 years ago

250 upvotes – 90 comments

Show HN: Our alternative to recruiter spam

https://trypitchbox.com/

14 years ago

233 upvotes – 168 comments

Another awesome US immigration experience

http://seldo.tumblr.com/post/39891584034/another-awesome-us-immigration-experience

14 years ago

211 upvotes – 234 comments

Amazon's top selling laptop doesn't run Windows or Mac OS, it runs Linux

http://www.zdnet.com/amazons-top-selling-laptop-doesnt-run-windows-or-mac-os-it-runs-linux-7000009433/

14 years ago

205 upvotes – 161 comments

Favorite Unix Commands

http://clippy.in/b/YJLM9W

14 years ago

204 upvotes – 130 comments

How Tide Detergent Became a Drug Currency

http://nymag.com/news/features/tide-detergent-drugs-2013-1/

14 years ago

201 upvotes – 124 comments

Battlecode: MIT's longest-running hardcore programming competition

http://cory.li/battlecode-intro/

14 years ago

185 upvotes – 46 comments

No office, no boss, no boundaries – rise of the nomadic rich

http://travel.cnn.com/new-nomads-814536

14 years ago

183 upvotes – 128 comments

Adobe says it is not providing free copies of Creative Studio 2

http://forums.adobe.com/message/4974662

14 years ago

168 upvotes – 94 comments

Quitting LinkedIn

http://blog.capwatkins.com/quitting-linkedin

14 years ago

165 upvotes – 97 comments

BitPay, PayPal for Bitcoin, raises $510K – already has 2,100 businesses on board

http://techcrunch.com/2013/01/07/bitpay-banks-500k-in-angel-investment-to-become-paypal-for-bitcoin-already-has-2100-businesses-on-board/

14 years ago

154 upvotes – 75 comments

Should you use Yes/No or Ok/Cancel on your message boxes?

http://ux.stackexchange.com/q/9946/7235

14 years ago

147 upvotes – 75 comments

JQuery's API documentation gets a redesign

http://api.jquery.com/#redesign

14 years ago

128 upvotes – 53 comments

Lego Mindstorms EV3: The Better, Faster, Stronger Generation Of Robotics

http://techcrunch.com/2013/01/06/lego-mindstorms-ev3-the-better-faster-stronger-generation-of-robotic-programming/

14 years ago

124 upvotes – 28 comments

Lego's Mindstorms EV3 robots are here

http://ces.cnet.com/8301-34441_1-57562323/get-ready-to-program-legos-mindstorms-ev3-robots-are-here/

14 years ago

124 upvotes – 33 comments

Dependency Injection is a Virtue

http://blog.metaobject.com/2013/01/dependency-injection-is-virtue.html

14 years ago

119 upvotes – 84 comments

Wisdom from Psychopaths?

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=wisdom-from-psychopaths

14 years ago

110 upvotes – 58 comments

Japan's ninjas heading for extinction

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-20135674

14 years ago

107 upvotes – 63 comments

Create multi-platform desktop apps with HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript

http://www.tidesdk.org

14 years ago

106 upvotes – 45 comments

An IRC bot written in Brainfuck

https://github.com/SirCmpwn/bf-irc-bot/

14 years ago

103 upvotes – 29 comments

How My Startup Got Robbed

http://torgronsund.com/2013/01/07/cofounders-and-thieves/

14 years ago

100 upvotes – 80 comments

An opinionated guide to Scheme implementations

http://wingolog.org/archives/2013/01/07/an-opinionated-guide-to-scheme-implementations

14 years ago

98 upvotes – 24 comments

A Guide to Python Frameworks for Hadoop

http://blog.cloudera.com/blog/2013/01/a-guide-to-python-frameworks-for-hadoop/

14 years ago

93 upvotes – 15 comments

Nvidia officially unveils next-generation Tegra 4 SoC

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/01/nvidia-officially-unveils-next-generation-tegra-4-soc/

14 years ago

91 upvotes – 63 comments

Meteor 0.5.3 Released: Deployment Settings, Minimongo, Spark, Accounts

http://meteor.com/blog/2012/01/07/meteor-053-deployment-settings-minimongo-spark-accounts

14 years ago

90 upvotes – 16 comments

Republican staffer who was fired for copyright memo talks to Ars Technica

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/01/republican-staffer-fired-for-copyright-memo-talks-to-ars/

14 years ago

84 upvotes – 81 comments

Optimizing Real World Go

http://bpowers.github.com/weblog/2013/01/05/optimizing-real-world-go/

14 years ago

81 upvotes – 18 comments

Ignore details early on

http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3387-ignore-details-early-on

14 years ago

80 upvotes – 28 comments

Yahoo Mail users hit by widespread XSS exploit

http://thenextweb.com/insider/2013/01/07/yahoo-mail-users-hit-by-widespread-hacking-xss-exploit-seemingly-to-blame

14 years ago

70 upvotes – 38 comments

What is the maximum length of a URL?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/417142/what-is-the-maximum-length-of-a-url

14 years ago

68 upvotes – 56 comments

Super Mario in HTML5

http://www.florian-rappl.de/html5/projects/SuperMario/

14 years ago

68 upvotes – 22 comments

GitHub Survivor: a bug leaderboard for GitHub issues

http://99designs.com/tech-blog/blog/2013/01/05/github-survivor/

14 years ago

67 upvotes – 17 comments

Sucking at Retina

http://zachholman.com/posts/retina/

14 years ago

63 upvotes – 73 comments

Adobe is offering many of their CS2 software for free for PC and Mac.

http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/entitlement/index.cfm?pid=4485850&e=cs2_downloads

14 years ago

63 upvotes – 40 comments

Show HN: Never wait for Paypal again

http://slowpal.com

14 years ago

63 upvotes – 32 comments

How Harvard's CS50 Renewed My Hope For Online Education

http://www.modernwanderlust.com/show_post.php?id=93

14 years ago

59 upvotes – 23 comments

The Path to Mastery (2000)

http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=26380

14 years ago

58 upvotes – 5 comments

nil, Nil, NULL, NSNull

http://nshipster.com/nil/

14 years ago

57 upvotes – 63 comments

Why you should not use Twitter for corporate customer service

http://www.theawl.com/2012/12/why-you-should-not-use-twitter-for-corporate-customer-service-a-cautionary-tale

14 years ago

56 upvotes – 41 comments
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