top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-01-09

How Lisp is Going to Save the World

http://landoflisp.com/#guilds

14 years ago

382 upvotes – 229 comments

Pain of the New: The Hobbit at 48 fps

http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2013/01/pain_of_the_new

14 years ago

335 upvotes – 205 comments

Your life's work

http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3389-your-lifes-work

14 years ago

316 upvotes – 80 comments

Never Lie About Who You Really Are

http://blogs.hbr.org/pallotta/2012/12/never-lie-about-who-you-really-are.html

14 years ago

292 upvotes – 218 comments

Doom3 Gangnam Style in WebGL

http://apps.playcanvas.com/will/doom3/gangnamstyle

14 years ago

230 upvotes – 42 comments

Young People Are Screwed: Here's How To Survive

http://pandodaily.com/2013/01/09/young-people-are-screwed-heres-how-to-survive/

14 years ago

220 upvotes – 176 comments

Codecademy introduces API lessons with YouTube, SoundCloud, Parse, and more

http://www.codecademy.com/blog/52-introducing-api-lessons

14 years ago

215 upvotes – 34 comments

I'm teaching an introductory 12-week class on Haskell

http://shuklan.com/haskell

14 years ago

204 upvotes – 52 comments

Whom the Gods Would Destroy, They First Give Real-time Analytics

http://mcfunley.com/whom-the-gods-would-destroy-they-first-give-real-time-analytics

14 years ago

186 upvotes – 55 comments

PHP needs a vision

http://news.php.net/php.internals/64770

14 years ago

179 upvotes – 167 comments

Buffy vs. Edward Remix Unfairly Removed by Lionsgate

http://www.rebelliouspixels.com/2013/buffy-vs-edward-remix-unfairly-removed-by-lionsgate

14 years ago

177 upvotes – 71 comments

Your Minimum Viable Product is Processing Credit Cards

http://garrickvanburen.com/archive/your-minimum-viable-product-is-processing-credit-cards/

14 years ago

171 upvotes – 123 comments

The Story of the Ping Program

http://ftp.arl.army.mil/~mike/ping.html

14 years ago

162 upvotes – 28 comments

VCs Think My Boobs Need An Algorithm

http://www.os-fashion.com/vcs-think-my-boobs-need-an-algorithm/

14 years ago

162 upvotes – 119 comments

When EC2 Hardware Changes Underneath You

http://blog.picloud.com/2013/01/08/when-ec2-hardware-changes-underneath-you/

14 years ago

153 upvotes – 47 comments

Probability Theory — A Primer

http://jeremykun.com/2013/01/04/probability-theory-a-primer/

14 years ago

143 upvotes – 7 comments

Advanced Vim Registers

http://blog.sanctum.geek.nz/advanced-vim-registers/

14 years ago

142 upvotes – 21 comments

More Than Half a Million Raspberry Pis Sold

http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/3011

14 years ago

128 upvotes – 81 comments

Create and delete branches

https://github.com/blog/1377-create-and-delete-branches

14 years ago

126 upvotes – 25 comments

Microsoft Research’s IllumiRoom projects images into your living room

http://thenextweb.com/microsoft/2013/01/09/microsoft-researchs-illumiroom-puts-3d-to-shame-literally-projects-images-into-your-living-room/

14 years ago

122 upvotes – 22 comments

Two Star Programming

http://wordaligned.org/articles/two-star-programming

14 years ago

121 upvotes – 63 comments

What Startups Need To Know About Health Insurance in 2013

http://blog.simplyinsured.com/what-startups-need-to-know-about-health-insurance-in-2013/

14 years ago

113 upvotes – 179 comments

The Crisis of the Middle Class and American Power

http://www.stratfor.com/weekly/crisis-middle-class-and-american-power

14 years ago

100 upvotes – 148 comments

Show HN: FileRock, a Secure Dropbox Clone, goes Open Source

http://blog.filerock.com/2012/12/were-going-open-source/

14 years ago

97 upvotes – 34 comments

All Dashboards Should be Feeds

http://dashes.com/anil/2013/01/all-dashboards-should-be-feeds.html

14 years ago

92 upvotes – 27 comments

Why Lisp?

http://lisperator.net/blog/why-lisp/

14 years ago

91 upvotes – 69 comments

Adobe almost does something amazing by accident

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/01/adobe-almost-does-something-amazing-by-accident/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+arstechnica%2Findex+%28Ars+Technica+-+All+content%29

14 years ago

87 upvotes – 56 comments

A man, a Plan. No canals (2011)

http://davidkendal.net/articles/2011/11/a-man-a-plan

14 years ago

81 upvotes – 92 comments

Kippt collects pretty useful links

https://medium.com/on-startups/e00babdcc5cb

14 years ago

73 upvotes – 29 comments

Forrst like Community for Side-Projects?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5030945

14 years ago

73 upvotes – 34 comments

I have finally run the entire London Underground

http://harrystuberunners.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/i-have-finally-run-entire-london.html

14 years ago

70 upvotes – 27 comments

Go, the language for emulators

http://dave.cheney.net/2013/01/09/go-the-language-for-emulators

14 years ago

69 upvotes – 38 comments

AIG considers suing government for bailing it out

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/01/08/aig-considers-suing-government-for-bailing-it-out-world-implodes-in-on-itself/

14 years ago

67 upvotes – 38 comments

Data-driven support

https://gocardless.com/blog/data-driven-support/

14 years ago

67 upvotes – 14 comments

Cognitive biases

http://io9.com/5974468/the-most-common-cognitive-biases-that-prevent-you-from-being-rational

14 years ago

66 upvotes – 21 comments

Security Vulnerabilities in Heroku

http://stephensclafani.com/2013/01/09/vulnerabilities-in-heroku/

14 years ago

64 upvotes – 19 comments

PayPal Assault On File-Sharing Sites Makes Business Case For Bitcoin

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jonmatonis/2013/01/09/paypal-assault-on-file-sharing-sites-makes-business-case-for-bitcoin/

14 years ago

62 upvotes – 31 comments

BORPH: An Operating System for FPGA-Based Reconfigurable Computers

https://casper.berkeley.edu/wiki/BORPH

14 years ago

60 upvotes – 13 comments

Math Envy and CoffeeScript's Foibles, Part 2

http://johnbender.us/2013/01/09/math-envy-and-coffeescripts-foibles-2/

14 years ago

57 upvotes – 0 comments

Microsoft Messenger will be retired and users migrated to Skype on March 15

http://thenextweb.com/microsoft/2013/01/09/microsoft-emails-messenger-users-to-let-them-know-the-service-is-retiring-on-march-15-and-to-upgrade-to-skype/

14 years ago

57 upvotes – 64 comments

How $100 Million Really Gets Donated, Mark Zuckerberg Style

http://www.fastcompany.com/3004509/how-100-million-dollars-really-gets-donated-mark-zuckerberg-style

14 years ago

56 upvotes – 42 comments

Is San Francisco The Brooklyn To Silicon Valley's Unbuilt Manhattan?

http://www.theawl.com/2013/01/is-san-francisco-the-brooklyn-to-silicon-valleys-unbuilt-manhattan

14 years ago

56 upvotes – 98 comments

Codecademy Launches New API Course Track with Parse

http://blog.parse.com/2013/01/09/codecademy-launches-new-api-course-track-with-parse/

14 years ago

55 upvotes – 3 comments

The Rise and Fall of Languages in 2012

http://www.drdobbs.com/jvm/the-rise-and-fall-of-languages-in-2012/240145800

14 years ago

53 upvotes – 22 comments

Google invests $200M in Texas wind farm

http://techcrunch.com/2013/01/09/google-makes-200m-equity-investment-in-texas-wind-farm/

14 years ago

50 upvotes – 12 comments

Password Hijacking Security Incident and Response

http://blog.heroku.com/archives/2013/1/9/password_hijacking_security_incident_and_response/

14 years ago

48 upvotes – 58 comments

Task Lists in GitHub Flavored Markdown

https://github.com/blog/1375-task-lists-in-gfm-issues-pulls-comments

14 years ago

47 upvotes – 1 comments
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