top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-01-20

Why the Fuck?

http://raganwald.posterous.com/why-the-fuck

14 years ago

911 upvotes – 499 comments

So you think you can tell Arial from Helvetica?

http://www.ironicsans.com/helvarialquiz/

14 years ago

289 upvotes – 177 comments

Leiningen version 2.0.0 released

https://www.github.com/technomancy/leiningen/blob/2.0.0/NEWS.md

14 years ago

★ 7.3k Clojure
242 upvotes – 44 comments

Parsley.js: never write a single JavaScript line to validate your forms

http://parsleyjs.org

14 years ago

235 upvotes – 78 comments

Microsoft hires designer behind "The Next Microsoft", Andrew Kim

http://www.minimallyminimal.com/blog/msft

14 years ago

233 upvotes – 83 comments

Edward Tufte’s defense of Aaron Swartz and the “marvelously different”

http://danwin.com/2013/01/edward-tufte-aaron-swartz-marvelously-different/

14 years ago

202 upvotes – 63 comments

Securing Ubuntu

http://joshrendek.com/2013/01/securing-ubuntu/

14 years ago

177 upvotes – 93 comments

The forbidden railway: Vienna - Pyongyang (2008)

http://vienna-pyongyang.blogspot.de/2008/04/how-everything-began.html?m=0

14 years ago

170 upvotes – 34 comments

Vint Cerf appointed to National Science Board by President Obama

http://www.cccblog.org/2013/01/20/vint-cerf-appointed-to-national-science-board-by-president-obama/

14 years ago

169 upvotes – 19 comments

How to cut megabanks down to size

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/20/business/a-fed-voice-asking-to-cut-megabanks-down-to-size.html

14 years ago

150 upvotes – 97 comments

Meetup, you've been bad, bad hosts

https://gist.github.com/4568377

14 years ago

146 upvotes – 78 comments

Show HN: I'm 14, please check out my iOS game

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id551440345?mt=8

14 years ago

142 upvotes – 100 comments

Facebook is impersonating users without their consent

http://bureauofminds.com/post/41028512430/facebook-is-impersonating-people-without-their

14 years ago

138 upvotes – 73 comments

A clean point-of-interest icon set for web cartography

http://mapbox.com/maki/

14 years ago

130 upvotes – 18 comments

Write code, fix the space station, win $10,000

http://hackaday.com/2013/01/19/write-code-fix-the-space-station-win-10000/

14 years ago

130 upvotes – 63 comments

Self-examination is the Secret Ingredient for Success

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/20/opinion/sunday/secret-ingredient-for-success.html

14 years ago

128 upvotes – 36 comments

C and C++ Aren't Future Proof

http://blog.regehr.org/archives/880

14 years ago

117 upvotes – 105 comments

How do I cite a tweet?

http://www.mla.org/style/handbook_faq/cite_a_tweet

14 years ago

115 upvotes – 60 comments

Ask HN: Which developer laptop should I buy?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5088260

14 years ago

114 upvotes – 112 comments

Does having a high IQ make you less creative?

http://reglia.com/blog/does-having-a-high-iq-makes-you-less-creative.html

14 years ago

104 upvotes – 53 comments

Flat UI is not the only way forward

http://blog.maxrudberg.com/post/41005209081/flat-ui-is-not-the-only-way-forward

14 years ago

103 upvotes – 67 comments

Stay focused - New research on how to close the achievement gap

http://www.economist.com/news/books-and-arts/21569680-new-research-how-close-achievement-gap-stay-focused

14 years ago

96 upvotes – 20 comments

Mystery Cable Activated in Cuba

http://www.renesys.com/blog/2013/01/cuban-mystery-cable-activated.shtml

14 years ago

93 upvotes – 25 comments

Who Can Name the Biggest Number?

http://www.scottaaronson.com/writings/bignumbers.html?repost3yearslater

14 years ago

92 upvotes – 40 comments

Improve your REPLs with rlwrap

http://ithaca.arpinum.org/2013/01/20/rlwrap.html

14 years ago

91 upvotes – 27 comments

The Blink Protocol

http://blinkprotocol.org/

14 years ago

91 upvotes – 58 comments

InstallMonetizer quietly starts editing website, privacy policy

http://www.withinwindows.com/2013/01/16/installmonetizer-quietly-starts-editing-privacy-policy/

14 years ago

79 upvotes – 37 comments

Corporate Hackathons: The Fine Line Between Engaging and Exploiting

http://jamiemsmyth.blogspot.com/2013/01/corporate-hackathons-fine-line-between.html

14 years ago

77 upvotes – 24 comments

Raw Thought: The Weblog of Aaron Swartz in Markdown, PDF, and ePub

https://github.com/joshleitzel/rawthought

14 years ago

★ 245 Ruby
76 upvotes – 15 comments

School district builds own software to handle student data, defies doubters

http://www.timescolonist.com/news/local/saanich-school-district-builds-own-software-to-handle-student-data-defies-doubters-1.51944

14 years ago

76 upvotes – 58 comments

PennApps Hackathon Final Demos Livestream

http://new.livestream.com/accounts/2539024/events/1806193

14 years ago

74 upvotes – 25 comments

Math in Fiction – over 1000 short stories involving math or mathematicians

http://kasmana.people.cofc.edu/MATHFICT/

14 years ago

70 upvotes – 12 comments

A Brainfuck CPU in FPGA

http://gergo.erdi.hu/blog/2013-01-19-a_brainfuck_cpu_in_fpga/

14 years ago

61 upvotes – 16 comments

The Google Tax

http://nathancampos.me/post/41014392537/the-google-tax

14 years ago

61 upvotes – 38 comments

Ruby: Singletons, Threads, and Flexibility

http://www.bleonard.com/blog/2013/01/18/singletons/

14 years ago

58 upvotes – 20 comments

Kim Dotcom's back with a new 50GB free storage service: Mega

http://www.zdnet.com/kim-dotcoms-back-with-a-new-50gb-free-storage-service-mega-7000010043/

14 years ago

57 upvotes – 35 comments
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