top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-01-21

Youth expelled from Montreal college after finding security flaw

http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/01/20/youth-expelled-from-montreal-college-after-finding-sloppy-coding-that-compromised-security-of-250000-students-personal-data/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+NP_Top_Stories+%28National+Post+-+Top+Stories%29

13 years ago

696 upvotes – 300 comments

Tron Legacy (2010)

http://jtnimoy.net/?q=178&utm_source=buffer&buffer_share=254f1

13 years ago

657 upvotes – 143 comments

Why was '~' chosen to represent the home directory?

http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/34196/design-question-why-was-chosen-to-represent-the-home-directory

13 years ago

413 upvotes – 153 comments

How one man escaped from a North Korean prison camp

http://www.utsalumni.org/news/how-one-man-escaped-from-a-north-korean-prison-camp-3549/

13 years ago

382 upvotes – 150 comments

Programmer Interrupted

http://blog.ninlabs.com/2013/01/programmer-interrupted/

13 years ago

366 upvotes – 87 comments

What we discovered about InstallMonetizer

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5092711

13 years ago

333 upvotes – 178 comments

Responsive Web Design – Advanced Lesson

http://learn.shayhowe.com/advanced-html-css/responsive-web-design

13 years ago

315 upvotes – 48 comments

Implore HN: Celebrate and encourage young developers who post here

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5093721

13 years ago

294 upvotes – 115 comments

Taking payments online in Europe in 2013

http://jamesmaskell.co.uk/2013/online-payments-in-2013/

13 years ago

264 upvotes – 181 comments

When Haskell Is Not faster than C

http://jacquesmattheij.com/when-haskell-is-not-faster-than-c

13 years ago

250 upvotes – 219 comments

The End of Ragequitting

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2013/01/the-end-of-ragequitting.html

13 years ago

250 upvotes – 96 comments

Ortiz says suicide will not change handling of cases

http://bostonherald.com/news_opinion/local_coverage/2013/01/ortiz_says_suicide_will_not_change_handling_cases

13 years ago

213 upvotes – 157 comments

New Coursera class, "Startup Engineering"

https://www.coursera.org/course/startup

13 years ago

195 upvotes – 27 comments

Carmen Ortiz’s Sordid Rap Sheet

http://whowhatwhy.com/2013/01/17/carmen-ortizs-sordid-rap-sheet/

13 years ago

156 upvotes – 75 comments

Show HN: The top free PSDs on dribbble in one place

http://freethroww.com

13 years ago

152 upvotes – 39 comments

Being Suicidal: What it feels like to want to kill yourself

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/bering-in-mind/2010/10/20/being-suicidal-what-it-feels-like-to-want-to-kill-yourself/

13 years ago

151 upvotes – 92 comments

Ludde's FPGA NES

http://fpganes.blogspot.se/2013/01/luddes-fpga-nes.html

13 years ago

149 upvotes – 22 comments

My iOS 7 Wishlist

http://tomdale.net/2013/01/my-ios-7-wishlist/

13 years ago

147 upvotes – 148 comments

Optimizing Nginx, Node.js and networking for heavy workloads

https://engineering.gosquared.com/optimising-nginx-node-js-and-networking-for-heavy-workloads

13 years ago

146 upvotes – 25 comments

Why doesn't `kill -9` always work?

http://www.noah.org/wiki/Kill_-9_does_not_work

14 years ago

126 upvotes – 52 comments

How M.I.T. Ensnared a Hacker, Bucking a Freewheeling Culture

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/21/technology/how-mit-ensnared-a-hacker-bucking-a-freewheeling-culture.html?hpw&_r=0

13 years ago

114 upvotes – 27 comments

Rich Hickey on Datomic, CAP and ACID

http://www.infoq.com/interviews/hickey-datomic-cap

13 years ago

113 upvotes – 26 comments

Worst Bug Ever

http://swanson.github.com/blog/2013/01/20/worst-bug-ever.html

13 years ago

112 upvotes – 115 comments

Designer News

https://news.layervault.com/

13 years ago

105 upvotes – 69 comments

Geography's The Fuck

http://jasonpunyon.com/blog/2013/01/20/geographys-the-fuck/

13 years ago

104 upvotes – 29 comments

Github blocked from China

http://viewdns.info/chinesefirewall/?domain=github.com

13 years ago

103 upvotes – 66 comments

One div – The single element HTML/CSS icon database

http://one-div.com/

13 years ago

87 upvotes – 22 comments

Wikileaks Says Aaron Swartz Was a Possible Source

http://mashable.com/2013/01/20/wikileaks-aaron-swartz/

13 years ago

85 upvotes – 53 comments

Successful Solo Startup Founders

http://www.softwaresmitten.com/2013/01/09/10-successful-solo-startup-founders/

13 years ago

80 upvotes – 17 comments

Google Earth puts North Korea Labour camps on the map

http://www.rte.ie/news/2013/0110/google-earth-puts-north-korea-labour-camps-on-the-map.html

13 years ago

79 upvotes – 28 comments

Empathy among students in engineering programmes

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03043797.2012.708720?journalCode=ceee20&

13 years ago

79 upvotes – 71 comments

SoundCloud without the stupid CSS files

http://grobie.github.com/soundcloud2000/

13 years ago

75 upvotes – 25 comments

RubyJS: A JavaScript standard library based on the Ruby core-lib

http://rubyjs.org/

13 years ago

75 upvotes – 35 comments

My experiences with Hacker News.

http://blog.arsalanbashir.com/2013/01/20/HNB.html

13 years ago

75 upvotes – 65 comments

Deploying Node.js with systemd

http://savanne.be/articles/deploying-node-js-with-systemd/

13 years ago

72 upvotes – 11 comments

Machine Learning, Big Data, Data Mining, Statistics, Probability FAQ

http://wmbriggs.com/blog/?p=6465

13 years ago

71 upvotes – 13 comments

Richard Feynman’s Little-Known Sketches & Drawings

http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/01/17/richard-feynman-ofey-sketches-drawings/

14 years ago

71 upvotes – 18 comments

Dylan Programming Guide (1996) now in PDF, ePub, updated HTML

http://opendylan.org/news/2013/01/21/dylan-programming-guide.html

13 years ago

70 upvotes – 14 comments

Planetary Resources shows off Arkyd-100

http://www.engadget.com/2013/01/21/planetary-resources/

13 years ago

69 upvotes – 15 comments

Victims of Revenge Porn Mount Class Action Suit Against GoDaddy and Texxxan.com

http://betabeat.com/2013/01/victims-of-revenge-porn-mount-class-action-suit-against-godaddy-and-texxxan-com/

13 years ago

68 upvotes – 79 comments

Postgression - A PostgreSQL database for every test case

http://www.postgression.com/

13 years ago

65 upvotes – 22 comments

The impending crisis that is Windows XP and IE 8

http://www.troyhunt.com/2013/01/the-impending-crisis-that-is-windows-xp.html

13 years ago

63 upvotes – 78 comments
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