top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-01-22

How do keys work? Explained in one Gif

http://theultralinx.com/2013/01/keys-work-explained-gif.html

13 years ago

436 upvotes – 78 comments

Getting Started with Django

http://gettingstartedwithdjango.com/en/lessons/introduction-and-launch

13 years ago

383 upvotes – 72 comments

A close look at how Oracle installs deceptive software with Java updates

http://www.zdnet.com/a-close-look-at-how-oracle-installs-deceptive-software-with-java-updates-7000010038/

13 years ago

363 upvotes – 194 comments

What it's Really Like Working with Steve Jobs

http://inventor-labs.com/blog/2011/10/12/what-its-really-like-working-with-steve-jobs.html

13 years ago

351 upvotes – 132 comments

Show HN: Built a Hacker News radio web app I can listen to

http://soundgecko.com/station/hacker-news

13 years ago

315 upvotes – 85 comments

It’s time all clinical trial results are reported

http://www.alltrials.net/

13 years ago

299 upvotes – 93 comments

The joys of having a Forever Project

http://www.dev.gd/20130122-the-joys-of-having-a-forever-project.html

13 years ago

241 upvotes – 125 comments

Valve starts promoting Steam for Linux to Windows users

http://www.geek.com/articles/games/valve-starts-promoting-steam-for-linux-to-windows-users-20130121/

13 years ago

226 upvotes – 153 comments

Dear brilliant students: Please consider not doing a PhD.

http://liv.dreamwidth.org/389934.html

13 years ago

224 upvotes – 129 comments

Finishing what Aaron Swartz started with PACER

https://mailman.stanford.edu/pipermail/liberationtech/2013-January/006578.html

13 years ago

202 upvotes – 128 comments

iPad Hack Statement Of Responsibility

http://techcrunch.com/2013/01/21/ipad-hack-statement-of-responsibility/

13 years ago

202 upvotes – 115 comments

Apple Pulls 500px’s Mobile Apps From The App Store

http://techcrunch.com/2013/01/22/apple-pulls-500pxs-mobile-apps-from-the-app-store-claiming-its-too-easy-to-search-for-nude-photos/

13 years ago

189 upvotes – 211 comments

Show HN: A faster, minimal YouTube interface built on Angular.js and Foundation

http://toogl.es/#/browse

13 years ago

189 upvotes – 105 comments

Show HN: Gallery of Open Source Ruby on Rails Apps

http://www.opensourcerails.com/

13 years ago

158 upvotes – 32 comments

Meet a Shenzhen Maker: Mr. Chen

http://www.hoektronics.com/2013/01/05/meet-a-shenzhen-maker-mr-chen/

13 years ago

156 upvotes – 55 comments

Firefox OS Developer Preview Devices Announced

http://www.geeksphone.com

13 years ago

154 upvotes – 57 comments

Hamed Helped. Help Hamed.

http://www.hamedhelped.com/

13 years ago

153 upvotes – 50 comments

Towards a better Erlang - The Excitement of Elixir

http://devintorr.es/blog/2013/01/22/the-excitement-of-elixir/

13 years ago

147 upvotes – 35 comments

Former Microsoft executive says Ballmer culls internal rivals to retain power

http://uk.reuters.com/article/2013/01/22/us-microsoft-book-idUKBRE90L04320130122

13 years ago

146 upvotes – 116 comments

Inbox Zero for Life

http://xph.us/2013/01/22/inbox-zero-for-life.html

13 years ago

132 upvotes – 46 comments

The sorry state of neighbourhood design in America: a mother writes

http://rethinkingchildhood.com/2013/01/22/neighbourhood-america-mother/

13 years ago

132 upvotes – 154 comments

How Google became such a great place to work

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2013/01/google_people_operations_the_secrets_of_the_world_s_most_scientific_human.single.html

13 years ago

130 upvotes – 105 comments

A word on cryptography

https://mega.co.nz/#blog_3

13 years ago

130 upvotes – 92 comments

Basecamp Personal

http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3406-launch-basecamp-personal-the-basecamp-for-all-your-projects-outside-of-work

13 years ago

128 upvotes – 126 comments

To My Old Master (1865)

http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012/01/to-my-old-master.html

13 years ago

128 upvotes – 32 comments

The Psychedelic Experience FAQ

https://www.erowid.org/psychoactives/faqs/psychedelic_experience_faq.shtml

13 years ago

127 upvotes – 67 comments

Quantum physics made relatively simple: Three lectures by Hans Bethe

http://bethe.cornell.edu/

13 years ago

127 upvotes – 20 comments

Mincss "clears the junk out of your CSS"

http://www.peterbe.com/plog/mincss

13 years ago

122 upvotes – 47 comments

Heroku shouldn’t be sandbagging paying customers who have low-traffic apps

http://blog.3solarmasses.com/post/41164909691/heroku-shouldnt-be-sandbagging-paying-customers-who

13 years ago

120 upvotes – 86 comments

Functional Reactive Programming with Bacon.js

http://blog.flowdock.com/2013/01/22/functional-reactive-programming-with-bacon-js/

13 years ago

114 upvotes – 36 comments

The 30th Anniversary Of MIDI: A Protocol Three Decades On

http://thequietus.com/articles/11189-midi-30th-anniversary

13 years ago

114 upvotes – 52 comments

The Way Server-Side Analytics Should Be

https://segment.io/blog/the-way-server-side-analytics-should-be/

13 years ago

113 upvotes – 34 comments

MIT website hacked by Lulzsec

http://mit.edu/

13 years ago

112 upvotes – 81 comments

Hello Haskell, Goodbye Scala

http://joshbassett.info/2013/hello-haskell-goodbye-scala/

13 years ago

100 upvotes – 116 comments

One fundamental difference between ElasticSearch and Solr

http://alexdong.com/one-fundamental-difference-between-elasticsearch-and-solr/

13 years ago

99 upvotes – 10 comments

Why was Earth bombarded with high-energy particles in the year 774?

http://arstechnica.com/science/2013/01/why-was-earth-bombarded-with-high-energy-particles-in-the-year-774/

13 years ago

88 upvotes – 17 comments

You Are Going to Die

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/01/20/you-are-going-to-die/

13 years ago

88 upvotes – 104 comments

GitLab v4.1 released

http://blog.gitlab.org/gitlab-4-1-released/

13 years ago

85 upvotes – 33 comments

What do technical managers do, anyway?

http://dandreamsofcoding.com/2013/01/22/what-do-technical-managers-do-anyway/

13 years ago

83 upvotes – 38 comments

VCs to avoid taking money from

http://www.startupcfo.ca/2013/01/who-not-to-take-money-from/

13 years ago

81 upvotes – 42 comments

OldSF – Pictures of San Francisco from 1850-2000

http://www.oldsf.org/#

13 years ago

80 upvotes – 22 comments

Specifications of the Firefox OS Developer Preview Devices

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2013/01/announcing-the-firefox-os-developer-preview-phone/

13 years ago

74 upvotes – 12 comments

The Goa Project (India's SXSW) Opens Call for Proposals

http://funnel.thegoaproject.com/

13 years ago

74 upvotes – 3 comments

Imagine BitTorrent Group Sysop Speaks Out as He Heads to Prison

http://torrentfreak.com/imagine-bittorrent-group-sysop-speaks-out-as-he-heads-to-prison-130121/

13 years ago

71 upvotes – 34 comments

Dungeons & Dragons Classics - Every edition available again

http://www.dndclassics.com/

13 years ago

71 upvotes – 36 comments

The biggest professional challenge of my career: communication

http://tomtunguz.com/the-biggest-professional-challenge-of-my-career-communication

13 years ago

71 upvotes – 19 comments

Megaupload Assisted U.S. Prosecution of Smaller File-Sharing Service (2012)

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/11/megaupload-investigation-roots/

13 years ago

66 upvotes – 7 comments

EC2 High Memory Cluster Eight Extra Large Instance (244 GiB RAM)

http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2013/01/ec2-for-in-memory-computing-the-high-memory-cluster-eight-extra-large.html

13 years ago

65 upvotes – 22 comments

If, Why, and How Founders Should Hire a “Professional” CEO

http://reidhoffman.org/if-why-and-how-founders-should-hire-a-professional-ceo/

13 years ago

64 upvotes – 11 comments

Dell Said to Near Buyout as Microsoft Talks Deal Financing

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-01-22/dell-said-to-near-buyout-as-microsoft-discusses-deal-financing.html

13 years ago

64 upvotes – 59 comments

When is "ACID" ACID? Rarely

http://www.bailis.org/blog/when-is-acid-acid-rarely/

13 years ago

63 upvotes – 31 comments

Google Voice Alternative SendHub Offers An Easier Way To Provision Phone Lines

http://techcrunch.com/2013/01/22/with-debut-of-sendhub-manger-google-voice-alternative-sendhub-now-offers-businesses-an-easier-way-to-provision-hundreds-of-phone-lines/

13 years ago

62 upvotes – 42 comments
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