top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-01-27

How Newegg crushed the “shopping cart” patent and saved online retail

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/01/how-newegg-crushed-the-shopping-cart-patent-and-saved-online-retail/

13 years ago

638 upvotes – 134 comments

A farewell to bioinformatics (2012)

http://madhadron.com/?p=263

13 years ago

337 upvotes – 170 comments

We don't know why lithium batteries work

http://shkrobius.livejournal.com/398842.html

13 years ago

269 upvotes – 105 comments

Github SSL replaced by self-signed certificate in China

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5124784

13 years ago

189 upvotes – 75 comments

Python Shortcuts for the Python Beginner

http://maxburstein.com/blog/python-shortcuts-for-the-python-beginner/

13 years ago

187 upvotes – 53 comments

Why do game developers prefer Windows?

http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/60544/why-do-game-developers-prefer-windows

13 years ago

177 upvotes – 129 comments

Building Firefox OS

http://buildingfirefoxos.com/

13 years ago

168 upvotes – 71 comments

There's More to Life Than Being Happy

http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/01/theres-more-to-life-than-being-happy/266805/

13 years ago

160 upvotes – 48 comments

Machine Learning Cheat Sheet (for scikit-learn)

http://peekaboo-vision.blogspot.de/2013/01/machine-learning-cheat-sheet-for-scikit.html

13 years ago

158 upvotes – 8 comments

The 50 million dollar lie

http://garyrubinstein.teachforus.org/2013/01/09/the-50-million-dollar-lie/

13 years ago

149 upvotes – 152 comments

It is ridiculously easy to refactor Go

http://www.onebigfluke.com/2013/01/it-is-ridiculously-easy-to-refactor-go.html

13 years ago

149 upvotes – 88 comments

"I Will Ruin Him" – How it feels to be stalked

http://chronicle.com/article/I-Will-Ruin-Him/136693/

13 years ago

147 upvotes – 112 comments

PIN number analysis

http://www.datagenetics.com/blog/september32012/

13 years ago

134 upvotes – 82 comments

Systemd: The Biggest Myths

http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/the-biggest-myths

13 years ago

131 upvotes – 114 comments

A few thoughts about Open Source Software

http://antirez.com/news/48

13 years ago

131 upvotes – 136 comments

MindMup is now open source

http://blog.mindmup.com/2013/01/mindmup-is-now-opensource.html

13 years ago

130 upvotes – 29 comments

The Python yield keyword explained

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/231767/the-python-yield-keyword-explained

13 years ago

127 upvotes – 49 comments

Hubble - a terminal dashboard

https://github.com/jaymedavis/hubble

13 years ago

★ 1k CoffeeScript Apache-2.0
124 upvotes – 10 comments

Hugh Laurie: Wodehouse Saved my Life (1999)

http://www.pgwodehousebooks.com/lauriesaved.htm

13 years ago

124 upvotes – 56 comments

We're hiring - but we probably won't pay you.

http://channelsource.org/

13 years ago

116 upvotes – 52 comments

IDIV DoS (INT_MIN / -1)

http://kqueue.org/blog/2012/12/31/idiv-dos/

13 years ago

111 upvotes – 23 comments

In Love with LÖVE

http://an.ton.io/blog/articles/2013/01/27/in-love-with-love

13 years ago

110 upvotes – 72 comments

Inside the ALU of the 8085 microprocessor

http://www.arcfn.com/2013/01/inside-alu-of-8085-microprocessor.html

13 years ago

101 upvotes – 17 comments

The Story Behind Banksy

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/The-Story-Behind-Banksy-187953941.html

13 years ago

99 upvotes – 25 comments

Javascript Cryptography Considered Harmful

http://matasano.com/articles/javascript-cryptography/

13 years ago

95 upvotes – 103 comments

Bpython is a fancy interface to Python

http://bpython-interpreter.org/screenshots/

13 years ago

88 upvotes – 40 comments

New MySpace done with Node + Express

http://expressjs.com/applications.html

13 years ago

82 upvotes – 46 comments

Language Learning is Broken

http://thangudu.com/2013/01/27/language-learning-is-broken/

13 years ago

82 upvotes – 56 comments

LibreOffice 4.0: The big changes will be under the hood

http://www.zdnet.com/libreoffice-4-0-the-big-changes-will-be-under-the-hood-7000010383/

13 years ago

82 upvotes – 47 comments

Show HN: My Weekend Project: One-Click Developer Portfolio Website

http://prtflio.eu/

13 years ago

78 upvotes – 52 comments

Islam and science: The road to renewal

http://www.economist.com/news/international/21570677-after-centuries-stagnation-science-making-comeback-islamic-world-road

13 years ago

71 upvotes – 97 comments

Is Ken Thompson's compiler hack still a threat?

http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/184874/is-ken-thompsons-compiler-hack-still-a-threat-yes-no-why

13 years ago

70 upvotes – 27 comments

Stop Fetishizing Failure

http://creativeintelligencebook.com/post/41570210573/stop-fetishizing-failure

13 years ago

65 upvotes – 29 comments

Delusions that companies have about the cloud

http://gigaom.com/2013/01/26/the-delusions-that-companies-have-about-the-cloud/

13 years ago

61 upvotes – 65 comments

RoughDraft.js – quickly create HTML mockups

http://ndreckshage.github.com/roughdraft.js/

13 years ago

57 upvotes – 10 comments
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