top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-01-28

Pixels don’t care

http://warpspire.com/posts/pixels-dont-care/

13 years ago

764 upvotes – 133 comments

How Did the Duck Hunt Gun Work?

http://mentalfloss.com/article/26875/how-did-duck-hunt-gun-work

13 years ago

357 upvotes – 66 comments

Mozilla Recognized as Most Trusted Internet Company for Privacy

https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2013/01/28/privacy-day-2013/

13 years ago

323 upvotes – 74 comments

Mark Zuckerberg's Hoodie

http://quietbabylon.com/2013/mark-zuckerbergs-hoodie/

13 years ago

317 upvotes – 83 comments

Show HN: My Weekend Hack - Stack-Ed: Learn from the best on StackOverflow

http://www.stack-ed.com/

13 years ago

286 upvotes – 80 comments

Step by step from jQuery to Backbone

https://github.com/kjbekkelund/writings/blob/master/published/understanding-backbone.md

13 years ago

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282 upvotes – 47 comments

30 pounds in 30 days

http://fullstack360.wordpress.com/2013/01/28/30-pounds-in-30-days/

13 years ago

263 upvotes – 90 comments

DuckDuckGo Architecture - 1 Million Deep Searches a Day and Growing

http://highscalability.com/blog/2013/1/28/duckduckgo-architecture-1-million-deep-searches-a-day-and-gr.html

13 years ago

202 upvotes – 126 comments

When Did Americans Lose Their British Accents?

http://mentalfloss.com/article/29761/when-did-americans-lose-their-british-accents

13 years ago

198 upvotes – 109 comments

Ubuntu Phone will include a Terminal application

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuPhone/CoreApps/Terminal

13 years ago

166 upvotes – 103 comments

Fast Non-Standard Data Structures for Python

http://kmike.ru/python-data-structures/

13 years ago

156 upvotes – 9 comments

600K concurrent HTTP connections with Clojure and http-kit

http://shenfeng.me/600k-concurrent-connection-http-kit.html

13 years ago

145 upvotes – 64 comments

On Layout and Web Performance

http://kellegous.com/j/2013/01/26/layout-performance/

13 years ago

135 upvotes – 16 comments

Twitter acquires Crashlytics

http://www.crashlytics.com/blog/crashlytics-is-joining-forces-with-twitter/

13 years ago

134 upvotes – 33 comments

Lawsuit Filed Against NYPD Street Body Scanners

http://tsaoutofourpants.wordpress.com/2013/01/28/lawsuit-filed-against-nypd-street-body-scanners/

13 years ago

121 upvotes – 57 comments

A conference for all those who Write the Docs

http://conf.writethedocs.org/

13 years ago

120 upvotes – 24 comments

Calcutta girl who fled home & marriage at 17 returns as millionaire US innovator

http://www.telegraphindia.com/1130126/jsp/calcutta/story_16488020.jsp#.UQYNrVUyjdC

13 years ago

120 upvotes – 70 comments

Michael Moritz on immigration reform

http://sequoiacapital.tumblr.com/post/41716630960/immigration-reform-stop-ejecting-the-brightest-minds

13 years ago

119 upvotes – 127 comments

Darpa shows off 1.8-gigapixel drone, can spot a person from 20K feet

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/146909-darpa-shows-off-1-8-gigapixel-surveillance-drone-can-spot-a-terrorist-from-20000-feet?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=darpa-shows-off-1-8-gigapixel-surveillance-drone-can-spot-a-terrorist-from-20000-feet

13 years ago

117 upvotes – 106 comments

Vulnerability in JSON Parser in Ruby on Rails 3.0 and 2.3

https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/rubyonrails-security/1h2DR63ViGo

13 years ago

114 upvotes – 135 comments

Aaron Swartz Memorial at the Internet Archive [video]

http://archive.org/details/AaronSwartzMemorialAtTheInternetArchive?start=4954

13 years ago

114 upvotes – 6 comments

C11: A New C Standard Aiming at Safer Programming

http://blog.smartbear.com/software-quality/bid/173187/C11-A-New-C-Standard-Aiming-at-Safer-Programming

13 years ago

113 upvotes – 57 comments

On calculating Fibonacci numbers in C

http://blog.noblemail.ca/2013/01/on-calculating-fibonacci-numbers-in-c.html

13 years ago

109 upvotes – 54 comments

Steal These Freelance Business Ideas

http://casjam.com/steal-these-freelance-business-ideas/

13 years ago

107 upvotes – 47 comments

AdBrite will cease operations on Feb 1, 2013

http://view.email.adbrite.com/?j=fec31d7271640c78&m=fe911570706d057a72&ls=fe2912787463037d721670&l=ff001670726501&s=fe5b17707c6d067e771c&jb=ffcf14&ju=fe6315737763007c7217&r=0

13 years ago

102 upvotes – 58 comments

Ubuntu's bug #1

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1

13 years ago

92 upvotes – 46 comments

Announcing the App.net File API

http://blog.app.net/2013/01/28/announcing-the-app-net-file-api/

13 years ago

91 upvotes – 33 comments

Tesla produces 400 model S each week

http://automotivediscovery.com/tesla-model-s-attains-weekly-production-benchmark/9216356/

13 years ago

89 upvotes – 83 comments

US free to grab EU data on American clouds

http://euobserver.com/justice/118857

13 years ago

88 upvotes – 76 comments

A Truth About the Glass Ceiling No One Wants to Talk About

http://throwww.com/a/68c

13 years ago

87 upvotes – 105 comments

Why F#

http://davefancher.com/2013/01/27/why-f/

13 years ago

87 upvotes – 30 comments

Is there some kind of tech crash happening right now?

http://www.indeed.com/jobanalytics/jobtrends?q=engineer%2C+programming%2C+engineering&l=

13 years ago

86 upvotes – 75 comments

VMware to cut 900 jobs

http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2013/01/28/vmware-to-cut-900-jobs.html

13 years ago

84 upvotes – 77 comments

I self-published a programming book, here's my story

http://blog.filipekberg.se/2012/08/27/self-publishing-a-book-part-1-where-it-all-began/

13 years ago

84 upvotes – 34 comments

A Russian Gains Prominence Among Fine Watchmakers

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/21/fashion/21iht-acaw-chaykin21.html?ref=fashion

13 years ago

83 upvotes – 46 comments

The Human Brain Project

http://www.humanbrainproject.eu

13 years ago

82 upvotes – 40 comments

Poor Sleep Prevents Brain From Storing Memories

http://techzwn.com/2013/01/poor-sleep-prevents-brain-from-storing-memories/

13 years ago

80 upvotes – 26 comments

How To Make An iPhone App That Actually Sells

http://observationdeck.net/2013/01/27/how-to-make-an-iphone-app-that-actually-sells/

13 years ago

78 upvotes – 32 comments

Is Vine Instagram for Video?

http://blog.fredstevenssmith.com/2013/01/28/is-vine-instagram-for-video/

13 years ago

74 upvotes – 64 comments

Entrepreneurs Fear More

http://blog.elamadej.com/fear-more

13 years ago

73 upvotes – 15 comments

Reactions, a new iOS app by Geohot: 2 cameras are better than one

http://reactions.co/

13 years ago

73 upvotes – 25 comments

The Good and the Bad of OAuth 2.0 Authorization Implementations

http://john-sheehan.com/post/41653656681/the-good-and-the-bad-of-oauth-2-0-authorization

13 years ago

71 upvotes – 18 comments

Marc Andreessen On The Future Of The Enterprise

http://techcrunch.com/2013/01/27/marc-andreessen-on-the-future-of-the-enterprise/

13 years ago

70 upvotes – 15 comments

Why Did the Justice System Target Aaron Swartz?

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/why-did-the-justice-system-target-aaron-swartz-20130123

13 years ago

70 upvotes – 33 comments

Automatically Blackballed

http://www.designcrumbs.com/automatically-blackballed

13 years ago

69 upvotes – 72 comments

Rails 3.0.20 and 2.3.16 have been released

http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2013/1/28/Rails-3-0-20-and-2-3-16-have-been-released/

13 years ago

68 upvotes – 15 comments

Airbnb Tech Talk: Isaac Schlueter on What's New in Node.js: v0.10, streams2

https://www.airbnb.com/meetups/wq5cxe5m9-tech-talk-isaac-schlueter

13 years ago

68 upvotes – 15 comments

Why I’m Leaving Ubuntu for Debian

https://micahflee.com/2013/01/why-im-leaving-ubuntu-for-debian/

13 years ago

67 upvotes – 67 comments

Security Announcement for Devise (Rails authentication solution)

http://blog.plataformatec.com.br/2013/01/security-announcement-devise-v2-2-3-v2-1-3-v2-0-5-and-v1-5-3-released/

13 years ago

66 upvotes – 20 comments

The 90 Day Plan

http://ryancarson.com/post/41700372023/the-90-day-plan

13 years ago

64 upvotes – 20 comments

Show HN: Domain Name Trends – view trends in .com registrations over time

http://www.leandomainsearch.com/trends/explore?q=3d+print

13 years ago

59 upvotes – 11 comments

HTML and CSS Preprocessors

http://learn.shayhowe.com/advanced-html-css/preprocessors

13 years ago

54 upvotes – 17 comments

PageLever (YC S11) acquired by Unified Social

http://pagelever.com/thankyou/

13 years ago

53 upvotes – 15 comments
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