top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-01-29

Turn your browser into a notepad with one line

https://coderwall.com/p/lhsrcq

13 years ago

956 upvotes – 178 comments

For 40 Years, This Russian Family Was Cut Off From All Human Contact

http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/history/2013/01/for-40-years-this-russian-family-was-cut-off-from-all-human-contact-unaware-of-world-war-ii/

13 years ago

842 upvotes – 244 comments

Sublime Text 3 Beta

http://www.sublimetext.com/blog/articles/sublime-text-3-beta

13 years ago

589 upvotes – 360 comments

How the EVE Online Servers Deal with a 3,000 Person Battle

http://penny-arcade.com/report/editorial-article/planning-for-war-how-the-eve-online-servers-deal-with-a-3000-person-battle

13 years ago

331 upvotes – 131 comments

Your Credentials Are Worthless Here

http://iamexec.com/blog/your-credentials-are-worthless-here

13 years ago

245 upvotes – 202 comments

Amazon Elastic Transcoder

https://aws.amazon.com/elastictranscoder/

13 years ago

242 upvotes – 148 comments

64 GB Surface Pro will only have 23 GB free

http://www.marco.org/2013/01/29/not-really-64gb

13 years ago

201 upvotes – 267 comments

Functional thinking: Why functional programming is on the rise

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/j-ft20/

13 years ago

187 upvotes – 81 comments

Brython, Python in the browser

http://brython.info/index_en.html

13 years ago

181 upvotes – 65 comments

Google Giving Will Provide 15,000 Raspberry Pi's to UK Schools

http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/3158

13 years ago

178 upvotes – 73 comments

Apple Core Rot: Introduction

http://macperformanceguide.com/AppleCoreRot-intro.html

13 years ago

162 upvotes – 142 comments

What's so great about JavaScript Promises?

http://blog.parse.com/2013/01/29/whats-so-great-about-javascript-promises/

13 years ago

160 upvotes – 70 comments

Show HN: Forget Flash, Skip GIF, Control iOS

http://www.divergentmedia.com/blog/fullpost/phosphor_introduction

13 years ago

155 upvotes – 35 comments

Facebook Isn't Worth It

http://seersuckermag.com/opinion/read/facebook-isnt-giving-back-what-we-put-in

13 years ago

151 upvotes – 96 comments

Explore Salaries and Equity at AngelList

https://angel.co/salaries

13 years ago

147 upvotes – 60 comments

Just Stop

http://learntoduck.net/just-stop

13 years ago

129 upvotes – 16 comments

Enterprise

http://yongfook.com/enterprise.html

13 years ago

125 upvotes – 61 comments

Antigua gets OK to become copyright haven

http://www.sfgate.com/business/technology/article/Antigua-gets-OK-to-become-copyright-haven-4228808.php

13 years ago

115 upvotes – 34 comments

Udacity adds HTML5 Game Development Course

https://www.udacity.com/course/cs255

13 years ago

114 upvotes – 32 comments

Show HN: I crossed a thesaurus with a domain availability checking API

http://domainmasher.com/

13 years ago

113 upvotes – 43 comments

Instacode

http://instacode.linology.info

13 years ago

109 upvotes – 43 comments

Elastic (YC W11) launches Close.io, sales software designed by salespeople

http://pandodaily.com/2013/01/29/elastic-launches-close-io-sales-software-designed-by-salespeople/

13 years ago

103 upvotes – 58 comments

Goodbye Jody. You Really Were Awesome

http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2013/01/29/goodbye-jody/

13 years ago

103 upvotes – 21 comments

Tweetping, Twitter traffic in real time

http://tweetping.net/#

13 years ago

98 upvotes – 38 comments

TechCrunch vs. Hacker News: Which is a better front page to launch your startup?

http://www.prlambert.com/2013/01/29/tc-vs-hn/

13 years ago

91 upvotes – 38 comments

EcoMom Founder Jody Sherman Has Passed Away

http://pandodaily.com/2013/01/28/the-la-startup-community-is-mourning-the-loss-ecomom-founder-jody-sherman/

13 years ago

91 upvotes – 19 comments

Writing is hard, so do it

http://kyan.com/blog/2013/1/29/writing-is-hard-so-do-it

13 years ago

88 upvotes – 33 comments

Y Combinator + Upverter Hardware Hackathon

http://upverter.com/hackathons/yc-hackathon-2013/

13 years ago

86 upvotes – 22 comments

Torque3D is now on GitHub, MIT licensed

https://github.com/GarageGames/Torque3D

13 years ago

★ 3.3k C++ MIT
79 upvotes – 23 comments

Sequel Pro 1.0 released

http://www.sequelpro.com/blog/2013.01/hello-this-is-sequel-pro-1-0/

13 years ago

75 upvotes – 23 comments

Why You Truly Never Leave High School

http://nymag.com/news/features/high-school-2013-1/?imw=Y

13 years ago

70 upvotes – 30 comments

The English-Likeness Monster Stalks a New Generation of Programmers

http://raganwald.posterous.com/the-english-likeness-monster-stalks-a-new-gen

13 years ago

70 upvotes – 74 comments

Revenue Analytics

https://mixpanel.com/revenue/

13 years ago

70 upvotes – 21 comments

Intensive Decompression: Brain Reset by Sleeping in Nature

http://www.hackersguidetowork.com/intensive-decompression

13 years ago

69 upvotes – 36 comments

The DNC's voter registration app is now free and open-source software

http://pauladamsmith.com/blog/2013/01/dnc_voter_reg_foss.html

13 years ago

67 upvotes – 18 comments

Man uses GitHub as a bug tracker for his house

http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/01/this-old-house/

13 years ago

66 upvotes – 22 comments

Yahoo's Mayer Steadies Ship

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323375204578270243425948084.html

13 years ago

66 upvotes – 22 comments

Migration flows across the world

http://peoplemov.in

13 years ago

64 upvotes – 31 comments

Why extroverts fail, introverts flounder and you probably succeed

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/on-leadership/why-extroverts-fail-introverts-flounder-and-you-probably-succeed/2013/01/28/bc4949b0-695d-11e2-95b3-272d604a10a3_story.html?hpid=z2

13 years ago

64 upvotes – 25 comments

Goldman Sachs and the Apple structured bond deal

http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2013/01/29/apple-structured-note-goldman-sachs/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+fortuneapple20+%28FORTUNE%3A+Apple+2.0%29

13 years ago

60 upvotes – 53 comments

Nonprofit Startups Are Just Like Their Counterparts

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323829504578270381504454200.html

13 years ago

59 upvotes – 22 comments

Ask HN: Review Habbit - An App to Build Your Ideal Future Self with Habits

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5131995

13 years ago

58 upvotes – 38 comments

TimeSpace - NYT Initiative

http://www.nytimes.com/timespace/

13 years ago

57 upvotes – 8 comments

BackFire: Firebase bindings for Backbone.js

http://blog.firebase.com/post/41803484857/backfire-firebase-bindings-for-backbone-js

13 years ago

56 upvotes – 11 comments

Buffett pulls ahead in wager against hedge funds

http://finance.fortune.cnn.com/2013/01/24/buffett-hedge-fund-bet/

13 years ago

56 upvotes – 27 comments

Deploy your Go apps on dotCloud

http://blog.dotcloud.com/go-on-dotcloud

13 years ago

55 upvotes – 17 comments

The insanely confusing path to legal immigration, in one chart

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/01/29/the-path-to-legal-immigration-in-one-insanely-confusing-chart/

13 years ago

54 upvotes – 59 comments

Startup Business Development Posts

http://life-longlearner.com/startup-business-development-posts/

13 years ago

54 upvotes – 10 comments

The CSS Trashman

http://www.csstrashman.com

13 years ago

52 upvotes – 24 comments

Viagra as Diet Pill? One Day, Perhaps

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/29/science/viagra-as-diet-pill.html?smid=re-share

13 years ago

52 upvotes – 47 comments

YouTube Set to Introduce Paid Subscriptions This Spring

http://adage.com/article/digital/youtube-set-introduce-paid-subscriptions-spring/239437/

13 years ago

52 upvotes – 16 comments
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