top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-02-01

How to land an airplane if you are not a pilot

http://eduardo.intermeta.com.br/posts/2013/1/25/how-to-land-a-plane-if-you-are-not-a-pilot#

13 years ago

386 upvotes – 170 comments

Why We Still Believe in Working Remotely

http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2013/02/why-we-still-believe-in-working-remotely/

13 years ago

351 upvotes – 111 comments

Iceland Kicked Out FBI Agents Who Flew in Unannounced to Investigate WikiLeaks

http://clevelandleader.com/node/20013

13 years ago

334 upvotes – 132 comments

LLVM Tutorial

http://llvm.org/docs/tutorial/LangImpl1.html

13 years ago

328 upvotes – 32 comments

Shapecatcher: Draw the Unicode character you want

http://shapecatcher.com/

13 years ago

271 upvotes – 107 comments

Egghead.io - short screencasts about AngularJS

http://egghead.io/

13 years ago

269 upvotes – 51 comments

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2013)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5150834

13 years ago

223 upvotes – 256 comments

MIT can honor Aaron Swartz by fighting to make journals open to everyone

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

13 years ago

219 upvotes – 58 comments

Mojang's Monster Profits

http://it24.idg.se/2.2275/1.490017/mojangs-monstervinst

13 years ago

206 upvotes – 168 comments

Apps? No root? Your device serves others, warns Berners-Lee

http://www.zdnet.com/apps-no-root-your-device-serves-others-berners-lee-7000010661/

13 years ago

192 upvotes – 131 comments

OpenSource Nano Quadcopter Kit

http://www.seeedstudio.com/depot/preorder-crazyflie-nano-quadcopter-kit-10dof-with-crazyradio-bccfk02a-p-1365.html?cPath=170_172

13 years ago

191 upvotes – 56 comments

Bill Gates Says There Is Something Perverse In College Ratings

http://www.forbes.com/sites/luisakroll/2013/01/31/bill-gates-says-there-is-something-perverse-in-college-ratings/

13 years ago

176 upvotes – 108 comments

Racket v5.3.2

http://blog.racket-lang.org/2013/01/racket-v532.html

13 years ago

170 upvotes – 40 comments

Nordic countries are reinventing their model of capitalism

http://www.economist.com/news/special-report/21570840-nordic-countries-are-reinventing-their-model-capitalism-says-adrian

13 years ago

166 upvotes – 158 comments

Show HN: Zipline - algorithmic trading in open source Python

https://github.com/quantopian/zipline

13 years ago

★ 19.6k Python Apache-2.0
157 upvotes – 30 comments

Ditching responsive design

https://gocardless.com/blog/unresponsive-design/

13 years ago

144 upvotes – 83 comments

No upvotes on Hacker News: Still awesome to submit

https://eduardo-mourao.squarespace.com/posts/2013/2/1/no-upvotes-on-hacker-news-still-awesome

13 years ago

140 upvotes – 59 comments

Use Rails? Check yourself for the YAML exploit

https://www.tinfoilsecurity.com/railscheck

13 years ago

122 upvotes – 56 comments

Nokia begins work on graphene

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-57567045-94/nokia-begins-work-on-graphene-worlds-strongest-material/

13 years ago

109 upvotes – 48 comments

Bill Gates 2013 Annual Letter

http://annualletter.gatesfoundation.org/

13 years ago

108 upvotes – 42 comments

Computer Science PhD trends

http://blog.vivekhaldar.com/post/42007984829/computer-science-phd-trends

13 years ago

108 upvotes – 57 comments

Once again, Path steals your data without permission

https://eeqj.com/20130201/path-privacy/

13 years ago

104 upvotes – 85 comments

Crafting Code in Clojure

http://tapestryjava.blogspot.se/2013/02/crafting-code-in-clojure.html

13 years ago

99 upvotes – 40 comments

EC2's M3 Instances Go Global; Reduced EC2 Charges and Lower Bandwidth Prices

http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2013/02/ec2s-m3-global-reduced-ec2-bandwidth.html

13 years ago

98 upvotes – 34 comments

C++ Grandmaster Certification

http://www.cppgm.org/index.html

13 years ago

98 upvotes – 131 comments

Limiting passwords to 12 characters is "secure enough"

http://forums.stardock.com/439802

13 years ago

97 upvotes – 104 comments

The Nordic region is becoming a hothouse of entrepreneurship

http://www.economist.com/news/special-report/21570834-nordic-region-becoming-hothouse-entrepreneurship-if-doubt-innovate?

13 years ago

88 upvotes – 67 comments

Reaching 200K events/sec

http://aphyr.com/posts/269-reaching-200k-events-sec

13 years ago

87 upvotes – 28 comments

Durex rolls out condom app and delivery service

http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-durex-sos-condoms-20130201,0,1721302.story

13 years ago

87 upvotes – 46 comments

PressureNet collects 120,000 atmosphere data points per day from Android phones

http://pressurenet.cumulonimbus.ca/

13 years ago

82 upvotes – 56 comments

Swish (YC W13) Makes Selling Simpler For Inventors And Creators

http://techcrunch.com/2013/02/01/yc-backed-swish-makes-selling-simpler-for-inventors-and-creators/

13 years ago

78 upvotes – 13 comments

JSBin

http://jsbin.com/

13 years ago

73 upvotes – 24 comments

Sexism in Tech: A Good Apology is Better than No Mistakes

https://keen.io/blog/42031860734/sexism-in-tech-a-good-apology-is-better-than-no

13 years ago

72 upvotes – 170 comments

Kim Dotcom puts up €10,000 bounty for first person to break Mega's security

http://thenextweb.com/insider/2013/02/01/kim-dotcom-puts-up-13500-bounty-for-first-person-to-break-megas-security-system/

13 years ago

70 upvotes – 64 comments

My Valuable, Cheap College Degree

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/01/opinion/my-valuable-cheap-college-degree.html

13 years ago

69 upvotes – 57 comments

Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (February 2013)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5150843

13 years ago

69 upvotes – 88 comments

Offer HN: Free Domains

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5151714

13 years ago

64 upvotes – 44 comments

Three charts are all I need

http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3388-three-charts-is-all-i-need

13 years ago

63 upvotes – 34 comments

HIPAA’s New Rules Reach Far Beyond Healthcare Providers

http://blog.varonis.com/hipaas-new-rules-reach-far-beyond-healthcare-providers-are-you-impacted/

13 years ago

63 upvotes – 32 comments

MS kills Xbox 360/PC cross-platform development

http://www.extremetech.com/gaming/147289-microsoft-kills-xbox-360pc-cross-platform-development-declares-directx-no-longer-evolving

13 years ago

59 upvotes – 39 comments

The search for better ways of storing electricity is hotting up

http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21571117-search-better-ways-storing-electricity-hotting-up-batteries

13 years ago

59 upvotes – 25 comments

Netflix releases House of Cards

http://movies.netflix.com/WiMovie/House_of_Cards/70178217

13 years ago

57 upvotes – 69 comments

Jekyll CMS on Amazon S3 and MaxCDN

http://blog.netdna.com/developer/supercharge-your-site-with-jekyll-s3-and-maxcdn/

13 years ago

54 upvotes – 32 comments

How To Hire Great Business Development People

http://blog.eladgil.com/2013/02/hiring-great-business-people-is-hard.html

13 years ago

52 upvotes – 11 comments
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