top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-02-05

Civilized Discourse Construction Kit

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2013/02/civilized-discourse-construction-kit.html

13 years ago

727 upvotes – 270 comments

YouCompleteMe, a Fast, As-You-Type, Fuzzy-Search Code Completion Engine for Vim

http://val.markovic.io/blog/youcompleteme-a-fast-as-you-type-fuzzy-search-code-completion-engine-for-vim

13 years ago

427 upvotes – 114 comments

Announcing MoSQL

https://stripe.com/blog/announcing-mosql

13 years ago

390 upvotes – 113 comments

Four Hours of Concentration

http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2013/02/04/four-hours-of-concentration/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheEndeavour+%28The+Endeavour%29

13 years ago

334 upvotes – 86 comments

48th Mersenne prime found

http://www.mersenne.org/various/57885161.htm

13 years ago

327 upvotes – 110 comments

Petition: Stop bundling crapware with Java

https://www.change.org/petitions/oracle-corporation-stop-bundling-ask-toolbar-with-the-java-installer

13 years ago

317 upvotes – 153 comments

Site plagiarizes blog posts, then files DMCA takedown on originals

http://arstechnica.com/science/2013/02/site-plagiarizes-blog-posts-then-files-dmca-takedown-on-originals/

13 years ago

251 upvotes – 66 comments

Someone Just Leaked Obama's Rules for Assassinating American Citizens

http://reason.com/blog/2013/02/04/someone-just-leaked-obamas-rules-for-ass

13 years ago

225 upvotes – 257 comments

GoDaddy deletes my domains and charges me to restore them

http://asifali.me/post/42323712160/godaddy-deletes-my-domains-and-charges-me-to-restore

13 years ago

223 upvotes – 123 comments

Our path to $1M in sales

http://wiwillia.com/post/41810471731/our-path-to-1m-in-sales

13 years ago

223 upvotes – 61 comments

Host webpages on Google Drive

https://googledrive.com/host/0B716ywBKT84AMXBENXlnYmJISlE/GoogleDriveHosting.html

13 years ago

216 upvotes – 63 comments

Tesla's ingenious strategy

http://www.maximise.dk/teslas-ingenious-strategy/

13 years ago

185 upvotes – 128 comments

Show HN: a conspiracy theory generator

http://www.verifiedfacts.org

13 years ago

181 upvotes – 70 comments

Tiny, Hackable Quadcopter Drone Launches Pre-Orders

http://www.wired.com/design/2013/02/crazyflie-nano/

13 years ago

175 upvotes – 65 comments

Show HN: Hacky – Hacker News app for Mac

http://www.hackyapp.com

13 years ago

163 upvotes – 91 comments

God: Scalable in Memory Data Structure Server in Go

http://zond.github.com/god/architecture.html

13 years ago

150 upvotes – 63 comments

Dell in $24 Billion Deal to Go Private

http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2013/02/05/dell-sets-23-8-billion-deal-to-go-private/

13 years ago

146 upvotes – 134 comments

GNOME project picks JavaScript as "first class" dev language

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/02/05/gnome_standardises_on_javascript/

13 years ago

146 upvotes – 131 comments

Stately - A US state map in a font

http://intridea.github.com/stately/

13 years ago

132 upvotes – 29 comments

Introduction to NumPy

http://www.python-course.eu/numpy.php

13 years ago

131 upvotes – 21 comments

A New Editor for OpenStreetMap: iD

http://mapbox.com/blog/announcing-id/

13 years ago

130 upvotes – 16 comments

PBS’s “Silicon Valley” to Debut Tonight

http://allthingsd.com/20130205/a-little-slice-of-geek-history-pbs-silicon-valley-set-to-debut-tonight-video/?reflink=ATD_myyahoo

13 years ago

124 upvotes – 38 comments

Function types in Go

http://jordanorelli.tumblr.com/post/42369331748/function-types-in-go-golang

13 years ago

121 upvotes – 29 comments

Discourse

http://www.discourse.org/

13 years ago

116 upvotes – 15 comments

City of Munich disagrees with HP's Linux migration study

http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/City-of-Munich-disagrees-with-HP-s-Linux-migration-study-1797232.html

13 years ago

103 upvotes – 29 comments

About.me Buys Itself Back from AOL

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/02/05/about-me-buys-itself-back-from-aol/

13 years ago

98 upvotes – 32 comments

Migrating from Ember.js to AngularJS

http://beust.com/weblog/2012/12/29/migrating-from-ember-js-to-angularjs/

13 years ago

94 upvotes – 52 comments

How Oreo Won the Marketing Super Bowl With a Timely Blackout Ad on Twitter

http://www.wired.com/underwire/2013/02/oreo-twitter-super-bowl/

13 years ago

91 upvotes – 55 comments

How To Read an Unlabeled Sales Chart

http://evanmiller.org/how-to-read-an-unlabeled-sales-chart.html

13 years ago

89 upvotes – 14 comments

The Joy of Flying AR Drones with Clojure

http://gigasquidsoftware.com/wordpress/?p=645

13 years ago

86 upvotes – 17 comments

HTML5 Game Development

https://www.udacity.com/course/viewer#!/c-cs255/l-52473341/m-66255903

13 years ago

85 upvotes – 46 comments

Learning to Code: Lessons from building a simple Rails app with Treehouse

http://www.jasonshen.com/2013/learning-to-code-lessons-from-building-a-rails-app-with-treehouse/?hn

13 years ago

84 upvotes – 37 comments

Ouya Android console up for pre-order on Amazon

http://www.destructoid.com/ouya-android-console-up-for-pre-order-on-amazon-244071.phtml

13 years ago

80 upvotes – 78 comments

Dyson Unveils New 'Wet and Dry' AirBlade Faucet

http://www.tomsguide.com/us/AirBlade-Tap-Faucet-Cost-Release-Date,news-16715.html

13 years ago

80 upvotes – 110 comments

How Snapchat took over Yale

http://haufler.org/2013/02/05/how-snapchat-took-over-yale/

13 years ago

74 upvotes – 36 comments

Playframework: Async, Reactive, Threads, Futures, ExecutionContexts

http://sadache.tumblr.com/post/42351000773/async-reactive-nonblocking-threads-futures-executioncont

13 years ago

73 upvotes – 35 comments

Sentry, The (Now Profitable) Bug Tracker Gets A Huge Makeover

http://techcrunch.com/2013/02/05/sentry-the-now-profitable-bug-tracker-used-by-disqus-pinterest-rdio-path-more-gets-a-huge-makeover/

13 years ago

72 upvotes – 24 comments

Growing Numbers of Start-Ups Are Worth a Billion Dollars

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/05/technology/growing-numbers-of-start-ups-are-worth-a-billion-dollars.html?hpw&_r=1&

13 years ago

72 upvotes – 49 comments

Dell to Sell Itself for $24.4 Billion

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324900204578285582125381660.html

13 years ago

71 upvotes – 20 comments

Hello Chrome and Firefox, meet serverless WebRTC

https://github.com/firebase/gupshup/

13 years ago

71 upvotes – 22 comments

Ping-pong gun fires balls at supersonic speeds

http://www.gizmag.com/how-to-build-a-supersonic-ping-pong-gun/26082/

13 years ago

70 upvotes – 22 comments

Why New Relic Is Raising $80 Million Now

http://blog.newrelic.com/2013/02/05/why-new-relic-is-raising-80-million-now/

13 years ago

70 upvotes – 64 comments

What is Branch Prediction?

http://stackoverflow.com/a/11227902/127880

13 years ago

69 upvotes – 28 comments

Introducing Your Instagram Feed on the Web

http://blog.instagram.com/post/42363074191/instagramfeed

13 years ago

68 upvotes – 17 comments

Hardening your Web Server's SSL Ciphers

http://hynek.me/articles/hardening-your-web-servers-ssl-ciphers/

13 years ago

65 upvotes – 29 comments

Hat, not CAP: Introducing Highly Available Transactions

http://www.bailis.org/blog/hat-not-cap-introducing-highly-available-transactions/

13 years ago

65 upvotes – 8 comments

The NFL’s problems in one accidentally revealing ad

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/02/04/everything-thats-wrong-with-football-in-one-ad/

13 years ago

60 upvotes – 100 comments

World trembles in confusion and/or fear at Iran's fiberglass airplane

http://arstechnica.com/business/2013/02/world-trembles-in-confusion-andor-fear-at-irans-fiberglass-airplane/

13 years ago

55 upvotes – 59 comments

Mistake found in invariant subspace proof

http://cafematematico.com/2013/02/05/statement-from-cowen-and-gallardo/

13 years ago

54 upvotes – 42 comments

Why You Should Work From A Coffee Shop, Even When You Have An Office

http://www.fastcompany.com/3005011/why-you-should-work-coffee-shop-even-when-you-have-office

13 years ago

54 upvotes – 58 comments

We're here to make a dent in the Universe

http://www.jeremymorgan.com/blog/general/a-dent-in-the-universe/

13 years ago

53 upvotes – 15 comments
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