top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-02-06

Packets of Death

http://blog.krisk.org/2013/02/packets-of-death.html

13 years ago

734 upvotes – 113 comments

Employees leave managers, not companies

http://www.alaisterlow.com/employees-leave-managers-not-companies/

13 years ago

625 upvotes – 257 comments

Announcing Topaz: A New Ruby

http://docs.topazruby.com/en/latest/blog/announcing-topaz/

13 years ago

481 upvotes – 182 comments

Remember when people tracked bugs?

http://www.jwz.org/blog/2013/02/wow-remember-when-people-tracked-bugs-welcome-to-the-next-level/

13 years ago

277 upvotes – 162 comments

In the future, all space marines will be Warhammer 40K space marines

http://mcahogarth.org/?p=10593

13 years ago

270 upvotes – 146 comments

First impressions of Leap Motion

http://blog.liangzan.net/blog/2013/02/06/first-impressions-of-leap-motion/

13 years ago

192 upvotes – 85 comments

Play framework 2.10 released

http://www.playframework.com/

13 years ago

183 upvotes – 73 comments

Show HN: Chime - A Notification Center for the Web

http://www.chimeapp.com/

13 years ago

161 upvotes – 116 comments

Tom, Dick & Harry

http://www.jasq.org/2/post/2013/01/the-mathematician-the-monoid.html

13 years ago

153 upvotes – 66 comments

Desiderata

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desiderata

13 years ago

148 upvotes – 39 comments

Kinda like apt-get, but for Windows

http://chocolatey.org

13 years ago

140 upvotes – 101 comments

Salar.ly - real salary info for tech jobs

http://www.salar.ly/

13 years ago

131 upvotes – 76 comments

Google’s Supposed Chromebook Pixel (And Its Touch Display) Stars In Leaked Video

http://techcrunch.com/2013/02/06/googles-supposed-chromebook-pixel-and-its-touch-display-stars-in-leaked-video/

13 years ago

122 upvotes – 108 comments

Preventing users from pouring water into coffee machine beans compartment

http://ux.stackexchange.com/q/34126/7235

13 years ago

121 upvotes – 90 comments

Facebook breaks logins

https://developers.facebook.com/bugs/207955409343730

13 years ago

117 upvotes – 52 comments

How Etsy Grew their Number of Female Engineers by Almost 500% in One Year

http://firstround.com/article/How-Etsy-Grew-their-Number-of-Female-Engineers-by-500-in-One-Year

13 years ago

117 upvotes – 162 comments

Unpacking my knapsack: the privileges of a Hispanic male in tech

http://danilocampos.com/2013/02/unpacking-my-knapsack-the-privileges-of-a-hispanic-male-in-tech/

13 years ago

115 upvotes – 121 comments

Review: BlackBerry 10 is better, much better, late than never

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/02/review-blackberry-10-is-better-much-better-late-than-never/

13 years ago

111 upvotes – 99 comments

Keeping Passwords in Source Control

http://ejohn.org/blog/keeping-passwords-in-source-control/

13 years ago

110 upvotes – 53 comments

KDE 4.10 has been released.

http://dot.kde.org/2013/02/06/410-release-plasma-workspaces-applications-and-development-platform

13 years ago

107 upvotes – 36 comments

The “I just got bought by a big company” survival guide

http://scott.a16z.com/2013/02/06/the-i-just-got-bought-by-a-big-company-survival-guide/

13 years ago

104 upvotes – 34 comments

Don’t Waste Your Twenties

http://artofmanliness.com/2013/02/04/dont-waste-your-twenties-part-1-taking-advantage-of-the-unique-powers-of-the-twentysomething-brain/

13 years ago

104 upvotes – 100 comments

Microsoft Surface Pro Review

http://www.anandtech.com/show/6695/microsoft-surface-pro-review

13 years ago

103 upvotes – 115 comments

Bitcoin Reaches All Time High Market Capitalization

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=141465.0

13 years ago

91 upvotes – 53 comments

Show HN: Raspberry Pi website hit tracking neon sign

http://blog.davidsingleton.org/raspberry-pi-website-hit-tracker/

13 years ago

82 upvotes – 20 comments

Dropbox Unveils Sync API For Mobile Developers

http://techcrunch.com/2013/02/06/dropbox-unveils-sync-api-for-mobile-developers-allows-apps-to-work-with-cloud-based-files-as-if-they-were-local/

13 years ago

81 upvotes – 12 comments

Lock elision in the GNU C library

http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/534758/bcb45583bc25268d/

13 years ago

71 upvotes – 15 comments

Go maps in action

http://blog.golang.org/2013/02/go-maps-in-action.html

13 years ago

67 upvotes – 19 comments

Show HN: Building a Database of False DMCA Takedowns

http://DMCAInjury.com/

13 years ago

67 upvotes – 16 comments

Where to join a startup? Analyzing 'Who is Hiring' posts on Hacker News

http://garmr.posterous.com/where-to-join-a-startup-analyzing-who-is-hiri

13 years ago

61 upvotes – 32 comments

What's produced more value: Y Combinator's investments or Hacker News?

https://github.com/cgcardona/thoughts/blob/master/2013/feb/4_yc_investments_or_hackernews.md

13 years ago

60 upvotes – 43 comments

Create a Google Talk bot with Node.js: Part One

http://simonholywell.com/post/2013/02/create-a-node-js-google-talk-bot-pt1.html

13 years ago

57 upvotes – 5 comments

The first 3D-printed human stem cells

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/147647-the-first-3d-printed-human-stem-cells

13 years ago

56 upvotes – 14 comments

Caffeine Jitters

http://cen.acs.org/articles/91/i5/Caffeine-Jitters.html

13 years ago

56 upvotes – 46 comments

Coke Engineers Its Orange Juice—With an Algorithm

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-01-31/coke-engineers-its-orange-juice-with-an-algorithm#r=rss

13 years ago

55 upvotes – 40 comments

Wake Up and Smell the Crisis

http://founderdating.com/foundertalk-crisis/

13 years ago

55 upvotes – 15 comments

Pros and cons of releasing Perl 5.20.0 as Perl 7.0.0

http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/2013/02/perl-7.html

13 years ago

54 upvotes – 42 comments

Introducing the Dropbox Sync API

https://www.dropbox.com/developers/blog/26

13 years ago

53 upvotes – 6 comments

Open source html5 roguelike 'Wayward' goes beta

http://indierpgs.com/2013/02/wayward-announced-playable/

13 years ago

53 upvotes – 15 comments

Ruby 1.9.3-p385 is released

http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2013/02/06/ruby-1-9-3-p385-is-released/

13 years ago

53 upvotes – 7 comments

Experienced Hires Will Save You From Yourself

http://iamexec.com/blog/experienced-hires-will-save-you-from-yourself

13 years ago

52 upvotes – 14 comments

Saving the Hackathon

http://www.tokbox.com/blog/saving-the-hackathon/

13 years ago

50 upvotes – 17 comments

Raise your prices to sell more

http://www.binpress.com/blog/2013/02/06/raise-your-prices-to-sell-more/

13 years ago

50 upvotes – 24 comments

We Need to Think Beyond the Aaron in ‘Aaron’s Law’

http://www.wired.com/opinion/2013/02/we-need-to-think-beyond-the-aaron-in-aarons-law/

13 years ago

49 upvotes – 1 comments

Tweetmap - Animated maps of real-time tweets using contiguous cartograms

http://tweetmap.it

13 years ago

47 upvotes – 40 comments
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