top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-02-08

Fabrice Bellard: Portrait of a super-productive programmer (2011)

http://blog.smartbear.com/software-quality/bid/167059/Fabrice-Bellard-Portrait-of-a-Superproductive-Programmer

13 years ago

Mercator Puzzle

http://gmaps-samples.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/poly/puzzledrag.html

13 years ago

Herd Immunity Demonstration

http://op12no2.me/toys/herd/index.php?scenario=intro

13 years ago

Steve Heymann Should Be Fired

http://tarensk.tumblr.com/post/42519866696/steve-heymann-should-be-fired

13 years ago

Applications open for summer 2013 YC funding

http://ycombinator.com/apply.html?s2013

13 years ago

Why there is no Hitchhiker’s Guide to Mathematics for Programmers

http://jeremykun.com/2013/02/08/why-there-is-no-hitchhikers-guide-to-mathematics-for-programmers/

13 years ago

Balancing text for better readability

http://blogs.adobe.com/webplatform/2013/01/30/balancing-text-for-better-readability/

13 years ago

Bootstrap 2.3 Released

http://blog.getbootstrap.com/2013/02/07/bootstrap-2-3-released/

13 years ago

Airbnb Annual

https://www.airbnb.com/annual/#

13 years ago

Don Rosa: Why I Quit

http://career-end.donrosa.de/

13 years ago

Coinbase Is Now Selling Over $1M USD Of Bitcoin Per Month

http://blog.coinbase.com/post/42587245753/coinbase-is-now-selling-over-1m-usd-of-bitcoin-per

13 years ago

TPB AFK: Watch and Download The Pirate Bay Documentary

http://torrentfreak.com/tbp-afk-watch-and-download-the-pirate-bay-documentary-now-130208/

13 years ago

Source of the famous “Now you have two problems” quote (2006)

http://regex.info/blog/2006-09-15/247

13 years ago

Libcurl remote code execution

http://blog.volema.com/curl-rce.html

13 years ago

Gabe Newell: Linux is a “Get-out-of-jail free pass for our industry”

http://www.geekwire.com/2013/valve-cofounder-gabe-newell-linux-getoutofjail-free-pass-industry/

13 years ago

I made a website that rates the latest movies by analyzing social media

http://www.buzzscale.com

13 years ago

Don’t Take Medical Advice From the New York Times Magazine

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/medical_examiner/2013/02/curing_chemophobia_don_t_buy_the_alternative_medicine_in_the_boy_with_a.html

13 years ago

Ten Thousand Cents

http://www.tenthousandcents.com/index.html

13 years ago

Facebook Connect was down

https://www.facebook.com/dialog/permissions.request?client_id=113869198637480&response_type=token%2Csigned_request%2Ccode&display=none&domain=developers.facebook.com&origin=1&redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fs-static.ak.facebook.com%2Fconnect%2Fxd_arbiter.php%3Fversion%3D18%23cb%3Df316d2040c%26origin%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fdevelopers.facebook.com%252Ff3d7317998%26domain%3Ddevelopers.facebook.com%26relation%3Dparent&sdk=joey

13 years ago

3D camera using WebGL

http://airtightinteractive.com/demos/js/webcammesh/

13 years ago

Aaron Swartz wanted to save the world. Why couldn’t he save himself?

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2013/02/aaron_swartz_he_wanted_to_save_the_world_why_couldn_t_he_save_himself.single.html

13 years ago

Ruby 2.0.0-rc2 is released

http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2013/02/08/ruby-2-0-0-rc2-is-released/

13 years ago

In Defense of Copy and Paste

http://zacharyvoase.com/2013/02/08/copypasta/

13 years ago

Your Kindle got stolen? Don't count on Amazon's help

http://vaultausir.blogspot.com/2013/02/your-kindle-got-stolen-dont-count-on.html

13 years ago

Start a timer via the url

http://alrt.io/

13 years ago

Django Unchained – Introduction to Python and Django

https://github.com/NahimNasser/django-unchained

13 years ago

★ 341 Python

A mild case of borderitis

http://www.usabilitypost.com/2010/07/23/a-mild-case-of-borderitis/

13 years ago

Diary: Google Invades

http://www.lrb.co.uk/v35/n03/rebecca-solnit/diary

13 years ago

Why Would You Ever Give Money Through Kickstarter?

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/10/magazine/why-would-you-ever-give-money-through-kickstarter.html?pagewanted=all&_r=3&amp&

13 years ago

Kandan - an open Source alternative to HipChat

http://kandanapp.com/blog/2013/02/06/kandan-1-dot-0-release-announcement/

13 years ago

Netflix's Culture Document (2009)

http://www.slideshare.net/reed2001/culture-2009

13 years ago

Court Of Human Rights: Convictions For File-Sharing Violate Human Rights

http://falkvinge.net/2013/02/07/court-of-human-rights-convictions-for-file-sharing-violates-human-rights/?

13 years ago

Soros: General Theory of Reflexivity (2009)

http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/0ca06172-bfe9-11de-aed2-00144feab49a.html#axzz2KF8USa1z

13 years ago

What Really Killed the Dinosaurs?

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/animal_forecast/2013/02/dinosaur_extinction_was_an_asteroid_the_only_cause_of_the_cretaceous_mass.html

13 years ago

Google: Self-driving cars in 3-5 years. Feds: Not so fast

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/147940-google-self-driving-cars-in-3-5-years-feds-not-so-fast

13 years ago

Wi-Fi “as free as air” – totally false story

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/02/wi-fi-as-free-as-air-the-totally-false-story-that-refuses-to-die/

13 years ago

Playing to Lose: How Competitive Tetris Players Approach An Unwinnable Game

http://chrishiggins.com/w/2013/02/03/playing-to-lose/

13 years ago

Programming from the Ground Up

http://programminggroundup.blogspot.com

13 years ago

From jQuery to JavaScript and back again

http://benhowdle.im/2012/10/30/from-jquery-to-javascript-and-back-again/

13 years ago

The R learning curve

http://datagrad.blogspot.com/2013/02/the-r-learning-curve.html

13 years ago

Show HN: Slidescroll – view your slide decks together

http://slidescroll.com

13 years ago

Rack - Important Security Upgrade

http://rack.github.com/

13 years ago

Monads for Normal Programmers

http://blog.jorgenschaefer.de/2013/01/monads-for-normal-programmers.html?m=1

13 years ago

Fixing Google Analytics for Ghostery

http://ejohn.org/blog/fixing-google-analytics-for-ghostery/

13 years ago

Collection of 6,850 video games and 330 consoles up for sale on Ebay for $550K

http://www.ebay.com/itm/OVER-30-years-of-VIDEOGAMES-COLLECTION-The-story-of-VideoGames-/121062811693

13 years ago

Introducing django-db-tools - A read-only mode for your Django app

http://craigkerstiens.com/2013/02/08/django-read-only-mode/

13 years ago

Political failure modes and the beige dictatorship

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2013/02/political-failure-modes-and-th.html

13 years ago

Giving.Code

http://giving.github.com/

13 years ago

How To Make A Million Dollars

http://danshipper.com/how-to-make-a-million-dollars

13 years ago

Symbiotic Languages [video]

http://ashkenas.com/dotjs/

13 years ago

REPL? A bit more (and less) than that – Erlang shell

http://ferd.ca/repl-a-bit-more-and-less-than-that.html

13 years ago