top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-02-11

I’m Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. AMA

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/18bhme/im_bill_gates_cochair_of_the_bill_melinda_gates/

13 years ago

579 upvotes – 146 comments

Elon Musk calls NYT review of the Tesla Model S ‘fake,’ citing vehicle log data

http://thenextweb.com/insider/2013/02/11/elon-musk-calls-nytimes-review-of-the-tesla-model-s-fake-citing-vehicle-log-data-as-proof/

13 years ago

568 upvotes – 485 comments

It's all who you know?

http://sivers.org/xn

13 years ago

442 upvotes – 103 comments

Why Discourse uses Ember.js

http://eviltrout.com/2013/02/10/why-discourse-uses-emberjs.html

13 years ago

267 upvotes – 72 comments

Realtime Responsive Typography Based on Viewing Distance via Webcam

http://webdesign.maratz.com/lab/responsivetypography/realtime/

13 years ago

254 upvotes – 59 comments

The Promise of Firefox OS

http://sergimansilla.com/blog/promise-of-ffos/

13 years ago

219 upvotes – 143 comments

In 2005 Motorola Tried to Sue Me For Unlocking Phones

http://sina.is/unlocking-phones/

13 years ago

213 upvotes – 98 comments

At Facebook, zero-day exploits, backdoor code bring war games drill to life

http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/02/at-facebook-zero-day-exploits-backdoor-code-bring-war-games-drill-to-life/

13 years ago

205 upvotes – 48 comments

The Best Entrepreneurs Are Older, Have Less Ego

http://mashable.com/2013/02/11/entrepreneur-test/

13 years ago

201 upvotes – 97 comments

"I Want Hue" – Colors for Data Scientists

http://tools.medialab.sciences-po.fr/iwanthue/

13 years ago

189 upvotes – 37 comments

A congressman who justifies every vote on Facebook

http://www.facebook.com/repjustinamash

13 years ago

187 upvotes – 91 comments

ActiveRecord Vulnerability - Circumvention of attr_protected

https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/rubyonrails-security/AFBKNY7VSH8

13 years ago

175 upvotes – 93 comments

fatcache - Memcache on SSD

https://github.com/twitter/fatcache

13 years ago

★ 1.3k C Apache-2.0
175 upvotes – 54 comments

Natural Language Processing for the Working Programmer

http://nlpwp.org/book/

13 years ago

169 upvotes – 46 comments

Robots.txt

http://explicitly.me/robots.txt

13 years ago

158 upvotes – 132 comments

EU Data Protection: Proposed Amendments Written by US Lobbyists

http://blogs.computerworlduk.com/open-enterprise/2013/02/eu-data-protection-proposed-amendments-written-by-us-lobbyists/index.htm

13 years ago

154 upvotes – 38 comments

I'm Slowly Losing My Mind

http://blackhole12.blogspot.com/2013/02/im-slowly-losing-my-mind.html

13 years ago

142 upvotes – 113 comments

Wevorce (YC W13) makes divorce suck less

https://wefunder.com/wevorce

13 years ago

137 upvotes – 101 comments

Rails 3.2.12, 3.1.11, and 2.3.17 have been released

http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2013/2/11/SEC-ANN-Rails-3-2-12-3-1-11-and-2-3-17-have-been-released/

13 years ago

136 upvotes – 61 comments

AngularUI for AngularJS

http://angular-ui.github.com/

13 years ago

136 upvotes – 39 comments

IntelliJ IDEA 12 Wins Jolt Award for Coding Tools 2013

http://blogs.jetbrains.com/idea/2013/02/intellij-idea-12-wins-jolt-award-for-coding-tools-2013/

13 years ago

135 upvotes – 99 comments

Ruby on Rails vulnerable to mass assignment and SQL injection

http://www.zweitag.de/en/blog/ruby-on-rails-vulnerable-to-mass-assignment-and-sql-injection

13 years ago

123 upvotes – 87 comments

Tell HN: We've Lost An Engineering Luminary - Bob Davis (IEEE)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5199655

13 years ago

116 upvotes – 9 comments

Gamers deemed too fast for real-life race

http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/blogs/world-of-sport/gamers-deemed-too-fast-real-life-race-143459150.html

13 years ago

103 upvotes – 35 comments

Hey disaster novelists: Remember bicycles

http://www.futurepundit.com/archives/008895.html

13 years ago

102 upvotes – 90 comments

Google Go: The Good, the Bad, and the Meh

http://blog.carlsensei.com/post/42828735125

13 years ago

95 upvotes – 122 comments

Workspaces - Simplifying Your Find and Fix Workflow With The Chrome DevTools

https://plus.google.com/u/0/+GoogleChromeDevelopers/posts/644qQuBKZeL

13 years ago

93 upvotes – 13 comments

Two Jokers Social Engineer their way into the Superbowl [video]

http://praetorianprefect.com/archives/2013/02/two-jokers-social-engineer-their-way-into-the-superbowl/

13 years ago

91 upvotes – 30 comments

Paying Top Dollar for Condos, and Leaving Them Empty

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/12/nyregion/paying-top-dollar-for-condos-and-leaving-them-empty.html

13 years ago

86 upvotes – 75 comments

Building Twitter Bootstrap

http://alistapart.com/article/building-twitter-bootstrap

13 years ago

83 upvotes – 25 comments

Manually creating an ELF executable

http://www.negrebskoh.net/howto/howto_elf_exec.html

13 years ago

79 upvotes – 35 comments

Rover - All Your SF Transit Options In One Place

http://blog.roversf.com

13 years ago

79 upvotes – 38 comments

Screenhero (YC W13) Gives WebEx And Screen Sharing Apps A Run For Their Money

http://m.techcrunch.com/2013/02/11/screenhero-yc/

13 years ago

78 upvotes – 20 comments

Acts of God

http://raganwald.posterous.com/acts-of-god

13 years ago

77 upvotes – 155 comments

Denial of Service and Unsafe Object Creation Vulnerability in JSON Gem

https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/rubyonrails-security/4_YvCpLzL58

13 years ago

72 upvotes – 18 comments

Minecraft: Pi Edition is available for download

http://mojang.com/2013/02/minecraft-pi-edition-is-available-for-download/

13 years ago

69 upvotes – 10 comments

Behind The Scenes At Adioso - Part 3: Patience

http://tomhoward.co/part-3-patience/

13 years ago

69 upvotes – 6 comments

About Not Owning Sh*t

http://teddy.fr/2013/02/10/about-not-owning-shit/

13 years ago

66 upvotes – 108 comments

Titanium – a Clojure graph library built on top of Titan

http://blog.clojurewerkz.org/blog/2013/02/11/introducing-titanium/

13 years ago

62 upvotes – 14 comments

Signs of startup dysfunction

http://www.sumonsadhu.com/post/42815785374/the-seven-signs-of-startup-dysfunction

13 years ago

60 upvotes – 0 comments

Facebook sued over 'like' button

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21411622

13 years ago

56 upvotes – 39 comments
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