top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-02-12

Show HN: a web-based xkcd-style comix editor

http://cmx.io

13 years ago

586 upvotes – 109 comments

Google Fails the Turing Test

https://plus.google.com/114419328456762929144/posts/NAJbzrZwWNj

13 years ago

385 upvotes – 165 comments

Web Development: A Crazy World

http://rubiken.com/blog/2013/02/11/web-dev-a-crazy-world.html

13 years ago

383 upvotes – 196 comments

Stupid, Stupid xBox

http://ilikecode.wordpress.com/2013/02/12/stupid-stupid-xbox/

13 years ago

338 upvotes – 176 comments

Linode vs. DigitalOcean – performance benchmarks

http://jasonormand.com/2013/02/08/linode-vs-digitalocean-performance-benchmarks/

13 years ago

305 upvotes – 257 comments

Flat Pixels

http://sachagreif.com/flat-pixels/

13 years ago

265 upvotes – 68 comments

Write More Classes

http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2013/2/13/moar-classes/

13 years ago

238 upvotes – 145 comments

A warning to college profs from a high school teacher

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2013/02/09/a-warning-to-college-profs-from-a-high-school-teacher/

13 years ago

233 upvotes – 219 comments

DuckTales invented a new animated wonderland—that quickly disappeared

http://www.avclub.com/articles/ducktales-invented-new-animated-wonderlandthat-qu,92324/

13 years ago

225 upvotes – 101 comments

Bitcoins can now be used to pay for Domino’s Pizza

http://www.digitaltrends.com/web/virtual-bitcoins-can-now-be-traded-for-dominos-pizza/

13 years ago

224 upvotes – 195 comments

Yours vs. Mine

http://dcurt.is/yours-vs-mine

13 years ago

224 upvotes – 102 comments

Incredible Secret Money Machine

http://kk.org/cooltools/archives/9659

13 years ago

219 upvotes – 71 comments

Email transparency

https://stripe.com/blog/email-transparency

13 years ago

219 upvotes – 64 comments

Mexico: The New China

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/27/opinion/sunday/the-tijuana-connection-a-template-for-growth.html?_r=1&&pagewanted=all

13 years ago

152 upvotes – 58 comments

White House Owes Response To Petition To Fire Prosecutor Of Aaron Swartz

http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/02/11/white-house-owes-response-to-petition-to-fire-prosecutor-of-aaron-swartz-and-other-hackers/

13 years ago

151 upvotes – 80 comments

Bill Budge posts Pinball Construction Set source code on GitHub

https://github.com/billbudge/PCS_Atari800

13 years ago

★ 166 Assembly MIT
143 upvotes – 45 comments

The Future of Excel

https://datanitro.com/blog/2013/2/12/future/

13 years ago

139 upvotes – 113 comments

Julia, I love you (2012)

http://www.johnmyleswhite.com/notebook/2012/03/31/julia-i-love-you/

13 years ago

136 upvotes – 65 comments

Think Like a 5-Year Old

http://www.inc.com/jeff-hoffman/innovative-leadership-power-of-childlike-wonder.html

13 years ago

121 upvotes – 64 comments

Tell HN: The problem with BangWithFriends - it's not anonymous

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5206807

13 years ago

107 upvotes – 75 comments

Sexism is not funny, let's stop laughing

http://johannakoll.posterous.com/sexism-is-not-funny-lets-stop-laughing

13 years ago

105 upvotes – 235 comments

R packages I wish I'd known about earlier

http://blog.yhathq.com/posts/10-R-packages-I-wish-I-knew-about-earlier.html

13 years ago

104 upvotes – 15 comments

Octave for Android

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.octave&hl=en

13 years ago

96 upvotes – 43 comments

'Artificial' earthquake detected in North Korea may be nuclear test

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/artificial-earthquake-detected-in-north-korea-may-be-nuclear-test/story-e6frg6so-1226576256804

13 years ago

96 upvotes – 132 comments

Show HN: Beautiful real-time dashboards with FnordMetric

http://fnordmetric.io/?yc=true

13 years ago

95 upvotes – 12 comments

How An Algorithm Feels From Inside

http://lesswrong.com/lw/no/how_an_algorithm_feels_from_inside/

13 years ago

94 upvotes – 17 comments

Remote: the new book by 37signals, coming fall 2013

http://37signals.com/remote

13 years ago

85 upvotes – 36 comments

Bill Gates' AMA

http://gist.io/4759466

13 years ago

82 upvotes – 21 comments

Github powered comments

http://bradleyfew.com/github-powered-comments/

13 years ago

81 upvotes – 17 comments

"earthquakes in north korea"

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=earthquakes+in+north+korea

13 years ago

79 upvotes – 38 comments

"Intel Packet of Death" not Intel's problem

http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/Intel-Packet-of-Death-not-Intel-s-problem-1801537.html

13 years ago

78 upvotes – 32 comments

Free Source Code Available To Download

http://blog.apptopia.com/free-source-code/

13 years ago

75 upvotes – 32 comments

The Charges Are Flying Over a Test of Tesla’s Charging Network

http://wheels.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/02/12/the-charges-are-flying-over-a-test-of-teslas-charging-network/

13 years ago

73 upvotes – 116 comments

Amazon Route 53 Introduces DNS failover

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/Route53/latest/DeveloperGuide/health-checks.html

13 years ago

72 upvotes – 24 comments

Willow Garage to Shut Down

http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/robotics-software/willow-garage-to-shut-down#.URmStSCZfZI.hackernews

13 years ago

70 upvotes – 19 comments

Get 50GB of Box free for life

https://www.box.com/signup/o/dell_50gb_give_get

13 years ago

69 upvotes – 79 comments

Storenvy Goes From Getting Kicked Out Of YC To Raising A $5M Round

http://techcrunch.com/2013/02/12/storenvy-goes-from-getting-kicked-out-of-yc-to-raising-a-5m-round/

13 years ago

67 upvotes – 23 comments

Teaching Distributed Systems in Go

http://da-data.blogspot.com/2013/02/teaching-distributed-systems-in-go.html

13 years ago

66 upvotes – 19 comments

Is Everything We Know About Password-Stealing Wrong? [pdf]

http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/161829/EverythingWeKnow.pdf

13 years ago

64 upvotes – 27 comments

Starry, Starry, Starry Night

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/02/03/magazine/look-stars.html

13 years ago

61 upvotes – 26 comments

Who speaks Latin these days?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-21412604

13 years ago

60 upvotes – 68 comments

Security Firm Bit9 Hacked, Used to Spread Malware

http://krebsonsecurity.com/2013/02/security-firm-bit9-hacked-used-to-spread-malware/

13 years ago

60 upvotes – 14 comments

The official Basecamp iPhone app

http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3430-launch-the-official-basecamp-iphone-app

13 years ago

57 upvotes – 51 comments

A List of Sublime Text 2 Hotkeys

http://wrttn.in/2395c6

13 years ago

57 upvotes – 33 comments

Leonardo's Notebook Digitized in All Its Befuddling Glory

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/02/leonardos-notebook-digitized-in-all-its-befuddling-glory/273042/

13 years ago

56 upvotes – 24 comments

An iOS App Marketing Strategy Guide

http://www.apptamin.com/blog/app-marketing-strategy/

13 years ago

55 upvotes – 10 comments

Helping Beginners Get HTML Right

http://kev.inburke.com/kevin/helping-you-get-html-right/

13 years ago

55 upvotes – 12 comments

Critic Markup: Plain-Text Editing Markup for Humans

http://criticmarkup.com/

13 years ago

54 upvotes – 30 comments

A/B Testing With Limited Data

http://elem.com/~btilly/ab-testing-multiple-looks/part2-limited-data.html

13 years ago

52 upvotes – 20 comments

Why Do Cars Have Brakes?

http://www.devjoy.com/2013/02/why-do-cars-have-brakes/

13 years ago

50 upvotes – 97 comments
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