top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-02-13

Heroku's Ugly Secret: The story of how the cloud-king turned its back on Rails

http://rapgenius.com/James-somers-herokus-ugly-secret-lyrics

13 years ago

1763 upvotes – 423 comments

Opera moves to WebKit

http://my.opera.com/haavard/blog/2013/02/13/webkit

13 years ago

938 upvotes – 282 comments

Markdown.css – make HTML look like plain-text

http://mrcoles.com/demo/markdown-css/

13 years ago

420 upvotes – 89 comments

Psilocybin shows success in medical trials

http://www.salon.com/2011/09/28/the_new_lsd_cure/

13 years ago

284 upvotes – 165 comments

Why It's Time to Break the Code of Silence at the Airport

http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20130213133819-332179-why-it-s-time-to-break-the-code-of-silence-at-the-airport

13 years ago

262 upvotes – 229 comments

It is cheaper to fly to US than buy Adobe software in Australia

http://www.news.com.au/technology/biztech/it-is-cheaper-to-fly-to-us-than-buy-adobe-software-in-australia/story-fn5lic6c-1226576920561

13 years ago

257 upvotes – 166 comments

WebKit is the jQuery of Browser Engines

http://ejohn.org/blog/webkit-is-the-jquery-of-browser-engines/

13 years ago

252 upvotes – 204 comments

I Was a Political Prisoner at Birth in North Korea

http://www.northkoreanrefugees.com/2007-09-atbirth.htm

13 years ago

248 upvotes – 134 comments

16×16 Pixel Art Tutorial

http://www.photonstorm.com/archives/2291/16x16-pixel-art-tutorial

13 years ago

245 upvotes – 56 comments

Introducing The Paper Bay

http://www.jacquesmattheij.com/introducing-thepaperbay

13 years ago

232 upvotes – 90 comments

Inventing Chromebook

http://blog.jeff-nelson.com/2012/11/on-inventing-chromebook.html

13 years ago

222 upvotes – 77 comments

Show HN: Build your own Heroku on your own servers

http://www.cloud66.com

13 years ago

207 upvotes – 108 comments

Our Beta is Now Open to All Developers

https://www.firebase.com/blog/2013-02-13-firebase-opens-beta-to-all-developers.html

13 years ago

202 upvotes – 59 comments

Photoshop 1.0 Source Code

http://computerhistory.org/atchm/adobe-photoshop-source-code/

13 years ago

192 upvotes – 78 comments

It could happen to you too

http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2013/02/chase-just-handed-over-all-our-assets.html

13 years ago

188 upvotes – 77 comments

How Much Traffic is Too Much Traffic For CloudFlare?

http://phoboslab.org/log/2013/02/how-much-traffic-is-too-much-traffic-for-cloudflare

13 years ago

186 upvotes – 79 comments

300 million users strong, Opera moves to WebKit

http://my.opera.com/haavard/blog/2013/02/13/webkit

13 years ago

181 upvotes – 50 comments

Massive Dosing - the LSD Thumbprint

http://insanebraintrain.blogspot.fr/2011/07/massive-dosing-lsd-thumbprint.html

13 years ago

164 upvotes – 156 comments

How I work with Postgres – psql, My PostgreSQL Admin

http://craigkerstiens.com/2013/02/13/How-I-Work-With-Postgres/

13 years ago

149 upvotes – 56 comments

The credentials trap

http://cdixon.org/2013/02/13/the-credentials-trap/

13 years ago

139 upvotes – 24 comments

Five days with Pebble

http://danilocampos.com/2013/02/five-days-with-pebble/

13 years ago

129 upvotes – 61 comments

March 16, USPTO switches from 'first to invent' to 'first to file'

http://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/top-ten-reasons-to-file-your-patent-appl-98912/

13 years ago

126 upvotes – 82 comments

Google’s New Office In Dublin

http://www.home-designing.com/2013/02/googles-new-office-in-dublin

13 years ago

115 upvotes – 78 comments

My Apology

http://www.jonahlehrer.com/2013/02/my-apology/

13 years ago

113 upvotes – 88 comments

How to program if you are blind

http://stackoverflow.com/q/118984/127880

13 years ago

110 upvotes – 33 comments

Why I loved building Basecamp for iPhone in RubyMotion

http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3432

13 years ago

104 upvotes – 59 comments

Execution in the Kingdom of Nouns (2006)

http://steve-yegge.blogspot.de/2006/03/execution-in-kingdom-of-nouns.html

13 years ago

94 upvotes – 67 comments

Several out of work as Valve makes 'large decisions' about its future

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/186592/Several_out_of_work_as_Valve_makes_large_decisions_about_its_future.php#.URwJ8WckT8n

13 years ago

88 upvotes – 86 comments

Pixelapse (YC W12): GitHub-Style Sharing and Version Control For Design Projects

http://techcrunch.com/2013/02/13/yc-backed-pixelapse-brings-github-style-sharing-version-control-to-your-design-projects/

13 years ago

85 upvotes – 20 comments

Lua IDE "Decoda" open sourced

http://unknownworlds.com/blog/lua-ide-decoda-open-source/

13 years ago

81 upvotes – 11 comments

Let’s Code: Test-Driven JavaScript

http://www.letscodejavascript.com/

13 years ago

80 upvotes – 16 comments

MIDI visualizer in WebGL

https://github.com/qiao/euphony

13 years ago

★ 858 JavaScript
78 upvotes – 18 comments

Clang based documentation generator for C and C++

http://jessevdk.github.com/cldoc/

13 years ago

75 upvotes – 20 comments

Wi-Fi patent troll hit with racketeering suit emerges unscathed

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/02/wi-fi-patent-troll-hit-with-novel-anti-racketeering-charges-emerges-unscathed/

13 years ago

75 upvotes – 60 comments

My New FiberHouse in Kansas City

http://www.feld.com/wp/archives/2013/02/my-new-fiberhouse-in-kansas-city.html

13 years ago

75 upvotes – 45 comments

A simple Motion Blur demo using WebGL

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/8554242/dmitri/projects/MotionBlurDemo/MotionBlurDemo.html

13 years ago

75 upvotes – 47 comments

The Art of George W. Bush and the Importance of Play

https://medium.com/architecting-a-life/d7e85a8a640d

13 years ago

72 upvotes – 18 comments

Microsoft Surface Pro Teardown

http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Microsoft+Surface+Pro+Teardown/12842/1?singlePage

13 years ago

72 upvotes – 34 comments

VA Medical Appointment Scheduling Contest – $9M in prizes

http://vascheduling.challenge.gov/

13 years ago

71 upvotes – 40 comments

How I Stopped Eating Food

http://robrhinehart.com/?p=298

13 years ago

70 upvotes – 43 comments

Cars and Robust Cities Are Fundamentally Incompatible

http://www.theatlanticcities.com/commute/2013/02/cars-and-robust-cities-are-fundamentally-incompatible/4651/

13 years ago

70 upvotes – 84 comments

Industrial Mathematics

http://www.the-adam.com/adam/math-4q6/index.html

13 years ago

64 upvotes – 19 comments

Draft Preview: Uber for writing

http://ninjasandrobots.com/draft-preview-uber-for-writing

13 years ago

63 upvotes – 22 comments

Strikingly (YC W13) Builds Compelling Mobile-First Web Experiences

http://techcrunch.com/2013/02/13/strikingly/

13 years ago

60 upvotes – 18 comments
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