top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-02-15

Meteorite crash in Russia

http://rt.com/news/meteorite-crash-urals-chelyabinsk-283/

13 years ago

862 upvotes – 295 comments

Introducing Boxen

https://github.com/blog/1345-introducing-boxen

13 years ago

470 upvotes – 125 comments

Ten predictions (2004)

https://sites.google.com/site/steveyegge2/ten-predictions

13 years ago

457 upvotes – 309 comments

Heroku - Bamboo Routing Performance

https://blog.heroku.com/archives/2013/2/15/bamboo_routing_performance/

13 years ago

343 upvotes – 147 comments

Why Mozilla Matters

https://brendaneich.com/2013/02/why-mozilla-matters/

13 years ago

307 upvotes – 156 comments

Posterous will turn off on April 30

http://blog.posterous.com/thanks-from-posterous

13 years ago

301 upvotes – 130 comments

Deep Inside: A Study of 10,000 Pornstars and Their Careers

http://jonmillward.com/blog/studies/deep-inside-a-study-of-10000-porn-stars/

13 years ago

277 upvotes – 108 comments

Obama Calls for Patent Reform to Topple Trolls

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/02/obama-calls-patent-reform-topple-trolls

13 years ago

249 upvotes – 73 comments

Russian meteor largest in a century

http://www.nature.com/news/russian-meteor-largest-in-a-century-1.12438

13 years ago

242 upvotes – 158 comments

Posterous cofounders create a replacement: Posthaven

https://posthaven.com

13 years ago

226 upvotes – 136 comments

HN will be down Saturday morning while we switch servers

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5229364

13 years ago

225 upvotes – 118 comments

Asm.js: a strict subset of js for compilers – working draft

http://asmjs.org/spec/latest/

13 years ago

217 upvotes – 199 comments

Duke Nukem 3D Code Review

http://fabiensanglard.net/duke3d/index.php

13 years ago

200 upvotes – 39 comments

Test drive: DC to Boston in a Tesla Model S

http://money.cnn.com/2013/02/15/autos/tesla-model-s/

13 years ago

182 upvotes – 97 comments

Obama endorses required high school coding classes

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-57569503-1/obama-endorses-required-high-school-coding-classes/

13 years ago

172 upvotes – 101 comments

HTML5 color palette tool

http://color.hailpixel.com/

13 years ago

159 upvotes – 44 comments

I got into YC after applying six times. Here's my advice for YC applicants

http://iamwil.posterous.com/i-got-into-yc-after-applying-six-times-heres/

13 years ago

157 upvotes – 37 comments

Facebook computers compromised by zero-day Java exploit

http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/02/facebook-computers-compromised-by-zero-day-java-exploit/

13 years ago

150 upvotes – 103 comments

Dash-cams: Russia’s Last Hope For Civility And Survival On The Road (2012)

http://www.animalnewyork.com/2012/russian-dashcam/

13 years ago

147 upvotes – 117 comments

What Thomas Edison expected job candidates to know

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F40F10FB355B1B7A93C3A8178ED85F458285F9

13 years ago

136 upvotes – 141 comments

Seer SEO Toolbox

http://www.seerinteractive.com/seo-toolbox/

13 years ago

124 upvotes – 32 comments

Stop Working More than 40 Hours a Week

http://business.time.com/2012/04/26/stop-working-more-than-40-hours-a-week/?iid=biz-main-lede

13 years ago

119 upvotes – 84 comments

How to build a racing game

http://codeincomplete.com/posts/2012/6/22/javascript_racer/

13 years ago

110 upvotes – 16 comments

Amazon Redshift Now Available to All Customers

http://aws.amazon.com/redshift/?open

13 years ago

91 upvotes – 21 comments

Show HN: I Designed this HN Mac App – Should I develop it?

http://www.hackernewstab.com

13 years ago

86 upvotes – 83 comments

Array.js: A better array for the browser and Node.js

https://github.com/MatthewMueller/array

13 years ago

★ 707 JavaScript
82 upvotes – 47 comments

Computer science students successfully boycott class final

http://www.jhunewsletter.com/2013/01/31/computer-science-students-successfully-boycott-class-final-76275/#.UR61lSydSjI.twitter

13 years ago

77 upvotes – 103 comments

Amazon RedShift vs. local PostgreSQL

http://rarestblog.com/blog/2013/02/15/redshift-postgresql-in-the-cloud/

13 years ago

73 upvotes – 32 comments

Magnet Implants Can Actually be Pretty Annoying

http://www.iamdann.com/2013/02/15/magnet-implants-can-actually-be-pretty-annoying

13 years ago

72 upvotes – 48 comments

A cure for type 1 diabetes in dogs

http://www.kurzweilai.net/a-cure-for-type-1-diabetes

13 years ago

69 upvotes – 10 comments

A New Vaccine For Drinking Could Keep Alcoholics Sober

http://www.fastcoexist.com/1681344/a-new-vaccine-for-drinking-could-keep-alcoholics-sober

13 years ago

68 upvotes – 73 comments

Ecomom is liquidating and shutting down

http://pandodaily.com/2013/02/14/ecomom-is-liquidating-and-shutting-down-investors-are-stunned/

13 years ago

66 upvotes – 49 comments

Google Now's smartphone is the real deal

http://winsupersite.com/mobile-devices/bad-news-windows-phone-fans-google-now-real-deal

13 years ago

61 upvotes – 67 comments

Protecting People On Facebook

https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-security/protecting-people-on-facebook/10151249208250766

13 years ago

58 upvotes – 15 comments

Need job to save my relationship

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5224888

13 years ago

56 upvotes – 66 comments

Scheduling morning emails with Python and Celery

http://www.cucumbertown.com/engineering/scheduling-morning-emails-with-django-and-celery/

13 years ago

56 upvotes – 17 comments

Bill Gates has donated over $36,854,000,000 in his lifetime

http://www.youhavetocit.com/2012/04/bill-gates-had-donated-over-36854000000.html?m=1

13 years ago

55 upvotes – 40 comments

1-man startups

http://venturehacks.com/articles/1-man-startups

13 years ago

53 upvotes – 29 comments

Rap Genius responds to Heroku's apology

http://rapgenius.com/Oren-teich-bamboo-routing-performance-lyrics

13 years ago

53 upvotes – 47 comments
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