top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-02-17

Ask HN: Tools of the trade, 2013 edition

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5235137

13 years ago

494 upvotes – 159 comments

Your Lifestyle Has Already Been Designed (2010)

http://www.raptitude.com/2010/07/your-lifestyle-has-already-been-designed/

13 years ago

227 upvotes – 121 comments

Halo Creator Unveils Its Next Masterpiece, a Persistent Online World

http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2013/02/bungie-destiny/

13 years ago

213 upvotes – 149 comments

The Free Universal Construction Kit

http://fffff.at/free-universal-construction-kit/

13 years ago

191 upvotes – 51 comments

What it's like to uncover a $1 billion fraud

http://stockfraudstory.blogspot.com/

13 years ago

177 upvotes – 32 comments

There Are Giant Camera Resolution Test Charts Scattered Across the US

http://www.petapixel.com/2013/02/15/there-are-giant-camera-resolution-test-charts-scattered-across-the-us/

13 years ago

166 upvotes – 46 comments

A gallery of interesting IPython Notebooks

https://github.com/ipython/ipython/wiki/A-gallery-of-interesting-IPython-Notebooks

13 years ago

★ 16.6k Python BSD-3-Clause
161 upvotes – 8 comments

Letter from the grave (2009)

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/stevecoll/2009/01/letter-from-the.html

13 years ago

143 upvotes – 39 comments

SourceTree for Windows beta

http://blog.sourcetreeapp.com/2013/02/14/sourcetree-for-windows-beta-signup/

13 years ago

140 upvotes – 52 comments

LibreOffice: cleaning and re-factoring a giant code-base [video]

https://fosdem.org/2013/schedule/event/challenges_libreoffice/

13 years ago

134 upvotes – 94 comments

Write Yourself a Haskell in Lisp

http://gergo.erdi.hu/blog/2013-02-17-write_yourself_a_haskell..._in_lisp/

13 years ago

129 upvotes – 13 comments

The “It” Crowd Doesn’t Like Me and I Finally Don’t Care

http://juliefredrickson.tumblr.com/post/43321974630/the-it-crowd-doesnt-like-me-and-i-finally-dont-care

13 years ago

128 upvotes – 106 comments

Tips for work-life balance

http://matt.might.net/articles/work-life-balance/

13 years ago

127 upvotes – 24 comments

Forth Warrior: A Programming Puzzle Game

https://github.com/JohnEarnest/Mako/tree/master/games/Warrior2

13 years ago

★ 596 Forth
126 upvotes – 18 comments

The Story of Wanz, 51-Year-Old Breakout Singer on "Thrift Shop"

http://popdust.com/2013/01/25/the-story-of-wanz-the-51-year-old-breakout-singer-on-macklemores-thrift-shop/

13 years ago

122 upvotes – 47 comments

Design of Lisp-based Processors (1979)

http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/5731

13 years ago

117 upvotes – 35 comments

Interactive Vim Tutorial

http://www.openvim.com/tutorial.html

13 years ago

102 upvotes – 33 comments

As Families Change, Korea’s Elderly Are Turning to Suicide

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/17/world/asia/in-korea-changes-in-society-and-family-dynamics-drive-rise-in-elderly-suicides.html?pagewanted=all

13 years ago

101 upvotes – 47 comments

Ask HN: What is the coolest JS library out there?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5234058

13 years ago

95 upvotes – 92 comments

How domains became backwards

http://david.newgas.net/how-domains-became-backwards/

13 years ago

95 upvotes – 37 comments

In China, Betting It All on a Child in College

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/17/business/in-china-families-bet-it-all-on-a-child-in-college.html?pagewanted=4&ref=business&pagewanted=all

13 years ago

92 upvotes – 67 comments

Dear awesome startups, don’t join an accelerator, unless…

http://pandodaily.com/2013/02/16/dear-awesome-startups-dont-join-an-accelerator-unless-y-combinator/

13 years ago

85 upvotes – 36 comments

Winter chills limit range of the Tesla Model S electric car

http://news.consumerreports.org/cars/2013/02/tesla-model-s-winter-chills-limit-the-electric-cars-range.html?EXTKEY=I72RSC0

13 years ago

85 upvotes – 111 comments

A Chinese Hacker's Identity Unmasked

http://mobile.businessweek.com/articles/2013-02-14/a-chinese-hackers-identity-unmasked

13 years ago

82 upvotes – 45 comments

How To Design For Android Devices

http://blog.mengto.com/how-to-design-for-android-devices/

13 years ago

80 upvotes – 32 comments

World's Dumbest Rebrand?

http://www.inc.com/geoffrey-james/worlds-dumbest-rebrand.html

13 years ago

75 upvotes – 95 comments

Android apps can now use Subscription Billing

http://developer.android.com/google/play/billing/billing_subscriptions.html

13 years ago

74 upvotes – 10 comments

PayMill. Is it really a clone of Stripe?

http://notes.prashant.es/post/paymill.-is-it-really-a-clone-of-stripe

13 years ago

72 upvotes – 56 comments

Harlem Shake - For Website

http://hsmaker.com

13 years ago

70 upvotes – 27 comments

Scans reveal intricate brain wiring

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-21487016

13 years ago

69 upvotes – 19 comments

Lua in the NetBSD Kernel [pdf]

https://fosdem.org/2013/schedule/event/lua_in_the_netbsd_kernel/attachments/slides/278/export/events/attachments/lua_in_the_netbsd_kernel/slides/278/kernel_mode_lua.pdf

13 years ago

68 upvotes – 43 comments

Python vs. Node vs. PyPy benchmarks

http://blog.kgriffs.com/2012/11/13/python-vs-node-vs-pypy-benchmarks.html

13 years ago

63 upvotes – 53 comments

Materials - HackerThings

http://hackerthings.com/category/materials

13 years ago

56 upvotes – 6 comments

Antibiotics and Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria in Meat: Not Getting Better

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/02/narms-adufa-2011/

13 years ago

55 upvotes – 31 comments

No Emails on Saturdays

http://swapped.tumblr.com/post/43344145251/no-mail-on-saturday

13 years ago

52 upvotes – 31 comments
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