top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-02-18

Why HN was down

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5239673

13 years ago

1049 upvotes – 287 comments

Why I Retired From Apple

http://donmelton.com/2013/02/17/why-i-retired-from-apple/

13 years ago

300 upvotes – 63 comments

Money Trees – Rap Genius Response to Heroku

http://rapgenius.com/Lemon-money-trees-rap-genius-response-to-heroku-lyrics

13 years ago

283 upvotes – 100 comments

Diablo in JavaScript

http://mitallast.github.com/diablo-js/

13 years ago

281 upvotes – 113 comments

WebSocket proxy support added to nginx trunk

http://trac.nginx.org/nginx/changeset/5073/nginx

13 years ago

261 upvotes – 54 comments

Making $1 million from affiliate links on "Ad-Free" blog

http://on-advertising.tumblr.com/post/42994773187/maria-popova-have-you-made-1m-on-affiliate-ads-while

13 years ago

256 upvotes – 140 comments

A nice, little known C feature: Static array indices in parameter declarations

http://hamberg.no/erlend/posts/2013-02-18-static-array-indices.html

13 years ago

252 upvotes – 120 comments

Beej's Guide to Network Programming

http://www.beej.us/guide/bgnet/output/html/singlepage/bgnet.html

13 years ago

245 upvotes – 47 comments

Show HN: What colour is your IP address?

http://prettyip.meetstrange.com/

13 years ago

208 upvotes – 73 comments

So what happened to the HN server?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5237947

13 years ago

170 upvotes – 127 comments

Hacker News is down, so we made five issues free

http://blog.hackermonthly.com/hn-down.html

13 years ago

162 upvotes – 40 comments

A peek into the curious world of HDMI copy protection

http://adamsblog.aperturelabs.com/2013/02/hdcp-is-dead-long-live-hdcp-peek-into.html

13 years ago

154 upvotes – 35 comments

US Supreme Court to Hear Monsanto Seed Patent Case

https://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/16/business/supreme-court-to-hear-monsanto-seed-patent-case.html

13 years ago

141 upvotes – 79 comments

Slate: a Mac OS X window manager for power users

http://mauriciogardini.com/post/43348489262/slate-a-mac-os-x-window-manager-for-power-users

13 years ago

139 upvotes – 70 comments

India blocks 73 URLs criticizing IIPM, an MBA college

http://www.medianama.com/2013/02/223-iipm-website-blocks/

13 years ago

138 upvotes – 44 comments

There's no magic: virtualenv edition

https://www.hackerschool.com/blog/14-there-is-no-magic-virtualenv-edition

13 years ago

134 upvotes – 24 comments

Opera sends 90 out the door

http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=no&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=no&ie=UTF-8&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.digi.no%2F911787%2Fopera-sendte-90-paa-doren

13 years ago

121 upvotes – 113 comments

Obama Seeking to Boost Study of Human Brain

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/18/science/project-seeks-to-build-map-of-human-brain.html?hp&gwh=272E78410C052816AA5CF561786F33C7

13 years ago

119 upvotes – 75 comments

glsl.js - abusing WebGL shaders for efficient 2D

http://blog.greweb.fr/2013/02/glsl-js-a-javascript-glsl-library-dry-efficient/

13 years ago

107 upvotes – 24 comments

Wikipedia processing. PyPy vs CPython benchmark

http://rz.scale-it.pl/2013/02/18/wikipedia_processing._PyPy_vs_CPython_benchmark.html

13 years ago

101 upvotes – 35 comments

Bill Gates 'not satisfied' with Microsoft's innovations

http://news.cnet.com/8301-10805_3-57569944-75/bill-gates-not-satisfied-with-microsofts-innovations/

13 years ago

101 upvotes – 88 comments

Tweet crashes Mac Twitter client

http://www.jwz.org/blog/2013/02/you-doom-us-all-to-inhuman-toil-for-the-one-whose-name-cannot-be-expressed-in-one-hundred-forty-characters/

13 years ago

93 upvotes – 57 comments

Show HN: Stop asking your clients "What browser are you on?"

http://www.browser-details.com

13 years ago

93 upvotes – 82 comments

Asm.js: A Low Level, Highly Optimizable Subset of JavaScript for Compilers

http://badassjs.com/post/43420901994/asm-js-a-low-level-highly-optimizable-subset-of

13 years ago

89 upvotes – 56 comments

Problems With Precision and Judgment, but Not Integrity, in Tesla Test

http://publiceditor.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/02/18/problems-with-precision-and-judgment-but-not-integrity-in-tesla-test/

13 years ago

86 upvotes – 99 comments

Spec analysis: XBox720 vs PS4

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/df-hardware-spec-analysis-durango-vs-orbis

13 years ago

84 upvotes – 73 comments

Things I found on GitHub: shell history

http://corte.si/posts/hacks/github-shhistory/index.html

13 years ago

80 upvotes – 81 comments

Hackers Turn Burger King’s Tweet Stream Into A Whopper Of A Mess

http://techcrunch.com/2013/02/18/hackers-turn-burger-kings-tweet-stream-into-a-whopper-of-a-mess/

13 years ago

77 upvotes – 46 comments

The Twilight Years of Cap'n Crunch (2007)

http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB116863379291775523-_EQCu93LyjSommsN6J7qiCozuu8_20070122.html?mod=blogs

13 years ago

77 upvotes – 40 comments

The Pirate Bay Reports Anti-Piracy Outfit to the Police

http://torrentfreak.com/the-pirate-bay-reports-anti-piracy-outfit-to-the-police-130218/

13 years ago

73 upvotes – 19 comments

A/B Testing

http://jackg.org/ab-testing/

13 years ago

70 upvotes – 31 comments

Crafting CSS3 Transitions and Animations

http://learn.shayhowe.com/advanced-html-css/transitions-animations

13 years ago

68 upvotes – 8 comments

Introducing hexagonal.js

http://blog.arkency.com/2013/02/introducing-hexagonal-dot-js/

13 years ago

59 upvotes – 42 comments

Literate Jenks Natural Breaks and How the Idea of Code is Lost

http://macwright.org/2013/02/18/literate-jenks.html

13 years ago

59 upvotes – 15 comments

Why We Can't Tell Good Wine From Bad (2011)

http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2011/10/you-are-not-so-smart-why-we-cant-tell-good-wine-from-bad/247240/#

13 years ago

56 upvotes – 79 comments

Internet Posting Removal Act

http://legiscan.com/IL/bill/SB1614

13 years ago

56 upvotes – 19 comments

Cross Origin Madness

http://homakov.blogspot.com/2013/02/cross-origin-madness-or-your-frames-are.html

13 years ago

54 upvotes – 14 comments

An Atheist's Glimpse of God

http://blog.deobald.ca/2013/02/an-atheists-glimpse-of-god.html

13 years ago

52 upvotes – 31 comments

Live Coding in CoffeeScript

http://bryanenglish.com/2013/02/18/live-coding-in-coffeescript.html

13 years ago

50 upvotes – 34 comments

Book about Launching and Running a Web Application

http://startingandsustaining.com

13 years ago

50 upvotes – 10 comments
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