top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-02-19

Ubuntu on tablets

http://www.ubuntu.com/devices/tablet

13 years ago

528 upvotes – 259 comments

Hello. I'm a compiler

http://stackoverflow.com/a/2685541/5646

13 years ago

472 upvotes – 154 comments

Vim After 11 Years

http://statico.github.com/vim.html

13 years ago

405 upvotes – 239 comments

Using Silk Road

http://www.gwern.net/Silk%20Road

13 years ago

368 upvotes – 165 comments

Nginx now supports Websockets

http://nginx.com/news/nginx-websockets.html

13 years ago

358 upvotes – 65 comments

Good sleep, good learning, good life

http://www.supermemo.com/articles/sleep.htm

13 years ago

324 upvotes – 121 comments

A Most Peculiar Test Drive – Follow Up

http://www.teslamotors.com/blog/most-peculiar-test-drive-follow

13 years ago

277 upvotes – 200 comments

Using SimCity to diagnose my home town's traffic problem

http://gamasutra.com/blogs/MikeRose/20130219/186896/Using_SimCity_to_diagnose_my_home_towns_traffic_problem.php

13 years ago

258 upvotes – 113 comments

What Does 200 Calories Look Like?

http://www.wisegeek.com/what-does-200-calories-look-like.htm

13 years ago

239 upvotes – 255 comments

Sergey Brin, Please Pick up your Paychecks

http://angrystatistician.blogspot.com/2013/02/sergey-brin-please-pick-up-your.html

13 years ago

220 upvotes – 84 comments

AWS OpsWorks - Flexible Application Management in the Cloud Using Chef

http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2013/02/aws-opsworks-flexible-application-management-in-the-cloud.html

13 years ago

208 upvotes – 77 comments

Dropzone.js - JS library for drag-and-drop file uploads with image previews

http://www.dropzonejs.com/

13 years ago

206 upvotes – 32 comments

Chinese Army Unit Is Seen as Tied to Hacking Against U.S.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/19/technology/chinas-army-is-seen-as-tied-to-hacking-against-us.html?emc=na&pagewanted=all

13 years ago

198 upvotes – 109 comments

Aaron Swartz's FBI File Released

http://news.firedoglake.com/2013/02/19/aaron-swartzs-fbi-file/

13 years ago

184 upvotes – 52 comments

The second-order-diff Git trick

http://blog.moertel.com/posts/2013-02-18-git-second-order-diff.html

13 years ago

180 upvotes – 41 comments

Dell’s Linux Ultrabook gets more pixels, European availability

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/02/dells-linux-ultrabook-gets-more-pixels-european-availability/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+arstechnica%2Findex+%28Ars+Technica+-+All+content%29

13 years ago

177 upvotes – 138 comments

Getting started with Salt: a Puppet/Chef alternative built in Python on ZeroMQ

http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/getting-started-salt-stack-other-configuration-management-system-built-python

13 years ago

169 upvotes – 72 comments

SkiFree in the Browser

http://basicallydan.github.com/skifree.js

13 years ago

157 upvotes – 61 comments

Oxford Temporarily Blocks Google Docs

http://blogs.oucs.ox.ac.uk/oxcert/2013/02/18/google-blocks/

13 years ago

156 upvotes – 155 comments

Groundwork - A Responsive HTML5, CSS and JavaScript Framework

http://groundwork.sidereel.com/

13 years ago

155 upvotes – 96 comments

Why Amazon Hired a Car Mechanic to Run Its Cloud Empire

http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/02/james-hamilton-amazon/

13 years ago

145 upvotes – 45 comments

Mandiant Exposes APT1, One of China’s Cyber Espionage Units

https://www.mandiant.com/blog/mandiant-exposes-apt1-chinas-cyber-espionage-units-releases-3000-indicators/

13 years ago

140 upvotes – 61 comments

Amazon Redshift is 10x faster and cheaper than Hadoop and Hive

http://www.slideshare.net/Hapyrus/amazon-redshift-is-10x-faster-and-cheaper-than-hadoop-hive

13 years ago

138 upvotes – 42 comments

3D printing pen lets you draw sculptures in thin air

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn23183-3dprinting-pen-turns-doodles-into-sculptures.html

13 years ago

137 upvotes – 25 comments

Security releases issued

https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2013/feb/19/security/

13 years ago

128 upvotes – 55 comments

Linux 3.8 Released

http://kernelnewbies.org/LinuxChanges

13 years ago

125 upvotes – 43 comments

The Super Supercapacitor [video]

http://focusforwardfilms.com/contest/84/the-super-supercapacitor-brian-golden-davis

13 years ago

124 upvotes – 49 comments

Step-By-Step Landing Page Copywriting

http://nathanbarry.com/step-by-step-landing-page-copywriting/

13 years ago

123 upvotes – 53 comments

Show HN: TextRazor, a scriptable text mining API

http://www.textrazor.com

13 years ago

118 upvotes – 44 comments

Zerg demo – Xen instance spawned for each web request

http://zerg.erlangonxen.org/

13 years ago

113 upvotes – 36 comments

Real-time SQL on Hadoop using Postgres foreign tables

http://citusdata.com/blog/63-real-time-sql-queries-on-hadoop

13 years ago

98 upvotes – 9 comments

Codecademy Partners With Twitter, Evernote, and Others To Offer New API Lessons

http://techcrunch.com/2013/02/19/codecademy-partners-with-twitter-evernote-box-and-others-to-offer-a-suite-of-new-api-lessons/

13 years ago

98 upvotes – 33 comments

Ask PG: Do you ever get overwhelmed?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5242957

13 years ago

93 upvotes – 24 comments

Building Backbone.js apps with Backlift part 1: Views and Templates

http://gun.io/blog/Building-Backbone.js-apps-with-Backlift-Views-and-Templates/

13 years ago

85 upvotes – 10 comments

Apple hit by hackers who targeted Facebook last week

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/02/19/us-apple-hackers-idUSBRE91I10920130219

13 years ago

83 upvotes – 43 comments

The Alchian-Allen Theorem

http://azmytheconomics.wordpress.com/2011/10/12/the-alchian-allen-theorem/

13 years ago

82 upvotes – 20 comments

If Higgs Boson Calculations Are Right, A 'Bubble' Could End Universe

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/02/19/172422921/if-higgs-boson-calculations-are-right-a-catastrophic-bubble-could-end-universe

13 years ago

79 upvotes – 65 comments

Emblem.js: concise, indented alternative templating language for Handlebars.js

http://www.emblemjs.com

13 years ago

78 upvotes – 66 comments

Show HN: HN Frontpage Minus Techmeme

http://lessmeme.com/less.html

13 years ago

74 upvotes – 45 comments

Zenefits (YC W13) Gives Startups A One-Stop Shop For Employee Benefits

http://techcrunch.com/2013/02/18/y-combinator-backed-zenefits-gives-small-businesses-a-one-stop-shop-for-finding-and-managing-employee-benefits/

13 years ago

66 upvotes – 17 comments

This is how you healthcare: American Death in London

http://nsfwcorp.co/afboza

13 years ago

66 upvotes – 123 comments

Like a Swarm of Lethal Bugs: The Most Terrifying Drone Video Yet

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/02/like-a-swarm-of-lethal-bugs-the-most-terrifying-drone-video-yet/273270/

13 years ago

63 upvotes – 61 comments

The Trouble With Online College

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/19/opinion/the-trouble-with-online-college.html

13 years ago

60 upvotes – 63 comments

Missing bitcoins on Coinbase

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5245847

13 years ago

59 upvotes – 19 comments

The Oxford Comma and The Internet

http://blog.anguscroll.com/oxford-comma

13 years ago

57 upvotes – 43 comments

Ask HN: State of Django vs. Rails?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5247393

13 years ago

55 upvotes – 78 comments
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