top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-02-21

Throwing and catching an inverted pendulum with quadrocopters

http://robohub.org/video-throwing-and-catching-an-inverted-pendulum-with-quadrocopters/

13 years ago

619 upvotes – 133 comments

The Chromebook Pixel

http://chrome.blogspot.com/2013/02/the-chromebook-pixel-for-whats-next.html

13 years ago

475 upvotes – 487 comments

The Truth about a Failing Startup

http://pastebin.com/BgxFCTEC

13 years ago

458 upvotes – 156 comments

Sony Pirates KDE Artwork

http://blogs.kde.org/2013/02/21/sony-pirates-kde-artwork

13 years ago

434 upvotes – 160 comments

Petition to make unlocking phones legal again passes 100,000 signatures

http://thenextweb.com/insider/2013/02/21/petition-to-make-unlocking-phones-legal-again-passes-100000-signatures-white-house-is-required-to-respond/

13 years ago

332 upvotes – 165 comments

How To Make a Quick Buck

http://jacquesmattheij.com/how-to-make-a-quick-buck

13 years ago

314 upvotes – 87 comments

LivingSocial: Employees' and Founders' Common Stock Now Worthless

http://www.privco.com/livingsocial-receives-emergency-110m-cash-infusion-from-existing-investors-to-avoid-bankruptcy

13 years ago

314 upvotes – 224 comments

Google has killed Android (the brand)

http://www.fabcapo.com/2013/02/google-has-killed-android-brand.html

13 years ago

271 upvotes – 110 comments

The Play Framework at LinkedIn

http://engineering.linkedin.com/play/play-framework-linkedin

13 years ago

219 upvotes – 186 comments

Thrown Off a United Airlines Flight for Taking Pictures

http://upgrd.com/matthew/thrown-off-a-united-airlines-flight-for-taking-pictures.html

13 years ago

203 upvotes – 237 comments

Google is working on creating a new protocol named QUIC to replace UDP

https://plus.google.com/u/0/100132233764003563318/posts/b36wVornPtD

13 years ago

192 upvotes – 112 comments

Panoramic, high resolution picture of London

http://btlondon2012.co.uk/pano.html

13 years ago

162 upvotes – 99 comments

Why Should Taxpayers Give Big Banks $83 Billion a Year?

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-02-20/why-should-taxpayers-give-big-banks-83-billion-a-year-.html

13 years ago

152 upvotes – 120 comments

Why is Spotify chugging upload bandwidth when it is not streaming?

http://community.spotify.com/t5/Desktop-Windows/Why-is-Spotify-chugging-upload-bandwidth-when-it-is-not/td-p/70367

13 years ago

151 upvotes – 150 comments

Google Announces $1,299 Chromebook Pixel With 2560×1700px Touchscreen

http://techcrunch.com/2013/02/21/google-announces-1299-chromebook-pixel-with-2560x1700-32-12-85-touchscreen-core-i5-cpu-1tb-of-google-drive-storage-optional-lte/

13 years ago

145 upvotes – 154 comments

Nothing is certain, except death and taxes .. and chargebacks

http://blog.balancedpayments.com/death-taxes-chargebacks-balanced/

13 years ago

141 upvotes – 68 comments

Highcharts 3.0 Beta released

http://www.highcharts.com/component/content/article/2-news/53-highcharts-3-0-beta-released

13 years ago

133 upvotes – 67 comments

When to Sell Your Company

https://medium.com/on-startups/6a25c0cbd358

13 years ago

131 upvotes – 16 comments

Show HN: Like The Onion, But Real

http://theon1on.com

13 years ago

127 upvotes – 90 comments

Stack Exchange’s Colocation Move: Lessons Learned

http://blog.serverfault.com/2013/02/21/stack-exchanges-colocation-move-8-lessons-learned/

13 years ago

126 upvotes – 41 comments

Bitter Pill: Why Medical Bills Are Killing Us

http://healthland.time.com/2013/02/20/bitter-pill-why-medical-bills-are-killing-us/?hpt=hp_c1

13 years ago

124 upvotes – 138 comments

I'm Betting on Elon

http://danielodio.com/im-betting-on-elon?

13 years ago

124 upvotes – 123 comments

The Saddest Map In America

http://dish.andrewsullivan.com/2013/02/21/the-saddest-map-in-america/

13 years ago

121 upvotes – 98 comments

Tell HN: You guys scared edw519 off Hacker News

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5255739

13 years ago

120 upvotes – 50 comments

NBC.com hacked, serving up Citadel malware

http://hitmanpro.wordpress.com/2013/02/21/nbc-com-hacked-serving-up-citadel-malware/

13 years ago

108 upvotes – 32 comments

What really happened at LivingSocial?

http://finance.fortune.cnn.com/2013/02/21/what-really-happened-at-livingsocial/

13 years ago

102 upvotes – 131 comments

Timelike 2: everything fails all the time

http://aphyr.com/posts/278-timelike-2-everything-fails-all-the-time&a

13 years ago

99 upvotes – 26 comments

TCMalloc and MySQL

https://github.com/blog/1422-tcmalloc-and-mysql

13 years ago

94 upvotes – 30 comments

Show HN: Real-time Rock, Paper, Scissors, Lizard, Spock

http://rpsls.ws/

13 years ago

93 upvotes – 35 comments

Negotiating Your Startup Job Offer

http://rob.by/2013/negotiating-your-startup-job-offer

13 years ago

88 upvotes – 26 comments

MIDI.js - Sequencing in Javascript

http://mudcu.be/midi-js/

13 years ago

87 upvotes – 25 comments

Twitter’s Surprising Solution to the Patent Problem: Let Employees Control Them

http://www.wired.com/opinion/2013/02/twitters-ingenious-solution-to-the-patent-problem-let-inventors-control-the-patents/

13 years ago

85 upvotes – 18 comments

Bitter Pill: Why Medical Bills Are Killing Us

http://healthland.time.com/2013/02/20/bitter-pill-why-medical-bills-are-killing-us/

13 years ago

78 upvotes – 81 comments

Why people shouldn’t love you for who you are

http://www.sean-johnson.com/why-people-shouldnt-love-you-for-who-you-are/

13 years ago

78 upvotes – 26 comments

Ohio State develops clean coal technology

http://www.osu.edu/features/2013/ohio-state-develops-clean-coal-technology.html

13 years ago

72 upvotes – 61 comments

The Racket Way

http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Racket

13 years ago

70 upvotes – 44 comments

Samsung Copy and Paste Bug

http://shkspr.mobi/blog/2013/02/samsung-copy-paste-bug-aka-never-buy-samsung-galaxy-phones/

13 years ago

68 upvotes – 37 comments

NASA Rover Confirms First Drilled Mars Rock Sample

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/msl/news/msl20130220b.html

13 years ago

66 upvotes – 23 comments

Multi-core scaling: it’s not multi-threaded

http://erratasec.blogspot.com/2013/02/multi-core-scaling-its-not-multi.html

13 years ago

65 upvotes – 64 comments

Chrome app launcher developer preview

http://blog.chromium.org/2013/02/chrome-app-launcher-developer-preview.html

13 years ago

59 upvotes – 30 comments

App Developer Makes Craigslist Mobile, the Legal Way

http://mashable.com/2013/02/20/craigslist-mobile-app/

13 years ago

58 upvotes – 29 comments

Linux Jobs Forecast: Pressing Need for Linux Talent

http://www.linuxfoundation.org/news-media/announcements/2013/02/2013-linux-jobs-forecast-pressing-need-linux-talent

13 years ago

57 upvotes – 51 comments

Haidinger's Brush: How to see polarization with the naked eye

http://www.polarization.com/haidinger/haidinger.html

13 years ago

57 upvotes – 13 comments

India to launch Mars mission this year: President

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/India-to-launch-Mars-mission-this-year-President/articleshow/18606746.cms

13 years ago

55 upvotes – 46 comments

Better Queuing Metrics With Updated New Relic Add-On

https://blog.heroku.com/archives/2013/2/21/better_queuing_metrics_with_updated_new_relic_add_on/#

13 years ago

55 upvotes – 15 comments

Show HN: urlbox.io - Add beautiful website screenshots to your site

https://urlbox.io

13 years ago

50 upvotes – 44 comments

Is Lisp still useful in today's world? (2011)

http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/55284/is-lisp-still-useful-in-todays-world-which-version-is-most-used

13 years ago

50 upvotes – 59 comments

Custom stack: it goes to 11

http://erratasec.blogspot.ca/2013/02/custom-stack-it-goes-to-11.html

13 years ago

49 upvotes – 6 comments
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