top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-02-22

Why we don't hire programmers based on puzzles and tricks

https://37signals.com/svn/posts/3071

13 years ago

648 upvotes – 442 comments

X86 MMU fault handling is turing complete

https://github.com/jbangert/trapcc

13 years ago

★ 1.3k C BSD-3-Clause
417 upvotes – 39 comments

Spotify and Facebook: Is that phishing?

https://weluse.de/blog/spotify-an-facebook-ist-das-schon-phishing.html#spotify-and-facebook-is-that-phishing

13 years ago

324 upvotes – 94 comments

The Net Is a Waste of Time (1996)

http://www.nytimes.com/1996/07/14/magazine/the-net-is-a-waste-of-time.html

13 years ago

303 upvotes – 81 comments

The Department of Homeland Security Stole My Boat Today

http://uncrunched.com/2013/02/21/the-department-of-homeland-security-stole-my-boat-today/

13 years ago

289 upvotes – 232 comments

The babies who nap in sub-zero temperatures

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-21537988

13 years ago

282 upvotes – 185 comments

John Carmack: Latency Mitigation Strategies

http://www.altdevblogaday.com/2013/02/22/latency-mitigation-strategies/

13 years ago

257 upvotes – 104 comments

Debuggex: A visual regex debugger

http://www.debuggex.com

13 years ago

255 upvotes – 91 comments

Yahoo CEO Mayer Now Requiring Employees to Not Be Remote

http://allthingsd.com/20130222/yahoo-ceo-mayer-now-requiring-all-remote-employees-to-not-be-remote/

13 years ago

245 upvotes – 219 comments

LaTeX Templates

http://www.LaTeXTemplates.com

13 years ago

238 upvotes – 63 comments

Increasing Public Access to the Results of Scientific Research

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/response/increasing-public-access-results-scientific-research

13 years ago

217 upvotes – 61 comments

The Next SourceForge

http://sourceforge.net/create/

13 years ago

203 upvotes – 86 comments

Domain Knowledge or a Lack Thereof

http://jacquesmattheij.com/domain-knowledge-or-a-lack-thereof

13 years ago

203 upvotes – 110 comments

I used Google Glass

http://www.theverge.com/2013/2/22/4013406/i-used-google-glass-its-the-future-with-monthly-updates

13 years ago

199 upvotes – 157 comments

Song of GitHub

http://song-of-github.herokuapp.com/

13 years ago

197 upvotes – 46 comments

Go as an alternative to Node.js for Very Fast Servers

http://techblog.safaribooksonline.com/2013/02/22/go-as-an-alternative-to-node-js-for-very-fast-servers/

13 years ago

189 upvotes – 139 comments

Your Tumblr is broken. Fix it.

https://medium.com/startup-shenanigans/cc1a60ea7bf2

13 years ago

176 upvotes – 54 comments

184 year-old Indian library goes digital, including 444 yr-old book on Alexander

http://www.nextbigwhat.com/kerala-state-library-digital-available-online-297/

13 years ago

172 upvotes – 33 comments

France to invest €20B in high-speed broadband for the entire country

http://www.zdnet.com/france-to-invest-20bn-in-high-speed-broadband-for-the-entire-country-7000011671/

13 years ago

152 upvotes – 84 comments

Exploring the Abandoned Macy's Midwest Headquarters

http://www.philipithomas.com/macys-building/

13 years ago

144 upvotes – 57 comments

A simple solution to credit card fraud, and why you won't see it any time soon

http://blog.rongarret.info/2013/02/a-simple-solution-to-credit-card-fraud.html

13 years ago

138 upvotes – 127 comments

The depressing math behind consumer-facing apps

http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/2013/02/the-depressing-math-behind-consumer-facing-apps.html

13 years ago

135 upvotes – 43 comments

You Can't Use the Live UK Train Data Without Accepting a Gagging Clause

https://mocko.org.uk/b/2013/02/22/you-cant-use-the-live-uk-train-data-without-accepting-a-gagging-clause/

13 years ago

128 upvotes – 35 comments

Sriracha Hot Sauce Catches Fire

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-02-21/sriracha-hot-sauce-catches-fire-with-only-one-rooster#p1

13 years ago

125 upvotes – 98 comments

Try RethinkDB in your browser

http://www.rethinkdb.com/tutorial/

13 years ago

122 upvotes – 51 comments

All D3.js demonstrations in one document

https://docs.google.com/a/corre.me/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AqMEGBUNwXeHdHpQNlVuY29SUE5BSXVtS3JueGlNYVE#gid=0

13 years ago

113 upvotes – 17 comments

Zendesk was hacked

http://www.zendesk.com/blog/weve-been-hacked

13 years ago

112 upvotes – 58 comments

Textmate and Sublime Text online theme editor

http://tmtheme-editor.herokuapp.com/

13 years ago

102 upvotes – 34 comments

Using a Hosts File To Make The Internet Not Suck As Much

http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/?hn

13 years ago

100 upvotes – 97 comments

Dialects of Lisp

http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/55284/is-lisp-still-useful-in-todays-world-which-version-is-most-used/188048#188048

13 years ago

94 upvotes – 90 comments

Bees and flowers communicate using electrical fields, researchers discover

http://www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2013/9163.html

13 years ago

94 upvotes – 32 comments

Windows Azure Storage certificate expired?

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/windowsazuredata/thread/751c85c5-b3b5-43ba-9d5b-770472ad79e1

13 years ago

93 upvotes – 78 comments

New troll scam: pay us $495 or face felony charges and jail time

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/02/new-troll-scam-pay-us-495-or-face-felony-charges-and-jail-time/

13 years ago

89 upvotes – 24 comments

Letterpress — A minimal, Markdown based blogging system written in Python

http://wangling.me/2013/01/letterpress.html

13 years ago

89 upvotes – 77 comments

Unix system programming in OCaml

http://ocamlunix.forge.ocamlcore.org/ocamlunix.html

13 years ago

87 upvotes – 15 comments

Google I/O 2013

https://developers.google.com/events/io/#

13 years ago

86 upvotes – 56 comments

Paul Graham and David Hornik on Bloomberg West [video]

http://www.bloomberg.com/video/breaking-down-billion-dollar-startup-valuations-1zxUEMyJTYeY8SEMC9Olew.html

13 years ago

86 upvotes – 15 comments

After 14 years, GameSpy closes down

http://au.pc.gamespy.com/articles/122/1227460p1.html

13 years ago

84 upvotes – 63 comments

Show HN: Streem.io - Media Center on the Cloud

http://www.streem.io

13 years ago

82 upvotes – 54 comments

We Should Expect To Pay For Small Open Source Projects

http://www.itistrivial.com/2013/02/support-open-source-developers.html

13 years ago

79 upvotes – 74 comments

Meteor 0.5.7 released: major scaling update, new DDP version, EJSON

https://www.meteor.com/blog/2013/02/21/meteor-057-major-scaling-update-new-ddp-version-ejson

13 years ago

77 upvotes – 23 comments

Interpolation Tricks

http://sol.gfxile.net/interpolation/index.html

13 years ago

75 upvotes – 16 comments

Carmen Ortiz: A Case Of Prosecutorial Diligence Or Legal Overreach?

http://radioboston.wbur.org/2013/02/20/carmen-ortiz

13 years ago

73 upvotes – 20 comments

Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works Shooting for 100 MW Fusion Prototype by 2017

http://www.e-catworld.com/2013/02/lockheed-martins-skunk-works-shooting-for-100-mw-fusion-prototype-by-2017/

13 years ago

72 upvotes – 84 comments

Piracy and Fraud Propelled the US Industrial Revolution

http://mobile.bloomberg.com/news/2013-02-01/piracy-and-fraud-propelled-the-u-s-industrial-revolution.html

13 years ago

71 upvotes – 23 comments

Google reveals plans for 1.1M square foot, 4 floor ‘Bay View’ campus near SF Bay

http://thenextweb.com/google/2013/02/22/google-reveals-plans-for-1-1m-square-foot-4-floor-bay-view-campus-near-san-francisco-bay/?utm_source=Twitter&awesm=tnw.to_j0brb&utm_campaign=social%20media&utm_medium=Spreadus

13 years ago

69 upvotes – 48 comments

Bitcoin breaks 30 USD

http://bitcoincharts.com/charts/mtgoxUSD

13 years ago

66 upvotes – 90 comments

Some Internet Archive employees to receive some of their pay in Bitcoin in April

http://blog.archive.org/2013/02/21/employees-to-be-paid-in-bitcoin-please-donate/

13 years ago

60 upvotes – 34 comments

All Those Companies that Can't Afford Dedicated Security

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/02/all_those_compa.html

13 years ago

60 upvotes – 32 comments

How to read the news to predict the course of nations

http://delvenews.com/wonklens/steve-levine/

13 years ago

55 upvotes – 10 comments
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