top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-02-23

If you ever feel alone in this...

http://bubs.co/if-you-ever-feel-alone-in-this

13 years ago

439 upvotes – 92 comments

"River" detection in text

http://dsp.stackexchange.com/questions/374/river-detection-in-text

13 years ago

434 upvotes – 91 comments

The Serenity of a 5pm Bedtime

http://ngokevin.com/blog/5pm/

13 years ago

237 upvotes – 106 comments

Person with a long rifle and body armor in the Main Group Building of MIT

http://emergency.mit.net/emergency/

13 years ago

159 upvotes – 373 comments

Stop Using Small Font Sizes

http://hn.explodie.org/writings/stop-using-small-font-size.html

13 years ago

159 upvotes – 121 comments

Saturn's North Pole Is A Hexagon, And No One Knows Why

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap130220.html

13 years ago

144 upvotes – 27 comments

Mininet: Emulating a network on your laptop

http://mininet.github.com

13 years ago

137 upvotes – 32 comments

A user is trying to steal from us and I don't mind

http://plusbryan.com/a-user-is-stealing-from-us-right-now-and-i-dont-mind

13 years ago

131 upvotes – 91 comments

Firefox Will Soon Block Third-Party Cookies

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/13/02/23/2126246/firefox-will-soon-block-third-party-cookies?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

13 years ago

124 upvotes – 140 comments

I mortgaged my future with a Mac

https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2013/02/22/mac/

13 years ago

118 upvotes – 126 comments

How To Buy Your Way Onto The New York Times Bestsellers List

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffbercovici/2013/02/22/heres-how-you-buy-your-way-onto-the-new-york-times-bestsellers-list/

13 years ago

117 upvotes – 39 comments

Keep your wireframes free of distracting Lorem Ipsum

https://github.com/christiannaths/Redacted-Font

13 years ago

★ 5.3k OFL-1.1
111 upvotes – 37 comments

The Great Shift in Japanese Pop Culture (2011)

http://neojaponisme.com/2011/11/28/the-great-shift-in-japanese-pop-culture-part-one/

13 years ago

102 upvotes – 33 comments

Front-End CSS Frameworks

http://usablica.github.com/front-end-frameworks/compare.html

13 years ago

95 upvotes – 45 comments

A Tale of Two Queues

http://blog.jupo.org/2013/02/23/a-tale-of-two-queues/

13 years ago

94 upvotes – 16 comments

I Can't Find a Single Productive Use For My Tablet

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/i-cant-find-a-single-productive-use-for-my-tablet/

13 years ago

94 upvotes – 110 comments

F# end to end

http://colinbul.wordpress.com/2013/02/23/f-end-to-end/

13 years ago

90 upvotes – 46 comments

Discourse ditches CoffeeScript

http://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-better-for-discourse-to-use-javascript-or-coffeescript/3153

13 years ago

90 upvotes – 82 comments

Students build computers out of cardboard

http://www.creativeapplications.net/objects/all-about-cardboard-workshop-by-niklas-roy-cardboard-plotter/

13 years ago

84 upvotes – 9 comments

The Original Hacker's Dictionary (1988)

http://www.dourish.com/goodies/jargon.html

13 years ago

83 upvotes – 24 comments

Common JavaScript Gotchas

https://github.com/stevekwan/best-practices/blob/master/javascript/gotchas.md

13 years ago

★ 1.6k
81 upvotes – 92 comments

3D Real-time Unigine Crypt demo (WebGL)

http://crypt-webgl.unigine.com/

13 years ago

79 upvotes – 37 comments

FPGA x86 Processor

http://code.google.com/p/fpga-x86-processor/

13 years ago

75 upvotes – 36 comments

25 Years to Mac - How Ubuntu Pushed Me Away from the PC

http://randomdrake.com/2013/02/23/25-years-to-mac-how-ubuntu-pushed-me-away-from-the-pc/

13 years ago

75 upvotes – 129 comments

How To Write A Calculator in 70 Python Lines

http://blog.erezsh.com/how-to-write-a-calculator-in-70-python-lines-by-writing-a-recursive-descent-parser/

13 years ago

74 upvotes – 31 comments

How do the state-of-the-art pathfinding algorithms for changing graphs differ?

http://cstheory.stackexchange.com/questions/11855/how-do-the-state-of-the-art-pathfinding-algorithms-for-changing-graphs-d-d-l

13 years ago

73 upvotes – 12 comments

Body Suit Gives You Real-Life 'Spidey Sense'

http://news.discovery.com/tech/robotics/body-suit-spidey-sense-130222.htm

13 years ago

69 upvotes – 15 comments

Hiring Engineers, a Process

http://hueniverse.com/2013/02/hiring-engineers-a-process/

13 years ago

69 upvotes – 47 comments

Bill to make legislation more transparent, easier to understand

http://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2013/02/us_rep_justin_amash_introduces.html

13 years ago

65 upvotes – 34 comments

Six tanks at Hanford nuclear site in Washington are leaking

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57570857/wash-state-governor-6-underground-nuclear-tanks-leaking/

13 years ago

63 upvotes – 44 comments

Flow Charts

http://neil.fraser.name/news/2013/02/23/

13 years ago

61 upvotes – 30 comments

Why Learning Assembly Language Is Still a Good Idea (2004)

http://onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2004/05/06/writegreatcode.html

13 years ago

52 upvotes – 48 comments

Why PyLadies?

http://www.chesnok.com/daily/2013/02/23/why-pyladies/

13 years ago

51 upvotes – 25 comments

Cappuccino - The Node.js Project

http://www.cappuccino-project.org/blog/2013/02/the-node-project.html

13 years ago

50 upvotes – 57 comments

Msgpack can't differentiate between raw binary data and text strings

https://github.com/msgpack/msgpack/issues/121#

13 years ago

★ 7.4k
48 upvotes – 35 comments
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