top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-02-24

Ruby 2.0.0 Released

http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2013/02/24/ruby-2-0-0-p0-is-released/

13 years ago

546 upvotes – 285 comments

Why Use Make

http://bost.ocks.org/mike/make/

13 years ago

358 upvotes – 240 comments

Ask HN: A patent troll is targeting my transit app

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5272575

13 years ago

219 upvotes – 59 comments

Mobile Operators Announce Commitment to Firefox OS

https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2013/02/24/mozilla-unlocks-the-power-of-the-web-on-mobile-with-firefox-os/

13 years ago

213 upvotes – 91 comments

Bootstrapping a Software Product

https://speakerdeck.com/garrettdimon/bootstrapping-a-software-product

13 years ago

205 upvotes – 58 comments

TOML, Tom's Own Markup Language

https://github.com/mojombo/toml

13 years ago

★ 20.4k MIT
155 upvotes – 169 comments

Why are there no true cross-platform filesystems?

http://yulian.kuncheff.com/blog/2013/02/21/why-are-there-no-true-cross-platform-filesystems/

13 years ago

154 upvotes – 105 comments

Stop Writing REST API Clients

http://ttezel.github.com/

13 years ago

153 upvotes – 130 comments

Deals Missed

http://www.ovp.com/companies-we-backed/deals-missed.html

13 years ago

152 upvotes – 32 comments

Drone ‘Nightmare Scenario’ Now Has A Name: ARGUS

http://www.aclu.org/blog/technology-and-liberty-free-speech-national-security/drone-nightmare-scenario-now-has-physical

13 years ago

148 upvotes – 92 comments

New Anti-Piracy System to Hit U.S. Internet Users on Monday

http://www.dailydot.com/news/copyright-alerts-system-launch-six-strikes/

13 years ago

147 upvotes – 195 comments

Rise and Fall of a Hacker Who Found the Secrets of the Next Xbox and PlayStation

http://kotaku.com/5986239

13 years ago

122 upvotes – 22 comments

Django Suit: modern theme for Django admin

http://djangosuit.com

13 years ago

121 upvotes – 49 comments

Atlantic Canadian Founders Deserve Better Than FAN (First Angel Network)

http://startupnorth.ca/2013/02/19/atlantic-canadian-founders-deserve-better-than-first-angel-network-fan/

13 years ago

108 upvotes – 45 comments

How to hire a product manager

https://www.kennethnorton.com/essays/productmanager.html

13 years ago

96 upvotes – 37 comments

The Dark Side of C++ (2007) [pdf]

http://www.fefe.de/c++/c%2b%2b-talk.pdf

13 years ago

95 upvotes – 52 comments

Almost Too Beautiful (2003)

http://www.cnvill.net/mfkgann2.htm

13 years ago

95 upvotes – 47 comments

Hulk: A Haskell IRC server

http://chrisdone.com/posts/hulk-haskell-irc-server

13 years ago

94 upvotes – 36 comments

HipsterNews - DesignerNews theme for HackerNews

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hipsternews/midnccdcbhikpniledkdhojbhdnkkkdb

13 years ago

92 upvotes – 59 comments

How to start working on side projects

https://medium.com/life-of-learning/39ba4ff482e1

13 years ago

91 upvotes – 40 comments

Fullproof - A javascript fulltext search engine library

http://kornr.net/prez/paris.js22/

13 years ago

88 upvotes – 18 comments

Why Developing Serious Relationships in Your 20s Matters

https://medium.com/architecting-a-life/cff4161f551c

13 years ago

86 upvotes – 84 comments

Critical Thinking: Why Is It So Hard to Teach? [pdf]

http://www.aft.org/pdfs/americaneducator/summer2007/Crit_Thinking.pdf

13 years ago

82 upvotes – 30 comments

Boot-to-Guile

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guile-user/2013-02/msg00131.html

13 years ago

81 upvotes – 17 comments

Programs should be Small

http://mkhadikov.com/2012/02/02/programs-should-be-small.html

13 years ago

80 upvotes – 72 comments

Why Pinterest-style layouts are worthless to everyone except Pinterest

http://stephencorwin.com/blog/?p=97

13 years ago

78 upvotes – 37 comments

Introduction to Graph Theory: Finding The Shortest Path (Part 2)

http://maxburstein.com/blog/intro-to-graph-theory-finding-shortest-path-part2/

13 years ago

77 upvotes – 8 comments

Dalek designer Ray Cusick passes away aged 84

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/02/24/dalek_designer_ray_cuscik_passes_away/

13 years ago

76 upvotes – 3 comments

The comeback of static typing

http://kishorelive.com/2013/02/24/the-comeback-of-static-typing/

13 years ago

73 upvotes – 111 comments

The Chromebook Pixel’s best feature

http://shayelk.in/?p=841

13 years ago

72 upvotes – 92 comments

Parallelism and Concurrency with Haskell and Cloud Haskell

http://www.infoq.com/interviews/coutts-haskell

13 years ago

71 upvotes – 1 comments

A Brief History of the Chinese Growth Model

http://www.mpettis.com/2013/02/21/a-brief-history-of-the-chinese-growth-model/

13 years ago

67 upvotes – 6 comments

Minix 3.2.1 Released

http://www.minix3.org/releasenotes-321.html

13 years ago

66 upvotes – 24 comments

Concurrency is not Parallelism. Rob Pike at Waza 2012 [video]

https://blog.heroku.com/archives/2013/2/24/concurrency_is_not_parallelism/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+heroku+%28Heroku+News%29

13 years ago

65 upvotes – 48 comments

Review: Python for Kids

http://www.wired.com/geekmom/2013/02/review-python-for-kids/

13 years ago

61 upvotes – 12 comments

Parallel.js: A javascript library for parallel computing

http://adambom.github.com/parallel.js

13 years ago

58 upvotes – 8 comments

Bypassing Windows ASLR using "skype4COM" protocol handler

http://www.greyhathacker.net/?p=641

13 years ago

57 upvotes – 11 comments

99 ways to say '(I love you)

http://matt.might.net/articles/i-love-you-in-racket/

13 years ago

56 upvotes – 4 comments

Inmates Go High-Tech as Startup Mania Hits San Quentin

http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2013/02/24/us/24reuters-prison-usa-startup.html?hp&_r=0

13 years ago

55 upvotes – 23 comments

Bootstrap-switch

https://github.com/nostalgiaz/bootstrap-switch

13 years ago

★ 5k Pug MIT
54 upvotes – 17 comments

How many draws of a random number [0,1] are needed to sum to 1

http://bayesianthink.blogspot.com/2013/02/the-expected-draws-to-sum-over-one.html

13 years ago

50 upvotes – 39 comments

Home office produces hardest workers

http://www.theage.com.au/it-pro/business-it/home-office-produces-hardest-workers-20130223-2ey2d.html

13 years ago

50 upvotes – 43 comments

German student builds electromagnetic harvester to recharge a battery

http://phys.org/news/2013-02-german-student-electromagnetic-harvester-recharge.html

13 years ago

49 upvotes – 31 comments

"Wake up Japan!" says Dave McClure

http://fumijp.blogspot.jp/2013/02/wake-up-japan-says-dave-mclure.html

13 years ago

48 upvotes – 37 comments

Ruby 1.9 doesn't implement ISO 8601 properly

http://tommorris.org/posts/8114

13 years ago

47 upvotes – 48 comments

Blocking China IP Address Blocks

http://mergy.org/2013/02/blocking-china-ip-address-blocks/

13 years ago

46 upvotes – 43 comments
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