top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-02-25

The best programmers are the quickest to Google

http://blog.framebase.io/post/43973262180/the-best-programmers-are-the-quickest-to-google

13 years ago

486 upvotes – 197 comments

The MS Surface Pro

http://www.penny-arcade.com/2013/02/24/the-ms-surface-pro

13 years ago

440 upvotes – 155 comments

How to build a news app that never goes down and costs you practically nothing

http://blog.apps.npr.org/2013/02/14/app-template-redux.html?

13 years ago

385 upvotes – 123 comments

The Extraordinary Science of Addictive Junk Food

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/24/magazine/the-extraordinary-science-of-junk-food.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

13 years ago

362 upvotes – 216 comments

No more remote work at Yahoo

http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3453-no-more-remote-work-at-yahoo

13 years ago

323 upvotes – 206 comments

A closer look at the performance of Google Chrome

http://aptiverse.com/blog/closer_look_at_chrome/

13 years ago

318 upvotes – 163 comments

Dwarf Fortress: Ten hours with the most inscrutable video game of all time

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2013/02/dwarf-fortress-ten-hours-with-the-most-inscrutable-video-game-of-all-time/

13 years ago

258 upvotes – 185 comments

Is speed reading really possible?

http://skeptoid.com/episodes/4229

13 years ago

253 upvotes – 143 comments

How to stop Time Warner Cable sucking at Youtube

http://mitchribar.com/2013/02/time-warner-cable-sucks-for-youtube-twitchtv/

13 years ago

249 upvotes – 132 comments

Literate CoffeeScript

http://coffeescript.org/#literate

13 years ago

234 upvotes – 108 comments

Thalmic (YC W13) introduces gesture control without the cameras

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn23210-armband-adds-a-twitch-to-gesture-control.html

13 years ago

194 upvotes – 47 comments

Shutting down my side project of two years

http://joshsharp.com.au/blog/view/shutting-down-blasterfm

13 years ago

180 upvotes – 57 comments

Bypassing Google’s Two-Factor Authentication

https://blog.duosecurity.com/2013/02/bypassing-googles-two-factor-authentication/

13 years ago

180 upvotes – 70 comments

We Aren’t the World

http://www.psmag.com/magazines/pacific-standard-cover-story/joe-henrich-weird-ultimatum-game-shaking-up-psychology-economics-53135/

13 years ago

174 upvotes – 148 comments

The Next Generation of Gesture Control

https://getmyo.com/#hn

13 years ago

161 upvotes – 46 comments

LG acquires webOS from HP, plans to use it in smart TV platform

http://www.engadget.com/2013/02/25/lg-acquires-webos-from-hp-smart-tv-future/

13 years ago

153 upvotes – 70 comments

Redshift Performance and Cost

http://nerds.airbnb.com/redshift-performance-cost

13 years ago

145 upvotes – 45 comments

Court of Appeal bans Bayesian probability

http://understandinguncertainty.org/court-appeal-bans-bayesian-probability-and-sherlock-holmes

13 years ago

142 upvotes – 126 comments

The Meaning of 'su'

http://pthree.org/2009/12/31/the-meaning-of-su/

13 years ago

141 upvotes – 55 comments

Email-First Startups

http://ryanhoover.me/post/43986871442/email-first-startups

13 years ago

137 upvotes – 46 comments

Microryza (YC W13) Is A “Kickstarter” For Scientific Research

http://techcrunch.com/2013/02/25/microryza-yc/

13 years ago

129 upvotes – 35 comments

As of today, App.net is a freemium service

http://blog.app.net/2013/02/25/introducing-a-free-tier/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=introducing-a-free-tier

13 years ago

115 upvotes – 159 comments

Meldium (YC W13) Controls Your Team’s Shared App Passwords For You

http://techcrunch.com/2013/02/25/meldium/

13 years ago

108 upvotes – 49 comments

Who Has the Guts for Gluten?

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/24/opinion/sunday/what-really-causes-celiac-disease.html?pagewanted=all

13 years ago

100 upvotes – 130 comments

Stanford Female CS Student: I Fight Impostor Syndrome

http://ladycoders.com/2013/02/25/stanford-female-cs-student-i-fight-impostor-syndrome/

13 years ago

99 upvotes – 115 comments

Spoiler Alert – JQuery plugin for sensitive content

http://joshbuddy.github.com/spoiler-alert/

13 years ago

99 upvotes – 42 comments

The True Cost of Healthcare in the US

http://truecostofhealthcare.org/

13 years ago

97 upvotes – 114 comments

Linus Torvalds Explodes at Red Hat Developer

http://linux.slashdot.org/story/13/02/25/1251236/linus-torvalds-explodes-at-red-hat-developer

13 years ago

95 upvotes – 54 comments

Tesla says it lost “hundreds” of orders after New York Times controversy

http://arstechnica.com/business/2013/02/tesla-says-it-lost-hundreds-of-orders-after-new-york-times-controversy/

13 years ago

89 upvotes – 114 comments

Action.IO: Web Development Server with Full Console, Online IDE and SSH Access

https://www.action.io

13 years ago

86 upvotes – 32 comments

Semantics3 (YC W13) Is A Massive Consumer Products Database To Rule Them All

http://techcrunch.com/2013/02/25/yc-backed-semantics3-is-a-massive-consumer-products-database-to-rule-them-all/

13 years ago

83 upvotes – 34 comments

FPGA Programming for the Masses

http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2443836

13 years ago

82 upvotes – 51 comments

Healthcare tech ideas we'd like to fund

http://rockhealth.com/2013/02/ideas-wed-like-to-fund-2/

13 years ago

75 upvotes – 29 comments

Luma updates its video camera app for iOS, adding cinematic image stabilization

http://thenextweb.com/apps/2013/02/25/luma-improves-its-super-smooth-image-stabilization-for-shooting-video-on-ios/

13 years ago

70 upvotes – 31 comments

Has Joel Spolsky Jumped the Shark? (2006)

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2006/09/has-joel-spolsky-jumped-the-shark.html/#

13 years ago

70 upvotes – 83 comments

Why Hating Your Shitty Job Only Makes It Worse

http://www.smaggle.com/2013/02/25/hating-shitty-job-worse/

13 years ago

69 upvotes – 45 comments

Is Foxconn Fleeing China? Sure Looks Like It

http://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonchang/2013/02/24/is-foxconn-fleeing-china-sure-looks-like-it/

13 years ago

69 upvotes – 28 comments

Let's build a JPEG decoder: Huffman tables

http://imrannazar.com/Let%27s-Build-a-JPEG-Decoder%3A-Huffman-Tables

13 years ago

69 upvotes – 13 comments

Need Bitcoins? This ATM takes dollars and funds your account

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57570925-38/need-bitcoins-this-atm-takes-dollars-and-funds-your-account/

13 years ago

67 upvotes – 52 comments

Sony jumps on the Mozilla bandwagon, will launch Firefox OS device in 2014

http://thenextweb.com/mobile/2013/02/25/sony-jumps-on-the-mozilla-bandwagon-will-bring-launch-firefox-os/

13 years ago

67 upvotes – 27 comments

TCP Traceroute

http://www.catonmat.net/blog/tcp-traceroute/

13 years ago

66 upvotes – 15 comments

Swartz Prosecutors Weighed 'Guerilla' Manifesto, Justice Official Tells Congress

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/22/aaron-swartz-prosecutors_n_2735675.html

13 years ago

66 upvotes – 34 comments

Wikipedia over SMS: Getting Wikipedia to the people who need it most

http://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/02/22/getting-wikipedia-to-the-people-who-need-it-most/

13 years ago

62 upvotes – 19 comments

CoffeeComplete Plus – True autocompletions for CoffeeScript in SublimeText

https://github.com/justinmahar/SublimeCSAutocompletePlus

13 years ago

★ 171 Python
62 upvotes – 7 comments

If You’re Thinking of Launching a Social Media Startup, Please Don’t

http://technori.com/2013/02/3290-if-youre-thinking-of-launching-a-social-media-startup-please-dont/

13 years ago

62 upvotes – 31 comments

Facebook Lost a Great Engineer

https://medium.com/on-startups/4c0197625f69

13 years ago

57 upvotes – 59 comments

Emmet (formerly Zen Coding) v1.0 is out

http://emmet.io/blog/emmet-v1/

13 years ago

57 upvotes – 22 comments

Long-lost continent found under the Indian Ocean

http://www.nature.com/news/long-lost-continent-found-under-the-indian-ocean-1.12487

13 years ago

56 upvotes – 8 comments

Cointoss

http://alexmuir.com/cointoss

13 years ago

56 upvotes – 28 comments

CoffeeScript in Firefox console with DOM support

https://github.com/paulmillr/firefox-jsterm

13 years ago

54 upvotes – 17 comments
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