top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-02-26

DOJ Admits Aaron's Prosecution Was Political

http://tarensk.tumblr.com/post/44047376234/doj-admits-aarons-prosecution-was-political

13 years ago

520 upvotes – 148 comments

Code.org – Dedicated to growing computer programming education

http://www.code.org/#

13 years ago

509 upvotes – 181 comments

Apple’s Deleting iCloud Emails That Contain The Phrase 'Barely Legal Teens'

http://www.cultofmac.com/217557/apples-deleting-icloud-emails-that-contain-the-phrase-barely-legal-teens/

13 years ago

464 upvotes – 385 comments

Zuck, Bill Gates, Jack Dorsey In Short Film To Inspire Kids To Learn How To Code

http://techcrunch.com/2013/02/26/zuck-bill-gates-jack-dorsey-code-org-film/

13 years ago

441 upvotes – 223 comments

Google Chrome may soon get audio indicators to show you noisy tabs

http://thenextweb.com/google/2013/02/25/google-chrome-may-soon-get-audio-indicators-to-show-you-noisy-tabs-keep-them-open-when-memory-runs-out/

13 years ago

437 upvotes – 105 comments

Django 1.5 released

https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2013/feb/26/15/

13 years ago

427 upvotes – 170 comments

Why a one-room West Virginia library runs a $20,000 Cisco router

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/02/why-a-one-room-west-virginia-library-runs-a-20000-cisco-router/

13 years ago

388 upvotes – 187 comments

Introducing Google+ Sign-In: simple and secure, minus the social spam

http://googleplusplatform.blogspot.com/2013/02/google-plus-sign-in.html

13 years ago

314 upvotes – 172 comments

Digital audio signals and how they really behave [video]

http://www.xiph.org/video/vid2.shtml

13 years ago

304 upvotes – 61 comments

Ruby on Rails 4.0.0.beta1 released

http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2013/2/25/Rails-4-0-beta1/

13 years ago

302 upvotes – 88 comments

Aaron Swartz Was Targeted by Feds Over His Activism

http://mashable.com/2013/02/25/aaron-swartz-targeted-for-activism/

13 years ago

281 upvotes – 62 comments

How Valve hires, how it fires, and how much it pays

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/187296/How_Valve_hires_how_it_fires_and_how_much_it_pays.php#.USwvx6WSJ8F

13 years ago

278 upvotes – 157 comments

Three CSS features you need to know about

http://aptiverse.com/blog/css_features/

13 years ago

273 upvotes – 53 comments

Bandwidth needs halved by new compression written in Go

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/02/cloudflare-blows-hole-in-laws-of-web-physics-with-go-and-railgun/

13 years ago

270 upvotes – 118 comments

Simple user styles for popular websites

http://connors.github.com/simple-user-styles/

13 years ago

218 upvotes – 73 comments

Aerial photography ban proposed for all but government

http://agbeat.com/business-news/aerial-photography-ban-proposed-for-all-but-government/

13 years ago

194 upvotes – 154 comments

Bad sleep 'dramatically' alters body

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-21572686

13 years ago

192 upvotes – 76 comments

An alternative to alert()

http://github.hubspot.com/messenger/

13 years ago

191 upvotes – 79 comments

IE10 for Windows 7 Globally Available

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2013/02/26/ie10-for-windows-7-globally-available-for-consumers-and-businesses.aspx

13 years ago

187 upvotes – 148 comments

Indian PSLV successfully lofts multiple satellites

http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2013/02/pslv-launch-multi-sats/

13 years ago

179 upvotes – 19 comments

Bullying has to stop, now.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltun92DfnPY

13 years ago

176 upvotes – 176 comments

Python Generators in Depth

http://excess.org/article/2013/02/itergen2/

13 years ago

171 upvotes – 26 comments

App.net’s new direction

http://www.marco.org/2013/02/25/adn-freemium

13 years ago

138 upvotes – 80 comments

Stuxnet Missing Link Found, Resolves Some Mysteries Around the Cyberweapon

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/02/new-stuxnet-variant-found/

13 years ago

128 upvotes – 75 comments

DIY Weapons of the Syrian Rebels

http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2013/02/diy-weapons-of-the-syrian-rebels/100461/

13 years ago

127 upvotes – 103 comments

Client-side MVC is not a silver bullet

http://mir.aculo.us/2013/02/26/client-side-mvc-is-not-a-silver-bullet/

13 years ago

117 upvotes – 82 comments

I'm not too happy about Sublime Text 3

http://sloblog.io/~hmans/ia10kunCMjc/i-m-not-too-happy-about-sublime-text-3

13 years ago

112 upvotes – 117 comments

Our approach to subjective programming questions

http://blog.slant.co/post/42487997802/tired-of-being-told-you-aren-t-constructive

13 years ago

110 upvotes – 59 comments

Spideroak debuts Crypton, framework for end-to-end encrypted cloud applications

https://crypton.io/

13 years ago

98 upvotes – 47 comments

Google Glass is Ridiculous

http://nickfranc.is/blog/google-glass-is-ridiculous

13 years ago

98 upvotes – 152 comments

Levchin Launches New Payments Startup, Affirm

http://allthingsd.com/20130226/exclusive-paypal-co-founder-levchin-launches-new-payments-startup-affirm/

13 years ago

95 upvotes – 39 comments

Putting healthcare in hackers' hands

http://blog.eligibleapi.com/?p=155

13 years ago

94 upvotes – 43 comments

Show HN: I made a site that calculates the market price of items on ebay

http://www.getmarketprice.com/

13 years ago

87 upvotes – 61 comments

Show HN: We built a crowd-powered virtual assistant

https://premier.mobileworks.com

13 years ago

85 upvotes – 56 comments

New Solution Can Cut Video File Size By Half – Without Losing Quality

http://nocamels.com/2013/02/beamr-can-cut-video-file-size-by-half-without-losing-quality/

13 years ago

82 upvotes – 41 comments

Dunning-Kruger

https://medium.com/i-m-h-o/86f910e35a8f

13 years ago

79 upvotes – 43 comments

The world's smallest ARM chip announced, designed for swallowable computers

http://wired.com/design/2013/02/freescales-tiny-arm-chip/

13 years ago

77 upvotes – 32 comments

Server-side view or client-side MVC?

http://kailuowang.blogspot.com/2013/02/server-side-view-or-client-side-mv.html

13 years ago

71 upvotes – 58 comments
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