top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-02-27

Bomberman massively multiplayer in HTML5

http://bombermine.com/#/play

13 years ago

1394 upvotes – 201 comments

How I Fired Myself

http://edu.mkrecny.com/thoughts/how-i-fired-myself

13 years ago

620 upvotes – 411 comments

Issue 8788 - Every day around 9 AM Brussels time, huge drop in GAE performance

https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=8788

13 years ago

258 upvotes – 120 comments

Politicians want “loser pays” rule for patent trolls

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/02/pissed-off-politicians-want-loser-pays-rule-for-patent-trolls/

13 years ago

229 upvotes – 129 comments

Help Fight Patent Trolls – Support the SHIELD Act

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/02/help-eff-fight-patent-trolls-and-support-shield-act

13 years ago

221 upvotes – 30 comments

How PHP's foreach works

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10057671/how-foreach-actually-works/

13 years ago

196 upvotes – 43 comments

Fancy Input - CSS3 text typing effects for input fields

http://dropthebit.com/demos/fancy_input/fancyInput.html

13 years ago

194 upvotes – 71 comments

The Deep Insights of Alan Kay

http://mythz.servicestack.net/blog/2013/02/27/the-deep-insights-of-alan-kay/

13 years ago

191 upvotes – 95 comments

Chromebook: Ubuntu alongside stock Chrome OS

https://plus.google.com/112449749826562830126/posts/ZS9WaegrZYH

13 years ago

179 upvotes – 58 comments

What it's like to work with Mark Pincus

http://sashmackinnon.com/what-its-like-to-work-with-mark-pincus

13 years ago

168 upvotes – 68 comments

The Glass Bicycle

http://dcurt.is/the-glass-bicycle

13 years ago

167 upvotes – 177 comments

Thalmic's (YC W13) MYO draws 10,000 preorders in 2 days

https://www.communitech.ca/thalmics-myo-draws-10000-pre-orders-in-first-2-days/

13 years ago

147 upvotes – 45 comments

A New Approach to Databases — Simulating 10Ks of Spaceships on my laptop

http://blog.paralleluniverse.co/post/44146699200/spaceships

13 years ago

143 upvotes – 64 comments

Piracy Doesn’t Hurt Game of Thrones, Director Says

http://torrentfreak.com/piracy-doesnt-hurt-game-of-thrones-director-says-130227/

13 years ago

136 upvotes – 100 comments

We use Trello.

http://codetunes.com/2013/we-use-trello

13 years ago

126 upvotes – 61 comments

Erlang 16B Released

http://www.erlang.org/news/43

13 years ago

125 upvotes – 33 comments

Weeks after adding Trader Joe’s, Instacart now supports Whole Foods

http://thenextweb.com/apps/2013/02/27/weeks-after-adding-trader-joes-grocery-delivery-service-instacart-now-supports-whole-foods/?fromcat=all

13 years ago

115 upvotes – 57 comments

Building A Paid App For Firefox OS

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2013/02/building-a-paid-app-for-firefox-os/

13 years ago

108 upvotes – 45 comments

Virtualenv's bin/activate is Doing It Wrong

https://gist.github.com/datagrok/2199506

13 years ago

107 upvotes – 29 comments

FreedomBox Version 0.1 Released

http://www.freedomboxfoundation.org/news/FreedomBox_version_0.1_Released/index.en.html

13 years ago

106 upvotes – 24 comments

3D Printed Car Is Nearing Production

http://www.wired.com/autopia/2013/02/3d-printed-car/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+wired%2Findex+%28Wired%3A+Top+Stories%29#.US3uj58WB0U.hackernews

13 years ago

104 upvotes – 78 comments

The Infuriating Truth About Getting Hired

http://www.articulateventures.com/thoughts-on-being-an-employer/getting_hired/

13 years ago

104 upvotes – 117 comments

Django with Visual Studio

http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/develop/python/tutorials/django-with-visual-studio/

13 years ago

104 upvotes – 73 comments

Why is BIND 10 written in C++ and Python?

https://www.isc.org/wordpress/programming-languages-for-bind-10/

13 years ago

103 upvotes – 131 comments

Infamous "Hacker" Ankit Fadia revealed

http://forbesindia.com/article/beyond-business/ankit-fadia-revealed/34793/1

13 years ago

103 upvotes – 53 comments

Permanent - the new spreadsheet for iPad

http://getpermanent.com/

13 years ago

99 upvotes – 60 comments

I Can Detect Your Facebook Username, Using W3C Standard

http://homakov.blogspot.com/2013/02/url-detection-with-hash-history-i-know.html?

13 years ago

96 upvotes – 57 comments

My new medical research startup launches today: let me know what you think

http://www.metamed.com/

13 years ago

94 upvotes – 102 comments

This Is Why You Can’t Have Nice Things, Yahoos

http://techcrunch.com/2013/02/27/mayers-means/

13 years ago

89 upvotes – 107 comments

Microsoft BizSpark includes free Azure access

http://www.microsoft.com/bizspark/azure/

13 years ago

86 upvotes – 53 comments

Alan Kay on Marshal McLuhan and the Personal Computer

http://kokonautlabs.wordpress.com/2013/02/27/alan-kay-on-marshal-mcluhan-and-the-personal-computer/

13 years ago

83 upvotes – 18 comments

MIT's Saturday hoax incident

https://gist.github.com/anonymous/5051617

13 years ago

81 upvotes – 30 comments

SimplyInsured (YC W13) Wants To Help Take The Pain Out Of Health Insurance

http://techcrunch.com/2013/02/27/y-combinator-backed-simplyinsured-wants-to-help-small-businesses-take-the-pain-out-of-health-insurance/

13 years ago

78 upvotes – 28 comments

Free Pascal 2.6.2 is released

http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php/topic,20046.html

13 years ago

77 upvotes – 42 comments

Suffering From Depression? Don't Do That Start-up

http://jacquesmattheij.com/depression-dont-do-that-startup

13 years ago

77 upvotes – 93 comments

Forgotten by the Future, Some Take the Internet Into Their Own Hands

http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/rural-broadband-community-supported-internet

13 years ago

75 upvotes – 20 comments

Introducing Mutations: Putting SOA on Rails for security and maintainability

https://developer.uservoice.com/blog/2013/02/27/introducing-mutations-putting-soa-on-rails-for-security-and-maintainability/

13 years ago

71 upvotes – 22 comments

Big Data Puts Linux Talent in Hot Demand

http://blogs.wsj.com/cio/2013/02/25/big-data-puts-linux-talent-in-hot-demand/

13 years ago

69 upvotes – 14 comments

Adding Concurrency to Rails Apps with Unicorn

https://blog.heroku.com/archives/2013/2/27/unicorn_rails

13 years ago

68 upvotes – 39 comments

Show HN: Finally, You Can Accept Pre-Orders after Kickstarter with Celery

https://www.trycelery.com

13 years ago

67 upvotes – 47 comments

Intro to Group Theory

http://ureddit.com/blog/2013/02/26/featured-class-intro-to-group-theory/

13 years ago

62 upvotes – 17 comments

Python for Ruby Programmers (LA RubyConf 2013)

https://speakerdeck.com/mleone/python-for-ruby-programmers

13 years ago

62 upvotes – 52 comments

NASA live streaming announcement on black hole observations [video]

http://www.nasa.gov/news/media/newsaudio/index.html

13 years ago

60 upvotes – 12 comments

Canada’s top science prize goes to Stephen Cook

http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/national/Canada+science+prize+goes+computer+math+whiz+Stephen+Cook/8020598/story.html

13 years ago

58 upvotes – 11 comments

Show HN: Nice Nice JPG

http://nicenicejpg.com

13 years ago

55 upvotes – 31 comments

Why don't MacBooks come with cellular networking?

http://www.marco.org/2013/02/26/why-no-4g-macbooks

13 years ago

55 upvotes – 65 comments

Inventing a Dating App That Women Will Actually Use

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/culture/2013/02/dating-app-for-women-that-isnt-awful.html

13 years ago

51 upvotes – 92 comments

Crouton: Chromium OS Ubuntu Chroot Environment

https://github.com/dnschneid/crouton

13 years ago

★ 8.5k Shell BSD-3-Clause
51 upvotes – 10 comments

Stanford Grad Sues Snapchat Claiming They Stole His ‘Million Dollar Idea’

http://betabeat.com/2013/02/fellow-stanford-grad-files-lawsuit-claiming-snapchat-stole-his-idea/

13 years ago

51 upvotes – 57 comments

How safe is your password with Verizon?

http://pranaya.co/how-safe-is-your-password-with-verizon/

13 years ago

49 upvotes – 46 comments

Does academic research cause economic growth?

http://lemire.me/blog/archives/2013/02/26/does-academic-research-cause-economic-growth/

13 years ago

48 upvotes – 32 comments

Has the ideas machine broken down?

http://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21569381-idea-innovation-and-new-technology-have-stopped-driving-growth-getting-increasing

13 years ago

48 upvotes – 61 comments

Dropbox CEO Drew Houston Opens The Door To Samsung’s Competitors

http://techcrunch.com/2013/02/27/dropbox-ceo-drew-houston-opens-the-door-to-samsungs-competitors-wed-love-to-work-with-you/

13 years ago

48 upvotes – 12 comments

Microsoft open sources C++ REST SDK "Casablanca"

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vcblog/archive/2013/02/26/the-c-rest-sdk-quot-casablanca-quot.aspx

13 years ago

47 upvotes – 44 comments
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