top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-04-03

If the Earth were 100 pixels wide

http://www.distancetomars.com/

13 years ago

996 upvotes – 208 comments

Blink: A rendering engine for the Chromium project

http://blog.chromium.org/2013/04/blink-rendering-engine-for-chromium.html

13 years ago

729 upvotes – 304 comments

Disney Shuts Down LucasArts

http://kotaku.com/disney-shuts-down-lucasarts-468473749

13 years ago

544 upvotes – 239 comments

A Personal Statement from Iain Banks

http://www.littlebrown.co.uk/a-personal-statment-iain-banks.page

13 years ago

442 upvotes – 346 comments

Stop working so hard

https://medium.com/i-m-h-o/ef4772e3c628

13 years ago

399 upvotes – 163 comments

Mozilla and Samsung Collaborate on Next Generation Web Browser Engine

https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2013/04/03/mozilla-and-samsung-collaborate-on-next-generation-web-browser-engine/

13 years ago

368 upvotes – 140 comments

The Jellyfish Entrepreneur

http://blog.priceonomics.com/post/47035579568/the-jellyfish-entrepreneur

13 years ago

277 upvotes – 40 comments

Google going its own way, forking WebKit rendering engine

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/04/google-going-its-own-way-forking-webkit-rendering-engine/

13 years ago

231 upvotes – 99 comments

Asm.js: The JavaScript Compile Target

http://ejohn.org/blog/asmjs-javascript-compile-target/

13 years ago

218 upvotes – 103 comments

Answering your questions about Heroku routing and web performance

https://blog.heroku.com/archives/2013/4/2/routing_and_web_performance_on_heroku_a_faq

13 years ago

205 upvotes – 160 comments

This Professor only has a PhD degree

http://www.earthsciences.hku.hk/index.php/people/profile/42

13 years ago

196 upvotes – 83 comments

Teenager Who Reads News Online? According to the DoJ, You May Be a Criminal

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/04/are-you-teenager-who-reads-news-online-according-justice-department-you-may-be

13 years ago

195 upvotes – 145 comments

Show HN: HN Store

http://www.hnstore.co/

13 years ago

190 upvotes – 70 comments

An acquisition is always a failure

http://pandodaily.com/2013/04/02/an-acquisition-is-always-a-failure/

13 years ago

187 upvotes – 113 comments

Rust 0.6 Released

https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/rust-dev/2013-April/003427.html

13 years ago

186 upvotes – 115 comments

The Bitcoin Bubble and the Future of Currency

https://medium.com/money-banking/2b5ef79482cb

13 years ago

179 upvotes – 189 comments

Introducing Vdio

http://blog.rdio.com/us/2013/04/introducing-vdio.html

13 years ago

164 upvotes – 105 comments

Opera will use Blink

http://www.brucelawson.co.uk/2013/hello-blink/

13 years ago

162 upvotes – 41 comments

AeroFS (YC S10) exits private beta

http://blog.aerofs.com/336/open-for-business

13 years ago

147 upvotes – 92 comments

Announcing New Lower Request Pricing for Amazon S3

http://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2013/04/02/announcing-lower-request-pricing-for-amazon-s3/

13 years ago

145 upvotes – 37 comments

Analysis of Stack Overflow's Survey of 10K developers

https://www.statwing.com/demos/dev-survey

13 years ago

140 upvotes – 61 comments

ISP Advertisement Injection - CMA Communications

http://zmhenkel.blogspot.com/2013/03/isp-advertisement-injection-cma.html

13 years ago

140 upvotes – 78 comments

Introducing Tabula, a human-friendly PDF-to-CSV data extractor

http://source.mozillaopennews.org/en-US/articles/introducing-tabula/

13 years ago

137 upvotes – 18 comments

Douglas Hofstadter has a new book

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0465018475/

13 years ago

132 upvotes – 53 comments

R 3.0.0 Released

http://www.r-project.org/

13 years ago

131 upvotes – 13 comments

How the Internet Archive is having a great time with Bitcoin

http://blog.archive.org/2013/04/03/how-the-internet-archive-is-having-great-time-with-bitcoin/

13 years ago

120 upvotes – 54 comments

Instawallet Hacked

http://notice.instawallet.org/

13 years ago

111 upvotes – 116 comments

Becoming A Pop Star With Zero Experience

http://hackthesystem.com/blog/becoming-a-pop-star-with-zero-experience-how-to-hack-the-music-industry-in-under-8-weeks/

13 years ago

108 upvotes – 54 comments

Bitcoin Plunges By Nearly $30 As Largest Market Suffers Outage

http://mashable.com/2013/04/03/bitcoin-value-plunges/

13 years ago

100 upvotes – 111 comments

Abusing hash kernels for wildly unprincipled machine learning

http://jeremydhoon.github.com/2013/03/19/abusing-hash-kernels-for-wildly-unprincipled-machine-learning/

13 years ago

95 upvotes – 28 comments

Thomas Friedman Op-Ed Generator

http://thomasfriedmanopedgenerator.com/

13 years ago

93 upvotes – 31 comments

Archaeologists discover 'Gate to Hell'

http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2013/s3729222.htm

13 years ago

92 upvotes – 33 comments

Are you an underpaid developer?

http://blog.goodsense.io/2013/04/02/are-you-an-underpaid-developer/

13 years ago

81 upvotes – 113 comments

O'Reilly on Morozov

http://io9.com/annalee-i-think-you-do-a-real-disservice-to-both-open-466738177

13 years ago

81 upvotes – 22 comments

Show HN: my new app Timebar has a clever UI (I think)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5483767

13 years ago

81 upvotes – 56 comments

The Quiet Revolution in Programming

http://www.drdobbs.com/architecture-and-design/the-quiet-revolution-in-programming/240152206

13 years ago

78 upvotes – 60 comments

So your teenager tells you they want to 'make video games' for a living

http://codesuppository.blogspot.com/2013/04/so-your-teenager-tells-you-they-want-to.html

13 years ago

75 upvotes – 76 comments

Mark Zuckerberg's first website is still on Angelfire

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5486014

13 years ago

74 upvotes – 27 comments

Lessons after five years of professional programming

http://siavoshb.tumblr.com/post/47005180661/14-lessons-after-five-years-of-professional-programming

13 years ago

72 upvotes – 23 comments

Google Forks WebKit And Launches Blink, A New Rendering Engine

http://techcrunch.com/2013/04/03/google-forks-webkit-and-launches-blink-its-own-rendering-engine-that-will-soon-power-chrome-and-chromeos/

13 years ago

72 upvotes – 39 comments

The other side of working for yourself

http://thehodge.co.uk/2013/04/03/the-other-side-of-working-for-yourself

13 years ago

70 upvotes – 36 comments

Why bitcoin’s rise is nothing to celebrate

http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2013/04/03/why-bitcoins-rise-is-nothing-to-celebrate/

13 years ago

64 upvotes – 54 comments

Perl and Perl Module Administration in the Modern Era

https://speakerdeck.com/djerius/perl-and-perl-module-administration-in-the-modern-era

13 years ago

63 upvotes – 14 comments

Amazon Services Hackpad

https://hackpad.com/Amazon-Services-xwW1WtHf5y5

13 years ago

58 upvotes – 13 comments
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