top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-04-12

Abolish The Patent, Vanquish The Troll

http://www.rackspace.com/blog/abolish-the-patent-vanquish-the-troll/

13 years ago

442 upvotes – 131 comments

_why's site is updated

http://whytheluckystiff.net/#

13 years ago

391 upvotes – 135 comments

StarWars + Git logs = StarLogs

http://starlogs.net/

13 years ago

365 upvotes – 73 comments

My Time at Lehman

http://nickchirls.com/

13 years ago

304 upvotes – 190 comments

Console.log with style

http://adamschwartz.co/log

13 years ago

236 upvotes – 56 comments

The exploding toilet

http://www.askthepilot.com/essaysandstories/the-exploding-toilet/

13 years ago

214 upvotes – 13 comments

Quake 3 engine in Rust

https://github.com/Jeaye/q3

13 years ago

★ 509 Rust BSD-3-Clause
183 upvotes – 69 comments

AppGratis Is Nothing More Than A Black Hat Marketing Company

http://techyjeremy.tumblr.com/post/47783569514/appgratis-is-nothing-more-than-a-black-hat-marketing

13 years ago

171 upvotes – 97 comments

"Put down the crack pipes" doesn't go so well

http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2013/03/27/roadblock/

13 years ago

160 upvotes – 160 comments

I Tried Hacking Bitcoin and I Failed

http://www.businessinsider.com/dan-kaminsky-highlights-flaws-bitcoin-2013-4

13 years ago

155 upvotes – 96 comments

How 1927-12-31 23:54:08 happened twice

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6841333/why-is-subtracting-these-two-times-in-1927-giving-a-strange-result

13 years ago

152 upvotes – 57 comments

CNBC now has a Bitcoin ticker

http://data.cnbc.com/quotes/MTGOXUSD

13 years ago

149 upvotes – 61 comments

Light Table a year ago

http://www.chris-granger.com/2013/04/12/light-table-survey-results/

13 years ago

142 upvotes – 34 comments

Two Scoops of Django final edition released

https://django.2scoops.org?hn=1

13 years ago

138 upvotes – 53 comments

Tech group representing Google, Yahoo backs CISPA

http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technology/293399-tech-group-representing-google-yahoo-backs-cispa

13 years ago

130 upvotes – 73 comments

Workflow in tmux

https://coderwall.com/p/_g2vpq

13 years ago

127 upvotes – 61 comments

Heroku is now the top giver on Gittip

https://www.gittip.com/heroku/

13 years ago

122 upvotes – 25 comments

Is Social Media Worthless?

https://www.lucidchart.com/blog/2013/04/10/is-social-media-worthless/

13 years ago

118 upvotes – 87 comments

ASM

http://grumpygamer.com/8632893

13 years ago

117 upvotes – 41 comments

I hired someone with Asperger's – now what?

http://on.cnn.com/16WwSKG

13 years ago

115 upvotes – 118 comments

The Payphone Project

https://github.com/jcs/payphone

13 years ago

★ 262 Perl
102 upvotes – 13 comments

Training like Tesla: An Experiment of the Mind

http://zachtratar.com/tesla.html

13 years ago

102 upvotes – 71 comments

Charles Carreon Has To Pay $46K In Legal Fees

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130412/11090722691/charles-carreon-has-to-pay-46k-legal-fees.shtml

13 years ago

101 upvotes – 32 comments

Busyness is Not a Virtue

http://blog.idonethis.com/post/45912361388/busyness-not-virtue

13 years ago

100 upvotes – 33 comments

Trojita: an IMAP mail client

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.polipo.user/3071

13 years ago

99 upvotes – 86 comments

Twitter Music will integrate Spotify, Rdio, iTunes, Soundcloud, Vevo and Youtube

http://sefsar.com/twitter-music-leak

13 years ago

97 upvotes – 53 comments

What you need to know about buying a 3D printer

http://blog.cubehero.com/2013/04/12/what-you-need-to-know-about-buying-a-3d-printer/

13 years ago

93 upvotes – 14 comments

Why you should be wary of relying on a single histogram of a data set

http://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/51718/assessing-approximate-distribution-of-data-based-on-histogram/51753#51753

13 years ago

81 upvotes – 20 comments

Bob outsmarts Alice's one way function

http://blog.jgc.org/2013/04/bob-outsmarts-alices-one-way-function.html

13 years ago

81 upvotes – 34 comments

Makerland: Internet of Things workshops and conference for 500 makers

http://www.makerland.org/

13 years ago

77 upvotes – 25 comments

How To Reduce Image Size With WebP Automagically

http://blog.netdna.com/developer/how-to-reduce-image-size-with-webp-automagically/

13 years ago

77 upvotes – 22 comments

7 billion people on 1 page

http://www.7billionworld.com/

13 years ago

77 upvotes – 68 comments

Show HN: The Found a Business Book – Interviews with Entrepreneurs

http://www.foundabusiness.com

13 years ago

76 upvotes – 53 comments

The Bitcoin Report 2 [pdf]

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B2tdZG8OsWtLU1BPbGNPNnc0Unc/edit?usp=sharing

13 years ago

75 upvotes – 94 comments

Why Redfin, Zillow, and Trulia Haven't Killed Off Real Estate Brokers

http://www.businessweek.com/printer/articles/100798-why-redfin-zillow-and-trulia-havent-killed-off-real-estate-brokers

13 years ago

74 upvotes – 92 comments

San Francisco zoning: Needs more density and tall buildings

http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2013/04/11/san_francisco_zoning_needs_more_density_and_tall_buildings.html

13 years ago

67 upvotes – 93 comments

Zombie Outbreak Simulator for iOS: Sales report

http://www.binaryspacegames.com/2013/01/zombie-outbreak-simulator-for-ios-sales-report/

13 years ago

67 upvotes – 28 comments

Google launches tool to determine data use after death

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-22119227

13 years ago

65 upvotes – 25 comments

8 days. 8,000 forums

http://moot.it/blog/release/8-days-8000-forums.html

13 years ago

63 upvotes – 70 comments

Facebook Home suffering from poor Google Play reviews: 48% of users award 1 star

http://thenextweb.com/facebook/2013/04/12/facebook-home-suffers-from-poor-early-reviews-as-46-give-it-a-1-star-rating-on-google-play/

13 years ago

62 upvotes – 68 comments

Microsoft, BSA, others file briefs in support of Oracle's appeal against Google

http://www.groklaw.net/articlebasic.php?story=20130220053127277

13 years ago

60 upvotes – 32 comments

Electric Velomobiles: fast, comfortable, and more efficient than cars

http://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2012/10/electric-velomobiles.html

13 years ago

59 upvotes – 38 comments

Whose Water Is it Anyway?

http://tehelka.com/whose-water-is-it-anyway/?singlepage=1

13 years ago

58 upvotes – 14 comments

Things to Make with a 3D Printer

http://www.hackthings.com/ten-practical-things-to-make-with-a-3d-printer/

13 years ago

57 upvotes – 38 comments

LyX participates in the Google Summer of Code 2013

http://latex-community.org/home/news/47-news-latex-editors/478-lyx-google-code

13 years ago

56 upvotes – 7 comments

Letter To Jennifer Allen Regarding False And Defamatory Statements

http://uncrunched.com/2013/04/11/jennifer-allen-false-defamatory/

13 years ago

54 upvotes – 27 comments

Enhance your next presentation with HTML5

http://jster.net/blog/html5-presentation-impress-reveal-deck-bespoke

13 years ago

52 upvotes – 12 comments

We are Mt. Gox: AMA

http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1c7ahh/we_are_mt_gox_ama/

13 years ago

51 upvotes – 47 comments

Mt.Gox does not mean "Mount" Gox

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mtgox#History

13 years ago

51 upvotes – 43 comments

How Kaggle Is Changing How We Work

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/04/how-kaggle-is-changing-how-we-work/274908/

13 years ago

51 upvotes – 28 comments
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