top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-04-16

The Boston Marathon Bombing: Keep Calm and Carry On

http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/04/the-boston-marathon-bombing-keep-calm-and-carry-on/275014/

13 years ago

553 upvotes – 213 comments

If you're in Boston without phone service, use this website to call your family

http://callyourfamily.twilio.ly/

13 years ago

398 upvotes – 66 comments

Researchers Finally Replicated Reinhart-Rogoff, and There Are Serious Problems

http://www.nextnewdeal.net/rortybomb/researchers-finally-replicated-reinhart-rogoff-and-there-are-serious-problems

13 years ago

367 upvotes – 282 comments

Parallella, a $99 Linux Supercomputer

http://www.zdnet.com/parallella-the-99-linux-supercomputer-7000014036/

13 years ago

354 upvotes – 167 comments

Security incident update

http://blog.linode.com/2013/04/16/security-incident-update/

13 years ago

318 upvotes – 272 comments

If I Made Another Monkey Island...

http://grumpygamer.com/5777333

13 years ago

309 upvotes – 83 comments

Data journalism busts speeding cops, wins Pulitzer

http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/2013-04-15/news/fl-sun-sentinel-pulitzer-prize-20130415_1_law-enforcement-officers-database-journalism

13 years ago

306 upvotes – 153 comments

Webcam Pulse Detector

https://github.com/thearn/webcam-pulse-detector

13 years ago

★ 3.2k Python
259 upvotes – 79 comments

1Password GPU brute-force with 3M hash/s

http://hashcat.net/forum/thread-2238.html

13 years ago

239 upvotes – 96 comments

The bomb that changed my life (2011)

http://swombat.com/2011/12/19/bomb-changed-my-life/

13 years ago

226 upvotes – 74 comments

Your First iOS App – 100% Programmatically

http://blog.austinlouden.com/post/47644085183/your-first-ios-app-100-programmatically

13 years ago

225 upvotes – 107 comments

New GitHub Logo

https://github.com/blog/1472-new-github-logo

13 years ago

222 upvotes – 102 comments

Google Glass API Documentation

https://developers.google.com/glass/

13 years ago

220 upvotes – 75 comments

What is the rule for adjective order?

http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/1155/what-is-the-rule-for-adjective-order

13 years ago

219 upvotes – 131 comments

OKCupid starts accepting Bitcoin using Coinbase

http://coinbase.tumblr.com/post/48102298494/okcupid-starts-accepting-bitcoin-using-coinbase

13 years ago

189 upvotes – 80 comments

The best QBasic game ever?

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2033318/black-annex-is-the-best-qbasic-game-youve-ever-seen.html

13 years ago

173 upvotes – 99 comments

All American Airlines Flights Grounded, Experiencing Nationwide Computer Outage

http://techcrunch.com/2013/04/16/all-american-airlines-flights-grounded-experiencing-nationwide-computer-outage/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Techcrunch+%28TechCrunch%29

13 years ago

155 upvotes – 135 comments

Buyer sued for posting factual negative review on eBay

http://www.popehat.com/2013/04/15/the-popehat-signal-stand-against-rank-thuggery-in-ohio

13 years ago

155 upvotes – 115 comments

Twitter is forcing us to drop ability to flattr creators by favoriting tweets

http://blog.flattr.net/2013/04/twitter-is-forcing-us-to-drop-users-ability-to-flattr-creators-by-favoriting-their-tweets/

13 years ago

148 upvotes – 80 comments

Mike Pall: Ramblings on languages and architectures

http://www.freelists.org/post/luajit/Ramblings-on-languages-and-architectures-was-Re-any-benefit-to-throwing-off-lua51-constraints

13 years ago

146 upvotes – 96 comments

The Node.js Community is Quietly Changing the Face of Open Source

http://caines.ca/blog/programming/the-node-js-community-is-quietly-changing-the-face-of-open-source/

13 years ago

134 upvotes – 101 comments

I've created a community and learning platform for math, physics and CS lovers

http://functionspace.org/

13 years ago

132 upvotes – 67 comments

Ask HN: Can we help the police sort through the photos of the Boston Marathon?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5560247

13 years ago

116 upvotes – 80 comments

Show HN: Pinterest for text

http://www.quotered.com

13 years ago

115 upvotes – 82 comments

Congress Quietly Repeals Congressional Insider Trading Ban

http://nyulocal.com/national/2013/04/15/congress-quietly-repeals-congressional-insider-trading-ban/

13 years ago

114 upvotes – 24 comments

Fat startup: Learn the lessons of my failed Lean Startup

http://wordsting.com/copywriter-blog/fat-startup-learn-the-lessons-of-my-failed-lean-startup

13 years ago

109 upvotes – 71 comments

Xamarin Test Cloud

http://xamarin.com/test-cloud

13 years ago

102 upvotes – 14 comments

The little things I learned from the Valley

http://www.gigpeppers.com/the-little-things-i-learned-from-the-valley-april-2013-edition/

13 years ago

91 upvotes – 90 comments

Categories – What’s the Point?

http://jeremykun.com/2013/04/16/categories-whats-the-point/

13 years ago

89 upvotes – 26 comments

Teaching the Essentials of Garbage Collection

http://blog.brownplt.org/2013/02/19/teaching-gc.html

13 years ago

89 upvotes – 10 comments

Build Your Own SaaS Using Docker (cs50x project)

http://www.memcachedasaservice.com/

13 years ago

86 upvotes – 23 comments

Fergulator - NES emulator, written in Go

https://plus.google.com/102388027951815318627/posts/G7kNAAJcKZU

13 years ago

85 upvotes – 31 comments

Lessons Learned Raising a $6 Million Round

http://viniciusvacanti.com/2013/04/16/lessons-learned-raising-6-million/

13 years ago

84 upvotes – 4 comments

Paul Krugman (1998): By 2005 Internet will have no more economic impact than fax

http://web.archive.org/web/19980610100009/www.redherring.com/mag/issue55/economics.html

13 years ago

79 upvotes – 99 comments

Buy Stamps from Your Command Line

http://blog.geteasypost.com/post/48133423082/stampsfromcommandline

13 years ago

79 upvotes – 45 comments

Bob's wife Carla lends a speedy mind

http://blog.jgc.org/2013/04/bobs-wife-carla-lends-speedy-mind.html

13 years ago

76 upvotes – 26 comments

The people we're leaving behind

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/comment/2013/04/interpreters-left-behind-in-afghanistan.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

13 years ago

73 upvotes – 17 comments

Glass developers prohibited from displaying ads, charging for software

http://news.cnet.com/8301-10812_3-57579762/google-glassware-developers-prohibited-from-displaying-ads

13 years ago

70 upvotes – 82 comments

Build Cross-Platform Apps in C# using Parse and Xamarin

http://blog.parse.com/2013/04/13/build-cross-platform-apps-in-c-using-parse-and-xamarin/

13 years ago

70 upvotes – 12 comments

Some Indian start-ups shun funding in bid to retain independence

http://livemint.com/Companies/hZXXOXHl9euEdJMSkvpKMM/Some-startups-shun-funding-in-bid-to-retain-independence.html

13 years ago

69 upvotes – 29 comments

How To Build Apps In C#, WinForms and ASP.NET Using Mono In Raspberry Pi

http://www.amazedsaint.com/2013/04/hack-raspberry-pi-how-to-build.html

13 years ago

59 upvotes – 1 comments

Reinhart-Rogoff Response to Critique

http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2013/04/16/reinhart-rogoff-response-to-critique/

13 years ago

55 upvotes – 14 comments

The Dangers of Thinking Like an Economist

https://unlearningeconomics.wordpress.com/2013/04/16/the-dangers-of-thinking-like-an-economist/

13 years ago

55 upvotes – 42 comments
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