top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-04-17

What happens when you give 4chan images of the Boston Marathon?

http://basedheisenberg.tumblr.com/post/48181500129/what-happens-when-you-give-4chan-images-of-the-boston

13 years ago

546 upvotes – 285 comments

Things I Wish I Had Known About Django Development Before Starting My Company

https://medium.com/cs-math/f29f6080c131

13 years ago

378 upvotes – 154 comments

Google Fiber announced for Provo, Utah

https://fiber.google.com/cities/provo/

13 years ago

326 upvotes – 208 comments

How We Bootstrapped a $20K Website into a $4M/year Business

http://www.myclean.com/blog/?p=452

13 years ago

273 upvotes – 166 comments

The most useful thing in bash

https://coderwall.com/p/oqtj8w

13 years ago

268 upvotes – 140 comments

Samsung admits to posting fake user reviews on the web

http://www.techspot.com/news/52274-samsung-admits-to-posting-fake-user-reviews-on-the-web.html

13 years ago

253 upvotes – 127 comments

If It Ain't Broke, Don't Fix It: Ancient Computers in Use Today

http://www.pcworld.com/article/249951/if_it_aint_broke_dont_fix_it_ancient_computers_in_use_today.html

13 years ago

250 upvotes – 147 comments

Ember 101: Learn Ember One Video at a Time

http://ember101.com/

13 years ago

237 upvotes – 65 comments

EFF Politely Asks PTO to Stop Issuing So Many Crappy Software Patents

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/04/eff-politely-asks-pto-stop-issuing-so-many-crappy-software-patents

13 years ago

206 upvotes – 61 comments

A Comparison of Angular, Backbone, CanJS and Ember

http://sporto.github.io/blog/2013/04/12/comparison-angular-backbone-can-ember/

13 years ago

195 upvotes – 102 comments

Physicists To Test If Universe Is A Computer Simulation

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/12/12/physicists-universe-simulation-test-university-of-washington-matrix_n_2282745.html

13 years ago

188 upvotes – 199 comments

Can a Puppy Sell a CMS?

http://www.webpop.com/blog/2013/04/16/can-a-puppy-sell-a-cms

13 years ago

177 upvotes – 65 comments

Criminal Sketch Artist Draws Women as They See Themselves and as Others See Them

http://www.adweek.com/adfreak/dove-hires-criminal-sketch-artist-draw-women-they-see-themselves-and-others-see-them-148613

13 years ago

176 upvotes – 81 comments

Google Apps Services Were Down

http://www.google.com/appsstatus

13 years ago

174 upvotes – 71 comments

I Stand With Trolls

http://braythwayt.com/2013/04/17/i-stand-with-trolls.html

13 years ago

157 upvotes – 146 comments

New lithium-ion battery design – 2,000x more powerful, recharges 1,000x faster

http://www.extremetech.com/computing/153614-new-lithium-ion-battery-design-thats-2000-times-more-powerful-recharges-1000-times-faster

13 years ago

148 upvotes – 86 comments

Escape Velocity

https://github.com/blog/1475-escape-velocity

13 years ago

138 upvotes – 37 comments

Live map of SF MUNI

http://www.sflivebus.com

13 years ago

126 upvotes – 51 comments

HN Meetup, Bangalore

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5563491

13 years ago

121 upvotes – 70 comments

Secure Your REST API

https://www.stormpath.com/blog/secure-your-rest-api-right-way

13 years ago

115 upvotes – 74 comments

What happened to Japan's electronic giants?

http://bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-21992700

13 years ago

115 upvotes – 110 comments

Tus - an Open Source File Upload Protocol

http://www.tus.io/

13 years ago

110 upvotes – 46 comments

Bitfloor shuts down

https://bitfloor.com/

13 years ago

109 upvotes – 106 comments

Fish 2.0 shell beta

http://ridiculousfish.com/shell/beta.html

13 years ago

108 upvotes – 56 comments

Haiku Operating System

https://www.haiku-os.org/

13 years ago

101 upvotes – 110 comments

Pirate Bay co-founder charged with hacking and fraud

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-22182112

13 years ago

100 upvotes – 66 comments

Tachyon - Fault Tolerant Distributed File System

http://highscalability.com/blog/2013/4/17/tachyon-fault-tolerant-distributed-file-system-with-300-time.html?utm_source=feedly

13 years ago

99 upvotes – 13 comments

The Business of Phish

http://blog.priceonomics.com/post/48216173465/the-business-of-phish

13 years ago

96 upvotes – 70 comments

FreeBSD Foundation Announces Capsicum Framework Project

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-announce/2013-April/001466.html

13 years ago

95 upvotes – 34 comments

Let people pay you. Make it easy

https://github.com/begriffs/lucre

13 years ago

★ 503 Ruby MIT
94 upvotes – 49 comments

House Session on CISPA, ongoing now [video]

http://www.c-span.org/Live-Video/C-SPAN/

13 years ago

94 upvotes – 24 comments

What is probabilistic programming?

http://radar.oreilly.com/2013/04/probabilistic-programming.html

13 years ago

91 upvotes – 18 comments

Rep. Mike Rogers Calls CISPA Opponents "14 Year Old Tweeters in Their Basement"

http://cms.fightforthefuture.org/mike-rogers/

13 years ago

90 upvotes – 83 comments

Jagex launches HTML5/WebGL game mode for RuneScape (beta)

http://runescape.com/beta

13 years ago

80 upvotes – 32 comments

Google Apps Admin Console Down

http://admin.google.com

13 years ago

80 upvotes – 18 comments

Tell HN: YC rejection emails have started going out

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5561937

13 years ago

78 upvotes – 112 comments

Silk Road Founder Says Bitcoin Booms And Busts Won't Kill His Black Market

http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/04/16/founder-of-drug-site-silk-road-says-bitcoin-booms-and-busts-wont-kill-his-black-market/

13 years ago

77 upvotes – 61 comments

Ember.js - Web Applications Done Right

http://www.infoq.com/articles/Emberjs-Web-Applications

13 years ago

74 upvotes – 54 comments

The Saudi Marathon Man

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/comment/2013/04/the-saudi-marathon-man.html

13 years ago

74 upvotes – 50 comments

A 'Whom Do You Hang With?' Map of America

http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2013/04/16/177512687/a-whom-do-you-hang-with-map-of-america

13 years ago

73 upvotes – 38 comments

Space Monkey: Taking the cloud out of the datacenter

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/clintgc/space-monkey-taking-the-cloud-out-of-the-datacente

13 years ago

72 upvotes – 71 comments

Show HN: Sparklin Wars, multiplayer Web shooter I built over 2 nights

http://wars.sparklinlabs.com/

13 years ago

72 upvotes – 42 comments

All 37signals Apps Were Down

http://status.37signals.com/

13 years ago

71 upvotes – 47 comments

There is No Right Way to Develop Software

http://dlo.me/archives/2013/04/16/there-is-no-right-way-to-develop-software/

13 years ago

66 upvotes – 61 comments

Circuits.io is growing up – multi-layered PCBs and more

http://blog.circuits.io/post/48198477707/circuits-io-is-growing-up

13 years ago

64 upvotes – 22 comments

I need a cofounder, so I built okcofounder.com

http://okcofounder.com/

13 years ago

61 upvotes – 56 comments

10,000 Startups opens for Application

http://www.10000startups.com/

13 years ago

58 upvotes – 21 comments

Click on a few dots and our program will guess your age

http://kgajos.eecs.harvard.edu/ag/

13 years ago

57 upvotes – 85 comments

The One Lesson Every Entrepreneur Should Learn

http://dsog.info/blog/Entrepreneurship/Hacking/Technology/2013/04/17/the-one-lesson-every-entrepreneur-should-learn/

13 years ago

57 upvotes – 32 comments

Profile Ruby 2.0 apps using DTrace – Part 1

http://crypt.codemancers.com/posts/2013-04-16-profile-ruby-apps-dtrace-part1/

13 years ago

57 upvotes – 14 comments

I am not a terrorist

http://narrative.ly/shorts/i-am-not-a-terrorist/

13 years ago

55 upvotes – 25 comments

Show HN: Finally opening signup on my education for business startup, Learndot

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5567025

13 years ago

55 upvotes – 17 comments

HN Meetup, New Delhi

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5563261

13 years ago

53 upvotes – 53 comments

Google Outage

http://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=status&ts=1366204363099

13 years ago

52 upvotes – 35 comments

Denotational Semantics: A Methodology for Language Development [pdf]

https://www.scss.tcd.ie/Andrew.Butterfield/Teaching/CS4003/DenSem-full-book.pdf

13 years ago

51 upvotes – 3 comments

Intel Acquires Mashery

http://thenextweb.com/2013/04/17/api-management-powerhouse-mashery-being-acquired-by-chip-maker-intel/

13 years ago

50 upvotes – 13 comments

Agent 008 Ball

http://agent8ball.com/

13 years ago

50 upvotes – 20 comments
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