top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-04-19

What happens when you wring out a washcloth in space [video]

http://boingboing.net/2013/04/18/what-happens-when-you-wring-ou.html

13 years ago

656 upvotes – 109 comments

You are not Steve Jobs

https://medium.com/editors-picks/9ae1727d2479

13 years ago

616 upvotes – 298 comments

I Knew a Programmer Who Went Completely Insane

http://startingdotneprogramming.blogspot.com/2013/04/i-knew-programmer-that-went-completely.html

13 years ago

559 upvotes – 321 comments

Shots fired at MIT - report of an active shooter near Bldg. 32 (Stata)

http://emergency.mit.net/

13 years ago

402 upvotes – 276 comments

Could HN stop participating in the witchhunt?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5576008

13 years ago

382 upvotes – 65 comments

Transcript of meeting between Julian Assange and Google CEO Eric Schmidt

http://wikileaks.org/Transcript-Meeting-Assange-Schmidt?nocache

13 years ago

348 upvotes – 73 comments

The Matasano Crypto Challenges

http://blog.pinboard.in/2013/04/the_matasano_crypto_challenges/

13 years ago

318 upvotes – 61 comments

Girl Scouts to introduce game developer badge

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2013/04/in-move-to-pwn-boys-girl-scouts-to-introduce-game-developer-badge/

13 years ago

291 upvotes – 85 comments

Bing doesn't support SSL

https://bing.com/

13 years ago

287 upvotes – 159 comments

Play an accordion recording by resizing your browser window

http://artpolikarpov.github.io/garmoshka/

13 years ago

242 upvotes – 45 comments

Physicist proposes new way to think about intelligence

http://www.insidescience.org/content/physicist-proposes-new-way-think-about-intelligence/987

13 years ago

241 upvotes – 137 comments

We've Open-sourced Rendr

http://nerds.airbnb.com/weve-open-sourced-rendr

13 years ago

230 upvotes – 54 comments

_why's complete printer spool as one book [pdf]

http://www.scribd.com/doc/136875051/-why-s-complete-printer-spool-as-one-book

13 years ago

226 upvotes – 128 comments

Ack 2.0 has been released

http://perlbuzz.com/2013/04/ack-20-has-been-released.html

13 years ago

214 upvotes – 44 comments

No, Fuck Off

https://medium.com/startups-and-tech/8c4523242c85

13 years ago

181 upvotes – 83 comments

Why Maybe Is Better Than Null

http://nickknowlson.com/blog/2013/04/16/why-maybe-is-better-than-null/

13 years ago

164 upvotes – 130 comments

Clang: C++11 support is now feature-complete

http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/pipermail/cfe-commits/Week-of-Mon-20130415/078368.html

13 years ago

135 upvotes – 41 comments

Live: ISS Spacewalk

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html

13 years ago

128 upvotes – 42 comments

Google reinstates federated Jabber/XMPP instant messaging

http://www.fsf.org/blogs/sysadmin/google-reinstates-federated-instant-messaging

13 years ago

127 upvotes – 16 comments

Obscure C++ Features

http://madebyevan.com/obscure-cpp-features/

13 years ago

126 upvotes – 53 comments

The Linux kernel MultiPath TCP project

http://multipath-tcp.org/

13 years ago

124 upvotes – 69 comments

Pony ORM - Use Pure Python to Speak to Your Data

http://ponyorm.com/

13 years ago

117 upvotes – 68 comments

Grad Student Who Shook Global Austerity Movement

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2013/04/grad-student-who-shook-global-austerity-movement.html

13 years ago

114 upvotes – 107 comments

Former Hostgator employee arrested, charged with rooting 2,700 servers

http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/04/former-employee-arrested-charged-with-rooting-2700-hostgator-servers/

13 years ago

113 upvotes – 59 comments

Sailfish – An open source mobile OS

https://sailfishos.org//index.html

13 years ago

108 upvotes – 50 comments

Google One Today

http://www.google.com/onetoday/

13 years ago

97 upvotes – 40 comments

The Excel Depression

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/19/opinion/krugman-the-excel-depression.html?smid=tw-NytimesKrugman&seid=auto&_r=0

13 years ago

95 upvotes – 68 comments

Closure

http://words.steveklabnik.com/closure

13 years ago

92 upvotes – 20 comments

The Death of Upcoming.org

http://waxy.org/2013/04/the_death_of_upcomingorg/

13 years ago

91 upvotes – 30 comments

Reddit is currently experiencing a malicious DDoS attack

https://twitter.com/redditstatus/status/325193410464055296

13 years ago

91 upvotes – 84 comments

Reddit, Boston and the missing student

http://www.newstatesman.com/world-affairs/2013/04/reddit-boston-and-missing-student

13 years ago

80 upvotes – 66 comments

Google buying $39M fiber service in Utah for $1

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_GOOGLE_FIBER_UTAH?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2013-04-18-17-08-16

13 years ago

77 upvotes – 32 comments

Marissa Mayer breaks her silence on Yahoo's telecommuting policy

http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2013/04/19/marissa-mayer-telecommuting/

13 years ago

75 upvotes – 76 comments

Paul Graham on Spaghetti Code

http://www.kludgecode.com/index.php/paul-grahams-recipe-for-pasta/

13 years ago

75 upvotes – 75 comments

Give Yourself Time To Think

http://doriandargan.com/post/48045171058/give-yourself-time-to-think

13 years ago

68 upvotes – 13 comments

New, Higher-Resolution Image of Boston Marathon Suspect

http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/04/18/new-higher-resolution-image-of-boston-marathon-suspect-emerges/?hp

13 years ago

68 upvotes – 49 comments
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