top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-04-21

Very Short Reply Expected

http://blog.vrypan.net/2013/4/21/vsre-very-short-reply-expected/

13 years ago

456 upvotes – 226 comments

Ruby is too slow for programming competitions

http://blog.clifreeder.com/blog/2013/04/21/ruby-is-too-slow-for-programming-competitions/

13 years ago

274 upvotes – 236 comments

Cognitive Overhead, Or Why Your Product Isn’t As Simple As You Think

http://techcrunch.com/2013/04/20/cognitive-overhead/

13 years ago

240 upvotes – 73 comments

The Last Question

http://filer.case.edu/dts8/thelastq.htm

13 years ago

219 upvotes – 63 comments

What's Tylenol Doing to Our Minds?

http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/04/whats-tylenol-doing-to-our-minds/275101/

13 years ago

218 upvotes – 148 comments

Writing device drivers in Linux: A brief tutorial (2006)

http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/articles/drivers_linux

13 years ago

186 upvotes – 33 comments

The Clown Car Technique for Responsive Images

https://github.com/estelle/clowncar

13 years ago

★ 873 HTML MIT
181 upvotes – 32 comments

Show HN: jsdares – learning programming visually

http://www.jsdares.com/

13 years ago

177 upvotes – 39 comments

In India, 'no frills' hospitals offer $800 heart surgery

http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/afp/130421/india-no-frills-hospitals-offer-800-heart-surgery

13 years ago

171 upvotes – 108 comments

Diving into AngularJS

http://floatleft.com/notebook/diving-into-angularjs

13 years ago

167 upvotes – 46 comments

A Primer on IPv4, IPv6 and Transition

http://www.potaroo.net/ispcol/2013-04/primer.html

13 years ago

134 upvotes – 123 comments

Open Sans, how do we love thee?

http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2012/10/09/open-sans-how-do-we-love-thee-let-us-count-the-ways/

13 years ago

132 upvotes – 75 comments

Factor 0.96 now available – over 1,100 commits

http://re-factor.blogspot.com/2013/04/factor-0-96-now-available.html

13 years ago

129 upvotes – 64 comments

The other side of "academic freedom"

http://matt-welsh.blogspot.com/2013/04/the-other-side-of-academic-freedom.html

13 years ago

124 upvotes – 56 comments

Beautiful Pacific Crest Trail Journals

http://www.thehikeguy.com/2011/11/10/pct-moleskines/

13 years ago

124 upvotes – 24 comments

Brian Kernighan's Advanced Programming Techniques Class at Princeton

http://www.cs.princeton.edu/courses/archive/spring13/cos333/

13 years ago

121 upvotes – 38 comments

The Deadly Corruption of Clinical Trials

http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2010/09/dan-markingson-drug-trial-astrazeneca

13 years ago

111 upvotes – 59 comments

‘Human computer’ Shakuntala Devi has died

http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/mathematical-genius-shakuntala-devi-no-more/article4640134.ece

13 years ago

107 upvotes – 29 comments

What Makes Rain Smell So Good?

http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/science/2013/04/what-makes-rain-smell-so-good/

13 years ago

107 upvotes – 23 comments

Nikola Tesla’s Predictions for the 21st Century

http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/paleofuture/2013/04/nikola-teslas-amazing-predictions-for-the-21st-century/

13 years ago

106 upvotes – 32 comments

Peter Molyneux may have just monetized trolling

http://gamasutra.com/view/news/190865/Peter_Molyneux_may_have_just_monetized_trolling.php

13 years ago

104 upvotes – 71 comments

B-Heap vs. Binary Heap (2010)

https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1814327

13 years ago

99 upvotes – 20 comments

Facial Recognition Failed in Boston Bombing

http://ipvm.com/updates/1993

13 years ago

98 upvotes – 98 comments

Ask HN: Suggestions for spacewalk procedure writing?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5585535

13 years ago

96 upvotes – 36 comments

Reverse Kickstarter – shows real sales stats

http://twolivesleft.com/Crabstarter/

13 years ago

91 upvotes – 34 comments

SSL And The Future Of Authenticity

http://www.thoughtcrime.org/blog/ssl-and-the-future-of-authenticity/

13 years ago

90 upvotes – 48 comments

The Matasano Crypto Challenges

http://www.matasano.com/articles/crypto-challenges/

13 years ago

87 upvotes – 34 comments

Programmer under oath admits computers rig elections

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1thcO_olHas&feature=youtube_gdata_player

13 years ago

84 upvotes – 71 comments

Show HN: Tweetspiration – let Twitter brainstorm ideas for you

http://www.tweetspiration.com/

13 years ago

82 upvotes – 36 comments

Programming is Like a Dream

http://www.independentdeveloper.com/archive/2009/03/17/programming-is-like-a-dream

13 years ago

78 upvotes – 12 comments

Show HN: Hosted IRC for Teams (my first startup)

http://teamrelaychat.nl/

13 years ago

74 upvotes – 69 comments

Ember 1.0 RC3 released

http://emberjs.com/blog/2013/04/21/ember-1-0-rc3.html

13 years ago

73 upvotes – 8 comments

Mistaken Identifiers: Gene name errors introduced inadvertently using Excel

http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/5/80

13 years ago

73 upvotes – 46 comments

Fathers Recognize Their Babies’ Cries Just as Well as Mothers

http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/science/2013/04/fathers-recognize-their-babies-cries-just-as-well-as-mothers/

13 years ago

66 upvotes – 41 comments

Show HN: Four months of indie game dev

http://www.cannonade.net/blog.php?id=1587

13 years ago

66 upvotes – 25 comments

Microsoft just sponsored Daring Fireball

http://daringfireball.net/linked/2013/04/20/windows-azure-mobile-services

13 years ago

62 upvotes – 38 comments

Silicon Valley companies quietly try to kill Internet privacy bill

http://www.insidebayarea.com/breaking-news/ci_23067323/silicon-valley-companies-quietly-try-kill-internet-privacy

13 years ago

61 upvotes – 3 comments

How is CipherCloud doing homomorphic encryption?

http://crypto.stackexchange.com/questions/3645/how-is-ciphercloud-doing-homomorphic-encryption

13 years ago

60 upvotes – 12 comments

Apple II software still being sold

http://store.syndicomm.com/

13 years ago

56 upvotes – 14 comments
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