top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-04-23

Tearable Cloth Simulation in JavaScript

http://codepen.io/stuffit/pen/KrAwx

13 years ago

1048 upvotes – 153 comments

BitTorrent’s Secure Dropbox Alternative Goes Public

http://torrentfreak.com/bittorrents-secure-dropbox-alternative-goes-public-130423/

13 years ago

770 upvotes – 283 comments

“Right click and save as” needs to go away

http://svarden.se/blog/2013-04-22-right-click-and-save-as/

13 years ago

444 upvotes – 185 comments

The Power Of Silence: Why The SimCity Story Went Away

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2013/04/22/the-power-of-silence-why-the-simcity-story-went-away/

13 years ago

443 upvotes – 107 comments

Postgres on the GPU

http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/PGStrom

13 years ago

397 upvotes – 77 comments

SpaceX Grasshopper Flies High

http://www.universetoday.com/101627/spacex-grasshopper-flies-high/

13 years ago

319 upvotes – 203 comments

My First Year in the App Store

http://www.trevormckendrick.com/my-first-year-in-the-app-store/

13 years ago

255 upvotes – 100 comments

Coding, Fast and Slow: Developers and the Psychology of Overconfidence

http://blog.hut8labs.com/coding-fast-and-slow.html

13 years ago

246 upvotes – 72 comments

TraceGL: JavaScript code flow visualisation in WebGL

https://trace.gl

13 years ago

210 upvotes – 65 comments

Is It Journalism, or Just a Repackaged Press Release? Here's a Tool to Help

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/04/is-it-journalism-or-just-a-repackaged-press-release-heres-a-tool-to-help-you-find-out/275206/

13 years ago

183 upvotes – 63 comments

Bitcoin URL scheme whitelisted in HTML5

http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=7849&to=7850

13 years ago

182 upvotes – 56 comments

Firefox OS phones now available from Geeksphone

http://shop.geeksphone.com/en/

13 years ago

162 upvotes – 89 comments

Why women should embrace a ‘good enough’ life

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/why-women-should-embrace-a-good-enough-life/2013/04/18/4b2b086c-a5db-11e2-a8e2-5b98cb59187f_print.html

13 years ago

160 upvotes – 163 comments

Fast Database Emerges from MIT Class, GPUs and Student’s Invention

http://data-informed.com/fast-database-emerges-from-mit-class-gpus-and-students-invention/

13 years ago

160 upvotes – 43 comments

Futurama Canceled Again

http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2013/04/22/futurama_canceled_bad_news_everyone.html

13 years ago

142 upvotes – 57 comments

Things I set on new servers

http://simonholywell.com/post/2013/04/three-things-i-set-on-new-servers.html

13 years ago

141 upvotes – 69 comments

Alcatraz: Xcode Package Manager

http://mneorr.github.io/Alcatraz/

13 years ago

137 upvotes – 35 comments

Free O'Reilly Books

http://oreilly.com/openbook/

13 years ago

136 upvotes – 33 comments

We’re Being Sued For Linking To Shopzilla

http://www.datadial.net/blog/index.php/2013/04/18/were-being-sued-for-linking-to-shopzilla/

13 years ago

136 upvotes – 55 comments

What It’s Like to Get Online After 25 Years in Prison

http://www.dailydot.com/opinion/santos-getting-online-after-25-years-prison/

13 years ago

136 upvotes – 96 comments

Ask HN: Congress is Passing an Internet Sales Tax: Why Doesn't HN Care?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5594551

13 years ago

128 upvotes – 113 comments

MemSQL ships 2.0, scales across hundreds of nodes, thousands of cores

http://developers.memsql.com/blog/real-time-analytics-platform/

13 years ago

127 upvotes – 29 comments

The Beginner's Guide to Sales

http://strideapp.com/beginners-guide-to-sales/

13 years ago

123 upvotes – 19 comments

Go Circuit – Distributed Go Programming Framework

http://www.gocircuit.org/

13 years ago

121 upvotes – 23 comments

Zen Photon Garden

http://scanlime.org/2013/04/zen-photon-garden/

13 years ago

120 upvotes – 10 comments

Stupid Legal Threats: You Can't Write About Me Because of Your Blog's Name

http://www.popehat.com/2013/04/23/today-in-unusually-stupid-legal-threats-you-cant-write-about-me-because-of-your-blogs-name/

13 years ago

105 upvotes – 40 comments

Facebook’s “I F*cking Love Science” does not love artists

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/compound-eye/2013/04/23/facebooks-i-fcking-love-science-does-not-fcking-love-artists/

13 years ago

102 upvotes – 95 comments

Writing A Persona Identity Provider

https://lukasa.co.uk/2013/04/Writing_A_Persona_Identity_Provider/

13 years ago

97 upvotes – 16 comments

Stop complaining about the lack of women in tech

http://www.attendly.com/stop-complaining-about-the-lack-of-women-in-tech/

13 years ago

96 upvotes – 115 comments

Code Organization in Large AngularJS and JavaScript Applications

http://cliffmeyers.com/blog/2013/4/21/code-organization-angularjs-javascript

13 years ago

92 upvotes – 23 comments

Google Buys Wavii For North Of $30 Million

http://techcrunch.com/2013/04/23/google-buys-wavii-for-north-of-30-million/

13 years ago

92 upvotes – 33 comments

"Make something people want" poster

http://alvybrooks.com/ycposter

13 years ago

86 upvotes – 75 comments

Traceroute from a Norwegian Airlines airplane

https://gist.github.com/watson/5442295

13 years ago

84 upvotes – 32 comments

Duplicate your House Keys with your Phone

http://shloosl.com/

13 years ago

82 upvotes – 82 comments

Stocks Plunge, Quickly Recover, on Fake Tweet

http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2013/04/23/stocks-plunge-quickly-recover-on-fake-tweet/

13 years ago

81 upvotes – 99 comments

What Does Modern Prejudice Look Like?

http://www.npr.org/blogs/codeswitch/2013/04/22/177455764/What-Does-Modern-Prejudice-Look-Like

13 years ago

77 upvotes – 76 comments

Herd

http://ninjasandrobots.com/herd

13 years ago

75 upvotes – 32 comments

Introduction to AVX2 optimizations in x264

http://www.scribd.com/doc/137419114/Introduction-to-AVX2-optimizations-in-x264

13 years ago

75 upvotes – 23 comments

URI Template

http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6570

13 years ago

74 upvotes – 20 comments

Chromium proposal for browser-level infinite scrolling lists: Lazy Block Layout

https://docs.google.com/a/chromium.org/document/d/1-tbcMJV8wNbX2g5ehNIcE_1W7Kj_B3g9w1BrUgHnh3U/edit

13 years ago

69 upvotes – 28 comments

An Idiot's Guide to C++ Templates - Part 1

http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/257589/An-Idiots-Guide-to-Cplusplus-Templates-Part-1

13 years ago

69 upvotes – 30 comments

Apple reports $9.5 billion second quarter profit

http://www.loopinsight.com/2013/04/23/apple-reports-9-5-billion-second-quarter-profit/

13 years ago

66 upvotes – 86 comments

Bloomberg Says Interpretation of Constitution Will ‘Have to Change’ After Boston

http://politicker.com/2013/04/bloomberg-says-post-boston-interpretation-of-the-constitution-will-have-to-change/

13 years ago

65 upvotes – 92 comments

Glowing Plants: Natural Lighting with no Electricity or CO2

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/antonyevans/glowing-plants-natural-lighting-with-no-electricit

13 years ago

64 upvotes – 53 comments

Don't Spam Your Users: Batch Notifications for Rails

http://blog.meldium.com/home/2013/4/22/dont-spam-your-users-batch-notifications-in-rails

13 years ago

61 upvotes – 10 comments

Lawdingo: A Funny Ad For a Serious Business

http://abovethelaw.com/2013/04/lawdingo-funny-ad-for-a-serious-business/

13 years ago

61 upvotes – 30 comments

It ships when it ships

http://zinssmeister.co/it-ships-when-it-ships

13 years ago

59 upvotes – 56 comments

Y Combinator's Value to The US Economy

https://blog.siasto.com/ycombinators-value-to-the-us-economy

13 years ago

59 upvotes – 43 comments

Swearing at work - a guide

http://nic.ferrier.me.uk/blog/2013_04/swearing-at-work

13 years ago

56 upvotes – 72 comments

Did Google just shut down Caldav support?

https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!msg/calendar/FFWzKatP4kA/KrDhRvBd0awJ

13 years ago

56 upvotes – 43 comments

The Making of “Turtles all the way down”

http://geidav.wordpress.com/2013/04/14/making-of-turtles-all-the-way-down/

13 years ago

54 upvotes – 8 comments

Process Managers: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

http://blog.crocodoc.com/post/48703468992/process-managers-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly

13 years ago

53 upvotes – 20 comments

Love to Learn

http://jacquesmattheij.com/Love-To-Learn

13 years ago

52 upvotes – 16 comments
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