top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-04-24

Wish I was here by Zach Braff

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1869987317/wish-i-was-here-1

13 years ago

483 upvotes – 205 comments

Spark Capital will now pay their own legal bills

http://nabeelhyatt.com/post/48791551517/picking-up-our-own-tab

13 years ago

306 upvotes – 107 comments

The AI Systems of "Left 4 Dead" [pdf]

http://www.valvesoftware.com/publications/2009/ai_systems_of_l4d_mike_booth.pdf

13 years ago

277 upvotes – 82 comments

Introduction to Position Based Fluids

http://physxinfo.com/news/11109/introduction-to-position-based-fluids/

13 years ago

273 upvotes – 77 comments

Aaron Swartz Documentary – The Internet's Own Boy

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/26788492/aaron-swartz-documentary-the-internets-own-boy-0

13 years ago

244 upvotes – 63 comments

Do Elite Colleges Discriminate Against Asians?

http://blog.priceonomics.com/post/48794283011/do-elite-colleges-discriminate-against-asians

13 years ago

230 upvotes – 407 comments

The W3C's plan for DRM in HTML5 is a betrayal for all web users

http://freeculture.org/blog/2013/04/23/dont-let-the-myths-fool-you-the-w3cs-plan-for-drm-in-html5-is-a-betrayal-to-all-web-users/

13 years ago

222 upvotes – 154 comments

Failed Startup's Final Income Statements Reveal Grave Error

http://www.businessinsider.com/jody-sherman-ecomom-and-a-grave-financial-error-2013-4

13 years ago

221 upvotes – 153 comments

Show HN: Usability checklist – catch common problems before user testing

http://userium.com

13 years ago

216 upvotes – 36 comments

Everything you need to understand to start with AngularJS

http://stephanebegaudeau.tumblr.com/post/48776908163/everything-you-need-to-understand-to-start-with

13 years ago

211 upvotes – 30 comments

Nginx-1.4.0 stable version has been released

http://nginx.org/#2013-04-24

13 years ago

210 upvotes – 71 comments

Data Science of the Facebook World

http://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2013/04/data-science-of-the-facebook-world/

13 years ago

206 upvotes – 84 comments

Paypal President: We're thinking about adding Bitcoin (2:50) [video]

http://www.bloomberg.com/video/paypal-sees-20-billion-in-mobile-transactions-WlokACTBRterdjHAJGNB6w.html

13 years ago

206 upvotes – 120 comments

The secret to a higher salary is to ask for nothing at all

http://qz.com/77020/the-secret-to-a-higher-salary-is-to-ask-for-nothing-at-all/

13 years ago

197 upvotes – 104 comments

Don’t Launch Your Product

http://philosophically.com/dont-launch-your-product

13 years ago

196 upvotes – 75 comments

A hidden world, growing beyond control

http://projects.washingtonpost.com/top-secret-america/articles/a-hidden-world-growing-beyond-control/

13 years ago

193 upvotes – 69 comments

Marketing Software, For People Who Would Rather Be Building It

http://www.kalzumeus.com/2013/04/24/marketing-for-people-who-would-rather-be-building-stuff/

13 years ago

190 upvotes – 37 comments

Parable of the Stones

http://www.rexblog.com/2013/04/24/49208

13 years ago

139 upvotes – 45 comments

Introducing the Europe Region, Now Available in Public Beta

https://blog.heroku.com/archives/2013/4/24/europe-region

13 years ago

133 upvotes – 31 comments

The Tech Industry’s Darkest Secret: It’s All About Age

http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20130422020049-8451-the-tech-industry-s-darkest-secret-it-s-all-about-age

13 years ago

124 upvotes – 119 comments

Counsyl is Pioneering A New Bioinformatics Wave

http://techcrunch.com/2013/04/23/counsyl/

13 years ago

113 upvotes – 47 comments

Emacs setup for Python development

http://caisah.info/emacs-for-python/

13 years ago

112 upvotes – 54 comments

We wanted flying cars, instead we got 140 characters crashing the markets

http://www.rocketmill.co.uk/we-wanted-flying-cars-instead-we-got-140-characters-crashing-the-markets

13 years ago

110 upvotes – 87 comments

What Python developers need to know before migrating to Go

http://blog.repustate.com/migrating-code-from-python-to-golang-what-you-need-to-know/

13 years ago

104 upvotes – 103 comments

Mailbox iOS app is a security fail

http://subhb.org/2013/04/24/mailbox-ios-app-is-a-security-fail/

13 years ago

98 upvotes – 55 comments

WWDC 2013 – June 10-14

https://developer.apple.com/wwdc/tickets/

13 years ago

98 upvotes – 65 comments

Show HN: Squaresend - Less annoying mailto links

https://squaresend.com/

13 years ago

95 upvotes – 66 comments

Bringing people back from the dead

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22154552

13 years ago

95 upvotes – 35 comments

Cooper Union Ends a Longtime Custom: The Free Degree

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/24/nyregion/cooper-union-to-charge-undergraduates-tuition.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

13 years ago

93 upvotes – 115 comments

Learning Lisp The Bump Free Way

http://blog.ppenev.com/2013/04/24/learning-lisp-the-bump-free-way.html

13 years ago

90 upvotes – 45 comments

Hacking debt

http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2013/04/24/hacking-debt/

13 years ago

85 upvotes – 48 comments

How I Escaped North Korea

http://parkjiwoo.kinja.com/how-i-escaped-north-korea-479759525

13 years ago

84 upvotes – 48 comments

Cuil Crawl Data: 310 terabytes of compressed data, snapshot from 2007-8

https://archive.org/details/cuilcrawl

13 years ago

83 upvotes – 31 comments

How Fred Smith Saved Fedex at the Blackjack Table

http://warstory.co/how-fred-smith-saved-fedex-at-the-blackjack-table/

13 years ago

80 upvotes – 19 comments

Sunsetting Flash

http://blogs.unity3d.com/2013/04/23/sunsetting-flash/

13 years ago

79 upvotes – 77 comments

Over 25% of Verizon Wireless Traffic Is Now Over IPv6

http://www.internetsociety.org/deploy360/blog/2013/04/over-25-of-verizon-wireless-traffic-is-now-over-ipv6/

13 years ago

77 upvotes – 26 comments

Show HN: Lapis – A web framework for MoonScript and OpenResty

http://leafo.net/lapis/

13 years ago

75 upvotes – 23 comments

Mind Management, Not Time Management (2012)

http://kadavy.net/blog/posts/mind-management-intro/

13 years ago

75 upvotes – 10 comments

Unless you're a founder, startups do not pay out

http://blog.selfassembled.org/posts/new_job_new_jobs.html

13 years ago

75 upvotes – 84 comments

Nobody ever got fired for buying a cluster

http://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/default.aspx?id=179615

13 years ago

72 upvotes – 55 comments

The Wise Way to Crowdsource a Manhunt

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/comment/2013/04/reddit-tsarnaev-marathon-bombers-wisdom-of-crowds.html

13 years ago

67 upvotes – 34 comments

Tearable cloth in asm.js

http://jlongster.com/s/lljs-cloth/

13 years ago

65 upvotes – 36 comments

Caught in the System, Ex-Hacker Is Stalked by His Past

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/04/stephen-watt-stalked-by-past/

13 years ago

59 upvotes – 52 comments

My girlfriend tries to explain my startup in 90 seconds

https://plus.google.com/108210571993357629420/posts/DhpdKmeCDmJ

13 years ago

59 upvotes – 59 comments

A fake tweet caused a sharp drop in US markets

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-11900474

13 years ago

56 upvotes – 43 comments

Twitter said to be testing two-step security in wake of AP hack

http://crave.cnet.co.uk/software/twitter-said-to-be-testing-two-step-security-in-wake-of-ap-hack-50011027/

13 years ago

54 upvotes – 26 comments
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