top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-04-26

I knew exactly how she felt

http://trishkhoo.com/2013/04/i-knew-exactly-how-she-felt/

13 years ago

521 upvotes – 285 comments

#ifihadglass I would jailbreak it and modify the software

https://twitter.com/saurik/status/327856986278477824

13 years ago

390 upvotes – 115 comments

Meet Mr. Money Mustache, the man who retired at 30

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/meet-mr-money-mustache-the-man-who-retired-at-30/2013/04/26/71e3e6a8-acf3-11e2-a8b9-2a63d75b5459_print.html

13 years ago

354 upvotes – 241 comments

Creating a Radial Menu in CSS

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13132864/circular-tooltip/13137862#13137862

13 years ago

331 upvotes – 79 comments

Killer escaped prison after being issued picture of master key

http://mobile.news.com.au/national-news/killer-escaped-prison-after-being-issued-picture-of-master-key-to-all-locks/story-fncynjr2-1226629878591

13 years ago

233 upvotes – 94 comments

Is this what it’s supposed to feel like?

http://42floors.com/blog/is-this-what-its-supposed-to-feel-like/

13 years ago

204 upvotes – 147 comments

JQuery Annotated Source

http://robflaherty.github.io/jquery-annotated-source/

13 years ago

196 upvotes – 20 comments

Uber Stockholm throw a PR-tantrum when refused unfair advantages

http://www.digitalmcgyver.com/professional/digital-pr/uber-stockholm-throw-a-pr-tantrum-when-refused-unfair-advantages/

13 years ago

193 upvotes – 251 comments

This is what a DDoS attack looks like

http://www.geek.com/apps/this-is-what-a-ddos-attack-looks-like-1552975/

13 years ago

180 upvotes – 70 comments

How D3 Selections Work

http://bost.ocks.org/mike/selection/

13 years ago

162 upvotes – 8 comments

Why Sleep Deprivation Eases Depression

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=why-sleep-deprivation-eases-depression

13 years ago

161 upvotes – 66 comments

LivingSocial Hacked – 50 Million Customers Affected

http://allthingsd.com/20130426/livingsocial-hacked-more-than-50-million-customer-names-emails-birthdates-and-encrypted-passwords-accessed/

13 years ago

157 upvotes – 120 comments

The Truth About Entrepreneurs: Twice As Many Are Over 50 As Are Under 25

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/2013/04/the-truth-about-entrepreneurs-twice-as-many-are-over-50-than-under-25.html

13 years ago

148 upvotes – 53 comments

Why Markdown Is Not My Favourite Language

http://www.wilfred.me.uk/blog/2012/07/30/why-markdown-is-not-my-favourite-language/

13 years ago

139 upvotes – 84 comments

NASA has three smartphones orbiting the earth as mini-satellites

http://www.npr.org/2013/04/26/178846158/can-you-hear-me-now-cellphone-satellites-phone-home

13 years ago

137 upvotes – 90 comments

BODOL – inspired by Haskell, Clojure and Shen

https://github.com/bodil/BODOL

13 years ago

★ 313 Clojure
132 upvotes – 91 comments

C++ on the web: emscripten, nacl, flascc

http://de.slideshare.net/andreweissflog3/quovadis2013-cpp-ontheweb

13 years ago

122 upvotes – 42 comments

The Amazing Life of Sean Smith, the Masterful Eve Gamer Slain in Libya

http://kotaku.com/the-extraordinary-mischievous-too-short-life-of-sean-481060252

13 years ago

121 upvotes – 32 comments

Show HN: Find a mentor, Become a mentor

https://mentii.com

13 years ago

119 upvotes – 56 comments

Want to ace your Y Combinator interview? Be relentlessly empathetic

http://blog.perfectaudience.com/2013/04/26/want-to-ace-your-ycombinator-interview-be-relentlessly-empathetic/

13 years ago

117 upvotes – 30 comments

Flat Design and Color Trends

http://designmodo.com/flat-design-colors/

13 years ago

117 upvotes – 47 comments

Ask HN: What is your daily reading list?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5611973

13 years ago

117 upvotes – 74 comments

Craftstud.io - A Game to Make Games (now in beta)

http://craftstud.io/?hnbeta

13 years ago

108 upvotes – 56 comments

What Alexander Graham Bell Sounded Like

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/We-Had-No-Idea-What-Alexander-Graham-Bell-Sounded-Like-Until-Now-204137471.html

13 years ago

105 upvotes – 36 comments

Triple Gear

http://www.shapeways.com/model/779258/triple-gear.html

13 years ago

103 upvotes – 10 comments

Ask HN: Best alternative to Heroku?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5611503

13 years ago

97 upvotes – 59 comments

Why We'll Never Meet Aliens

http://paultyma.blogspot.com/2013/04/why-well-never-meet-aliens.html

13 years ago

96 upvotes – 116 comments

Learn Foundation with interactive lessons

http://www.tryfoundation.io/

13 years ago

94 upvotes – 25 comments

Picking tech for your startup

http://blog.opbeat.com/2013/04/26/picking-tech-for-your-startup/

13 years ago

88 upvotes – 42 comments

ATM Skimmers

http://krebsonsecurity.com/2010/01/would-you-have-spotted-the-fraud/

13 years ago

88 upvotes – 75 comments

Django-inplaceedit: Edit on the fly

https://pypi.python.org/pypi/django-inplaceedit

13 years ago

88 upvotes – 22 comments

Google Search Terms Can Predict the Stock Market

http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/science/2013/04/google-search-terms-can-predict-the-stock-market/

13 years ago

87 upvotes – 55 comments

What If We Never Run Out of Oil?

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2013/05/what-if-we-never-run-out-of-oil/309294/?single_page=true

13 years ago

80 upvotes – 88 comments

How I served 100k users without breaking the server or a dollar bill

http://blogging.alastair.is/how-i-served-100k-users-without-crashing-and-only-spent-0-32/

13 years ago

79 upvotes – 39 comments

Markov chain algorithm in Go

http://golang.org/doc/codewalk/markov/

13 years ago

78 upvotes – 23 comments

Machine Learning Library for C++

http://image.diku.dk/shark/sphinx_pages/build/html/index.html

13 years ago

76 upvotes – 50 comments

Analyzing Radioactive Glass from the Trinity Test

http://www.hscott.net/analyzing-trinitite-a-radioactive-piece-of-nuclear-history/

13 years ago

76 upvotes – 14 comments

GitHub donates private repositories to women learning open source software

http://adainitiative.org/2013/04/github-donates-private-repositories-to-women-learning-open-source-software/

13 years ago

74 upvotes – 175 comments

Practices in source code sharing in astrophysics

http://arxiv.org/abs/1304.6780v1

13 years ago

73 upvotes – 63 comments

Creating the World’s Best Service and Warranty Program

http://www.teslamotors.com/blog/creating-world%E2%80%99s-best-service-and-warranty-program-0

13 years ago

70 upvotes – 21 comments

Essential Elisp libraries

http://www.wilfred.me.uk/blog/2013/03/31/essential-elisp-libraries/

13 years ago

67 upvotes – 23 comments

Strikingly (YC W13) raises $1.5M from SV Angel, Index Ventures, FundersClub

http://thenextweb.com/insider/2013/04/26/yc-alum-strikingly-nabs-1-5m-from-sv-angel-index-ventures-fundersclub-others-for-its-diy-website-creator-service/?fromcat=all

13 years ago

65 upvotes – 38 comments

Earth's core far hotter than thought

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22297915

13 years ago

54 upvotes – 26 comments
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