top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-01-12

India Manages to Free Itself of Polio

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303848104579312453860810752?mod=WSJ_hps_LEFTTopStories

13 years ago

Awful app review trend among Turkish users

http://blog.appwared.com/awful-app-review-trend-among-turkish-users-this-is-why-your-app-gets-so-many-one-star-reviews/

13 years ago

A 1,600-Year-Old Viking War Game

https://medium.com/war-is-boring/cef088ae4e2d

13 years ago

Meanwhile, at code.org

http://worrydream.com/MeanwhileAtCodeOrg/

13 years ago

Best development book I've read, has no code in it

http://arasatasaygin.com/pages/best-development-book-I-read-has-no-code-in-it.html

13 years ago

Rare color film shows what London looked like in 1927

http://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/198876/rare-color-film-shows-what-london-looked-like-in-1927/

13 years ago

How to stop feeling lonely

http://wtsui.org/blog/how-to-stop-feeling-lonely/

13 years ago

ARM immediate value encoding

http://alisdair.mcdiarmid.org/2014/01/12/arm-immediate-value-encoding.html

13 years ago

Goodnight. Sleep Clean

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/12/opinion/sunday/goodnight-sleep-clean.html

13 years ago

Money can buy happiness

http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2013/05/daily-chart-0?fb_ref=activity

13 years ago

Xenia - An Xbox 360 emulator

https://github.com/benvanik/xenia

13 years ago

★ 9.3k C++

Stephen Colbert urged to cancel speech for RSA

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/10/stephen-colbert-nsa-linked-privacy-firm-rsa

13 years ago

Real-time applications and will Django adapt?

http://arunrocks.com/real-time-applications-and-will-django-adapt-to-it/

13 years ago

NSA makes final push to retain most mass surveillance powers

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/10/nsa-mass-surveillance-powers-john-inglis-npr

13 years ago

More functional C#

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7047252

13 years ago

New release of Self programming language

http://blog.selflanguage.org/2014/01/12/self-mallard-4-5-0-released/

13 years ago

Swatch Internet Time

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatch_Internet_Time

13 years ago

Pux – High Performance Router for PHP

http://github.com/c9s/Pux

13 years ago

★ 1.2k C MIT

iOS Static Libraries Are, Like, Really Bad

http://landonf.bikemonkey.org/code/ios/Radar_15800975_iOS_Frameworks.20140112.html

13 years ago

Court Rules That Yelp Must Unmask the Identities of Seven Anonymous Reviewers

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/01/court-rules-that-yelp-must-unmask-the-identities-of-seven-anonymous-reviewers/282959/

13 years ago

Token Fixation in Paypal

http://homakov.blogspot.com/2014/01/token-fixation-in-paypal.html

13 years ago

A Coder, a Programmer, a Hacker, a Developer, and a Computer Scientist

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/ACoderAProgrammerAHackerADeveloperAndAComputerScientistWalkIntoAVennDiagram.aspx

13 years ago

15-819 Homotopy Type Theory

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rwh/courses/hott/

13 years ago

Engineer: Egyptians built pyramids by piling rubble and attaching bricks later

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/how-were-pyramids-built-british-3010204

13 years ago

Google Shuts Down Schemer

https://www.schemer.com/

13 years ago

How To Find Unadvertised Jobs

http://www.glassdoor.com/blog/find-unadvertised-jobs/

13 years ago

Quick start projects

http://blog.sayan.ee/quick-start/

13 years ago

Feed Open Source

http://feedopensource.com

13 years ago

How Baby Boomers screwed their kids

http://www.salon.com/2014/01/04/how_baby_boomers_screwed_their_kids_%e2%80%94_and_created_millennial_impatience/

13 years ago

Jan. 1 has become the birthday for Afghans who don't know when they were born

http://seattletimes.com/html/nationworld/2022570799_afghanbirthdaysxml.html

13 years ago

Punisher - An alarm clock that ruins your life

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.foxdogstudios.punisher&hl=en

13 years ago