top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-02-17

By The Time You Give Them a Raise, They’re Already Out The Door

http://saastr.quora.com/By-The-Time-You-Give-Them-a-Raise-They%E2%80%99re-Already-Out-The-Door

12 years ago

As much Stack Overflow as possible in 4096 bytes

http://danlec.com/blog/stackoverflow-in-4096-bytes

12 years ago

The C10M problem

http://c10m.robertgraham.com/p/manifesto.html

12 years ago

Why is the mouse cursor slightly tilted and not straight?

http://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/52336/why-is-the-mouse-cursor-slightly-tilted-and-not-straight

12 years ago

Show HN: I redesigned the Microsoft employee badge

http://alp.im/blog/microsoft-employee-badge-redesign

12 years ago

Why we left AngularJS

https://sourcegraph.com/blog/switching-from-angularjs-to-server-side-html

12 years ago

Drawing as a programmer

http://gameofworlds.tumblr.com/post/76836176462/drawing-as-a-programmer

12 years ago

Frequency

http://xkcd.com/1331/

12 years ago

Introducing Bing Code Search for C#

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudio/archive/2014/02/17/introducing-bing-code-search-for-c.aspx

12 years ago

Ask HN: What are some alternatives to HN?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7254884

12 years ago

Less Commonly Used Unix Commands

http://www.danielmiessler.com/blog/collection-of-less-commonly-used-unix-commands

12 years ago

My Startup, a Retrospective

http://www.rdegges.com/my-startup-a-retrospective/

12 years ago

Reporting From the Web’s Underbelly

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/17/technology/reporting-from-the-webs-underbelly.html?hpw&rref=technology&_r=0

12 years ago

Steam's VAC reads all the domains you visited

http://www.twitlonger.com/show/n_1s0hb3n

12 years ago

TCP/IP over audio

http://www.anfractuosity.com/projects/ultrasound-networking/

12 years ago

Off-the-Record Messaging Protocol v3

https://otr.cypherpunks.ca/Protocol-v3-4.0.0.html

12 years ago

No more `grunt watch` – faster builds with the Broccoli asset pipeline

http://www.solitr.com/blog/2014/02/broccoli-first-release/index.html

12 years ago

When You Fall in Love, This Is What Facebook Sees

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/02/when-you-fall-in-love-this-is-what-facebook-sees/283865/

12 years ago

Jessica Livingston (Y Combinator) at Startup Grind 2014

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMZZPiJrBo0

12 years ago

I Quit My Job To Teach People About Hardware

http://chrisgammell.com/i-quit-my-job-to-teach-people-about-hardware/

12 years ago

The fastest pulsar spins at 716Hz; its equator spins at 24% the speed of light

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PSR_J1748-2446ad

12 years ago

How Airbus is debugging the A350

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-02-13/how-airbus-is-debugging-the-a350#p1

12 years ago

Ways to avoid using the word 'very'

http://writerswrite.co.za/45-ways-to-avoid-using-the-word-very

12 years ago

How north ended up on top of the map

http://america.aljazeera.com/opinions/2014/2/maps-cartographycolonialismnortheurocentricglobe.html

12 years ago

The C10K problem

http://www.kegel.com/c10k.html

12 years ago

Whatever happened to the IPv4 address crisis?

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2014/021714-ipv4-278692.html

12 years ago

New 'painless' treatment to repair teeth

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/life-style/health-fitness/health/New-painless-treatment-to-repair-teeth/articleshow/30562836.cms

12 years ago

Early screenshots of Twitter ('06), Facebook ('05), and Tumblr ('07)

http://imgur.com/a/Sg8y7#0

12 years ago

Free static page hosting on Google App Engine in minutes

http://www.fizerkhan.com/blog/posts/Free-Static-Page-Hosting-on-Google-App-Engine-in-a-5-minutes.html

12 years ago

Microsoft Virtual Academy

http://www.microsoftvirtualacademy.com

12 years ago

After 400 years, mathematicians find a new class of solid shapes

http://theconversation.com/after-400-years-mathematicians-find-a-new-class-of-solid-shapes-23217

12 years ago

An Introduction to Lock-Free Programming (2012)

http://preshing.com/20120612/an-introduction-to-lock-free-programming/

12 years ago

I No Longer Need StackOverflow

http://toumorokoshi.github.io/i-no-longer-need-stackoverflow.html

12 years ago

Why Europe needs to get over its Silicon Valley envy

http://www.theguardian.com/media-network/media-network-blog/2014/feb/17/europe-silicon-valley-tech-startups-funding

12 years ago

Using Django for mostly static sites

http://goodcode.io/blog/django-staticsite/

12 years ago

NYPD rejects request for its freedom of information handbook

https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2014/feb/14/nypd-rejects-foil-handbook-request/

12 years ago

Cyanogenmod Updater vulnerable to MITM attack

https://kyhwana.org/blog/2014/02/17/cyanogenmods-updater-vulnerable-to-mitm-attack/

12 years ago

Facebook data scientists: A series of blog posts on love

https://www.facebook.com/data/posts/10152217010993415

12 years ago

What happens when a host cancels with Airbnb?

http://www.paulsavage.eu/daily-life/airbnb-cancelation-experience/

12 years ago

List of possible changes, updates, additions for PHP 6

https://wiki.php.net/ideas/php6

12 years ago

Websites That Boost Your Traffic For Free

http://bondero.com/boost-startup-traffic-free

12 years ago

Only 30% of Americans Out of Comcast Reach After Deal

http://cabletv.com/blog/comcast-time-warner-buyout-data/

12 years ago