top 20 hacker news stories for 2014-02-20

Project Tango

http://www.google.com/atap/projecttango/

12 years ago

815 upvotes – 339 comments

Your Path to a $16B exit? Build a J2ME App

http://blog.textit.in/your-path-to-a-$16b-exit-build-a-j2me-app

12 years ago

489 upvotes – 234 comments

Inside DuckDuckGo, Google's Tiniest, Fiercest Competitor

http://www.fastcolabs.com/3026698/inside-duckduckgo-googles-tiniest-fiercest-competitor?partner

12 years ago

462 upvotes – 236 comments

So very sad to hear about the passing of Ruby legend Jim Weirich

https://twitter.com/dhh/status/436410949919313920

12 years ago

413 upvotes – 62 comments

Jim Weirich's final GitHub commit

https://github.com/jimweirich/wyriki/commit/d28fac7f18aeacb00d8ad3460a0a5a901617c2d4

12 years ago

★ 271 CSS
400 upvotes – 53 comments

Questions People Ask When I Tell Them I Own an Airplane

http://www.fivezeromike.com/blog/2014/2/18/top-questions

12 years ago

393 upvotes – 245 comments

Banking Startup Simple Acquired for $117M, Will Continue to Operate Separately

http://techcrunch.com/2014/02/20/simple-acquired-for-117m-will-continue-to-operate-separately-under-its-own-brand/

12 years ago

280 upvotes – 208 comments

Y Not – Adventures in Functional Programming (2012)

http://www.confreaks.com/videos/1287-rubyconf2012-y-not-adventures-in-functional-programming

12 years ago

254 upvotes – 14 comments

I don't know, Timmy, being God is a big responsibility

http://qntm.org/responsibility

12 years ago

226 upvotes – 112 comments

Bitcrypt broken

http://blog.cassidiancybersecurity.com/post/2014/02/Bitcrypt-broken

12 years ago

221 upvotes – 87 comments

Who helps your Linux distribution run smoothly? Thank a packager today

http://opensource.com/business/14/2/thank-a-linux-packager-today

12 years ago

215 upvotes – 65 comments

Leaving Google

https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2014/02/19/Leaving-Google

12 years ago

210 upvotes – 217 comments

WhatsApp issued takedown against alternative clients a week before acquisition

https://raw.github.com/github/dmca/master/2014-02-12-WhatsApp.md

12 years ago

208 upvotes – 66 comments

Scaling to millions of simultaneous connections (2012) [pdf]

http://www.erlang-factory.com/upload/presentations/558/efsf2012-whatsapp-scaling.pdf

12 years ago

147 upvotes – 81 comments

The Rent Is Too Damn High: The Enormous Cost of Letting Finance Rule

https://www.jacobinmag.com/2014/02/the-rent-is-too-damn-high-2

12 years ago

147 upvotes – 190 comments

Building Cordova apps for Firefox OS

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2014/02/building-cordova-apps-for-firefox-os/

12 years ago

143 upvotes – 30 comments

Results of the SQL Performance Quiz

http://use-the-index-luke.com/blog/2014-02/results-three-minutes-sql-performance-quiz

12 years ago

133 upvotes – 93 comments

Fundraising Mistakes Founders Make

http://blog.samaltman.com/fundraising-mistakes-founder-make

12 years ago

132 upvotes – 51 comments

The Game Changed in Venezuela Last Night and the Media Is Asleep At the Switch

http://caracaschronicles.com/2014/02/20/the-game-changed/

12 years ago

131 upvotes – 44 comments

Tesla CEO Musk on Battery Factor, Model X, Apple [video]

http://www.bloomberg.com/video/tesla-ceo-musk-on-battery-factor-model-x-apple-LzHPROiTSoCyaQMM5Fg9lQ.html

12 years ago

123 upvotes – 45 comments
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