top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-02-21

Neovim

https://github.com/neovim/neovim

12 years ago

★ 99.1k Vim Script
879 upvotes – 362 comments

Sam Altman for President

http://blog.ycombinator.com/sam-altman-for-president

12 years ago

790 upvotes – 153 comments

LinkedIn is not using email contacts to find people who have an account already

https://plus.google.com/102760907897543103676/posts/Uuaqr7RH5iF

12 years ago

320 upvotes – 177 comments

Show HN: We've open-sourced our bootstrapped startup, ShareLaTeX

https://github.com/sharelatex/sharelatex

12 years ago

★ 17.6k JavaScript AGPL-3.0
276 upvotes – 79 comments

Women Outnumber Men For The First Time In Berkeley’s Intro To Computer Science

http://techcrunch.com/2014/02/21/women-outnumber-men-for-the-first-time-in-berkeleys-intro-to-computer-science-course/

12 years ago

242 upvotes – 168 comments

America Online to Buy Internet Chat Service for $287 Million (1998)

http://www.nytimes.com/1998/06/09/business/america-online-to-buy-internet-chat-service-for-287-million.html

12 years ago

239 upvotes – 140 comments

German tank problem

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_tank_problem

12 years ago

231 upvotes – 83 comments

Radiation-hardened quine

https://github.com/mame/radiation-hardened-quine

12 years ago

★ 706 Ruby
231 upvotes – 71 comments

It's time to break up the NSA

http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/20/opinion/schneier-nsa-too-big/index.html

12 years ago

215 upvotes – 98 comments

About the security content of iOS 7.0.6

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT6147

12 years ago

205 upvotes – 145 comments

Visual Programming Languages – Snapshots

http://blog.interfacevision.com/design/design-visual-progarmming-languages-snapshots

12 years ago

204 upvotes – 125 comments

Ask HN: Why isn't Erlang more popular?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7277797

12 years ago

202 upvotes – 237 comments

VAXen, my children, just don't...

http://crash.com/fun/texts/vaxen-dont.html

12 years ago

200 upvotes – 50 comments

Go Ahead, Let Your Kids Fail

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-02-20/go-ahead-let-your-kids-fail.html

12 years ago

199 upvotes – 120 comments

Voynich Manuscript partially decoded, text is not a hoax, scholar finds

http://www.medievalists.net/2014/02/20/voynich-manuscript-partially-decoded-text-hoax-scholar-finds/

12 years ago

197 upvotes – 102 comments

My children’s book on technology raised 100k within 24 hours – here’s how

http://lindaliukas.tumblr.com/post/77372344314/my-childrens-book-on-technology-raised-100k-within-24

12 years ago

188 upvotes – 114 comments

Synthetic Muscle Made of Fishing Line is 100 Times Stronger Than the Real Thing

http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/health/breakthroughs/synthetic-muscle-made-of-fishing-line-is-100-times-stronger-than-the-real-thing-16514805

12 years ago

186 upvotes – 62 comments

Tmux 1.9 released

http://sourceforge.net/p/tmux/tmux-code/ci/master/tree/CHANGES

12 years ago

182 upvotes – 117 comments

How much is time wrong around the world?

http://poisson.phc.unipi.it/~maggiolo/index.php/2014/01/how-much-is-time-wrong-around-the-world/

12 years ago

158 upvotes – 74 comments

Kit Kat Conspiracy (2002)

http://everything2.com/title/Kit+Kat+Konspiracy

12 years ago

147 upvotes – 164 comments

Things that cost more than Space Exploration: WhatsApp.

http://costsmorethanspace.tumblr.com/post/77364014273/what-costs-more-than-space-exploration-whatsapp

12 years ago

134 upvotes – 56 comments

Show HN: I built an HTML 5 Guitar Tuner

http://www.freetuner.co

12 years ago

134 upvotes – 54 comments

Show HN: Selfie Ticket

http://www.ticketleap.com/info/selfie-ticket

12 years ago

131 upvotes – 66 comments

Developer depression: Isolation is the biggest problem (2012)

http://thenextweb.com/insider/2012/10/20/are-developers-depressed/#!wJyoV

12 years ago

120 upvotes – 52 comments

Harvard supercomputing cluster hijacked to mine Dogecoin

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/02/harvard-supercomputing-cluster-hijacked-to-produce-alt-cryptocurrency/

12 years ago

115 upvotes – 85 comments

Gmaxwell's “prove how (non)-fractional your Bitcoin reserves are” scheme

https://iwilcox.me.uk/v/nofrac

12 years ago

114 upvotes – 76 comments

TestFlight Owner Burstly Acquired By Apple

http://techcrunch.com/2014/02/21/rumor-testflight-owner-burstly-is-being-acquired-by-apple/

12 years ago

107 upvotes – 49 comments

Uzbl – Web interface tools which adhere to the Unix philosophy

http://www.uzbl.org/readme.php

12 years ago

103 upvotes – 50 comments

What's relevant in the Ruby Universe?

http://www.omniref.com/blog/blog/2014/02/18/whats-relevant-in-the-ruby-universe/

12 years ago

101 upvotes – 9 comments

Sam Altman Taking Over As President Of Y Combinator

http://techcrunch.com/2014/02/21/sam-altman-taking-over-as-president-of-y-combinator-replacing-paul-graham-at-the-helm/

12 years ago

87 upvotes – 12 comments

Using Bootstrap the Semantic Way

http://www.ostraining.com/blog/coding/bootstrap-right-way/

12 years ago

83 upvotes – 69 comments

Hypercard – Way Too Early

http://avc.com/a_vc/2014/02/hypercard-way-too-early.html

12 years ago

82 upvotes – 54 comments

Can We Avoid a Surveillance State Dystopia?

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2014/02/can-we-avoid-a-surveillance-st.html

12 years ago

79 upvotes – 76 comments

Rarely known C++ constructs (part 1): Function try blocks

http://szelei.me/rarely-known-cpp-constructs-part-1-function-try-blocks/

12 years ago

76 upvotes – 39 comments

CRS-3 Falcon 9 first stage to sport legs and attempt soft splashdown

http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2014/02/crs-3-falcon-9-first-stage-sport-legs-attempt-soft-splashdown/

12 years ago

76 upvotes – 18 comments

Comcast and Netflix now have a direct adjacency

https://gist.github.com/berg/9142463

12 years ago

75 upvotes – 68 comments

The broken-down grace of Bill Murray

http://thedissolve.com/features/career-view/419-the-broken-down-grace-of-bill-murray/

12 years ago

71 upvotes – 26 comments

Christine: The World's Most Modular PC Design

http://www.razerzone.com/christine

12 years ago

69 upvotes – 59 comments

Cryptographic obfuscation and 'unhackable' software

http://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2014/02/cryptographic-obfuscation-and.html

12 years ago

66 upvotes – 25 comments
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