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| 1. | How Not To Sort By Average Rating (evanmiller.org) | |
| 750 points | 2012 | author EvanMiller showed up | their comment | thread
“For the academically inclined, there is a critique of this approach in this paper: Of course, I think the authors miss the point of the algorithm, since I basically…” | ||
| 2. | Back on Linux (after one year of Apple and OS X) (dywypi.org) | |
| 593 points | 2012 | author jyrki showed up | their comment | thread
“You bring up good points and my article would need some clarification on some parts, I agree on that. I'll just write quick replies back to you, and try to format…” | ||
| 3. | Show HN: fontBomb - Stylishly destroy the web (fontbomb.ilex.ca) | |
| 489 points | 2012 | author plehoux showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“it works best in Safari and IE 9. Use the bookmarklet to destroy any website. Source is here:” | ||
| 4. | The futures of Facebook and Google are embedded in these two images (robinsloan.com) | |
| 474 points | 2012 | author robinsloan showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I'm with you. The steady success of the self-driving cars has made me take some of these other projects much, much more seriously. Maybe it's simply the Thrun factor?” | ||
| 5. | Fish: Finally, a command line shell for the 90s (ridiculousfish.com) | |
| 442 points | 2012 | author ridiculous_fish showed up | their comment | thread
“fish doesn't have aliases, only functions. 'alias' is itself a function, which looks like it has a bug. I filed to track this. (The usual way a fish user would add this…” | ||
| 6. | Things I Learned From Founding Technology Companies (betashop.com) | |
| 420 points | 2012 | author betashop showed up | their comment | thread
“Hi. I'm the author. I like it as it is. 10 is a list. 90 is a compilation of lessons. Thanks for your input though! Don't stop learning.” | ||
| 7. | The most dangerous code in the world (crypto.stanford.edu) | |
| 406 points | 2012 | author austinpilot showed up | their comment | thread
“The paper is accompanied by a FAQ, which among other things explains the impact on specific software: For example, broken SSL in Amazon FPS allows a MITM attacker to…” | ||
| 8. | What I Learned From Increasing My Prices (extendslogic.com) | |
| 369 points | 2012 | author rubeng showed up | their comment | thread
“Thanks for mentioning that; I've gone ahead and added a link.” | ||
| 9. | Step by step from jQuery to Backbone (open.bekk.no) | |
| 353 points | 2012 | author kjbekkelund showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“The blog appears to be down, check it out on Github instead:” | ||
| 10. | "I haven’t been drunk in 3 years... and I’ve been partying way more than you." (hellobubs.com) | |
| 349 points | 2012 | author dariusmonsef showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I wrote the post for people that use drinking as a way to enjoy an experience more. Those are the kind of people who often slide down that slope. I recognize that a lot…” | ||
| 11. | I Don't Want To Be Part of Your Ecosystem (shkspr.mobi) | |
| 344 points | 2012 | author edent showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I'm sorry you feel that way. I think users should care. These monocultures we're breeding are - I think - harmful to society and the economy - see this excellent article…” | ||
| 12. | Simplify your life with an SSH config file (nerderati.com) | |
| 330 points | 2012 | author jperras showed up | their comment | thread
“Glad to see that this post was useful; I wrote it a while ago when I realized that people weren't password-protecting their Github private keys because it was "too…” | ||
| 13. | Books Programmers Don't Really Read But Recommend (billthelizard.com) | |
| 316 points | 2012 | author cruise02 showed up | their comment | thread
“SICP is definitely the book that people most often tell me I missed when they read this. I hadn't even cracked it open at the time I wrote the post, so I didn't feel…” | ||
| 14. | FuckItJS: Runs your javascript code whether your compiler likes it or not. (github.com) | |
| 315 points | 2012 | author md224 showed up | their comment | thread
“for reasons I can't fathom, someone has created a Drupal module:” | ||
| 15. | Typing Practice for Programmers (typing.io) | |
| 311 points | 2012 | author moonboots showed up | their comment | thread
“thanks for the feedback. Do you mean the backspace cursor that appears after the user typed a character incorrectly?” | ||
| 16. | Fixing the Python subprocess interface (amoffat.github.com) | |
| 291 points | 2012 | author daenz showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Hi! Author here, there are a few ways to use it, including your suggestion (did you make your suggestion up or were you pulling from the docs?): # magical, designed only…” | ||
| 17. | Show HN: gist.io, blogless writing for hackers (gist.io) | |
| 286 points | 2012 | author idan showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Generally, if you have features you want, file 'em here: Stuff I'd like to do given the time: * Add RestructuredText support * Add a sign-in-with-github option, and turn…” | ||
| 18. | The freedom to drink coffee (raganwald.posterous.com) | |
| 282 points | 2012 | author raganwald showed up | their comment | thread
“I wrote the post back then, not today.” | ||
| 19. | Building websites in Python with Flask (maximebf.com) | |
| 276 points | 2012 | author emixam showed up | their comment | thread
“I plan to write another full tutorial on blueprints. I use them a lot but I already found this post long enough :)” | ||
| 20. | Do Things, Tell People. (carl.flax.ie) | |
| 274 points | 2012 | author hebejebelus showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“This is why I think every programmer should have at least these two things: a twitter account, and a github account. A github account to publish what you do, and a…” | ||
| 21. | How To Build a Naive Bayes Classifier (bionicspirit.com) | |
| 264 points | 2012 | author bad_user showed up | their comment | thread
“Yes you are right, it's better to convert the whole thing to a sum of logs, otherwise you end up with floating-point underflow. The article was getting already too long…” | ||
| 22. | How I negotiated my startup compensation (with numbers) (blog.keen.io) | |
| 261 points | 2012 | author wetzler showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I wrote this article because I wished it existed when I was going through this. Even something as simple as an example of a early employee's salary at a seed-funded…” | ||
| 23. | What Happens to the Coke in Coca-Cola? (good.is) | |
| 256 points | 2012 | author DanLivesHere showed up | their comment | thread
“Sweet! It's from my email newsletter, -- GOOD republished it w/my permission :) Love seeing it discussed here!” | ||
| 24. | Why is nobody using SSL Client Certificates? (pilif.github.com) | |
| 255 points | 2012 | author pilif showed up | their comment | thread
“now quite dated, article and by now I really don't agree with its contents any more - at least not fully: 1) this is not truly two-factor authentication as the…” | ||
| 25. | A dozen USB chargers in the lab: Apple is very good, but not quite the best (arcfn.com) | |
| 254 points | 2012 | author kens showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I'm using voltage sag to describe how the voltage drops as the load increases. (This has nothing to do with the presence of a battery or not.) Chargers normally are…” | ||
| 26. | No longer loving Google (somebits.com) | |
| 246 points | 2012 | author NelsonMinar showed up | their comment | thread
“I don't have many friends left at Google but from what I've heard there's a lot of internal debate about the direction of the company now. There's been years of…” | ||
| 27. | Music Theory for Musicians and Normal People (academic.udayton.edu) | |
| 236 points | 2012 | author commontone showed up | their comment | thread
“and wow... I was wondering where all the sudden traffic was coming from. Thanks, dmmalam, for getting my stuff on the front page, and for those who emailed and let me…” | ||
| 28. | Dear StackExchange: Thank You (maxmackie.com) | |
| 234 points | 2012 | author darxius showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I couldn't agree more with your comment. I liked the letter so much I put it in a frame I had lying around and I mounted it on my wall. I think a lot of startups should…” | ||
| 29. | Why, oh why, do those nutheads use vi? (viemu.com) | |
| 232 points | 2012 | author jng showed up | their comment | thread
“Yes, the ending is anticlimatic, but the only reason is that I didn't want to "push" it on people. I just wanted to share my views. I thought many people would complain…” | ||
| 30. | How I Hired Someone On Craigslist And Quadrupled My Productivity (hackthesystem.com) | |
| 232 points | 2012 | author maneesh showed up | their comment | thread
“I used the same techniques that I talk about in this post until today---but without the slaps. The power is in the pair, having an accountability partner is important.…” | ||
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