The Best Hacker News Posts of April 2012

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Light Table - a new IDE concept chris-granger.com · ibdknox · 13 Apr 2012

1.6k pts 291 comments

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Show HN: Meteor, a realtime JavaScript framework meteor.com · geoffschmidt · 10 Apr 2012

1.4k pts 322 comments

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I hereby resign raganwald.posterous.com · llambda · 2 Apr 2012

1.2k pts 366 comments

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"That's Why You Don't Have Any Friends." joethepeacock.blogspot.co.uk · kilian · 24 Apr 2012

1k pts 195 comments

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Mosh: SSH for 2012 mosh.mit.edu · pc · 9 Apr 2012

900 pts 193 comments

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Facebook acquires Instagram facebook.com · hunterowens · 9 Apr 2012

837 pts 374 comments

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How I attacked myself using Google and I ramped up a $1000 bandwidth bill behind-the-enemy-lines.com · Panos · 25 Apr 2012

775 pts 142 comments

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PHP: A fractal of bad design me.veekun.com · daeken · 10 Apr 2012

765 pts 495 comments

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How Not To Sort By Average Rating evanmiller.org · llambda · 3 Apr 2012

750 pts 153 comments

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Don’t Be Evil: How Google Screwed a Startup blog.hatchlings.com · mikeknoop · 5 Apr 2012

710 pts 246 comments

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Incredibox - Background music for programming. incredibox.com · bmelton · 27 Apr 2012

688 pts 167 comments

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The Top Of My Todo List paulgraham.com · dko · 21 Apr 2012

683 pts 185 comments

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Introducing Google Drive... yes, really googleblog.blogspot.com · jganetsk · 24 Apr 2012

663 pts 492 comments

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Light Table Is On Kickstarter kickstarter.com · ibdknox · 17 Apr 2012

619 pts 215 comments

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Modern Web Development jtaby.com · tomdale · 23 Apr 2012

605 pts 85 comments

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9 year old's DIY Cardboard Arcade gets Flash mobbed: Video danielhope.org · danielhope · 11 Apr 2012

603 pts 131 comments

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Valve Employee Handbook cdn.flamehaus.com · v21 · 21 Apr 2012

569 pts 160 comments

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The Beer Game -or- Why Apple Can’t Build iPads in the US blog.marksweep.com · mkswp · 5 Apr 2012

562 pts 246 comments

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Instantly create beautiful GitHub project pages github.com · tanoku · 2 Apr 2012

553 pts 46 comments

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Show HN: Imagine a search engine that removed top million sites from its index millionshort.com · taxonomyman · 30 Apr 2012

552 pts 195 comments

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Twitter Introduces Innovators Patent Agreement github.com · shill · 17 Apr 2012

542 pts 107 comments

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An employee, whose last name is Null, kills our employee lookup app stackoverflow.com · willvarfar · 27 Apr 2012

538 pts 148 comments

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Notch's next game is an MMO 0x10c.com · primesuspect · 3 Apr 2012

532 pts 245 comments

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I don't hire unlucky people raganwald.posterous.com · arcatan · 5 Apr 2012

529 pts 268 comments

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Show HN: Firebase, a scalable real-time backend firebase.com · jamest · 12 Apr 2012

526 pts 137 comments

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How to read Korean in 15 minutes ryanestradadotcom.tumblr.com · rfreytag · 23 Apr 2012

514 pts 123 comments

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Zerg Rush Google Easter Egg google.com · InfinityX0 · 27 Apr 2012

504 pts 130 comments

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Why The US Can Beat China: The Facts About SpaceX Costs spacex.com · hef19898 · 18 Apr 2012

497 pts 258 comments

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Learning VIM while playing a game vim-adventures.com · yogsototh · 23 Apr 2012

497 pts 125 comments

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Feynman: I am burned out and I'll never accomplish anything physics.ohio-state.edu · 6ren · 22 Apr 2012

495 pts 66 comments

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The Average Font iotic.com · daleharvey · 23 Apr 2012

481 pts 63 comments

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Google Begins Testing Its Augmented Reality Glasses bits.blogs.nytimes.com · nickbilton · 4 Apr 2012

477 pts 288 comments

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Instagram bhorowitz.com · dwynings · 23 Apr 2012

469 pts 143 comments

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Don’t work. Be hated. Love someone. (2008) halfhalf.posterous.com · jiakeliu · 14 Apr 2012

459 pts 103 comments

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How I Tricked Myself Into Being Awesome japhr.blogspot.com · plinkplonk · 26 Apr 2012

457 pts 114 comments

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500px Terms of Service 500px.com · DanielRibeiro · 12 Apr 2012

457 pts 100 comments

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We work a 4-day week and just raised $4.75m ryanleecarson.tumblr.com · ryancarson · 24 Apr 2012

452 pts 179 comments

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Apollo program source code ibiblio.org · rjshade · 25 Apr 2012

433 pts 57 comments

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Ubuntu Releases 12.04 LTS Precise Pangolin releases.ubuntu.com · cobychapple · 26 Apr 2012

411 pts 298 comments

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Throw Out Everything You Know About Ads blog.ads.pof.com · tylerrooney · 4 Apr 2012

407 pts 118 comments

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This Homemade Headphone Amplifier Is A Work Of Art this8bitlife.com · ot · 22 Apr 2012

404 pts 70 comments

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Light Table's Numbers, And What's Happening Next chris-granger.com · zachallaun · 16 Apr 2012

402 pts 75 comments

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Maps TD - Google Maps-based Tower Defence. mapstd.com · elliottkember · 1 Apr 2012

394 pts 40 comments

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Something is deeply broken in OS X memory management workstuff.tumblr.com · fields · 23 Apr 2012

389 pts 258 comments

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Meteor is now MIT licensed meteor.com · nim · 21 Apr 2012

389 pts 121 comments

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Awesome jQuery File Upload blueimp.github.com · denysonique · 14 Apr 2012

388 pts 47 comments

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Testing like the TSA 37signals.com · hawke · 11 Apr 2012

384 pts 94 comments

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The UTF-8-Everywhere Manifesto utf8everywhere.org · bearpool · 29 Apr 2012

381 pts 182 comments

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Prince of Persia source code released (Apple II assembly) github.com · andrewf · 17 Apr 2012

379 pts 70 comments

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A High Frequency Trader's Apologia, Part 1 chrisstucchio.com · yummyfajitas · 17 Apr 2012

375 pts 317 comments

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Zxcvbn: realistic password strength estimation tech.dropbox.com · lowe · 10 Apr 2012

367 pts 126 comments

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OMGPOP CEO tweets: "Shay Pierce was the weakest employee on the team" venturebeat.com · lleims · 1 Apr 2012

366 pts 181 comments

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This Is 2016 Not 2012 danshipper.com · dshipper · 21 Apr 2012

364 pts 231 comments

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A Year with MongoDB blog.engineering.kiip.me · mitchellh · 13 Apr 2012

362 pts 141 comments

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The Royal Canadian Mint just announced a new alternative to BitCoin developer.mintchipchallenge.com · jonny_eh · 4 Apr 2012

358 pts 169 comments

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Valve is developing Steam for Linux, says Michael Larabel of Phoronix theverge.com · pook1e · 25 Apr 2012

356 pts 215 comments

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How the medical supply industry blocks device startups from selling to hospitals washingtonmonthly.com · lgv · 25 Apr 2012

356 pts 153 comments

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IKamasutra: Apple Hates Brunettes ikamasutra.com · varl · 17 Apr 2012

355 pts 158 comments

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Fake S3 – Save time, money, and develop offline blog.getspool.com · jubos · 18 Apr 2012

354 pts 55 comments

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Try right clicking GitHub's logo github.com · vincentchan · 12 Apr 2012

353 pts 141 comments