2011-08-19 front | Hacker News

Stories from August 19, 2011

Go back a day, month, or year. Go forward a day, month, or year.

1.		13-Year-Old Makes Solar Power Breakthrough by Harnessing the Fibonacci Sequence (inhabitat.com)
		649 points by jedwhite on Aug 19, 2011 \| 142 comments
2.		Please confirm your email address (bvckup.tumblr.com)
		422 points by huhtenberg on Aug 19, 2011 \| 79 comments
3.		The Secret of the Fibonacci Sequence in Trees (amnh.org)
		344 points by pigbucket on Aug 19, 2011 \| 26 comments
4.		The Architecture of Open Source Applications (aosabook.org)
		184 points by kachnuv_ocasek on Aug 19, 2011 \| 13 comments
5.		IE9 deletes stuff (techno-weenie.net)
		169 points by srozet on Aug 19, 2011 \| 35 comments
6.		90 Percent of People Don't Know How to Use CTRL+F (or CMD + F) (theatlantic.com)
		162 points by dm8 on Aug 19, 2011 \| 140 comments
7.		How To Become A Better Programmer By Not Programming (codinghorror.com)
		152 points by davidjnelson on Aug 19, 2011 \| 117 comments
8.		Apple phasing out developer access to the UDID in iOS 5 (techcrunch.com)
		128 points by canistr on Aug 19, 2011 \| 62 comments
9.		Can’t Wait (YC S11) is a mobile social network for movie trailers (techcrunch.com)
		121 points by canistr on Aug 19, 2011 \| 43 comments
10.		New Visual Proportions for the iOS User Interface (aentan.com)
		117 points by aen on Aug 19, 2011 \| 46 comments
11.		GeekStack Postmortem (geekstack.com)
		116 points by pavel_lishin on Aug 19, 2011 \| 36 comments
12.		The stock market hates HP's new strategy (google.com)
		105 points by pemulis on Aug 19, 2011 \| 101 comments
13.		HP To Apple: You Win. (techcrunch.com)
		103 points by ssclafani on Aug 19, 2011 \| 114 comments
14.		Psychologist James Pennebaker reveals the hidden meaning of pronouns (scientificamerican.com)
		103 points by jericsinger on Aug 19, 2011 \| 23 comments
15.		Show HN: CodeMatch: IDE autocomplete on overdrive (languageinterfaces.com)
		102 points by moondistance on Aug 19, 2011 \| 63 comments
16.		An Introduction to Asynchronous Programming and Twisted (krondo.com)
		99 points by bentoner on Aug 19, 2011 \| 6 comments
17.		Why Leo Apotheker will be fired from Hewlett Packard (February 2011) (cringely.com)
		88 points by blumentopf on Aug 19, 2011 \| 24 comments
18.		Tagstand (YC S11) Greases The Wheels Of NFC Development (techcrunch.com)
		86 points by canistr on Aug 19, 2011 \| 16 comments
19.		Aisle50 (YC S11) is Group Buying for Groceries. (mashable.com)
		85 points by Gaussian on Aug 19, 2011 \| 15 comments
20.		Persistant and unblockable browser cookies using last-modified HTTP header (nikcub.appspot.com)
		87 points by nikcub on Aug 19, 2011 \| 32 comments
21.		Microsoft offers webOS developers free Windows Phones and dev tools (winrumors.com)
		82 points by Flemlord on Aug 19, 2011 \| 81 comments
22.		How To Use UTF-8 Throughout Your Web Stack (rentzsch.tumblr.com)
		79 points by shawndumas on Aug 19, 2011 \| 42 comments
23.		A test which predicts ability to program before the start of training (mdx.ac.uk)
		77 points by ColinWright on Aug 19, 2011 \| 36 comments
24.		Germany vs. Facebook: Like Button Declared Illegal, Sites Threatened With Fine (siliconfilter.com)
		74 points by flardinois on Aug 19, 2011 \| 75 comments
25.		"..best direction for evolving Java is to encourage a more functional style" (java.net)
		73 points by sadiq on Aug 19, 2011 \| 42 comments
26.		The Fall of Groupon: Is the Daily-Deals Site Running Out of Cash? (theatlantic.com)
		67 points by nbj914 on Aug 19, 2011 \| 75 comments
27.		Ask HN: Who's Hiring? (Intern Edition)
		65 points by adbge on Aug 19, 2011 \| 39 comments
28.		100,000+ Sign Up For Stanford’s Open Class on Artificial Intelligence. (singularityhub.com)
		64 points by ph0rque on Aug 19, 2011 \| 26 comments
29.		The Dollar-Store Economy: How the lowest end of American retail does business (nytimes.com)
		62 points by linhir on Aug 19, 2011 \| 35 comments
30.		The Terrible Cost Of Patents (techcrunch.com)
		59 points by canistr on Aug 19, 2011 \| 6 comments
		More

HN For You