| 1. | | A brief, incomplete and mostly wrong history of programming languages (james-iry.blogspot.com) |
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303 points by toddc on May 8, 2009 | 14 comments
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| 2. | | How to implement 'realistic' swordfighting in video games. (shamusyoung.com) |
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81 points by jamongkad on May 8, 2009 | 35 comments
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| 3. | | Being too successful is one of life's biggest risks (2004) (groups.google.com) |
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69 points by zachbeane on May 8, 2009 | 19 comments
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| 4. | | Search Goes Real-Time With Scoopler (YC S08) (techcrunch.com) |
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67 points by rokhayakebe on May 8, 2009 | 35 comments
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| 5. | | What database would you use to store (min) 10 billion objects? |
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63 points by imajes on May 8, 2009 | 46 comments
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| 6. | | Speeding up a Rails request by 150ms by changing 1 line (scaldeferri.com) |
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60 points by amanfredi on May 8, 2009 | 34 comments
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| 7. | | Being able to build something cool is not good enough. Neither is fast performance. (groups.google.com) |
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56 points by zachbeane on May 8, 2009 | 17 comments
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| 8. | | KIVA Robots Continue to Conquer Warehouses (singularityhub.com) |
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55 points by kkleiner on May 8, 2009 | 31 comments
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| 9. | | The Harlem Miracle (nytimes.com) |
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52 points by robg on May 8, 2009 | 33 comments
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| 10. | | Backup your Database in Git (viget.com) |
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50 points by tortilla on May 8, 2009 | 18 comments
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| 11. | | A 'nerd' shoots for the stars, and NASA comes knocking (theglobeandmail.com) |
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43 points by awk on May 8, 2009 | 17 comments
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| 12. | | Help wanted: Seasoned wikipedia editors to write a proper article about Fravia (wikipedia.org) |
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43 points by pygy on May 8, 2009 | 15 comments
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| 13. | | Econometrics In R (r-project.org) |
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39 points by Anon84 on May 8, 2009 | 8 comments
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| 14. | | Debian moving away from SHA-1 (debian-administration.org) |
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38 points by r11t on May 8, 2009 | 5 comments
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| 15. | | Calendar as Filter (dilbert.com) |
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38 points by mad44 on May 8, 2009 | 8 comments
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| 16. | | Hooray: The Second Derivative of the Unemployment Rate Improved (fivethirtyeight.com) |
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38 points by soundsop on May 8, 2009 | 16 comments
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| 17. | | Ask HN: Merchant account and payment gateway for subscription-based web apps? |
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37 points by _pius on May 8, 2009 | 19 comments
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| 18. | | My mom is a programmer, raging against the machine (boingboing.net) |
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35 points by kqr2 on May 8, 2009 | 16 comments
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| 19. | | Hackers wanted: Scholarships available to coders to save journalism and democracy (oreilly.com) |
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34 points by peter123 on May 8, 2009 | 10 comments
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| 20. | | Tell HN: Wolfram Alpha preview goes live |
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34 points by anigbrowl on May 8, 2009 | 49 comments
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| 21. | | Urwid - Console User Interface Library for Python (excess.org) |
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33 points by samueladam on May 8, 2009 | 6 comments
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| 22. | | Smeed's law (wikipedia.org) |
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33 points by nice1 on May 8, 2009 | 5 comments
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| 23. | | Flickr: PHP4 vs PHP5 drop in CPU comparison (flickr.com) |
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34 points by vaksel on May 8, 2009 | 19 comments
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| 24. | | BBC Vs National Geographic - a subtle comparison (naturenet.net) |
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33 points by justlearning on May 8, 2009 | 10 comments
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| 25. | | What does a programmer have to barter with? (aisleten.com) |
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32 points by MicahWedemeyer on May 8, 2009 | 20 comments
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| 26. | | Fonts for Designers (free) (fontsquirrel.com) |
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29 points by Milansoc15 on May 8, 2009 | 6 comments
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| 27. | | GLASS/Seaside Success Story (mindclue.ch) |
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29 points by dhenrichs on May 8, 2009 | 6 comments
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| 28. | | Html5 canvas support matrix (html5.org) |
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27 points by senthil_rajasek on May 8, 2009 | 6 comments
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| 29. | | Increased food intake alone explains the increase in body weight in US (esciencenews.com) |
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26 points by ph0rque on May 8, 2009 | 50 comments
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| 30. | | Intern at the Free Software Foundation (fsf.org) |
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26 points by kf on May 8, 2009 | 7 comments
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