Hacker News stories for 11 AM on Thursday Feb 23, 2012

0.976 Performance cost of Ruby ORM model instantiation comments

0.937 The Cox-Zucker machine comments

0.930 Screencast: How to create a store with Ubiquo Framework (Rails) in 2 minutes comments

0.916 Inbound.org: How To Build A Passionate Online Community – with Rand Fishkin comments

0.908 All about 64-bit programming in one place comments

0.867 Introducing RavenDB: NoSQL is Rapping at Your Door comments

0.865 March Madness for Machines, 2012 edition comments

0.832 People don’t care about scoops, they care about trust comments

0.832 People don’t care about scoops, they care about trust comments

0.824 Amazon.com’s many bots feud over book-prices comments

0.820 Bayesian inference – A simple example comments

0.815 Scoble: Hit man of Silicon Valley? comments

0.792 The Proust index comments

0.788 Toronto Startup Heatmap - where are the startups in Toronto? comments

0.752 MicroGems: five minute RubyGems comments

0.730 Two new species of fish found able to regenerate a lost fin comments

0.714 The Disadvantages of an Elite Education comments

0.693 Selecting a Seatmate to Make Skies Friendlier comments

0.679 Stochastic Resonance - Can Greater Noise Yield Greater Accuracy? comments

0.669 The 8 Questions That Create Perfect Landing Page Copy comments

0.664 Alaska Bill Would Criminalize TSA Screening Procedures comments

0.662 Efficient nutrition production comments

0.651 LinkedIn is Disrupting the Corporate Recruiting Market comments

0.647 Adventures In Behavioral Neurology: Neurology Can Tell Us About Human Nature comments

0.645 Email interceptors in Rails 3.x comments

0.642 Could Foxconn’s Wage Rises be a Competitive Advantage For Apple? comments

0.619 Hedy Lamarr: Actress and inventor of frequency-hopping spread-spectrum system. comments

0.616 10 fascinating facts about Internet porn comments

0.604 Thinking About Design, Fast and Slow comments

0.602 It Shouldn’t Take a Genius to Understand You comments

0.601 Greatest Running Shoe Never Sold Leaves Inventor Without Deal comments

0.588 Whether you love or hate Zynga, banning it isn’t the solution comments

0.576 MIT Online vs. Your Local College: How Will Web Learning Stack Up? comments

0.571 Riak Control comments

0.565 Iron-based superconductors respond well to pressure comments

0.548 Alaska lawmakers take on TSA pat-downs comments

0.535 White House pushes online privacy bill of rights comments

0.533 Inside a Startup’s “Social Media War Room” comments

0.522 What’s Wrong with the For Loop comments

0.518 The Shocking Truth About Microsoft Connect comments

0.471 Say Goodbye to Bad Facebook Cover Photos | Aviary Blog comments

0.471 What not to ask technical people in interviews comments

0.471 Errol Morris: The Thinking Man’s Detective comments

0.470 Klout: Soon Your Online Reputation May be More Important Than Money comments

0.467 ASP.NET Repeater and User Control pattern comments

0.467 If I had your gift comments

0.465 How to prepare your customer service for SXSW in 30m comments

0.462 ShowHN: I’ve written a detailed, elementary introduction to Puppet. comments

0.455 A Week with Clear comments

0.449 Multi-touch technologies have a long history comments

0.447 All that time wasted learning the .NET framework comments

0.446 Apple must make Macintosh a standard comments

0.446 Don’t live with broken windows comments

0.432 The Neglect of Mental Illness Exacts a Huge Toll, Human and Economic comments

0.424 How publishers can move quickly in mobile and start earning revenue comments

0.422 Google Music falling short of expectations comments

0.402 Generating Random Non-Uniform Data In C# comments

0.390 FIX engine for nodejs comments

0.385 Bad Cable May Be to Blame in Flawed Faster-Than-Light Experiment comments

0.375 Why You’ll Receive a Zero on Your Next Assignment comments

0.361 TinyC: Lexer, parser, code generator, & VM in 291 lines of C code comments

0.344 Rules to help you reap SEO rankings comments

0.333 An amazing utility: pv comments

0.331 Mercurial vs Git: Why Mercurial? comments

0.325 Is Tesla ‘Bricking’ Story Just An Angry Owner’s Warranty Claim? comments

0.323 SimpleForm 2.0 + Bootstrap: for you with love comments

0.321 Handheld Gaming’s Biggest Challenge Yet: Smartphones comments

0.318 Timelapse: Birth of a Facebook fangate comments

0.297 New Avast 7 (Free Antivirus) released comments

0.286 Reflections on Trusting Trust comments

0.278 I taught CS1, took CS1, I’m taking UdaCity’s CS1. comments

0.255 Recurly vs. Chargify Review comments

0.248 Interesting example of responsive design comments

0.240 Skunkworks, Reorganization, And Other Tactics To Excel In The Digital Age comments

0.232 Naive Again: My Move from Microsoft to a New Adventure comments

0.232 A.I. site sends you emails from your Future Self comments

0.223 Intel distributes LibreOffice; Can Microsoft be pleased? comments

0.221 A 1 line edit creates 130 audit events in Windows comments

0.216 T-Mobile: Our Q4 Stunk Because We Don’t Have the iPhone comments

0.210 Marten Mickos Gets a Buzz Cut and Eucalyptus Starts Hitting its Stride comments

0.204 Install WordPress on Linux in 5 Seconds comments

0.184 Downsizing the Top PC Text-based Baseball Game to fit on the iPhone comments

0.163 Why publishers should give away ebooks comments

0.160 Clear Has Sold 350,000 Copies Since Debut comments

0.159 Why the World Is Desperately Seeking Linux Talent comments

0.147 The Teen, The Billionaire And The Revolutionary Search Tool (he’s 16) comments

0.133 Art formed by carving books with surgical tools comments

0.131 Facebook’s New, Entirely Social Ads Will Recreate Marketing comments

0.121 California’s New App Privacy Policy Requirements comments

0.115 Time for a new project…urrm? comments

0.097 PicoLisp compiled to Android and running a web server. comments

0.080 Nintendo reportedly looking into expanded video content for Wii U comments

0.072 Taking the hassle out of organising group events comments

0.064 Who’s adding DRM to HTML5? Netflix, Microsoft, and Google comments

0.064 Get Mobile or Get Left Behind comments

0.063 Airbnb UX Wins and Losses comments

0.061 Why T-Mobile is happy to say iPhone is taking away its US customers comments

0.058 If Android is a “stolen product,” then so was the iPhone comments

0.047 Google to name Dennis Woodside as new CEO of Motorola Mobility comments

0.038 IOS limits HTML5 media elements to 1 per page? comments

0.036 Your Circles, now in Google Voice comments

0.034 Ask HN: Do startups start with a business plan? comments

0.019 Native Android activity written in JavaScript comments

0.018 Ask HN: Database Engineer Blogs that you follow? comments

0.017 Mozilla is readying an OS agnostic app store comments

0.013 Ask HN: VOIP suggestions for e-commerce site? comments

0.011 Ask HN: Which books would you save to restart civilization? comments

0.010 Ask HN: Your worst RFP horror story? comments

0.010 Show HN: Connect Twitter & Facebook through sharing comments

0.010 Show HN: WHOIS for Facebook comments

0.009 Hacker News + ThoughtWorks MeetUp: Official Signup - Google Groups comments

0.009 New Flashback Trojan Horse Variant Hits the Mac comments

0.008 Show HN: InstaMatch – The Beautiful Instagram Game comments

0.004 Show HN: Browser Update Warning plugin for MooTools comments

0.002 Play games? Hacker News has a Steam group comments

0.002 Ask HN: I want my Github to be my resume, but… comments

0.001 Visual app builder (no coding) for Android, iOS has set your own price sale comments

0.001 Tumult Hype 1.5 is out with major improvements to the HTML5 builder for Mac OS X comments

0.001 IPhone app Clear sells 350k downloads in nine days on the App Store comments

0.000 Show HN: Anonymous texting (my weekend project) comments