Hacker News stories for 2 PM on Monday Feb 20, 2012

0.980 A caffeine driven, simplistic approach to benchmarking Node.js code. comments

0.965 Companies Replacing Gut Feelings With Big Data comments

0.951 Big Love for Big Data, MrFlip on Managing Hadoop Infrastructure (Podcast) comments

0.944 Learn from Haskell - Functional, Resuable JavaScript comments

0.938 Learn By Doing - Code School comments

0.925 Combinators in Python comments

0.917 Berkeley DB Architecture - NoSQL Before NoSQL Was Cool comments

0.897 You don’t know how much you suck at something until you are good at it. comments

0.891 Only 10 days left in visual programming contest. comments

0.888 Secure JSON Services with Play Scala and SecureSocial comments

0.888 FastCompany Gets “The Lean Startup” Almost Completely Wrong comments

0.884 Apple is building the largest solar array in the U.S., report says comments

0.872 What are startups all about? People and Ideas comments

0.853 Want to Get and Keep a Job…Coding Seems to be the Key comments

0.830 I just wanted to make a universal binary for our iOS library comments

0.802 Three Uncommon Principles for Web Development comments

0.800 CESAR : Computer-Executed Semi-Autonomous Robot comments

0.800 Eternal Copyright: a modest proposal comments

0.778 Journey into Professionalism - Reflections of a serial entrepreneur comments

0.771 Apple tells Proview that it will sue for defamation if it doesn’t stop talking comments

0.762 P3P: A Loophole Big Enough for a Cookie to Fit Through (2010) comments

0.761 Programming Music with Overtone - Clojure/conj presentation comments

0.745 Using MongoDB with ASP.NET Web API comments

0.722 Physicists create transistor from single atom comments

0.718 Find an answer to your tech questions with Technology Hub comments

0.699 Top Reasons to get yourself an iPod Touch comments

0.693 Kodak can save itself: launch a Print API comments

0.690 Scamming the scammers – catching the virus call centre scammers red-handed comments

0.685 VCs are Dicks (not really) comments

0.666 PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel donates to Ron Paul super PAC comments

0.661 The Verge Interview: Marty Cooper, father of the cellphone | The Verge comments

0.657 Forget The Suburbs: Living In Beautiful, Well-Designed Cities Makes People Happy comments

0.645 Move to Chattanooga, Hack & Get Paid comments

0.621 Epigrams in Programming comments

0.589 Dead for 32,000 Years, an Arctic Plant Is Revived comments

0.589 CyaSSL working with Nginx comments

0.587 Is Writing Style Sufficient to Deanonymize Material Posted Online? comments

0.571 What Mountain Lion’s Gatekeeper Means comments

0.571 Generalised Caching Strategy comments

0.556 The Idea or The Execution? comments

0.556 Startupturkey comments

0.555 AutoSlash, a Rate Sleuth, Makes Rental Car Companies Squirm comments

0.553 Fab Buys Casacanda For $11M To Fight The Samwers In Europe comments

0.547 £200,000 test-tube burger marks milestone in future meat-eating comments

0.536 Open your mouth and you’re dead comments

0.517 Apple Please don’t get dizzy at the top comments

0.510 Robots, astronauts unite in space with handshake comments

0.508 That’s a Blank, All Right comments

0.500 Punk in Africa: 3 Chords, 3 Countries, 1 Revolution… and a Facebook Page comments

0.498 Dog or Tail: REST or Hypermedia? comments

0.494 Twitter Friends Widget v2.0 - jQuery Plugin comments

0.489 Quick Questionnaire: How do you Navigate? comments

0.484 Using Twitter through Commands comments

0.481 Sales team looking to capture your Pinterest Audience? comments

0.467 Contaqt comments

0.453 Twitter to move away from Hashbangs comments

0.447 From the IE Team: Google Bypassing User Privacy Settings comments

0.444 “Janitor Satellite” Would Dispose Of Dead Satellites In Orbit comments

0.444 In Defense Of The Not-So-Lean Startup comments

0.429 Google buys what’s left of defunct search startup Cuil comments

0.414 Academia: The Times They Are A Changin’ comments

0.412 Why the IT labor market doesn’t clear comments

0.394 Think form factors, not PCs comments

0.388 The Management Team (or On Becoming a CEO) comments

0.367 I have a compulsive design disorder… comments

0.358 Real Life Superhero Weapon: The Punisher’s Spring Ballistic Firing Knife comments

0.349 My application to intern at foursquare comments

0.311 Pulling Off FlightAware’s Boeing Skywriting Track comments

0.310 Cute HTML5 platformer - WebGL, Physics and Particle Effects comments

0.303 Housebites cooks up a storm as the new Airbnb-for-takeout comments

0.301 GPU.NET – develop GPU-accelerated applications with .NET comments

0.301 What is the best open source tool to archive MySQL database? comments

0.286 National Defense and President Obama’s 2013 Clean Energy Budget comments

0.284 Module-based application template for Titanium comments

0.284 Prem Ganapathy – 0 Money to a $12 Million Fast Food Empire comments

0.280 Facebook’s troubling trend Down Under comments

0.273 Snipt API Contest comments

0.271 Programming Perl 4th Edition E-Book Now Available (at half price) comments

0.268 How does the “Internet” know which CDN server is located close to you? comments

0.246 Articles about static code analysis comments

0.244 Dash - The Smart phone Car Stereo comments

0.238 Comic about electronic music makers and hackers comments

0.210 A Brief Review: Motorola Droid 4 comments

0.202 A Trip to The iFactory: An Unprecedented Glimpse Inside Apple’s Chinese Core comments

0.187 Comprehensive & Free SEO Tool List comments

0.187 Apple Reveals Energy Efficiency Secrets of the iDataCenter comments

0.180 Fake Pokemon Yellow rises to No. 3 position on iTunes app charts comments

0.172 Best Security Page EVER comments

0.166 Red Dead Redemption dev worked on “interactive girlfriend project” for Microsoft comments

0.164 Cheat Sheet Character Entities for HTML, CSS and Javascript comments

0.163 Crazy awesome HTML5 demo comments

0.135 Hypermedia and Web API comments

0.130 Facebook Timeline Ad Displays “Random” Number of Friends comments

0.092 Pinterest Allows Websites to Block Pinning comments

0.087 Matrix Sequel Has Hacker Cred comments

0.075 All Conj 2011 Videos Available comments

0.071 Lab-grown meat is first step to artificial hamburger comments

0.068 Pinterest - hot new network or another Quora? comments

0.066 Leveraging Social Networks in Mobile Commerce comments

0.059 David Letterman interviews Grace Hopper, who wrote the first compiler comments

0.038 Raspberry Pi Video: upcoming Fedora Remix comments

0.035 Show HN: Try my musician-savvy bot comments

0.025 New iOS app teaches you tech startup lingo and “people you should know” comments

0.024 Chrome may get a password generator comments

0.020 Google Didn’t “Track” iPhones, But It Did Bypass Safari’s Privacy Settings comments

0.013 Ask HN: Looking for technical co founder to move forward comments

0.011 Ask HN: What kind of database does the IRS use? comments

0.001 Ask HN: Which Emacs to use on OS X Lion? comments