Hacker News stories for 9 AM on Thursday Feb 23, 2012

0.925 Hollywood was born to avoid patents? comments

0.770 Every Little Things Capistrano Does Is Magic comments

0.757 Finding the Write People comments

0.746 Throttling unlimited data plans is pointless, study finds comments

0.728 Piracy and ad-blockers are both theft comments

0.722 Transluminal Neutrinos? Not So Fast comments

0.706 What is an Algorithm? comments

0.678 Turntable.fm “may as well be dead” comments

0.678 Start-Ups ‘Shame’ Bigger Companies comments

0.671 How can we let someone freeze to death in today’s world? comments

0.635 Understanding Computation: theoretical CS for working programmers comments

0.550 Laser cut pancakes are going to be bigger than 3D printing comments

0.543 Testing the speed of comment systems for blogs comments

0.534 The Unexpected Way To Use Your Social Network Strategically comments

0.513 Threads and Shared Variables in C++11 comments

0.501 PHP class which implements the Elo rating system comments

0.501 Does Your User Care About Authentication? comments

0.500 Seeing Red comments

0.479 Did Bad Memory Chips Down Russia’s Mars Probe? comments

0.478 Ux Design for non-Designers: Notes from my First Skillshare Class comments

0.461 Coverity: open source just as reliable as commercial code comments

0.429 Form and Fortune comments

0.425 Her photo was the honeypot local law enforcement couldn’t resist comments

0.395 Apple prevails in Shanghai showdown with Proview comments

0.391 Monopoly - web editition comments

0.382 Innovation Without Age Limits comments

0.365 Tumblr Staff Blog: “A New Policy Against Self-Harm Blogs” comments

0.351 Guy Kawasaki Gives Up Listening To Investor Presentations for Lent comments

0.345 Mountain Lion’s Gatekeeper and the Scarlet Exclamation comments

0.333 Race to the bottom of the ocean comments

0.331 Support Long-Form Journalism With This Online Kickstarter Project comments

0.328 Understanding Public Key Cryptography comments

0.322 HP and Dell: The Vanguard of Antiquated Ideas comments

0.316 Superconducting cable with total length of filaments at 5 trips to the sun comments

0.277 Quartzy Scores $1.2M To Help Life Scientists Stay Organized comments

0.270 Nature News Special : Alan Turing at 100 comments

0.172 Help Consumerism-Mocking Artists Just Ate My Store comments

0.155 Karmaloop (street wear ecommerce) approaching $200MM in revenue and IPO comments

0.140 The narrative potential of the iPad? An interview with The Chimerist comments

0.101 What Does a Biz Dev Person Actually Do? comments

0.099 ‘Cash Mobs’ profit locally owned stores comments

0.091 Rethinking your Mobile First strategy comments

0.067 Quixey Challenge: We PayPal you $100 for a 1-minute bugfix, $50 for a referral. comments

0.023 Why 2012 will be yet another year of the iPad comments

0.012 Ask HN: Need a yardstick for progress… comments

0.001 Ask HN: How to protect equity before the corporation is formed? comments