Hacker News stories for 2 AM on Tuesday Mar 20, 2012

0.980 To Detect Cheating in Chess, a Professor Builds a Better Program comments

0.977 Node.js Firebird driver 0.0.9 is released (tagged) comments

0.838 PBKDF2 implementation in python comments

0.775 Met Office and CRU argue for open data and code comments

0.751 Apache implementation of (Google) Wave protocol comments

0.750 Build Your Own Social Network with Diaspora: An Introduction » RubySource comments

0.745 Preview Screening of Ctrl-Alt-Compete Blk71 And Why Startups Need To Watch It comments

0.713 Silicon Britain: Inside the country’s tech clusters comments

0.678 A Colossal Mistake of Historic Proportions: The “JOBS” bill comments

0.675 Features NO ONE NOTICED in Visual Studio 11 Express Beta for Web comments

0.674 Twitter Going Beyond 140 Characters with Posterous Acquisition comments

0.673 Meet CUBRID Database Developers at Russian Internet Technologies 2012 Conference comments

0.587 Add simple state machine to Javascript objects comments

0.578 Unit-testing, the dark art comments

0.571 The joy of Perl comments

0.467 How to be Creative comments

0.456 Theatres Won’t Cancel Or Refund Future Mike Daisey Shows comments

0.413 Zynga’s bid for Draw Something may top $200 million comments

0.388 GeekGirlCon Announces First Set of Guests for GeekGirlCon 2012 in Seattle comments

0.385 Better to prevent mistakes than to fix them quickly comments

0.375 Minimalist LEGO Ads comments

0.372 Mayo Clinic Researchers Building Melanoma Vaccine to Combat Skin Cancer comments

0.358 NASA launches global hackathon challenge comments

0.323 Is it still worth learning javascript? comments

0.280 WebSockets in Windows 8 Consumer Preview and Server Beta, IE10 comments

0.183 Daniel Lemire: I review your paper for acknowledgementing me comments

0.165 I’m burning out and I can’t tell anyone comments

0.159 $11,000,000 Diamond Laptop Sleeve comments

0.138 Start learning HTML5 with me comments

0.092 Plumbr now also finds leaks in Java5, JRockit, WebSphere, GlassFish, JBoss apps comments

0.079 How to hang a picture using n nails such that removing any k nails makes it fall comments

0.072 Debugging Maps. Google Maps. comments

0.034 Fitbit for Android helps track your I/O comments

0.012 Making Android apps suck no more (Early pass) comments

0.003 Polished Wifi Sync App for iPad (Not Dropbox, SugarSync, Acrosync, … ) comments