hackerNews

2

I don't "get" art (www.vice.com)

304 points first seen 2012061812 last seen 2012062003 253 comments

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List of Unexplained Sounds (en.wikipedia.org)

272 points first seen 2012061809 last seen 2012062003 74 comments

2

How I Store My 1's and 0′s: ZFS + Bargain HP Microserver = JOY (mocko.org.uk)

267 points first seen 2012061803 last seen 2012062003 113 comments

4

You Should Downvote Contrarian Anecdotes (thobbs.github.com)

211 points first seen 2012061818 last seen 2012062003 150 comments

3

Show HN: Redis Dashboard (github.com)

186 points first seen 2012061806 last seen 2012062000 20 comments

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Ask HN: How to setup a company in U.S. without being there? (news.ycombinator.com)

184 points first seen 2012061800 last seen 2012071609 71 comments

1

You Are the Exception to the Rule (zapier.com)

174 points first seen 2012061806 last seen 2012062000 45 comments

4

Ghost.py - a webkit web client written in python. (jeanphix.me)

166 points first seen 2012061803 last seen 2012062000 30 comments

5

Final thoughts on Windows 8: A design disaster (zdnet.com)

156 points first seen 2012061812 last seen 2012061906 190 comments

6

The Sad State of Diabetes Technology in 2012 (www.hanselman.com)

153 points first seen 2012061806 last seen 2012062000 59 comments

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Cascading errors caused AWS to go down (status.aws.amazon.com)

147 points first seen 2012061812 last seen 2012062000 86 comments

2

JavaScript game of Tron:219 bytes (alokmenghrajani.github.com)

123 points first seen 2012061818 last seen 2012062612 50 comments

2

Chinese RFC proposes separate, independent, national internets and DNS roots (tools.ietf.org)

118 points first seen 2012061800 last seen 2012061906 77 comments

9

Haiku OS (BeOS clone) Fundraising 2012 (haiku-os.org)

113 points first seen 2012061812 last seen 2012062000 45 comments

4

Java is preparing to co-bundling and native binaries (blogs.oracle.com)

110 points first seen 2012061821 last seen 2012062000 80 comments

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Vizio reboots the PC: a quiet American success story (mobile.theverge.com)

92 points first seen 2012061803 last seen 2012061818 30 comments

12

Why philosophy is largely ignored by science (www.dcscience.net)

84 points first seen 2012061812 last seen 2012061903 95 comments

15

Intel Reveals Neuromorphic Chip Design (www.technologyreview.com)

80 points first seen 2012061821 last seen 2012062000 17 comments

14

Strong functional programming (etorreborre.blogspot.com.au)

78 points first seen 2012061809 last seen 2012061918 17 comments

11

India firm shakes up cancer drug market with price cuts (dawn.com)

77 points first seen 2012061809 last seen 2012061906 64 comments

10

QBasic's Gorillas in coffescript (gorillas.heroku.com)

75 points first seen 2012061800 last seen 2012061903 34 comments

10

Central Logging with Open Source Software (divisionbyzero.net)

74 points first seen 2012061803 last seen 2012061903 45 comments

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FunnyJunk lawyer is now suing the charities The Oatmeal supports (techcrunch.com)

74 points first seen 2012061815 last seen 2012061821 13 comments

11

A Gray Beard Explores F# (graybeardprogrammer.com)

73 points first seen 2012061812 last seen 2012061906 25 comments

6

Comcast Protests “Shake Down” of Alleged BitTorrent Pirates (torrentfreak.com)

69 points first seen 2012061818 last seen 2012061921 21 comments

6

The hard truth: Newspaper monopolies are gone forever (gigaom.com)

67 points first seen 2012061800 last seen 2012061903 16 comments

14

Stanley Kubrick’s Interview with The New Yorker (www.openculture.com)

67 points first seen 2012061803 last seen 2012061903 7 comments

21

Illegal GPS Jammers Are Widespread, Study Finds (www.techweekeurope.co.uk)

65 points first seen 2012061800 last seen 2012061903 51 comments

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Pyjaco - Python to JavaScript translator. (github.com)

64 points first seen 2012061821 last seen 2012062000 12 comments

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What Facebook Knows (technologyreview.com)

63 points first seen 2012061809 last seen 2012061906 28 comments

6

Show HN: EdgeKick, real-time analytics for public Facebook pages (www.edgekick.com)

55 points first seen 2012061812 last seen 2012061906 33 comments

11

Lawrence Journal-World gets out of the CMS business, losing WordPress, etc (www.niemanlab.org)

54 points first seen 2012061806 last seen 2012061903 11 comments

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Are you interested? (joel.is)

54 points first seen 2012061809 last seen 2012061915 30 comments

3

Index Ventures launches new €350m seed fund with European focus (blog.indexventures.com)

50 points first seen 2012061818 last seen 2012061921 7 comments

20

Show HN: Statuscoder, easily get any HTTP status code for testing (https://statuscoder.com)

47 points first seen 2012061809 last seen 2012061815 13 comments

16

Knowledge of fractions and long division predicts long-term math success (www.sciencedaily.com)

46 points first seen 2012061800 last seen 2012061900 34 comments

9

Product Design at Mozilla: three new projects from the design strategy team (air.mozilla.org)

44 points first seen 2012061803 last seen 2012061900 29 comments

48

The disadvantage of smarts (www.economist.com)

41 points first seen 2012061806 last seen 2012061821 34 comments

17

South Korea bans virtual item trading & bots (www.incgamers.com)

39 points first seen 2012061803 last seen 2012061821 42 comments

69

Ask HN: Just ordered my first Mac- what apps should I know about? (news.ycombinator.com)

35 points first seen 2012061809 last seen 2012062100 61 comments

12

The Use of Computers to Support Oppression (www-cs-students.stanford.edu)

34 points first seen 2012061803 last seen 2012061900 28 comments

13

Introducing Redis Store (blog.togo.io)

33 points first seen 2012061812 last seen 2012061903 4 comments

49

Oatmeal, IndieGogo, National Wildlife Federation & American Cancer Society sued (www.popehat.com)

30 points first seen 2012061821 last seen 2012061903 6 comments

24

Javascript live poll tracker for Greek elections (www.igraphics.gr)

29 points first seen 2012061809 last seen 2012061900 6 comments

32

Show HN: Hone for iPhone 4S - never lose your keys again (kck.st)

27 points first seen 2012061806 last seen 2012061821 28 comments

84

I made a color-coded map of SF Farmers' Markets (eak4.me)

27 points first seen 2012061815 last seen 2012061818 8 comments

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More transparency into government requests (googleblog.blogspot.com)

27 points first seen 2012061818 last seen 2012061903 0 comments

24

Judging an App by its Cover - Techniques for Creating & Testing a Pro App Icon (jayfuerstenberg.com)

24 points first seen 2012061800 last seen 2012061821 14 comments

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Corporate culture: A lesson in unintended consequences (whilefalse.blogspot.com)

24 points first seen 2012061803 last seen 2012061821 0 comments

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Retina MacBook Pro Review: The Age of the High-Resolution PC (stevestreza.com)

23 points first seen 2012061821 last seen 2012061903 37 comments

17

History of the treemap filesystem viewers (www.cs.umd.edu)

22 points first seen 2012061806 last seen 2012061900 10 comments

71

Show HN: Framework for exponentially faster distributed data transfer (github.com)

20 points first seen 2012061806 last seen 2012061809 7 comments

55

Post-Mortem of AWS Outage (news.ycombinator.com)

20 points first seen 2012061809 last seen 2012062021 7 comments

14

Your Choices Matter (Alumni Reflection for the The Exonian) (ajayumehta.com)

19 points first seen 2012061806 last seen 2012061900 2 comments

25

Everyone in your startup is a marketer (leostartsup.com)

19 points first seen 2012061812 last seen 2012061900 0 comments

21

Startup University (matt-welsh.blogspot.com)

19 points first seen 2012061818 last seen 2012061903 4 comments

54

Ask HN: How do you make sure a B&B has wifi in the room? (news.ycombinator.com)

18 points first seen 2012061809 last seen 2012063006 20 comments

26

Hacked companies fight back with controversial "strike-back" steps (www.reuters.com)

17 points first seen 2012061803 last seen 2012061821 4 comments

80

The 7 Greatest Ideas in History (www.digitaltonto.com)

17 points first seen 2012061821 last seen 2012061903 6 comments

69

Market for zero-day vulnerabilities incentivizes sabotage (boingboing.net)

14 points first seen 2012061803 last seen 2012061806 5 comments

72

Chirp — Let's teach the machines to sing (chirp.io)

12 points first seen 2012061809 last seen 2012061812 4 comments

71

Alan Turing: why the tech world's hero should be a household name (By Vint Cerf) (www.bbc.co.uk)

12 points first seen 2012061821 last seen 2012061903 0 comments

52

Ask HN: Clojure vs Haskell for a first functional language? (news.ycombinator.com)

11 points first seen 2012061800 last seen 2012071612 0 comments

51

Want to work in a Google Ventures' portfolio company? (jobs.googleventures.com)

11 points first seen 2012061809 last seen 2012061818 0 comments

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Spamming Back (paulasmuth.com)

11 points first seen 2012061812 last seen 2012061900 3 comments

61

Programmer Productivity: Emacs versus IntelliJ IDEA (henrikwarne.com)

11 points first seen 2012061821 last seen 2012061900 0 comments

62

Can Quantum Mechanics subsume Philosophy? (marojejian.tumblr.com)

9 points first seen 2012061806 last seen 2012061812 14 comments

68

Compressibility of Code (blog.andrewcantino.com)

9 points first seen 2012061806 last seen 2012061809 4 comments

49

Ask HN: Ramping up math skills? (news.ycombinator.com)

8 points first seen 2012061800 last seen 2012063012 0 comments

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Iconfinder.com raises $1.5 Million (techcrunch.com)

8 points first seen 2012061806 last seen 2012061818 0 comments

46

US's IBM supercomputer overtakes Japan's Fujitsu as world's fastest (www.bbc.co.uk)

8 points first seen 2012061821 last seen 2012061903 0 comments

56

Public Transit in iOS 6 (www.cocoanetics.com)

7 points first seen 2012061806 last seen 2012061815 4 comments

53

A design critique of Svbtle (sefsar.com)

7 points first seen 2012061812 last seen 2012061821 5 comments

41

New course: Rapid Prototyping with JavaScript and NodeJS (www.startupmonthly.org)

7 points first seen 2012061815 last seen 2012061821 3 comments

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Automattic sponsors SPDY in Nginx dev, to be using on WordPress.com (barry.wordpress.com)

6 points first seen 2012061803 last seen 2012061809 0 comments

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Why are Apple laptops becoming harder to take apart? (rc3.org)

6 points first seen 2012061812 last seen 2012061812 3 comments

52

An Intro to rst2pdf – Restructured Text to PDFs with Python (www.blog.pythonlibrary.org)

6 points first seen 2012061815 last seen 2012061821 0 comments

90

Why I still haven’t learned Haskell (swizec.com)

6 points first seen 2012061821 last seen 2012061900 0 comments

90

Which browser is best for HTML5 games? (www.scirra.com)

4 points first seen 2012061806 last seen 2012061809 0 comments

0

Question: Getting a Job and Moving to UK (news.ycombinator.com)

4 points first seen 2012061809 last seen 2012061809 4 comments

0

Marketing for Geeks (speakerdeck.com)

4 points first seen 2012061812 last seen 2012061812 0 comments

81

Problems With SATs, GREs, the NFL Combine and Other Performance Tests (online.wsj.com)

4 points first seen 2012061812 last seen 2012061815 0 comments

0

Sleep mask helps you control dreams (designtaxi.com)

4 points first seen 2012061815 last seen 2012061815 0 comments

59

Google reveals 'terrorism video' removals (www.bbc.co.uk)

4 points first seen 2012061821 last seen 2012061900 0 comments

0

Ask HN: Domain name in an ipv6 address (news.ycombinator.com)

3 points first seen 2012061800 last seen 2012061800 2 comments

66

Search and Social: How The Two Will Soon Become One (techcrunch.com)

3 points first seen 2012061803 last seen 2012061806 0 comments

63

Students assigned to cheat on exam (boingboing.net)

3 points first seen 2012061806 last seen 2012061809 0 comments

0

Hot on Referly: Turn Your Cat into a DJ (blog.refer.ly)

3 points first seen 2012061812 last seen 2012061812 0 comments

0

JGC Talks about keeping passwords safe by staying up to date at CloudFlare (blog.cloudflare.com)

3 points first seen 2012061818 last seen 2012061818 0 comments