hackerNews

1

A standing desk for $22 (iamnotaprogrammer.com)

388 points first seen 2012062009 last seen 2012062300 178 comments

2

If you were involved in the OpenGL ES specification, you are an idiot (www.jwz.org)

311 points first seen 2012062009 last seen 2012062200 211 comments

6

Have you ever chatted with a Hacker within a virus? (blogs.avg.com)

304 points first seen 2012062000 last seen 2012062200 98 comments

4

The Little C Function From Hell (blog.regehr.org)

268 points first seen 2012062000 last seen 2012062200 103 comments

9

Leaked Documents Show the U.N.'s Internet Power Grab... (thenerfherder.blogspot.com)

259 points first seen 2012062003 last seen 2012062200 68 comments

6

What They Don't Tell You About Public Speaking (zachholman.com)

244 points first seen 2012062006 last seen 2012062200 60 comments

4

NSA: It Would Violate Your Privacy to Say if We Spied on You (www.wired.com)

231 points first seen 2012062003 last seen 2012062200 92 comments

3

UVA Computer Science professor resigns over incompetence of board (gist.github.com)

208 points first seen 2012062006 last seen 2012062200 128 comments

16

City of Ruins (www.behance.net)

177 points first seen 2012062003 last seen 2012062106 50 comments

5

Why 'Nigerian Scammers' Say They're From Nigeria (research.microsoft.com)

169 points first seen 2012062021 last seen 2012062209 76 comments

48

Stop claiming you’re profitable (blog.asmartbear.com)

161 points first seen 2012062003 last seen 2012062103 116 comments

10

Why Silicon Valley Tech Wunderkinds Overestimate Their Own Smarts and Abilities (www.forbes.com)

156 points first seen 2012062006 last seen 2012062200 86 comments

3

Codecademy closes $10M round (blogs.wsj.com)

155 points first seen 2012062003 last seen 2012062109 93 comments

2

Firing (cdixon.org)

151 points first seen 2012062018 last seen 2012062200 79 comments

7

2:40 (www.leancrew.com)

150 points first seen 2012062018 last seen 2012062200 97 comments

7

China Plans To Build The World’s Tallest Building In 90 Days (designtaxi.com)

141 points first seen 2012062006 last seen 2012062109 92 comments

15

Customer: Apple Store denied me iPad for speaking Farsi (www.wsbtv.com)

126 points first seen 2012062006 last seen 2012062103 138 comments

4

WWDC 2012 Session Videos (developer.apple.com)

124 points first seen 2012062012 last seen 2012062203 43 comments

18

What happens when you ask people to pick the lowest unique prime number. (www.robinsloan.com)

123 points first seen 2012062006 last seen 2012062200 53 comments

21

Greplin becomes Cue - Intelligent "Snapshot" of your Day (www.cueup.com)

109 points first seen 2012062003 last seen 2012062106 55 comments

9

Gondor expands its Django hosting to any Python WSGI app (gondor.io)

109 points first seen 2012062006 last seen 2012062106 14 comments

5

How to incorporate a US Corporation from outside the USA? (blog.freshdesk.com)

107 points first seen 2012062015 last seen 2012062200 36 comments

30

StackOverflow unwinding? (williamedwardscoder.tumblr.com)

97 points first seen 2012062000 last seen 2012062009 173 comments

18

Ex-Googlers Launch MightyText, An iMessage For Android Users (techcrunch.com)

97 points first seen 2012062006 last seen 2012062103 63 comments

5

Elon Musk Shows off the Dragon Capsule, Back From Space (video) (science.slashdot.org)

91 points first seen 2012062012 last seen 2012062121 30 comments

21

Nvidia PR Responds To Torvalds' Harsh Words (www.phoronix.com)

90 points first seen 2012062006 last seen 2012062103 99 comments

29

Julian Assange Seeks Asylum In Ecuador Embassady (www.ecuadorembassyuk.org.uk)

81 points first seen 2012062006 last seen 2012062100 107 comments

56

Dresssed: Beautiful Themes built on bootstrap for your Rails App (http://dresssed.com)

73 points first seen 2012062003 last seen 2012062021 40 comments

18

The codebreaker who saved 'millions of lives' (www.bbc.co.uk)

72 points first seen 2012062000 last seen 2012062106 30 comments

13

The Power of Language (blog.alexmaccaw.com)

69 points first seen 2012062006 last seen 2012062103 50 comments

17

Mandrill - Transactional Email from MailChimp (mandrill.com)

56 points first seen 2012062000 last seen 2012062015 42 comments

17

Functional Programming in JavaScript using LiveScript and prelude.ls (gkz.github.com)

54 points first seen 2012062018 last seen 2012062121 20 comments

12

Harvard + MIT = edX (www.bbc.co.uk)

53 points first seen 2012062021 last seen 2012062121 19 comments

22

Easily sync data between your mobile and web apps using Firebase and Trigger.io (trigger.io)

52 points first seen 2012062006 last seen 2012062103 16 comments

19

The Central Limit Theorem Makes Random Testing Hard (blog.regehr.org)

52 points first seen 2012062006 last seen 2012062103 14 comments

16

Given The Opportunity: Should You Do TechStars or YC? (alexstechthoughts.com)

50 points first seen 2012062000 last seen 2012062021 19 comments

30

OSU Open Source Lab receives $300,000 donation from Google (www.h-online.com)

49 points first seen 2012062003 last seen 2012062103 2 comments

6

Modern robotics hits Hollywood. IRIS: The most advanced camera rig ever created. (www.alexandrosmaragos.com)

49 points first seen 2012062021 last seen 2012062121 42 comments

28

$199 Brings Google Knowledge Graph in Reach of Hackers and Startups (basekb.com)

47 points first seen 2012062003 last seen 2012062103 26 comments

25

Petition the EFF to Oppose Software Patents (www.change.org)

45 points first seen 2012062012 last seen 2012062103 17 comments

46

The missing link: Microsoft Surface (www.extremetech.com)

39 points first seen 2012062006 last seen 2012062015 40 comments

16

U.S, Israel developed Flame virus to slow Iranian nuclear efforts, officials say (www.washingtonpost.com)

39 points first seen 2012062012 last seen 2012062103 40 comments

36

10k Bootstrap Challenge: Launch of hnalerts.com (hnalerts.com)

36 points first seen 2012062006 last seen 2012062021 28 comments

12

Nobody ever got fired for using Hadoop on a cluster (research.microsoft.com)

36 points first seen 2012062015 last seen 2015052303 13 comments

30

A note about Kerckhoff's Principle (blog.cloudflare.com)

31 points first seen 2012062006 last seen 2012062015 5 comments

29

Classes? Where We’re Going, We Don’t Need Classes (CSS) (coding.smashingmagazine.com)

30 points first seen 2012062000 last seen 2012062012 25 comments

44

Sexy primes (en.wikipedia.org)

26 points first seen 2012062021 last seen 2012062103 6 comments

32

The New State of Digital Marketing (spinnakr.com)

25 points first seen 2012062009 last seen 2012062021 6 comments

25

CloudFront / Route 53 Edge Location in Sydney, Australia (aws.typepad.com)

25 points first seen 2012062018 last seen 2012062103 2 comments

32

Square Introduces a Digital Loyalty Card (bits.blogs.nytimes.com)

24 points first seen 2012062003 last seen 2012062012 8 comments

31

A Brief History of Spreadsheets [2004] (dssresources.com)

23 points first seen 2012062006 last seen 2012062015 7 comments

63

Google Cracks Down on YouTube-to-MP3-Ripping Sites (www.pcworld.com)

22 points first seen 2012062006 last seen 2012062012 24 comments

21

Cheap Hydrogen? (www.technologyreview.com)

21 points first seen 2012062000 last seen 2012062012 12 comments

0

What Windows 8 Haters Don’t Understand About Windows 8 (www.7tutorials.com)

21 points first seen 2012062021 last seen 2012062021 38 comments

42

Google's Energy Efficient Data Centers (googleblog.blogspot.com)

20 points first seen 2012062006 last seen 2012062015 0 comments

37

Why we are taking our startup to Tel Aviv (leostartsup.com)

18 points first seen 2012062012 last seen 2012062015 22 comments

54

The Microsoft Surface Killer Feature: It's open. (news.ycombinator.com)

17 points first seen 2012062009 last seen 2012062012 19 comments

32

Custom themes in Gmail (gmailblog.blogspot.com)

16 points first seen 2012062006 last seen 2012062012 10 comments

38

The "F" word Silicon Valley loves and hates (www.npr.org)

16 points first seen 2012062009 last seen 2012062103 2 comments

55

Ask HN: What are some excellent blogs by *technical founders*? (news.ycombinator.com)

16 points first seen 2012062009 last seen 2012062021 9 comments

47

Stardog 1.0 announced - high speed and simple deployment RDF database (weblog.clarkparsia.com)

15 points first seen 2012062006 last seen 2012062012 2 comments

43

Show HN: cldrdr, spending analytics for AWS (beta.cldrdr.com)

15 points first seen 2012062012 last seen 2012062103 0 comments

80

Microsoft's tablet moves make Nokia look cunning (semiaccurate.com)

15 points first seen 2012062018 last seen 2012062021 0 comments

56

Photo-realistic iphone generated from HTML and CSS3 (codepen.io)

15 points first seen 2012062021 last seen 2012062103 7 comments

28

Show HN: splashbe.at, a force graph of Wikipedia's list of music styles (http://splashbe.at)

14 points first seen 2012062000 last seen 2012062012 11 comments

0

Show HN: The all-in-one platform for creative professionals (http://beta.5minutes.to)

13 points first seen 2012062003 last seen 2012062003 19 comments

35

How to Love Your Customers (blog.springmetrics.com)

12 points first seen 2012062006 last seen 2012062103 2 comments

75

Ask HN: why doesn't anyone advertise salary ranges on job adverts? (news.ycombinator.com)

12 points first seen 2012062006 last seen 2012062012 8 comments

31

Failure: The F-Word Silicon Valley Loves And Hates (www.wbur.org)

12 points first seen 2012062012 last seen 2012062103 0 comments

32

A Better Way to Manage CSS and JS (+ source code) (blog.gathercontent.com)

11 points first seen 2012062000 last seen 2012062006 16 comments

86

New Android Malware is Disguised as a Security App (www.pcworld.com)

11 points first seen 2012062003 last seen 2012062006 0 comments

50

JavaScript awesomeness: Set, Map, Default arguments,… (paulrouget.com)

11 points first seen 2012062006 last seen 2012062021 0 comments

0

Microsoft surface crashes on Keynote (www.youtube.com)

11 points first seen 2012062015 last seen 2012062015 2 comments

54

Bodybuilders Flinch at Google’s Venice Beach Incursion (www.nytimes.com)

11 points first seen 2012062018 last seen 2012062103 0 comments

78

AirBnB hit 10 million nights booked (m.techcrunch.com)

10 points first seen 2012062000 last seen 2012062003 2 comments

54

Implementing A “Metrics for Pirates” Dashboard (www.totango.com)

10 points first seen 2012062003 last seen 2012062015 4 comments

83

Show HN: My Passion (news.ycombinator.com)

10 points first seen 2012062018 last seen 2012062203 14 comments

78

Ask HN: Why did Microsoft develop their own tablet? (news.ycombinator.com)

9 points first seen 2012062003 last seen 2012062006 12 comments

81

Ask PG:Let us know when someone has replied to a comment? (news.ycombinator.com)

9 points first seen 2012062003 last seen 2012062218 6 comments

84

Ask HN: How do freelance developers determine the scope of projects? (news.ycombinator.com)

9 points first seen 2012062006 last seen 2012062209 2 comments

86

Three ops lessons you should learn before your next outage (blog.cloudability.com)

9 points first seen 2012062006 last seen 2012062021 0 comments

35

Why do you think RIM is dead? (news.ycombinator.com)

9 points first seen 2012062009 last seen 2012063012 21 comments

90

Show HN: The StartupPlays.com Story (www.startupplays.com)

8 points first seen 2012062000 last seen 2012062003 6 comments

58

My Airbnb Biz Got Me Evicted, Here's What I Learned (www.fastcompany.com)

8 points first seen 2012062006 last seen 2012062015 11 comments

0

Ecuador offers Wikileaks founder Assange residency (www.bbc.co.uk)

8 points first seen 2012062012 last seen 2012062012 0 comments

0

C preprocessor tricks (www.antoarts.com)

8 points first seen 2012062015 last seen 2012062015 0 comments

60

Satellite Eyes (satelliteeyes.tomtaylor.co.uk)

8 points first seen 2012062018 last seen 2012062021 0 comments

42

Ask HN: Which technology\language you find most difficult to learn? (news.ycombinator.com)

8 points first seen 2012062021 last seen 2012062100 17 comments

74

Bruce Schneier: The Failure of Anti-Virus Companies to Catch Military Malware (www.schneier.com)

7 points first seen 2012062003 last seen 2012062006 2 comments

0

Announcing TrustAuth for WordPress (formerly Foamicate) (http://trustauth.com)

7 points first seen 2012062003 last seen 2012062003 0 comments

66

Web developers are software engineers, too (www.nczonline.net)

7 points first seen 2012062003 last seen 2012062015 6 comments

0

Annoucing Archaius: Dynamic Properties in the Cloud (techblog.netflix.com)

7 points first seen 2012062015 last seen 2012062015 0 comments

40

Siri What Happened in Tiananmen Square? (venturebeat.com)

7 points first seen 2012062018 last seen 2012062103 4 comments

0

Ask HN: is lean startup applicable to B2B? (news.ycombinator.com)

7 points first seen 2012062018 last seen 2012062018 2 comments

0

Ask HN:I started(&sold) FounderMatchup, now looking for my next big opportunity. (news.ycombinator.com)

7 points first seen 2012062018 last seen 2012062018 0 comments

0

A Developing UEFI Secureboot Situation (benjaminkerensa.com)

7 points first seen 2012062021 last seen 2012062021 5 comments

57

Gitboard (gitboard.net)

7 points first seen 2012062021 last seen 2012062103 0 comments

65

Ask HN: What should I do with my geektrail.com domain? (news.ycombinator.com)

6 points first seen 2012062000 last seen 2012062100 7 comments

81

Everything There Is To Know About Lift (Obvious Corp) (blog.lift.do)

6 points first seen 2012062006 last seen 2012062009 0 comments

51

Duolingo, learn a new language while translating the web (http://www.duolingo.com)

6 points first seen 2012062009 last seen 2012062021 4 comments

62

U.S., Israel developed Flame computer virus (www.washingtonpost.com)

6 points first seen 2012062009 last seen 2012062012 2 comments

67

Ask HN: How do you research your competitor? (news.ycombinator.com)

6 points first seen 2012062009 last seen 2012062021 6 comments

43

Python 201: How to sort a dictionary by value (www.blog.pythonlibrary.org)

6 points first seen 2012062015 last seen 2012062021 0 comments

0

PHP array() is a little scary (markmaunder.com)

6 points first seen 2012062015 last seen 2012062015 0 comments

0

Arduino based satellite on Kickstarter with spectrometer (www.kickstarter.com)

6 points first seen 2012062015 last seen 2012062015 0 comments

0

Ask HN: The Best Programmers' you've ever read (news.ycombinator.com)

6 points first seen 2012062015 last seen 2012062015 3 comments

0

Show HN: sweepstakes + Twitter = TweetStakes (news.ycombinator.com)

6 points first seen 2012062018 last seen 2012062018 5 comments

43

New Sydney, Australia Edge Location for Amazon CloudFront & Amazon Route 53 (aws.amazon.com)

6 points first seen 2012062021 last seen 2012062103 0 comments

52

Why 'Nigerian scammers' say they're from Nigeria (www.computerworld.com.au)

6 points first seen 2012062021 last seen 2012062103 0 comments

48

Interview about Bitcoin - Fears from a Bitcoin Dev (coinabul.tumblr.com)

6 points first seen 2012062021 last seen 2012062103 0 comments

0

All 786 known planets to scale (xkcd.com)

6 points first seen 2012062021 last seen 2012062021 0 comments

0

After Facebook's IPO flub, value of tech startups falls back to earth (www.theverge.com)

5 points first seen 2012062003 last seen 2012062003 0 comments

82

How to Hack a Dominating Domain Name for Your Website (www.seomoz.org)

5 points first seen 2012062006 last seen 2012062009 0 comments

70

Ask HN: What should I know about becoming a contractor? (news.ycombinator.com)

5 points first seen 2012062006 last seen 2012062015 4 comments

68

Ask HN: LastPass now offers credit reports. Should users be worried? (news.ycombinator.com)

5 points first seen 2012062009 last seen 2012062015 3 comments

50

Dell to bring Ubuntu laptops to 850 retail stores in India (www.h-online.com)

5 points first seen 2012062012 last seen 2012062015 0 comments

15

PayPal's newly redesigned site (www.paypal.com)

5 points first seen 2012062012 last seen 2012070309 6 comments

45

IBM's Sequoia Is World's Fastest Supercomputer (www.informationweek.com)

5 points first seen 2012062015 last seen 2012062021 0 comments

48

Finding the right "heigth" in JavaScript. (github.com)

5 points first seen 2012062015 last seen 2012062021 0 comments

0

Shumway: Mozilla’s Flash VM and Runtime in JavaScript (badassjs.com)

5 points first seen 2012062015 last seen 2012062015 0 comments

68

Ask HN: Which APIs flirttape is using for song search? (news.ycombinator.com)

5 points first seen 2012062015 last seen 2012062100 3 comments

0

The Fall of the Creative Class (thirtytwomag.com)

5 points first seen 2012062018 last seen 2012062018 0 comments

0

Open source CMS Umbraco discards two years of work on rewrite (umbraco.com)

5 points first seen 2012062018 last seen 2012062018 0 comments

0

Twitter hash tags and UTF8 (news.ycombinator.com)

5 points first seen 2012062018 last seen 2012062018 2 comments

0

Ask PG: Have there ever been any YC startups that used Lisp/Scheme? (news.ycombinator.com)

5 points first seen 2012062018 last seen 2012062018 8 comments

0

Scala + Play for startup: pros and cons. (news.ycombinator.com)

5 points first seen 2012062018 last seen 2012062018 0 comments

62

The DarwinTunes algorithm: from random to rhythm (mobile.theverge.com)

5 points first seen 2012062021 last seen 2012062100 0 comments

0

Teens in US Triple Data Usage (blog.nielsen.com)

5 points first seen 2012062021 last seen 2012062021 0 comments

0

Can Software Invest Better than Humans? (techcrunch.com)

5 points first seen 2012062021 last seen 2012062021 0 comments

0

Writing software for someone else (www.johndcook.com)

4 points first seen 2012062000 last seen 2012062000 0 comments

0

Fab.com acquires UK startup Llustre (blog.llustre.com)

4 points first seen 2012062003 last seen 2012062003 0 comments

0

Worst Pivot Ever? WTF happened to Greplin? (twitter.com)

4 points first seen 2012062003 last seen 2012062003 0 comments

0

Microsoft Surface Just Made the MacBook Air and the iPad (gizmodo.com)

4 points first seen 2012062006 last seen 2012062006 0 comments

76

StatCounters solid rebuttal to Microsoft's browser usage disputes (gs.statcounter.com)

4 points first seen 2012062009 last seen 2012062012 0 comments

62

VHX raises $1.25M for film self-distribution from Lerer, kn0thing, Sacca & more (techcrunch.com)

4 points first seen 2012062009 last seen 2012062015 0 comments

44

Google threatens to sue Youtube to MP3 conversion site (torrentfreak.com)

4 points first seen 2012062012 last seen 2012062015 2 comments

0

Ruby: Is &! documented anywhere? (news.ycombinator.com)

4 points first seen 2012062015 last seen 2012062015 2 comments

0

Opportunity - A Better Way to Consume Facebook? (news.ycombinator.com)

4 points first seen 2012062018 last seen 2012062018 6 comments

83

Ask HN: [YC-Funding] : Will it work? (news.ycombinator.com)

4 points first seen 2012062018 last seen 2012063006 2 comments

0

Med Student Rescues Body Part From Airport Security (www.npr.org)

4 points first seen 2012062021 last seen 2012062021 0 comments

15

A Turing Machine built using LEGO (www.legoturingmachine.org)

3 points first seen 2012062000 last seen 2013020909 0 comments

0

Facebook Mobile Ads Are Clicked 13X More, Earn 11X More Money Than Desktop Ads (techcrunch.com)

3 points first seen 2012062003 last seen 2012062003 0 comments

0

Failure Is An Opportunity (bretthard.in)

3 points first seen 2012062003 last seen 2012062003 0 comments

90

Nodejitsu on why other PaaS pricing models are damaging communities (blog.nodejitsu.com)

3 points first seen 2012062003 last seen 2012071109 0 comments

0

Hacking Autism: App Ideas (hackingautism.org)

3 points first seen 2012062003 last seen 2012062003 0 comments

0

Ask HN: Leasing servers w/AWS Direct Connect? (news.ycombinator.com)

3 points first seen 2012062003 last seen 2012062003 0 comments

0

Goliath Wants Your Market (www.justinwatt.me)

3 points first seen 2012062006 last seen 2012062006 0 comments

0

IEBlog: Adapting Your Site to Different Window Sizes (IE10) (blogs.msdn.com)

3 points first seen 2012062006 last seen 2012062006 0 comments

0

Focus vs. Myopia (onstartups.com)

3 points first seen 2012062006 last seen 2012062006 0 comments

73

Open Source, Android Push Evolution of Mobile Cloud Apps (www.linux.com)

3 points first seen 2012062009 last seen 2012062012 0 comments

0

Google Developers Live (developers.google.com)

3 points first seen 2012062009 last seen 2012062009 0 comments

0

Microsoft's Surface Tablet: 5 confusing issues that people aren't discussing (www.brianmadden.com)

3 points first seen 2012062009 last seen 2012062009 0 comments

0

Defend Innovation: EFF's campaign to fix a broken patent system (defendinnovation.org)

3 points first seen 2012062012 last seen 2012062012 0 comments

0

Another telco giant invests in the "3D Wall" creator Cooliris (www.forbes.com)

3 points first seen 2012062015 last seen 2012062015 0 comments

0

Facebook (De) Friend Awkwardness (news.ycombinator.com)

3 points first seen 2012062015 last seen 2012062015 4 comments

53

Tell HN: Apple now require a restore button for non-consumable in-app purchases (news.ycombinator.com)

3 points first seen 2012062015 last seen 2012063012 3 comments

63

My Photoshop setup (mattgemmell.com)

3 points first seen 2012062018 last seen 2012062021 0 comments

67

Strategies for Developing for Multiple Mobile Platforms (martinfowler.com)

3 points first seen 2012062018 last seen 2012062021 0 comments

0

Ask HN: deciding to join startup or not? (news.ycombinator.com)

3 points first seen 2012062018 last seen 2012062018 5 comments

84

Ask HN: "I have my whole life ahead of me and no real ideas or passion like you" (news.ycombinator.com)

3 points first seen 2012062018 last seen 2012063006 6 comments

0

Ask HN: First Day of Software Development Internship (news.ycombinator.com)

3 points first seen 2012062018 last seen 2012062018 0 comments

0

Falsehoods programmers believe about networks (erratasec.blogspot.com.au)

3 points first seen 2012062021 last seen 2012062021 0 comments

0

Google Threatens To Sue Huge YouTube MP3 Conversion Site (torrentfreak.com)

3 points first seen 2012062021 last seen 2012062021 0 comments

0

Facebook Shifts Its Approach to Payments (bits.blogs.nytimes.com)

3 points first seen 2012062021 last seen 2012062021 0 comments

0

Terra-i: the most precise real-time deforestation tracker yet (arstechnica.com)

3 points first seen 2012062021 last seen 20120Content-Type: text/html;charset=UTF-8 X-Powered-By: Mojolicious (Perl) Status: 200 OK 162021 0 comments

0

Pirate Bay Disarms BT Blockade Within Minutes (torrentfreak.com)

3 points first seen 2012062021 last seen 2012062021 0 comments

26

Come Build the Future of Programming @ Codecademy (news.ycombinator.com)

0 points first seen 2012062000 last seen 2012062012 0 comments

26

Pebble is looking for a developer evangelist to work with 1000s of devs (news.ycombinator.com)

0 points first seen 2012062006 last seen 2012062012 0 comments

16

Web engineers: Join Everyme to shift public to private (news.ycombinator.com)

0 points first seen 2012062009 last seen 2012062103 0 comments

17

YC S2012 startup seeking iOS developers (news.ycombinator.com)

0 points first seen 2012062009 last seen 2012062103 0 comments

18

GoCardless is looking for a designer in London (news.ycombinator.com)

0 points first seen 2012062021 last seen 2012062121 0 comments