hackerNews

1

Why Your Links Should Never Say “Click Here” (uxmovement.com)

296 points first seen 2012062509 last seen 2012062721 90 comments

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Winamp's woes: how the greatest MP3 player undid itself (arstechnica.com)

266 points first seen 2012062509 last seen 2012062803 156 comments

2

Perspective - 2D/3D puzzle platformer (www.seewithperspective.com)

212 points first seen 2012062500 last seen 2012062700 42 comments

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Dear Microsoft: fsf.org is not a "gambling site" (www.fsf.org)

194 points first seen 2012062503 last seen 2012062603 52 comments

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Cool URIs don't change. (www.w3.org)

182 points first seen 2012062515 last seen 2012062700 82 comments

4

I work for The Internet now (joeyh.name)

175 points first seen 2012062509 last seen 2012062700 23 comments

1

Wikipedia founder steps in to help UK hacker (www.huffingtonpost.co.uk)

173 points first seen 2012062521 last seen 2012062609 95 comments

4

Java 8 Lambdas (datumedge.blogspot.co.uk)

160 points first seen 2012062506 last seen 2012062609 138 comments

2

Ask HN: Sign petition to stop extradition of UK hacker (www.change.org)

143 points first seen 2012062521 last seen 2012062603 52 comments

6

Who's the Boss? There Isn't One (www.wsj.com)

137 points first seen 2012062506 last seen 2012062609 68 comments

5

John Carmack "not all that excited" by next-gen hardware (www.gamesindustry.biz)

121 points first seen 2012062506 last seen 2012062700 69 comments

8

What was your "ah ha" moment with Haskell? (www.reddit.com)

106 points first seen 2012062509 last seen 2012062609 54 comments

3

Bacon Ipsum, because Unicode is hard (www.geertvanderploeg.com)

91 points first seen 2012062518 last seen 2012062700 19 comments

11

Dial-up modem sound slowed 700% is 100% creepy (www.noisemademedoit.com)

82 points first seen 2012062518 last seen 2012062606 35 comments

7

Show HN: Facebook Open Graph Redirect Chrome Extension (chronline.posterous.com)

80 points first seen 2012062506 last seen 2012062603 24 comments

5

There is no talent shortage (www.apaitch.com)

80 points first seen 2012062515 last seen 2012062606 88 comments

7

Functional Programming for the Object-Oriented Programmer by Brian Marick (leanpub.com)

76 points first seen 2012062503 last seen 2012071303 28 comments

14

CSS Animated Slide Toggle (jsfiddle.net)

76 points first seen 2012062509 last seen 2012062603 25 comments

9

Strong profiling is not mathematically optimal for discovering rare malfeasors (www.pnas.org)

75 points first seen 2012062512 last seen 2012062606 13 comments

19

JavaZone 2012 Trailer: The Java Heist (jz12.java.no)

74 points first seen 2012062503 last seen 2012062521 14 comments

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Leaked Nexus 7 specs and price (www.gizmodo.com.au)

73 points first seen 2012062521 last seen 2012062700 63 comments

8

Apache Benchmarks for Calxeda’s 5-Watt Web Server (armservers.com)

68 points first seen 2012062500 last seen 2012062600 29 comments

16

Sanskrit As A Language Of Science (kgfindia.com)

66 points first seen 2012062512 last seen 2012062603 28 comments

16

Apple Changed Search Algorithm for App Store (www.entrelife.com)

65 points first seen 2012062506 last seen 2012062603 36 comments

12

Don’t register your idea as a company (joel.is)

61 points first seen 2012062503 last seen 2012062603 33 comments

14

Alan Kay on 'Learning to See' (www.forbes.com)

53 points first seen 2012062521 last seen 2012062700 3 comments

22

How Nokia got bamboozled by Hollywood (daltoncaldwell.com)

52 points first seen 2012062515 last seen 2012062615 21 comments

12

Rails 4.0 Sneak Peek: Queueing (reefpoints.dockyard.com)

50 points first seen 2012062506 last seen 2012062603 6 comments

8

Facebook Find Friends Nearby (m.facebook.com)

48 points first seen 2012062512 last seen 2012062603 24 comments

10

Turing (www.bofh.org.uk)

47 points first seen 2012062500 last seen 2012062600 18 comments

11

Show HN: AnonTorrent - a little experiment (www.karelbilek.com)

47 points first seen 2012062500 last seen 2012062600 28 comments

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Which machine learning classifiers are fast enough for medium-sized data? (blog.explainmydata.com)

47 points first seen 2012062506 last seen 2012062603 13 comments

17

Build your CRM in an afternoon with Google Scripts (blog.rein.pk)

47 points first seen 2012062509 last seen 2012062603 4 comments

9

Udacity aims to teach 160,000+ students statistics (www.significancemagazine.org)

46 points first seen 2012062518 last seen 2012062618 20 comments

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What factors led to the development of C# in spite of Java (stackoverflow.com)

42 points first seen 2012062518 last seen 2012062603 55 comments

11

Followup to “Not as SPDY as You Thought” (www.belshe.com)

41 points first seen 2012062515 last seen 2012062618 5 comments

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Babel: new shen/lisp IDE from mark tarver (www.shenlanguage.org)

37 points first seen 2012062509 last seen 2012062603 6 comments

23

With Tablet, Microsoft Takes Aim at Hardware Missteps (www.nytimes.com)

37 points first seen 2012062509 last seen 2012062603 26 comments

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Feel UX: If Apple Won't Innovate The User Experience, Android Designers Will (www.forbes.com)

35 points first seen 2012062503 last seen 2012062515 37 comments

7

Apollo 17 at Shorty Crater (apod.nasa.gov)

35 points first seen 2012062515 last seen 2012062603 45 comments

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Voice algorithms spot Parkinson's disease (www.bbc.co.uk)

34 points first seen 2012062512 last seen 2012062603 5 comments

10

The Anatomy Of A Pass, A Quantitative Analysis On Why A VC Passes (techcrunch.com)

33 points first seen 2012062512 last seen 2012062603 15 comments

23

Functional and Object Oriented Programming (www.jmolly.com)

32 points first seen 2012062512 last seen 2012062603 14 comments

41

Inside Apple's Thunderbolt to Ethernet Adapter (www.hardmac.com)

31 points first seen 2012062518 last seen 2012062600 43 comments

24

Show HN: A better way to track fitness goals (my nights and weekend project) (12labs.com)

29 points first seen 2012062515 last seen 2012062600 37 comments

24

How To Build Your Own LEGO Turing Machine (www.wired.com)

21 points first seen 2012062506 last seen 2012062600 4 comments

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China conducts first manual space docking (www.aljazeera.com)

21 points first seen 2012062506 last seen 2012062600 2 comments

59

The best investment I never made (www.lindventures.com)

21 points first seen 2012062512 last seen 2012062515 28 comments

52

Congress passes bill allowing FDA to regulate smartphone apps (news.yahoo.com)

19 points first seen 2012062503 last seen 2012062509 4 comments

27

GoDigital MG & YouTube are giving me a load of "BS" (Pun Intended) (superfamicom.org)

15 points first seen 2012062506 last seen 2012062509 0 comments

38

The New York Times Brings All Its Content to Flipboard -- and Its Pay Wall, Too (adage.com)

14 points first seen 2012062518 last seen 2012062600 0 comments

21

NYT gets all the news that’s fit to print via Flipboard (allthingsd.com)

13 points first seen 2012062518 last seen 2012062603 8 comments

23

The Ubiquitous Capture Device (petersobot.com)

12 points first seen 2012062506 last seen 2012062521 6 comments

80

Nudge users towards goals with annoying CSS3 arrows (andyshora.com)

12 points first seen 2012062506 last seen 2012062509 22 comments

62

Rare video of Woz from 1984 talking about computing, joining Apple and the Mac (www.tuaw.com)

12 points first seen 2012062518 last seen 2012062600 3 comments

0

Jimmy Wales call to stop extradition of Richard O'Dwyer to the US. (www.change.org)

11 points first seen 2012062506 last seen 2012062506 2 comments

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Micro-Fundraising powered by Quantified Self (http://givego.co)

11 points first seen 2012062509 last seen 2012062600 0 comments

0

Red Sex, Blue Sex: Why do so many evangelical teen-agers become pregnant? (www.newyorker.com)

9 points first seen 2012062503 last seen 2012062503 0 comments

43

Fred Wilson: Fast Followers, Copy Cats, and Ripoffs (www.avc.com)

8 points first seen 2012062500 last seen 2012062509 0 comments

71

A hopefully useful thought on software patents (news.ycombinator.com)

8 points first seen 2012062506 last seen 2012062512 0 comments

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Frontend is a separate application (andrzejonsoftware.blogspot.com)

7 points first seen 2012062503 last seen 2012062512 4 comments

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Tint red images that haven't been 2x'd for retina (twitter.com)

7 points first seen 2012062509 last seen 2012062512 0 comments

75

Haxe 2.10 Release Candidate (ncannasse.fr)

7 points first seen 2012062509 last seen 2012062512 0 comments

73

Should I use Go or Javascript? (news.ycombinator.com)

6 points first seen 2012062509 last seen 2012062512 3 comments

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Macbook Pro Retina Display Temporary Image Persistence Issue (Burn-In) (www.youtube.com)

6 points first seen 2012062509 last seen 2012062509 0 comments

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Too Many Advertisements (todaysfad.com)

6 points first seen 2012062515 last seen 2012062521 0 comments

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Lonesome George, last-of-his-kind Galapagos tortoise, dies (www.reuters.com)

6 points first seen 2012062518 last seen 2012062600 6 comments

0

What Is Telstar Logistics? (telstarlogistics.typepad.com)

6 points first seen 2012062521 last seen 2012062521 0 comments

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Free stream of live San Francisco police radio set to ambient music (somafm.com)

5 points first seen 2012062500 last seen 2012062503 0 comments

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Firefox‬ for ‪Android‬. "Something BIG is coming your way next week" (twitter.com)

5 points first seen 2012062515 last seen 2012062515 2 comments

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Apollo Lunar Rover Operations Handbook (www.hq.nasa.gov)

4 points first seen 2012062509 last seen 2012062512 0 comments

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RIM might sell handset business to Amazon or Facebook (venturebeat.com)

4 points first seen 2012062509 last seen 2012062515 0 comments

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The demise of group selection (whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com)

4 points first seen 2012062512 last seen 2012062515 0 comments

0

Doing Deals In China (techcrunch.com)

4 points first seen 2012062515 last seen 2012062515 0 comments

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Patterns can be bad too (timonv.com)

4 points first seen 2012062518 last seen 2012062521 0 comments

0

Kids not doing their chores? Use broadband as currency (boscotan.tumblr.com)

3 points first seen 2012062503 last seen 2012062503 0 comments

0

Ask HN: How do I sell my iOS app? (news.ycombinator.com)

3 points first seen 2012062506 last seen 2012062506 3 comments

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Hands-Off: Microsoft Surface Tablet Review (marketingland.com)

3 points first seen 2012062509 last seen 2012062512 2 comments

0

Great Teaching: Measuring its effects on students' future earnings (educationnext.org)

3 points first seen 2012062509 last seen 2012062509 0 comments

87

How we used Rails & Backbone.js to build a lightning-fast webapp. (adrianpike.tumblr.com)

3 points first seen 2012062515 last seen 2012062518 0 comments

0

Compiling Shell Scripts (www.drdobbs.com)

3 points first seen 2012062515 last seen 2012062515 0 comments

0

Thumbnails On Firefox’s New Tab Page Could Expose Your Private Data (techcrunch.com)

3 points first seen 2012062518 last seen 2012062518 0 comments

0

Ask HN: next viable domain suffix after .com (news.ycombinator.com)

3 points first seen 2012062521 last seen 2012062521 7 comments

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Mobile Hacker? We're changing how business communicates. (news.ycombinator.com)

0 points first seen 2012062503 last seen 2012062600 0 comments

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Design for Good (and for profit) (news.ycombinator.com)

0 points first seen 2012062512 last seen 2012062606 0 comments