hackerNews

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Goldman Sachs and the $580 Million Black Hole (www.nytimes.com)

309 points first seen 2012071515 last seen 2012071800 88 comments

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Why OO Sucks by Joe Armstrong (harmful.cat-v.org)

192 points first seen 2012071512 last seen 2021032703 246 comments

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Intel Core 2 Duo Remote Exec Exploit in JavaScript (1337day.com)

178 points first seen 2012071515 last seen 2012071600 92 comments

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Read the masters (www.federicopereiro.com)

177 points first seen 2012071500 last seen 2012071700 52 comments

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Traction mistakes (www.gabrielweinberg.com)

176 points first seen 2012071509 last seen 2012071700 38 comments

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The Cost of Free Doughnuts (www.npr.org)

166 points first seen 2012071506 last seen 2013031906 74 comments

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XBMC For Android (xbmc.org)

154 points first seen 2012071503 last seen 2012071700 41 comments

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The Most Important Social Network: GitHub (7fff.com)

153 points first seen 2012071503 last seen 2012071621 72 comments

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Elon Musk - SpaceX/Tesla Fireside Chat (spaceindustrynews.com)

129 points first seen 2012071506 last seen 2012071700 20 comments

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Why Lisp macros are cool, a Perl perspective (2005) (lists.warhead.org.uk)

120 points first seen 2012071518 last seen 2019121806 67 comments

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Why Do We Wear Pants? Horses. (www.theatlantic.com)

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Facebook announces SPDY support (lists.w3.org)

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A World Without Coral Reefs (www.nytimes.com)

108 points first seen 2012071506 last seen 2012071609 40 comments

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From CIA: Timeless Tips for 'Simple Sabotage' (www.cia.gov)

107 points first seen 2012071503 last seen 2015110400 67 comments

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The Economist: America’s economy is once again reinventing itself (www.economist.com)

80 points first seen 2012071506 last seen 2012071606 67 comments

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F.D.A. Surveillance of Scientists Spread to Outside Critics (www.nytimes.com)

80 points first seen 2012071506 last seen 2012071606 25 comments

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Marc Andreessen “tried really hard not to invent anything new” (www.horsesaysinternet.com)

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Exactly How Screwed Is PayPal? (Hint: Very) (pandodaily.com)

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Young entrepreneurs turn a Tweet from Richard Branson into $1 Million (smallbusiness.yahoo.com)

63 points first seen 2012071509 last seen 2012071606 59 comments

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The 32 vs 64 bit CPU memory myth (superuser.com)

62 points first seen 2012071500 last seen 2012071603 61 comments

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ATARI internal emails - 10 Years of Atari/Atari Games VaxMail (www.textfiles.com)

59 points first seen 2012071509 last seen 2012071603 21 comments

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What is SPDY? (lincolnloop.com)

59 points first seen 2012071515 last seen 2012071621 3 comments

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Ask HN: how to acquire customers which are small businesses via internet? (news.ycombinator.com)

58 points first seen 2012071518 last seen 2012072703 0 comments

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Introducing the Distribution Hacks Blog (distributionhacks.com)

56 points first seen 2012071515 last seen 2012071700 24 comments

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Scala Adding Macros to the Language (www.infoq.com)

51 points first seen 2012071509 last seen 2012071621 27 comments

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Patent Trolls - A New Study and a Survey (www.groklaw.net)

48 points first seen 2012071500 last seen 2012071606 13 comments

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Python.org Redesign Proposals due in 7 days (jessenoller.com)

47 points first seen 2012071506 last seen 2012071606 10 comments

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Instagram? Zynga? There's a lot big minds chasing small ideas (current.com)

47 points first seen 2012071506 last seen 2012071512 67 comments

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Spool is joining Facebook (blog.getspool.com)

46 points first seen 2012071506 last seen 2012071606 26 comments

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Ask HN: Do online demos without sign-up actually increase sign-ups? (news.ycombinator.com)

43 points first seen 2012071503 last seen 2012071609 52 comments

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OUYA Approaches $5 Million In Backing, Attracts 5x Goal (So Far) (www.thepowerbase.com)

43 points first seen 2012071509 last seen 2012071603 50 comments

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Vim esckeys (ksjoberg.com)

41 points first seen 2012071521 last seen 2012071621 13 comments

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Ask HN: If there was no internet, what business would you have started? (news.ycombinator.com)

36 points first seen 2012071509 last seen 2012071615 47 comments

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IAmA Ex-Digg Employee (www.reddit.com)

33 points first seen 2012071503 last seen 2012071609 16 comments

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G4S is just the latest in a long line of outsourcing disasters (www.newstatesman.com)

31 points first seen 2012071500 last seen 2012071509 37 comments

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Windows 8's Achilles' heel: Metro applications (www.osnews.com)

30 points first seen 2012071500 last seen 2012071509 47 comments

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Judge Denies Oracle's Renewed Motion for JMOL or for a New Trial (www.groklaw.net)

30 points first seen 2012071500 last seen 2012071603 2 comments

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Ask HN: Who is building a new kind of search engine? (news.ycombinator.com)

30 points first seen 2012071503 last seen 2012081009 44 comments

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Minecraft Accounts Exploit (gist.github.com)

28 points first seen 2012071518 last seen 2012071606 10 comments

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Ask HN: FizzBuzz for mathematicians ... (news.ycombinator.com)

27 points first seen 2012071503 last seen 2012072703 0 comments

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Bitcoin Nordic brings Bitcoin to 300M people in the Middle East and North Africa (bitcointalk.org)

27 points first seen 2012071509 last seen 2012071606 4 comments

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The Workplace Benefits of Being Out of Touch (www.nytimes.com)

25 points first seen 2012071503 last seen 2012071609 10 comments

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Ask HN: How do I start being a consultant? (news.ycombinator.com)

24 points first seen 2012071515 last seen 2012071615 20 comments

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The Remembrance Agent (www.remem.org)

23 points first seen 2012071521 last seen 2012071615 4 comments

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The Lessons For Facebook, Twitter And Reddit In Digg's Demise (www.forbes.com)

21 points first seen 2012071506 last seen 2012071606 7 comments

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Don’t Root for Aereo, the World’s Most Ridiculous Start-up (pandodaily.com)

18 points first seen 2012071515 last seen 2012071521 9 comments

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Purpose-Driven User Experience: Apple & Instagram's Secret Sauce (naveedl.tumblr.com)

15 points first seen 2012071503 last seen 2012071509 5 comments

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That Glorious Fireworks Fail Last Week? Imagine That's Your Data (www.theatlantic.com)

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F.D.A. Spied on E-Mails of Its Own Scientists (www.nytimes.com)

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The Search for Antimatter: The Next Holy Grail in Physics (www.spiegel.de)

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Apple's "in-app purchase" service for iOS bypassed by Russian hacker (arstechnica.com)

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The infinitely profitable program (peetm.com)

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Startups Rival Craigslist for Online Classifieds Market Share (betakit.com)

8 points first seen 2012071503 last seen 2012071515 4 comments

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Analyst calls agile a scam (developers.slashdot.org)

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Perl Shop Maturity Checklist: Social Concerns (www.modernperlbooks.com)

7 points first seen 2012071503 last seen 2012071615 2 comments

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Inquire.ly - form to mini-CRM in seconds (inquire.ly)

6 points first seen 2012071506 last seen 2012071506 3 comments

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Why email won’t be replaced anytime soon (venturebeat.com)

6 points first seen 2012071509 last seen 2012071515 0 comments

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Go Ahead, Feed The Trolls (distributionhacks.com)

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What’s the best way to manage a team of remote software engineers? (arstechnica.com)

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If Crockford were CEO of Yahoo he would fork a Node.JS and create Ynode. (www.youtube.com)

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Guy Steele - Growing a Language (www.organizedwonder.com)

4 points first seen 2012071515 last seen 2012071521 0 comments

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Dart: Milestone 1 Language Changes (www.dartlang.org)

4 points first seen 2012071518 last seen 2012071521 0 comments

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How to completely, utterly destroy an employee’s work life (www.washingtonpost.com)

4 points first seen 2012071521 last seen 2012071600 0 comments

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Supervising Women Workers (www.youtube.com)

3 points first seen 2012071500 last seen 2012071500 0 comments

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Crockford on Coffeescript (twitter.com)

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Ask HN: Still acceptable to use PHP for new projects? (news.ycombinator.com)

3 points first seen 2012071509 last seen 2012071512 4 comments

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Ask HN: What's the best live blogging/etherpad-like service? (news.ycombinator.com)

3 points first seen 2012071509 last seen 2012071509 9 comments

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Advanced Caching in Rails: Revised (www.broadcastingadam.com)

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Configuration and Scope: OOP and functional approaches to implicit variables (aphyr.com)

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Dotcom millionaire now bankrupt and arrested for selling drugs and guns (thenextweb.com)

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In Age of Twitter, NBC Rewrites Olympic Playbook (online.wsj.com)

3 points first seen 2012071521 last seen 2012071521 0 comments