hackerNews

1

A Hole in Mars (apod.nasa.gov)

387 points first seen 2012071906 last seen 2012072303 110 comments

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Wikileaks credit card donation is back (shop.wikileaks.org)

349 points first seen 2012071900 last seen 2012072300 78 comments

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Fluid: A Clever UI Prototyping Tool (www.fluidui.com)

325 points first seen 2012071906 last seen 2012072303 114 comments

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Watch what you store on SkyDrive–you may lose your Microsoft life (wmpoweruser.com)

314 points first seen 2012071921 last seen 2012072315 203 comments

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HTTPie: cURL for humans (github.com)

308 points first seen 2012071903 last seen 2012072103 80 comments

3

Show HN: gist.io, blogless writing for hackers (http://gist.io)

268 points first seen 2012071912 last seen 2012072303 49 comments

3

Five Men Agree To Stand Directly Under An Exploding Nuclear Bomb (www.npr.org)

258 points first seen 2012071906 last seen 2012072103 109 comments

2

CSS3 meets AMC's Breaking Bad (codepen.io)

212 points first seen 2012071906 last seen 2012072103 59 comments

2

Windows Executable Walkthrough Graphic (pe101.corkami.com)

204 points first seen 2012071915 last seen 2012072209 34 comments

2

New High I/O EC2 Instance Type - hi1.4xlarge - 2 TB of SSD-Backed Storage (aws.typepad.com)

191 points first seen 2012071918 last seen 2012072212 102 comments

9

Best Papers from 27 Top-Tier Computer Science Conferences (jeffhuang.com)

187 points first seen 2012071906 last seen 2012072106 57 comments

7

Ubuntu is coming back to Dell Laptops (techcrunch.com)

171 points first seen 2012071903 last seen 2012072100 140 comments

9

Firefox 15 plugs the add-on leaks (blog.mozilla.org)

170 points first seen 2012071921 last seen 2012072206 119 comments

6

Oracle spreading FUD about CentOS (www.bashton.com)

168 points first seen 2012071906 last seen 2012072100 69 comments

9

In Denmark, Pedaling to Work on a Superhighway (www.nytimes.com)

165 points first seen 2012071900 last seen 2012072006 129 comments

11

EFF Challenges National Security Letter Statute in Landmark Lawsuit (www.eff.org)

155 points first seen 2012071903 last seen 2012072006 29 comments

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Oracle launches "a better alternative to CentOS" (linux.oracle.com)

150 points first seen 2012071903 last seen 2012072000 205 comments

13

German Scientists Create Aerographite, the Lightest Material in the World (www.sciencespacerobots.com)

149 points first seen 2012071903 last seen 2012072006 46 comments

5

Real Time Multiplayer in HTML5 (buildnewgames.com)

143 points first seen 2012071921 last seen 2012072206 60 comments

3

How did we come to believe saturated fat and cholesterol are bad for us? (eatingacademy.com)

135 points first seen 2012071915 last seen 2012072006 171 comments

5

Epicyclic Gearing (bl.ocks.org)

126 points first seen 2012071915 last seen 2012072100 20 comments

12

Apple Must Publish Notice Samsung Didn’t Copy iPad, Judge Says (www.bloomberg.com)

122 points first seen 2012071906 last seen 2012072003 135 comments

9

Shell social media oil spill a 'coordinated online assassination' (www.theage.com.au)

115 points first seen 2012071915 last seen 2012072100 108 comments

11

How VCs get paid (jtangovc.com)

108 points first seen 2012071909 last seen 2012072100 12 comments

6

Mozilla Wants Hundreds Of Thousands Of Firefox OS Developers (www.techweekeurope.co.uk)

104 points first seen 2012071915 last seen 2012072100 53 comments

15

Show HN: DuckDuckGoog--use DuckDuckGo for !bang's and Google for everything else (http://www.duckduckgoog.com)

91 points first seen 2012071903 last seen 2012072003 60 comments

63

BlackGirlsCode Raises $21,000 To Fund Summer Of Code Program (techli.com)

91 points first seen 2012071906 last seen 2012071912 145 comments

13

Web App Security Best Practices (coffeeonthekeyboard.com)

82 points first seen 2012071900 last seen 2012072003 31 comments

24

Earliest known photos of an Apple iPad prototype (www.networkworld.com)

79 points first seen 2012071903 last seen 2012072003 24 comments

22

Looting: The Economic Underworld of Bankruptcy for Profit (papers.ssrn.com)

79 points first seen 2012071903 last seen 2012072003 25 comments

29

Women in Tech: Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is. (techcrunch.com)

79 points first seen 2012071915 last seen 2012072003 119 comments

6

Benchmarking High Performance I/O with SSD for Cassandra on AWS (techblog.netflix.com)

74 points first seen 2012071918 last seen 2012072100 13 comments

17

Google Chrome Web Lab is now live in beta. (www.chromeweblab.com)

72 points first seen 2012071915 last seen 2012072021 14 comments

8

How to handle giant files (blog.filepicker.io)

70 points first seen 2012071909 last seen 2012072021 34 comments

21

Raspberry Pi launched by balloon broadcast images from 40km high (www.raspberrypi.org)

66 points first seen 2012071903 last seen 2012072003 4 comments

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Apple granted 'the mother of all smartphone software patents' (tech.fortune.cnn.com)

60 points first seen 2012071912 last seen 2012072000 95 comments

18

The secret hiring of Marissa Mayer: How Yahoo kept it all under wraps. (www.businessweek.com)

58 points first seen 2012071918 last seen 2012072021 18 comments

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Email-Address leaked from Dropbox (forums.dropbox.com)

56 points first seen 2012071915 last seen 2012072006 9 comments

22

Visual.ly launches social network for data visualizations (blog.visual.ly)

55 points first seen 2012071903 last seen 2012072003 13 comments

19

Vidyard (YC S11) launches A/B thumbnail testing + YouTube management (thenextweb.com)

48 points first seen 2012071906 last seen 2012072003 2 comments

66

Ask HN: What one thing would you tell your younger self? (news.ycombinator.com)

48 points first seen 2012071906 last seen 2012071912 62 comments

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Portal 2 LEGO set enters final review stage (lego.cuusoo.com)

47 points first seen 2012071900 last seen 2012071921 12 comments

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The missing switch: High-performance monolithic graphene transistors created (www.extremetech.com)

47 points first seen 2012071903 last seen 2012072003 5 comments

15

If You Are Hit By Two Atomic Bombs, Should You Have Kids? (www.npr.org)

47 points first seen 2012071909 last seen 2012072003 26 comments

32

Qt 5 and Android (blog.rburchell.com)

43 points first seen 2012071900 last seen 2012072000 16 comments

19

Basho Blog: Protobuffs in Riak 1.2 (basho.com)

42 points first seen 2012071903 last seen 2012072003 0 comments

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Google Launches Gmail Over SMS In Emerging Markets (techcrunch.com)

40 points first seen 2012071903 last seen 2012072000 17 comments

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I supported App.net with $50/year, here’s why (andrewchen.co)

39 points first seen 2012071912 last seen 2012072003 28 comments

32

Discussion of Combinatorics and Probability topics (www.numericana.com)

38 points first seen 2012071903 last seen 2012072000 0 comments

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Normal Plasma Cholesterol in an 88-Year-Old Man Who Eats 25 Eggs a Day (www.nejm.org)

38 points first seen 2012071909 last seen 2012071918 48 comments

17

Windows 8 launch date announced: October 26th (www.redmondtimes.com)

38 points first seen 2012071912 last seen 2012072003 27 comments

39

Bitcoin price soars 40% in the last month (arstechnica.com)

38 points first seen 2012071912 last seen 2012072003 39 comments

30

Get to know your ORM and take control of joins. (use-the-index-luke.com)

37 points first seen 2012071900 last seen 2012072000 23 comments

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Fab raises $105M (online.wsj.com)

37 points first seen 2012071912 last seen 2012072003 15 comments

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Dropbox investigating possible security breach (edition.cnn.com)

34 points first seen 2012071915 last seen 2012072003 15 comments

23

Run Puma Run, 8bit style arcade game with HTML5 canvas (www.puma.com)

33 points first seen 2012071900 last seen 2012072000 13 comments

27

Discount or cap? A spreadsheet that shows what happens when a note converts. (rajibedi.tumblr.com)

32 points first seen 2012071912 last seen 2012072003 5 comments

51

A new model of school in Sweden (www.economist.com)

30 points first seen 2012071900 last seen 2012071903 19 comments

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Robert Scoble's Facebook Cortex (www.warrenellis.com)

30 points first seen 2012071900 last seen 2012072000 9 comments

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The value of time, or not (swombat.com)

30 points first seen 2012071906 last seen 2012072000 17 comments

39

Who Are The 5 People You Spend Time With? (leostartsup.com)

27 points first seen 2012071909 last seen 2012071921 32 comments

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Socialcam Founder: There Will Be No Instagram of Video (pandodaily.com)

25 points first seen 2012071906 last seen 2012072000 12 comments

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Delete the Save Button (www.slate.com)

22 points first seen 2012071912 last seen 2012072000 16 comments

83

Keyboard Hack (www.johndcook.com)

20 points first seen 2012071900 last seen 2012071903 43 comments

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Common Crawl code contest - with fresh crawl of 3.2 billion web pages (commoncrawl.org)

20 points first seen 2012071906 last seen 2012071921 5 comments

72

Insanely simple Cloud-based replacement for statsd + graphite (http://dattss.com)

20 points first seen 2012071909 last seen 2012071918 25 comments

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How to build a mobile app for Force.com using jQM and push notifications (trigger.io)

18 points first seen 2012071906 last seen 2012072000 0 comments

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Show HN: $189 glasses live-stream 720p POV video over wifi to mobile apps w/ SDK (www.indiegogo.com)

18 points first seen 2012071909 last seen 2012071912 12 comments

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BMG abused the law by issuing a takedown request of a Romney YouTube ad (thedc.com)

16 points first seen 2012071900 last seen 2012071900 5 comments

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Weekly video tutorials on web fundamentals (stac.ly)

16 points first seen 2012071900 last seen 2012071906 0 comments

39

How to handle different screen sizes. HTML5 Mobile Game Tutorial (indiegamr.com)

16 points first seen 2012071903 last seen 2012071921 3 comments

51

Listia (YC S09) Opens A Rewards Store For Giving Away Old Stuff (techcrunch.com)

16 points first seen 2012071906 last seen 2012071918 0 comments

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Netflix: Benchmarking High Performance I/O with SSD for Cassandra on AWS (techblog.netflix.com)

16 points first seen 2012071918 last seen 2012072000 2 comments

44

HTML5 8-Bit Snake Game (with Commented Source and Sounds) (cssdeck.com)

15 points first seen 2012071903 last seen 2012071918 6 comments

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Nobody Ever Got Rich Working for Somebody Else. #horseshit (monsef.com)

15 points first seen 2012071909 last seen 2012072000 11 comments

77

Ask HN: How to become a renaissance man? (news.ycombinator.com)

14 points first seen 2012071909 last seen 2012072703 0 comments

89

Seamless iframes: The future, today (benvinegar.github.com)

14 points first seen 2012071909 last seen 2012071912 8 comments

50

VERSUS IO Aims To Compare Anything (techcrunch.com)

13 points first seen 2012071903 last seen 2012071912 4 comments

62

The open-source node libraries powering Cloud9 (c9.io)

12 points first seen 2012071903 last seen 2012071906 4 comments

84

Microsoft could owe billions in another antitrust battle (EU Browser Choice) (money.cnn.com)

12 points first seen 2012071906 last seen 2012071909 5 comments

61

Will Parallel Code Ever Be Embraced? (www.drdobbs.com)

12 points first seen 2012071921 last seen 2012072000 6 comments

67

IOS badge management on Parse (blog.parse.com)

11 points first seen 2012071912 last seen 2012071921 0 comments

61

Iceland's Emerging Cheap, Green Data Centers (www.readwriteweb.com)

9 points first seen 2012071903 last seen 2012071909 0 comments

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Court May Order Google to Censor ‘Torrent,’ ‘RapidShare’ and ‘Megaupload’ (torrentfreak.com)

9 points first seen 2012071903 last seen 2012071909 11 comments

0

You know the new movie about Jimi Hendrix?… it won’t use any Jimi Hendrix music (www.noisemademedoit.com)

9 points first seen 2012071906 last seen 2012071906 4 comments

0

Enyo 2.0 exits beta (blog.enyojs.com)

9 points first seen 2012071906 last seen 2012071906 8 comments

51

McDonald's Staff Denies Physical Altercation With Steve Mann (www.forbes.com)

9 points first seen 2012071909 last seen 2012071921 3 comments

81

Any Innovative startup ideas ..? (news.ycombinator.com)

8 points first seen 2012071900 last seen 2012072703 15 comments

0

Ask HN: Is this bad security? "Enter the second and fifth password characters" (news.ycombinator.com)

8 points first seen 2012071903 last seen 2012071903 19 comments

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Review my startup - RecipeTonite (recipetonite.com)

8 points first seen 2012071906 last seen 2012071912 16 comments

75

Muffi Ghadiali (Amazon Kindle) in Charge of OUYA HW/SW (www.kickstarter.com)

8 points first seen 2012071906 last seen 2012071912 0 comments

73

A Not-So-Typical San Francisco Startup Story (fndrs.net)

8 points first seen 2012071906 last seen 2012071912 0 comments

0

Ask HN: Which tools do you use for tracking your SEO (news.ycombinator.com)

8 points first seen 2012071906 last seen 2012071906 4 comments

77

Human Cyborg: McDonald's Employees Assaulted Me For Wearing My Gear (news.yahoo.com)

6 points first seen 2012071906 last seen 2012071909 0 comments

82

Netflix rolls out ipv6 to streaming users (techblog.netflix.com)

6 points first seen 2012071906 last seen 2012071909 0 comments

59

Let Developers Register for Your API with Their Github Profile (www.apievangelist.com)

6 points first seen 2012071909 last seen 2012071918 0 comments

87

The Bicycle Revolution in Paris, Five Years Later (www.ipsnews.net)

6 points first seen 2012071909 last seen 2012071912 0 comments

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HN, I need to learn how to ship (news.ycombinator.com)

6 points first seen 2012071915 last seen 2012071918 11 comments

63

Nokia's Bad Call on Smartphones (online.wsj.com)

6 points first seen 2012071921 last seen 2012072000 2 comments

87

Kotlin in action: wrapping vert.x (java.dzone.com)

5 points first seen 2012071900 last seen 2012071903 0 comments

69

Show HN: A fresh take on Wikipedia (lolcat.biz)

5 points first seen 2012071906 last seen 2012071909 5 comments

0

Using SQL injection as a feature (stackoverflow.com)

5 points first seen 2012071906 last seen 2012071906 3 comments

0

HackerRank bots which played 2.2M games (blog.hackerrank.com)

5 points first seen 2012071906 last seen 2012071906 0 comments

0

Governments don’t have websites: Governments are websites (www.mysociety.org)

5 points first seen 2012071906 last seen 2012071906 0 comments

79

Windows 8 will be available on October 26th, 2012 (windowsteamblog.com)

5 points first seen 2012071909 last seen 2012071912 0 comments

0

RoR vs. What else? (news.ycombinator.com)

5 points first seen 2012071921 last seen 2012071921 10 comments

0

Go Daddy acquires Outright.com (inside.godaddy.com)

4 points first seen 2012071906 last seen 2012071906 2 comments

83

Hypermedia APIs (coderwall.com)

4 points first seen 2012071906 last seen 2012071909 0 comments

0

How to Balance Hustling and Family (carter.rabasa.com)

4 points first seen 2012071906 last seen 2012071906 2 comments

0

Write mostly once, run mostly anywhere with Mono (praeclarum.org)

4 points first seen 2012071906 last seen 2012071906 0 comments

0

Google execs: tech can be harnessed to fight drug cartels in Mexico (www.washingtonpost.com)

4 points first seen 2012071906 last seen 2012071906 0 comments

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The key to high profits: product differentiation (economic principle) (en.wikipedia.org)

4 points first seen 2012071909 last seen 2012071909 0 comments

0

Google Maps meets WebGL (support.google.com)

4 points first seen 2012071909 last seen 2012071909 0 comments

0

Show HN: Plasmyd, a platform for scientists to discuss papers (news.ycombinator.com)

4 points first seen 2012071909 last seen 2012071909 2 comments

83

As Pay-by-Phone Advances, Square Takes Another Leap (www.nytimes.com)

4 points first seen 2012071912 last seen 2012071915 2 comments

88

On To the Next - Feds Drag Rapper Swizz Beats into Megaupload Case (torrentfreak.com)

4 points first seen 2012071912 last seen 2012071915 0 comments

84

Python: A Simple Step-by-Step SQLite Tutorial (www.blog.pythonlibrary.org)

4 points first seen 2012071912 last seen 2012071915 0 comments

0

Kim Dotcom's Letter to Hollywood (www.hollywoodreporter.com)

4 points first seen 2012071915 last seen 2012071915 0 comments

0

Could someone advise a new name for my Pinterest app? (news.ycombinator.com)

3 points first seen 2012071900 last seen 2012071900 5 comments

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Mozilla Persona (BrowserID) is a step in the wrong direction (www.opine.me)

3 points first seen 2012071900 last seen 2012071900 0 comments

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Mongo the MongoDB Shell (blog.mongodb.org)