hackerNews

1

PostgreSQL Rising (wekeroad.com)

494 points first seen 2012072012 last seen 2012072403 194 comments

1

EFF, Reddit, Mozilla, others launch Internet Defense League and Cat Signal (http://internetdefenseleague.org)

421 points first seen 2012072003 last seen 2012072400 140 comments

2

Living with HTTPS (www.imperialviolet.org)

311 points first seen 2012072003 last seen 2012072321 126 comments

2

15-Year-Old Maker Astronomically Improves Pancreatic Cancer Test (blog.makezine.com)

277 points first seen 2012072000 last seen 2012072315 84 comments

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Lightning captured at 7,207 images per second (thekidshouldseethis.com)

266 points first seen 2012072003 last seen 2012072100 26 comments

2

Microsoft reports first quarterly loss ever (marketday.msnbc.msn.com)

262 points first seen 2012072009 last seen 2012072309 116 comments

1

How to hack the beliefs that are holding you back (swombat.com)

256 points first seen 2012072021 last seen 2012072400 120 comments

3

Now Public: See Marissa Mayer Employment Offer Letter filed with the SEC (www.sec.gov)

208 points first seen 2012072012 last seen 2012072309 134 comments

3

Tell, don't ask (robots.thoughtbot.com)

205 points first seen 2012072009 last seen 2012072309 86 comments

12

Unbreakable crypto: Store a 30-character password in your subconscious memory (www.extremetech.com)

194 points first seen 2012072003 last seen 2012072206 83 comments

11

Microsoft employee on stack ranking and its 'most universally hated exec' (www.networkworld.com)

161 points first seen 2012072006 last seen 2012072300 118 comments

4

17 Year Old Builds a Better Search Engine (live.wsj.com)

159 points first seen 2012072015 last seen 2012072303 88 comments

9

Backbone.js: Hacker's Guide (dailyjs.com)

154 points first seen 2012072003 last seen 2012072300 36 comments

10

Inconsolata (levien.com)

153 points first seen 2012072003 last seen 2012072212 59 comments

6

Introducing Ubuntu Web Apps: setting the web free of the browser (blog.canonical.com)

135 points first seen 2012072006 last seen 2012072218 77 comments

5

Heroku Releases Free PostgreSQL App for OSX (techcrunch.com)

128 points first seen 2012072006 last seen 2012072212 56 comments

14

Microsoft Expected To Post First Ever Quarterly Loss In Its History (www.cbs19.tv)

113 points first seen 2012072003 last seen 2012072103 85 comments

7

Microsoft Open Sources their Entity Framework ORM (www.hanselman.com)

110 points first seen 2012072003 last seen 2012072203 80 comments

3

Justice Department Sues Telco For Daring To Challenge the NSL (www.techdirt.com)

105 points first seen 2012072018 last seen 2012072300 9 comments

0

Lightning captured at 7,207 images per second (thekidshouldseethis.com)

98 points first seen 2012072000 last seen 2012072000 8 comments

11

The real reason Marissa Mayer left Google: She had to (venturebeat.com)

95 points first seen 2012072012 last seen 2012072115 107 comments

5

Academic journals face a radical shake-up (www.economist.com)

92 points first seen 2012072018 last seen 2012072218 24 comments

39

Massive Apple patent win could kill off Android completely (www.macworld.co.uk)

82 points first seen 2012072003 last seen 2012072018 96 comments

9

Shoehorning startups into the VC model (cdixon.org)

80 points first seen 2012072009 last seen 2012072200 13 comments

17

Newest U.S. Counterterrorism Strategy: Trolling (www.wired.com)

70 points first seen 2012072006 last seen 2012072200 32 comments

15

Fred Wilson is wrong about “Free” (daltoncaldwell.com)

69 points first seen 2012072006 last seen 2012072121 37 comments

12

Microsoft comes under fire for five-figure Xbox 360 “patch fee” (arstechnica.com)

65 points first seen 2012072009 last seen 2012072121 58 comments

14

Lytro, Twilio, CrowdFlower, CardMunch investor Manu Kumar raises new 40M fund (k9ventures.com)

63 points first seen 2012072006 last seen 2012072103 20 comments

34

Ways startups get screwed (rayhano.com)

57 points first seen 2012072003 last seen 2012072021 57 comments

17

Botnet Responsible for 18% of World’s Spam Knocked Offline (mashable.com)

56 points first seen 2012072003 last seen 2012072103 21 comments

18

Is Kickstarter selling dreams? (blogs.reuters.com)

55 points first seen 2012072003 last seen 2012072103 33 comments

21

How we built Lanyrd's foursquare integration (lanyrd.com)

52 points first seen 2012072000 last seen 2012072100 7 comments

23

How One Business Guy Earned the Opportunity to Co-Found a Tech Startup (www.jasonshen.com)

52 points first seen 2012072006 last seen 2012072103 19 comments

21

Svbtle is hiring to build the future of news and opinion on the web (blog.svbtle.com)

46 points first seen 2012072012 last seen 2012072100 47 comments

9

Programming is not algebra (andy.wordpress.com)

44 points first seen 2012072018 last seen 2012072115 42 comments

21

Functional Programming is Dead, Long Live Expression-Oriented Programming (richardminerich.com)

43 points first seen 2012072015 last seen 2012072103 41 comments

2

The Linux Graphics Stack (blog.mecheye.net)

43 points first seen 2012072015 last seen 2015070800 2 comments

0

4Chan Outs Burger King Employee Who Put His Feet in Lettuce (mashable.com)

42 points first seen 2012072009 last seen 2012072009 22 comments

15

Ouya's first exclusive game (www.kickstarter.com)

39 points first seen 2012072009 last seen 2012072103 29 comments

30

We're not going to patch the patch (polytroncorporation.com)

38 points first seen 2012072003 last seen 2012072100 21 comments

41

Marco Arment on Dropbox: Don't use it for anything valuable (blog.varonis.com)

37 points first seen 2012072000 last seen 2012072006 53 comments

54

How about an Olympic games for enhanced athletes? (www.nature.com)

35 points first seen 2012072000 last seen 2012072006 44 comments

24

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

32 points first seen 2012072003 last seen 2012072100 6 comments

28

Tethr: Getting online in a crisis (www.bbc.com)

32 points first seen 2012072006 last seen 2012072100 17 comments

12

CSRF: Cross-Site Request Forgeries (coffeeonthekeyboard.com)

31 points first seen 2012072000 last seen 2012072100 21 comments

88

Dear Internet, from Flickr (www.flickr.com)

30 points first seen 2012072006 last seen 2012072009 0 comments

20

New center for tech and innovation in Seattle? (www.geekwire.com)

29 points first seen 2012072012 last seen 2012072103 7 comments

90

The $25,000 PDF at Amazon (www.amazon.com)

28 points first seen 2012072006 last seen 2012072009 39 comments

12

Handling blocking IO in Go (www.kanwisher.com)

27 points first seen 2012072015 last seen 2012072103 8 comments

50

How I accidentally got into someone else’s gmail account (warambil.wordpress.com)

26 points first seen 2012072003 last seen 2012072018 10 comments

39

What It's Like To Be A Startup CEO - The Backstory (founderdating.com)

25 points first seen 2012072000 last seen 2012072006 12 comments

28

Entity Framework and Open Source (weblogs.asp.net)

24 points first seen 2012072003 last seen 2012072021 0 comments

42

Monitoring Sucks. But Monitoring as Testing Sucks A LOT More (java.dzone.com)

24 points first seen 2012072003 last seen 2012072021 5 comments

55

Act Bigger than You Are (blogs.hbr.org)

24 points first seen 2012072006 last seen 2012072018 4 comments

14

"Keep Moving": Marissa Mayer's First Memo to Yahoos (allthingsd.com)

24 points first seen 2012072018 last seen 2012072103 25 comments

44

A job at Joel's company doesn't pass the "Joel Test" (careers.stackoverflow.com)

23 points first seen 2012072015 last seen 2012072021 29 comments

28

The psychology of discounting: Something doesn't add up (www.economist.com)

22 points first seen 2012072021 last seen 2012072121 19 comments

18

Show HN: Syncable - Stop searching old email threads on iPhone (http://trysyncable.com)

21 points first seen 2012072012 last seen 2012072100 6 comments

26

Optimizely Launches Mobile View, Mixpanel Integration, and More (blog.optimizely.com)

19 points first seen 2012072009 last seen 2012072100 5 comments

32

All your Flickr photos in Dropbox, with style (blog.theopenphotoproject.org)

18 points first seen 2012072006 last seen 2012072100 14 comments

19

Global Warming's Terrifying New Math (www.rollingstone.com)

18 points first seen 2012072018 last seen 2012092200 21 comments

64

Review my startup - Airfeed (airfeed.me)

17 points first seen 2012072000 last seen 2012072003 24 comments

34

An Amusing Lesson In Social Media (blog.earbits.com)

12 points first seen 2012072006 last seen 2012072018 3 comments

69

App.net API spec posted to github (github.com)

11 points first seen 2012072015 last seen 2012072021 0 comments

81

IKEA bypasses QR codes, catalog to use augmented reality (agbeat.com)

10 points first seen 2012072003 last seen 2012072006 3 comments

57

What I Look at on Facebook should be my own Business (myPermissions.org)

10 points first seen 2012072003 last seen 2012072012 6 comments

41

Why won't anyone think of the deaf? (www.deafcritic.com)

10 points first seen 2012072009 last seen 2012072021 8 comments

0

KickStarter's new project page (www.kickstarter.com)

9 points first seen 2012072006 last seen 2012072006 0 comments

0

Marissa Mayer: $1 Million Base, Up To $60 Million In Stock And Bonuses (techcrunch.com)

9 points first seen 2012072009 last seen 2012072009 0 comments

87

The War on 'Free' Clicks: Think Nobody Clicks on Google Ads? Think Again (venturefizz.com)

8 points first seen 2012072003 last seen 2012072006 4 comments

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It’s legal: cops seize cell phone, impersonate owner (arstechnica.com)

8 points first seen 2012072003 last seen 2012072003 16 comments

59

OSCON 2012 Live Stream - Chris Granger's talk on Light Table (www.oscon.com)

8 points first seen 2012072009 last seen 2012072015 2 comments

45

Facebook Begins Testing Sponsored Results, Its First Search Typeahead Ads (techcrunch.com)

8 points first seen 2012072012 last seen 2012072021 8 comments

65

Dc.js - Dimensional Charting Javascript Library (nickqizhu.github.com)

8 points first seen 2012072012 last seen 2012072021 0 comments

81

How to pitch anything in 15 seconds (www.forbes.com)

8 points first seen 2012072021 last seen 2012072100 5 comments

61

Ubuntu adds WebApps to its Linux desktop (www.zdnet.com)

7 points first seen 2012072006 last seen 2012072015 6 comments

49

Hipmob: talking to your Android users has never been faster. (hipmob.tumblr.com)

7 points first seen 2012072006 last seen 2012072015 0 comments

66

Show HN: Orchive, a crowd-funded news outlet founded by highschool students (http://orchive.com)

7 points first seen 2012072009 last seen 2012072015 0 comments

70

Google revenue up by 35% in Q2 2012 (techcrunch.com)

7 points first seen 2012072015 last seen 2012072021 0 comments

60

12 Lessons From Lean Startup Machine (www.ideavist.com)

6 points first seen 2012072003 last seen 2012072009 0 comments

72

Is Mobile Photo Sharing Still Broken? Kicksend Thinks So (www.xconomy.com)

6 points first seen 2012072006 last seen 2012072012 0 comments

72

How Twilio Went to Market Without Investors (www.inc.com)

6 points first seen 2012072009 last seen 2012072015 0 comments

48

Google refuses to run a political party's ads. (www.smh.com.au)

6 points first seen 2012072015 last seen 2012072021 0 comments

0

How can I get out of a mountain of grad school debt? (news.ycombinator.com)

6 points first seen 2012072015 last seen 2012072015 13 comments

68

Postgres.app - dead simple development with Postgres on a Mac (postgres.heroku.com)

5 points first seen 2012072006 last seen 2012072012 0 comments

0

Let Bogons Be Bygones: T-Mobile Filters Address Range Used by Hetzner (www.wordsforreading.com)

5 points first seen 2012072006 last seen 2012072006 0 comments

89

Crittercism Built First Ever Android NDK Crash Reporter (gigaom.com)

5 points first seen 2012072006 last seen 2012072009 0 comments

69

Fab Raised $105M IaMA on Reddit (www.reddit.com)

5 points first seen 2012072012 last seen 2012072018 2 comments

74

Why I bill daily (alanhollis.com)

5 points first seen 2012072018 last seen 2012072021 2 comments

90

53 bits ought to be enough for anybody — The Endeavour (www.johndcook.com)

4 points first seen 2012072003 last seen 2012072006 0 comments

73

Microsoft completes aquisition of Yammer (blog.yammer.com)

4 points first seen 2012072006 last seen 2012072009 0 comments

74

Letter to Steven Aldrich of Outright, re: GoDaddy Acquisition (devblog.avdi.org)

4 points first seen 2012072006 last seen 2012072009 0 comments

87

Lipophobia and the bad science diet (opinion.financialpost.com)

4 points first seen 2012072006 last seen 2012072009 0 comments

81

Finding technical talent is hard - Bain Capital Ventures to the Rescue (pandodaily.com)

4 points first seen 2012072009 last seen 2012072012 0 comments

84

Big Idea vs. Lean Idea (bostonvcblog.typepad.com)

4 points first seen 2012072009 last seen 2012072012 0 comments

0

Show HN: Yahoo! by Mayer (http://www.yahoobymayer.com)

4 points first seen 2012072009 last seen 2012072009 0 comments

83

For iOS Developers and Facebook, New Zealand is the New Canada (www.techvibes.com)

4 points first seen 2012072012 last seen 2012072015 0 comments

0

Ask HN Teachers and Edu Hackers : How do you prepare educational materials? (news.ycombinator.com)

3 points first seen 2012072000 last seen 2012072000 2 comments

0

How I Would Unschool My Kids (www.jamesaltucher.com)

3 points first seen 2012072000 last seen 2012072000 0 comments

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Apple ordered by UK judge to publicly state that Samsung didn't copy the iPad (www.theverge.com)

3 points first seen 2012072000 last seen 2012072000 0 comments

86

Andrew McAfee: Could automation lead to chronic unemployment? (www.forbes.com)

3 points first seen 2012072003 last seen 2012072006 0 comments

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[Preview] Tranquil – A more dynamic language implemented on the ObjC runtime. (github.com)

3 points first seen 2012072003 last seen 2012072003 0 comments

0

Huge spam botnet Grum is taken out by security researchers (www.bbc.com)

3 points first seen 2012072003 last seen 2012072003 0 comments

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Huge spam botnet Grum is taken out by security researchers (www.bbc.co.uk)

3 points first seen 2012072003 last seen 2012072003 0 comments

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Applying to AngelPad (blog.imranghory.org)