hackerNews

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I'm an American and I want to watch the Olympics. What do I do? (iamnotaprogrammer.com)

361 points first seen 2012072909 last seen 2012080106 182 comments

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Captchas Are Becoming Ridiculous (blog.andrewmunsell.com)

296 points first seen 2012072912 last seen 2012080315 228 comments

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There is no computing project that is worth your life (lwn.net)

228 points first seen 2012072903 last seen 2012073100 71 comments

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iBookstore rejects Holly Lisle's writing course because she mentions Amazon (hollylisle.com)

218 points first seen 2012072909 last seen 2012073100 110 comments

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Interesting new Unix commands/binaries in OS X Mountain Lion (apple.blogoverflow.com)

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The Disappointing Surprise From Apple (www.amberweinberg.com)

180 points first seen 2012072903 last seen 2012073100 139 comments

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~/.osx updated — sensible hacker defaults for OS X Mountain Lion (github.com)

167 points first seen 2012072912 last seen 2012073100 88 comments

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Please Don’t Watch NBC Tonight. Or Any Night (techcrunch.com)

152 points first seen 2012072909 last seen 2012073100 89 comments

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OAuth 3.0: the sane and simple way (tav.espians.com)

138 points first seen 2012072909 last seen 2012073100 23 comments

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I built a resume-padder and earned $700 in the process: what I learned (euphonious-intuition.com)

128 points first seen 2012072903 last seen 2012073100 17 comments

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How to watch the Olympics, live, from the United States (bearsfightingbears.com)

119 points first seen 2012072912 last seen 2012073100 56 comments

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On Living Below Your Potential (www.novelog.com)

116 points first seen 2012072903 last seen 2012073021 68 comments

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Watch the Olympics from Anywhere: this actually works (gist.github.com)

114 points first seen 2012072915 last seen 2012073100 62 comments

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OAuth 2.0 standard editor quits, takes name off spec (www.theregister.co.uk)

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Vim - The file explorer (vimcasts.org)

80 points first seen 2012072909 last seen 2012073100 8 comments

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Bring Google Fibre into Canada to force Canadian ISPs to act more competitively. (avaaz.org)

79 points first seen 2012072915 last seen 2012073009 29 comments

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Show a real-time user count without any client-side Javascript (minipenguin.com)

77 points first seen 2012072912 last seen 2012073100 23 comments

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Is this the future of Project Glass? (www.geek.com)

74 points first seen 2012072906 last seen 2012073009 34 comments

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Google search's new basic calculator (www.google.com)

72 points first seen 2012072921 last seen 2012073100 66 comments

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The Internet Map (internet-map.net)

62 points first seen 2012072903 last seen 2014051403 16 comments

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Breakthroughs Come From Relaxation (www.bloomberg.com)

58 points first seen 2012072915 last seen 2012073021 9 comments

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There are now two HTML5 "Standards" (www.webmonkey.com)

50 points first seen 2012072903 last seen 2012073006 19 comments

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Pathod: A pathological HTTP daemon for testing and torturing client software (cortesi.github.com)

50 points first seen 2012072909 last seen 2012073015 14 comments

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How to do Socket Programming in PHP, the right way. (christophh.net)

48 points first seen 2012072903 last seen 2012073006 10 comments

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Study: High Speed Trading Hurts Long-Term Investors (online.wsj.com)

46 points first seen 2012072912 last seen 2012073018 35 comments

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Ask HN: On Rob Pike's Concurrency is not Parallelism? (news.ycombinator.com)

45 points first seen 2012072900 last seen 2012080803 68 comments

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Mvl (https://mvlapp.com)

43 points first seen 2012072909 last seen 2012073003 44 comments

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Apple v. Samsung: 5 Surprising Reveals in Latest Court Documents (www.wired.com)

40 points first seen 2012072903 last seen 2012072921 40 comments

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Twitter clients distribution in real-time (twitter-clients.herokuapp.com)

36 points first seen 2012072912 last seen 2012073009 14 comments

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Show HN: MoodTrack, a simple iPhone app to track your moods and thoughts (news.ycombinator.com)

35 points first seen 2012072909 last seen 2012073000 25 comments

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Meteor chat app (github.com)

35 points first seen 2012072918 last seen 2012073018 31 comments

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How to avoid being unhappy and how to find happiness. (markmaunder.com)

34 points first seen 2012072909 last seen 2012073003 6 comments

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Microsoft Files Motion in Apple v. Samsung to Hide Patent License Terms (groklaw.net)

32 points first seen 2012072906 last seen 2012073006 8 comments

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Quick doesn't have to mean dirty (me.veekun.com)

31 points first seen 2012072912 last seen 2012073009 18 comments

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Synack, a Ruby library for Mountain Lion's Notification Center. (github.com)

31 points first seen 2012072915 last seen 2012073009 6 comments

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Mechanized LambdaJS (brownplt.github.com)

29 points first seen 2012072912 last seen 2012080803 12 comments

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Programmers sought for tropical hackathon (www.bbc.com)

29 points first seen 2012072918 last seen 2012073012 33 comments

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There is no Public API for London 2012 Olympics. APIfied version of Medals (apify.heroku.com)

28 points first seen 2012072921 last seen 2012073018 11 comments

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At Defcon, hackers get their own private cell network: Ninja Tel (arstechnica.com)

26 points first seen 2012072909 last seen 2012073006 8 comments

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Will Blizzard Be Bringing Their Games To Linux? (www.phoronix.com)

23 points first seen 2012072906 last seen 2012072912 14 comments

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Hand-crafted integers (www.missionintegers.com)

19 points first seen 2012072903 last seen 2012072906 3 comments

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Apple's History of Skeuomorphism (eggfreckles.net)

19 points first seen 2012072912 last seen 2012072921 11 comments

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The Company Behind The Biggest Consumer Brands (timgaweco.com)

19 points first seen 2012072915 last seen 2012073006 21 comments

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Why I’m helping startup founders (joel.is)

18 points first seen 2012072906 last seen 2012072921 10 comments

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Cryptome Tracks the NYPD Ring of Steel [Hope9 Audio] (c3455205.r5.cf0.rackcdn.com)

17 points first seen 2012072903 last seen 2012072915 5 comments

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Make Yourself a Standing Desk This Weekend (lifehacker.com)

16 points first seen 2012072918 last seen 2012073006 26 comments

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On Gender in Minecraft (notch.tumblr.com)

15 points first seen 2012072900 last seen 2012072903 3 comments

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Mountain Lion: How to get the most out of iMessage (blog.joelesler.net)

14 points first seen 2012072906 last seen 2012072921 11 comments

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Firefox upgraded my browser from 3.6 to 12 without asking and my consent (news.ycombinator.com)

13 points first seen 2012072906 last seen 2012072906 20 comments

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Ask HN: Is there a way to do this layout in HTML 5? (raw.gibney.org)

11 points first seen 2012072900 last seen 2012072900 0 comments

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I built an Android app and the average person donated 7.66$ (www.jessechen.net)

10 points first seen 2012072909 last seen 2012072921 2 comments

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Project Meshnet (https://projectmeshnet.org)

8 points first seen 2012072906 last seen 2014041818 3 comments

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John Romero Speculates On The Future of Ouya (www.pcworld.com)

8 points first seen 2012072915 last seen 2012072918 0 comments

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Python 201: List Comprehensions (www.blog.pythonlibrary.org)

8 points first seen 2012072918 last seen 2012073000 3 comments

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GNOME 4.0, GNOME OS Coming In 2014 & Other Crazy Plans (www.phoronix.com)

7 points first seen 2012072918 last seen 2012073000 2 comments

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Ask HN: What can I do after graduation, but before I'm qualified for positions? (news.ycombinator.com)

6 points first seen 2012072912 last seen 2012072912 2 comments

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CodeSearchr -- weekend prototype project from Udacity (codesearchr.appspot.com)

6 points first seen 2012072921 last seen 2012073003 0 comments

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Google now displays a calculator on mathematical queries (www.google.com)

5 points first seen 2012072903 last seen 2012072909 0 comments

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Want to Graduate? First, Create a Company (www.nytimes.com)

5 points first seen 2012072906 last seen 2012072909 0 comments

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Apple uses Amazon AWS when receiving attachments from the new Messages app (imgur.com)

5 points first seen 2012072906 last seen 2012072906 0 comments

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HTML5 version of Todoist with offline support and stunning perfomance (todoist.com)

5 points first seen 2012072909 last seen 2012072915 0 comments

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The Overwhelming Maleness of Mass Homicide (ideas.time.com)

5 points first seen 2012072912 last seen 2012072912 0 comments

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The Conversion of a Climate-Change Skeptic (www.nytimes.com)

5 points first seen 2012072915 last seen 2012072918 0 comments

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First sign this NDA (svhacks.wordpress.com)

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Understanding Twitter's Discovery Problem (mayank.name)

5 points first seen 2012072921 last seen 2012073003 0 comments

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How To Protect Your Private Data Using Secret Geeky Folder (www.geekyportal.com)

4 points first seen 2012072900 last seen 2012072903 0 comments

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Traffic data after hitting the Hacker News homepage (blog.alainmeier.com)

4 points first seen 2012072900 last seen 2012072900 0 comments

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99% Invisible: The Sound of Sport (99percentinvisible.org)

4 points first seen 2012072903 last seen 2012072903 0 comments

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On JMS ObjectMessage And Its Pitfalls (www.jmesnil.net)

4 points first seen 2012072903 last seen 2012072909 0 comments

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Wireless regulation: It's not about Free Market vs. Big Government (www.theverge.com)

4 points first seen 2012072912 last seen 2012072912 0 comments

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Disposable Vending Machines; Thoughts on my Nexus 7 (an.ton.io)

4 points first seen 2012072915 last seen 2012072915 0 comments

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The Machine and the Ghost (www.tnr.com)

4 points first seen 2012072918 last seen 2012072921 0 comments

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Automating tesseract 3.1 training process (github.com)

3 points first seen 2012072903 last seen 2012072906 0 comments

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In Praise Of Quick And Filthy (techcrunch.com)

3 points first seen 2012072906 last seen 2012072906 0 comments

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The ruins of empire: Asia's emergence from western imperialism (www.guardian.co.uk)

3 points first seen 2012072906 last seen 2012072906 0 comments

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Do I have to do a startup in my area of experience? (news.ycombinator.com)

3 points first seen 2012072909 last seen 2012072909 6 comments

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Retailers Ready To Force Consumers To Pay ‘Swipe Fee’ For Using Plastic (newyork.cbslocal.com)

3 points first seen 2012072912 last seen 2012072912 2 comments

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Lazy Sequences in Common Lisp (blog.thezerobit.com)

3 points first seen 2012072912 last seen 2012072912 0 comments

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Trends In Venture Capital Over The Last 12 Years (techcrunch.com)

3 points first seen 2012072915 last seen 2012072918 0 comments

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Who Gets To Be a Geek? Anyone Who Wants to Be. (whatever.scalzi.com)

3 points first seen 2012072915 last seen 2012072915 0 comments

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In Closing Its Platform, Twitter Risks Destroying Its Community (www.readwriteweb.com)

3 points first seen 2012072915 last seen 2012072915 0 comments

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Earth to NBC: The Internet is here (johnlrobinson.com)

3 points first seen 2012072918 last seen 2012072918 0 comments

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The Cloud Makes Domain Expertise More Valuable In The Enterprise (techcrunch.com)

3 points first seen 2012072921 last seen 2012072921 0 comments

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RIP Sparrow: Components open sourced for personal use only (thenextweb.com)

3 points first seen 2012072921 last seen 2012072921 0 comments

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Yardsale - Mobile Marketplace, Seeking iOContent-Type: text/html;charset=UTF-8 X-Powered-By: Mojolicious (Perl) Status: 200 OK 1S/Rails Engineers (YC S11) (news.ycombinator.com)

0 points first seen 2012072909 last seen 2012073006 0 comments

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Hackers at HackerRank (blog.hackerrank.com)

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