hackerNews

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You'll never be Chinese. (www.haohaoreport.com)

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How to crawl a quarter billion webpages in 40 hours (www.michaelnielsen.org)

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Browserver: a node.js HTTP server, in your browser (http://browserver.org)

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New York Underground (www.nationalgeographic.com)

275 points first seen 2012081100 last seen 2012081321 83 comments

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12 things about the WebKit inspector I didn’t know (blog.joocode.com)

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Entrepreneurs Tell The White House To Focus On Innovation, Not IP Enforcement (www.techdirt.com)

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Creepy Spying System Revealed by Wikileaks, Which Then Gets Hit by DDOS Attack (reason.com)

219 points first seen 2012081115 last seen 2012081321 60 comments

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Show HN: Eligible API for 700+ Health Insurance Companies (eligibleapi.com)

210 points first seen 2012081112 last seen 2012081321 89 comments

15

Russ Olsen: The Best Programming Advice I Ever Got (www.informit.com)

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Mars to Earth at an average of 29 kbits/s (mars.jpl.nasa.gov)

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Show HN: The KickBack Machine -- see Kickstarter successes *and* failures (www.thekickbackmachine.com)

175 points first seen 2012081100 last seen 2012081406 63 comments

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Show HN: A fix for the .bash_profile .bashrc .profile madness (gist.github.com)

167 points first seen 2012081118 last seen 2012081321 41 comments

3

Next generation Unix pipe by Alex Larsson (blogs.gnome.org)

152 points first seen 2012081112 last seen 2012081312 82 comments

15

My biggest problem with Vim (haldean.org)

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8

A Physics Lesson: Why Cats Land on Their Feet (www.mentalfloss.com)

121 points first seen 2012081118 last seen 2012081309 28 comments

8

A New Way To Solve Linear Equations (over finite fields) (rjlipton.wordpress.com)

112 points first seen 2012081100 last seen 2012081215 32 comments

4

Write any javascript code with just these characters: ()[]{}+ (patriciopalladino.com)

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So long, silicon: Researchers create solar panels from cheap copper oxide (www.extremetech.com)

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Education is Our Generation's Big Problem. Let's Fix it. (blog.bloc.io)

110 points first seen 2012081106 last seen 2012081406 164 comments

10

Nobody Cares (bennesvig.com)

108 points first seen 2012081109 last seen 2012081303 69 comments

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A First Course in Linear Algebra (linear.ups.edu)

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Javascript Fundamentals: Development for Absolute Beginners (channel9.msdn.com)

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Scoutzie (YC S12) Is A More Thoughtful Marketplace For Designers (techcrunch.com)

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Google-An update to our search algorithms - Copyright Related (insidesearch.blogspot.com)

90 points first seen 2012081106 last seen 2012081206 100 comments

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Beware the Nocebo Effect (www.nytimes.com)

85 points first seen 2012081109 last seen 2012081303 28 comments

3

Gertboard, for Raspberry Pi to interface with sensors (www.raspberrypi.org)

85 points first seen 2012081121 last seen 2012081309 39 comments

12

Clojure is not Software Conservative (blog.n01se.net)

78 points first seen 2012081109 last seen 2012081212 43 comments

10

The Twitter Underground Economy: A Blooming Business (www.barracudalabs.com)

77 points first seen 2012081118 last seen 2012081406 33 comments

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App.net to support activitystrea.ms, pubsubhubbub, Webfinger, feeds (daltoncaldwell.com)

74 points first seen 2012081109 last seen 2012081212 30 comments

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DataNitro (YC S12) launches Python for Microsoft Excel (techcrunch.com)

66 points first seen 2012081100 last seen 2012081209 27 comments

11

Man Tries to Live an Open Source Life for a Year (www.shareable.net)

65 points first seen 2012081115 last seen 2012081300 51 comments

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NASA Curiosity Mars Rover Will Spend First Weekend Installing New Software (www.nasa.gov)

65 points first seen 2012081115 last seen 2012081303 41 comments

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Pay Pad for Stripe (pay-pad.com)

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Is Haskell liberal or conservative? (blog.ezyang.com)

56 points first seen 2012081109 last seen 2012081206 12 comments

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Filepicker.io partners with Aviary (www.filepicker.io)

55 points first seen 2012081106 last seen 2012081209 10 comments

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My next text editor (www.marco.org)

53 points first seen 2012081109 last seen 2012081118 74 comments

12

Codec Confusion in Python (lucumr.pocoo.org)

53 points first seen 2012081112 last seen 2012081218 15 comments

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Attack of the Acqui-hires (finance.fortune.cnn.com)

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The Olympics' Greatest Feat: An Unpaid, Highly Engaged Workforce (blogs.hbr.org)

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Source Code Makeover: Square Shooter, Part 1 (inventwithpython.com)

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Google Translate for Android Now Works With Photos (mashable.com)

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HyperDex: Super-charging your NoSQL with a Strongly Consistent Datastore (micrypt.com)

43 points first seen 2012081100 last seen 2012081206 13 comments

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Meetings.io (YCW11) is hosting the first WebRTC Meetup (SF) (blog.meetings.io)

43 points first seen 2012081109 last seen 2012081209 6 comments

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Free Open Source Textbooks Growing in Popularity in College Classes (business.time.com)

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Eric Ries' Lean Startup Course from SXSW 2012 (www.udemy.com)

39 points first seen 2012081109 last seen 2012081209 13 comments

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Google Open Sources Leak Finder, a JavaScript Tool for Detecting Memory Leaks (www.infoq.com)

38 points first seen 2012081100 last seen 2012081203 6 comments

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Dear Flask, Please Fix Your “Secure” Cookies (stacksmashing.net)

37 points first seen 2012081112 last seen 2012081203 44 comments

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M-RGE Is Offering $1 Million of Free Coworking Space and Classes for Hackers (betabeat.com)

36 points first seen 2012081100 last seen 2012081200 17 comments

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U.S. banks told to make plans for preventing collapse (www.reuters.com)

36 points first seen 2012081103 last seen 2012081103 78 comments

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SUSE details its EFI Secure Boot plans (www.h-online.com)

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Why native development sucks and HTML5 rocks: Porting to Windows 8 (gkosev.blogspot.com)

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How you eat corn-on-the-cob predicts whether you're an analyst or algebraist (bentilly.blogspot.com)

31 points first seen 2012081112 last seen 2014071803 0 comments

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Show HN: Mapsaurus, the visual map of the Android Store (mapsaurus.com)

30 points first seen 2012081115 last seen 2012081209 10 comments

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This Apple Commercial Was Too Self-Congratulatory To Run (techcrunch.com)

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Invention (kevinlawler.com)

28 points first seen 2012081103 last seen 2012081200 21 comments

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Avatars.io serving 500K avatars a day, 10MM served in first month (blog.getchute.com)

28 points first seen 2012081106 last seen 2012081200 19 comments

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My minimalistic agile issue tracker (zserge.com)

27 points first seen 2012081100 last seen 2012081200 13 comments

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Ask HN: Anyone raised money and wish you didn't? (news.ycombinator.com)

27 points first seen 2012081121 last seen 2012081603 6 comments

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Show HN: Impressionist with Filepicker.io, a presentation tool (mit.edu)

24 points first seen 2012081109 last seen 2012081206 4 comments

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Javascript Mars Clock (jtauber.github.com)

24 points first seen 2012081112 last seen 2012081206 3 comments

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OpenNews: 24 Hours to Choose Your Own Adventure. (sinker.tumblr.com)

21 points first seen 2012081106 last seen 2012081200 0 comments

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H.264/AAC/MP3 decoding support for Boot To Gecko (www.bluishcoder.co.nz)

18 points first seen 2012081100 last seen 2012081106 8 comments

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Why We Support App.net (social-igniter.com)

18 points first seen 2012081109 last seen 2012081112 11 comments

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The Only Coding Standard You'll Ever Need (www.vitruvianinteractive.com)

17 points first seen 2012081106 last seen 2012081115 19 comments

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☑ Things 2 (culturedcode.com)

15 points first seen 2012081100 last seen 2012081103 8 comments

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Tell HN: we launched on HN 2 years ago and today hit 1500+ paying customers (team.wingify.com)

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Can your shell console do this? (www.youtube.com)

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As Marissa Mayer Annoys Investors By Keeping $4.2B In Dividends (techcrunch.com)

13 points first seen 2012081121 last seen 2012081200 5 comments

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Second Bitcoin lawsuit filed in California (www.theverge.com)

11 points first seen 2012081109 last seen 2012081109 2 comments

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Introducing Absolute Deal Score (seatgeek.com)

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NVD3.js: re-usable charts for d3.js (nvd3.com)

10 points first seen 2012081103 last seen 2012081106 0 comments

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Browser DOM Api in JavaDoc style (krook.org)

10 points first seen 2012081106 last seen 2012081106 0 comments

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Harvard Researchers Find A Creative Way To Make Incentives Work (techcrunch.com)

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The Art of Being Right (en.wikipedia.org)

9 points first seen 2012081100 last seen 2012081100 5 comments

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Measuring Startup Success by Defining Key Performance Indicators (KPI) (christopherslee.github.com)

9 points first seen 2012081103 last seen 2012081106 3 comments

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The 10 features removed from Mountain Lion that we miss the most (arstechnica.com)

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Startup Code Learner Resources (www.voodooanthology.com)

9 points first seen 2012081106 last seen 2012081118 7 comments

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Electromagnetic Field: a 3-day maker/hacker/geek camp in the UK (www.emfcamp.org)

8 points first seen 2012081100 last seen 2022053103 0 comments

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Is usability breaking Linux adoption? (news.idg.no)

8 points first seen 2012081100 last seen 2012081103 12 comments

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Lessons Learnt From Using MongoDB With High Volume Data (www.triggeredmessaging.com)

8 points first seen 2012081100 last seen 2012081100 0 comments

0

Ask HN: How do you Backup your Personal Files? (news.ycombinator.com)

8 points first seen 2012081100 last seen 2012081100 21 comments

0

Open Source platform for creating collaborative consumption marketplaces (www.shareable.net)

8 points first seen 2012081103 last seen 2012081103 3 comments

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Hide your kids, hide your wife, hide your developers (venturebeat.com)

8 points first seen 2012081112 last seen 2012081121 0 comments

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Making Ubuntu 12.04 useable (www.walkingrandomly.com)

7 points first seen 2012081106 last seen 2012081112 3 comments

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7 year old article on artificial life (carlzimmer.com)

7 points first seen 2012081109 last seen 2012081118 0 comments

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Named Parameters in Java (java.dzone.com)

6 points first seen 2012081100 last seen 2012081100 13 comments

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When It Comes to Human Rights, There Are No Online Security Shortcuts (www.wired.com)

6 points first seen 2012081109 last seen 2012081115 0 comments

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Google to drop search rankings of sites with many takedown notices (arstechnica.com)

6 points first seen 2012081109 last seen 2012081115 2 comments

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New human species identified from Kenya fossils (www.bbc.co.uk)

6 points first seen 2012081109 last seen 2012081112 0 comments

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Is a boat still a boat if it can’t float? (ninjasandrobots.com)

6 points first seen 2012081109 last seen 2012081112 0 comments

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Bank Simple vs. ING Direct (andysparks.co)

6 points first seen 2012081109 last seen 2012081112 7 comments

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Google internship interview #1 a post-mortem + what I learned (danieru.com)

6 points first seen 2012081112 last seen 2012081118 6 comments

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How much would "Monthly Unlimited Everything" cost? (news.ycombinator.com)

6 points first seen 2012081112 last seen 2012081112 7 comments

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NodeBox: an app that lets you create 2D visuals using Python (nodebox.net)

5 points first seen 2012081100 last seen 2012081103 3 comments

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77 quotes on Learning (dudye.com)

5 points first seen 2012081100 last seen 2012081406 0 comments

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A map of the most influential thinkers in History and how they are connected. (fireoneout.tumblr.com)

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Pics, because it really is happening on Mars (arstechnica.com)

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Allan Odgaard: "I will continue working on TextMate as long as I am a Mac user" (arstechnica.com)

5 points first seen 2012081109 last seen 2012081109 0 comments

82

Things I miss in ruby (clockwerx.blogspot.com)

5 points first seen 2012081112 last seen 2012081115 0 comments

83

Seamless (no downtime) upgrades in 72 lines of Go (bitbucket.org)

5 points first seen 2012081112 last seen 2012081115 0 comments

84

Ceremony vs benefits - on Yegge's political categorization (plus.google.com)

5 points first seen 2012081112 last seen 2012081115 0 comments

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Six years of WPF (www.paulstovell.com)

5 points first seen 2012081115 last seen 2012081121 0 comments

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StreamServer: A stream server in your browser (colingo.github.com)

5 points first seen 2012081121 last seen 2012081203 0 comments

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Ubuntu pushes back Wayland compositor to after 12.10 (www.phoronix.com)

5 points first seen 2012081121 last seen 2012081200 0 comments

89

Are PHP developers functophobic? (nikic.github.com)

4 points first seen 2012081103 last seen 2012081106 2 comments

84

A New Way To Solve Linear Equations (rjlipton.wordpress.com)

4 points first seen 2012081103 last seen 2012081106 0 comments

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FBI Monitored Dotcom Raid Via Live Video Link, Secret Govt Group Involved (torrentfreak.com)

4 points first seen 2012081103 last seen 2012081103 0 comments

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Ask HN: How do you manage your passwords? (news.ycombinator.com)

4 points first seen 2012081103 last seen 2012081406 14 comments

83

Easily turn existing HTMLs into APIs (apify.heroku.com)

4 points first seen 2012081106 last seen 2012081109 0 comments

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Vast volcanic 'raft' found in Pacific, near New Zealand (www.bbc.co.uk)

4 points first seen 2012081106 last seen 2012081106 0 comments

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Debunking the Node.js Gish Gallop (www.unlimitednovelty.com)

4 points first seen 2012081106 last seen 2012081106 0 comments

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Joining TechStars (zadasnotes.blogspot.com)

4 points first seen 2012081106 last seen 2012081106 0 comments

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Academic Paper On Acqui-Hiring (papers.ssrn.com)

4 points first seen 2012081106 last seen 2012081106 0 comments

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Static Analysis for PHP (codeascraft.etsy.com)

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A Conversation with David Shaw (queue.acm.org)

4 points first seen 2012081112 last seen 2012081115 0 comments

0

Touchless 3d Tracking Interface (makeprojects.com)

4 points first seen 2012081112 last seen 2012081112 2 comments

85

Rescuing webservers with nginx as a cache (michael.stapelberg.de)

4 points first seen 2012081115 last seen 2012081118 0 comments

82

UN urges US to cut ethanol production (edition.cnn.com)

4 points first seen 2012081118 last seen 2012081121 0 comments

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10k square miles of rock floating in Pacific (www.cnn.com)

4 points first seen 2012081118 last seen 2012081121 2 comments

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Iran Plans To Stop Using The Internet By 2013 (www.businessinsider.com)

3 points first seen 2012081100 last seen 2012081100 0 comments

0

Eclipse Java Decompiler (mchr3k.github.com)

3 points first seen 2012081100 last seen 2012081100 0 comments

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HTML5 mobile gaming performance (www.scirra.com)