hackerNews

7

This is how Visa works: bribery, blackmail (eduardo.intermeta.com.br)

905 points first seen 2012081803 last seen 2012082021 97 comments

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Why I now, unfortunately, hate Hacker News.. (news.ycombinator.com)

816 points first seen 2012081803 last seen 2012082021 424 comments

2

Vim and Vi Tips: Essential Vim and Vi Editor Skills, free on Amazon today only (www.amazon.com)

335 points first seen 2012081800 last seen 2012082021 135 comments

3

How We Nearly Lost the Discovery Shuttle (waynehale.wordpress.com)

304 points first seen 2012081806 last seen 2012082021 61 comments

1

A Proposal To Improve Hacker News (sridattalabs.com)

297 points first seen 2012081809 last seen 2012082021 174 comments

2

Trolls use the Internet, Ogres use Tor (slifty.com)

296 points first seen 2012081803 last seen 2012082021 195 comments

2

Light Table reaches 0.1.0 (www.chris-granger.com)

286 points first seen 2012081806 last seen 2012082021 94 comments

4

Garry Kasparov Arrested By Russian Police (en.rian.ru)

234 points first seen 2012081818 last seen 2012082021 154 comments

5

Google Sues Apple, Seeks To Block iPhone, iPad & Mac Imports To U.S. (techcrunch.com)

225 points first seen 2012081818 last seen 2012082006 205 comments

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The Tata AirPod: a car that runs on compressed air w/150-200km range (stoweboyd.com)

121 points first seen 2012081803 last seen 2012082000 77 comments

3

OpenRA - Open-source C&C Red Alert game engine (openra.res0l.net)

121 points first seen 2012081809 last seen 2014051403 38 comments

2

NASA Pulls Off 160-Million-Mile Software Patch (www.wired.com)

120 points first seen 2012081821 last seen 2012082021 37 comments

13

Private justice: How Hollywood money put a Brit behind bars (arstechnica.com)

119 points first seen 2012081800 last seen 2012081909 53 comments

16

Blessings: a pythonic answer to curses (pypi.python.org)

119 points first seen 2012081809 last seen 2012082003 19 comments

11

OnLive screwed employees prior to acquisition in "massive dick move" (techcrunch.com)

118 points first seen 2012081809 last seen 2012082003 75 comments

3

Hackers backdoor the human brain, successfully extract sensitive data (www.extremetech.com)

104 points first seen 2012081809 last seen 2013081700 67 comments

27

Restaurant offers a 5% discount if you eat without your phone on the table (money.cnn.com)

102 points first seen 2012081803 last seen 2012081903 97 comments

20

Can't Code? Learn Design. (learncodethehardway.org)

96 points first seen 2012081806 last seen 2012082000 41 comments

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Dear sw007 (raganwald.posterous.com)

95 points first seen 2012081809 last seen 2012082000 13 comments

8

Custom Sublime Text Build Systems For Popular Tools And Languages (addyosmani.com)

94 points first seen 2012081818 last seen 2012082003 7 comments

9

At times not losing is as important as winning (steveblank.com)

93 points first seen 2012081800 last seen 2012081921 20 comments

25

Is MySQL becoming less open source? Test cases go internal now (blog.mariadb.org)

91 points first seen 2012081806 last seen 2012082000 41 comments

23

Elon Musk: Next Six Months Crucial to Tesla's future (www.technologyreview.com)

85 points first seen 2012081803 last seen 2012081903 75 comments

27

Reports: OnLive fires all staff, service’s future unclear (arstechnica.com)

82 points first seen 2012081809 last seen 2012081921 36 comments

17

Prehistoric Human Brain Found Pickled in Bog (news.discovery.com)

80 points first seen 2012081800 last seen 2012081900 24 comments

20

To Make America Great Again, We Need to Leave the Country (www.theatlantic.com)

75 points first seen 2012081818 last seen 2012081903 90 comments

14

Tapbots: Don't Panic (tapbots.com)

74 points first seen 2012081806 last seen 2012081921 18 comments

30

Steve Mann's unanswered letter to McDonalds' Head of Customer Services (eyetap.blogspot.com)

73 points first seen 2012081806 last seen 2012081906 25 comments

11

Bias-Variance Tradeoff: The Heart of Machine Learning (scott.fortmann-roe.com)

71 points first seen 2012081809 last seen 2016021703 0 comments

5

Harvard cracks DNA storage, crams 700 terabytes of data into a single gram (www.extremetech.com)

67 points first seen 2012081803 last seen 2015020509 70 comments

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GNU GDB 7.5 brings Go support, reverse debugging on ARM (sourceware.org)

65 points first seen 2012081821 last seen 2012082003 6 comments

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PHP 5.4.6 released (php.net)

63 points first seen 2012081803 last seen 2012081903 14 comments

22

Backlift beta now open, featuring auth, validation and auto refresh (www.backlift.com)

59 points first seen 2012081809 last seen 2012081921 12 comments

23

The Measured Man (www.theatlantic.com)

59 points first seen 2012081818 last seen 2012081921 7 comments

27

Basics of Memory Addresses in C (denniskubes.com)

58 points first seen 2012081818 last seen 2012081921 15 comments

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Markupwand Takes The Pain Out Of Translating Photoshop Files To HTML And CSS (techcrunch.com)

57 points first seen 2012081800 last seen 2012081903 17 comments

21

Virtual 3-D ‘knitting’ adds new stitch for graphic artists (www.cs.cornell.edu)

55 points first seen 2012081818 last seen 2012081921 6 comments

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Confirmed: OnLive’s assets sold to another company (venturebeat.com)

53 points first seen 2012081818 last seen 2012081918 7 comments

14

Analyze terabytes of data with just a click of a button (developers.google.com)

51 points first seen 2012081800 last seen 2012081900 23 comments

25

Why isn’t Twitter charging for their API? (dustyreagan.com)

51 points first seen 2012081809 last seen 2012081909 26 comments

41

Sorry Dan Shipper and other coders, you are wrong. (blog.crranky.com)

47 points first seen 2012081803 last seen 2012081809 57 comments

15

Filepicker.io (YC S12) lets content flow without worrying about bandwidth (gigaom.com)

46 points first seen 2012081806 last seen 2012081903 21 comments

44

Plan 9 from Bell Labs (1995) (plan9.bell-labs.com)

46 points first seen 2012081806 last seen 2012081818 47 comments

12

Xcode 4.4 adds support for Obj-C literals (itunes.apple.com)

45 points first seen 2012081821 last seen 2012082000 15 comments

27

D-Wave quantum computer solves protein folding problem (blogs.nature.com)

44 points first seen 2012081806 last seen 2012081903 16 comments

30

The (Odd) State of Node.JS and its Frameworks (blog.andrewmunsell.com)

44 points first seen 2012081818 last seen 2012081906 22 comments

13

Zero-Determinant Strategies in the Iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma (golem.ph.utexas.edu)

43 points first seen 2012081818 last seen 2012082000 6 comments

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HD Trade Services (YC S12) Lets Small Logistics Providers Track Shipments (techcrunch.com)

42 points first seen 2012081806 last seen 2012081903 2 comments

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What we built with Twitter that now won't fly (office.sharingstate.com)

40 points first seen 2012081806 last seen 2012081903 16 comments

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Principle Component Analysis (datanitro.com)

37 points first seen 2012081809 last seen 2012081900 19 comments

34

NaNs Just Don't Get No Respect (www.drdobbs.com)

36 points first seen 2012081818 last seen 2012081909 33 comments

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IOS SMS Spoofing (pod2g-ios.blogspot.co.uk)

35 points first seen 2012081803 last seen 2012081821 11 comments

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Former NASA Flight Engineer blogs about Columbia Disaster (waynehale.wordpress.com)

35 points first seen 2012081803 last seen 2012081821 4 comments

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A social network for programmers (programming.com)

35 points first seen 2012081821 last seen 2012081903 53 comments

23

Collections (YC S12) syncs Facebook photos, Instagram and Google Docs (thenextweb.com)

34 points first seen 2012081806 last seen 2012081900 9 comments

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Prisoner's Dilemma Solved (feeds.technologyreview.com)

34 points first seen 2012081818 last seen 2012081903 5 comments

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Firefox 3D view helps spot XSS vulnerabilities (drewgoodwin.com)

33 points first seen 2012081800 last seen 2012081806 9 comments

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Cloud Haskell on Raspberry Pi (alenribic.com)

33 points first seen 2012081806 last seen 2012081821 6 comments

22

AnyLeaf (YC S10) Relaunches As AnyList To Build A Better Grocery List App (techcrunch.com)

31 points first seen 2012081806 last seen 2012081900 21 comments

36

SpinPunch (YC S12) Aims To Build Faster, Prettier HTML5 Games (techcrunch.com)

31 points first seen 2012081806 last seen 2012081900 14 comments

24

Raising Money After Bubble 2.0 (dty.me)

30 points first seen 2012081806 last seen 2012081900 16 comments

45

Who Wants To Start An Important Startup? (lesswrong.com)

30 points first seen 2012081818 last seen 2012081900 8 comments

21

Facebook’s New (Evil) Plan to Grab New Users (bibhas.in)

29 points first seen 2012081821 last seen 2012081909 17 comments

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Is Mark Zuckerberg in over his hoodie as Facebook CEO? (www.latimes.com)

27 points first seen 2012081800 last seen 2012081803 46 comments

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$200 for a Fake Security System (www.schneier.com)

27 points first seen 2012081803 last seen 2012081809 32 comments

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Disney Revel uses electrical fields for tactile feedback (www.electronista.com)

25 points first seen 2012081803 last seen 2012081818 2 comments

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.at domains warning (0x2a.im)

24 points first seen 2012081800 last seen 2012081806 15 comments

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What should be the goals of creating an open discussion around an API spec? (github.com)

22 points first seen 2012081806 last seen 2012081900 12 comments

53

Why Smart People Have Bad Ideas [2005] (paulgraham.com)

22 points first seen 2012081818 last seen 2012081900 12 comments

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Apple Store Personnel Cuts Linked to Profit Goal (www.ifoapplestore.com)

21 points first seen 2012081800 last seen 2012081806 25 comments

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Israel sperm banks find quality is plummeting (articles.latimes.com)

19 points first seen 2012081806 last seen 2012081806 16 comments

69

Ask HN: Do you ever click on the "ask" link? (news.ycombinator.com)

19 points first seen 2012081809 last seen 2012082212 21 comments

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$100 Invested in 100 $1 Lottery Tickets (www.altinvestments.org)

17 points first seen 2012081809 last seen 2012081818 5 comments

72

Wikipedia: Swap “en” with “simple” in the URL (thenextweb.com)

16 points first seen 2012081800 last seen 2012081803 14 comments

74

What UPS knows (www.zacharytamas.com)

15 points first seen 2012081806 last seen 2012081809 16 comments

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Ask HN: Who's Looking for Co-Founders? (news.ycombinator.com)

15 points first seen 2012081806 last seen 2012082206 11 comments

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Clockwork Raven - MTurk framework from Twitter (twitter.github.com)

15 points first seen 2012081818 last seen 2012081900 8 comments

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The idea of what a human is, biologically speaking, is being turned inside out (www.economist.com)

14 points first seen 2012081800 last seen 2012081803 4 comments

0

FreeBSD vs. Slackware (roqet.org)

14 points first seen 2012081800 last seen 2012081800 10 comments

72

You Can't Be Effective When You're Too Smart For Your Own Good (www.fastcompany.com)

14 points first seen 2012081803 last seen 2012081806 15 comments

82

Ask HN: Why are you supporting App.net over Status.net? (news.ycombinator.com)

14 points first seen 2012081803 last seen 2012082303 11 comments

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Garry Kasparov arrested outside Moscow court (www.bbc.co.uk)

14 points first seen 2012081806 last seen 2012081806 0 comments

75

Academia.edu Adds Analytics To Bring Transparency To How Research Spreads (techcrunch.com)

14 points first seen 2012081809 last seen 2012081821 9 comments

0

Former OnLive Employee Describes 'Bizarre All-Hands Meeting' (www.gamepolitics.com)

14 points first seen 2012081818 last seen 2012081818 3 comments

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Show HN: Chapter 1 of a Sci-Fi Novel I am writing (levyflight.tumblr.com)

13 points first seen 2012081818 last seen 2012081821 2 comments

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Show HN: Droidmeter.com - I want to help you study the Android App Store (https://droidmeter.com)

12 points first seen 2012081806 last seen 2012081806 9 comments

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When startups don't work out. (Part 3/5) (www.geckoboard.com)

10 points first seen 2012081803 last seen 2012081809 0 comments

84

Gittip charts (www.gittip.com)

10 points first seen 2012081809 last seen 2012081818 8 comments

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Marissa Mayer’s First 30 Days at Yahoo (techcrunch.com)

10 points first seen 2012081818 last seen 2012081900 0 comments

0

Ask HN: Hacker News Demographics (news.ycombinator.com)

8 points first seen 2012081806 last seen 2012081806 0 comments

83

Martin Gardner had a timing attack for your mind in 1956. (devblog.bu.mp)

7 points first seen 2012081806 last seen 2012081809 0 comments

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Progressive Settles On Case That Went Viral (www.npr.org)

7 points first seen 2012081806 last seen 2012081806 0 comments

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US intends to chase Assange, cables show (www.smh.com.au)

6 points first seen 2012081809 last seen 2012081809 0 comments

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JamBook: The world's thinnest, lightest notebook. Ever. (blog.chaoscollective.org)

6 points first seen 2012081818 last seen 2012081821 0 comments

70

Programming Is Hard, Let's Go Shopping (www.codinghorror.com)

6 points first seen 2012081818 last seen 2012081821 0 comments

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Korean musicians must export or starve (www.economist.com)

6 points first seen 2012081818 last seen 2012081821 0 comments

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Free-falling Zynga needs fast turnaround (www.sfgate.com)

6 points first seen 2012081818 last seen 2012081818 7 comments

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Show HN: TimePanel: Incredibly fast time tracking and invoicing (timepanel.net)

5 points first seen 2012081803 last seen 2012081806 3 comments

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Programmers for $2K per month, More? or Less? (deathrayresearch.tumblr.com)

5 points first seen 2012081803 last seen 2012081803 8 comments

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OnLive Said to Lay Off Entire Staff (mashable.com)

5 points first seen 2012081806 last seen 2012081809 3 comments

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Python vs. Coffeescript (grano.la)

5 points first seen 2012081806 last seen 2012081806 0 comments

0

Building An Alternative DVR (npjh.com)

5 points first seen 2012081809 last seen 2012081809 0 comments

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Social interventions gone wrong (80000hours.org)

5 points first seen 2012081821 last seen 2012081900 0 comments

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Frequently Forgotten Fundamental Facts about Software Engineering (www.computer.org)

4 points first seen 2012081800 last seen 2012081803 0 comments

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Python -- it's classy (a blog about learning my first programming language) (blog.lightcastletech.com)

4 points first seen 2012081803 last seen 2012081803 0 comments

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Pragmatic Go use at bit.ly (www.reddit.com)

4 points first seen 2012081803 last seen 2012081803 0 comments

0

OnLive confirms it will not be closing down [updated] (venturebeat.com)

4 points first seen 2012081806 last seen 2012081806 0 comments

0

Developers We Admire. « Paul Irish (paulirish.com)

4 points first seen 2012081806 last seen 2012081806 0 comments

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Monads as Computation (www.haskell.org)

4 points first seen 2012081806 last seen 2012081806 0 comments

0

JavaScript Objects, Prototypes and a Tweet (eduvoyage.com)

4 points first seen 2012081809 last seen 2012081809 0 comments

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When the Network Effect Goes Into Reverse (www.nytimes.com)

4 points first seen 2012081809 last seen 2012081809 0 comments

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Show HN: A Starting Point for Great Documentation (www.flyingmachinestudios.com)

4 points first seen 2012081809 last seen 2012081809 0 comments

0

How I Got My Digital Life Back Again After An Epic Hacking (www.wired.com)

4 points first seen 2012081809 last seen 2012081809 0 comments

0

A Descent into Limbo -- Brian W. Kernighan (doc.cat-v.org)

4 points first seen 2012081809 last seen 2012081809 0 comments

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How Police Tracked Down Steve Jobs's Stolen Ipads (www.pcworld.com)

4 points first seen 2012081809 last seen 2012081809 0 comments

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Bitcoin reached 23,000 transactions yesterday. (blockchain.info)

3 points first seen 2012081800 last seen 2012081800 0 comments

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5 stroke engine (www.youtube.com)

3 points first seen 2012081800 last seen 2012081800 0 comments

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Kinect 3D Hand Tracking (26 DOF, no calibration, 20 FPS !) (cvrlcode.ics.forth.gr)

3 points first seen 2012081803 last seen 2012081803 0 comments

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CoffeeFilter: Prevent sneaky little CoffeeScript modules from ruining your day (github.com)

3 points first seen 2012081803 last seen 2012081803 0 comments

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Computing with encrypted data (bit-player.org)

3 points first seen 2012081803 last seen 2012081803 0 comments

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Here's The One Company That Actually Terrifies Google Execs - Business Insider (www.businessinsider.com)

3 points first seen 2012081803 last seen 2012081803 0 comments

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

3 points first seen 2012081806 last seen 2012081806 0 comments

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Does Your Startup Pitch Suck? Call PitchPhone And Practice (techcrunch.com)

3 points first seen 2012081806 last seen 2012081806 0 comments

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Twitter: Dark Knight of the Internet (blog.avneeshkohli.com)

3 points first seen 2012081806 last seen 2012081806 0 comments

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Clay Shirky: Unlocking Mankind’s Untapped Potential (singularityhub.com)

3 points first seen 2012081806 last seen 2012081806 0 comments

0

What happens if Notch retweets your game? (includes stats) (farmfortress.tumblr.com)

3 points first seen 2012081806 last seen 2012081806 0 comments

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Facebook's sub-zero datacenter (venturebeat.com)