hackerNews

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RIP Vile Rat, EVE Online Diplomat, IRL State Dept Rep Killed In Benghazi (themittani.com)

529 points first seen 2012091218 last seen 2012091703 260 comments

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Depression lies (wilwheaton.net)

486 points first seen 2012091215 last seen 2012091621 226 comments

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Ask PG: What Is The Most Frighteningly Ambitious Idea You Have Been Pitched On? (news.ycombinator.com)

395 points first seen 2012091221 last seen 2012091406 180 comments

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Blizzard is secretly watermarking WOW screenshots (www.ownedcore.com)

373 points first seen 2012091203 last seen 2012091406 91 comments

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Dear Programmer, I have an idea (blog.mkrecny.com)

311 points first seen 2012091200 last seen 2012091321 131 comments

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Boosted Boards (YC S12) Unveils Its Magical Electric Skateboard (techcrunch.com)

300 points first seen 2012091206 last seen 2012091403 164 comments

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The XX shared their new album with only 1 fan to see how it goes viral. (coexist.thexx.info)

269 points first seen 2012091200 last seen 2012091303 79 comments

3

The worlds lightest electric vehicle (www.kickstarter.com)

269 points first seen 2012091203 last seen 2012091321 163 comments

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BonsaiJS - A lightweight graphics library with graphics API and SVG renderer. (bonsaijs.org)

221 points first seen 2012091206 last seen 2012110900 27 comments

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Amazon's Play (daringfireball.net)

220 points first seen 2012091212 last seen 2012091400 114 comments

2

Mark Zuckerberg: Our Biggest Mistake Was Was Betting Too Much On HTML5 (techcrunch.com)

214 points first seen 2012091209 last seen 2012091400 140 comments

2

Journalist goes undercover making the iPhone 5 at Foxconn (www.geek.com)

196 points first seen 2012091221 last seen 2012091421 144 comments

4

Screw the Black Swans: Ichiro is our role model, not Barry Bonds. (500hats.com)

174 points first seen 2012091215 last seen 2012091400 75 comments

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Cosmo, the God who fell to Earth (www.wired.com)

168 points first seen 2012091200 last seen 2012091321 40 comments

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It’s Opus, it rocks and now it’s an audio codec standard (hacks.mozilla.org)

161 points first seen 2012091206 last seen 2012091321 65 comments

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"Life Expectancy" Doesn't Measure How Long You're Expected To Live (blog.edwardmarks.com)

150 points first seen 2012091203 last seen 2012091303 86 comments

5

Google Launches Free Tool To Let You Run Your Own Online Courses (edudemic.com)

146 points first seen 2012091218 last seen 2012091403 34 comments

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"Six strikes" Internet warning system will come to US this year (arstechnica.com)

143 points first seen 2012091203 last seen 2012091303 94 comments

10

2012 MacBook Pro Powers on By Itself on Rough Roads (macperformanceguide.com)

136 points first seen 2012091200 last seen 2012091303 94 comments

7

Seriesly - a document-oriented time-series database written in Go (dustin.github.com)

135 points first seen 2012091206 last seen 2012091306 26 comments

6

Parse Launches Cloud Code to Run Custom Code for Your App (blog.parse.com)

131 points first seen 2012091206 last seen 2012091303 40 comments

12

App Academy is an intensive web development course in San Francisco (http://appacademy.io)

126 points first seen 2012091203 last seen 2012091303 67 comments

13

Using /usr/local (hivelogic.com)

117 points first seen 2012091212 last seen 2012091321 77 comments

13

Magic: the Gathering is Turing Complete (www.toothycat.net)

116 points first seen 2012091206 last seen 2015100315 31 comments

4

Canada designs new visa for immigrant entrepreneurs (www.theglobeandmail.com)

109 points first seen 2012091209 last seen 2012091321 42 comments

6

Ubuntu Reaches 220,000 PCs in Schools in Spain (www.thevarguy.com)

109 points first seen 2012091221 last seen 2012091400 40 comments

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Stripe's New Recurring Billing Features (stripe.com)

108 points first seen 2012091203 last seen 2012091303 51 comments

12

What Is Seen and What Is Unseen: The Hidden Price of Immoral Acts (www.skepticblog.org)

108 points first seen 2012091218 last seen 2012110800 0 comments

9

It's a London underground map and a working circuit board. (www.designboom.com)

104 points first seen 2012091209 last seen 2012091321 8 comments

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Why developers are allergic to job opportunities (coderwall.com)

98 points first seen 2012091206 last seen 2012091300 94 comments

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GoDaddy outage caused by corrupted router tables (www.godaddy.com)

97 points first seen 2012091203 last seen 2012091300 87 comments

8

What skeuomorphism is (and isn't) (sachagreif.com)

97 points first seen 2012091215 last seen 2012091321 42 comments

4

Strange phone number: asks for Agent Code, gives encoded coordinates. (pastebin.com)

96 points first seen 2012091212 last seen 2012091221 29 comments

13

Fresco - A Beautiful Responsive Lightbox (http://www.frescojs.com)

92 points first seen 2012091221 last seen 2012091321 42 comments

14

Torque 3D to be Released on Github under the MIT license (garagegames.com)

85 points first seen 2012091200 last seen 2012091300 34 comments

10

Migrating from Mongo to Riak at Shareaholic (basho.com)

85 points first seen 2012091206 last seen 2012091303 5 comments

14

Computer Crime, Then and Now (www.codinghorror.com)

81 points first seen 2012091221 last seen 2012091321 14 comments

14

Go At Conformal (www.cyphertite.com)

78 points first seen 2012091215 last seen 2012091309 39 comments

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Helveticards - 100% CSS playing cards (zachwaugh.com)

75 points first seen 2012091203 last seen 2012091300 42 comments

3

Quora Co-Founder Charlie Cheever Steps Back From Day-To-Day Role At The Company (techcrunch.com)

74 points first seen 2012091212 last seen 2012091321 40 comments

15

Performing Linear Regression Using Ruby (www.sharethrough.com)

63 points first seen 2012091212 last seen 2012091303 29 comments

33

Javascript the right way! (jstherightway.com)

61 points first seen 2012091203 last seen 2012091300 38 comments

8

EC2 Reserved Instance Marketplace (aws.typepad.com)

60 points first seen 2012091218 last seen 2012091321 35 comments

15

Creative Web Typography Styles (tympanus.net)

59 points first seen 2012091221 last seen 2012091321 3 comments

26

Mail in 2012 from an admin's perspective (blog.phusion.nl)

56 points first seen 2012091203 last seen 2012091300 12 comments

71

Show HN: DubJS: A New Way to Build Web Apps (dubjs.org)

54 points first seen 2012091200 last seen 2012091203 20 comments

14

YourMechanic (YC W12) launches in South Bay (at TC Disrupt) (https://www.yourmechanic.com)

53 points first seen 2012091212 last seen 2012091306 41 comments

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Canada Creates New Class of Visa to Attract Tech Entrepreneurs (www.techvibes.com)

51 points first seen 2012091212 last seen 2012091303 17 comments

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Apple's iPhone launches no longer excite (www.bbc.co.uk)

50 points first seen 2012091221 last seen 2012091300 50 comments

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Why the Berlin startup scene is still in a bubble of hype (venturevillage.eu)

49 points first seen 2012091200 last seen 2012091221 15 comments

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Lessons Learned After Teaching 88 Struggling Entrepreneurs For 6 Months (under30ceo.com)

48 points first seen 2012091212 last seen 2012091306 8 comments

20

Show HN: Making of the Breaking Bad logo (CSS/SVG/JavaScript) as a Codecast (cssdeck.com)

44 points first seen 2012091200 last seen 2012091221 14 comments

24

Backlift now supports handlebars, less and coffeescript (blog.backlift.com)

43 points first seen 2012091209 last seen 2012091221 10 comments

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Minimal Ring Alarm Clock for Couples (mmminimal.com)

43 points first seen 2012091218 last seen 2012091315 39 comments

35

« Stack Exchange Security Blog (security.blogoverflow.com)

41 points first seen 2012091200 last seen 2012091218 3 comments

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Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 Reviewed (www.drdobbs.com)

41 points first seen 2012091206 last seen 2012091300 26 comments

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Show HN: We built a better solution for customer analysis and support (lessneglect.com)

40 points first seen 2012091203 last seen 2012091300 33 comments

0

Things Overheard at TechCrunch Disrupt (nymag.com)

40 points first seen 2012091206 last seen 2012091206 5 comments

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The abc conjecture, explained as a game (bit-player.org)

39 points first seen 2012091200 last seen 2012091221 3 comments

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Startup idea: short, paid email (diegobasch.com)

39 points first seen 2012091206 last seen 2012091215 50 comments

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Dispatch launches a discussion layer for Dropbox and Google Docs (http://dispatch.io)

39 points first seen 2012091206 last seen 2012091300 8 comments

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Collected Talks from MIT Collective Intelligence 2012 Conference (cci.mit.edu)

33 points first seen 2012091221 last seen 2012091309 3 comments

12

Inside the Startup-Generating Secrets of Y Combinator (www.vanityfair.com)

31 points first seen 2012091203 last seen 2014032403 7 comments

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Show HN: A jiggly canvas sketch (lab.hailpixel.com)

30 points first seen 2012091206 last seen 2012091221 5 comments

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A Little Bit of PGP History (www.novainfosecportal.com)

29 points first seen 2012091212 last seen 2012091306 8 comments

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NexPhone: One device to rule them all (www.indiegogo.com)

27 points first seen 2012091200 last seen 2012091203 30 comments

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Valve is worth approximately $8,500,000.00 per employee (en.wikipedia.org)

27 points first seen 2012091203 last seen 2012091203 14 comments

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Ask HN: You're in an empty room. How do you generate a random number? (news.ycombinator.com)

26 points first seen 2012091215 last seen 2012091400 42 comments

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C/C++/Java have dominated programming for 30 yrs & are at a turning point [2000] (www.gotw.ca)

25 points first seen 2012091200 last seen 2012091206 8 comments

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If You Want To Be The Donald Trump Of Startups, Learn To Code (www.fastcompany.com)

25 points first seen 2012091203 last seen 2012091218 26 comments

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Free Google-Sponsored Boingo WiFi for 4k Locations (But Not For iOS Users) (techcrunch.com)

25 points first seen 2012091203 last seen 2012091218 17 comments

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Why You Should Quit Your Job to Be a Founder (jeffmatthewsmith.tumblr.com)

24 points first seen 2012091206 last seen 2012091221 23 comments

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Alert: Your Plant Needs Water (online.wsj.com)

24 points first seen 2012091206 last seen 2012091218 12 comments

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Parse Lets You Run Custom Code For Your Mobile Apps (techcrunch.com)

24 points first seen 2012091206 last seen 2012091218 5 comments

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Habitualist and ThoughtStreams Launch (eldarion.com)

23 points first seen 2012091206 last seen 2012091218 2 comments

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My in-depth OS X 10.9 wishlist (joshparnham.com)

21 points first seen 2012091200 last seen 2012091200 38 comments

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New IDE that offers "Bret Victor" style realtime interactive coding... with C++ (rawmaterialsoftware.com)

21 points first seen 2012091206 last seen 2012091218 0 comments

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Show HN: The code free way to use Stripe (easybill.co)

21 points first seen 2012091206 last seen 2012091209 25 comments

29

An Extended Introduction to Ruby on Rails at Boston Ruby Group (launchware.com)

19 points first seen 2012091200 last seen 2012091209 0 comments

38

Slowing Down (leostartsup.com)

18 points first seen 2012091200 last seen 2012091209 4 comments

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IonMonkey in Firefox 18 (blog.mozilla.org)

18 points first seen 2012091215 last seen 2012091300 0 comments

0

Green Faces (or How to Hack Your Metabolism) (bryanenglish.com)

17 points first seen 2012091203 last seen 2012091203 20 comments

0

Zap: Payments for the universe (paywithzap.com)

17 points first seen 2012091203 last seen 2012091203 28 comments

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Vimeo Tailgate - a simple way to watch your logs (github.com)

17 points first seen 2012091206 last seen 2012091400 5 comments

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Prior Knowledge: A Predictive Database For Developers (techcrunch.com)

17 points first seen 2012091212 last seen 2012091300 3 comments

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Amazon Allows For Reselling of Reserved EC2 Instances (aws.amazon.com)

17 points first seen 2012091221 last seen 2012091303 0 comments

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Cookie-checker.com - check safely which cookies are set by a site (http://www.cookie-checker.com)

16 points first seen 2012091200 last seen 2012091209 8 comments

28

I have had a change of heart about the HelloSign service (YCw11) (blogs.twincities.com)

14 points first seen 2012091209 last seen 2012091221 4 comments

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Ask HN: I know software. Now I want to know hardware. Where do I start? (news.ycombinator.com)

13 points first seen 2012091206 last seen 2012091209 11 comments

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One week since our launch...and... (news.ycombinator.com)

13 points first seen 2012091218 last seen 2012091912 17 comments

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You Think Nokia Uses Deceptive Advertising? Have You Heard of Apple? (pocketnow.com)

13 points first seen 2012091221 last seen 2012091303 0 comments

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Alcatel-Lucent Open Sources its API Management Engine (java.dzone.com)

12 points first seen 2012091200 last seen 2012091206 3 comments

0

Pocket-Sized Virtual Keyboard Now Fits On Your Keychain (www.urbanlol.com)

11 points first seen 2012091200 last seen 2012091200 8 comments

59

Show HN: Android Bootstrap - A bootstrapping template/generator for Android Apps (http://www.androidbootstrap.com)

11 points first seen 2012091206 last seen 2012091215 4 comments

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Mark Zuckerberg Live at TC Disrupt (techcrunch.com)

11 points first seen 2012091209 last seen 2012091218 2 comments

0

A collection of iPhone apps screwed over by Apple (http://screwedbyapple.tumblr.com)

11 points first seen 2012091212 last seen 2012091212 2 comments

0

GoDaddy: Our Crash Wasn’t Anonymous, a Hack, a DDoS. It Was Network Issues (techcrunch.com)

10 points first seen 2012091203 last seen 2012091203 0 comments

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Ask HN: Would you hire me for an internship? (news.ycombinator.com)

10 points first seen 2012091206 last seen 2012100403 2 comments

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Ask HN? IRC chat (news.ycombinator.com)

10 points first seen 2012091218 last seen 2012091912 8 comments

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Advice I’d Send Myself Before Starting My Machine Learning Internship at Factual (blog.factual.com)

8 points first seen 2012091206 last seen 2012091212 0 comments

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ThoughtStreams - a micro-blog for every idea (thoughtstreams.io)

8 points first seen 2012091206 last seen 2013090315 0 comments

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Facebook suspends account, sends substance abuse warning to 9/11 truther (www.legitgov.org)

8 points first seen 2012091209 last seen 2012091215 5 comments

84

Sergey Brin shows off AR and voice commands in Project Glass (www.geek.com)

8 points first seen 2012091209 last seen 2012091215 0 comments

0

Ask HN Parents: How do you handle working and kids? (news.ycombinator.com)

7 points first seen 2012091200 last seen 2012091200 3 comments

0

One year on after I left my cushy job to be an entrepreneur (2founders.com)

7 points first seen 2012091200 last seen 2012091200 0 comments

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In Defense of Judging Startups Based on VC Dollars Raised (bostinno.com)

7 points first seen 2012091203 last seen 2012091206 4 comments

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Famo.us will release JS library that makes HTML5 perform like native (techcrunch.com)

7 points first seen 2012091203 last seen 2012091209 0 comments

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Google launches open source course builder (googleresearch.blogspot.com)

7 points first seen 2012091206 last seen 2012091212 0 comments

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Ask PG: Will YC continue with the no idea experiment for the W13 batch? (news.ycombinator.com)

7 points first seen 2012091206 last seen 2012091209 5 comments

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How I Got (and Why I Quit) the Best Job In the World (www.fullcontact.com)

6 points first seen 2012091203 last seen 2012091206 2 comments

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The Trouble with Barbie Science (www.scientificamerican.com)

6 points first seen 2012091209 last seen 2012091212 0 comments

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The problem with Metro: it's boring. (www.riagenic.com)

6 points first seen 2012091221 last seen 2012091300 3 comments

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We're building a international payment processing service (news.ycombinator.com)

6 points first seen 2012091221 last seen 2012091300 2 comments

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Ask HN: What Managed DNS do you use and why? (news.ycombinator.com)

5 points first seen 2012091200 last seen 2012091200 0 comments

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Nodecopter.js - A full day of programming flying robots with node.js in Berlin (nodecopter.com)

5 points first seen 2012091200 last seen 2012091200 0 comments

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Github Outage (news.ycombinator.com)

5 points first seen 2012091203 last seen 2012091203 0 comments

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A usable PHP console (REPL). (github.com)

5 points first seen 2012091203 last seen 2012091203 0 comments

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Windows Store now open to all developers in 120 market (blogs.msdn.com)

5 points first seen 2012091206 last seen 2012091209 0 comments

84

Git Review and Merge Like a Boss (blog.assembla.com)

5 points first seen 2012091206 last seen 2012091209 0 comments

0

Under the Stairs (with vintage Apple hardware) (www.backspac.es)

5 points first seen 2012091206 last seen 2012091206 0 comments

90

The Best Free Javascript Books (jsbooks.revolunet.com)

5 points first seen 2012091209 last seen 2012091212 0 comments

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“The Math” (massivegreatness.com)

5 points first seen 2012091212 last seen 2012091215 0 comments

0

Becoming the Boss (whilefalse.blogspot.com)

5 points first seen 2012091212 last seen 2012091212 0 comments

0

Battle of the Swans: Why Is Nobody Talking About Solving Tough Problems? (news.ycombinator.com)

5 points first seen 2012091218 last seen 2012091218 2 comments

0

ProgPac Programming game (http://progpac.com)

5 points first seen 2012091221 last seen 2012091221 2 comments

0

Show HN: Hacker News - Front Page Reader Android App (news.ycombinator.com)

4 points first seen 2012091200 last seen 2012091200 0 comments

0

New Payment Solution for Australian Merchants (https://www.fatzebra.com.au)

4 points first seen 2012091200 last seen 2012091200 0 comments

0

Running beta in production (37signals.com)

4 points first seen 2012091203 last seen 2012091203 0 comments

0

IFA - World’s leading trade show for Consumer Electronics in Berlin (salon.io)

4 points first seen 2012091203 last seen 2012091203 0 comments

0

How to be half as effective (www.danshapiro.com)

4 points first seen 2012091203 last seen 2012091203 0 comments

82

Twitter and Etsy swapping Engineers (venturebeat.com)

4 points first seen 2012091206 last seen 2012091209 0 comments

0

How GoDaddy Took Us Down and What We're Doing About It (blog.strideapp.com)

4 points first seen 2012091206 last seen 2012091206 2 comments

0

Welcome to the real world, Google (www.extremetech.com)

4 points first seen 2012091206 last seen 2012091206 0 comments

0

How I Pitched My First Startup (blog.keen.io)

4 points first seen 2012091206 last seen 2012091206 0 comments

0

Which HN members were able to grow a site from 0 to a Million unique visitors? (news.ycombinator.com)

4 points first seen 2012091209 last seen 2012091209 3 comments

0

Paul Krugman's Infuriating Post About The iPhone 5 (www.businessinsider.com)

4 points first seen 2012091209 last seen 2012091209 0 comments

72

Show HN: Launching my DIY class scheduling website platform for small businesses (http://zenbookings.com)

4 points first seen 2012091212 last seen 2012091215 7 comments

84

Overenthusiastic Quora Notifications and More (blog.brotherboard.com)

4 points first seen 2012091212 last seen 2012091215 0 comments

79

What's a Code-at-Night? (david-bieber.tumblr.com)

4 points first seen 2012091212 last seen 2012091215 0 comments

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Solar panel power is rocking it in the U.S. in 2012 (gigaom.com)

4 points first seen 2012091212 last seen 2012091215 0 comments

0

Charlie Cheever leaving Quora (www.quora.com)

4 points first seen 2012091212 last seen 2012091212 0 comments

90

A Case Against Being Too Clean (www.nytimes.com)

4 points first seen 2012091215 last seen 2012091218 0 comments

0

Chip and pin 'weakness' exposed by Cambridge researchers (www.bbc.com)

4 points first seen 2012091221 last seen 2012091221 0 comments

90

A cap is not a valuation (www.danshapiro.com)

4 points first seen 2012091221 last seen 2012091300 0 comments

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Amazon adding warehouses to provide same-day delivery (www.nytimes.com)

4 points first seen 2012091221 last seen 2012091221 0 comments

0

We Are Now One Year Away From Global Riots, Complex Systems Theorists Say (motherboard.vice.com)

3 points first seen 2012091200 last seen 2012091200 0 comments

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How To Set Up A Costa Rican Computer Lab (ethertontech.com)

3 points first seen 2012091200 last seen 2012091200 0 comments

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Reinventing Our Freemium Model (www.mavitunasecurity.com)

3 points first seen 2012091200 last seen 2012091200 0 comments

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Running a Billion Dollar Startup with Twelve People? (birch.co)

3 points first seen 2012091200 last seen 2012091200 6 comments

0

EE to launch 4G mobile services in 16 UK cities in 2012 (www.bbc.co.uk)

3 points first seen 2012091200 last seen 2012091200 0 comments

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How to evaluate launch success? (versiononeventures.com)