hackerNews

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Bill Gates: Books I Read this Summer (www.thegatesnotes.com)

257 points first seen 2012091612 last seen 2012091803 85 comments

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Spanner: Google's Globally-Distributed Database (research.google.com)

238 points first seen 2012091606 last seen 2012091800 54 comments

2

Facebook explains what's wrong with the mobile web (lists.w3.org)

232 points first seen 2012091606 last seen 2012091800 108 comments

4

The Pirate Bay - 9 years and still bloody runnin (thepiratebay.se)

226 points first seen 2012091603 last seen 2012091800 136 comments

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U.S. Taxpayers Are Gouged on Mass Transit Costs (www.bloomberg.com)

222 points first seen 2012091600 last seen 2012091800 205 comments

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The lightbulb reinvented - control your lighs from your iPhone (www.kickstarter.com)

222 points first seen 2012091618 last seen 2012091821 129 comments

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The iPhone 5's A6 SoC: Not A15 or A9, a Custom Apple Core Instead (www.anandtech.com)

175 points first seen 2012091606 last seen 2012091800 93 comments

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Aaron Swartz "JSTOR" case indictment revised/expanded (sethf.com)

156 points first seen 2012091615 last seen 2012091800 81 comments

2

PostgreSQL 9.2: Full-throttle Database (www.pgcon.org)

143 points first seen 2012091621 last seen 2012091818 32 comments

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Little-Known Awesome Algorithms: Fenwick Range Trees (www.swageroo.com)

128 points first seen 2012091609 last seen 2012091800 14 comments

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Kickstarting a hackerspace in Iraq (boingboing.net)

122 points first seen 2012091621 last seen 2012091803 17 comments

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Grove.io shutting down (grove.io)

115 points first seen 2012091615 last seen 2012091712 173 comments

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The power of ignoring mainstream news (joel.is)

104 points first seen 2012091606 last seen 2012091712 103 comments

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Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything (www.thegatesnotes.com)

93 points first seen 2012091621 last seen 2012091800 35 comments

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I have a troubling relationship with time (www.randomactsofsentience.com)

92 points first seen 2012091621 last seen 2012091800 11 comments

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Apple builds massive 20 Megawatt solar farm in North Carolina (gigaom.com)

84 points first seen 2012091600 last seen 2012091715 53 comments

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Google offers tool to bridge Android and iOS app dev (www.theregister.co.uk)

82 points first seen 2012091600 last seen 2012091718 49 comments

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How do you live your life? (www.bogleheads.org)

81 points first seen 2012091618 last seen 2012091800 63 comments

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Intro to Genetic Algorithms in Javascript Part 2 (burakkanber.com)

80 points first seen 2012091603 last seen 2012091721 11 comments

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Prime Number Visualization Simulation Spiral (www.numbersimulation.com)

79 points first seen 2012091609 last seen 2012091721 21 comments

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Ask HN: Can I visit your tech business in NY City? (news.ycombinator.com)

78 points first seen 2012091603 last seen 2012091703 28 comments

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See your site like the rest of the world does. On the Nokia X2-01 (generatedcontent.org)

78 points first seen 2012091606 last seen 2012091721 31 comments

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White Paper: Haskell vs. F# vs. Scala [pdf] (www.macs.hw.ac.uk)

77 points first seen 2012091606 last seen 2012091721 7 comments

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X11 Window System Turns 25 Years Old (linux.slashdot.org)

73 points first seen 2012091606 last seen 2012091718 35 comments

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William Gibson on Punk Rock, Internet Memes, and "Gangnam Style" (www.wired.com)

69 points first seen 2012091621 last seen 2012091800 26 comments

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Page Layers - Convert websites to layered Photoshop PSDs (www.ralfebert.de)

68 points first seen 2012091615 last seen 2012091800 16 comments

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LEAKED Here's The White House's Draft Cybersecurity Executive Order (www.techdirt.com)

65 points first seen 2012091603 last seen 2012091712 32 comments

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So long, Retina (blog.rinik.net)

62 points first seen 2012091612 last seen 2012091700 72 comments

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Popular misconceptions about the Golden Ratio (www.maa.org)

58 points first seen 2012091615 last seen 2012091800 7 comments

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Notch on Steam, Windows 8, what's next (www.rockpapershotgun.com)

56 points first seen 2012091609 last seen 2012091706 48 comments

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Go-powered web-services with Rails (areyoufuckingcoding.me)

52 points first seen 2012091618 last seen 2012091721 26 comments

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My startup story (co-der.com)

40 points first seen 2012091609 last seen 2012091709 20 comments

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Touch events on the mobile web are unfinished (plus.google.com)

37 points first seen 2012091612 last seen 2012091715 14 comments

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Labor Rules Snarl U.S. Commuter Trains (www.bloomberg.com)

36 points first seen 2012091609 last seen 2012091709 12 comments

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Samsung to run a national media campaign against Apple beginning Sunday (www.sfgate.com)

35 points first seen 2012091609 last seen 2012091700 45 comments

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Movie Streaming Subscriptions: Netflix, Amazon Prime & Hulu Plus Compared (piratealt.blogspot.com)

34 points first seen 2012091615 last seen 2012091715 21 comments

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Does infinity exist? (plus.maths.org)

32 points first seen 2012091603 last seen 2012091603 61 comments

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What Is The One True Android & How “Open” Is It? (marketingland.com)

30 points first seen 2012091603 last seen 2012091618 10 comments

12

Notch on Steam,Windows 8, what's next (www.rockpapershotgun.com)

29 points first seen 2012091603 last seen 2012091606 14 comments

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The Talk of China (www.nytimes.com)

25 points first seen 2012091621 last seen 2012091718 13 comments

14

Qt5's Linux Requirements Cause Problems (www.phoronix.com)

24 points first seen 2012091603 last seen 2012091703 14 comments

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IPhone 5 Price Breakdown (UK Only) (docs.google.com)

24 points first seen 2012091606 last seen 2012091706 22 comments

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Are APIs making Biz Dev obsolete? (davidzhang.me)

24 points first seen 2012091609 last seen 2012091700 19 comments

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Forgoing College to Pursue Dreams (www.nytimes.com)

23 points first seen 2012091609 last seen 2012091703 29 comments

74

Something is wrong with my generation, i.e. what happened to the social network (www.pressbuttongoboink.com)

22 points first seen 2012091612 last seen 2012091615 32 comments

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People send the best welcome emails, not robots (quibb.com)

19 points first seen 2012091609 last seen 2012091703 17 comments

84

Is it true that "not everyone can be a programmer"? (arstechnica.com)

17 points first seen 2012091621 last seen 2012091700 47 comments

11

Unix and Beyond: An Interview with Ken Thompson (genius.cat-v.org)

16 points first seen 2012091618 last seen 2015031118 2 comments

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Are we getting smarter? (Transcript of Interview with James Flynn) (www.abc.net.au)

9 points first seen 2012091609 last seen 2012091621 6 comments

81

The Hilbert Hotel (opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com)

9 points first seen 2012091615 last seen 2012091618 5 comments

68

Tell HN: I'm interested in buying sputtering web apps (news.ycombinator.com)

9 points first seen 2012091618 last seen 2012091903 0 comments

83

Welcome to 2035...the Age of Surprise (US Air force video) (www.youtube.com)

8 points first seen 2012091603 last seen 2012091606 0 comments

48

Hacking TechCrunch Disrupt's Hackathon (blog.jasonshah.org)

7 points first seen 2012091606 last seen 2012091615 0 comments

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8 (new) steps for fixing other people’s code (robots.thoughtbot.com)

7 points first seen 2012091606 last seen 2012091612 0 comments

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Why do links expire so quick in HN? (news.ycombinator.com)

7 points first seen 2012091612 last seen 2012091612 0 comments

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Ask HN: was anything ever easy? (news.ycombinator.com)

6 points first seen 2012091621 last seen 2012091621 3 comments

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Tesla's next range of electric cars (www.wired.co.uk)

5 points first seen 2012091600 last seen 2012091603 0 comments

78

Wat Programming Language - fexpr, first-class everything for javascript (github.com)

5 points first seen 2012091603 last seen 2012091606 0 comments

70

Ask HN: What are some good free CRM tools? (news.ycombinator.com)

5 points first seen 2012091606 last seen 2012091609 10 comments

66

GPU assisted malware (www.tomsguide.com)

5 points first seen 2012091606 last seen 2012091609 0 comments

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Obsidian Raises $900,000 For 'Project Eternity' In One Day On Kickstarter (www.forbes.com)

5 points first seen 2012091606 last seen 2012091606 0 comments

79

Working to change the world (www.johndcook.com)

5 points first seen 2012091609 last seen 2012091612 0 comments

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Mutamate: a darknet dating website for genetic freaks (megazinemagazine.com)

5 points first seen 2012091612 last seen 2012091618 2 comments

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Ask HN: what do you use for instant/asynchronous communication? (news.ycombinator.com)

5 points first seen 2012091621 last seen 2012091700 9 comments

82

Google blocked Acer’s rival phone to prevent Android “fragmentation” (arstechnica.com)

4 points first seen 2012091603 last seen 2012091606 0 comments

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Show HN: usefulping, will alert you if your webapp is down (usefulping.com)

4 points first seen 2012091609 last seen 2012091609 3 comments

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Alibaba: Google just plain wrong about our OS (news.cnet.com)

4 points first seen 2012091609 last seen 2012091615 0 comments

80

What questions to ask a developer during an interview (www.devtich.com)

4 points first seen 2012091612 last seen 2012091615 0 comments

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Automatic Database Normalization? (news.ycombinator.com)

4 points first seen 2012091612 last seen 2012091612 3 comments

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Steve Blank's How to Build a Startup course is UP (www.udacity.com)

3 points first seen 2012091600 last seen 2012091600 0 comments

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Fast Inverse Square Root in Details (blog.quenta.org)

3 points first seen 2012091606 last seen 2014022603 2 comments

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How To Disrupt Petty Inconveniences (techcrunch.com)

3 points first seen 2012091606 last seen 2012091606 0 comments

0

Freedom Not Fear: Creating a Surveillance-Free Internet (www.eff.org)

3 points first seen 2012091606 last seen 2012091606 0 comments

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UCSB Researchers Demonstrate That 15=3x5 About Half of the Time (www.ia.ucsb.edu)

3 points first seen 2012091609 last seen 2012091609 2 comments

0

A Real Jobs Plan (incube.us)

3 points first seen 2012091609 last seen 2012091609 5 comments

90

Engineering A Path to Science:I don't wanna die in a language I can't understand (www.infoq.com)

3 points first seen 2012091612 last seen 2012091615 0 comments

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Modded Atari 2600 runs at 22,000 times the processing power of the origina (news.yahoo.com)

3 points first seen 2012091612 last seen 2012091612 0 comments

0

Ask HN: What is the best (online or offline) resource to learn to code? (news.ycombinator.com)

3 points first seen 2012091612 last seen 2012091612 2 comments

0

Ask HN: Effective ways to attract visitors to your site (news.ycombinator.com)

3 points first seen 2012091612 last seen 2012091612 5 comments

79

The Quantum Supercomputers: the Dumbest Computers Ever Created, and the Best (motherboard.vice.com)

3 points first seen 2012091615 last seen 2012091618 0 comments

86

Computing prime factors with a quantum processor (www.nature.com)

3 points first seen 2012091615 last seen 2012091618 0 comments

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Newspaper Ad Revenue Is At Its 1950 Level (www.businessinsider.com)

3 points first seen 2012091615 last seen 2012091615 0 comments

0

Ask HN: I can't think of anything that I could make that people would want. (news.ycombinator.com)

3 points first seen 2012091618 last seen 2012091618 7 comments

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Ballmer: There’s no doubt Windows 8 will be a success (www.geekwire.com)

3 pointContent-Type: text/html;charset=UTF-8 X-Powered-By: Mojolicious (Perl) Status: 200 OK 1s first seen 2012091621 last seen 2012091700 2 comments

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Malware being installed on computers in factories in China, warns Microsoft (www.guardian.co.uk)

3 points first seen 2012091621 last seen 2012091621 0 comments

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Coderwall (YC W12) is hiring a node or rails engineer in SF (coderwall.com)

0 points first seen 2012091603 last seen 2012091621 0 comments

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Airbrite (YC S12) is hiring a full-stack engineer to define mobile commerce (news.ycombinator.com)

0 points first seen 2012091615 last seen 2012091712 0 comments