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Why a scam company was able to raises $76 Million Series B? (news.ycombinator.com)

619 points first seen 2012100100 last seen 2012100121 168 comments

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To Encourage Biking, Cities Lose the Helmets (www.nytimes.com)

193 points first seen 2012100109 last seen 2012100300 203 comments

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Dave The Incredible Mindreader – How Does He Do It? (singularityhub.com)

192 points first seen 2012100103 last seen 2012100206 131 comments

2

Bootstrap Toggle Buttons (github.com)

169 points first seen 2012100109 last seen 2012100300 48 comments

3

How a rogue appeals court wrecked the patent system (arstechnica.com)

161 points first seen 2012100109 last seen 2012100300 40 comments

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Real time map of trains in Japan (www.demap.info)

139 points first seen 2012100115 last seen 2012100300 61 comments

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Mobile Playbook by Google (www.themobileplaybook.com)

123 points first seen 2012100112 last seen 2012100300 69 comments

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Space colonies of the 1970s (publicdomainreview.org)

121 points first seen 2012100100 last seen 2012100203 49 comments

5

Things That Turbo Pascal is Smaller Than (prog21.dadgum.com)

117 points first seen 2012100103 last seen 2012100206 56 comments

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Telling people to leave finance (mathbabe.org)

111 points first seen 2012100106 last seen 2012100203 92 comments

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Donut math: How donut.c works (www.a1k0n.net)

111 points first seen 2012100121 last seen 2014012503 22 comments

5

Don’t Use Automatic Image Sliders or Carousels (conversionxl.com)

106 points first seen 2012100115 last seen 2012100300 34 comments

4

Letters: A tiny debugging library for Ruby (http://lettersrb.com)

103 points first seen 2012100106 last seen 2012100206 20 comments

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RailwayJS (railwayjs.com)

97 points first seen 2012100118 last seen 2012100300 48 comments

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Multicore Programming in PyPy and CPython (morepypy.blogspot.dk)

96 points first seen 2012100106 last seen 2012100206 39 comments

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Flying at No Mechanical Energy Cost: The Secret of Wandering Albatrosses (www.plosone.org)

91 points first seen 2012100106 last seen 2012100221 31 comments

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C as an intermediate language for Forth (www.yosefk.com)

91 points first seen 2012100106 last seen 2013071900 29 comments

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Maily a my first email app for kids (www.maily.com)

79 points first seen 2012100121 last seen 2012100300 50 comments

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Ask HN: what is a good spot to work in New York? (news.ycombinator.com)

75 points first seen 2012100106 last seen 2012100121 57 comments

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Server Porn (http://porn.serverbear.com)

74 points first seen 2012100121 last seen 2012100203 14 comments

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Tell HN: Startup school 2012 invites are out (news.ycombinator.com)

71 points first seen 2012100112 last seen 2012100203 60 comments

10

Fast Algorithms for the Maximum Clique Problem on Massive Sparse Graphs (arxiv.org)

70 points first seen 2012100100 last seen 2012100203 5 comments

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The Pigeon Movement – A rallying cry for French startups (www.rudebaguette.com)

70 points first seen 2012100121 last seen 2012100206 104 comments

4

Reforming the Patent System Toward a Minimalist System (www.becker-posner-blog.com)

68 points first seen 2012100115 last seen 2012100300 40 comments

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Graham's Number (myscienceacademy.org)

67 points first seen 2012100106 last seen 2012100206 22 comments

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HTML5 Google Authenticator (github.com)

67 points first seen 2012100112 last seen 2012100206 19 comments

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I got sued for $3 Million by a religious cult (www.skeptical-science.com)

64 points first seen 2012100109 last seen 2012100203 14 comments

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The iPad 1 (www.marco.org)

61 points first seen 2012100109 last seen 2012100121 96 comments

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Pirate Bay Founder Remains Locked Up Without Charges (torrentfreak.com)

60 points first seen 2012100103 last seen 2012100112 7 comments

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Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA) Tutorial (www.puffinwarellc.com)

59 points first seen 2012100109 last seen 2012100203 8 comments

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Ask HN: An online 'doers' community for bootstrapping developers? (news.ycombinator.com)

58 points first seen 2012100109 last seen 2012101803 38 comments

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The PC is Over (www.codinghorror.com)

57 points first seen 2012100121 last seen 2012100206 117 comments

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3D printing: The PC all over again? (www.economist.com)

56 points first seen 2012100115 last seen 2012100200 85 comments

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Copyright Act explicitly states disruptive innovation should be blocked (www.techdirt.com)

55 points first seen 2012100112 last seen 2012100121 17 comments

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Show HN: What's Your Browser's Age? (http://browserage.com)

54 points first seen 2012100106 last seen 2012100200 67 comments

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OMG, Test Driven Development Actually Works (blog.jphpsf.com)

54 points first seen 2012100109 last seen 2012100203 32 comments

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New Content-Delivery Tech Should Be Presumed Illegal, Says Former Copyright Boss (yro.slashdot.org)

53 points first seen 2012100103 last seen 2012100200 38 comments

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MariaDB Cassandra Storage Engine (kb.askmonty.org)

49 points first seen 2012100112 last seen 2012100203 0 comments

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Disk drive shipments rebound from Thai floods (www.computerworld.com)

47 points first seen 2012100103 last seen 2012100200 31 comments

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Don't Fall Asleep at the Wheel: Successful Entrepreneurs Have Lives (www.good.is)

47 points first seen 2012100106 last seen 2012100200 45 comments

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Hitachi presents a storage medium that should last forever (www.neowin.net)

47 points first seen 2012100121 last seen 2012100206 45 comments

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Getting started with CSS custom filters (CSS shaders) (alteredqualia.com)

45 points first seen 2012100100 last seen 2012100121 14 comments

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A Crash Course in Information and Visual Design (throwww.com)

45 points first seen 2012100103 last seen 2012100112 14 comments

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Scala NLP (www.scalanlp.org)

45 points first seen 2012100112 last seen 2018021921 14 comments

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Minecraft creator attacks Microsoft's Windows 8 plan (www.bbc.com)

43 points first seen 2012100121 last seen 2012100206 50 comments

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Showmystreet: Fast and Easy Street Viewing (showmystreet.com)

39 points first seen 2012100115 last seen 2012100215 12 comments

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Richard Branson’s Six Secrets to Productivity (biz30.timedoctor.com)

39 points first seen 2012100118 last seen 2012100203 13 comments

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Ask HN: Why do HN users still obscure their e-mail addresses? (news.ycombinator.com)

37 points first seen 2012100112 last seen 2012100200 35 comments

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Key set available for $150 on eBay provides an all-access pass to NYC (www.nypost.com)

37 points first seen 2012100115 last seen 2012100121 15 comments

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IOS6 html hardware acceleration changes and how to fix them (indiegamr.com)

36 points first seen 2012100103 last seen 2012100200 24 comments

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Most Reported Genetic Associations With Intelligence Are Likely False Positives (coglab.wjh.harvard.edu)

35 points first seen 2012100112 last seen 2012100203 7 comments

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BrowserID: A new web authentication scheme (lwn.net)

35 points first seen 2012100115 last seen 2012100203 6 comments

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Ask HN: What are the use cases for NFC outside of payments (news.ycombinator.com)

33 points first seen 2012100106 last seen 2012100109 44 comments

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How browsers work (taligarsiel.com)

32 points first seen 2012100118 last seen 2015030703 2 comments

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A new search engine (theopenstartup.blogspot.com)

31 points first seen 2012100118 last seen 2012100200 48 comments

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Tin Foil Hats Actually Make it Easier for the Government to Track Your Thoughts (www.theatlantic.com)

29 points first seen 2012100121 last seen 2012100215 19 comments

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Facebook users don't give a heck about apps notifications anymore. (piotrzaniewicz.posterous.com)

28 points first seen 2012100109 last seen 2012100200 26 comments

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Why the iPhone 5 is too radical (www.cultofmac.com)

28 points first seen 2012100115 last seen 2012100118 39 comments

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Comparing two Apple apologies: Tim Cook vs Steve Jobs (mobile.businessweek.com)

27 points first seen 2012100100 last seen 2012100121 13 comments

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You Don’t Need A Prototype To Raise A Seed Round (techcrunch.com)

25 points first seen 2012100109 last seen 2012100200 13 comments

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Rod Johnson joins Typesafe (gigaom.com)

25 points first seen 2012100121 last seen 2012100206 11 comments

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Show HN: PRLibs, madlibs to create press releases for startups (prlibs.com)

24 points first seen 2012100112 last seen 2012100203 9 comments

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A better Java: Scala or Xtend? (duncan.mac-vicar.com)

23 points first seen 2012100100 last seen 2012100109 31 comments

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Search.xxx Porn Search Engine Launches (www.cnbc.com)

23 points first seen 2012100112 last seen 2012100121 5 comments

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Please stop duplicating Rails (srirangan.net)

22 points first seen 2012100118 last seen 2012100118 16 comments

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Using Adwords to Earn Uber Referral Credit (alexshipillo.com)

20 points first seen 2012100109 last seen 2012100121 11 comments

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PlaceRaider: Virtual Theft in Physical Spaces with Smartphones (arxiv.org)

18 points first seen 2012100112 last seen 2012100200 0 comments

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Introduction to libuv [video] (blog.nodejs.org)

16 points first seen 2012100106 last seen 2012100109 0 comments

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Remind HN: iOS 6 Beta 4 has expired ("Could not activate iPhone") (news.ycombinator.com)

14 points first seen 2012100112 last seen 2012100118 6 comments

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WorkFlowy for iPhone (itunes.apple.com)

11 points first seen 2012100103 last seen 2012100106 3 comments

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Presidential Election Monte Carlo Simulator in Go (github.com)

10 points first seen 2012100112 last seen 2012100121 2 comments

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Startups Can Avoid a Privacy Class Action with a Single Clause (blog.foundersnetwork.com)

10 points first seen 2012100112 last seen 2012100112 7 comments

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Thinkin' Tags - Rapid HTML/CSS Prototyping (www.thinkintags.com)

9 points first seen 2012100106 last seen 2012100115 7 comments

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HIV 'made' new deadly Salmonella - study (www.bbc.co.uk)

9 points first seen 2012100109 last seen 2012100118 0 comments

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Make Your Customers Pay (adii.me)

9 points first seen 2012100115 last seen 2012100200 0 comments

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Simon Cowell & Will.i.am to debut X Factor for Entrepreneurs... (venturebeat.com)

8 points first seen 2012100106 last seen 2012100112 8 comments

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Architecture firm proposes NYC underground park (www.besttechie.com)

8 points first seen 2012100106 last seen 2012100106 4 comments

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Obama blocks Chinese wind farms in Oregon over national security (www.reuters.com)

8 points first seen 2012100109 last seen 2012100112 0 comments

83

Ask HN: There is room for innovation in a blogging platform? (news.ycombinator.com)

8 points first seen 2012100109 last seen 2012100112 16 comments

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Why Apple took the risk with Maps (gigaom.com)

8 points first seen 2012100112 last seen 2012100121 7 comments

79

Ask HN: Where can I find salespeople to market to? (news.ycombinator.com)

7 points first seen 2012100106 last seen 2012100109 14 comments

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Ask HN: What are some ways of proving yourself to a startup? (news.ycombinator.com)

7 points first seen 2012100112 last seen 2012100115 6 comments

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Beautiful Hand Drawn Fonts you must use (www.dzyngiri.com)

6 points first seen 2012100100 last seen 2012100106 0 comments

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Design Thinking: Keep your users at the center (mbadoodle.com)

6 points first seen 2012100106 last seen 2012100109 6 comments

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Oracle Takes On Amazon With New Cloud Service (www.businessinsider.com)

6 points first seen 2012100115 last seen 2012100115 2 comments

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Hitting Your Stride (www.avc.com)

5 points first seen 2012100106 last seen 2012100109 0 comments

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What's the relevance of resumes in the age of GitHub, Stack Exchange, & Coursera (programmers.stackexchange.com)

5 points first seen 2012100109 last seen 2012100112 0 comments

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Kill The Landline Pitch Deck from Startup Weekend Columbia (blog.killthelandline.com)

5 points first seen 2012100112 last seen 2012100112 4 comments

0

Ask HN: Can incubators like Y Combinator identify the next Steve Jobs? (news.ycombinator.com)

5 points first seen 2012100115 last seen 2012100115 2 comments

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French startups getting ready to demonstrate against plans to tax exits at 60% (flirtatiouslabs.com)

4 points first seen 2012100106 last seen 2012100106 2 comments

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Laser-wielding snake robots for airplane repair (www.theatlantic.com)

4 points first seen 2012100109 last seen 2012100112 0 comments

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Show HN: Captchaless spam protection (blog.samuellevy.com)

4 points first seen 2012100115 last seen 2012100121 2 comments

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Carmakers Try to Figure Out the New Generation (www.nytimes.com)

4 points first seen 2012100115 last seen 2012100118 0 comments

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Two months later, developers (mostly) positive about OS X's GateKeeper (arstechnica.com)

4 points first seen 2012100115 last seen 2012100115 0 comments

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Yes, A video game contributed to Unix Development (people.fas.harvard.edu)

4 points first seen 2012100115 last seen 2012100115 0 comments

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Fostering Tech Talent in Schools (www.nytimes.com)

4 points first seen 2012100118 last seen 2012100118 2 comments

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Why Liberal Ex-Insiders Love Big-Bank Jobs (2011) (nymag.com)

4 points first seen 2012100121 last seen 2012100200 0 comments

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Surging solar in 2011 proof of Ray Kurzweil’s bold prediction? (singularityhub.com)

3 points first seen 2012100106 last seen 2012100106 2 comments

0 Show HN: GitHub + Tetris = Gitris (http://gitris.com)

3 points first seen 2012100106 last seen 2012100106 6 comments

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HP releases open source OS (phys.org)

3 points first seen 2012100106 last seen 2012100106 0 comments

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Parse Procfiles in Go (github.com)

3 points first seen 2012100109 last seen 2012100109 0 comments

0

Ask HN: How to track real people impressions? Not bots. (news.ycombinator.com)

3 points first seen 2012100109 last seen 2012100109 0 comments

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The New Normal (www.nytimes.com)

3 points first seen 2012100115 last seen 2012100115 0 comments

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How do you keep up with all the HN? (news.ycombinator.com)

3 points first seen 2012100118 last seen 2012100118 3 comments

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