hackerNews

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RIP Hans Camenzind, Inventor Of The 555 Timer (www.retrothing.com)

275 points first seen 2012100815 last seen 2012101100 64 comments

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World of Warcraft hacked - massive destruction (wow.joystiq.com)

243 points first seen 2012100806 last seen 2012101000 170 comments

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Faster than C? Parsing binary data in JavaScript. (github.com)

214 points first seen 2012100806 last seen 2012101003 166 comments

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The software development final exam: Algorithms and Data Structures (www.daemonology.net)

212 points first seen 2012100821 last seen 2012101109 196 comments

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Ask HN: What did the *really* successful programmers do differently? (news.ycombinator.com)

197 points first seen 2012100821 last seen 2012101003 161 comments

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SpaceX's First Official Cargo Resupply Mission to the ISS - Launch Webcast (new.livestream.com)

181 points first seen 2012100812 last seen 2012101000 95 comments

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The Patent, Used as a Sword (www.nytimes.com)

177 points first seen 2012100815 last seen 2012101000 75 comments

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Adobe's Source Code Pro Font (opensourcehacker.com)

159 points first seen 2012100803 last seen 2012101000 109 comments

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The CIA Burglar Who Went Rogue (www.smithsonianmag.com)

141 points first seen 2012100806 last seen 2012100921 14 comments

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Turn Dropbox folders into websites (www.site44.com)

130 points first seen 2012100821 last seen 2012120603 69 comments

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JPG 2x size but 40% quality can be smaller size yet better than original JPG (blog.netvlies.nl)

129 points first seen 2012100800 last seen 2012100909 72 comments

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What Happened to the Facebook Killer? It's Complicated (motherboard.vice.com)

124 points first seen 2012100812 last seen 2012101000 81 comments

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Chibi-Scheme (code.google.com)

90 points first seen 2012100800 last seen 2012100906 25 comments

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Running "n stable" removed bin, lib, share, include directories from /usr/local (github.com)

83 points first seen 2012100809 last seen 2012100909 56 comments

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Calling Someone's Baby Ugly (simpleprogrammer.com)

76 points first seen 2012100809 last seen 2012100906 55 comments

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Twitter's mandatory link shortener, t.co, was down (thenextweb.com)

76 points first seen 2012100818 last seen 2012100921 48 comments

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An Introduction to Computer Networks, free on-line course from Stanford (class.stanford.edu)

75 points first seen 2012100809 last seen 2012100921 17 comments

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Common Lisp on Raspberry Pi (lispm.dyndns.org)

73 points first seen 2012100806 last seen 2012100906 20 comments

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ThinkPad Design: Spirit and Essence (viewer.zmags.com)

70 points first seen 2012100803 last seen 2012100900 73 comments

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The Story Of Lockitron: Crowdfunding Without Kickstarter (techcrunch.com)

70 points first seen 2012100812 last seen 2012100909 26 comments

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1x Forth by Charles Moore (1999) (www.ultratechnology.com)

64 points first seen 2012100803 last seen 2016072009 28 comments

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Why Nate Silver Is So Good at Predicting Things (www.slate.com)

62 points first seen 2012100806 last seen 2012100821 86 comments

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Daniel Kahneman calls for ‘daisy chain’ of psychology replications (blogs.discovermagazine.com)

58 points first seen 2012100815 last seen 2012100909 40 comments

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If you can’t explain what you do in one paragraph, you’ve got a problem (venturebeat.com)

56 points first seen 2012100800 last seen 2012100903 34 comments

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Robert Bork on antitrust: Google is no Microsoft (news.cnet.com)

54 points first seen 2012100803 last seen 2012100900 53 comments

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Airbnb Tech Talk: Evan Priestley of Facebook - Move Fast and Break Things (www.airbnb.com)

51 points first seen 2012100815 last seen 2012100909 25 comments

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Ways Startups Can Deal With Patent Troll Demands (techcrunch.com)

50 points first seen 2012100803 last seen 2012100903 9 comments

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Twice as Many Mobile News Readers Prefer Browsers to Apps (news.yahoo.com)

50 points first seen 2012100815 last seen 2012100909 27 comments

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A 1982 Commodore 64 web server, 64k RAM, 1 MHz CPU, running Contiki (c64web.com)

48 points first seen 2012100809 last seen 2012100906 26 comments

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The world wide web in black and white (www.unclrd.com)

46 points first seen 2012100821 last seen 2012100915 42 comments

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Scalable CSS-based Playing Cards (donpark.github.com)

43 points first seen 2012100812 last seen 2012100906 15 comments

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HN2JSON: A ruby gem for HackerNews (rubygems.org)

41 points first seen 2012100806 last seen 2012100903 13 comments

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Dissolve the SEC (mathbabe.org)

41 points first seen 2012100812 last seen 2012100906 28 comments

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2.7 million total image views after Reddit content experiment. (www.fireoneout.com)

40 points first seen 2012100803 last seen 2012100900 19 comments

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How (And Why) I'm Circumventing Twitter's API Instead of Using It (pandawhale.com)

39 points first seen 2012100803 last seen 2012100900 8 comments

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Trying the Stand-Up Desk (blogs.lessthandot.com)

38 points first seen 2012100803 last seen 2012100900 20 comments

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Interface Sketch: free templates for web, mobile and tablet (interfacesketch.tumblr.com)

38 points first seen 2012100812 last seen 2012100906 0 comments

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Huawei, ZTE Under Fire - National Security Threat (online.wsj.com)

38 points first seen 2012100818 last seen 2012100921 22 comments

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Postgres array field with Django (www.niwi.be)

32 points first seen 2012100806 last seen 2012100903 9 comments

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Providing APIs for content-driven websites (aaronparecki.com)

32 points first seen 2012100806 last seen 2012100903 7 comments

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Don’t worry, Europe: you’re about to get a new beginning (gigaom.com)

29 points first seen 2012100800 last seen 2012100809 42 comments

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AeroFS is x87 faster than Dropbox in LAN syncing [video] (blog.ram.rachum.com)

29 points first seen 2012100800 last seen 2012100806 50 comments

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WebGL Meeting - chat with friends in 3D (jeromeetienne.github.com)

29 points first seen 2012100803 last seen 2012100900 9 comments

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Debunk The Myth That Copyright Is Needed To Make Money (torrentfreak.com)

29 points first seen 2012100815 last seen 2012100818 36 comments

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How To Use IndexedDB - Simple Example (greenido.wordpress.com)

28 points first seen 2012100803 last seen 2012100900 13 comments

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Hotclicks (jackg.org)

25 points first seen 2012100806 last seen 2012100900 14 comments

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Presidential Candidate Sentiment Analysis using R (stathack.wordpress.com)

25 points first seen 2012100815 last seen 2012100906 7 comments

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Remembering Your First Computer Is For Old People (techcrunch.com)

20 points first seen 2012100806 last seen 2012100809 33 comments

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One of these things is not like the other: Apple store, Microsoft store (gravitationalpull.net)

20 points first seen 2012100806 last seen 2012100821 35 comments

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Will Android Tablets Overtake the iPad? (www.thefastertimes.com)

20 points first seen 2012100806 last seen 2012100806 40 comments

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The Demon Core (en.wikipedia.org)

17 points first seen 2012100812 last seen 2012100900 0 comments

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Association between violent video games and aggression among adolescents (psycnet.apa.org)

17 points first seen 2012100818 last seen 2012100900 38 comments

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How Steve Jobs' Love of Simplicity Fueled A Design Revolution (www.smithsonianmag.com)

16 points first seen 2012100809 last seen 2012100815 9 comments

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Windows GameDev: The king is dead (XNA) long live the king (DirectXTK) (blogs.msdn.com)

16 points first seen 2012100821 last seen 2012100906 11 comments

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Getting useful C++ exception information from Visual Studio (cwspencer.co.uk)

15 points first seen 2012100818 last seen 2012100906 0 comments

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How To Manage App Development On The Android Platform Without Going Nuts (techcrunch.com)

14 points first seen 2012100812 last seen 2012100900 8 comments

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Could Google Glass be banned in the casinos? (milanvrekic.com)

11 points first seen 2012100806 last seen 2012100812 21 comments

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Parallella reveals 'cluster in a box' reward tiers (www.kickstarter.com)

10 points first seen 2012100818 last seen 2012100903 3 comments

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Newcomer experience & contributor behavior in Perl/FOSS communities (Survey) (blogs.perl.org)

9 points first seen 2012100806 last seen 2012100818 0 comments

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Is Apple Abandoning the Pro Video Market? (www.screenlight.tv)

9 points first seen 2012100815 last seen 2012100900 0 comments

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Increasing Productivity is a Load of Bullshit (www.techdisruptive.com)

8 points first seen 2012100800 last seen 2012100800 7 comments

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Developers: When using Frecency, please consider the context (blog.ram.rachum.com)

8 points first seen 2012100809 last seen 2012100815 5 comments

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Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Foods (insideinsides.blogspot.com)

7 points first seen 2012100806 last seen 2012100812 0 comments

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Gephi, an open source graph visualization and manipulation software (gephi.org)

7 points first seen 2012100821 last seen 2012100903 0 comments

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EasyHttp and ServiceStack - making the MSpec tests better (blogs.lessthandot.com)

6 points first seen 2012100803 last seen 2012100809 0 comments

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Microsoft DMCA Notice ‘Mistakenly’ Targets BBC, Techcrunch, Wikipedia... (torrentfreak.com)

6 points first seen 2012100806 last seen 2012100812 2 comments

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Every Lost episode visualized and recreated (intuitionanalytics.com)

6 points first seen 2012100809 last seen 2012100815 0 comments

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Digital 100, most valuable boot strapped company (plentyoffish.wordpress.com)

6 points first seen 2012100812 last seen 2012100818 0 comments

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Ask HN: Any hackers in Brisbane looking for a place to live? (news.ycombinator.com)

6 points first seen 2012100812 last seen 2012100815 0 comments

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Ask HN: Are Domain Names Worth Anything Anymore? (news.ycombinator.com)

6 points first seen 2012100818 last seen 2012100821 13 comments

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Onboard A Fully Lit Space Shuttle Flight Deck (www.launchphotography.com)

5 points first seen 2012100800 last seen 2014112712 0 comments

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Add Stylesheets To WordPress Correctly (www.paulund.co.uk)

5 points first seen 2012100803 last seen 2012100803 0 comments

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Mastering the Art of Bosslessness (www.fastcompany.com)

5 points first seen 2012100806 last seen 2012100809 3 comments

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Software Engineering for Internet Applications (philip.greenspun.com)

5 points first seen 2012100809 last seen 2012100815 0 comments

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A Photoshop workflow for the web (bleikamp.com)

5 points first seen 2012100812 last seen 2012100815 0 comments

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JSMin with sourcemaps (grunt flavor) (github.com)

5 points first seen 2012100821 last seen 2012100900 0 comments

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On List Comprehension in C++ (dev-perspective.blogspot.com)

5 points first seen 2012100821 last seen 2012100900 0 comments

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Watch worldwide cyber-attacks live with HoneyMap (map.honeynet.org)

5 points first seen 2012100821 last seen 2012100900 0 comments

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The Ugly Values of Beautiful People (www.psmag.com)

4 points first seen 2012100806 last seen 2012100806 0 comments

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Silicon Valley's Stock Funk (online.wsj.com)

4 points first seen 2012100806 last seen 2012100809 0 comments

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A beginner's guide to Redirect and Render in Rails (zackshapiro.com)

4 points first seen 2012100809 last seen 2012100809 0 comments

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Ask HN: My fb fan page has over 700k likes, what should I do with it? (news.ycombinator.com)

4 points first seen 2012100809 last seen 2012100809 0 comments

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A working and durable bike made out of cardboard (vimeo.com)

4 points first seen 2012100809 last seen 2012100809 0 comments

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Why Data Will Never Replace Thinking - Justin Fox (blogs.hbr.org)

4 points first seen 2012100821 last seen 2012100900 0 comments

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Sex Trafficking On Backpage.com: Much Ado About (Statistically) Nothing (techcrunch.com)

3 points first seen 2012100800 last seen 2012100800 0 comments

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Neolithic discovery: why Orkney is the centre of ancient Britain (www.guardian.co.uk)

3 points first seen 2012100800 last seen 2012100800 0 comments

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All Djangocon US Videos 2012 (www.youtube.com)

3 points first seen 2012100800 last seen 2012100800 0 comments

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Nuclear thermal rocket (en.wikipedia.org)

3 points first seen 2012100806 last seen 2012100806 0 comments

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Git alias to easily restore files removed from repo (hipster.pandeveloper.com)

3 points first seen 2012100809 last seen 2012100812 0 comments

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Why Companies Use Software To Scan Resumes (www.npr.org)

3 points first seen 2012100809 last seen 2012100812 0 comments

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Metaskills - Talents for the coming Robotic Age (imprint.printmag.com)

3 points first seen 2012100809 last seen 2012100812 0 comments

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Ask HN: What's an effective programming test? (news.ycombinator.com)

3 points first seen 2012100809 last seen 2012100809 0 comments

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Smart applications without machine learning algorithms (theorical) (protractileaigu.blogspot.fr)

3 points first seen 2012100812 last seen 2012100812 0 comments

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Some of the best pictures that showcase India (www.quora.com)

3 points first seen 2012100815 last seen 2012100815 0 comments

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JSMin with sourcemaps (github.com)

3 points first seen 2012100821 last seen 2012100821 0 comments

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In a keyboard-less future, what happens to all the writers? (techcrunch.com)

3 points first seen 2012100821 last seen 2012100821 0 comments

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Deploy entire web/db server with one lContent-Type: text/html;charset=UTF-8 X-Powered-By: Mojolicious (Perl) Status: 200 OK 1ine of code (github.com)

3 points first seen 2012100821 last seen 2012100821 0 comments

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Diaspora 0.0.1.0 Released (devblog.joindiaspora.com)

3 points first seen 2012100821 last seen 2012100821 0 comments

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Lead Engineer: We’re transforming the world of 3D printing. Join us. (news.ycombinator.com)

0 points first seen 2012100812 last seen 2012100906 0 comments

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GoCardless (YC S11) is hiring front-end engineers in London (news.ycombinator.com)

0 points first seen 2012100821 last seen 2012100921 0 comments