top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-06-24

TrueCrypt User Held in Contempt of Court

http://forums.truecrypt.org/viewtopic.php?t=23969

15 years ago

488 upvotes – 186 comments

How to Make Text Look Interesting: Minimalist Web Design

http://getspace.org/typographic-contras-minimalist-web-design/

15 years ago

455 upvotes – 72 comments

Team Fortress 2 now free forever

http://www.teamfortress.com/freetoplay/

15 years ago

423 upvotes – 161 comments

Skype options turn out to be worthless

http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2011/06/24/upgrading-skype-and-silver-lake-to-evil/

15 years ago

343 upvotes – 142 comments

Goodbye Basecamp, This Is The End

http://www.christianjung.com/2011/goodbye-basecamp-this-is-the-end-of-a-true-love-my-heart-is-broken/

15 years ago

251 upvotes – 96 comments

Facebook autobot going berserker

http://forum.developers.facebook.net/viewtopic.php?pid=355270

15 years ago

250 upvotes – 153 comments

10000 things all CS students should do before graduating

http://tagide.com/blog/2011/06/things-ics-students-should-do-before-graduating/

15 years ago

237 upvotes – 160 comments

The Origin of the word Daemon

http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/Daemon.html

15 years ago

215 upvotes – 45 comments

Jeff Bezos commissioning a giant clock to last 10,000 years.

http://www.10000yearclock.net/learnmore.html?

15 years ago

166 upvotes – 61 comments

Instapaper Server Update

http://blog.instapaper.com/post/6854208028

15 years ago

163 upvotes – 47 comments

House Keys copyable from 200 ft away via camera

http://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_releases/release.sfe?id=791

15 years ago

133 upvotes – 69 comments

Bank of Canada: The New $100 Note

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7chpllnU-To

15 years ago

131 upvotes – 110 comments

Profiling Go Programs

http://blog.golang.org/2011/06/profiling-go-programs.html

15 years ago

125 upvotes – 15 comments

Loser-Pays makes lawsuits fairer in Europe. It could work here, too.

http://reason.com/archives/1995/06/01/civil-suits/#

15 years ago

109 upvotes – 52 comments

Only in Germany: An API with opening hours

http://evatr.bff-online.de/eVatR/xmlrpc/

15 years ago

100 upvotes – 76 comments

Write your first MapReduce program in 20 minutes

http://michaelnielsen.org/blog/write-your-first-mapreduce-program-in-20-minutes/

15 years ago

96 upvotes – 12 comments

Apple posts WWDC2011 session videos

http://developer.apple.com/videos/wwdc/2011/

15 years ago

94 upvotes – 38 comments

The origin of the name Posix.

http://www.stallman.org/articles/posix.html

15 years ago

92 upvotes – 18 comments

Afghans Build Open-Source Internet From Trash

http://www.shareable.net/blog/afghans-build-open-source-internet-from-trash-0

15 years ago

92 upvotes – 18 comments

Camera+: The Road to 3 Million (infographic)

http://taptaptap.com/blog/cameraplus-the-road-to-3-million/

15 years ago

92 upvotes – 18 comments

House approves major overhaul of patent system

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110623/ap_on_re_us/us_congress_patents;_ylt=Al5JB1JhWFW2umzMUQNRyIas0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTNucG1rYjg3BGFzc2V0A2FwLzIwMTEwNjIzL3VzX2NvbmdyZXNzX3BhdGVudHMEY2NvZGUDbW9zdHBvcHVsYXIEY3BvcwM2BHBvcwMzBHB0A2hvbWVfY29rZQRzZWMDeW5faGVhZGxpbmVfbGlzdARzbGsDaG91c2VhcHByb3Zl

15 years ago

89 upvotes – 45 comments

Starcraft in a bar? TwitchTV promoting social Starcraft in San Francisco

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=124196187665382

15 years ago

89 upvotes – 21 comments

CSS "text-overflow: ellipsis;" finally landed in Gecko

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=312156&

15 years ago

88 upvotes – 27 comments

J.K. Rowling's Next Chapter: A Transfiguration Spell on the Publishing Industry

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/jk_rowlings_next_chapter_a_transfiguration_spell_o.php#.TgTb4Ej9Gsw.hackernews

15 years ago

84 upvotes – 23 comments

Google retires Google Health and PowerMeter projects

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/06/update-on-google-health-and-google.html

15 years ago

84 upvotes – 40 comments

MongoHQ (YC S11) Raises $417K From Lerer And SV Angel

http://techcrunch.com/2011/06/24/mongohq-raises-417k-from-y-combinator-lehrer-and-sv-angel/

15 years ago

82 upvotes – 21 comments

Save Bistro Elan

http://paulgraham.com/saveelan.html

15 years ago

79 upvotes – 31 comments

Thousands of EVE online players riot over microtransactions

http://mmodata.blogspot.com/2011/06/riots-in-eve-against-microtransactions.html

15 years ago

78 upvotes – 40 comments

The lsm command for Latent Semantic Mapping

http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man1/lsm.1.html

15 years ago

74 upvotes – 18 comments

Fair use isn’t much good if you can’t afford it

http://gigaom.com/2011/06/24/fair-use-isnt-much-good-if-you-cant-afford-it/

15 years ago

67 upvotes – 40 comments

The Pros and Cons of Working for Yourself

http://blog.earbits.com/online_radio/the-pros-and-cons-of-working-for-yourself/

15 years ago

64 upvotes – 8 comments

Arch Linux Packages Visualization

http://www.toofishes.net/blog/arch-package-visualization/

15 years ago

59 upvotes – 10 comments

How employees get screwed in private equity deals

http://framethink.wordpress.com/2011/06/24/how-employees-get-screwed-in-private-equity-deals/

15 years ago

56 upvotes – 4 comments

Mario Marathon 4 Starts Today

http://www.mariomarathon.com/

15 years ago

56 upvotes – 5 comments

Mozilla Executive: We're Not Interested In Enterprise Level Users

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2387514,00.asp?f=2

15 years ago

54 upvotes – 78 comments

I couldn't get into YC, so I joined a startup that did

http://swizec.com/blog/i-couldnt-get-into-yc-so-i-joined-a-startup-that-did/swizec/1855

15 years ago

51 upvotes – 10 comments

Rhode Island Says Police Can Decloak Anonymous People Online

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110620/12050914769/rhode-island-says-police-can-decloak-anonymous-people-online-if-they-find-them-offensive.shtml

15 years ago

51 upvotes – 14 comments

Dropbox Breach: Fewer Than 100 Accounts Affected, One Person Actively Exploited

http://techcrunch.com/2011/06/24/dropbox-breach-fewer-than-100-accounts-affected-but-one-person-actively-exploited-it/

15 years ago

49 upvotes – 15 comments

Node.js coming to Windows, Azure with official Microsoft support

http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2011/06/nodejs-coming-to-windows-azure-with-official-microsoft-support.ars

15 years ago

48 upvotes – 18 comments

How the demands of a Stanley Kubrick led to two new cinematographic tools

http://www.visual-memory.co.uk/sk/ac/len/page1.htm

15 years ago

47 upvotes – 6 comments
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