top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-08-08

Warn HN: Lots of Launches Coming

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2862067

15 years ago

428 upvotes – 93 comments

Anonymous hijacks Syria's government pages

http://mod.gov.sy/

15 years ago

349 upvotes – 47 comments

The Definitive Guide To Website Authentication

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/549/the-definitive-guide-to-website-authentication/

15 years ago

319 upvotes – 54 comments

Redesigning the browser window

http://blogg.antrop.se/interaktionsdesign/redesigning-the-browser-window/

15 years ago

307 upvotes – 96 comments

Why GNU grep is fast

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2010-August/019310.html?

15 years ago

253 upvotes – 43 comments

Mark Cuban: What Business is Wall Street in?

http://blogmaverick.com/2011/08/08/what-business-is-wall-street-in-2/

15 years ago

196 upvotes – 117 comments

Snapjoy (YC S11) Will Organize Your Photos For You

http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/08/yc-funded-snapjoy-will-organize-your-photos-for-you-and-make-sure-you-dont-lose-them/

15 years ago

185 upvotes – 60 comments

Kicksend (YC S11) Launches To Make Sharing Big Files A Breeze

http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/08/y-combinator-backed-kicksend-launches-in-beta-to-make-sharing-big-files-a-breeze/

15 years ago

182 upvotes – 74 comments

Retiring a Great Interview Problem

http://thenoisychannel.com/2011/08/08/retiring-a-great-interview-problem/

15 years ago

173 upvotes – 117 comments

Leaky (YC S11) is Hipmunk for Car Insurance

http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/08/yc-backed-leaky-is-hipmunk-for-car-insurance/#yc

15 years ago

162 upvotes – 123 comments

Finding memory leaks

http://gent.ilcore.com/2011/08/finding-memory-leaks.html

15 years ago

158 upvotes – 10 comments

Why Philosophers Should Care About Computational Complexity

http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=735

15 years ago

140 upvotes – 36 comments

Computer Science students: Learn to write

http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2011/08/04/computer-science-students-learn-to-write/

15 years ago

140 upvotes – 62 comments

40% off Pragmatic Programmers books this week

http://media.pragprog.com/newsletters/2011-08-08.html

15 years ago

125 upvotes – 38 comments

Developing Android Apps: it's really not so bad

http://www.bendmorris.com/2011/08/developing-android-apps-its-really-not.html

15 years ago

122 upvotes – 51 comments

Dive Into Python 3 (online book)

http://diveintopython3.org/

15 years ago

120 upvotes – 38 comments

Istanbul Isiklarius traffic lights

http://www.artlebedev.com/everything/isiklarius/

15 years ago

119 upvotes – 67 comments

Philips LED bulb Tear-down

http://www.edn.com/blog/PowerSource/40512-Remote_Phosphors_Philips_LED_bulb_Tear_down_Part_II.php

15 years ago

116 upvotes – 69 comments

What Happens When a Reasonable Developer Runs Into Aggressive Trademark Lawyers

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110805/17321115419/what-happens-when-reasonable-developer-runs-into-aggressive-trademark-lawyers.shtml

15 years ago

105 upvotes – 46 comments

London riots / UK riots: verified areas

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps/ms?msid=207192798388318292131.0004aa01af6748773e8f7&msa=0&ll=51.558503,-0.055275&spn=0.114195,0.298691

15 years ago

100 upvotes – 135 comments

Return of the Mac (2005)

http://www.paulgraham.com/mac.html

15 years ago

92 upvotes – 108 comments

Building a Farmers Market API in less than an hour for $0.

http://codeforamerica.org/2011/08/08/farmers-market-api/

15 years ago

91 upvotes – 14 comments

html5media.js enables HTML5 video and audio tags in all major browsers

http://html5media.info/

15 years ago

89 upvotes – 17 comments

Great Python Resources

http://dandies.org/python/

15 years ago

87 upvotes – 3 comments

John Mayer on Finishing Awful Songs

http://blog.joellehman.com/?p=95

15 years ago

86 upvotes – 28 comments

Moody’s: Why the U.S. Is Still AAA

http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/08/08/moodys-why-the-u-s-is-still-aaa/

15 years ago

82 upvotes – 103 comments

Airbnb launches new tools to strengthen communication & identity

http://blog.airbnb.com/creating-meaningful-connections

15 years ago

79 upvotes – 25 comments

What is a metaclass in python?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/100003/what-is-a-metaclass-in-python/6581949#6581949

15 years ago

79 upvotes – 8 comments

GParted: core features lost due to parted's "improvements" in v3.0

http://git.gnome.org/browse/gparted/tree/NEWS?id=16e2cb1b23c96d6a046e4a4001a05fcad8f7d253

15 years ago

78 upvotes – 41 comments

Twitter acquires Bagcheck

http://bagcheck.com/blog/03-bagchecking-into-twitter

15 years ago

77 upvotes – 37 comments

Beyond space-time: Welcome to phase space

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21128241.700-beyond-spacetime-welcome-to-phase-space.html?full=true

15 years ago

75 upvotes – 18 comments

Show HN: My WWDC-inspired project. A Markdown editor for Lion

http://kswizz.com/post/8624456381/macchiato

15 years ago

75 upvotes – 27 comments

NodeUp - Node.js Podcast

http://nodeup.com/3

15 years ago

69 upvotes – 3 comments

The Fine Line Between Fear and Courage

http://bhorowitz.com/2011/08/08/the-fine-line-between-fear-and-courage/

15 years ago

67 upvotes – 8 comments

The Real 3D Mandelbrot Set

https://christopherolah.wordpress.com/2011/08/08/the-real-3d-mandelbrot-set/

15 years ago

66 upvotes – 12 comments

Public market newcomers getting crushed in sell-off

http://gigaom.com/2011/08/08/tech-ipo-sell-off/

15 years ago

65 upvotes – 56 comments

Rethinking CSS Grids

http://www.markboulton.co.uk/journal/comments/rethinking-css-grids

15 years ago

60 upvotes – 15 comments

How Parse wants to make mobile backends easy (video)

http://gigaom.com/2011/08/08/parse/

15 years ago

59 upvotes – 8 comments

MonaOS: the OO hobby OS with a GUI, Scheme, browser, and more

http://www.monaos.org/

15 years ago

59 upvotes – 11 comments

RetroBSD - 2.11BSD running in 128k RAM / 512k Flash

http://code.google.com/p/retrobsd/

15 years ago

57 upvotes – 3 comments

Why designers don’t like A/B testing

http://www.ghostinthepixel.com/?p=549

15 years ago

56 upvotes – 43 comments

Robots Don't Complain or Demand Higher Wages or Kill Themselves...

http://www.economist.com/node/21525432

15 years ago

54 upvotes – 86 comments

Agamemnon 0.3.0.0: A graph database built on top of cassandra

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/agamemnon/0.3.0.0

15 years ago

53 upvotes – 10 comments

Blitz.io - How we use Heroku, AWS and CouchDB

http://blog.mudynamics.com/2011/08/07/blitz-io-how-we-use-heroku-aws-and-couchdb/

15 years ago

53 upvotes – 0 comments

HTC Developer site goes live: OpenSense SDK and kernel source offered

http://www.htcdev.com/

15 years ago

48 upvotes – 13 comments

Great macrology lecture (in PLT Racket)

http://pl.barzilay.org/lec22.txt

15 years ago

46 upvotes – 2 comments

Pretty IP Address lookup

http://ip.phurix.net/

15 years ago

45 upvotes – 34 comments

Google+ cooking school

http://blogs.kqed.org/bayareabites/2011/08/04/cooking-lessons-in-real-time-google-cooking-school/

15 years ago

45 upvotes – 9 comments

Mojocast #2: Placeholders, methods, and formats

http://mojocasts.com/e2

15 years ago

43 upvotes – 13 comments

Windows Phone GM leaving Microsoft, with a rallying cry

http://www.geekwire.com/2011/windows-phone-gm-leaving-microsoft-rallying-cry-team

15 years ago

43 upvotes – 32 comments
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