top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-08-12

For the love of God, YC companies-to-be stop posting ambiguous job description

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2879055

15 years ago

369 upvotes – 93 comments

AeroFS - File Sync Without Servers

http://www.aerofs.com/

15 years ago

335 upvotes – 117 comments

Why you don't steal from a hacker.

http://infosec20.blogspot.com/2011/08/why-you-dont-steal-from-hacker.html

15 years ago

272 upvotes – 152 comments

How to put your logo in a QR code

http://hackaday.com/2011/08/11/how-to-put-your-logo-in-a-qr-code/

15 years ago

255 upvotes – 50 comments

Algorithms to enhance or transform images

http://www.scriptol.com/programming/graphic-algorithms.php

15 years ago

235 upvotes – 38 comments

Use Jonathan's card to buy yourself an iPad

http://sam.odio.com/2011/08/12/i-took-625-jonathans-card/

15 years ago

234 upvotes – 234 comments

Welcome to the Cloud - "Your Apple ID has been disabled."

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/WelcomeToTheCloudYourAppleIDHasBeenDisabled.aspx

15 years ago

232 upvotes – 100 comments

The Shapes of CSS

http://css-tricks.com/examples/ShapesOfCSS/

15 years ago

219 upvotes – 37 comments

Ask HN: Help, I think Amazon is stealing my ebook

http://www.amazon.com/FOUNDATION-PROGRAMMING-Building-Software-ebook/dp/B005BYS3FE

15 years ago

212 upvotes – 53 comments

Flickr is dead

http://thomashawk.com/2011/08/flickr-is-dead.html

15 years ago

183 upvotes – 96 comments

Next-Gen Web Apps: Google unleashes Native Client into Chrome

http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/11/chrome-native-client/

15 years ago

160 upvotes – 122 comments

MobileWorks (YC S11) is a Hands-Off Mechanical Turk

http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/12/yc-funded-mobileworks-aims-to-be-a-hands-off-mechanical-turk/

15 years ago

151 upvotes – 48 comments

Free Printed Copies of "Version Control by Example"

http://www.ericsink.com/entries/vcbe_print_edition_free.html

15 years ago

144 upvotes – 41 comments

PicPlum (YC S11): Beautiful Prints, Automatically Mailed for You

http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/12/yc-funded-picplum-beautiful-prints-automatically-mailed-for-you/

15 years ago

144 upvotes – 49 comments

San Francisco Subway Muzzles Cell Service During Protest

http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-20091822-245/s.f-subway-muzzles-cell-service-during-protest/

15 years ago

142 upvotes – 111 comments

How PayPal could have killed an independent conference

http://aralbalkan.com/3898

15 years ago

110 upvotes – 65 comments

How much money should my company raise?

http://jessicamah.com/how-much-money-should-my-company-raise

15 years ago

108 upvotes – 58 comments

Old Dijkstra Essays Considered

https://blog.mozilla.com/luke/2011/08/12/old-dijkstra-essays-considered/

15 years ago

106 upvotes – 9 comments

Run old games in DOSBox in the browser

http://www.naclbox.com/gallery

15 years ago

105 upvotes – 42 comments

Extreme concentration of wealth in US economy has led to central planning

https://plus.google.com/107033731246200681024/posts/D6SwChze4Vd

15 years ago

95 upvotes – 76 comments

Fuzzing at scale

http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/2011/08/fuzzing-at-scale.html

15 years ago

93 upvotes – 14 comments

Show HN: Our new ridesharing site, BurningManRides.com. Feedback?

http://burningmanrides.com

15 years ago

93 upvotes – 32 comments

Show HN: A Chrome extension that adds moustaches to every face on the web

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/khaoakmndhjandiaaadnjgnbchillcdj

15 years ago

90 upvotes – 31 comments

An Inside Look at the (Python) GIL Removal Patch of Lore

http://dabeaz.blogspot.com/2011/08/inside-look-at-gil-removal-patch-of.html

15 years ago

90 upvotes – 17 comments

Python GIL removal question

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2011-August/112813.html

15 years ago

85 upvotes – 44 comments

D3 for Mere Mortals (d3.js visualization tutorial)

http://www.recursion.org/d3-for-mere-mortals/

15 years ago

84 upvotes – 20 comments

How browsers make money, or why Google needs Firefox

http://www.extremetech.com/internet/92558-how-browsers-make-money-or-why-google-needs-firefox/1

15 years ago

82 upvotes – 32 comments

Milestone for MIT Press’s bestseller, "Introduction to Algorithms"

http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2011/introduction-to-algorithms-500k-0810.html

15 years ago

81 upvotes – 48 comments

Show HN: We built Callroulette, a chatroulette for phones

http://tier.cs.berkeley.edu/callroulette

15 years ago

76 upvotes – 29 comments

Mark Shuttleworth on patents, tablets and the future of Ubuntu

http://www.techcentral.co.za/mark-shuttleworth-on-patents-tablets-and-the-future-of-ubuntu/25192/

15 years ago

76 upvotes – 11 comments

Storage is Cheap, Don't Mutate - Copy on Write

http://hashbo.posterous.com/storage-is-cheap-dont-mutate-copy-on-write-te

15 years ago

70 upvotes – 31 comments

Open Office Layout is Bad for Brain

http://www.infoq.com/news/2011/08/open-office-layout

15 years ago

70 upvotes – 64 comments

Sales of obscure game consoles vs. non-iPad tablets

http://www.marco.org/2011/08/12/tablets-vs-obscure-video-game-consoles

15 years ago

68 upvotes – 72 comments

Facebook shows even more fear (of Google+, etc.)

http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/12/facebook-quietly-updates-platform-policies-developers-take-note/

15 years ago

65 upvotes – 28 comments

The desktop is not dead dammit

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2390630,00.asp?kc=PCRSS03079TX1K0000585

15 years ago

65 upvotes – 47 comments

Evidence That ADHD Is a Genetic Disorder

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/09/100929191312.htm

15 years ago

63 upvotes – 71 comments

U.K. Riots: Website Raises £25k to Help 89-Year-Old Barber

http://blogs.wsj.com/tech-europe/2011/08/12/u-k-riots-website-raises-25k-to-help-89-year-old-barber/

15 years ago

58 upvotes – 11 comments

Learn Prolog Now

http://cs.union.edu/~striegnk/learn-prolog-now/lpnpage.php?pageid=online

15 years ago

57 upvotes – 13 comments

The Blackberry Shift: From the executive phone to the phone of the urban poor

http://anarchogeek.com/2011/08/11/the-blackberry-shift-from-executives-to-the-urban-poor/

15 years ago

56 upvotes – 17 comments

The Revenues of a Moderately Successful iPad App

http://www.remembary.com/blog/remembarys-return-the-revenues-of-a-moderately-successful-ip.html

15 years ago

54 upvotes – 15 comments

Abolish Patents

http://www.patenthawk.com/blog/2011/08/abolish_patents.html

15 years ago

54 upvotes – 7 comments

Real World Functional Programming - Book excerpts

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh314518.aspx

15 years ago

52 upvotes – 2 comments

Google +1 is failing, miserably

http://gerger.co/yalimslodge/2011/08/12/1-for-google-1/

15 years ago

52 upvotes – 63 comments

Kate Turning 10 Years Old

http://kate-editor.org/2011/08/11/kate-turning-10-years-old/

15 years ago

51 upvotes – 20 comments

Google+ Updates Real Name Policy

https://plus.google.com/109179785755319022525/posts/YcvRKqJeiZi

15 years ago

49 upvotes – 59 comments
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