top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-02-07

Path uploads your entire iPhone address book to its servers

http://mclov.in/2012/02/08/path-uploads-your-entire-address-book-to-their-servers.html

14 years ago

834 upvotes – 267 comments

Introducing Chrome for Android

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/02/introducing-chrome-for-android.html

14 years ago

476 upvotes – 233 comments

Vim anti-patterns

http://blog.sanctum.geek.nz/vim-anti-patterns/

14 years ago

333 upvotes – 142 comments

Show HN: Favicon alert bubbles

http://tommoor.github.com/tinycon/

14 years ago

271 upvotes – 63 comments

Romanian Prime Minister Admits He Has No Idea Why Romania Signed ACTA

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120205/14043517663/romanian-prime-minister-admits-he-has-no-idea-why-romania-signed-acta.shtml

14 years ago

261 upvotes – 64 comments

Apple’s great GPL purge

http://meta.ath0.com/2012/02/05/apples-great-gpl-purge/

14 years ago

241 upvotes – 205 comments

Ruby Trick Shots

http://rubyreloaded.com/trickshots/

14 years ago

200 upvotes – 30 comments

Canonical will no longer fund Kubuntu

http://blogs.kde.org/node/4531

14 years ago

200 upvotes – 83 comments

You're solving the wrong problem

http://www.azarask.in/blog/post/the-wrong-problem/

14 years ago

192 upvotes – 38 comments

How to Succeed as an Introvert

http://h30565.www3.hp.com/t5/Feature-Articles/How-to-Succeed-as-an-Introvert/ba-p/1522

14 years ago

179 upvotes – 65 comments

Square Releases Open Source WebSocket Client for Objective-C

http://corner.squareup.com/2012/02/socketrocket-websockets.html

14 years ago

175 upvotes – 19 comments

LinkedIn Is Acquiring Contacts Start-Up Rapportive (YC S10)

http://allthingsd.com/20120207/linkedin-is-acquiring-contacts-start-up-rapportive/

14 years ago

169 upvotes – 35 comments

Show HN: Cron.io - Sharing a by-product. Should this be a full service?

http://cron.io

14 years ago

153 upvotes – 70 comments

Autodidacticism

http://raganwald.posterous.com/autodidacticism

14 years ago

149 upvotes – 33 comments

Amazon S3 Price Reduction

http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2012/02/amazon-s3-price-reduction.html

14 years ago

146 upvotes – 56 comments

Pinterest quietly modifying users links to generate affiliate revenue

http://llsocial.com/2012/02/pinterest-modifying-user-submitted-pins/

14 years ago

146 upvotes – 68 comments

Salon publishes 33% fewer articles, traffic grows 40%

http://open.salon.com/blog/kerry_lauerman/2012/02/03/hit_record

14 years ago

144 upvotes – 38 comments

My foxhole radio

http://blog.jgc.org/2012/02/my-foxhole-radio.html

14 years ago

142 upvotes – 28 comments

CoffeeScript Under Pressure

http://mattdw.github.com/2012/rapid-coffee-postmortem.html

14 years ago

133 upvotes – 55 comments

70 Groups Tell Congress To Put The Brakes On Any Further Efforts To Expand IP

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120206/11033317671/70-groups-tell-congress-to-put-brakes-any-further-efforts-to-expand-intellectual-property.shtml

14 years ago

131 upvotes – 14 comments

What Level Programmer Are You?

http://www.whattofix.com/blog/archives/2012/02/what-level-prog.php

14 years ago

126 upvotes – 64 comments

How my todo list works

http://antirez.com/post/my-todo-list.html

14 years ago

123 upvotes – 33 comments

Snapjoy (YC S11) unveils Flickraft, one-click migration for Flickr users

http://www.flickraft.com

14 years ago

122 upvotes – 66 comments

Twitter adds SPDY support to Netty

http://netty.io/blog/2012/02/04/

14 years ago

121 upvotes – 18 comments

Anonymous releases stolen Symantec source code

https://thepiratebay.se/torrent/7014253

14 years ago

116 upvotes – 36 comments

Rice Uiversity Announces Open Source Textbooks

http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2012/02/07/rice-university-announces-open-source-textbooks

14 years ago

109 upvotes – 13 comments

What Silicon Valley gets wrong about math education again and again

http://blog.mrmeyer.com/?p=12782

14 years ago

106 upvotes – 83 comments

Game Development Essentials #1 - Don’t use inheritance for your game objects

http://unlikekinds.com/post/17192015158

14 years ago

104 upvotes – 47 comments

Wolfram Alpha Pro democratizes data analysis

http://www.theverge.com/2012/2/6/2776303/wolfram-alpha-pro-democratizes-data-analysis-an-in-depth-look-at-the

14 years ago

97 upvotes – 13 comments

Stack Overflow running short on space

http://nickcraver.com/blog/2012/02/07/stack-overflow-short-on-space/

14 years ago

96 upvotes – 81 comments

Engineers boost AMD CPU by 20% with software alone; no overclocking

http://www.extremetech.com/computing/117377-engineers-boost-amd-cpu-performance-by-20-without-overclocking

14 years ago

94 upvotes – 17 comments

Etsy: Announcing Direct Checkout. (No longer just PayPal.)

http://www.etsy.com/blog/news/2012/announcing-direct-checkout/

14 years ago

93 upvotes – 35 comments

$50,000 to keep Symantec source code private

http://www.zdnet.com/news/hackers-50000-to-keep-symantec-source-code-private/6342977

14 years ago

89 upvotes – 80 comments

Bashar Assad emails leaked by Anonymous

http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/bashar-assad-emails-leaked-tips-for-abc-interview-revealed-1.411445

14 years ago

89 upvotes – 53 comments

New Linux kernel fixes power-saving issues

http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/New-Linux-kernel-fixes-power-saving-issues-1429482.html

14 years ago

85 upvotes – 16 comments

Google to strip Chrome of standard SSL revocation checking

http://arstechnica.com/business/guides/2012/02/google-strips-chrome-of-ssl-revocation-checking.ars

14 years ago

85 upvotes – 26 comments

Google+ Developers Page is launched

https://plus.google.com/110967630299632321627/posts

14 years ago

84 upvotes – 6 comments

Pycoder's Weekly

http://pycoders.com/

14 years ago

84 upvotes – 25 comments

Tty.js - a terminal for your browser using socket.io

https://github.com/chjj/tty.js

14 years ago

★ 4.2k JavaScript MIT
81 upvotes – 10 comments

India’s identity scheme: The magic number

http://www.economist.com/node/21542763

14 years ago

78 upvotes – 30 comments

LibreOffice to go Android and HTML5

http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2012/02/libreoffice-developer-shows-prototype-android-and-html5-ports.ars

14 years ago

74 upvotes – 14 comments

WebM and WebP Hand Ported to JavaScript for All Browsers

http://badassjs.com/post/17218459521/webm-and-webp-hand-ported-to-javascript-for-all

14 years ago

70 upvotes – 19 comments

Stopping the Finance 'Brain Drain' Of The U.S. Economy

http://www.wbur.org/npr/146434854/stopping-the-brain-drain-of-the-u-s-economy

14 years ago

68 upvotes – 52 comments

Python NLTK Sentiment Analysis with Text Classification Demo

http://text-processing.com/demo/sentiment#demo

14 years ago

68 upvotes – 9 comments

Airbrake acquired by Exceptional

http://blog.airbrake.io/airbrake-news/how-exceptional-and-airbrake-first-met/

14 years ago

67 upvotes – 31 comments

Php 5.4 vs 5.3: is really fast and with less memory leaks

http://news.php.net/php.internals/57760

14 years ago

67 upvotes – 31 comments

Branches: Everyone Should Use Them

http://tomb.io/posts/branches-everyone-should-use-them/

14 years ago

64 upvotes – 27 comments

Time To Hang Up My Hat

http://voltsteve.blogspot.com/2012/02/time-to-hang-up-my-hat.html

14 years ago

62 upvotes – 11 comments

Dwolla raises $5M to continue its work on “really freaky stuff”

http://venturebeat.com/2012/02/07/dwolla-gettin-freaky/

14 years ago

60 upvotes – 24 comments

Steve Blank's Lean Launchpad & Chuck Eesley's Tech Entreprenur class cancelled

https://plus.google.com/b/107809899089663019971/107809899089663019971/posts/LniJSBQJec5

14 years ago

56 upvotes – 9 comments

How Trigger went international with Y Combinator’s help

https://trigger.io/cross-platform-application-development-blog/2012/02/07/cross-platform-and-cross-continent-how-trigger-came-to-be-international-with-y-combinators-help/

14 years ago

56 upvotes – 7 comments

CoffeeScript is Afrikaans JavaScript

http://logicalfriday.com/2012/02/07/coffeescript-is-afrikaans-javascript/

14 years ago

53 upvotes – 23 comments

Stanford d.school Design Methods : The Bootcamp Bootleg [pdf]

http://dschool.stanford.edu/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/BootcampBootleg2010v2SLIM.pdf

14 years ago

53 upvotes – 8 comments
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