top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-06-01

A VC-funded startup called WhosHere is trying to steal my social network

http://brianhama.com/a-vc-funded-startup-called-whoshere-is-trying

14 years ago

787 upvotes – 219 comments

US and Israel created Stuxnet, lost control of it

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/06/confirmed-us-israel-created-stuxnet-lost-control-of-it/

14 years ago

650 upvotes – 310 comments

Show HN: movies.io — torrent search like it should be

http://movies.io/

14 years ago

550 upvotes – 487 comments

Things I Should Have Known at 20

http://inoveryourhead.net/

14 years ago

418 upvotes – 156 comments

Barack Obama Directs All Federal Agencies to Have an API

http://blog.apievangelist.com/2012/06/01/barak-obama-directs-all-federal-agencies-to-have-an-api/

14 years ago

298 upvotes – 77 comments

Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (June 2012)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4053076

14 years ago

294 upvotes – 254 comments

Obama Order Sped Up Wave of Cyberattacks Against Iran

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/01/world/middleeast/obama-ordered-wave-of-cyberattacks-against-iran.html

14 years ago

287 upvotes – 131 comments

I Up Vote Every 'Show HN' Post and You Should Too

http://tortillasinbed.tumblr.com/post/24175048206/i-up-vote-everything

14 years ago

282 upvotes – 83 comments

Show HN: I love weird socks and I'm finally launching my lifestyle business

http://www.sotmclub.com

14 years ago

243 upvotes – 79 comments

Nookd

http://villagecraftsmen.blogspot.com/2012/05/nookd.html

14 years ago

227 upvotes – 35 comments

Your Startup Needs a Dashboard

http://www.zemanta.com/fruitblog/your-startup-needs-a-dashboard/

14 years ago

222 upvotes – 64 comments

New Garbage Collector

http://wiki.luajit.org/New-Garbage-Collector

14 years ago

190 upvotes – 69 comments

A room so quiet, no one can spend more than 45 minutes in it

http://www.timesherald.com/article/20120515/NEWS04/120519723/a-room-so-quiet-no-one-can-stand-it-for-more-than-45-minutes&pager=full_story

14 years ago

184 upvotes – 90 comments

What Guide Books Tell Foreign Visitors to the U.S.

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/06/welcome-to-america-please-be-on-time-what-guide-books-tell-foreign-visitors-to-the-us/257993/

14 years ago

168 upvotes – 155 comments

Netflix queue + Rotten Tomatoes = A Better Queue

http://abetterqueue.com/

14 years ago

166 upvotes – 58 comments

SQL Injection Vulnerability in Rails

https://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-security/browse_thread/thread/7546a238e1962f59

14 years ago

163 upvotes – 50 comments

HN Showcase

http://www.hnshowcase.com/

14 years ago

158 upvotes – 27 comments

Apple Turns Over Its Inventory Once Every 5 Days

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/05/wow-apple-turns-over-its-inventory-once-every-5-days/257915/

14 years ago

153 upvotes – 56 comments

Why multi-armed bandit algorithm is not "better" than A/B testing

http://visualwebsiteoptimizer.com/split-testing-blog/multi-armed-bandit-algorithm/

14 years ago

147 upvotes – 76 comments

Show HN: Client side, shareable, text2speech messages

http://lalo.li/

14 years ago

143 upvotes – 11 comments

Udacity in partnership with Pearson VUE announces testing centers

http://udacity.blogspot.com/2012/06/udacity-in-partnership-with-pearson-vue.html

14 years ago

138 upvotes – 34 comments

Light Table funding successful, including Python support (over $300k raised)

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ibdknox/light-table?ref=email

14 years ago

137 upvotes – 64 comments

Feynman's Clock

http://danwin.com/2012/06/feynmans-clock/

14 years ago

137 upvotes – 46 comments

Show HN: doodlec.am inserts monsters into your photos

http://doodlec.am/?1.0.4_200

14 years ago

135 upvotes – 5 comments

Shortest program to print "Never gonna give you up..."

http://codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/6043/were-no-strangers-to-code-golf-you-know-the-rules-and-so-do-i

14 years ago

128 upvotes – 19 comments

Show HN: Underscore.js for Objective-C

http://underscorem.org

14 years ago

120 upvotes – 25 comments

Map Simplification with Visvalingam's Algorithm

http://bost.ocks.org/mike/simplify/

14 years ago

118 upvotes – 30 comments

Light Table reaches 300k necessary for Python support

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ibdknox/light-table?ref=live

14 years ago

102 upvotes – 35 comments

The Most Successful E-mail I Ever Wrote

http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2012/05/31/the-most-successful-e-mail-i-ever-wrote/

14 years ago

101 upvotes – 16 comments

Show HN: discuss.io - Get feedback on your designs with visual annotations

http://discuss.io

14 years ago

93 upvotes – 12 comments

Show HN: shelf-reading & inventory management with augmented reality

http://shelvar.com/

14 years ago

90 upvotes – 2 comments

Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (June 2012)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4053078

14 years ago

89 upvotes – 78 comments

The Mechanics and Meaning of That Ol' Dial-Up Modem Sound

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/06/the-mechanics-and-meaning-of-that-ol-dial-up-modem-sound/257816/

14 years ago

85 upvotes – 50 comments

Coding style and undoing indentation hell

http://www.virtualdub.org/blog/pivot/entry.php?id=238

14 years ago

76 upvotes – 76 comments

Show HN: Tyba - Personal Websites for Students & Young Professionals

http://tyba.com

14 years ago

76 upvotes – 12 comments

Show HN: I'm building a social network around hiking and backpacking

http://wenthiking.com

14 years ago

73 upvotes – 20 comments

RubyMotion build system is now open source

http://blog.rubymotion.com/post/24197887535/community-open-source-updates

14 years ago

73 upvotes – 8 comments

The zero-day exploit market is bad for security

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2012/06/the_vulnerabili.html

14 years ago

72 upvotes – 29 comments

"I thought people had an idea first before leaving"

http://blog.gaborcselle.com/2012/06/i-thought-people-had-idea-first-before.html

14 years ago

71 upvotes – 53 comments

NASA can now predict Andromeda collision with certainty

http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2012/31may_andromeda/

14 years ago

69 upvotes – 20 comments

Mac App Store vs Buying Direct

http://rentzsch.tumblr.com/post/24207015641/mac-app-store-vs-buying-direct

14 years ago

66 upvotes – 42 comments

Like Team Fortress 2, Valve make DotA 2 free to play - revenue via in-game store

http://blog.dota2.com/2012/06/introducing-the-dota-store/

14 years ago

62 upvotes – 26 comments

Show HN: (my first webapp) An HTML5 platform game stage design community

http://taketheblock.com

14 years ago

61 upvotes – 21 comments
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