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

R.I.P. Ray Bradbury, Author of Fahrenheit 451 and The Martian Chronicles

http://io9.com/5916175/rip-ray-bradbury-author-of-fahrenheit-451-and-the-martian-chronicles

14 years ago

821 upvotes – 95 comments

6.5 Million LinkedIn Password Hashes Leaked

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=no&tl=en&u=http://www.dagensit.no/article2411857.ece

14 years ago

561 upvotes – 511 comments

Make Better Select Boxes with Chosen

http://harvesthq.github.com/chosen/

14 years ago

514 upvotes – 83 comments

Fish: Finally, a command line shell for the 90s

http://ridiculousfish.com/shell/

14 years ago

442 upvotes – 146 comments

Take my money, HBO

http://takemymoneyhbo.com/

14 years ago

425 upvotes – 306 comments

LeakedIn

http://leakedin.org/

14 years ago

253 upvotes – 174 comments

Storing Passwords Securely

http://throwingfire.com/storing-passwords-securely/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+throwingfire+%28Throwing+Fire%29#notpasswordhashes

14 years ago

250 upvotes – 133 comments

John Carmack is making a virtual reality headset

http://www.pcgamer.com/2012/06/06/john-carmack-is-making-a-virtual-reality-headset-500-kits-available-soon-video-interview-inside/

14 years ago

244 upvotes – 63 comments

Buttons that morph out of the surface of the device.

http://www.tactustechnology.com/

14 years ago

225 upvotes – 88 comments

Hacking an ATM

http://henryschwarz.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/black-hatted.html

14 years ago

203 upvotes – 45 comments

Zeolite retains heat indefinitely, absorbs 4x more heat than water

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/130523-zeolite-thermal-storage-retains-heat-indefinitely-absorbs-four-times-more-heat-than-water

14 years ago

178 upvotes – 77 comments

The US Census now has an API

http://www.census.gov/developers/

14 years ago

173 upvotes – 38 comments

PostgreSQL when it is not your job

http://reinout.vanrees.org/weblog/2012/06/04/djangocon-postgres.html

14 years ago

172 upvotes – 43 comments

Germany Increases 'You Are All Pirates' Tax On Solid State Media By 2000%

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120601/07161319164/germany-increases-you-are-all-pirates-tax-solid-state-media-2000.shtml

14 years ago

166 upvotes – 110 comments

I must be crazy

http://splinter.com.au/i-must-be-crazy

14 years ago

150 upvotes – 118 comments

Samsung invests $500K in Linux Foundation to battle iOS

http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/12/06/05/samsung_invests_500m_in_linux_foundation_to_battle_ios.html

14 years ago

149 upvotes – 48 comments

How Airbnb Earned Me $20,000 And A Restraining Order From My Landlord

http://www.fastcompany.com/1839465/how-airbnb-earned-me-20000-and-legal-action-from-my-landlord

14 years ago

144 upvotes – 137 comments

HN create account removed from login page

http://news.ycombinator.com/newslogin

14 years ago

143 upvotes – 58 comments

Pocket team's tips for aspiring Android developers: It’s not really terrifying.

http://getpocket.com/blog/2012/06/pockets-tips-for-aspiring-android-developers-its-not-really-terrifying-and-in-fact-quite-enjoyable/

14 years ago

100 upvotes – 27 comments

You half assed it. That is why your PhoneGap application sucks.

http://sintaxi.com/you-half-assed-it

14 years ago

96 upvotes – 110 comments

Google Maps, Earth take on full 3D imagery

http://www.engadget.com/2012/06/06/google-maps-earth-take-on-full-3d-maps/

14 years ago

89 upvotes – 43 comments

Just Landed for iPhone helps you pick someone up from the airport.

http://www.getjustlanded.com

14 years ago

88 upvotes – 85 comments

LinkedIn’s iOS app transmits names, emails, and calendar notes, in plain text

http://thenextweb.com/insider/2012/06/06/linkedins-ios-app-collects-and-sends-names-emails-and-meeting-notes-from-your-calendar-back-in-plain-text/

14 years ago

84 upvotes – 40 comments

What Makes Great Programmers Different?

http://www.drdobbs.com/architecture-and-design/240001472

14 years ago

81 upvotes – 58 comments

Bookmarklet to see YC / Reddit thread of any URL

http://see-reaction.appspot.com/index.html

14 years ago

77 upvotes – 22 comments

Netflix begins the deployment of their own content delivery network

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/datacenter/netflix-delivers-using-commodity-hardware-and-open-source-software/1409

14 years ago

76 upvotes – 43 comments

World IPv6 Launch

http://googleblog.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/world-ipv6-launch-keeping-internet.html

14 years ago

64 upvotes – 23 comments

Real Time Data compression using LZ4

http://fastcompression.blogspot.fr/p/lz4.html

14 years ago

61 upvotes – 9 comments

Real world, meet the Internet.

http://www.electricimp.com/

14 years ago

60 upvotes – 13 comments

Coffee and Caffeine Help Prevent Alzheimer's

http://www.alphagalileo.org/ViewItem.aspx?ItemId=120795&CultureCode=en

14 years ago

59 upvotes – 33 comments
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