top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-06-08

Famous judge spikes Apple-Google case, calls patent system “dysfunctional”

http://gigaom.com/mobile/famous-judge-spikes-apple-google-case-calls-patent-system-dysfunctional/

14 years ago

601 upvotes – 121 comments

Show HN: Script Excel with Python

http://www.ironspread.com

14 years ago

280 upvotes – 61 comments

Hang Around with People who Get Shit Done

http://jaxn.org/article/hang-around-with-people-who-get-shit-done

14 years ago

254 upvotes – 78 comments

In Math You Have to Remember, In Other Subjects You Can Think About It

http://www.maa.org/devlin/devlin_06_10.html

14 years ago

236 upvotes – 127 comments

Gorgeous Unreal Engine 4 brings direct programming, indirect lighting

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2012/06/gorgeous-unreal-engine-4-brings-direct-programming-indirect-lighting/

14 years ago

224 upvotes – 88 comments

Flame Malware Makers Send 'Suicide' Code

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-18365844

14 years ago

202 upvotes – 79 comments

Camera+ turned down acquisition offers and says no to VC money

http://techcrunch.com/2012/06/08/camera-plus-turns-2-says-eff-the-vcs/

14 years ago

195 upvotes – 40 comments

Long Exposure Photographs Shot from Orbit

http://www.petapixel.com/2012/06/07/incredible-long-exposure-photographs-shot-from-orbit/?utm_source=pulsenews&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=Feed:+PetaPixel+(PetaPixel)

14 years ago

194 upvotes – 25 comments

IOS browsers have a 300ms click delay - But developers can bypass it

https://developers.google.com/mobile/articles/fast_buttons?hl=de-DE

14 years ago

183 upvotes – 52 comments

Why I Wear The Same Thing Every Day, And What I Wear

http://blog.timoni.org/post/24619757935/why-i-wear-the-same-thing-every-day-and-what-i-wear

14 years ago

173 upvotes – 198 comments

Visas for entrepreneurs

http://www.economist.com/node/21556636

14 years ago

170 upvotes – 75 comments

Violate Twitter Brand Guidelines

http://violatetwitterbrandguidelines.com

14 years ago

161 upvotes – 57 comments

Gow - The lightweight alternative to Cygwin

https://github.com/bmatzelle/gow/wiki/

14 years ago

★ 6.6k NSIS
161 upvotes – 82 comments

How I Fire People

http://boss.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/04/how-i-fire-people/

14 years ago

156 upvotes – 126 comments

Study of 49 programmers: static type system had no effect on development time

http://www.cs.washington.edu/education/courses/cse590n/10au/hanenberg-oopsla2010.pdf

14 years ago

155 upvotes – 187 comments

PyPy 1.9 Released

http://morepypy.blogspot.it/2012/06/pypy-19-yard-wolf.html

14 years ago

153 upvotes – 4 comments

Amazon EC2 Instance Comparison

http://www.ec2instances.info/

14 years ago

152 upvotes – 92 comments

Do What You Love

http://blogs.valvesoftware.com/abrash/do-what-you-love/

14 years ago

140 upvotes – 77 comments

Math professor's side mirror that eliminates 'blind spot' receives US patent

http://phys.org/news/2012-06-math-professor-side-mirror-patent.html

14 years ago

139 upvotes – 72 comments

Don't wait for "DOM ready" for your app to start

https://plus.google.com/116910304844117268718/posts/UkaymyuTzaF

14 years ago

126 upvotes – 39 comments

High school teacher tells graduating students: you’re not special

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/high-school-teacher-tells-graduating-students-special-article-1.1092109

14 years ago

109 upvotes – 85 comments

The Silent Majority: Why Visual Basic 6 Still Thrives

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/jj133828.aspx

14 years ago

109 upvotes – 91 comments

Backbone Aura Developer Preview

http://addyosmani.github.com/backbone-aura/

14 years ago

108 upvotes – 18 comments

One way to fix your rubbish password database

http://blog.jgc.org/2012/06/one-way-to-fix-your-rubbish-password.html

14 years ago

101 upvotes – 89 comments

How SEO Killed Online Reviews

http://www.koozai.com/blog/search-marketing/how-seo-killed-online-reviews/

14 years ago

92 upvotes – 45 comments

Sorry, Young Man, You're Not the Most Important Demographic in Tech

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/06/sorry-young-white-guy-youre-not-the-most-important-demographic-in-tech/258087/

14 years ago

82 upvotes – 51 comments

Poul-Henning Kamp: LinkedIn Password Leak? Salt Their Hide

http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2254400

14 years ago

68 upvotes – 57 comments

(x / 2) or (x >> 1)?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10681375/which-is-better-option-to-use-for-dividing-an-integer-number-by-2

14 years ago

67 upvotes – 41 comments

Express for Desktop allows for non-metro development in Visual Studio 2012

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/06/no-cost-windows-8-desktop-development-returns-with-express-for-desktop/

14 years ago

67 upvotes – 43 comments

Sorting - We're Doing It Wrong

http://blog.rodneyrehm.de/archives/14-Sorting-Were-Doing-It-Wrong.html

14 years ago

66 upvotes – 23 comments

ShowHN: We built this so you can send a mixtape to someone you like

http://flirttape.com/

14 years ago

63 upvotes – 57 comments

Intel's 4-inch "Next Unit of Computing" to cost $400

http://techreport.com/discussions.x/23066

14 years ago

59 upvotes – 52 comments

Show HN: Wayback Letter - Looking back at 5+ years of Hacker News

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4084342

14 years ago

59 upvotes – 10 comments

Swiss newspaper prints its entire front page in binary

http://thenextweb.com/shareables/2012/06/08/newspaper-prints-its-entire-front-page-in-binary-to-celebrate-going-fully-digital/

14 years ago

56 upvotes – 22 comments

Neutrinos from CERN to Gran Sasso Respect Cosmic Speed Limit

http://press.web.cern.ch/press/PressReleases/Releases2011/PR19.11E.html

14 years ago

56 upvotes – 26 comments

DotJS.eu, a conference in Paris on Nov 30th with jashkenas, fat, mrdoob ...

http://www.dotjs.eu

14 years ago

55 upvotes – 25 comments

Git, Cloud, Node, Metro, is Microsoft starting to get a little bit cool?

http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/develop/nodejs/tutorials/create-a-website-(mac)/

14 years ago

55 upvotes – 95 comments

DotCloud.js - Access Cloud Services from the Browser

http://js.dotcloud.com/

14 years ago

53 upvotes – 16 comments

Transit of the Hubble Space Telescope during the 2012 transit of Venus

http://legault.perso.sfr.fr/venus_hst_transit.html

14 years ago

50 upvotes – 3 comments
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