top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-06-09

Neal Stephenson wants to revolutionize sword fighting video games

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/260688528/clang

14 years ago

485 upvotes – 183 comments

Magenta - "It is fully binary compatible with iPhone OS 5.0"

http://crna.cc/magenta.html

14 years ago

326 upvotes – 124 comments

Doom 3 Source code review

http://fabiensanglard.net/doom3/index.php

14 years ago

233 upvotes – 60 comments

The Rules of Storytelling According to Pixar

http://io9.com/5916970/the-22-rules-of-storytelling-according-to-pixar

14 years ago

230 upvotes – 59 comments

Ask HN: who started something in 2012 which is already profitable?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4088538

14 years ago

221 upvotes – 193 comments

Vim: Buffers, Windows, and Tabs

http://blog.sanctum.geek.nz/buffers-windows-tabs/

14 years ago

207 upvotes – 78 comments

My experiences at a woman's programming workshop

http://blog.emacsen.net/blog/2012/06/07/observations-from-a-python-workshop/?repost

14 years ago

171 upvotes – 161 comments

Why you should never use hash functions for message authentication

http://blog.jcoglan.com/2012/06/09/why-you-should-never-use-hash-functions-for-message-authentication/

14 years ago

171 upvotes – 101 comments

Taxi Medallions: New York's taxi system makes fares higher and drivers poorer

http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2012/06/taxi_medallions_how_new_york_s_terrible_taxi_system_makes_fares_higher_and_drivers_poorer_.html

14 years ago

143 upvotes – 108 comments

A 1956 encyclopaedia's view on the computer

http://www.osnews.com/story/26055/A_1956_encyclopaedia_s_view_on_the_computer

14 years ago

120 upvotes – 79 comments

Rogue Amoeba responds to Phil Schiller

http://rogueamoeba.com/utm/2012/06/08/in-response-to-mr-schiller/

14 years ago

120 upvotes – 92 comments

Understanding Bitcoin

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2012/05/20125309437931677.html

14 years ago

117 upvotes – 62 comments

Work on unimportant problems

http://www.yosefk.com/blog/work-on-unimportant-problems.html

14 years ago

115 upvotes – 51 comments

Meebo discontinued: shutting down on July 11, 2012

http://www.meebo.com/support/article/175/

14 years ago

103 upvotes – 101 comments

NPR's Car Talk to end in September

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jOCGFHXdRDFYjEtqQss6Z1jiCmtg?docId=a86195c0202f48b7962a89b1807dbd4f

14 years ago

99 upvotes – 17 comments

Windows Azure Dance Routine

http://www.geekwire.com/2012/raunchy-windows-azure-dance-routine/

14 years ago

96 upvotes – 76 comments

Alzheimer's vaccine trial a success

http://ki.se/ki/jsp/polopoly.jsp?l=en&d=130&a=145109&newsdep=130

14 years ago

95 upvotes – 28 comments

League of Legends database compromised, passwords hashed without salt

http://euw.leagueoflegends.com/news/league-legends-account-security-alert

14 years ago

93 upvotes – 104 comments

Rms has his bag stolen in Argentina

http://www.devthought.com/2012/06/09/richard-stallman-robbed-in-argentina/

14 years ago

92 upvotes – 112 comments

Linaro doubles performance for Android ICS

http://www.androidpolice.com/2012/06/09/linaro-android-nearly-doubles-ics-performance-and-now-parts-of-it-are-being-added-to-cm9/

14 years ago

77 upvotes – 16 comments

Sortfolio auction ends with no bidders

https://flippa.com/2739829-sortfolio-com-web-design-marketplace-w-220k-annual-revenue?nodupe2

14 years ago

74 upvotes – 42 comments

Embeddable Common Lisp

http://ecls.sourceforge.net/

14 years ago

67 upvotes – 6 comments

Show HN: A CLI for HNSearch

http://zachwill.github.com/hn/

14 years ago

56 upvotes – 7 comments
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