top 20 hacker news stories for 2012-06-12

The Silencing of Maya

http://niederfamily.blogspot.be/2012/06/silencing-of-maya.html

14 years ago

785 upvotes – 321 comments

Moderators of HN: please stop changing post titles

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4102013

14 years ago

572 upvotes – 46 comments

I analyzed the chords to 1300 popular songs for patterns. This is what I found.

http://blog.hooktheory.com/2012/06/06/i-analyzed-the-chords-of-1300-popular-songs-for-patterns-this-is-what-i-found/

14 years ago

497 upvotes – 183 comments

Civ II game a decade old

http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/uxpil/ive_been_playing_the_same_game_of_civilization_ii/

14 years ago

471 upvotes – 133 comments

Introducing Syte, An open sourced personal site that has social integrations

http://rigoneri.com/post/24927306958

14 years ago

322 upvotes – 75 comments

Why Smart People Are Stupid

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/frontal-cortex/2012/06/daniel-kahneman-bias-studies.html

14 years ago

302 upvotes – 213 comments

Newegg refuses to repair defective laptop because user installed Linux

http://consumerist.com/2012/06/newegg-installing-linux-on-your-computer-is-basically-the-same-as-breaking-it.html

14 years ago

271 upvotes – 159 comments

Flame is Lame

http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/00002383.html

14 years ago

267 upvotes – 100 comments

Where the Heat and the Thunder Hit Their Shots

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/06/11/sports/basketball/nba-shot-analysis.html

14 years ago

200 upvotes – 66 comments

My first month freelancing

http://alanhollis.com/first-month-freelancing/

14 years ago

191 upvotes – 119 comments

The mintBox, a Linux Mint computer

http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=2055

14 years ago

185 upvotes – 80 comments

HTTP Status Code for Legally-restricted Resources

http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-tbray-http-legally-restricted-status-00

14 years ago

174 upvotes – 57 comments

I know someone whose 2-factor phone authentication was hacked...

http://williamedwardscoder.tumblr.com/post/24949768311/i-know-someone-whose-2-factor-phone-authentication-was

14 years ago

172 upvotes – 72 comments

New York to London in an hour - by train

http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/intelligent-energy/new-york-to-london-in-an-hour-by-train/16456?tag=nl.e550

14 years ago

161 upvotes – 142 comments

MacBook Pro Retina Display Analysis

http://www.anandtech.com/show/5998/macbook-pro-retina-display-analysis

14 years ago

152 upvotes – 93 comments

Handy text manipulation tricks in Sublime Text 2

http://whiletruecode.com/post/7-handy-text-manipulation-tricks-sublime-text-2

14 years ago

145 upvotes – 97 comments

An Introduction to Lock-Free Programming

http://preshing.com/20120612/an-introduction-to-lock-free-programming

14 years ago

128 upvotes – 20 comments

LWN debates whether using GPL software on missiles counts as distribution

http://lwn.net/Articles/501536/

14 years ago

117 upvotes – 43 comments

Indie Game: The Movie released on Steam

http://store.steampowered.com/app/207080/

14 years ago

115 upvotes – 44 comments

Apple Maps

http://maps.apple.com

14 years ago

111 upvotes – 54 comments
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