top 50% 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

Sweden Twitter Experiment Goes Painfully Awry

http://mashable.com/2012/06/12/sweden-twitter/

14 years ago

108 upvotes – 68 comments

Solve 50 problems in 50 days

http://50problems50days.com/

14 years ago

107 upvotes – 35 comments

Announcing Hipmunk's $15M Series B Funding

http://blog.hipmunk.com/1/post/2012/06/announcing-hipmunks-15m-series-b-funding.html

14 years ago

104 upvotes – 67 comments

Zynga shares plummet as Facebook game craze wanes

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/06/12/us-zynga-stock-idUSBRE85B0TM20120612

14 years ago

101 upvotes – 58 comments

Boot2Gecko demo & quick hack

http://paulrouget.com/e/b2ghack/

14 years ago

95 upvotes – 22 comments

Getting started with with Ember.js

http://www.andymatthews.net/read/2012/03/07/Getting-Started-With-EmberJS

14 years ago

86 upvotes – 19 comments

Andy Hertzfeld on the Demise of the Mac Pro

https://plus.google.com/u/0/117840649766034848455/posts/StKLcccP4ny

14 years ago

82 upvotes – 79 comments

Heroku: a follow up on last week's outage

https://status.heroku.com/incidents/372

14 years ago

81 upvotes – 44 comments

What is good customer service?

http://www.helpjuice.com/blog/what-is-good-customer-service

14 years ago

79 upvotes – 32 comments

"Android ICS already offers more than what is coming in iOS 6"

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/cell-phones/android-ics-already-offers-more-than-what-is-coming-in-ios-6/7769

14 years ago

77 upvotes – 148 comments

Ask HN: Why is Apple ripping of European users? 1€ ≠ 1$

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4099587

14 years ago

74 upvotes – 95 comments

2013 H1B Visa Supply Nearly Exhausted

http://it.slashdot.org/story/12/06/12/0149237/2013-h-1b-visa-supply-nearly-exhausted?utm_source=slashdot

14 years ago

74 upvotes – 118 comments

An Open Letter To All Startup Founders

http://noconformity.co/post/24934945366/an-open-letter-to-all-startup-founders

14 years ago

73 upvotes – 98 comments

The care and feeding of software engineers (or, why engineers are grumpy)

http://www.nczonline.net/blog/2012/06/12/the-care-and-feeding-of-software-engineers-or-why-engineers-are-grumpy/

14 years ago

73 upvotes – 6 comments

Show HN: I'm releasing. 6months, 1dev. Looking for beta users

http://www.followords.com

14 years ago

73 upvotes – 53 comments

Pocket Lists sales: $13500 in first 3 months

http://www.1312.ru/blog/Pocket-Lists-sales-13500-in-first-3-months/

14 years ago

71 upvotes – 26 comments

Silicon Valley's newest billionaire - wireless wonder Robert Pera

http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2012/0116/entrepreneurs-robert-pera-computer-hardware-apple.html

14 years ago

70 upvotes – 16 comments

Mysterious electrical bursts warn of material collapse

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn21913-mysterious-electrical-bursts-warn-of-material-collapse.html

14 years ago

65 upvotes – 19 comments

Experiments with WebSocket Performance (for HTML5 games)

http://blog.artillerygames.com/2012/06/websocket-performance.html

14 years ago

64 upvotes – 22 comments

Phil Zimmerman's post-PGP Silent Circle: Privacy for $20

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-57451057-83/phil-zimmermanns-post-pgp-project-privacy-for-a-price/

14 years ago

63 upvotes – 16 comments

Facebook’s Camera app gets a new name: Camera•. Yes, “•”

http://thenextweb.com/facebook/2012/06/12/facebooks-camera-app-gets-a-new-name-camera-yes/

14 years ago

61 upvotes – 44 comments
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