top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-06-13

Why Privacy Matters Even if You Have 'Nothing to Hide'

http://www.chronicle.com/article/Why-Privacy-Matters-Even-if/127461/

14 years ago

409 upvotes – 147 comments

DragonBox: Algebra beats Angry birds

http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2012/06/dragonbox/all/

14 years ago

289 upvotes – 63 comments

Reddit bans The Atlantic, Businessweek, others in major anti-spam move

http://www.dailydot.com/news/reddit-ban-the-atlantic-phsyorg-businessweek/

14 years ago

266 upvotes – 194 comments

Using unix as your IDE

http://blog.sanctum.geek.nz/series/unix-as-ide/?

14 years ago

233 upvotes – 127 comments

Rockstar condemns Max Payne 3 cheaters to play only against each other

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2012/06/rockstar-condemns-max-payne-3-cheaters-to-play-only-against-each-other/

14 years ago

227 upvotes – 115 comments

Newegg: No, We'll Totally Take Returns After You Install Linux

http://consumerist.com/2012/06/newegg-no-well-totally-take-returns-after-you-install-linux.html

14 years ago

192 upvotes – 101 comments

Hellbanned from Hacker News

https://jcs.org/notaweblog/2012/06/13/hellbanned_from_hacker_news/

14 years ago

187 upvotes – 40 comments

Linux creator Linus Torvalds shares Millennium Technology Prize

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-18423502

14 years ago

177 upvotes – 20 comments

Linus Torvalds: Linux succeed thanks to selfishness and trust

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-18419231

14 years ago

175 upvotes – 60 comments

Lessons from Inside Apple: Why Focus is Horrifyingly Scary

http://swaaanson.tumblr.com/post/25005539624/kindle-notes-inside-apple-by-adam-lashinsky

14 years ago

161 upvotes – 73 comments

Ruby on Rails SQL Injection

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2012/q2/504

14 years ago

160 upvotes – 35 comments

Olark launches "Targeted Chat"

http://www.olark.com/targeting

14 years ago

158 upvotes – 62 comments

VCs are liars. And so am I.

http://acrowdedspace.com/its-all-about-team-but-ever-wonder-why-no-vcs

14 years ago

156 upvotes – 91 comments

Readability: An Important Announcement

http://blog.readability.com/2012/06/announcement/

14 years ago

153 upvotes – 63 comments

When to kill your startup

http://ryancarson.com/post/25041202750/when-to-kill-your-startup

14 years ago

146 upvotes – 36 comments

What you know matters more than what you do

http://calnewport.com/blog/2012/06/12/what-you-know-matters-more-than-what-you-do/

14 years ago

138 upvotes – 34 comments

Sen. Paul proposes bill protecting Americans from drone surveillance

http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technology/232489-sen-paul-proposes-bill-protecting-americans-from-drone-surveillance

14 years ago

133 upvotes – 75 comments

New Apple Macbook Pro RAM is soldered to the motherboard | Ian Chilton

http://www.ichilton.co.uk/blog/apple/new-apple-macbook-pro-ram-is-soldered-to-the-motherboard-513.html

14 years ago

131 upvotes – 310 comments

Visual simulation of the 6502 CPU

http://www.visual6502.org/JSSim/expert.html

14 years ago

129 upvotes – 24 comments

Build and test iPhone/iPad apps without a Mac

http://trigger.io/cross-platform-application-development-blog/2012/06/13/new-features-test-iphone-ipad-apps-on-windows-and-linux-embed-media-players-and-widgets-updated-toolkit/

14 years ago

126 upvotes – 21 comments

New gTLD Applied-For Strings

http://newgtlds.icann.org/en/program-status/application-results/strings-1200utc-13jun12-en

14 years ago

122 upvotes – 169 comments

I'm doing 90% maintenance and 10% development, is this normal?

http://programmers.stackexchange.com/q/152464/17163

14 years ago

121 upvotes – 54 comments

CSS Variables land in WebKit

http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/120154

14 years ago

119 upvotes – 65 comments

Linux users: watch out for last-gen Intel Atom

https://gist.github.com/2925633

14 years ago

119 upvotes – 63 comments

Can We Reverse The Stanford Prison Experiment?

http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2012/06/can_we_reverse_the_stanford_pr.html

14 years ago

101 upvotes – 37 comments

Making money with a product: a myth?

http://joel.is/post/25021580513/making-money-with-a-product-a-myth

14 years ago

100 upvotes – 30 comments

Lockfree algorithms

http://www.1024cores.net/home/lock-free-algorithms

14 years ago

96 upvotes – 14 comments

PHP: the quiet powerhouse

http://blog.appfog.com/php-the-quiet-powerhouse/

14 years ago

89 upvotes – 134 comments

How to Be an Indie Game Developer

http://www.mode7games.com/blog/2012/06/12/how-to-be-an-indie-game-developer/

14 years ago

85 upvotes – 5 comments

The Redis Community Survey

http://antirez.com/post/redis-community-survey.html

14 years ago

84 upvotes – 24 comments

Exploring and Dynamically Patching Django/Python Using GDB

https://stripe.com/blog/exploring-python-using-gdb

14 years ago

81 upvotes – 11 comments

Data.gov is open source

http://www.data.gov/opengovplatform

14 years ago

77 upvotes – 17 comments

Use Jenkins "Build Per Branch" for Git Feature Branch Development

http://entagen.github.com/jenkins-build-per-branch/

14 years ago

74 upvotes – 22 comments

A Rebase Workflow for Git

http://www.randyfay.com/node/91

14 years ago

73 upvotes – 25 comments

MIT creates glucose fuel cell to power implanted brain-computer interfaces

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/130923-mit-creates-glucose-fuel-cell-to-power-implanted-brain-computer-interfaces

14 years ago

72 upvotes – 43 comments

WebSocket benchmarks

https://github.com/ericmoritz/wsdemo/blob/master/results.md

14 years ago

★ 405 Erlang
67 upvotes – 42 comments

The new Disqus 2012: Elevating the Discussion

http://blog.disqus.com/post/25017922977/the-new-disqus-2012

14 years ago

60 upvotes – 55 comments

Retina MacBook Pro full of Air-style proprietary parts

http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/MacBook-Pro-with-Retina-Display-Teardown/9462/

14 years ago

58 upvotes – 106 comments

Rethinking web API development

http://matt.aimonetti.net/posts/2012/06/13/rethinking-web-service-development/

14 years ago

58 upvotes – 26 comments

Peter Thiel gives new class of students $100K to forgo college

http://venturebeat.com/2012/06/12/thiel-fellowship-2012/

14 years ago

58 upvotes – 70 comments

Here comes the greatest Internet landgrab in history

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57450838-93/here-comes-the-greatest-internet-landgrab-in-history/?tag=postrtcol;posts

14 years ago

58 upvotes – 83 comments

Flash Drives Replace Disks at Amazon, Facebook, Dropbox

http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/06/flash-data-centers/all/

14 years ago

55 upvotes – 47 comments

Apple’s Ping to End With a Thud in Next Release of iTunes

http://allthingsd.com/20120612/apples-ping-to-end-with-a-thud-in-next-release-of-itunes/

14 years ago

54 upvotes – 39 comments

Lack of sleep increases stroke risk

http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/story/2012-06-11/sleep-stroke-risk/55506530/1

14 years ago

51 upvotes – 20 comments
show: top 10top 20top 50%
go to date: prev next
sort by: datescorecomments