top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-06-14

Kogan imposes a tax on IE7 shoppers

http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2012/06/kogan-imposing-tax-on-shoppers-who-use-ie7/

14 years ago

360 upvotes – 146 comments

Show HN: Easel, web design in the browser

https://alpha.easel.io/demo

14 years ago

346 upvotes – 120 comments

June 30th 2012 will be 1 second longer: 23:59:60

http://hpiers.obspm.fr/iers/bul/bulc/bulletinc.dat

14 years ago

297 upvotes – 83 comments

Lawyer attacking The Oatmeal shocked by big mean Internet’s reaction

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/06/lawyer-attacking-the-oatmeal-shocked-by-big-mean-internets-reaction/

14 years ago

256 upvotes – 175 comments

Skype 4.0 for Linux

http://blogs.skype.com/linux/2012/06/skype_40_for_linux.html

14 years ago

234 upvotes – 112 comments

Hacking and defeating Google's reCAPTCHA with a 99% accuracy

http://www.dc949.org/projects/stiltwalker/

14 years ago

224 upvotes – 80 comments

C vs GO

http://crypto.stanford.edu/~blynn/c2go/index.html

14 years ago

202 upvotes – 175 comments

How SoundCloud built its new single-page main website using Backbone.js

http://backstage.soundcloud.com/2012/06/building-the-next-soundcloud/

14 years ago

198 upvotes – 65 comments

AngularJS 1.0 released

http://googledevelopers.blogspot.com/2012/06/better-web-templating-with-angularjs-10.html

14 years ago

198 upvotes – 93 comments

DRM in the cinema

https://astortheatreblog.wordpress.com/2012/01/26/what-happened-last-night/

14 years ago

197 upvotes – 85 comments

JavaScript is not suitable for large web apps

http://blogs.adobe.com/bparadie/2012/05/07/the-pew-pew-manifesto

14 years ago

186 upvotes – 204 comments

Titan: A Highly Scalable, Distributed Graph Database

http://thinkaurelius.github.com/titan/

14 years ago

170 upvotes – 39 comments

Hello Opera 12

http://my.opera.com/ODIN/blog/hello-opera-12

14 years ago

163 upvotes – 132 comments

Letter from Ronald Reagan to his son

http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012/05/love-dad.html

14 years ago

160 upvotes – 60 comments

What the hell does ≡ do, anyway?

http://ada.mbecker.cc/post/25113870928/goddamn-three-bars-icon

14 years ago

160 upvotes – 48 comments

Rob Pike: "Current Unix tools are weakened by the built-in concept of a line"

http://doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/structural_regexps/se.pdf

14 years ago

137 upvotes – 106 comments

How Apple Store Seduces You With the Tilt of Its Laptops

http://www.forbes.com/sites/carminegallo/2012/06/14/why-the-new-macbook-pro-is-tilted-70-degrees-in-an-apple-store/

14 years ago

132 upvotes – 84 comments

Apple's "benign dictatorship" of the App Store leaves users, devs in the dark.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/06/app-store-enigma-the-patent-holder-the-developer-and-the-voiceless-child/

14 years ago

123 upvotes – 111 comments

Can a person be identified by just the way they type?

http://blog.wolfram.com/2012/06/14/how-do-you-type-wolfram-analyzing-your-typing-style-using-mathematica/

14 years ago

119 upvotes – 82 comments

Backbone.js views done right

http://blog.gaslightsoftware.com/post/24538291598/backbone-js-views-done-the-right-way?utm_medium=hackernews

14 years ago

111 upvotes – 37 comments

IOS 6 slider widgets change reflection with angle

http://www.tuaw.com/2012/06/14/ios-6-adds-some-great-eye-candy-to-new-music-app/

14 years ago

105 upvotes – 39 comments

Raganwald's Nifty Fifty

http://raganwald.posterous.com/raganwalds-nifty-fifty

14 years ago

101 upvotes – 28 comments

Show HN: A different kind of coloring book for kids (Android). Simple and clean.

http://samocolors.com

14 years ago

94 upvotes – 61 comments

Inside the Midwest's Secretive and Scrappy Start-up Scene

http://www.inc.com/eric-markowitz/silicon-prairie-and-the-state-of-midwestern-start-ups.html

14 years ago

91 upvotes – 51 comments

Using Schema-less in Django with Postgres

http://craigkerstiens.com/2012/06/14/schemaless-django/

14 years ago

90 upvotes – 10 comments

G-WAN Captcha Decode

https://gist.github.com/2932918

14 years ago

80 upvotes – 50 comments

Kippt (YC S12) Launches Bookmarking App To Become The GitHub For Links

http://techcrunch.com/2012/06/14/yc-backed-kippt-goes-collaborative/

14 years ago

78 upvotes – 33 comments

Show HN: WakeMyself. Get a wakeup call from your yesterday's self.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4112286

14 years ago

76 upvotes – 58 comments

GCC 4.7.1 released

http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.7/

14 years ago

75 upvotes – 9 comments

Setting out plans to monitor all Internet use in the UK

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-18434112

14 years ago

74 upvotes – 46 comments

How To Retarget the GNU Toolchain in 21 Patches

http://atgreen.github.com/ggx/

14 years ago

70 upvotes – 4 comments

G-WAN - Web Application Server

http://gwan.ch/

14 years ago

69 upvotes – 121 comments

Look how big Google Glasses are behind the ear

https://plus.google.com/photos/109813896768294978296/albums/5753182323166823057?banner=pwa

14 years ago

64 upvotes – 53 comments

Nokia to Cut 10,000 Jobs After Weak Second Quarter

http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2012/06/14/business/14reuters-nokia-restructuring-jobs.html?hp

14 years ago

63 upvotes – 55 comments

DHH's journey to Le Mans

http://www.alms.com/articles/dh-h%E2%80%99s-journey-le-mans

14 years ago

62 upvotes – 15 comments

"Eve" automatically reads, sorts and generate new knowledge and/or content.

http://www.totopoetry.com/credits/eve.asp

14 years ago

61 upvotes – 17 comments

Why ICANN's gTLD process leaves a lot to be desired

http://benwerd.com/blog/2012/06/14/clusterfuck/

14 years ago

59 upvotes – 68 comments

The Struggle

http://techcrunch.com/2012/06/14/the-struggle/

14 years ago

59 upvotes – 17 comments

Children Born to Older Fathers and Grandfathers May Live Longer

http://extremelongevity.net/2012/06/13/children-born-to-older-fathers-and-grandfathers-may-live-longer/

14 years ago

52 upvotes – 16 comments

DjangoCon Europe 2012 Videos

http://klewel.com/conferences/djangocon-2012/

14 years ago

50 upvotes – 9 comments

The College Graduate as Collateral

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/14/opinion/the-college-graduate-as-collateral.html?_r=1

14 years ago

48 upvotes – 37 comments

Devaluation is austerity done right

http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2012/06/13/devaluation_is_austerity_done_right.html

14 years ago

48 upvotes – 60 comments
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