top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-06-15

It all began with a strange email

http://blogs.valvesoftware.com/economics/it-all-began-with-a-strange-email/

14 years ago

874 upvotes – 124 comments

How a Mexican Drug Cartel Makes Its Billions

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/17/magazine/how-a-mexican-drug-cartel-makes-its-billions.html?pagewanted=all

14 years ago

452 upvotes – 232 comments

The New MacBook Pro: Unfixable, Unhackable, Untenable

http://ifixit.org/2763/the-new-macbook-pro-unfixable-unhackable-untenable/

14 years ago

353 upvotes – 341 comments

9-Year-Old Who Changed School Lunches Silenced By Politicians

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/06/neverseconds-shut-down/

14 years ago

341 upvotes – 115 comments

The Oatmeal's lawyer responds to FunnyJunk

http://www.scribd.com/doc/96850920/FunnyJunk-The-Oatmeal-Response

14 years ago

275 upvotes – 97 comments

Tech press misses Google/Amazon name grab

http://scripting.com/stories/2012/06/15/theTechPressIsOutToLunch.html

14 years ago

268 upvotes – 189 comments

A Skype call in Ethiopia will now get you 15 years in prison

http://venturebeat.com/2012/06/14/ethiopia-skype-illegal/

14 years ago

242 upvotes – 66 comments

Facebook CTO Bret Taylor Departs (For Start-Ups Unknown)

http://allthingsd.com/20120615/exclusive-facebook-cto-bret-taylor-departs-for-start-ups-unknown/?mod=tweet

14 years ago

222 upvotes – 49 comments

How Depressives Surf the Web

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/17/opinion/sunday/how-depressed-people-use-the-internet.html?_r=1&hp

14 years ago

219 upvotes – 112 comments

Dropbox' Public/ folders will be phased out soon

http://forums.dropbox.com/topic.php?id=62381&replies=13

14 years ago

213 upvotes – 145 comments

Yammer agrees to Microsoft's $1 billion acquisition offer

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303822204577467312505454118.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

14 years ago

208 upvotes – 92 comments

The Slow Web

http://blog.jackcheng.com/post/25160553986/the-slow-web

14 years ago

205 upvotes – 40 comments

How 30 days without social media changed my life

http://stevecorona.com/how-30-days-without-social-media-changed-my-life

14 years ago

196 upvotes – 104 comments

How to Talk to Human Beings

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/06/how-to-talk-to-human-beings.html

14 years ago

179 upvotes – 76 comments

Newegg Still Telling Customers That Installing New OS Violates Return Policy

http://consumerist.com/2012/06/so-does-installing-a-new-os-violate-newegg-return-policy-or-not.html

14 years ago

171 upvotes – 75 comments

Heroku down?

https://status.heroku.com/?today

14 years ago

155 upvotes – 67 comments

Announcing SPDY draft 2 implementation in nginx

http://mailman.nginx.org/pipermail/nginx-devel/2012-June/002343.html

14 years ago

145 upvotes – 28 comments

THN Magazine Stole Our Code and Design

http://blog.hackermonthly.com/the-hacker-news-magazine.html

14 years ago

142 upvotes – 133 comments

Amazon EC2 down?

http://status.aws.amazon.com/?rf

14 years ago

140 upvotes – 60 comments

Hacker Workspaces

http://coderwall.com/p/gxjpna

14 years ago

135 upvotes – 115 comments

The Anatomy of Profitable Freemium

http://wensing.tumblr.com/post/25167979206/the-anatomy-of-profitable-freemium

14 years ago

133 upvotes – 26 comments

Super-star programmers

http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2012/06/super-star-programmers?fsrc=gn_ep

14 years ago

126 upvotes – 121 comments

FLAC.js, Aurora, and the Future of Web Audio

http://badassjs.com/post/25174050115/flac-js-aurora-and-the-future-of-web-audio

14 years ago

106 upvotes – 32 comments

How Long Before VPNs Become Illegal?

http://torrentfreak.com/how-long-before-vpns-become-illegal-120615/

14 years ago

105 upvotes – 59 comments

Tell HN: Heroku is Down (update: recovering as of 10PM PST)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4114829

14 years ago

100 upvotes – 110 comments

X-Tag - a cross-browser web components library

http://mozilla.github.com/x-tag/

14 years ago

91 upvotes – 46 comments

Why your web framework should not adopt Rack API

http://blog.plataformatec.com.br/2012/06/why-your-web-framework-should-not-adopt-rack-api/

14 years ago

90 upvotes – 18 comments

Introducing SPDY

http://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-spdy

14 years ago

88 upvotes – 18 comments

Amazon RDS failure - data has been lost

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4115937

14 years ago

82 upvotes – 47 comments

There is an Open Source Rival to Facebook: WordPress

http://steveburge.com/blog/wordpress/wp-facebook/

14 years ago

82 upvotes – 46 comments

Snow Crash movie to be written and directed by Joe Cornish

http://www.geek.com/articles/geek-cetera/snow-crash-movie-to-be-written-and-directed-by-joe-cornish-20120615/

14 years ago

82 upvotes – 88 comments

My Perception of CoffeeScript

http://leongersing.tumblr.com/post/11561298378/my-perception-of-coffeescript

14 years ago

82 upvotes – 55 comments

Google+ loses key partners as PopCap, Wooga pull games

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/172408/Google_loses_key_partners_as_PopCap_Wooga_pull_games.php

14 years ago

80 upvotes – 50 comments

All that is wrong with the Recruitment Industry

http://hackerjobs.co.uk/blog/2012/6/15/all-that-is-wrong-with-the-recruitment-industry

14 years ago

73 upvotes – 64 comments

A game theoretic approach to the toilet seat problem

http://home.tiac.net/~cri/1998/toilet.html

14 years ago

68 upvotes – 62 comments

Rajat Gupta Convicted of Insider Trading

http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2012/06/15/rajat-gupta-convicted-of-insider-trading/

14 years ago

63 upvotes – 52 comments

Peter Thiel’s CS183: Startup - Class 19 Notes Essay—Stagnation or Singularity?

http://blakemasters.tumblr.com/post/25149261055/peter-thiels-cs183-startup-class-19-notes-essay

14 years ago

61 upvotes – 9 comments

Attack the Block’s Joe Cornish To Direct Cyberpunk Classic Snow Crash

http://badassdigest.com/2012/06/14/attack-the-blocks-joe-cornish-to-direct-cyberpunk-classic-snow-crash/

14 years ago

60 upvotes – 55 comments

Kittydar – Face detection for cats

http://harthur.github.com/kittydar/

14 years ago

58 upvotes – 24 comments

Memshrink's 1st birthday

http://blog.mozilla.org/nnethercote/2012/06/15/memshrinks-1st-birthday/

14 years ago

56 upvotes – 14 comments
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