top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-06-18

Microsoft Introduces New "Surface" Tablet

http://www.microsoft.com/surface/

14 years ago

611 upvotes – 660 comments

Falsehoods Programmers believe about Time

http://infiniteundo.com/post/25326999628/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-time

14 years ago

364 upvotes – 213 comments

I don't "get" art

http://www.vice.com/read/i-dont-get-art

14 years ago

316 upvotes – 259 comments

Why you need your own company

http://sivers.org/laboratory

14 years ago

299 upvotes – 50 comments

You Should Downvote Contrarian Anecdotes

http://thobbs.github.com/blog/2012/06/17/you-should-downvote-anecdotes/

14 years ago

219 upvotes – 152 comments

Two New YC Partners: Kirsty Nathoo and Carolynn Levy

http://ycombinator.posterous.com/two-new-yc-partners-kirsty-nathoo-and-carolyn

14 years ago

218 upvotes – 35 comments

Netflix Quietly Smothers 3rd Party App Ecosystem

http://goodfil.ms/blog/posts/2012/06/18/netflix-quietly-smothers-3rd-party-app-ecosystem/

14 years ago

213 upvotes – 88 comments

I Can Be Just As Capable. Let Me.

http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/06/513794/

14 years ago

212 upvotes – 165 comments

Because Everyone (Still) Needs a Router

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/06/because-everyone-still-needs-a-router.html

14 years ago

206 upvotes – 132 comments

Mozilla Thimble

https://thimble.webmaker.org/

14 years ago

189 upvotes – 49 comments

Face.com acquired by Facebook

http://face.com/blog/facebook-acquires-face-com/

14 years ago

184 upvotes – 81 comments

iOS App Store - Fake Microsoft Word 2012 Approved

http://itunes.apple.com/app/microsoft-word-2012/id534884750?mt=8

14 years ago

166 upvotes – 118 comments

Final thoughts on Windows 8: A design disaster

http://zdnet.com/blog/hardware/final-thoughts-on-windows-8-a-design-disaster/20706

14 years ago

162 upvotes – 203 comments

Cascading errors caused AWS to go down

http://status.aws.amazon.com/rss/ec2-us-east-1.rss

14 years ago

151 upvotes – 87 comments

Dear Marketers: Enough with the QR codes

http://www.sheldoncomics.com/archive/120618.html

14 years ago

146 upvotes – 148 comments

Ex-Facebookers launch MemSQL (YC W11) to make your database fly

http://gigaom.com/cloud/ex-facebookers-launch-memsql-to-make-your-database-fly/

14 years ago

144 upvotes – 104 comments

JavaScript game of Tron in 219 bytes

http://alokmenghrajani.github.com/tron/

14 years ago

129 upvotes – 50 comments

Just open sourced my 10k LOC PHP & MySQL invoicing app

https://github.com/tlhunter/neoinvoice

14 years ago

★ 389 PHP
129 upvotes – 97 comments

More Unfunny Junk

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/06/funnyjunks-lawyer-personally-sues-the-oatmeal-creator/

14 years ago

117 upvotes – 80 comments

Java is preparing to co-bundling and native binaries

https://blogs.oracle.com/talkingjavadeployment/entry/native_packaging_for_javafx

14 years ago

114 upvotes – 80 comments

The Many Pivots of Justin.tv

http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/167/justin-kan-justin.tv

14 years ago

112 upvotes – 17 comments

Stop Working All Those Hours

http://blogs.hbr.org/hbsfaculty/2012/06/stop-working-all-those-hours.html

14 years ago

109 upvotes – 50 comments

Unity 4 to offer support for Linux

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2012/06/unity-4-will-let-devs-do-so-much-more-with-so-much-less

14 years ago

106 upvotes – 35 comments

CSS 3D Lighting Engine

http://photon.attasi.com/

14 years ago

92 upvotes – 14 comments

Why philosophy is largely ignored by science

http://www.dcscience.net/?p=4799

14 years ago

90 upvotes – 107 comments

Jam - The JavaScript package manager

http://groundcomputing.co.uk/code/jam

14 years ago

89 upvotes – 33 comments

Intel Reveals Neuromorphic Chip Design

http://www.technologyreview.com/view/428235/intel-reveals-neuromorphic-chip-design

14 years ago

84 upvotes – 17 comments

The death of consistency in UI design

http://www.osnews.com/story/26085/The_death_of_consistency_in_UI_design

14 years ago

83 upvotes – 58 comments

Making emails better: the MixPanel for email

http://blog.getvero.com/making-email-better-building-the-mixpanel-for-email/

14 years ago

80 upvotes – 29 comments

FunnyJunk lawyer is now suing the charities The Oatmeal supports

http://techcrunch.com/2012/06/17/can-i-sue-you-people-troll-lawyer-sues-the-charities-the-oatmeal-supports/

14 years ago

77 upvotes – 13 comments

Dissecting the SSL handshake

https://idea.popcount.org/2012-06-16-dissecting-ssl-handshake/

14 years ago

77 upvotes – 32 comments

Live from Microsoft's mystery press conference in Los Angeles

http://www.engadget.com/2012/06/18/microsoft-major-announcement-livelog/

14 years ago

73 upvotes – 81 comments

Hammock-driven Development

http://blip.tv/clojure/hammock-driven-development-4475586

14 years ago

73 upvotes – 8 comments

Why Java's Object.hashCode() is unsafe for use in distributed systems

http://martin.kleppmann.com/2012/06/18/java-hashcode-unsafe-for-distributed-systems.html

14 years ago

72 upvotes – 43 comments

Comcast Protests “Shake Down” of Alleged BitTorrent Pirates

https://torrentfreak.com/comcast-protests-shake-down-of-alleged-bittorrent-pirates-120612/

14 years ago

71 upvotes – 21 comments

To the non-entrepreneur: Everyone is running a business, including you

http://blog.sidu.in/2012/06/everyone-is-running-business-including.html

14 years ago

70 upvotes – 12 comments

Show HN: Stairway, daddy that will enforce some online meeting culture

https://secure.stairwayapp.com

14 years ago

68 upvotes – 51 comments

Pyjaco - Python to JavaScript translator.

https://github.com/buchuki/pyjaco

14 years ago

★ 112 Python MIT
68 upvotes – 13 comments

U.S. Government Requests For Google Users' Private Data Jump 37% In One Year

http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2012/06/17/u-s-government-requests-for-google-users-private-data-spike-37-in-one-year/

14 years ago

65 upvotes – 4 comments

DotCloud updates pricing, uses new elastic pricing model

https://dotcloud.com/pricing.html

14 years ago

62 upvotes – 46 comments

RIP, Nokia (1865 - 2014)

http://pandodaily.com/2012/06/16/rip-nokia-1965-2014/

14 years ago

59 upvotes – 50 comments

Show HN: Pre-configured Django project, Git repo, and virtualenv with 1 command

http://builtbyptm.com/blog/announcing-django-project-builder-v01/

14 years ago

58 upvotes – 42 comments

Show HN: EdgeKick, real-time analytics for public Facebook pages

http://www.edgekick.com/

14 years ago

58 upvotes – 35 comments

Index Ventures launches new €350m seed fund with European focus

http://blog.indexventures.com/our-new-e350m-fund-to-invest-in-early-stage-innovation/

14 years ago

53 upvotes – 7 comments

Keeping passwords safe by staying up to date

http://blog.cloudflare.com/keeping-passwords-safe-by-staying-up-to-date?

14 years ago

53 upvotes – 22 comments
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