top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-06-19

A standing desk for $22

http://iamnotaprogrammer.com/Ikea-Standing-desk-for-22-dollars.html

14 years ago

412 upvotes – 178 comments

A better git log

http://coderwall.com/p/euwpig?i=3&p=1&t=git

14 years ago

337 upvotes – 72 comments

If you were involved in the OpenGL ES specification, you are an idiot

http://www.jwz.org/blog/2012/06/i-have-ported-xscreensaver-to-the-iphone/

14 years ago

316 upvotes – 213 comments

Have you ever chatted with a hacker within a virus?

http://blogs.avg.com/news-threats/chatted-hacker-virus/

14 years ago

312 upvotes – 99 comments

The Little C Function From Hell

http://blog.regehr.org/archives/482

14 years ago

273 upvotes – 113 comments

Backbone UI

http://perka.github.com/backbone-ui/

14 years ago

270 upvotes – 65 comments

Leaked Documents Show the U.N.'s Internet Power Grab...

http://thenerfherder.blogspot.com/2012/06/leaked-documents-show-uns-internet.html?m=1

14 years ago

266 upvotes – 69 comments

What They Don't Tell You About Public Speaking

http://zachholman.com/posts/what-they-dont-tell-you-about-public-speaking/

14 years ago

255 upvotes – 60 comments

The Great German Energy Experiment

http://www.technologyreview.com/featured-story/428145/the-great-german-energy-experiment/?ref=rss

14 years ago

243 upvotes – 203 comments

NSA: It Would Violate Your Privacy to Say if We Spied on You

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/06/nsa-spied/

14 years ago

241 upvotes – 93 comments

UVA Computer Science professor resigns over incompetence of board

https://gist.github.com/2955870

14 years ago

213 upvotes – 128 comments

City of Ruins

http://www.behance.net/gallery/City-of-Ruins/4066411

14 years ago

183 upvotes – 50 comments

Codecademy closes $10M round

http://blogs.wsj.com/tech-europe/2012/06/19/codecademy-closes-10-million-round/

14 years ago

168 upvotes – 94 comments

Stop claiming you’re profitable

http://blog.asmartbear.com/ramen-profitable.html

14 years ago

165 upvotes – 118 comments

Why Silicon Valley Tech Wunderkinds Overestimate Their Own Smarts and Abilities

http://www.forbes.com/sites/ericjackson/2012/06/18/why-silicon-valley-tech-wunderkinds-overestimate-their-own-smarts-and-abilities/

14 years ago

162 upvotes – 87 comments

China Plans To Build The World’s Tallest Building In 90 Days

http://designtaxi.com/news/352814/China-Plans-To-Build-The-World-s-Tallest-Building-In-90-Days/?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=pulsenews

14 years ago

145 upvotes – 92 comments

A $1 billion idea...that I know I'm not ready for

http://jessepollak.me/2012/06/18/a--billion-dollar-ideathat-i-know-im-not-ready-for/

14 years ago

136 upvotes – 143 comments

Customer: Apple Store denied me iPad for speaking Farsi

http://www.wsbtv.com/news/news/local/customer-apple-store-denied-me-ipad-speaking-farsi/nPY4p/

14 years ago

131 upvotes – 145 comments

What happens when you ask people to pick the lowest unique prime number.

http://www.robinsloan.com/note/penumbra-primes/

14 years ago

129 upvotes – 54 comments

Let Maya Speak For Herself

http://www.change.org/petitions/let-maya-speak-for-herself

14 years ago

124 upvotes – 48 comments

Greplin becomes Cue - Intelligent "Snapshot" of your Day

https://www.cueup.com/

14 years ago

115 upvotes – 55 comments

Gondor expands its Django hosting to any Python WSGI app

https://gondor.io/blog/2012/06/19/gondor-11-launched/

14 years ago

114 upvotes – 16 comments

Ex-Googlers Launch MightyText, An iMessage For Android Users

http://techcrunch.com/2012/06/19/ex-googlers-launch-mightytext-an-imessage-for-android-users/

14 years ago

106 upvotes – 69 comments

StackOverflow unwinding?

http://williamedwardscoder.tumblr.com/post/25426541504/stackoverflow-unwinding

14 years ago

101 upvotes – 201 comments

What the heck is an xrange?

http://late.am/post/2012/06/18/what-the-heck-is-an-xrange

14 years ago

98 upvotes – 26 comments

Elon Musk Shows off the Dragon Capsule, Back From Space (video)

http://science.slashdot.org/story/12/06/14/2032230/elon-musk-shows-off-the-dragon-capsule-back-from-space-video

14 years ago

96 upvotes – 30 comments

Nvidia PR Responds To Torvalds' Harsh Words

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTEyMjk

14 years ago

95 upvotes – 104 comments

Julian Assange Seeks Asylum In Ecuador Embassy

http://www.ecuadorembassyuk.org.uk/announcements/statement-on-julian-assange

14 years ago

84 upvotes – 108 comments

The codebreaker who saved 'millions of lives'

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-18419691

14 years ago

77 upvotes – 30 comments

Dresssed: Beautiful Themes built on bootstrap for your Rails App

http://dresssed.com

14 years ago

76 upvotes – 41 comments

The Power of Language

http://blog.alexmaccaw.com/the-power-of-language

14 years ago

76 upvotes – 50 comments

Intel Announces Xeon Phi Co-Processors

http://www.anandtech.com/show/6017/intel-announces-xeon-phi-family-of-coprocessors-mic-goes-retail

14 years ago

76 upvotes – 43 comments

Easily sync data between your mobile and web apps using Firebase and Trigger.io

http://trigger.io/cross-platform-application-development-blog/2012/06/19/easily-sync-data-between-your-mobile-and-web-apps-using-firebase-and-trigger-io/

14 years ago

70 upvotes – 17 comments

Amazon EC2 outage lessons

http://www.agilesysadmin.net/ec2-outage-lessons

14 years ago

63 upvotes – 23 comments

A Turing Machine built using LEGO

http://www.legoturingmachine.org/

14 years ago

62 upvotes – 15 comments

Mandrill - Transactional Email from MailChimp

http://mandrill.com/

14 years ago

62 upvotes – 45 comments

Show HN: Teena - Unix in Python, powered by Tornado

https://github.com/zacharyvoase/teena

14 years ago

★ 110 Python
58 upvotes – 3 comments

The Central Limit Theorem Makes Random Testing Hard

http://blog.regehr.org/archives/660

14 years ago

56 upvotes – 15 comments

Given The Opportunity: Should You Do TechStars or YC?

http://alexstechthoughts.com/post/25432629161/given-the-opportunity-should-you-do-techstars-or-yc

14 years ago

55 upvotes – 22 comments

OSU Open Source Lab receives $300,000 donation from Google

http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/OSU-Open-Source-Lab-receives-300-000-donation-from-Google-1621111.html

14 years ago

52 upvotes – 2 comments

Petition the EFF to Oppose Software Patents

http://www.change.org/petitions/the-electronic-frontier-foundation-oppose-software-patents?1

14 years ago

52 upvotes – 18 comments

$199 Brings Google Knowledge Graph in Reach of Hackers and Startups

http://basekb.com/?a=hn1

14 years ago

49 upvotes – 26 comments
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