top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-06-21

Mihai Pătraşcu 1982–2012

http://rjlipton.wordpress.com/2012/06/08/mihai-patrascu-1982-2012/

14 years ago

599 upvotes – 29 comments

Vim clutch

https://github.com/alevchuk/vim-clutch

14 years ago

★ 3.5k
546 upvotes – 219 comments

I introduced my 5yo and 2yo to startx and xmonad. They’re delighted.

http://changelog.complete.org/archives/7562-i-introduced-my-5-year-old-and-2-year-old-to-startx-and-xmonad-theyre-delighted

14 years ago

520 upvotes – 193 comments

Why do you think people are poor?

http://harpers.org/archive/1997/09/0074349

14 years ago

323 upvotes – 279 comments

Exploiting Silicon Valley For Profit (and Maybe Fun)

http://diegobasch.com/exploiting-silicon-valley

14 years ago

283 upvotes – 117 comments

I Just Gave Up $4000 Per Month to Keep My Freedom of Speech

http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2012/06/21/i-just-gave-up-4000-per-month-to-keep-my-freedom-of-speech/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+MrMoneyMustache+%28Mr.+Money+Mustache%29

14 years ago

271 upvotes – 128 comments

Peity - Little charts for little projects

http://benpickles.github.com/peity/

14 years ago

265 upvotes – 47 comments

Show HN: The Bastards Book of Photography

http://photography.bastardsbook.com/

14 years ago

259 upvotes – 72 comments

Twitter Completely Down

http://www.isup.me/twitter.com

14 years ago

234 upvotes – 183 comments

Show HN: vi in your browser - edit files directly from Dropbox, etc

http://mit.edu/~georgiou/www/vi/

14 years ago

206 upvotes – 77 comments

Woman Who Couldn’t Be Intimidated by Citigroup Wins $31 Million

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-05-31/woman-who-couldn-t-be-intimidated-by-citigroup-wins-31-million.html

14 years ago

194 upvotes – 56 comments

How Reddit's cofounders built Reddit with an army of fake accounts

http://www.dailydot.com/business/steve-huffman-built-reddit-fake-accounts/

14 years ago

192 upvotes – 85 comments

This teenager is hot property in Silicon Valley

http://www.smh.com.au/small-business/entrepreneur/cant-drink-cant-vote--but-this-teenager-is-hot-property-in-silicon-valley-20120620-20mt9.html

14 years ago

168 upvotes – 85 comments

Symbolset - symbol font using clever opentype ligature hack

http://symbolset.com/

14 years ago

167 upvotes – 60 comments

Startup Accelerator Fail: Most Graduates Go Nowhere

http://www.readwriteweb.com/start/2012/06/startup-accelerator-fail-most-graduates-go-nowhere.php

14 years ago

161 upvotes – 58 comments

EFF taking on software patent reform

http://defendinnovation.org

14 years ago

157 upvotes – 60 comments

ICANN is wrong

http://scripting.com/stories/2012/06/20/icannIsWrong.html

14 years ago

157 upvotes – 88 comments

A Tour of Go - Real examples of interfaces and concurrency

http://research.swtch.com/gotour

14 years ago

150 upvotes – 13 comments

ReFiddle: Fiddle for Regexp testing

http://refiddle.com/

14 years ago

135 upvotes – 41 comments

The bandwidth of a Boeing 747 and its impact on web browsing

http://blog.cloudflare.com/the-bandwidth-of-a-boeing-747-and-its-impact

14 years ago

127 upvotes – 100 comments

Apple Founder “Woz” Visits Kim Dotcom

http://torrentfreak.com/apple-founder-woz-visits-kim-dotcom-120621/

14 years ago

127 upvotes – 33 comments

Larry Ellison Buys Most of Lanai

http://hawaii.gov/gov/newsroom/press-releases/governor-statement-on-lanai-sale

14 years ago

123 upvotes – 153 comments

How not to get acquired

http://blog.gittip.com/post/25565694263/how-not-to-get-acquired

14 years ago

120 upvotes – 84 comments

Oracle accepts $0 in damages from Google, moves toward appeal

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/06/oracle-accepts-0-in-damages-from-google-moves-toward-appeal/

14 years ago

119 upvotes – 20 comments

This page crashes Internet Explorer, even version 9 and 10.

http://crashie8.com/

14 years ago

108 upvotes – 87 comments

Women and Tech

http://womenandtech.com

14 years ago

105 upvotes – 101 comments

Dos and Don’ts for Founders

http://ryancarson.com/post/25580650719/7-dos-and-donts-for-founders

14 years ago

104 upvotes – 14 comments

Getting root on a Sony TV

http://hackaday.com/2012/06/20/getting-root-on-a-sony-tv/

14 years ago

92 upvotes – 27 comments

Why Bad Jobs-or No Jobs-Happen to Good Workers

http://spectrum.ieee.org/podcast/at-work/tech-careers/why-bad-jobsor-no-jobshappen-to-good-workers/

14 years ago

89 upvotes – 74 comments

Show HN: Project Maya

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4141095

14 years ago

88 upvotes – 43 comments

Programming like Kent Beck

http://blog.iterate.no/2012/06/20/programming-like-kent-beck/

14 years ago

85 upvotes – 7 comments

Local Marketplace App Yardsale (YC S11) Launches Nationwide

http://techcrunch.com/2012/06/21/yardsale-launches-nationwide/

14 years ago

84 upvotes – 34 comments

HTML5 is not ready

http://www.wooga.com/2012/06/woogas-html5-adventure/

14 years ago

76 upvotes – 58 comments

One self is not enough

http://jessepollak.me/2012/06/20/one-self-is-not-enough/

14 years ago

70 upvotes – 27 comments

Announcing Opa 1.0

http://blog.opalang.org/2012/06/announcing-opa-10.html

14 years ago

69 upvotes – 14 comments

PayPal.com Gets a Makeover [UI]

https://www.paypal.com/webapps/mpp/home

14 years ago

67 upvotes – 58 comments

Tour the Tomb of NASA’s First and Last Nuclear Reactor

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/06/plum-brook-nuclear-facility/

14 years ago

59 upvotes – 6 comments
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