top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-06-26

Sublime Text 2.0 Released

http://www.sublimetext.com/blog/articles/sublime-text-2-0-released

14 years ago

813 upvotes – 352 comments

The Recruiter Honeypot

http://www.ewherry.com/2012/06/the-recruiter-honeypot/

14 years ago

655 upvotes – 156 comments

We know what you're doing

http://www.weknowwhatyouredoing.com/

14 years ago

408 upvotes – 114 comments

MySQL is bazillion times faster than MemSQL

http://dom.as/2012/06/26/memsql-rage/

14 years ago

339 upvotes – 138 comments

YC S12 company refuses to pay for my design. "Send your claim to our legal team"

http://www.reddit.com/r/web_design/comments/vlrp7/yc_s12_company_refuses_to_pay_for_my_design_send/

14 years ago

318 upvotes – 164 comments

EU Commissioner Will Simply Ignore Any Rejection Of ACTA By EU Parliament

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120625/12333619468/eu-commissioner-reveals-he-will-simply-ignore-any-rejection-acta-european-parliament-next-week.shtml

14 years ago

282 upvotes – 121 comments

Handsontable - Excel-like table editor in HTML & jQuery

http://warpech.github.com/jquery-handsontable/index.html

14 years ago

237 upvotes – 40 comments

Brackets: The Open Source Code Editor for the Web

http://blog.brackets.io/2012/06/25/brackets-open-source-code-editor/

14 years ago

222 upvotes – 62 comments

Bridge is a new RPC framework for building modular services

https://www.getbridge.com

14 years ago

219 upvotes – 85 comments

NVD3.js: re-usable charts for d3.js

http://novus.github.com/nvd3/?

14 years ago

204 upvotes – 47 comments

Going Colo

http://blog.pinboard.in/2012/06/going_colo/

14 years ago

201 upvotes – 97 comments

Orbitz shows costlier hotel options to Mac users

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304458604577488822667325882.html

14 years ago

194 upvotes – 136 comments

Robot Hand Beats You at Rock, Paper, Scissors 100% of the Time

http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/artificial-intelligence/robot-hand-beats-you-at-rock-paper-scissors-100-of-the-time#.T-oNnmOGhzI.hackernews

14 years ago

192 upvotes – 66 comments

What if we hired writers like we hire developers

http://hitesh.in/2012/hiring-process/

14 years ago

185 upvotes – 93 comments

Show HN: Avatars.io - simple API for integrating avatars into your app or site

http://avatars.io

14 years ago

181 upvotes – 39 comments

Skrollr - parallax scrolling for the masses

http://prinzhorn.github.com/skrollr/

14 years ago

177 upvotes – 46 comments

Station Maps - a collection of 3D maps of London Underground/DLR stations

http://stations.aeracode.org/

14 years ago

170 upvotes – 34 comments

Jeff Bezos Taught Me When to Quit

http://www.chrisfharvey.com/2012/02/jeff-bezos-taught-me-when-to-quit/

14 years ago

158 upvotes – 69 comments

An Empirical Analysis of Hardware Failures on a Million Consumer PCs

http://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/default.aspx?id=144888

14 years ago

150 upvotes – 78 comments

Ask HN: What is the best way to promote your startup?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4161813

14 years ago

145 upvotes – 49 comments

"X-" deprecated for HTTP headers

http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6648

14 years ago

133 upvotes – 35 comments

Why Meditation Doesn't Directly Increase Happiness

http://www.unreadyandwilling.com/2012/06/looking-back-my-first-year-as-a-meditation-practitioner/

14 years ago

132 upvotes – 123 comments

Hands-on: Firefox for Android may become your favorite mobile browser

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2012/06/hands-on-firefox-for-android-may-become-your-favorite-android-browser/

14 years ago

127 upvotes – 57 comments

Gene Sharp: A dictator's worst nightmare

http://edition.cnn.com/2012/06/23/world/gene-sharp-revolutionary/index.html?on.cnn=1

14 years ago

113 upvotes – 86 comments

Apple Releases Dedicated iOS Podcasts App

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/podcasts/id525463029?mt=8

14 years ago

111 upvotes – 102 comments

A day in the life of a CEO

http://ryancarson.com/post/25923386691/a-day-in-the-life-of-a-ceo

14 years ago

111 upvotes – 88 comments

ZeroMQ - Disconnects are Good for You

http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2012/6/26/disconnects-are-good-for-you/

14 years ago

108 upvotes – 54 comments

AeroFS/S3: Private syncing to Amazon's Cloud made easy

http://blog.aerofs.com/aerofss3-syncing-to-amazon-cloud-never-been-e

14 years ago

107 upvotes – 22 comments

Dropbox disconnects Boxopus for unwanted features

http://blog.boxopus.com/index.php/2012/06/25/dropbox-disconnects-us

14 years ago

106 upvotes – 73 comments

OrmHate

http://martinfowler.com/bliki/OrmHate.html

14 years ago

100 upvotes – 134 comments

United States Pirate Party

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Pirate_Party

14 years ago

99 upvotes – 65 comments

Write Less Code

http://mikegrouchy.com/blog/2012/06/write-less-code.html

14 years ago

97 upvotes – 51 comments

Clever (YC S12) Launches A Twilio For Educational Data

http://techcrunch.com/2012/06/26/clever-launches-twilio-for-ed-data/

14 years ago

95 upvotes – 22 comments

Mobile Firefox: Measuring how a browser feels

http://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2012/06/26/mobile-firefox-measuring-how-a-browser-feels/

14 years ago

85 upvotes – 12 comments

Cloud9 IDE lets you code together in the Cloud. And offline. And in Ruby, PHP…

http://c9.io/site/blog/2012/06/cloud9ide-new-features/

14 years ago

84 upvotes – 44 comments

How Do Plants Know Which Way Is Up And Which Way Is Down?

http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2012/06/21/155508849/how-do-plants-know-which-way-is-up-and-which-way-is-down

14 years ago

80 upvotes – 22 comments

Speedy Upgrade to Firefox for Android

http://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2012/06/26/mozilla-launches-a-speedy-and-powerful-upgrade-to-mobile-browsing-with-firefox-for-android/

14 years ago

77 upvotes – 18 comments

The TSA's Dumb Air-Security Rules Are Not Based on Science

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=tsa-dumb-security-rules-not-science-based

14 years ago

75 upvotes – 74 comments

Google & Stanford create a digital brain that learns to identify a human face

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/131717-google-and-stanford-create-a-digital-brain-that-like-an-infant-learns-to-identify-a-human-face-from-scratch

14 years ago

75 upvotes – 30 comments

Tuts+ Premium Account Security Compromised

http://notes.envato.com/general/tuts-premium-security/

14 years ago

71 upvotes – 67 comments

Former Facebooker Scoops Up $1.4 Million for Freshplum (YC S11)

http://allthingsd.com/20120626/former-facebooker-scoops-up-1-4-million-for-freshplum-sales-analytics-for-the-little-guy/?refcat=news

14 years ago

69 upvotes – 33 comments

Build Lego onto a Google Map (in Google Chrome)

http://www.buildwithchrome.com/static/map

14 years ago

68 upvotes – 15 comments

Flowchart: how to retinafy your website

http://mir.aculo.us/2012/06/26/flowchart-how-to-retinafy-your-website/

14 years ago

65 upvotes – 14 comments

RBS IT cockup: This sort of thing can destroy a bank, normally

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/06/25/banking_fail_rbs_natwest/

14 years ago

63 upvotes – 69 comments

Aussie telco sends user data to US to build web filter

http://www.scmagazine.com.au/News/306441,telstra-tracks-users-to-build-web-filter.aspx

14 years ago

58 upvotes – 9 comments
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