top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-06-27

A day in the life of a startup founder

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4166183

14 years ago

633 upvotes – 126 comments

Kid Automates Work, Is Fired, Hired Back, Automates Business

http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/vomtn/update_my_friends_call_me_a_scumbag_because_i/

14 years ago

566 upvotes – 198 comments

You're not the CEO - You're the Fucking Janitor

http://www.zachbruhnke.com/youre-not-the-ceo-youre-the-fucking-janitor

14 years ago

371 upvotes – 132 comments

Sergey Brin Demos Google Glass At I/O

http://techcrunch.com/2012/06/27/sergey-brin-demos-google-glass-at-io/

14 years ago

313 upvotes – 212 comments

Valve Releases Source Filmmaker Beta

http://sourcefilmmaker.com/

14 years ago

292 upvotes – 23 comments

A visual Git reference

http://marklodato.github.com/visual-git-guide/index-en.html

14 years ago

238 upvotes – 34 comments

Nexus 7, Made for Google Play

https://play.google.com/store/devices/details?id=nexus_7_8gb&feature=single-wide-banner

14 years ago

230 upvotes – 263 comments

Color wheels are wrong? How color vision actually works

http://blog.asmartbear.com/color-wheels.html

14 years ago

214 upvotes – 44 comments

Google I/O 2012

https://developers.google.com/events/io/#last-post-for-this-url-was-more-than-100-days-old

14 years ago

210 upvotes – 119 comments

WakeMate Update

http://blog.wakemate.com/2012/06/27/wakemate-update/

14 years ago

199 upvotes – 96 comments

There is no retirement

http://diegobasch.com/there-is-no-retirement

14 years ago

185 upvotes – 30 comments

TinyPNG: Lossy compression for PNG that preserves full transparency.

http://tinypng.org/

14 years ago

184 upvotes – 83 comments

Both true and false: a Zen moment with C

http://markshroyer.com/2012/06/c-both-true-and-false/

14 years ago

177 upvotes – 51 comments

Android 4.1 Jelly Bean is now available

http://developer.android.com/about/versions/jelly-bean.html

14 years ago

170 upvotes – 139 comments

The Design Of SQLite4 (work in progress)

http://www.sqlite.org/src4/doc/trunk/www/design.wiki

14 years ago

169 upvotes – 49 comments

Python 3.3.0 beta 1 released

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2012-June/120790.html

14 years ago

143 upvotes – 95 comments

OkCupid on Trial - 4 Month Experiment

http://jonmillward.com/blog/attraction-dating/cupid-on-trial-a-4-month-online-dating-experiment/

14 years ago

136 upvotes – 100 comments

Microsoft analyzes over a million PC failures, results shatter enthusiast myths

http://www.extremetech.com/gaming/131739-microsoft-analyzes-over-a-million-pc-failures-results-shatter-enthusiast-myths

14 years ago

129 upvotes – 42 comments

The Game of Distributed Systems Programming

http://blog.incubaid.com/2012/03/28/the-game-of-distributed-systems-programming-which-level-are-you/

14 years ago

124 upvotes – 24 comments

Rejection Letters for a faculty position

http://markchang.tumblr.com/post/25971748022/26-rejection-letters

14 years ago

123 upvotes – 78 comments

The State of Servo, Mozilla's parallelized Rust browser

https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/mozilla.dev.servo/nJJxEy1ehpE

14 years ago

114 upvotes – 39 comments

Citus Data (YC S11) Wants To Make Scalable Data Analytics Accessible To Anyone

http://techcrunch.com/2012/06/27/citus-data-launches-new-scalable-analytics-database/

14 years ago

114 upvotes – 27 comments

Make Something People Love: Lessons From a Startup Guy

http://www.hyperink.com/Make-Something-People-Love-Lessons-From-A-Startup-Guy-b1478

14 years ago

109 upvotes – 51 comments

Mark Cuban: High-Frequency Traders Are the Ultimate Hackers

http://blogs.wsj.com/marketbeat/2012/06/26/mark-cuban-high-frequency-traders-are-the-ultimate-hackers/

14 years ago

104 upvotes – 121 comments

Don't Follow Your Passion: A Smarter Way to Find a Product to Sell

http://www.shopify.com/blog/6187532-dont-follow-your-passion-a-smarter-way-to-find-a-product-to-sell

14 years ago

103 upvotes – 33 comments

Garry Kasparov defeats Alan Turing in chess in 15 moves

http://chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=8283

14 years ago

103 upvotes – 23 comments

Part 2: I analyzed the chords of 1300 popular songs for patterns.

http://www.hooktheory.com/blog/music-theory-analysis-1300-songs-for-songwriting-part2/

14 years ago

90 upvotes – 17 comments

Eclipse Juno released

http://www.eclipse.org/

14 years ago

90 upvotes – 41 comments

Show HN: Prolifi.cc, a weekend project

http://www.prolifi.cc

14 years ago

86 upvotes – 65 comments

Improve your beta-testing with Nginx, Lua and Redis

http://devblog.mixlr.com/2012/06/26/how-we-use-nginx-lua-and-redis-to-beta-ify-mixlr/

14 years ago

72 upvotes – 16 comments

Tindie: Buy & sell homemade gadgets & parts

http://tindie.com/

14 years ago

66 upvotes – 32 comments

Berlin's new 107,000 ft² startup factory

http://venturevillage.eu/the-factory-simon-schaefer

14 years ago

65 upvotes – 36 comments

Reading Between the Benchmarks: How MemSQL Designs for Speed and Durability

http://developers.memsql.com/blog/reading-between-the-benchmarks/

14 years ago

64 upvotes – 36 comments

Dr. Dobb's 2012 Salary Survey

http://www.drdobbs.com/architecture-and-design/240002742

14 years ago

61 upvotes – 33 comments

Google Nexus Q: The social streaming media player

https://play.google.com/store/devices/details?id=nexus_q

14 years ago

61 upvotes – 62 comments

Inside JavaScriptCore's low-level interpreter

http://wingolog.org/archives/2012/06/27/inside-javascriptcores-low-level-interpreter

14 years ago

61 upvotes – 9 comments

Nexus Q - The world's first social streaming media player

http://www.google.com/nexus/#/q

14 years ago

60 upvotes – 50 comments

Facebook Plans to Speed Up its iPhone App

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/27/facebook-plans-to-speedup-its-iphone-app/

14 years ago

59 upvotes – 63 comments

Simplest way to build apps for Windows Phone

http://trigger.io/cross-platform-application-development-blog/2012/06/27/simplest-way-to-build-apps-for-windows-phone/

14 years ago

59 upvotes – 13 comments

AirBnb's new site design

https://www.airbnb.com/

14 years ago

58 upvotes – 66 comments
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