top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-07-05

Mousetrap: Keyboard shortcuts in Javascript

http://craig.is/killing/mice

14 years ago

395 upvotes – 74 comments

Judge Posner: U.S. patent system out of sync

http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/breaking/chi-judge-posner-us-patent-system-out-of-sync-20120705,0,4814825.story

14 years ago

339 upvotes – 120 comments

Show HN: Iorad - the tutorial builder

http://www.iorad.com/?a=app.htmlplayer&accessCode=GUEST&remote=true&module=3551

14 years ago

276 upvotes – 99 comments

ACLU launches phone app to help motorists secretly record police stops

http://www.autoblog.com/2012/07/05/aclu-launches-phone-app-to-help-motorists-secretly-record-police/

14 years ago

275 upvotes – 93 comments

Sqlmap: Automatic SQL injection and database takeover tool

http://sqlmap.org/

14 years ago

248 upvotes – 79 comments

The Google Nexus Q Is Baffling

http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/05/the-google-nexus-q-is-baffling/?nl=technology&emc=cta2_20120705

14 years ago

214 upvotes – 200 comments

Patent troll stalks travel site Hipmunk

http://gigaom.com/2012/07/05/patent-troll-stalks-travel-site-hipmunk/

14 years ago

188 upvotes – 82 comments

Another Spanking for Apple from Judge Posner

http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20120704142749867

14 years ago

173 upvotes – 68 comments

Why Russia Locks Up So Many Entrepreneurs

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-18706597

14 years ago

173 upvotes – 128 comments

Linux Played a Crucial Role in Discovery of 'Higgs boson'

http://www.ubuntuvibes.com/2012/07/linux-played-crucial-role-in-discovery.html

14 years ago

166 upvotes – 93 comments

Another year of Clojure

http://spootnik.org/entries/2012/07/04_another-year-of-clojure.html

14 years ago

162 upvotes – 71 comments

So You Want to Be a Security Expert

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2012/07/how_to_become_a_1.html

14 years ago

157 upvotes – 57 comments

The Ultimate Counterfeiter Isn’t a Crook — He’s an Artist

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/05/ff_counterfeiter/all/

14 years ago

153 upvotes – 80 comments

Algernon's Law

http://www.gwern.net/Drug%20heuristics

14 years ago

151 upvotes – 95 comments

How Facebook Ships Code

http://framethink.wordpress.com/2011/01/17/how-facebook-ships-code/

14 years ago

129 upvotes – 114 comments

WikiLeaks says it has obtained 2.4 million emails from Syria

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/wikileaks-says-it-has-obtained-24-million-emails-from-syria-claims-revelations-forthcoming/2012/07/05/gJQADE86OW_story.html?hpid=z2

14 years ago

124 upvotes – 45 comments

ESR: Cisco provides a lesson

http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=4441

14 years ago

117 upvotes – 51 comments

Show HN: QuicklyChat - A video walkie-talkie for the workplace

http://www.quicklychat.com

14 years ago

110 upvotes – 48 comments

Singularity U, or Singularity Woo?

http://www.skepticblog.org/2012/07/05/singularity-u-or-singularity-woo/

14 years ago

109 upvotes – 109 comments

Tell HN: How 2 devs got 1 million monthly actives with no social/viral tools

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4205571

14 years ago

109 upvotes – 27 comments

Fred Wilson: My New Nexus 7"

http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2012/07/my-new-nexus-7.html

14 years ago

99 upvotes – 103 comments

BitTorrent usage increases in Europe, following the blockade of The Pirate Bay

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/132328-bittorrent-usage-increases-in-europe-following-the-blockade-of-the-pirate-bay

14 years ago

97 upvotes – 16 comments

First case of malware in the Apple App Store.

http://www.securelist.com/en/blog/208193641/Find_and_Call_Leak_and_Spam

14 years ago

95 upvotes – 49 comments

Lie More, as a Business Model

http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/05/lie-more-as-a-business-model/?smid=tw-share

14 years ago

92 upvotes – 54 comments

LeanMarket (YC S12) brings real-time bidding display ads to the masses

http://techcrunch.com/2012/07/05/leanmarket-launch/

14 years ago

86 upvotes – 27 comments

Colorjoe - A Scaleable Color Picker (No Images)

http://bebraw.github.com/colorjoe/

14 years ago

85 upvotes – 29 comments

Salted Password Hashing - Doing it Right

http://crackstation.net/hashing-security.htm

14 years ago

85 upvotes – 77 comments

Historical Chip Pricing now on Octopart

http://octopart.com/blog/archives/2012/7/historical-pricing

14 years ago

80 upvotes – 17 comments

Double amputee cleared to race in the Olympics

http://www.engadget.com/2012/07/05/double-amputee-oscar-pistorius-will-race-in-the-london-olympics/

14 years ago

77 upvotes – 76 comments

Delight.io (YC W10) Lets Developers See What Beta Users Are Doing In Their Apps

http://www.techcrunch.com/2012/07/05/delight-io/

14 years ago

70 upvotes – 25 comments

Why the Higgs Boson Discovery Is Disappointing

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/07/why-the-higgs-boson-discovery-is-disappointing-according-to-the-smartest-man-in-the-world/259468/

14 years ago

63 upvotes – 41 comments

Practical functional programming in JavaScript

http://extralogical.net/projects/udon/

14 years ago

62 upvotes – 38 comments

Stop worrying about Time To First Byte (TTFB)

http://blog.cloudflare.com/ttfb-time-to-first-byte-considered-meaningles

14 years ago

60 upvotes – 37 comments

Pycoder's Weekly

http://pycoders.com/

14 years ago

59 upvotes – 18 comments

Google Glass: Apple Granted Patent for Head-Mounted Display

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/07/apple-patent-hud-display/

14 years ago

58 upvotes – 29 comments

StackOverflow Man Remakes Net One Answer at a TIme

http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/07/stackoverflow-jeff-atwood/

14 years ago

55 upvotes – 76 comments

Six-ish Months of eBook Sales: Riak Handbook

http://www.paperplanes.de/2012/7/5/six-ish-months-of-ebook-sales-riak-handbook.html

14 years ago

54 upvotes – 13 comments

Google's Algorithms for Talent

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303410404577466852658514144.html

14 years ago

52 upvotes – 5 comments

Principles For Successful Web Apps by Fred Wilson

http://app.arcticfoxtv.com/d/onbxr

14 years ago

52 upvotes – 13 comments

Applying 5 Whys To Amazon EC2 Outage

http://www.somic.org/2012/07/05/applying-5-whys-to-amazon-ec2-outage/

14 years ago

52 upvotes – 14 comments

Rocket Launch Numbers – Bridge (YC W11) Signs Up 1,000 Developers in First Day

http://techcrunch.com/2012/07/05/rocket-launch-numbers-startup-signs-up-1000-developers-in-first-day/

14 years ago

51 upvotes – 7 comments

Show HN: Filter through all your FB friend's relationships - my weekend project

http://relationbook.me/

14 years ago

50 upvotes – 36 comments

Git checkout and see

http://robots.thoughtbot.com/post/26417669058/git-checkout-and-see

14 years ago

50 upvotes – 0 comments
show: top 10top 20top 50%
go to date: prev next
sort by: datescorecomments