top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-07-06

A file that's both an acceptable HTML page and a JPEG (view source on it)

http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/squirrel/

14 years ago

536 upvotes – 128 comments

Show HN: fontBomb - Stylishly destroy the web

http://fontbomb.ilex.ca

14 years ago

489 upvotes – 85 comments

How tiny wasps cope with being smaller than amoebas

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2011/11/30/how-fairy-wasps-cope-with-being-smaller-than-amoebas/

14 years ago

234 upvotes – 69 comments

Illegal Engineering

http://www.timhunkin.com/94_illegal_engineering.htm

14 years ago

232 upvotes – 49 comments

Everybody Hates Firefox Updates

http://evilbrainjono.net/blog?showcomments=true&permalink=1094

14 years ago

227 upvotes – 196 comments

Introducing BitTorrent Torque

http://blog.bittorrent.com/2012/07/06/introducing-bittorrent-torque/

14 years ago

217 upvotes – 34 comments

Preparing Yourself for Modern JavaScript Development

http://www.codethinked.com/preparing-yourself-for-modern-javascript-development

14 years ago

206 upvotes – 71 comments

Machine Learning Video Library - Learning From Data (Abu-Mostafa)

http://work.caltech.edu/library/

14 years ago

193 upvotes – 23 comments

So, That’s It For Thunderbird

http://techcrunch.com/2012/07/06/so-thats-it-for-thunderbird/

14 years ago

192 upvotes – 190 comments

If You Don't Prioritize Your Life, Someone Else Will

http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2012/06/how_to_say_no_to_a_controlling.html

14 years ago

191 upvotes – 59 comments

Being a Software Architect

http://coderwall.com/p/lbda2q

14 years ago

168 upvotes – 108 comments

The Pal-V flying car

http://pal-v.com/

14 years ago

164 upvotes – 66 comments

Why Showing Your Face at Work Matters

http://sloanreview.mit.edu/the-magazine/2012-summer/53407/why-showing-your-face-at-work-matters

14 years ago

161 upvotes – 93 comments

Bootstrap Tour: Quick and easy way to build your product tours

http://pushly.github.com/bootstrap-tour/

14 years ago

144 upvotes – 23 comments

At ‘Hacker Hostels,’ Living on the Cheap and Dreaming of Digital Glory

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/06/technology/at-hacker-hostels-living-on-the-cheap-and-dreaming-of-digital-glory.html?pagewanted=all

14 years ago

141 upvotes – 111 comments

A large, bloated JS framework with an unintuitive syntax and very few features

https://github.com/facebook/javelin/

14 years ago

★ 497 JavaScript BSD-3-Clause
141 upvotes – 68 comments

Openworm: c.elegans worm simulation

https://code.google.com/p/openworm/

14 years ago

136 upvotes – 14 comments

Show HN: 51,000 6 character domains

http://www.coreyballou.com/six-character-domain-names/

14 years ago

128 upvotes – 64 comments

Show HN: I am bored of pixel art so I'm making my video game with wool.

http://www.ohmy.me/voyager

14 years ago

126 upvotes – 15 comments

This Startup Could Literally Change The Way The Entire App Industry Works

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/meet-one-most-important-startups-185800061.html

14 years ago

126 upvotes – 40 comments

Apple’s fix for corrupt binaries

http://www.marco.org/2012/07/06/apple-repushes-corrupt-binaries

14 years ago

117 upvotes – 37 comments

Lessons Netflix Learned from the AWS Storm

http://techblog.netflix.com/2012/07/lessons-netflix-learned-from-aws-storm.html

14 years ago

115 upvotes – 49 comments

Advanced Flask Patterns

https://speakerdeck.com/u/mitsuhiko/p/advanced-flask-patterns

14 years ago

115 upvotes – 26 comments

Internet Access Is a Human Right, Says United Nations

http://mashable.com/2012/07/06/internet-human-right/

14 years ago

110 upvotes – 76 comments

'Unprecedented' discovery could propel quantum computers to reality

http://www.thebunsenburner.com/news/unprecedented-discovery-could-propel-quantum-computers-to-reality/

14 years ago

106 upvotes – 50 comments

Armchair scientists

http://pilif.github.com/2012/07/armchair-scientists/

14 years ago

105 upvotes – 41 comments

Neural Network library in JavaScript

https://github.com/harthur/brain

14 years ago

★ 7.9k JavaScript MIT
88 upvotes – 3 comments

The True Problem With PHP

http://blog.ircmaxell.com/2012/07/true-problem-with-php.html

14 years ago

85 upvotes – 124 comments

R for the Enterprise

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/bigdata/r-offerings-1566363.html

14 years ago

84 upvotes – 18 comments

How We Built A Data Center With Commodity Hardware And FOSS

http://www.searchenabler.com/blog/build-your-own-data-center/

14 years ago

83 upvotes – 44 comments

Pricing psychology - 33% more beats 33% off

http://moneyland.time.com/2012/07/03/consumers-prefer-to-get-more-rather-than-pay-less-because-theyre-bad-at-math/

14 years ago

79 upvotes – 70 comments

Warby Parker (or, Finding Broken Systems That Are Full of Money)

http://www.thinkhard-ly.com/1/post/2011/11/warby-parker.html

14 years ago

78 upvotes – 72 comments

Introducing Word Lens, for Android

http://blog.questvisual.com/post/26612327582/quest-visual-is-pleased-to-make-several

14 years ago

76 upvotes – 61 comments

Announcing Recline.JS: a Javascript library to build data apps in browser

http://blog.okfn.org/2012/07/05/announcing-recline-js-a-javascript-library-for-building-data-applications-in-the-browser/

14 years ago

69 upvotes – 7 comments

Cisco backs down, drops cloud from default router settings

http://blogs.cisco.com/home/update-answering-our-customers-questions-about-cisco-connect-cloud-2/

14 years ago

68 upvotes – 12 comments

Mars One Project: “Humans Will Live On Mars In 2023″

http://techli.com/2012/07/mars-one-project/

14 years ago

68 upvotes – 58 comments

Samsung profits surge 79% boosted by smartphone sales

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-18732714

14 years ago

68 upvotes – 39 comments

Improving Linux performance by preserving Buffer Cache State

http://insights.oetiker.ch/linux/fadvise/

14 years ago

61 upvotes – 9 comments

Designing Docs for Developers

http://trigger.io/cross-platform-application-development-blog/2012/07/06/designing-docs-for-developers/

14 years ago

59 upvotes – 3 comments

"Don't f***ing trim the copy"

http://jessepollak.me/2012/07/05/dont-fing-trim-the-copy/

14 years ago

54 upvotes – 61 comments

Argentina bans dollar purchases for savings

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-07-05/argentina-bans-dollar-purchases-for-savings-infobae-says.html

14 years ago

53 upvotes – 97 comments

Powerful targeting for iOS push notifications

http://blog.parse.com/2012/07/06/pushing-to-queries-in-ios/

14 years ago

53 upvotes – 4 comments

Berners-Lee: World Finally Realizes The Web Belongs To No One

http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/06/sir-tim-berners-lee/

14 years ago

50 upvotes – 2 comments
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