top 20 hacker news stories for 2012-07-08

A Dust Over India

http://postmasculine.com/a-dust-over-india

14 years ago

633 upvotes – 304 comments

Late bloomer, not a loser. (I hope)

http://500hats.com/late-bloomer

14 years ago

604 upvotes – 191 comments

MPAA/RIAA lose big as US backs copyright "limitations"

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/07/op-ed-eus-rejection-of-acta-subtly-changed-trade-law-landscape/

14 years ago

276 upvotes – 40 comments

Freelancing: A 6-Month Retrospective

http://mrooney.github.com/blog/2012/07/01/freelancing-a-6-month-retrospective/#content

14 years ago

231 upvotes – 119 comments

Google Open Sources Collaborative IDE

https://plus.google.com/109697072684132989725/posts/WwRaBNhJAch

14 years ago

224 upvotes – 52 comments

Three NSA Whistleblowers Back EFF's Lawsuit Over Government Spying Program

https://www.eff.org/press/releases/three-nsa-whistleblowers-back-effs-lawsuit-over-governments-massive-spying-program

14 years ago

208 upvotes – 37 comments

Easy 6502 - Learn the 6502 Assembly Language

http://skilldrick.github.com/easy6502/index.html

14 years ago

179 upvotes – 78 comments

Google Announces Global Campaign To Legalize Gay Marriage

http://www.ontopmag.com/article.aspx?id=12330&MediaType=1&Category=24#

14 years ago

173 upvotes – 265 comments

Ask HN: Learn Math the Hard Way

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4214403

14 years ago

171 upvotes – 84 comments

Confession of a Haskell Hacker

http://r6.ca/blog/20120708T122219Z.html

14 years ago

163 upvotes – 124 comments

Isla, a programming language for young children

http://isla.herokuapp.com/

14 years ago

117 upvotes – 50 comments

Twitter is a Corporate API

http://scripting.com/stories/2012/07/07/twitterIsACorporateApi.html

14 years ago

114 upvotes – 45 comments

Wireless Firms Are Flooded by Requests to Aid Surveillance

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/09/us/cell-carriers-see-uptick-in-requests-to-aid-surveillance.html?hp

14 years ago

112 upvotes – 29 comments

Engineering management is dying

http://deathrayresearch.tumblr.com/post/26759934886/engineering-management-is-dying

14 years ago

111 upvotes – 53 comments

Vico Editor source code released

http://blog.vicoapp.com/2012/07/Vico-is-dead-Long-live-Vico

14 years ago

102 upvotes – 19 comments

Chilean scientists discover molecule that kills bacteria that cause cavities

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=es&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.df.cl%2Fcientificos-chilenos-patentan-molecula-que-elimina-las-caries%2Fprontus_df%2F2012-06-29%2F195432.html

14 years ago

97 upvotes – 40 comments

Thinking in Datomic

http://pelle.github.com/Datomic/2012/07/08/thinking-in-datomic/

14 years ago

96 upvotes – 29 comments

The Caves of Clojure, Part 2

http://stevelosh.com/blog/2012/07/caves-of-clojure-02/

14 years ago

95 upvotes – 10 comments

Don’t Indulge. Be Happy.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/08/opinion/sunday/dont-indulge-be-happy.html?hp&gwh=F0EB60505D64CCD9B64E5EA831001D3B

14 years ago

90 upvotes – 44 comments

U.S. pushes for more scientists, but the jobs aren’t there

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/us-pushes-for-more-scientists-but-the-jobs-arent-there/2012/07/07/gJQAZJpQUW_story.html?hpid=z1

14 years ago

89 upvotes – 71 comments
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