top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-07-09

Github Raises $100 Million

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303292204577517111643094308.html

14 years ago

547 upvotes – 222 comments

Bringing Craigslist Back

http://blog.padmapper.com/2012/07/09/bringing-craigslist-back/

14 years ago

309 upvotes – 362 comments

Software Inventory by Joel Spolsky

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2012/07/09.html

14 years ago

297 upvotes – 64 comments

If you run a contest as a startup, don't be dishonest. JPEGmini scammed me.

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/13336500/jpegmini.html

14 years ago

267 upvotes – 86 comments

What We Should Have Said To PG

http://blog.rocketr.com/what-we-should-have-said-to-pg/

14 years ago

247 upvotes – 216 comments

Coming Home to Vim

http://stevelosh.com/blog/2010/09/coming-home-to-vim/?

14 years ago

204 upvotes – 118 comments

Divine intervention: Google's Nexus 7 is a fantastic $200 tablet

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2012/07/divine-intervention-googles-nexus-7-is-a-fantastic-200-tablet/

14 years ago

199 upvotes – 154 comments

Trello is now half million strong

http://blog.trello.com/trello-is-now-500000-strong/

14 years ago

198 upvotes – 67 comments

Investing in GitHub

https://github.com/blog/1189-investing-in-github

14 years ago

186 upvotes – 15 comments

Light Table Playground Levels Up

http://www.chris-granger.com/2012/07/09/light-table-playgrounds-level-up/

14 years ago

179 upvotes – 53 comments

2012 Submarine Cable Map

http://submarine-cable-map-2012.telegeography.com/

14 years ago

176 upvotes – 68 comments

GitHub Android App Released

https://github.com/blog/1187-github-android-app-released

14 years ago

168 upvotes – 40 comments

Don’t waste your time in crappy startup jobs

http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2012/07/08/dont-waste-your-time-in-crappy-startup-jobs/

14 years ago

160 upvotes – 19 comments

Keyless BMW cars prove to be very easy to steal

http://hackaday.com/2012/07/07/keyless-bmw-cars-prove-to-be-very-easy-to-steal/

14 years ago

154 upvotes – 103 comments

Android 4.1 in AOSP

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/android-building/XBYeD-bhk1o/ry-0jTGimEQJ

14 years ago

154 upvotes – 36 comments

Github finally raises funding: $100M from Andreessen Horowitz

http://gigaom.com/2012/07/09/github-finally-raises-funding-100m-from-andreessen-horowitz/?utm_source=social&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=gigaom

14 years ago

152 upvotes – 11 comments

Startup uses disruption of Earth's magnetic field for indoor positioning

http://www.arcticstartup.com/2012/07/09/new-indoor-navigation-startup-uses-disruption-of-geomagnetic-field-from-buildings

14 years ago

133 upvotes – 77 comments

Betting the Company on Windows 8

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/07/betting-the-company-on-windows-8.html

14 years ago

115 upvotes – 159 comments

About the future of Thunderbird

https://blog.mozilla.org/beyond-the-code/2012/07/09/about-the-future-of-thunderbird/

14 years ago

115 upvotes – 77 comments

Kogan.com mysteriously disappears from Microsoft Search Engines

http://www.kogan.com/au/blog/Kogan-dissapears-from-microsoft-engines-bing-yahoo/

14 years ago

105 upvotes – 48 comments

Peter Norvig's TED talk reflecting on the online AI course

http://fm.schmoller.net/2012/07/peter-norvigs-ted-talk-about-the-ai-course.html

14 years ago

97 upvotes – 15 comments

Plivo (YC S12) launches scalable API platform for Voice & SMS Apps

http://techcrunch.com/2012/07/09/yc-backed-plivo-launches-its-scalable-api-platform-for-voice-sms-apps/

14 years ago

91 upvotes – 36 comments

On Configuration

http://sstephenson.us/posts/on-configuration

14 years ago

91 upvotes – 53 comments

Speak.js Demo

http://speak-demo.herokuapp.com/

14 years ago

91 upvotes – 34 comments

Python for iOS

http://itunes.apple.com/app/python-for-ios/id485729872?mt=8

14 years ago

89 upvotes – 32 comments

Direct Clojure to C Compiler - Based on ClojureScript

https://github.com/schani/clojurec

14 years ago

★ 921 Clojure
89 upvotes – 89 comments

The Curse of Bullshit

http://learntoduck.net/the-curse-of-bullshit

14 years ago

82 upvotes – 50 comments

Arel merge, rails' hidden gem

http://benhoskin.gs/2012/07/04/arel-merge-a-hidden-gem

14 years ago

79 upvotes – 16 comments

UK Judge says Galaxy Tab 'not as cool' as iPad, awards Samsung win in suit

http://www.engadget.com/2012/07/09/uk-judge-says-galaxy-tab-not-as-cool-as-ipad-awards-samsung-w/

14 years ago

79 upvotes – 20 comments

Ask HN: Time to give up on Qt?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4216832

14 years ago

75 upvotes – 69 comments

The Caves of Clojure part 3.1: World Generation

http://stevelosh.com/blog/2012/07/caves-of-clojure-03-1/

14 years ago

72 upvotes – 8 comments

Newspaper Industry Is Running Out of Time to Adapt to Digital Future

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/09/business/media/newspapers-are-running-out-of-time-to-adapt-to-digital-future.html?pagewanted=all

14 years ago

72 upvotes – 66 comments

Mass-unprefixing in Firefox 16

http://paulrouget.com/e/unprefixing-in-firefox-16/

14 years ago

71 upvotes – 44 comments

TeX Live 2012 released

http://www.latex-community.org/home/news/46-news-latex-distributions/448-texlive-2012

14 years ago

71 upvotes – 29 comments

Using Google Refine to Clean a Data Set

http://craig-russell.co.uk/2012/06/21/using-google-refine.html

14 years ago

69 upvotes – 27 comments

Open Letter to Web Designers and Developers: Max CSS

http://daneden.me/max-css/

14 years ago

67 upvotes – 37 comments

How Huffington Post's Clever Traffic-Generation Machine Works

http://www.mondaynote.com/2012/07/08/transfer-of-value/

14 years ago

65 upvotes – 22 comments

Why only few number of IIT kids end up doing startups

http://aarvay.in/2012/07/09/why-only-few-number-of-iit-kids-end-up-doing-startups/

14 years ago

65 upvotes – 45 comments

Kippt (YC S12) adds social lists and discovery features

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/kippt-reinvents-the-internets-favorite-hobby-sharing-links.php

14 years ago

65 upvotes – 16 comments

Betable: Bringing real gambling to social casino games

http://venturebeat.com/2012/07/09/betable-could-disrupt-social-casino-games-by-cleverly-fusing-them-with-legal-real-money-gambling/

14 years ago

62 upvotes – 26 comments

Mixergy Premium

http://swombat.com/2012/7/9/mixergy-premium

14 years ago

62 upvotes – 26 comments

Subscribely: Create your subscription site using our boilerplate (Stripe-ready)

https://github.com/SockClub/subscribely

14 years ago

★ 221 Python
60 upvotes – 12 comments

PyCon 2013 Launches - March 13-21, Santa Clara

http://pycon.blogspot.com/2012/07/welcome-to-pycon-2013.html

14 years ago

58 upvotes – 11 comments

Will Developers Ante Up for a Gambling API?

http://blog.programmableweb.com/2012/07/09/will-developers-ante-up-for-a-gambling-api/

14 years ago

57 upvotes – 32 comments

Indoor positioning without WIFI mapping

http://www.indooratlas.com/

14 years ago

56 upvotes – 13 comments

Make Your App Icons Boring

http://lookatpete.com/make-your-app-icons-boring

14 years ago

56 upvotes – 32 comments

Vigilantes Have Renamed "The new iPad"

http://priceonomics.com/tablets/#ipad-3-naming

14 years ago

55 upvotes – 64 comments

Entrepreneurship the Illness - A day in the life

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4217985

14 years ago

53 upvotes – 31 comments

Having a Go - first time experience with Golang

http://robotmay.com/post/26828873843/having-a-go

14 years ago

53 upvotes – 54 comments

UCLA develops world’s fastest camera to hunt down cancer in real time

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/132470-ucla-develops-worlds-fastest-camera-to-hunt-down-cancer-in-real-time

14 years ago

52 upvotes – 6 comments
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