top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-07-10

What Powers Instagram: Hundreds of Instances, Dozens of Technologies

http://instagram-engineering.tumblr.com/post/13649370142/what-powers-instagram-hundreds-of-instances-dozens-of

14 years ago

335 upvotes – 77 comments

Show HN: Moqups - Vectorial mockups with HTML5 and SVG

https://moqups.com/

14 years ago

310 upvotes – 103 comments

DC "Uber Amendment" would force sedans to charge 5x more than taxis

http://techcrunch.com/2012/07/09/dc-city-councils-uber-amendment-would-force-sedans-to-charge-5x-taxi-prices-and-kill-uberx/

14 years ago

292 upvotes – 200 comments

Re-Designing the classic email client

http://www.vanschneider.com/work/mail/

14 years ago

284 upvotes – 208 comments

Show HN: Gridspot, 10x cheaper cloud compute using distributed computing

https://gridspot.com/compute/

14 years ago

266 upvotes – 144 comments

The Cheapest Route to 6 Continents

http://flightfox.com/contest/18969

14 years ago

266 upvotes – 124 comments

Ouya: A New Kind of Video Game Console

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ouya/ouya-a-new-kind-of-video-game-console

14 years ago

239 upvotes – 168 comments

Lamar Smith trying to quietly revive SOPA

http://boingboing.net/2012/07/10/sopa-is-back-lamar-smith-tryi.html

14 years ago

222 upvotes – 47 comments

New Dropbox Pro plans

http://blog.dropbox.com/index.php/new-dropbox-pro-plans/

14 years ago

221 upvotes – 180 comments

Lies, Damn Lies and LIBOR

http://londonbanker.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/lies-damn-lies-and-libor.html

14 years ago

208 upvotes – 135 comments

Stripe Raises $20M From General Catalyst, Sequoia, Thiel

http://techcrunch.com/2012/07/09/sexy-payments-startup-stripe-swipes-20m-from-general-catalyst-sequoia-thiel-and-more/

14 years ago

195 upvotes – 39 comments

Penny Arcade Sells Out

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/575109064/penny-arcade-sells-out

14 years ago

168 upvotes – 102 comments

I bet you over-engineered your startup

http://www.zemanta.com/fruitblog/i-bet-you-over-engineered-your-startup/

14 years ago

152 upvotes – 100 comments

Twitter Bootstrap with themes, enhancements, and other goodies

http://ajkochanowicz.github.com/Kickstrap/

14 years ago

152 upvotes – 34 comments

Drug made from toxic weed kills cancer

http://www.futurity.org/top-stories/drug-made-from-toxic-weed-kills-cancer/

14 years ago

140 upvotes – 55 comments

How we make 5000 row tables fast in Streak

http://blog.streak.com/2012/07/butter-performance.html

14 years ago

139 upvotes – 39 comments

Making Chrome better on iOS

http://raphaelcaixeta.com/blog/2012/07/09/making-chrome-better-on-ios/

14 years ago

126 upvotes – 65 comments

Pinboard Turns Three

http://blog.pinboard.in/2012/07/pinboard_turns_three/

14 years ago

122 upvotes – 29 comments

Photo of $211,223.04 in cash The Oatmeal raised for charity

http://theoatmeal.com/blog/charity_money

14 years ago

118 upvotes – 26 comments

"The whole Droplr stack runs on HTTPS" ...except content

http://support.droplr.com/discussions/suggestions/153-https

14 years ago

117 upvotes – 32 comments

Parallel Universe open sources a novel in-memory data grid

http://blog.paralleluniverse.co/post/26909672264/on-distributed-memory

14 years ago

117 upvotes – 42 comments

Unicode is, in 2012, still “cutting edge.”

http://golem.ph.utexas.edu/~distler/blog/archives/002539.html

14 years ago

115 upvotes – 87 comments

Scalatron: Learn Scala with a programming game

http://scalatron.github.com/

14 years ago

106 upvotes – 5 comments

Kim Dotcom Will Go to the US in Exchange for Legal Funds

http://torrentfreak.com/kim-dotcom-will-go-to-the-us-in-exchange-for-legal-funds-120710/

14 years ago

106 upvotes – 92 comments

DC Uber Amendment Shelved

http://dcist.com/2012/07/cheh_shelves_uber_amendment_after_b.php

14 years ago

99 upvotes – 36 comments

Parallel Universe (YC S12) Developing Spatial Databases For Matrix-Style Games

http://techcrunch.com/2012/07/09/parallel-universe-spacebase-will-make-for-new-matrix-style-mmo-games/

14 years ago

95 upvotes – 42 comments

Russian Wikipedia Goes on Strike Over Censorship Plans

http://en.ria.ru/society/20120710/174509543.html

14 years ago

93 upvotes – 35 comments

PyPy - Python 3k Status #5 update

http://morepypy.blogspot.in/2012/07/py3k-status-update-5.html

14 years ago

86 upvotes – 10 comments

Installing Rails on a Mac Shouldn't Be As Hard As It Is

http://cabforward.com/blog/install-ruby-on-rails-on-mac

14 years ago

84 upvotes – 92 comments

Startup offers trip as hiring bonus

http://code.craftcoffee.com/

14 years ago

82 upvotes – 55 comments

Lamar Smith Proposes Expanding Hollywood's Global Police Force

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120709/12574819634/lamar-smith-looking-to-sneak-through-sopa-bits-pieces-starting-with-expanding-hollywoods-global-police-force.shtml

14 years ago

80 upvotes – 24 comments

Gaming Console Ouya Raises $1 Million on Kickstarter in 8 Hours

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/07/gaming-console-ouya-raises-1-million-on-kickstarter-in-8-hours/259664/

14 years ago

80 upvotes – 121 comments

Why is Clojure so slow?

http://martinsprogrammingblog.blogspot.de/2012/02/why-is-clojure-so-slow.html

14 years ago

80 upvotes – 94 comments

One Year, Six Products: What I’ve Built and Learned

http://alexlod.com/2012/07/10/one-year-six-products-what-ive-built-and-learned/

14 years ago

78 upvotes – 34 comments

Bitcoin just crossed $7.00.

http://mtgoxlive.com/orders?10-07

14 years ago

74 upvotes – 98 comments

Snowflake Server

http://martinfowler.com/bliki/SnowflakeServer.html

14 years ago

73 upvotes – 33 comments

Levels of aspiration

http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3200-levels-of-aspiration

14 years ago

72 upvotes – 36 comments

A Wikipedia Reader for iOS that visualizes the connections between articles

http://www.wikiwebapp.com/

14 years ago

64 upvotes – 45 comments

What happens when a basebal goes at nearly the speed of light (what-if.XKCD)

http://what-if.xkcd.com/1/

14 years ago

62 upvotes – 1 comments

Let’s Try to Think This iPad Mini Thing All the Way Through

http://daringfireball.net/2012/07/this_ipad_mini_thing

14 years ago

58 upvotes – 73 comments

Wired Test-Drives Boeing’s New 787 Dreamliner

http://www.wired.com/autopia/2012/07/boeing-787-dreamliner-flight/

14 years ago

56 upvotes – 46 comments

Why does parseInt(1/0, 19) return 18?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11340673/why-does-parseint1-0-19-return-18

14 years ago

55 upvotes – 66 comments

A computer that learns the rules of a game by watching you play

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/132558-a-computer-that-learns-the-rules-of-a-game-by-watching-you-play

14 years ago

54 upvotes – 9 comments

Linux code search

http://codesear.ch/

14 years ago

51 upvotes – 41 comments

Dwolla Developers

http://developers.dwolla.com/

14 years ago

51 upvotes – 33 comments

When they have to change the rules

http://waxman.me/when-they-have-to-change-the-rules

14 years ago

49 upvotes – 17 comments

Less time sitting 'extends life'

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-18767278

14 years ago

48 upvotes – 25 comments
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