top 20 hacker news stories for 2012-07-11

How Amazon’s ambitious new push for same-day delivery will destroy local retail

http://www.slate.com/articles/business/small_business/2012/07/amazon_same_day_delivery_how_the_e_commerce_giant_will_destroy_local_retail_.html

14 years ago

509 upvotes – 309 comments

Paid Vacation? That’s Not Cool. You Know What’s Cool? Paid, Paid Vacation.

http://www.fullcontact.com/2012/07/10/paid-paid-vacation/

14 years ago

388 upvotes – 308 comments

Aaron Winborn: Special Needs Trust

http://aaronwinborn.com/blogs/aaron/special-needs-trust

14 years ago

361 upvotes – 87 comments

Ouya Breaks Kickstarter Records

http://www.kickstarter.com/blog/ouyas-big-day

14 years ago

215 upvotes – 172 comments

John Resig: Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja Update

http://ejohn.org/blog/secret-omens/

14 years ago

214 upvotes – 64 comments

Entreporn: Learning vs doing vs wasting time

http://swombat.com/2012/7/11/entreporn-learning-doing-wasting

14 years ago

206 upvotes – 50 comments

Interview with Alan Kay

http://www.drdobbs.com/architecture-and-design/interview-with-alan-kay/240003442#

14 years ago

203 upvotes – 108 comments

Use OSX Finder Quicklook (Spacebar) to preview all plain text files

http://coderwall.com/p/dlithw

14 years ago

181 upvotes – 58 comments

Petition the U.S. Government to Force the TSA to Follow the Law

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

14 years ago

180 upvotes – 36 comments

Today, a homeless looking man handed me $50 and this note

http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/weo8j/today_a_homeless_looking_man_handed_me_50_and/

14 years ago

157 upvotes – 67 comments

The Crazy World of Code

http://tilomitra.com/the-crazy-world-of-code/

14 years ago

150 upvotes – 87 comments

Census Bureau's American FactFinder software cost taxpayers $33.3 million

http://www.wmhartnett.com/2012/07/11/the-u-s-census-bureaus-american-factfinder-which-everyone-in-the-universe-hates-cost-taxpayers-33-3-million/

14 years ago

139 upvotes – 125 comments

Tweetbot for Mac - Public Alpha

http://tapbots.com/blog/tweetbot/tweetbot-for-mac

14 years ago

139 upvotes – 62 comments

Viacom pulls “The Daily Show” offline as a result of contract dispute

http://arstechnica.com/business/2012/07/viacom-pulls-the-daily-show-offline-as-a-result-of-contract-dispute/

14 years ago

120 upvotes – 120 comments

I was sued for libel under an unjust law

http://www.nature.com/news/i-was-sued-for-libel-under-an-unjust-law-1.10979

14 years ago

118 upvotes – 64 comments

City of San Francisco Will No Longer Buy Apple Products

http://mashable.com/2012/07/10/san-francisco-apple/

14 years ago

115 upvotes – 105 comments

ZeroCater (YC W11) is Feeding Silicon Valley

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304022004577516912524877338.html

14 years ago

106 upvotes – 35 comments

HP Memristors Will Reinvent Computer Memory "by 2014"

http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/07/hp-memristors/

14 years ago

105 upvotes – 55 comments

Getting Started with Android Development

http://alexlod.com/2011/11/21/getting-started-with-android/

14 years ago

99 upvotes – 26 comments

Coding Horror: The Book

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/07/coding-horror-the-book.html

14 years ago

95 upvotes – 34 comments
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