top 50% 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

Tweetbot for Mac - Public Alpha

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

14 years ago

139 upvotes – 62 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

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

Meetings.io (YC W11) now has screen sharing and file sharing built in.

http://lifehacker.com/5925152/meetingsio-adds-screen-sharing-and-file-trading-to-easy-video-meetings?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitterfeed

14 years ago

94 upvotes – 26 comments

Court Recognizes DMCA Safe Harbor in Universal v Grooveshark Lawsuit

http://torrentfreak.com/court-recognizes-dmca-safe-harbor-in-universal-v-grooveshark-lawsuit-120711/

14 years ago

89 upvotes – 76 comments

Show HN: Evertracker - My First Real Side Project

http://blog.danielna.com/post/26958036780/evertracker-first-real-side-project

14 years ago

80 upvotes – 23 comments

Woman's call to end video game misogyny sparks vicious online attacks

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/womans-call-to-end-video-game-misogyny-sparks-vicious-online-attacks/article4405585/

14 years ago

79 upvotes – 164 comments

Super Neat Product Tutorial Website / Software

https://www.kera.io/

14 years ago

78 upvotes – 42 comments

NYC Just Converted 10 Payphones into Free WiFi Hotspots

http://thenextweb.com/us/2012/07/11/nyc-is-turning-payphones-into-free-wifi-hotspots-10-kiosks-launch-today/

14 years ago

77 upvotes – 37 comments

A web-based interface for dev-op tasks across remote servers using SSH

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/justink/commandoio-a-web-based-ssh-interface-for-dev-op-ta

14 years ago

76 upvotes – 58 comments

Things Most Americans Don’t Know About America

http://postmasculine.com/america

14 years ago

73 upvotes – 86 comments

Twitter says they fixed the Memcache calcification problem. Dormando disagrees.

https://github.com/twitter/twemcache/issues/2

14 years ago

★ 936 C BSD-3-Clause
73 upvotes – 37 comments

An events space and a design studio for Hacker Dojo

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/384590180/an-events-space-and-a-design-studio-for-hacker-doj

14 years ago

73 upvotes – 22 comments

Gccgo in GCC 4.7.1

http://blog.golang.org/2012/07/gccgo-in-gcc-471.html

14 years ago

72 upvotes – 44 comments

Kicksend partners with Walgreens for 1hr photo printing from your iPhone

http://blog.kicksend.com/kicksend-for-iphone-now-lets-you-print-to-walgreens

14 years ago

70 upvotes – 20 comments

Google+ users can now use Hangouts on iPhone, iPad

http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/google-users-can-now-use-hangouts-on-iphone-ipad/

14 years ago

63 upvotes – 16 comments

Confirmed: Mountain Lion sends some 64-bit Macs gently into that good night

http://arstechnica.com/apple/2012/07/confirmed-mountain-lion-sends-some-64-bit-macs-gently-into-that-good-night/

14 years ago

61 upvotes – 68 comments

Guy builds particle accelerator in kitchen

http://pstevensonkeating.co.uk/portfolio/handcrafted-particle-accelerator

14 years ago

60 upvotes – 24 comments

The Caves of Clojure: Part 3.3

http://stevelosh.com/blog/2012/07/caves-of-clojure-03-3/

14 years ago

56 upvotes – 1 comments

The Philippine startup scene: Asia’s best kept secret?

http://sgentrepreneurs.com/commentary/2012/07/11/the-philippine-startup-scene-asias-best-kept-secret/

14 years ago

53 upvotes – 20 comments

Google's Nexus 7 discovered to have Smart Cover-like magnetic sensor

http://www.engadget.com/2012/07/11/google-nexus-7-magnetic-screen-sleep-sensor/

14 years ago

52 upvotes – 10 comments

Show HN: Hipmob is Olark for mobile apps. (Live support chat, now on Android)

http://www.hipmob.com

14 years ago

51 upvotes – 19 comments

Serverless PhantomJS with IronWorker

http://blog.iron.io/2012/07/phantomjs-in-2-minutes.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

14 years ago

50 upvotes – 16 comments

Uber, Maker of Summon-a-Car App, Wins in Washington

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/10/uber-vs-washington-dc/

14 years ago

49 upvotes – 21 comments

Ask PG/HN : Replacing Email - What problems/solution comes to your mind?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4228402

14 years ago

49 upvotes – 64 comments

I'm an Engineer for Facebook and am helping build a Facebook office in NYC. AMA

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/we565/im_an_engineer_for_facebook_and_am_helping_build/

14 years ago

44 upvotes – 23 comments

Better cancelation flows

http://kylewritescode.com/post/26978112918/better-cancelation-flows

14 years ago

44 upvotes – 37 comments

Facebook Groups Start Showing Exactly Who Saw Each Post

http://newsroom.fb.com/News/Update-to-Facebook-Groups-186.aspx

14 years ago

43 upvotes – 57 comments
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