top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-07-12

Vim Creep

http://www.rudism.com/s/vimcreep

14 years ago

482 upvotes – 232 comments

Scaling lessons learned at Dropbox, part 1

http://eranki.tumblr.com/post/27076431887/scaling-lessons-learned-at-dropbox-part-1

14 years ago

418 upvotes – 84 comments

UK anti-encryption law

http://falkvinge.net/2012/07/12/in-the-uk-you-will-go-to-jail-not-just-for-encryption-but-for-astronomical-noise-too/

14 years ago

356 upvotes – 191 comments

Richard Posner: Why There Are Too Many Patents In America

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/07/why-there-are-too-many-patents-in-america/259725/

14 years ago

259 upvotes – 82 comments

Betaworks has acquired the core assets of Digg

http://blog.betaworks.com/post/27070595530/digg

14 years ago

251 upvotes – 129 comments

Some things I've learnt about programming

http://blog.jgc.org/2012/07/some-things-ive-learnt-about.html

14 years ago

248 upvotes – 124 comments

Fullscreen in Mountain Lion still renders second display useless

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3196329?start=225&tstart=0

14 years ago

234 upvotes – 203 comments

When Art, Apple and the Secret Service Collide: 'People Staring at Computers'

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/07/people-staring-at-computers/all/

14 years ago

213 upvotes – 64 comments

Introducing Mozilla Persona, An Identity System for the Web

http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/persona/

14 years ago

211 upvotes – 127 comments

Vim, you complete me

http://robots.thoughtbot.com/post/27041742805/vim-you-complete-me

14 years ago

193 upvotes – 114 comments

We (unexpectedly) got 60K users in 60 hours - What we learned

http://www.patrickambron.me/2012/07/12/we-unexpectedly-got-60k-users-in-60-hours-what-we-learned/

14 years ago

181 upvotes – 111 comments

EpicEditor: An Embeddable JavaScript Markdown Editor

http://oscargodson.github.com/EpicEditor/

14 years ago

165 upvotes – 27 comments

Report: Facebook Monitors Your Chats for Criminal Activity

http://mashable.com/2012/07/12/facebook-scanning-chats/

14 years ago

165 upvotes – 157 comments

Pay Too Much for everything

http://allentucker.com/pay-too-much/

14 years ago

161 upvotes – 161 comments

What PHP 5.5 might look like

http://nikic.github.com/2012/07/10/What-PHP-5-5-might-look-like.html

14 years ago

154 upvotes – 133 comments

Rust 0.3 released

https://github.com/mozilla/rust/blob/release-0.3/RELEASES.txt

14 years ago

★ 112.3k Rust Apache-2.0
138 upvotes – 53 comments

My Senior Design Project: Node.js WiFi-Extending Robot

http://glench.com/make/nodejs-robot/

14 years ago

117 upvotes – 28 comments

Being a Solo Founder of a 24x7 Hosted Web Application

http://garrettdimon.com/post/27002421078/being-a-solo-founder-of-a-24x7-hosted-web-application

14 years ago

110 upvotes – 43 comments

You Can Get a Better Job If You Just Ask

http://hash-money.com/post/27072947122/you-can-get-a-better-job-if-you-just-ask

14 years ago

105 upvotes – 31 comments

A 12pt Font Should Be The Same Size Everywhere

https://github.com/kickingvegas/12pt-should-be-the-same-everywhere/blob/master/absoluteMeasurementDPI.md

14 years ago

★ 145
101 upvotes – 64 comments

Smooth Voxel Terrain

http://0fps.wordpress.com/2012/07/12/smooth-voxel-terrain-part-2/

14 years ago

95 upvotes – 6 comments

Most Pressed Keys and Programming Syntaxes

http://www.mahdiyusuf.com/post/9947002105/most-pressed-keys-and-programming-syntaxes-2

14 years ago

94 upvotes – 74 comments

I Believe in Gittip

http://blog.gittip.com/post/27072581481/i-believe-in-gittip

14 years ago

94 upvotes – 55 comments

Betaworks to Pay $500,000 for Fallen Social Media Star Digg

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304373804577523181002565776.html?mod=wsj_share_tweet

14 years ago

85 upvotes – 60 comments

Thoughts on Rails, Node, and the web apps of today

http://paulbjensen.co.uk/posts/2012/07/11/thoughts-on-rails-node-and-the-web-apps-of-today

14 years ago

83 upvotes – 99 comments

SOPA architect now pushing for “IP Attaché” legislation

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/07/sopa-architect-now-pushing-for-ip-attache-legislation/

14 years ago

76 upvotes – 14 comments

Filepicker.io (YC S12) launches SDK for iOS and Android

http://techcrunch.com/2012/07/12/yc-backed-filepicker-io-goes-mobile-brings-cloud-service-integration-to-ios-and-android-apps/

14 years ago

70 upvotes – 13 comments

Try It Quiet

http://wekeroad.com/2012/07/04/try-it-quiet

14 years ago

66 upvotes – 31 comments

An idea for Github to make more money

http://umairashraf.me/2012/07/an-idea-for-github-to-make-more-money/

14 years ago

65 upvotes – 51 comments

The reality of the Ouya console doesn’t match the hype

http://penny-arcade.com/report/editorial-article/the-reality-of-the-ouya-console-doesnt-match-the-hype-why-you-should-be-ske

14 years ago

65 upvotes – 86 comments

City of Helsinki Wants To Keep Software Costs Secret

http://fsfe.org/news/2012/news-20120711-01.html

14 years ago

60 upvotes – 24 comments

Twilio now enables messaging to over 150 countries worldwide

http://www.twilio.com/blog/2012/07/sms-everywhere-twilio-now-enables-messaging-to-over-150-countries-worldwide.html

14 years ago

58 upvotes – 22 comments

Clojure Obscura

http://blog.fogus.me/2012/07/09/clojure-obscura/#post-4392

14 years ago

57 upvotes – 11 comments

ODROID-X is like a quad-core Raspberry Pi for $129

http://www.geek.com/articles/chips/odroid-x-is-like-a-quad-core-raspberry-pi-for-129-20120712/

14 years ago

56 upvotes – 52 comments

Groupon Shares Tumble to Record Low

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-07-12/groupon-trades-at-record-low-on-profit-concerns-chicago-mover.html

14 years ago

55 upvotes – 49 comments

Hackers expose 453,000 credentials allegedly taken from Yahoo service

http://arstechnica.com/security/2012/07/yahoo-service-hacked/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+arstechnica%2Findex+%28Ars+Technica+-+All+content%29

14 years ago

53 upvotes – 52 comments

OOP vs Procedural Code

http://blog.ircmaxell.com/2012/07/oop-vs-procedural-code.html

14 years ago

53 upvotes – 43 comments

Yahoo Voices Hacked, Usernames and Passwords Posted Online.

http://news.yahoo.com/yahoo-voice-hacked-usernames-passwords-posted-online-013617215.html

14 years ago

52 upvotes – 23 comments

The Caves of Clojure: Part 4

http://stevelosh.com/blog/2012/07/caves-of-clojure-04/

14 years ago

51 upvotes – 5 comments
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