top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-07-13

What are the most intellectually stimulating websites you know of?

http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/tmtd4/what_are_the_most_intellectually_stimulating/

14 years ago

453 upvotes – 222 comments

Still running strong after 1,532 days without a code change.

http://ryandetzel.com/1532-days-without-a-code-change/

14 years ago

361 upvotes – 130 comments

Super-resolution from a single image

http://www.wisdom.weizmann.ac.il/~vision/SingleImageSR.html

14 years ago

348 upvotes – 101 comments

How not using Internet Explorer put me out of touch and cost me dearly

https://www.blurity.com/blog/2012/07/13/how-not-using-internet-explorer-put-me-out-of-touch-and-cost-me-dearly/

14 years ago

330 upvotes – 136 comments

Show HN: BrainTripping - language model comedy

http://www.matt.is/introducing-braintripping

14 years ago

283 upvotes – 41 comments

Show HN: Collections, a fast multiple-account Google Docs client for Mac

http://beta.collections.me

14 years ago

196 upvotes – 96 comments

Facebook Didn't Kill Digg, Reddit Did

http://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2012/07/13/facebook-didnt-kill-digg-reddit-did/

14 years ago

187 upvotes – 118 comments

Dalton Caldwell: Announcing an audacious proposal

http://daltoncaldwell.com/an-audacious-proposal

14 years ago

168 upvotes – 51 comments

Logins are Dead, and Mobile Killed Them

https://github.com/harryf/thoughts/blob/master/mobile-killed-the-login.md

14 years ago

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163 upvotes – 125 comments

App.net is crowdfunding their realtime feed platform

https://join.app.net/

14 years ago

161 upvotes – 71 comments

Elon Musk: The Man With His Mind in the Future

http://pandodaily.com/2012/07/12/elon-musk-the-man-with-his-mind-in-the-future/

14 years ago

158 upvotes – 72 comments

Prototype PHP interpreter using the PyPy toolchain - Hippy VM

http://morepypy.blogspot.com/2012/07/hello-everyone.html

14 years ago

157 upvotes – 68 comments

Apple is back on EPEAT

http://www.apple.com/environment/letter-to-customers/

14 years ago

157 upvotes – 169 comments

The total price of the Digg acquisition was around $16 million

http://techcrunch.com/2012/07/12/digg-sold-to-linkedin-and-the-washington-post-and-betaworks

14 years ago

119 upvotes – 58 comments

DIY B&B

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/julyaugust_2012/features/diy_bb038421.php

14 years ago

114 upvotes – 186 comments

Apple’s in-app purchasing process circumvented by Russian hacker

http://9to5mac.com/2012/07/13/apples-in-app-purchasing-process-circumvented-by-russian-hacker/

14 years ago

112 upvotes – 70 comments

The Market Has Spoken - and it is Rigged

http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/12/the-market-has-spoken-and-it-is-rigged/

14 years ago

108 upvotes – 80 comments

PowerShell vs. Unix shells

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/573623/powershell-vs-unix-shells

14 years ago

106 upvotes – 82 comments

Bitcoinica MtGox account compromised

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=93074

14 years ago

102 upvotes – 103 comments

Sexism red/yellow cards at Defcon

http://singlevoice.net/2012/07/12/sexism-redyellow-cards-at-defcon/

14 years ago

98 upvotes – 211 comments

That’s No Phone. That’s My Tracker.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/15/sunday-review/thats-not-my-phone-its-my-tracker.html?_r=1&hp

14 years ago

74 upvotes – 54 comments

Show HN: We Just Re-Launched BurningManRides.com for 2012

http://burningmanrides.com/?2012

14 years ago

71 upvotes – 18 comments

Patent Troll sues Facebook, Amazon and others for using Hadoop

http://gigaom.com/2012/07/13/troll-sues-facebook-amazon-and-others-for-using-hadoop/?utm_source=social&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=gigaom

14 years ago

69 upvotes – 31 comments

Digg Overtakes Facebook with 1400% Growth, 22.6 Million Uniques

http://dcurt.is/digg-overtakes-facebook-with-1400-growth-226-million-uniques

14 years ago

62 upvotes – 38 comments

Bilingual brain boost: Two tongues, two minds

http://ronbarak.tumblr.com/post/22722767367/bilingual-brain-boost-two-tongues-two-minds-by

14 years ago

60 upvotes – 43 comments

Why Our Elites Stink

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/13/opinion/brooks-why-our-elites-stink.html?hp

14 years ago

59 upvotes – 70 comments

NFC Stickers Make Smartphones Smarter

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-07-12/nfc-stickers-make-smartphones-smarter

14 years ago

59 upvotes – 16 comments

Build New Games

http://buildnewgames.com/

14 years ago

56 upvotes – 20 comments

Some things I've learnt about writing

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

14 years ago

54 upvotes – 17 comments

WebKit sorts JS arrays using Selection Sort

http://trac.webkit.org/browser/trunk/Source/JavaScriptCore/runtime/ArrayPrototype.cpp#L641

14 years ago

53 upvotes – 40 comments

ICFP Contest 2012

http://icfpcontest2012.wordpress.com/

14 years ago

49 upvotes – 5 comments

US “Six Strikes” Anti-Piracy Scheme Will Roll Out Gradually

http://torrentfreak.com/us-six-strikes-anti-piracy-scheme-will-roll-out-gradually-120713/

14 years ago

49 upvotes – 19 comments

German security experts find major flaw in credit card terminals

http://arstechnica.com/security/2012/07/german-security-experts-find-major-flaw-in-credit-card-terminals/

14 years ago

49 upvotes – 11 comments

Facebook 'likes' and adverts' value doubted

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-18813237

14 years ago

47 upvotes – 25 comments

How I Stopped Worrying and Started Loving PyLadies

http://hynek.me/articles/how-i-stopped-worrying-and-started-loving-pyladies/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+hynek+%28Hynek%27s+scribbles%29

14 years ago

46 upvotes – 47 comments

Dropping jQuery UI, and Refactoring Backbone.js Views

https://planscope.io/blog/2012/07/12/dropping-jquery-ui-and-refactoring-backbone-js-views

14 years ago

45 upvotes – 4 comments

Square for Fundraising

https://squareup.com/card-reader/fundraising

14 years ago

44 upvotes – 12 comments

Flow-Based Programming for Node.js

http://noflojs.org/

14 years ago

42 upvotes – 20 comments

The Education of Groupon CEO Andrew Mason

http://www.businessweek.com/printer/articles/61362-the-education-of-groupon-ceo-andrew-mason

14 years ago

42 upvotes – 12 comments
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