top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-07-14

The Silent Majority of Experts

http://prog21.dadgum.com/143.html

14 years ago

Kate Middleton’s Wedding Gown Demonstrates Wikipedia’s Woman Problem

http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2012/07/13/kate_middleton_s_wedding_gown_and_wikipedia_s_gender_gap_.html

14 years ago

Read the masters

http://www.federicopereiro.com/masters/

14 years ago

Why Publishing on the Windows Phone is Like Walking Barefoot On Broken Glass

https://toshl.com/blog/why-publishing-on-the-windows-phone-marketplace-is-like-walking-barefoot-on-broken-glass/

14 years ago

Traction mistakes

http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/2012/07/traction-mistakes.html

14 years ago

XBMC For Android

http://xbmc.org/theuni/2012/07/13/xbmc-for-android/

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The Most Important Social Network: GitHub

http://7fff.com/2012/07/14/the-most-important-social-network-github/

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Elon Musk Fireside Chat Video

http://spaceindustrynews.com/elon-musk-fireside-chat-video/613/

14 years ago

Why Do We Wear Pants? Horses.

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/07/q-why-do-we-wear-pants-a-horses/259696/

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A World Without Coral Reefs

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/14/opinion/a-world-without-coral-reefs.html

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Apple tells retailers to stop selling the Galaxy Nexus and Tab

http://venturebeat.com/2012/07/13/apple-injunction-letters/

14 years ago

The Cost of Free Doughnuts

http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2012/07/13/156737801/the-cost-of-free-doughnuts-70-years-of-regret

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F.D.A. Surveillance of Scientists Spread to Outside Critics

https://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/15/us/fda-surveillance-of-scientists-spread-to-outside-critics.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all

14 years ago

America’s economy is once again reinventing itself

http://www.economist.com/node/21558576?fsrc=scn/tw/te/ar/comebackkid

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Marc Andreessen “tried really hard not to invent anything new”

http://www.horsesaysinternet.com/startup/marc-andreessen-hard-problem/

14 years ago

The Annoying Thing About Self-Driving Cars: They Obey the Speed Limit

http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2012/07/13/eric_schmidt_on_self_driving_cars_biggest_problem_they_obey_speed_limits.html

14 years ago

Can a 32-bit OS machine use up all 8GB RAM + 20GB page file?

http://superuser.com/questions/367490/can-a-32-bit-os-machine-use-up-all-8gb-ram-20gb-page-file

14 years ago

Young entrepreneurs turn a Tweet from Richard Branson into $1 Million

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14 years ago

10 Years of Atari/Atari Games VaxMail

http://www.textfiles.com/games/ATARIMAIL/

14 years ago

Scala Adding Macros to the Language

http://www.infoq.com/news/2012/07/scala-macros

14 years ago

Ask HN: Do online demos without sign-up actually increase sign-ups?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4244158

14 years ago

Python.org Redesign Proposals due in 7 days

http://jessenoller.com/2012/07/14/python-org-redesign-proposals-due-in-7-days/

14 years ago

Patent Trolls - A New Study and a Survey

http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20120712151437524

14 years ago

Instagram? Zynga? There's a lot big minds chasing small ideas

http://current.com/shows/the-gavin-newsom-show/videos/instagram-zynga-theres-a-lot-of-big-minds-chasing-small-ideas-says-allthingsds-kara-swisher/

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