top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-07-15

The Challenge of Making Friends as an Adult

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/15/fashion/the-challenge-of-making-friends-as-an-adult.html?_r=1

14 years ago

697 upvotes – 304 comments

WikiLeaks wins case against Visa

https://rt.com/news/wikileaks-visa-court-case-040/

14 years ago

325 upvotes – 48 comments

Goldman Sachs and the $580 Million Black Hole

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/15/business/goldman-sachs-and-a-sale-gone-horribly-awry.html?_r=1&hpw

14 years ago

320 upvotes – 88 comments

Joe Armstrong: Why OO Sucks

http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/OO_programming/why_oo_sucks

14 years ago

254 upvotes – 256 comments

Some things beginners might not know about Sublime Text

http://blog.alainmeier.com/post/27255145114/some-things-beginners-might-not-know-about-sublime-text

14 years ago

226 upvotes – 106 comments

The long and sordid history of the user-agent HTTP header field

http://webaim.org/blog/user-agent-string-history/

14 years ago

195 upvotes – 46 comments

Lying with pictures: Smartphone manufacturer share by OS

http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/2749982.html

14 years ago

152 upvotes – 73 comments

My $47 collapsible standing desk

http://whiletruecode.com/post/my-47-dollar-collapsable-standing-desk

14 years ago

124 upvotes – 56 comments

Thoughts on Paul Rand

http://acg.media.mit.edu/acg/events/rand/ideamag.html

14 years ago

123 upvotes – 34 comments

Small Linux PCs overview

http://raymii.org/cms/p_Small_Linux_PCs_overview

14 years ago

122 upvotes – 35 comments

Facebook announces SPDY support

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/ietf-http-wg/2012JulSep/0251.html

14 years ago

120 upvotes – 44 comments

Using Spotlight from the OS X Commandline

http://0xfe.blogspot.com/2006/03/using-spotlight-from-os-x-commandline.html

14 years ago

113 upvotes – 31 comments

The World’s Last Worm: A Dreaded Disease Nears Eradication

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=last-worm-tropical-disease-near-eradication

14 years ago

112 upvotes – 43 comments

All Rockstars Went to Julliard

http://lockewatts.com/blog/2012/07/13/all-rockstars-went-to-julliard/

14 years ago

108 upvotes – 111 comments

Why Lisp macros are cool, a Perl perspective (2005)

http://lists.warhead.org.uk/pipermail/iwe/2005-July/000130.html

14 years ago

90 upvotes – 13 comments

Octogit

https://github.com/myusuf3/octogit

14 years ago

★ 576 Python MIT
81 upvotes – 20 comments

Exactly How Screwed Is PayPal? (Hint: Very)

http://pandodaily.com/2012/07/14/exactly-how-screwed-is-paypal-hint-very/

14 years ago

78 upvotes – 80 comments

And everyone gets a robot pony

http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2012/07/14/and-everyone-gets-a-robot-pony/

14 years ago

69 upvotes – 46 comments

Why We Sent 25,000 Messages to Users Before We Launched

https://zapier.com/blog/2012/07/15/why-we-sent-25000-messages-users-we-launched/

14 years ago

67 upvotes – 19 comments

Introducing the Distribution Hacks Blog

http://distributionhacks.com/introducing-the-distribution-hacks-blog

14 years ago

63 upvotes – 24 comments

Micro-apartments next for S.F.?

http://www.sfgate.com/realestate/article/Micro-apartments-next-for-S-F-3706648.php

14 years ago

62 upvotes – 92 comments

What is SPDY?

http://lincolnloop.com/blog/2012/jul/12/what-is-spdy/

14 years ago

62 upvotes – 3 comments

Ask HN: how to acquire customers which are small businesses via internet?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4246233

14 years ago

59 upvotes – 26 comments

Tiny quad-core ARM computer delivers serious power for $129

http://venturebeat.com/2012/07/15/tiny-quad-core-arm-linuxandroid-computer-delivers-serious-power-for-129/

14 years ago

54 upvotes – 30 comments

TapChat is mobile IRC done right

http://codebutler.com/tapchat-is-mobile-irc-done-right

14 years ago

54 upvotes – 20 comments

Ask HN: Is StackOverflow being ruined by its mods?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4248392

14 years ago

53 upvotes – 70 comments
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