top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-07-16

Physical assault by McDonald's for wearing Digital Eye Glass

http://eyetap.org/mcdonalds/

14 years ago

1056 upvotes – 446 comments

Google’s Marissa Mayer Tapped as Yahoo’s Chief

http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2012/07/16/googles-marissa-mayer-tapped-as-yahoos-chief/

14 years ago

1016 upvotes – 343 comments

Build muscle memory with your favorite editor

https://www.shortcutfoo.com/

14 years ago

443 upvotes – 119 comments

Stephen Covey, "7 Habits" author, dies at 79

http://news.yahoo.com/stephen-covey-7-habits-author-dies-79-163742994--finance.html

14 years ago

233 upvotes – 86 comments

An iPad Lover’s Take On The Nexus 7

http://techcrunch.com/2012/07/15/omg-he-likes-it-he-really-likes-it/

14 years ago

231 upvotes – 148 comments

Ask HN: I'm desperate to stay in Denmark. Anyone need a great web/ios dev?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4250118

14 years ago

219 upvotes – 126 comments

Making Friends Over 30 with Grubwithus

http://blog.grubwithus.com/post/27339212070/making-friends-over-30-with-grubwithus

14 years ago

183 upvotes – 71 comments

MineCraftWebGL

http://danielribeiro.github.com/WebGLCraft/

14 years ago

170 upvotes – 57 comments

Here’s why we keep getting hacked – clear and present Billabong failures

http://www.troyhunt.com/2012/07/heres-why-we-keep-getting-hacked-clear.html

14 years ago

155 upvotes – 47 comments

Here’s to the Misfits

http://blog.alexmaccaw.com/heres-to-the-misfits

14 years ago

147 upvotes – 72 comments

Decentralised social network built on top of email

http://mobisocial.stanford.edu/papers/hotpets11.pdf

14 years ago

135 upvotes – 41 comments

Two men wrote the original Adobe Flash in 1993 - where are they now?

http://www.attendly.com/two-men-wrote-the-original-adobe-flash-in-1993-where-are-they-now/

14 years ago

133 upvotes – 62 comments

Bitcoin Vending Machine

http://blog.maschinenraum.tk/2012/07/15/bitcoin-vending-machine-exchange-euro-coins-for-bitcoin-wallets/

14 years ago

131 upvotes – 36 comments

Hacker Opens High Security Handcuffs With 3D-Printed And Laser-Cut Keys

http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2012/07/16/hacker-opens-high-security-handcuffs-with-3d-printed-and-laser-cut-keys/

14 years ago

124 upvotes – 49 comments

How your startup is getting lapped by companies who know how to hire

http://www.thisisgoingtobebig.com/blog/2012/7/16/hire-today-or-gone-tomorrow-how-your-startup-is-getting-lapp.html

14 years ago

117 upvotes – 28 comments

Office 2013: Microsoft's bid to win the future

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/07/office-2013-microsofts-bid-to-win-the-future/

14 years ago

113 upvotes – 85 comments

Keeping the Trans Pacific Partnership from changing our copyright laws

http://fairdeal.net.nz/

14 years ago

113 upvotes – 42 comments

Heroku Postgres Basic Plan

https://postgres.heroku.com/blog/past/2012/7/12/row_limits_for_dev_plan_and_introducing_the_basic_plan_/

14 years ago

109 upvotes – 38 comments

The Opposite of a Bloom Filter

http://somethingsimilar.com/2012/05/21/the-opposite-of-a-bloom-filter/

14 years ago

101 upvotes – 57 comments

Login vs Log In

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/406016/ui-terminology-logon-vs-login

14 years ago

100 upvotes – 71 comments

Haxe 2.10 - Now with Java and C# targets

http://haxe.org/doc/release/2.10

14 years ago

99 upvotes – 40 comments

Mixpanel went down, so we're open sourcing a better pure Python memcache client

http://code.mixpanel.com/2012/07/16/we-went-down-so-we-wrote-a-better-pure-python-memcache-client/

14 years ago

97 upvotes – 17 comments

Dalton Caldwell, you should move to New York and re-rethink app.net

http://waxman.me/dalton-caldwell-you-should-move-to-new-york-and-rethink-appnet

14 years ago

96 upvotes – 39 comments

Minimize your cloud costs with GLPK and Haskell

http://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2012/linear_programming.html

14 years ago

79 upvotes – 22 comments

The Retina War is upon us.

http://blog.wells.ee/retina

14 years ago

77 upvotes – 91 comments

Thoughtbot's Playbook for developing apps

http://playbook.thoughtbot.com

14 years ago

77 upvotes – 10 comments

No, that's not why OO sucks

http://www.librador.com/2012/07/16/No-thats-not-why-OO-sucks/

14 years ago

76 upvotes – 96 comments

Dan Bull: Censored By Copyright For Protesting Being Censored By Copyright

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120715/14504819702/dan-bull-censored-copyright-protesting-being-censored-copyright.shtml

14 years ago

74 upvotes – 27 comments

We object to the Newspaper Licensing Agency's terms

http://www.cutbot.net/legal-copyright/we-object-to-the-newspaper-licensing-agencys-terms/

14 years ago

71 upvotes – 33 comments

Looking with Cassandra into the future of Atlas

http://metabroadcast.com/blog/looking-with-cassandra-into-the-future-of-atlas?

14 years ago

68 upvotes – 36 comments

The Pain of HTML5

http://blog.caplin.com/2012/07/16/the-pain-of-html5/

14 years ago

67 upvotes – 31 comments

Logic and Lattices for Distributed Programming

http://basho.com/blog/technical/2012/07/16/Neil-Conway-Basho-Chats-CALM-Bloom/

14 years ago

64 upvotes – 3 comments

The Functor Pattern in C++

http://fpcomplete.com/the-functor-pattern-in-c/

14 years ago

63 upvotes – 15 comments

Show HN: Available Five Character Alpha Domains

http://www.coreyballou.com/five-character-domain-names/

14 years ago

63 upvotes – 42 comments

Two Victories in One Week, The Internet Flash Lobby Becomes A Political Force

http://techcrunch.com/2012/07/15/two-victories-in-one-week-the-internet-flash-lobby-becomes-a-political-force/

14 years ago

62 upvotes – 1 comments

The Secure Programmer's Pledge

http://blog.ircmaxell.com/2012/07/secure-programmers-pledge.html

14 years ago

59 upvotes – 41 comments

Perlsecret - Perl secret operators and constants

http://search.cpan.org/~book/perlsecret-1.001/lib/perlsecret.pod#NAME

14 years ago

59 upvotes – 18 comments

Microsoft and NBC officially call it quits

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57472662-93/microsoft-and-nbc-officially-call-it-quits/

14 years ago

59 upvotes – 14 comments

Show HN: Invitation Engine for Facebook Apps

http://graphmuse.com

14 years ago

55 upvotes – 42 comments
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