top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-07-17

Advice for Marissa Mayer from an ex-Yahoo

http://sriramk.com/unsolicitedyahoo.html

14 years ago

474 upvotes – 253 comments

Prime number patterns

http://www.jasondavies.com/primos/

14 years ago

359 upvotes – 100 comments

Steam'd Penguins

http://blogs.valvesoftware.com/linux/steamd-penguins/

14 years ago

333 upvotes – 162 comments

Varnish author criticizing HTTP/2.0 proposals

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/ietf-http-wg/2012JulSep/0172.html

14 years ago

277 upvotes – 136 comments

Google+ grows 43% in June

https://plus.google.com/114259566451209869276/posts/ZNrsoqPWRA2

14 years ago

262 upvotes – 183 comments

Microsoft changes skype supernodes architecture to support wiretapping

http://skype-open-source.blogspot.ch/2012/05/microsoft-wiretapping-on-skype-now.html

14 years ago

253 upvotes – 102 comments

Dear Marissa Mayer...please make Flickr awesome again

http://dearmarissamayer.com/

14 years ago

218 upvotes – 77 comments

The Latest On Intelligence

http://www.danielwillingham.com/1/post/2012/05/the-latest-on-intelligence.html

14 years ago

218 upvotes – 163 comments

12 new universities join Coursera

http://blog.coursera.org/post/27394575240/12-new-universities-join-coursera

14 years ago

207 upvotes – 100 comments

How I converted a software thief into a customer

https://www.blurity.com/blog/2012/07/17/how-i-converted-a-software-thief-into-a-customer/

14 years ago

176 upvotes – 84 comments

Twitter crashes itself with commas

http://my.opera.com/hallvors/blog/2012/07/17/twitter-crashes-itself-with-commas?1

14 years ago

167 upvotes – 111 comments

Show HN: Scoutzie, 444 best mobile designers for hire.

http://www.scoutzie.com/HN

14 years ago

158 upvotes – 86 comments

NSA Mimics Google, Pisses Off Senate

http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/07/nsa-accumulo-google-bigtable/

14 years ago

155 upvotes – 52 comments

Laser-powered bionic eye gives vision to the blind

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/132918-the-laser-powered-bionic-eye-that-gives-576-pixel-grayscale-vision-to-the-blind

14 years ago

135 upvotes – 33 comments

Buildpacks: Heroku for Everything

http://blog.heroku.com/archives/2012/7/17/buildpacks/

14 years ago

134 upvotes – 38 comments

R.I.P. Donald J. Sobol, Encyclopedia Brown Author, 1924-2012

http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2012/07/donald-j-sobol-encyclopedia-brown/

14 years ago

128 upvotes – 29 comments

Autodesk Buys Socialcam for $60M

http://allthingsd.com/20120717/autodesk-buys-mobile-video-shooting-star-socialcam-for-60m/

14 years ago

124 upvotes – 56 comments

Torchlight art assets stolen, used in iOS game Armed Heroes

http://www.geek.com/articles/games/torchlight-art-assets-stolen-used-in-ios-game-armed-heroes-20120717/

14 years ago

120 upvotes – 74 comments

Show HN: Block yourself from the Internet until you write or code each day

http://www.blockr.me/

14 years ago

118 upvotes – 96 comments

Help this man decipher his cool creative code.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1094010/Projs/spacefill.html

14 years ago

109 upvotes – 36 comments

Here's life after a Michael Arrington retweet on Twitter

http://cliffdailey.posterous.com/a-retweet-from-michael-arrington-is-worth

14 years ago

105 upvotes – 23 comments

Raspberry Pi production grows, $35 Linux computer now available in bulk

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/07/raspberry-pi-production-grows-35-linux-computer-now-available-in-bulk/

14 years ago

103 upvotes – 64 comments

RedPhone is now Open Source

http://www.whispersys.com/redphone-now-open-source.html

14 years ago

99 upvotes – 21 comments

PayPal Acquires card.io

https://www.thepaypalblog.com/2012/07/paypal-acquires-card-io/

14 years ago

91 upvotes – 54 comments

Mozilla Firefox 14.01 release notes...

http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/14.0.1/releasenotes/

14 years ago

85 upvotes – 43 comments

Learning to Love JavaScript

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CEwQtwIwAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DseX7jYI96GE&ei=WSsFUJSHDcbOqAGShonVCA&usg=AFQjCNFEv2heu5Xc1j3WljcwwCAMhjY6xA&sig2=-kzlGZxignNHMgxwWFDYQw

14 years ago

81 upvotes – 5 comments

The agony of feeling no pain

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-18713585

14 years ago

80 upvotes – 18 comments

Top Grossing Finance Mobile App Generates Barely $80,000 Annually

http://www.techvibes.com/blog/canadas-top-grossing-finance-mobile-app-generates-barely-80000-annually-2012-07-16

14 years ago

75 upvotes – 54 comments

Online course from the creator of Scala, starting this September

https://www.coursera.org/course/progfun

14 years ago

74 upvotes – 13 comments

Marc Andreessen Says Now's the Time to Build Companies Like It's 1999

http://allthingsd.com/20120716/marc-andreessen-says-nows-the-time-to-build-companies-like-its-1999/

14 years ago

74 upvotes – 35 comments

Finding the mystery man behind FunnyJunk

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/07/finding-the-mystery-man-behind-funnyjunk/

14 years ago

74 upvotes – 16 comments

Graphic: Mexican drug cartels’ spreading influence

http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/07/13/mexican-drug-cartels-spreading-influence-graphic/

14 years ago

73 upvotes – 37 comments

Copyright Holders Punish Themselves With Crazy DMCA Takedowns

http://torrentfreak.com/copyright-holders-punish-themselves-with-crazy-dmca-takedowns-120525/

14 years ago

72 upvotes – 16 comments

Dropbox users' email addresses targeted by spam?

http://forums.dropbox.com/topic.php?id=64367

14 years ago

71 upvotes – 27 comments

Rich Hickey on Functors in C++ (1994)

http://www.tutok.sk/fastgl/callback.html

14 years ago

65 upvotes – 14 comments

Mobile Video Sharing App Socialcam (YC W12) Acquired By Autodesk For $60 Million

http://techcrunch.com/2012/07/17/socialcam-autodesk-60-million/

14 years ago

62 upvotes – 36 comments

Why use Moose? A PostgreSQL perspective.

http://ledgersmbdev.blogspot.com/2012/07/why-moose-postgresql.html

14 years ago

60 upvotes – 10 comments

Major label uses DMCA to take down Romney ad of Obama crooning

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/07/major-label-uses-dmca-to-take-down-romney-ad-of-obama-crooning/

14 years ago

58 upvotes – 35 comments

European Union backs open access of research findings

http://blogs.nature.com/news/2012/07/european-commission-embraces-open-access.html

14 years ago

58 upvotes – 20 comments

Newly released UFO files from the UK government

http://ufos.nationalarchives.gov.uk/

14 years ago

57 upvotes – 81 comments

TapEngage (YC S11) acquired by Dropbox

http://blog.tapengage.com/2012/07/tapengage-joining-dropbox/

14 years ago

56 upvotes – 13 comments

Meetings.io now enables embedding rooms on any site

http://blog.meetings.io/post/27425701969/embedded-rooms-and-room-buttons

14 years ago

53 upvotes – 21 comments

Beware the NDA

https://vcexperts.com/buzz_articles/118

14 years ago

50 upvotes – 18 comments

Already Valued at $4B, China’s Xiaomi Has Declared War on Apple

http://pandodaily.com/2012/07/17/already-valued-at-4b-chinas-xiaomi-has-declared-war-on-apple/

14 years ago

50 upvotes – 55 comments

Designing an effective pricing table

http://www.red-team-design.com/designing-an-effective-pricing-table

14 years ago

50 upvotes – 16 comments

App.net project update #1

http://daltoncaldwell.com/appnet-project-update-1

14 years ago

46 upvotes – 24 comments

Paul Maritz Out As VMware CEO

http://techcrunch.com/2012/07/16/paul-maritz-out-as-vmware-ceo-and-mentioned-as-candidate-for-top-spot-at-emc-or-cloud-foundry-spin-off/

14 years ago

45 upvotes – 27 comments

Announcing longjohn: long stack traces for node.js

http://www.mattinsler.com/post/26396305882/announcing-longjohn-long-stack-traces-for-node-js

14 years ago

45 upvotes – 7 comments

Data Jujitsu: The Art of Turning Data into Product by DJ Patil

http://oreilly.com/data/radarreports/data-jujitsu.csp?cmp=tw-strata-books-data-products

14 years ago

43 upvotes – 1 comments

99design Founders Invest $460,000 In Tweaky.com

http://thenextweb.com/insider/2012/07/17/99design-founders-invest-460000-in-tweaky-a-marketplace-for-minor-website-customizations/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheNextWeb+%28The+Next+Web+All+Stories%29

14 years ago

43 upvotes – 24 comments
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