top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-07-18

A Hole in Mars

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap120718.html

14 years ago

400 upvotes – 110 comments

Wikileaks credit card donation is back

http://shop.wikileaks.org/donate#dccard

14 years ago

360 upvotes – 79 comments

Whistleblower Binney says the NSA has dossiers on nearly every US citizen

http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/hope-9-whistleblower-binney-says-nsa-has-dossiers-nearly-every-us-citizen

14 years ago

340 upvotes – 223 comments

Fluid: A UI Prototyping Tool

https://www.fluidui.com/editor/live/

14 years ago

332 upvotes – 114 comments

HTTPie: A cURL-like tool for humans

https://github.com/jkbr/httpie/

14 years ago

★ 38k Python BSD-3-Clause
312 upvotes – 83 comments

Show HN: gist.io, blogless writing for hackers

http://gist.io

14 years ago

286 upvotes – 51 comments

Five Men Agree To Stand Directly Under An Exploding Nuclear Bomb

http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2012/07/16/156851175/five-men-agree-to-stand-directly-under-an-exploding-nuclear-bomb?ps=cprs

14 years ago

263 upvotes – 112 comments

Miles Davis – blind listening test

http://www.noisemademedoit.com/miles-davis-blind-listening-test/

14 years ago

245 upvotes – 64 comments

CSS3 meets AMC's Breaking Bad

http://codepen.io/TimPietrusky/pen/Bsegb

14 years ago

216 upvotes – 60 comments

GIT is the new FTP

http://coderwall.com/p/xczkaq

14 years ago

212 upvotes – 140 comments

Best Papers from 27 Top-Tier Computer Science Conferences

http://jeffhuang.com/best_paper_awards.html#

14 years ago

192 upvotes – 57 comments

Ubuntu is coming back to Dell Laptops

http://techcrunch.com/2012/07/18/dell-gives-linux-laptops-another-chance/

14 years ago

178 upvotes – 141 comments

Oracle spreading FUD about CentOS

http://www.bashton.com/blog/2012/oracle-spreading-fud-about-centos/

14 years ago

173 upvotes – 69 comments

In Denmark, Pedaling to Work on a Superhighway

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/18/world/europe/in-denmark-pedaling-to-work-on-a-superhighway.html?pagewanted=all

14 years ago

172 upvotes – 132 comments

EFF Challenges National Security Letter Statute in Landmark Lawsuit

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/07/eff-challenges-national-security-letter-statute-landmark-lawsuit

14 years ago

158 upvotes – 29 comments

Oracle launches "a better alternative to CentOS"

http://linux.oracle.com/switch/centos/

14 years ago

157 upvotes – 212 comments

German Scientists Create Aerographite, the Lightest Material in the World

http://www.sciencespacerobots.com/blog/71720122

14 years ago

152 upvotes – 46 comments

Operating System Development

http://wiki.osdev.org/Main_Page

14 years ago

141 upvotes – 27 comments

Apple Must Publish Notice Samsung Didn’t Copy IPad In U.K.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-07-18/apple-must-publish-notice-samsung-didn-t-copy-ipad-judge-says.html

14 years ago

124 upvotes – 136 comments

The Value of Time

http://jackg.org/the-value-of-time

14 years ago

117 upvotes – 54 comments

How Pivotal Labs use Tmux for remote pair programming

http://pivotallabs.com/users/joe/blog/articles/2199-how-we-use-tmux-for-remote-pair-programming-

14 years ago

113 upvotes – 31 comments

How VCs get paid

http://jtangovc.com/how-vcs-are-paid/

14 years ago

110 upvotes – 13 comments

Dotcom judge quits the case

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10820496

14 years ago

101 upvotes – 36 comments

BlackGirlsCode Raises $21,000 To Fund Summer Of Code Program

http://techli.com/2012/07/black-girls-code-fund-program/

14 years ago

101 upvotes – 161 comments

Show HN: Use DuckDuckGo for !bangs and Google for everything else

http://www.duckduckgoog.com

14 years ago

95 upvotes – 63 comments

Web App Security Best Practices

http://coffeeonthekeyboard.com/best-basic-security-practices-especially-with-django-697/

14 years ago

88 upvotes – 32 comments

Earliest known photos of an Apple iPad prototype

http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/earliest-known-photos-apple-ipad-prototype

14 years ago

82 upvotes – 24 comments

Looting: The Economic Underworld of Bankruptcy for Profit

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract-id=227162

14 years ago

81 upvotes – 26 comments

Common problems with large file uploads

http://blog.filepicker.io/post/27503593299/common-problems-with-large-file-uploads

14 years ago

72 upvotes – 34 comments

Raspberry Pi launched by balloon broadcasts images from 40km high

http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/1620

14 years ago

68 upvotes – 4 comments

Apple granted 'the mother of all smartphone software patents'

http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2012/07/18/apple-granted-the-mother-of-all-smartphone-software-patents/?source=linkedin

14 years ago

63 upvotes – 97 comments

Six Impossible Problems

http://blog.artillerygames.com/2012/07/six-impossible-problems.html

14 years ago

62 upvotes – 37 comments

Visual.ly launches social network for data visualizations

http://blog.visual.ly/visual-ly-launches-social-network-for-data-visualization/

14 years ago

58 upvotes – 13 comments

Vidyard (YC S11) launches A/B thumbnail testing + YouTube management

http://thenextweb.com/apps/2012/07/18/vidyards-powerful-professional-video-hosting-gets-huge-new-features-including-youtube-syndication/

14 years ago

57 upvotes – 2 comments

Ask HN: What one thing would you tell your younger self?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4262577

14 years ago

56 upvotes – 80 comments
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