top 20 hacker news stories for 2012-07-19

PostgreSQL Rising

http://wekeroad.com/2012/07/19/postgresql-rising

14 years ago

506 upvotes – 194 comments

EFF, Reddit, Mozilla, others launch Internet Defense League and Cat Signal

http://internetdefenseleague.org

14 years ago

429 upvotes – 140 comments

Living with HTTPS

http://www.imperialviolet.org/2012/07/19/hope9talk.html

14 years ago

326 upvotes – 126 comments

Watch what you store on SkyDrive–you may lose your Microsoft life

http://wmpoweruser.com/watch-what-you-store-on-skydriveyou-may-lose-your-microsoft-life/

14 years ago

326 upvotes – 203 comments

15-Year-Old Maker Astronomically Improves Pancreatic Cancer Test

http://blog.makezine.com/2012/07/18/15-year-old-maker-astronomically-improves-pancreatic-cancer-test/

14 years ago

285 upvotes – 84 comments

Lightning captured at 7,207 images per second

http://thekidshouldseethis.com/post/27440704838

14 years ago

274 upvotes – 29 comments

Microsoft reports first quarterly loss ever

http://marketday.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/07/19/12837611-microsoft-reports-first-quarterly-loss-ever?lite

14 years ago

272 upvotes – 116 comments

Tell, don't ask

http://robots.thoughtbot.com/post/27572137956/tell-dont-ask

14 years ago

216 upvotes – 86 comments

Windows Executable Walkthrough Graphic

http://pe101.corkami.com/

14 years ago

209 upvotes – 34 comments

Unbreakable crypto: Store a 30-character password in your subconscious memory

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/133067-unbreakable-crypto-store-a-30-character-password-in-your-brains-subconscious-memory

14 years ago

208 upvotes – 84 comments

New High I/O EC2 Instance Type - hi1.4xlarge - 2 TB of SSD-Backed Storage

http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2012/07/new-high-io-ec2-instance-type-hi14xlarge.html

14 years ago

196 upvotes – 102 comments

Firefox 15 plugs the add-on leaks

http://blog.mozilla.org/nnethercote/2012/07/19/firefox-15-plugs-the-add-on-leaks/

14 years ago

177 upvotes – 121 comments

Microsoft employee on stack ranking and its 'most universally hated exec'

http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/81017

14 years ago

171 upvotes – 123 comments

Backbone.js: Hacker's Guide

http://dailyjs.com/2012/07/19/mvstar-2/

14 years ago

160 upvotes – 37 comments

Inconsolata

http://levien.com/type/myfonts/inconsolata.html

14 years ago

156 upvotes – 60 comments

Real Time Multiplayer in HTML5

http://buildnewgames.com/real-time-multiplayer/

14 years ago

150 upvotes – 60 comments

How did we come to believe saturated fat and cholesterol are bad for us?

http://eatingacademy.com/nutrition/how-did-we-come-to-believe-saturated-fat-and-cholesterol-are-bad-for-us

14 years ago

143 upvotes – 181 comments

Introducing Ubuntu Web Apps: setting the web free of the browser

http://blog.canonical.com/2012/07/19/introducing-ubuntu-web-apps-setting-the-web-free-of-the-browser/

14 years ago

138 upvotes – 77 comments

Heroku Releases Free PostgreSQL App for OSX

http://techcrunch.com/2012/07/19/heroku-releases-free-postgresql-app-for-osx/

14 years ago

133 upvotes – 56 comments

Epicyclic Gearing

http://bl.ocks.org/1353700

14 years ago

131 upvotes – 20 comments
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