top 50% 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

Shell social media oil spill a 'coordinated online assassination'

http://www.theage.com.au/technology/technology-news/shell-social-media-oil-spill-a-coordinated-online-assassination-20120719-22bpe.html

14 years ago

119 upvotes – 111 comments

Microsoft Expected To Post First Ever Quarterly Loss In Its History

http://www.cbs19.tv/story/18940632/consumer-corner-microsoft-could-post-first-loss-in-20-years

14 years ago

117 upvotes – 86 comments

Microsoft Open Sources their Entity Framework ORM

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/EntityFrameworkMagicUnicornAndMuchMoreIsNowOpenSourceWithTakeBacks.aspx

14 years ago

112 upvotes – 81 comments

Mozilla Wants Hundreds Of Thousands Of Firefox OS Developers

http://www.techweekeurope.co.uk/news/mozilla-firefox-os-developer-86176

14 years ago

107 upvotes – 53 comments

The real reason Marissa Mayer left Google: She had to

http://venturebeat.com/2012/07/17/marissa-mayer-yahoo/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Venturebeat+%28VentureBeat%29&utm_content=Google+Reader#s:mayer-1

14 years ago

100 upvotes – 109 comments

Women in Tech: Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is.

http://techcrunch.com/2012/07/18/women-in-tech-put-your-money-where-your-mouth-is/

14 years ago

85 upvotes – 120 comments

Apple granted broad mobile patent

http://www.macworld.co.uk/apple-business/news/?newsid=3370881

14 years ago

85 upvotes – 99 comments

Shoehorning startups into the VC model

http://cdixon.org/2012/07/19/shoehorning-startups-into-the-vc-model/

14 years ago

82 upvotes – 13 comments

Benchmarking High Performance I/O with SSD for Cassandra on AWS

http://techblog.netflix.com/2012/07/benchmarking-high-performance-io-with.html

14 years ago

79 upvotes – 13 comments

Google Chrome Web Lab is now live in beta.

http://www.chromeweblab.com/#home

14 years ago

75 upvotes – 14 comments

Newest U.S. Counterterrorism Strategy: Trolling

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/07/counterterrorism-trolls/all/

14 years ago

74 upvotes – 32 comments

Fred Wilson is wrong about “Free”

http://daltoncaldwell.com/fred-wilson-is-wrong-about-free

14 years ago

71 upvotes – 37 comments

Microsoft comes under fire for five-figure Xbox 360 “patch fee”

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2012/07/microsoft-comes-under-fire-for-five-figure-xbox-360-patch-fee/

14 years ago

67 upvotes – 59 comments

Announcing K9 Ventures II – A $40M technology-focused micro-VC fund

http://k9ventures.com/blog/2012/07/19/announcing-k9-ventures-ii-a-40m-technology-focused-micro-vc-fund/

14 years ago

65 upvotes – 20 comments

The secret hiring of Marissa Mayer: How Yahoo kept it all under wraps.

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-07-18/help-us-marissa-mayer-dot-you-re-our-only-hope

14 years ago

60 upvotes – 18 comments

Botnet Responsible for 18% of World’s Spam Knocked Offline

http://mashable.com/2012/07/19/spam-botnet-taken-down/

14 years ago

59 upvotes – 21 comments

Email-Address leaked from Dropbox

http://forums.dropbox.com/topic.php?page=4&id=64367&replies=111#post-455535

14 years ago

59 upvotes – 9 comments
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