top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-07-20

Sparrow acquired by Google

http://sprw.me/

14 years ago

502 upvotes – 380 comments

Lenovo CEO Gives His $3 Million Bonus to 10,000 Employees

http://www.dailytech.com/Lenovo+CEO+Gives+Part+of+His+3+Million+USD+Bonus+to+10000+Employees/article25227.htm

14 years ago

369 upvotes – 140 comments

Talent Acquisitions

http://www.marco.org/2012/07/20/talent-acquisitions

14 years ago

367 upvotes – 139 comments

How to hack the beliefs that are holding you back

http://swombat.com/2012/7/20/hack-beliefs

14 years ago

264 upvotes – 122 comments

In a First, an Entire Organism Is Simulated by Software

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/21/science/in-a-first-an-entire-organism-is-simulated-by-software.html?hp

14 years ago

260 upvotes – 98 comments

I Won't Hire People Who Use Poor Grammar

http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2012/07/i_wont_hire_people_who_use_poo.html

14 years ago

222 upvotes – 325 comments

Pareidoloop: Faces generated at random

http://iobound.com/pareidoloop/

14 years ago

216 upvotes – 48 comments

Marissa Mayer Employment Offer Letter

http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1011006/000119312512307595/d384719dex101.htm

14 years ago

215 upvotes – 135 comments

New Programming Jargon

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/07/new-programming-jargon.html

14 years ago

214 upvotes – 119 comments

17 Year Old Builds a Better Search Engine

http://live.wsj.com/video/young-scientist-builds-a-better-search-engine/6F3049AB-61FE-4CEA-8972-45EFA94FFF27.html?mod=wsj_article_tboright#!6F3049AB-61FE-4CEA-8972-45EFA94FFF27

14 years ago

165 upvotes – 90 comments

Firefox Beta 15 supports the new Opus audio format

http://hacks.mozilla.org/2012/07/firefox-beta-15-supports-the-new-opus-audio-format/

14 years ago

159 upvotes – 106 comments

RethinkDigg.com

http://rethinkdigg.com/

14 years ago

159 upvotes – 110 comments

Men Walk On Moon - July 20th 1969

http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0720.html

14 years ago

155 upvotes – 88 comments

How to say nothing in 500 words

http://web.archive.org/web/20101124040620/http://www.apostate.com/how-say-nothing-500-words

14 years ago

132 upvotes – 56 comments

Pixate - beautiful native mobile apps with CSS

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2015210423/pixate-beautiful-native-mobile-apps-with-css

14 years ago

123 upvotes – 55 comments

Phonegap 2.0 released

http://phonegap.com/2012/07/20/adobe-phonegap-2-0-released.md//

14 years ago

115 upvotes – 37 comments

Justice Department Sues Telco For Daring To Challenge the NSL

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120719/11304719763/justice-department-sues-telco-daring-to-challenge-its-secret-demands-private-information.shtml

14 years ago

108 upvotes – 9 comments

Academic journals face a radical shake-up

http://www.economist.com/node/21559317

14 years ago

100 upvotes – 24 comments

A syntax comparison across many languages

http://rigaux.org/language-study/syntax-across-languages.html

14 years ago

96 upvotes – 30 comments

Apple: Help the best app developers not get "acquihired"

http://blog.selligy.com/post/27652044305/apple-help-the-best-app-developers-not-get

14 years ago

93 upvotes – 68 comments

Bold plan: opening 1,000 MHz of federal spectrum to WiFi-style sharing

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/07/bold-plan-opening-1000-mhz-of-federal-spectrum-to-wifi-style-sharing/

14 years ago

91 upvotes – 16 comments

2012 State of Clojure survey

http://cemerick.com/2012/07/19/2012-state-of-clojure-survey/

14 years ago

86 upvotes – 41 comments

Kaspersky Lab Defeats Patent Troll

http://www.securityweek.com/kaspersky-lab-celebrates-15-years-win-against-patent-troll

14 years ago

80 upvotes – 26 comments

Video: Nexus 7 touchscreen defect

http://www.geek.com/articles/gadgets/video-nexus-7-touchscreen-defect-20120720/

14 years ago

74 upvotes – 51 comments

Photo Sharing Service PicPlum (YC S11) Gets A Revamp. Mobile App & API Are Next

http://techcrunch.com/2012/07/20/yc-backed-photo-sharing-service-picplum-gets-a-revamp-mobile-app-api-are-next/

14 years ago

73 upvotes – 10 comments

Secure multiparty Bitcoin anonymization

http://blog.ezyang.com/2012/07/secure-multiparty-bitcoin-anonymization/

14 years ago

70 upvotes – 15 comments

JSTerm, Firefox JavaScript terminal

http://paulrouget.com/e/jsterm/

14 years ago

70 upvotes – 11 comments

Valid Credit Card Number Generator for Testing Purposes

http://www.getcreditcardnumbers.com/

14 years ago

70 upvotes – 28 comments

RubyMotion Tutorial: Write iOS Apps in Ruby

http://rubymotion-tutorial.com/

14 years ago

68 upvotes – 11 comments

Physicists solve Casimir conundrum

http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/2012/jul/18/physicists-solve-casimir-conundrum

14 years ago

62 upvotes – 18 comments

Node.js v0.9.0 (Unstable) is out

http://blog.nodejs.org/2012/07/20/version-0-9-0-unstable/

14 years ago

61 upvotes – 15 comments

Lessons learned from MITx’s prototype course

http://www.mit.edu/newsoffice/2012/mitx-edx-first-course-recap-0716.html

14 years ago

56 upvotes – 13 comments

Writing good commit messages

https://github.com/erlang/otp/wiki/Writing-good-commit-messages

14 years ago

★ 12.1k Erlang Apache-2.0
55 upvotes – 49 comments

Probability distributions fitting with Python

http://glowingpython.blogspot.it/2012/07/distribution-fitting-with-scipy.html

14 years ago

55 upvotes – 4 comments

Svbtle is hiring to build the future of news and opinion on the web

http://blog.svbtle.com/the-future

14 years ago

51 upvotes – 52 comments

The Many Sides of Jack Dorsey

http://www.wired.com/business/2012/06/ff_dorsey/all/

14 years ago

49 upvotes – 25 comments
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