top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-07-23

How the Norwegians Reacted to Terrorism

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2012/07/how_the_norwegi.html

14 years ago

354 upvotes – 138 comments

Step by step from jQuery to Backbone

http://open.bekk.no/from-jquery-to-backbone/

14 years ago

353 upvotes – 75 comments

The Sparrow Problem

http://appcubby.com/blog/the-sparrow-problem/

14 years ago

310 upvotes – 154 comments

Destined To Fail

http://stevenkovar.com/post/27822590990/destined-to-fail

14 years ago

296 upvotes – 109 comments

Gittip stats

https://www.gittip.com/about/stats.html

14 years ago

260 upvotes – 123 comments

HN's Daeken will expose security flaw in 4m hotel room keycard locks

http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2012/07/23/hacker-will-expose-potential-security-flaw-in-more-than-four-million-hotel-room-keycard-locks/

14 years ago

253 upvotes – 138 comments

Distribution of colors in movie posters between 1914 and 2012

http://www.vijayp.ca/movies/new_page.html

14 years ago

244 upvotes – 84 comments

Jack Daniels writes the politest cease and desist notice ever.

http://brokenpianoforpresident.com/2012/07/19/jack-daniels-lawsuit-the-full-scoop/

14 years ago

237 upvotes – 32 comments

Sally Ride, first American woman in space, has died at 61

https://www.sallyridescience.com/sallyride/bio

14 years ago

199 upvotes – 33 comments

Marissa Mayer Has a Secret Weapon

http://www.wired.com/business/2012/07/marissas-secret-weapon-for-recruiting-new-yahoo-talent/

14 years ago

192 upvotes – 88 comments

Redis Sentinel beta released

http://antirez.com/post/redis-sentinel-beta-released.html

14 years ago

191 upvotes – 23 comments

VMware Buys Nicira for $1.26B

http://bhorowitz.com/2012/07/23/vmware-buys-nicira-for-1-26b/

14 years ago

175 upvotes – 53 comments

All you ever wanted to know about building a secure password reset (NSFW)

http://www.troyhunt.com/2012/05/everything-you-ever-wanted-to-know.html?HN2

14 years ago

157 upvotes – 121 comments

Machine learning for the impatient: algorithms tuning algorithms

http://www.aelag.com/147952673

14 years ago

155 upvotes – 31 comments

Zsh 5.0 released

https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh

14 years ago

★ 4.1k C
141 upvotes – 57 comments

Tesco Discount Barcodes, Cracked

http://mtdevans.com/projects/barcode/

14 years ago

117 upvotes – 94 comments

Google Begins Practically Begging You to Use Your Real Name on YouTube

http://betabeat.com/2012/07/start-using-your-full-name-begs-desperate-youtube-message/

14 years ago

115 upvotes – 90 comments

Tiled Shadow Maps

http://www.jasonnall.com/polar/

14 years ago

114 upvotes – 32 comments

How We Got 50 Women to Our Hackathon (And You Can, Too)

http://lgilchrist.com/how-we-got-50-women-to-our-hackathon/

14 years ago

107 upvotes – 109 comments

Passing Pointers

http://blog.filepicker.io/post/27855218260/passing-pointers

14 years ago

107 upvotes – 35 comments

The Story of Steve Jobs: An Inspiration or a Cautionary Tale?

http://www.wired.com/business/2012/07/ff_stevejobs/all/

14 years ago

102 upvotes – 103 comments

But You Did Not Persuade Me

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/07/but-you-did-not-persuade-me.html

14 years ago

100 upvotes – 13 comments

Ask HN: Anyone making a living from Desktop apps?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4280463

14 years ago

96 upvotes – 86 comments

Why Bad Jobs-or No Jobs-Happen to Good Workers

http://spectrum.ieee.org/podcast/at-work/tech-careers/why-bad-jobsor-no-jobshappen-to-good-workers

14 years ago

93 upvotes – 70 comments

Amazon Career Choice Program

http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html/ref=amb_link_1?ie=UTF8&nodeId=200979350&view-type=stand-alone&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=gateway-center-column&pf_rd_r=1RWZQ2HKJPYQ2YKQ0XX2&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=1385640982&pf_rd_i=507846

14 years ago

89 upvotes – 46 comments

No, you don’t need a real-time data dashboard

http://numeratechoir.com/no-you-dont-need-a-real-time-data-dashboard/

14 years ago

74 upvotes – 8 comments

New Chrome feature frees Web apps from the browser

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57475180-93/new-chrome-feature-frees-web-apps-from-the-browser/

14 years ago

70 upvotes – 70 comments

In a CDN'd world, OpenDNS is the enemy

http://www.sajalkayan.com/in-a-cdnd-world-opendns-is-the-enemy.html

14 years ago

70 upvotes – 64 comments

Referly (YC S12) Launches API: Now Any Site Can Have A Referral Program

http://techcrunch.com/2012/07/23/referly-gets-more-social-launches-api-now-any-site-can-have-a-referral-program/

14 years ago

69 upvotes – 22 comments

New Version of jsbin.com

http://jsbin.com/welcome

14 years ago

69 upvotes – 28 comments

HTML 5 gets forked up

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/07/23/html_5_fork/

14 years ago

68 upvotes – 21 comments

Sendy - Send Newsletters via Amazon SES

http://sendy.co/

14 years ago

67 upvotes – 60 comments

Area Journalist Partying Too Hard

http://uncrunched.com/2012/07/22/area-journalist-partying-too-hard/

14 years ago

66 upvotes – 40 comments

Piracy Advert Used Stolen Music

http://www.atomicmpc.com.au/News/309432,piracy-advert-used-stolen-music.aspx

14 years ago

62 upvotes – 4 comments

Achieving overnight success: Tom Preston-Werner

http://joel.is/post/27696148578/achieving-overnight-success-tom-preston-werner

14 years ago

61 upvotes – 19 comments

A book review written in JavaScript

http://www.robinsloan.com/summer-reading/and-programming/

14 years ago

55 upvotes – 13 comments

Oracle lowers the flag on Fortress language project

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/07/23/oracle_fortress_project_halted/

14 years ago

55 upvotes – 25 comments

Show HN: Use Excel as a simple CRM

http://ironspread.com/db.html

14 years ago

54 upvotes – 27 comments

A Skeptic Looks at Alternative Energy

http://spectrum.ieee.org/energy/renewables/a-skeptic-looks-at-alternative-energy/0

14 years ago

53 upvotes – 98 comments

Sally Ride, First American Woman In Space, Is Dead

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2012/07/23/157250870/sally-ride-first-american-woman-in-space-is-dead

14 years ago

52 upvotes – 6 comments

Hacker News Podcast is back

http://www.hnpod.com/episodes/hnpod-3-ouya-github-we-know-what-you-re-doing?r=hn

14 years ago

52 upvotes – 18 comments

3-D Printing, robotics swing manufacturing might from China back to the U.S.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/singularity/2012/07/23/the-end-of-chinese-manufacturing-and-rebirth-of-u-s-industry/

14 years ago

51 upvotes – 47 comments
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