top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-07-30

Company withdrawing from Facebook as analytics show 80% of ad clicks from bots

https://www.facebook.com/limitedpressing/posts/209534972507958

14 years ago

1347 upvotes – 356 comments

Lying on your resume

http://steveblank.com/2012/07/30/lying-on-your-resume/

14 years ago

460 upvotes – 232 comments

Lessons in website security anti-patterns by Tesco

http://www.troyhunt.com/2012/07/lessons-in-website-security-anti.html

14 years ago

352 upvotes – 118 comments

Why Apple's new ads look like Microsoft made them.

http://seanoliver.me/post/28346128977/i-have-to-admit-that-i-agree-with-the-cacophony-of

14 years ago

337 upvotes – 227 comments

Ubisoft "Uplay" DRM exposed as rootkit

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4311264

14 years ago

317 upvotes – 136 comments

Chaos Monkey released into the wild

http://techblog.netflix.com/2012/07/chaos-monkey-released-into-wild.html

14 years ago

235 upvotes – 36 comments

Codecademy now has Python lessons

http://www.codecademy.com/tracks/python

14 years ago

215 upvotes – 56 comments

ASCII Google Streetview

http://tllabs.io/asciistreetview/

14 years ago

200 upvotes – 42 comments

Sam Soffes open sources Cheddar for iOS

https://github.com/nothingmagical/cheddar-ios

14 years ago

★ 2.9k Objective-C BSD-2-Clause
179 upvotes – 28 comments

Show HN: My weekend project using the Soundcloud API

http://www.getworkdonemusic.com

14 years ago

178 upvotes – 83 comments

Titan, one of Saturn's moons, has an underground ocean

http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2012/28jun_titanocean/

14 years ago

178 upvotes – 40 comments

Live Streaming in Rails 4.0

http://tenderlovemaking.com/2012/07/30/is-it-live.html

14 years ago

141 upvotes – 38 comments

Localtunnel: Show localhost to the rest of the world

http://progrium.com/localtunnel/

14 years ago

135 upvotes – 55 comments

NewsBlur (YC S12) Takes Feed Reading Back To Its Basics

http://techcrunch.com/2012/07/30/yc-backed-newsblur-takes-feed-reading-back-to-its-basics

14 years ago

131 upvotes – 38 comments

Google Talk for Developers

https://developers.google.com/talk/

14 years ago

130 upvotes – 40 comments

The Heretic - the U.S. government banned medical studies of the effects of LSD.

http://www.themorningnews.org/article/the-heretic

14 years ago

126 upvotes – 37 comments

Raspberry Pi Myths and Truths

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/Top10RaspberryPiMythsAndTruths.aspx

14 years ago

126 upvotes – 55 comments

Renewables now account for 25% of German energy production

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/07/26/germany-renewables-idUSL6E8IQIA720120726

14 years ago

124 upvotes – 126 comments

The New York Times Is Now Supported by Readers, Not Advertisers

http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2012/07/new-york-times-supported-by-readers-not-advertisers.html

14 years ago

117 upvotes – 57 comments

Chrome treats DELETE requests as GET and caches them

http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?can=2&start=0&num=100&q=&colspec=ID%20Pri%20Mstone%20ReleaseBlock%20OS%20Area%20Feature%20Status%20Owner%20Summary&groupby=&sort=&id=136320

14 years ago

108 upvotes – 68 comments

And then the music stopped

http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3221-and-then-the-music-stopped

14 years ago

108 upvotes – 64 comments

Show HN: gridster.js, a drag-and-drop grid plugin that actually works

http://gridster.net/

14 years ago

106 upvotes – 27 comments

Every iPhone Prototype Apple Ever Made Before They Released The First iPhone

http://www.cultofmac.com/181782/every-iphone-prototype-apple-ever-made-before-released-the-first-iphone-gallery/

14 years ago

106 upvotes – 53 comments

Moog Google Doodle open sourced

http://code.google.com/p/bob-moog-google-doodle/

14 years ago

104 upvotes – 12 comments

Amicus (YC S12) Uses Facebook To Mobilize Volunteers for Nonprofits

http://techcrunch.com/2012/07/30/amicus-campaigns-volunteers-facebook/

14 years ago

101 upvotes – 16 comments

Jonah Lehrer Resigns From The New Yorker After Making Up Quotes

http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/30/jonah-lehrer-resigns-from-new-yorker-after-making-up-dylan-quotes-for-his-book/?hp

14 years ago

99 upvotes – 72 comments

Does category theory make you a better programmer?

http://debasishg.blogspot.nl/2012/07/does-category-theory-make-you-better.html

14 years ago

93 upvotes – 61 comments

Try iOS: iPhone App Development Course

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/eallam/try-ios-iphone-app-development-course

14 years ago

85 upvotes – 23 comments

The Boston Globe gets a look at a DB of every bomb the US has ever dropped

http://www.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2012/07/29/century-data-and-destruction-chronicled-air-force-officer/5m2HK2CP9UcwwJzMhtdQOO/story.html

14 years ago

81 upvotes – 13 comments

Hangouts now available in Gmail, Google+ account not required

http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2012/07/video-chat-with-whole-team-with.html

14 years ago

80 upvotes – 24 comments

Binary search is a pathological case for caches

http://www.pvk.ca/Blog/2012/07/30/binary-search-is-a-pathological-case-for-caches/

14 years ago

80 upvotes – 13 comments

Divide a number by 3 without using * / + - % operators

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11694546/divide-a-number-by-3-without-using-operators

14 years ago

78 upvotes – 77 comments

After Carping About NBC’s Olympics Coverage, Journalist Suspended from Twitter

http://betabeat.com/2012/07/after-incessant-carping-about-nbcs-olympics-coverage-journalist-is-suspended-from-twitter/

14 years ago

78 upvotes – 43 comments

On Apple's new ads

http://frank.is/on-apples-new-ads/

14 years ago

77 upvotes – 89 comments

Is Nginx obsolete now that we have Amazon CloudFront?

http://www.peterbe.com/plog/is-nginx-obsolete-amazon-cloudfront

14 years ago

75 upvotes – 61 comments

Apollo Moon flags still standing, images show

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19050795

14 years ago

75 upvotes – 34 comments

Microsoft's New Business Plan

http://www.zdnet.com/microsofts-radical-new-business-plan-is-hidden-in-plain-sight-7000001750/

14 years ago

71 upvotes – 55 comments

9GAG (YC S12) Raises $2.8M

http://thenextweb.com/insider/2012/07/30/funny-funding-humor-website-9gag-raises-2-8-million-and-releases-an-ios-app/

14 years ago

71 upvotes – 53 comments

Terrorism is not about terror

http://www.gwern.net/Terrorism%20is%20not%20about%20Terror

14 years ago

70 upvotes – 45 comments

A technique for hiding your JavaScript code

http://www.patrick-wied.at/blog/a-technique-for-hiding-your-javascript-code

14 years ago

62 upvotes – 35 comments

The API Hub: Jeff Bezos-Backed Mashape Launches To The Public With 430 APIs

http://techcrunch.com/2012/07/30/mashape-public-launch/

14 years ago

60 upvotes – 27 comments

Imagining a future dictated by Google Glass

http://e27.sg/2012/07/30/imagining-a-future-dictated-by-google-glass/

14 years ago

60 upvotes – 30 comments

The Construct

http://www.brandonpelfrey.com/blog/the-construct/

14 years ago

59 upvotes – 6 comments

On the Deadness of OAuth 2

http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2012/07/28/Oauth2-dead

14 years ago

58 upvotes – 12 comments

Take on Haskell vs Scala

http://jnordenberg.blogspot.sg/2012/05/my-take-on-haskell-vs-scala.html

14 years ago

56 upvotes – 12 comments

HTML5 & CSS3 Fundamentals: Development for Absolute Beginners | Channel 9

http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/HTML5-CSS3-Fundamentals-Development-for-Absolute-Beginners

14 years ago

56 upvotes – 11 comments

Google statement on codecs

http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/rtcweb/current/msg04953.html

14 years ago

51 upvotes – 30 comments

Print me a phone: new 3D printing techniques to embed electronics into products

http://www.economist.com/node/21559593

14 years ago

50 upvotes – 4 comments
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