top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-08-01

Dear Mark Zuckerberg

http://daltoncaldwell.com/dear-mark-zuckerberg

14 years ago

743 upvotes – 261 comments

Do you have a secret?

http://www.doyouhaveasecret.org

14 years ago

432 upvotes – 105 comments

Oculus Rift: Step Into the Game

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1523379957/oculus-rift-step-into-the-game

14 years ago

298 upvotes – 111 comments

Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (August 2012)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4323597

14 years ago

276 upvotes – 291 comments

Bill would force patent trolls to pay defendants' legal bills

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/08/bill-would-force-patent-trolls-to-pay-defendants-legal-bills/

14 years ago

250 upvotes – 83 comments

The new Digg

http://digg.com/

14 years ago

230 upvotes – 193 comments

Craigslist now asks for exclusive license when posting

http://baligu.blogspot.com/2012/08/i-dont-remember-seeing-this-before-at.html

14 years ago

217 upvotes – 188 comments

This file's a Win Executable, PDF, Java executable (or Python script), and HTML

http://code.google.com/p/corkami/downloads/detail?name=CorkaMIX.zip

14 years ago

198 upvotes – 20 comments

Don’t Lie On Your Resume, But Lie Like Hell During Your Exit Interview

http://robbieabed.com/dont-lie-on-your-resume-but-lie-like-hell-during-your-exit-interview/

14 years ago

176 upvotes – 126 comments

Throne of JS: Eight JavaScript MV* Libraries Compared

http://blog.stevensanderson.com/2012/08/01/rich-javascript-applications-the-seven-frameworks-throne-of-js-2012

14 years ago

167 upvotes – 70 comments

Homeland Security Issuing Its Own DMCA Takedowns On YouTube To Stifle Speech

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120720/02530219774/homeland-security-issuing-its-own-dmca-takedowns-youtube-to-stifle-speech.shtml

14 years ago

161 upvotes – 37 comments

Instacart (YC S12) wants to be Amazon with 1 hour delivery

http://techcrunch.com/2012/08/01/instacart/

14 years ago

157 upvotes – 98 comments

Facebook sinks to record low, 43% below IPO price, as doubts grow

http://www.cnbc.com/id/48426298

14 years ago

157 upvotes – 149 comments

Bruce Schneier: Drawing the wrong lessons from horrific events

http://edition.cnn.com/2012/07/31/opinion/schneier-aurora-aftermath/index.html

14 years ago

153 upvotes – 157 comments

Apple's CPU lead Jim Keller heads back to AMD

http://venturebeat.com/2012/08/01/apple-cpu-jim-keller-amd/

14 years ago

151 upvotes – 78 comments

Bicycle skills

http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2012/08/01/bicycle-skills/

14 years ago

150 upvotes – 88 comments

A sudoku solver in 33 lines of Clojure

https://gist.github.com/3217582

14 years ago

148 upvotes – 37 comments

Productivity Porn

http://blog.vivekhaldar.com/post/28465017852/productivity-porn

14 years ago

142 upvotes – 54 comments

Dropbox confirms it got hacked, will offer two-factor authentication

http://arstechnica.com/security/2012/07/dropbox-confirms-it-got-hacked-will-offer-two-factor-authentication/

14 years ago

129 upvotes – 62 comments

Craig Newmark, the Principled Jerk

http://blog.jeremymims.com/craig-newmark-the-principled-jerk

14 years ago

126 upvotes – 102 comments

Whatever happened to kids' chemistry sets?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-19050342

14 years ago

122 upvotes – 75 comments

Show HN: My one month side-project, Lucid Tracker: a daily life tracking tool

http://www.lucidtracker.com

14 years ago

113 upvotes – 67 comments

A Bad Privacy Bug

http://blog.pinboard.in/2012/07/a_bad_privacy_bug/

14 years ago

110 upvotes – 46 comments

reveal.js: HTML5 based Slide Presentation Tool

https://github.com/hakimel/reveal.js

14 years ago

★ 71k JavaScript MIT
110 upvotes – 32 comments

The Commodore 64 (C64) is 30 years old today

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-19055707

14 years ago

99 upvotes – 41 comments

Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (August 2012)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4323612

14 years ago

98 upvotes – 91 comments

Why “just do it” is bullshit

http://wayoftheduck.com/why-just-do-it-is-bullshit

14 years ago

98 upvotes – 74 comments

Dropbox: Security update & new features

http://blog.dropbox.com/index.php/security-update-new-features/

14 years ago

95 upvotes – 62 comments

Stuff Harvard, MIT, Stanford & Caltech People Like

http://blog.echen.me/2011/09/29/stuff-harvard-people-like/

14 years ago

94 upvotes – 20 comments

Craigslist posts shown on a map while viewing Craigslist housing

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/omonmigaleaafgpkgoammpclbcdepjpi

14 years ago

93 upvotes – 72 comments

NSHipster: a journal of the overlooked bits in Objective-C

http://nshipster.com/

14 years ago

90 upvotes – 19 comments

NSA Careers for DEF CON Attendees

http://www.nsa.gov/careers/dc20/

14 years ago

88 upvotes – 85 comments

Nokia Reportedly Selling Off Qt

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTE1MTc

14 years ago

88 upvotes – 42 comments

Google Indefinitely Delays the Nexus Q After Poor Reviews

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/31/google-delays-the-nexus-q-after-poor-reviews/

14 years ago

84 upvotes – 49 comments

Windows 8 hits RTM status

http://windowsteamblog.com/windows/b/bloggingwindows/archive/2012/08/01/windows-8-has-reached-the-rtm-milestone.aspx

14 years ago

83 upvotes – 104 comments

Zapier (YC S12), The IFTTT For Business Users, Launches Developer Platform

http://techcrunch.com/2012/08/01/yc-backed-zapier-the-ifttt-for-business-users-launches-developer-platform/

14 years ago

83 upvotes – 28 comments

My first year as employee #1 of a YC company

http://nop.xxx/ruminations/first-year.html

14 years ago

83 upvotes – 40 comments

Fast Forward - Provisioned IOPS for EBS Volumes

http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2012/08/fast-forward-provisioned-iops-ebs.html

14 years ago

82 upvotes – 27 comments

UK government report calls for the end of broadcast TV

http://www.reghardware.com/2012/08/01/house_of_lords_call_for_the_end_of_broadcast_tv/

14 years ago

77 upvotes – 53 comments

Rendering Views in Backbone.js isn't Always Simple

http://ianstormtaylor.com/rendering-views-in-backbonejs-isnt-always-simple/

14 years ago

77 upvotes – 12 comments

HBO Ignores Internet Geniuses, Sells More HBO

http://allthingsd.com/20120801/hbo-ignores-internet-geniuses-sells-more-hbo/

14 years ago

70 upvotes – 70 comments

Google Wallet moves to the cloud, opens up to all credit and debit cards

http://www.engadget.com/2012/08/01/google-wallet-moves-to-the-cloud-opens-up-to-all-credit-and-deb/

14 years ago

70 upvotes – 29 comments

Google changes Android content policy; intrusive ads now banned

http://play.google.com/about/developer-content-policy.html

14 years ago

65 upvotes – 16 comments

Nexus 7's Project Butter UI smoothness captured on high-speed camera

http://techreport.com/articles.x/23318/4

14 years ago

62 upvotes – 34 comments

Creating a friend recommendation algorithm from social network data

http://blog.echen.me/2012/07/31/edge-prediction-in-a-social-graph-my-solution-to-facebooks-user-recommendation-contest-on-kaggle/

14 years ago

59 upvotes – 13 comments

Post Launch Checklist: 10 Tasks You Should Complete

http://distributionhacks.com/post-startup-launch-checklist

14 years ago

58 upvotes – 8 comments

JWZ ported XScreenSaver to iOS - keeps getting rejected by Apple

http://www.jwz.org/blog/2012/07/apple-dicks/

14 years ago

58 upvotes – 69 comments

Raspberry Pi to get Android 4.0

http://techpp.com/2012/08/01/raspberry-pi-to-get-android-4-0/

14 years ago

56 upvotes – 38 comments

Computational Types in C# and F#

http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/432071/Computational-Types-in-Csharp-and-Fsharp

14 years ago

55 upvotes – 10 comments

Can a Mobile-Rookie Founder Crack The Image Sharing Space With Imgfave (YC S12)?

http://techcrunch.com/2012/08/01/can-a-yc-mobile-rookie-founder-crack-the-photo-sharing-space-with-imgfave/

14 years ago

54 upvotes – 15 comments

GitHub.js

https://github.com/michael/github

14 years ago

★ 3.7k JavaScript BSD-3-Clause
53 upvotes – 6 comments

Digg v1: Betaworks Flushes Seven Years of Internet History Down the Toilet

http://blogs.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/2012/08/digg_betaworks.php

14 years ago

53 upvotes – 37 comments

Phusion Passenger Enterprise released

http://blog.phusion.nl/2012/08/01/phusion-passenger-enterprise-released/

14 years ago

52 upvotes – 38 comments

Why Plivo Cloud is better than Twilio

http://clintberry.com/2012/why-plivo-cloud-is-better-than-twilio/

14 years ago

51 upvotes – 13 comments

CSS's "transparent" isn't all that transparent

http://coderwall.com/p/tpmsta

14 years ago

49 upvotes – 34 comments

Y Combinator Companies to Watch

http://pandodaily.com/2012/08/01/eight-y-combinator-companies-to-watch/

14 years ago

48 upvotes – 11 comments

Quick and Clean in Go

http://shadynasty.biz/blog/2012/07/30/quick-and-clean-in-go/

14 years ago

47 upvotes – 39 comments

Dawn of the Digital Sweatshop

http://www.eastbayexpress.com/gyrobase/dawn-of-the-digital-sweatshop/Content?oid=3301022&showFullText=true

14 years ago

47 upvotes – 21 comments
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