top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-08-02

Valve Source Engine Running Faster on Linux than Windows

http://blogs.valvesoftware.com/linux/

14 years ago

611 upvotes – 238 comments

Matasano Security acquired for £8.4m ($13m) - Congrats tptacek

http://www.nccgroup.com/en/news-events/news/acquisition-of-a-leading-us-security-testing-business-for-%C2%A384m/

14 years ago

439 upvotes – 111 comments

Source Sans Pro: Adobe’s first open source font family

http://blogs.adobe.com/typblography/2012/08/source-sans-pro.html

14 years ago

386 upvotes – 67 comments

The No Excuse List: The Best Place On The Web To Learn Anything

http://www.noexcuselist.com/

14 years ago

378 upvotes – 91 comments

Elon Musk of SpaceX: The Goal is Mars

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-0801-morrison-musk-spacex-20120801,0,3838907.column

14 years ago

266 upvotes – 100 comments

Fasting & Programming

http://www.mahdiyusuf.com/post/28530166837/fasting-programming

14 years ago

177 upvotes – 174 comments

The U.S. Senate has blocked the Cybersecurity Act of 2012.

http://www.zdnet.com/senate-blocks-cybersecurity-act-7000002051/

14 years ago

172 upvotes – 77 comments

The Differences Between Germany and the United States

http://math-www.uni-paderborn.de/~axel/us-d.html

14 years ago

167 upvotes – 158 comments

Don Knuth releases Volume 4, Pre-fascicle 6A [gzipped ps]

http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/fasc6a.ps.gz

14 years ago

141 upvotes – 47 comments

Productivity vs. Guilt and Self-Loathing

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

14 years ago

141 upvotes – 25 comments

Mountain Lion seems to have addressed the memory management issues in OS X

http://workstuff.tumblr.com/post/28556080639/mountain-lion-seems-to-have-partially-addressed-the

14 years ago

135 upvotes – 119 comments

400,000 American homes have dumped pay-TV so far this year

http://www.bgr.com/2012/08/02/cable-tv-subscriber-stats-q2-2012-satellite/

14 years ago

134 upvotes – 79 comments

Valve: OpenGL is faster than DirectX — even on Windows

http://www.extremetech.com/gaming/133824-valve-opengl-is-faster-than-directx-even-on-windows

14 years ago

127 upvotes – 69 comments

Today is Goof Off at Work Day

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/08/today-is-goof-off-at-work-day.html

14 years ago

126 upvotes – 50 comments

Facebook has more than 83 million 'fake' users

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-19093078

14 years ago

121 upvotes – 93 comments

Monk creates a new Tibetan Unicode font

http://tibetangeeks.com/geeks/lobsang_monlam/

14 years ago

116 upvotes – 20 comments

DEFCON: Why conference harassment matters

https://adainitiative.org/2012/08/defcon-why-conference-harassment-matters/

14 years ago

108 upvotes – 98 comments

1 Bitcoin Worth 10 USD

http://bitcoincharts.com/charts/mtgoxUSD#rg2ztgSzm1g10zm2g25zv

14 years ago

106 upvotes – 125 comments

We are Colorblind

http://wearecolorblind.com/

14 years ago

104 upvotes – 49 comments

How low (power) can you go?

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2012/08/how-low-power-can-you-go.html

14 years ago

98 upvotes – 30 comments

Why you should never use GoDaddy ever again (even for a domain search)

http://zensavona.com/2012/why-you-should-never-use-godaddy-ever-again/

14 years ago

94 upvotes – 53 comments

Facebook loses 3 more executives

http://venturebeat.com/2012/08/02/with-stock-price-at-low-facebook-loses-3-more-executives/

14 years ago

93 upvotes – 42 comments

Authy (YC W12) launches two-factor auth as a service

http://techcrunch.com/2012/08/02/y-combinator-backed-startup-authy-wants-to-help-you-prevent-a-dropbox-style-security-snafu/

14 years ago

93 upvotes – 34 comments

Abandoning Algebra Is Not the Answer

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2012/07/30/abandoning-algebra-is-not-the-answer/

14 years ago

91 upvotes – 66 comments

Why Programmers Are Bad at Estimating Time

http://java.dzone.com/programmers-are-bad-estimating

14 years ago

90 upvotes – 118 comments

Cellist Zoe Keating has posted her "Online Sales & Streaming" numbers

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AkasqHkVRM1OdEJFUnhyNFFkZjVSUWxhWGl1dE9lQXc#gid=2

14 years ago

88 upvotes – 67 comments

Heroku announces support for 17 new Postgres extensions

https://postgres.heroku.com/blog/past/2012/8/2/announcing_support_for_17_new_postgres_extensions_including_dblink/

14 years ago

87 upvotes – 28 comments

LuaJIT maintainer's take on Apple/Clang

http://osdir.com/ml/general/2012-02/msg27471.html

14 years ago

86 upvotes – 21 comments

Faster Zombies

http://blogs.valvesoftware.com/linux/faster-zombies/

14 years ago

85 upvotes – 16 comments

Hacker Dojo auctions its members to raise funds

http://www.hackerdojo.com/Auction

14 years ago

83 upvotes – 29 comments

Show HN: Makr.io, a creative and collaborative way to play with images

https://makr.io

14 years ago

78 upvotes – 32 comments

Daring Adventures with Passive Income

http://www.patrick-wied.at/blog/daring-adventures-with-passive-income-1/?wblog=1

14 years ago

77 upvotes – 43 comments

VoiceGem (YC S12) Brings Communication Back To The Future

http://techcrunch.com/2012/08/02/voicegem/

14 years ago

74 upvotes – 24 comments

Knight Capital Says Trading Glitch Cost It $440 Million

http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2012/08/02/knight-capital-says-trading-mishap-cost-it-440-million/?hp

14 years ago

73 upvotes – 91 comments

Why I Turned Down $160,000

http://blakemasters.tumblr.com/post/28516050984/why-i-turned-down-160-000

14 years ago

70 upvotes – 56 comments

Sorting of integers and floats 23% faster in PostgreSQL 9.2 (long explanation)

http://pgeoghegan.blogspot.com/2012/08/sorting-improvements-in-postgresql-92.html

14 years ago

69 upvotes – 8 comments

Journey Through The JavaScript MVC Jungle

http://coding.smashingmagazine.com/2012/07/27/journey-through-the-javascript-mvc-jungle/

14 years ago

67 upvotes – 7 comments

Python Concurrency: An Example of a Queue

http://www.blog.pythonlibrary.org/2012/08/01/python-concurrency-an-example-of-a-queue/

14 years ago

65 upvotes – 12 comments

The inconsistencies in your site's color palette

http://coderwall.com/p/u7kzua

14 years ago

63 upvotes – 31 comments

FiveStars (YC W11) Picks Up $14 Million to Challenge the Loyalty Punch Card

http://allthingsd.com/20120802/exclusive-fivestars-picks-up-14-million-to-challenge-the-loyalty-punch-card/

14 years ago

59 upvotes – 33 comments

Pacific Fibre cable project sunk by US fears about Chinese espionage

http://www.interest.co.nz/business/60485/kiwi-pacific-fibre-cable-project-sunk-us-fears-about-chinese-investment-espionage-it-

14 years ago

57 upvotes – 60 comments

Human cycles: History as science

http://www.nature.com/news/human-cycles-history-as-science-1.11078

14 years ago

55 upvotes – 34 comments

Writing graphics software gets much easier

http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2012/better-programming-language-for-image-processing-0802.html

14 years ago

52 upvotes – 9 comments

Kickstarter project Turf Geography Club launches its “Foursquare + Monopoly” app

http://thenextweb.com/apps/2012/08/02/kickstarter-project-turf-geography-club-launches-its-foursquare-monopoly-app/

14 years ago

51 upvotes – 19 comments

Sean Parker's Airtime deflates

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/01/after-splashy-introduction-airtime-seems-to-deflate/

14 years ago

49 upvotes – 52 comments

India's street children bank on the future

http://www.france24.com/en/20120705-indias-street-children-bank-future-0

14 years ago

48 upvotes – 14 comments

A comic that sums up 90% of the "advice for startup founders" literature

http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=206

14 years ago

47 upvotes – 11 comments

Why thread-based application parallelism is trumped in the multicore era

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-nothreads/index.html?ca=drs-

14 years ago

46 upvotes – 23 comments

How America's Broken Meritocracy Drives Our National Anxiety Epidemic

http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2012/07/trickle-down-distress-how-americas-broken-meritocracy-drives-our-national-anxiety-epidemic/259383/

14 years ago

45 upvotes – 16 comments

Microsoft demos muscle-computer interface, air Guitar Hero now a reality

http://www.pcgerms.com/muscle-computer-interface-demoed-by-microsoft-lets-you-control-the-computers-through-your-bodys-muscles/

14 years ago

45 upvotes – 29 comments

How Coffee Meetings Power Silicon Valley

http://www.jasonshen.com/2012/how-coffee-meetings-power-silicon-valley/

14 years ago

42 upvotes – 10 comments
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