top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-08-03

SpaceX wins $440M contract with NASA to develop Space Shuttle successor

http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n1208/03ccicap/spacex.html

14 years ago

564 upvotes – 180 comments

Rob Pike: the origin of dotfiles

https://plus.google.com/101960720994009339267/posts/R58WgWwN9jp

14 years ago

470 upvotes – 153 comments

Why Valve? Or, what do we need corporations for..

http://blogs.valvesoftware.com/economics/why-valve-or-what-do-we-need-corporations-for-and-how-does-valves-management-structure-fit-into-todays-corporate-world/

14 years ago

331 upvotes – 159 comments

Thanks to Quora, now you can’t read anonymously

http://gigaom.com/2012/08/01/thanks-to-quora-now-you-cant-read-anonymously/#HB2

14 years ago

290 upvotes – 178 comments

Student Is Sanctioned for Creating Class-Registration Web Site

http://ucouldfinish.com/

14 years ago

243 upvotes – 112 comments

Google crackdown catches innocent devs in the crossfire

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-08/03/indie-dev-google-crackdown

14 years ago

242 upvotes – 118 comments

One of Apple’s Best Ideas Ever — Made Worse

http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/30/one-of-apples-best-ideas-ever-made-worse/

14 years ago

236 upvotes – 135 comments

Pie charts in your favicon

http://lipka.github.com/piecon/

14 years ago

232 upvotes – 33 comments

Why Men Can't Have It All

http://www.relevantmagazine.com/life/whole-life/why-men-cant-have-it-all

14 years ago

227 upvotes – 227 comments

One Bad “Policy Change” Email Can Kill Company Culture

http://moz.com/rand/one-bad-policy-change-email-can-kill-company-culture/

14 years ago

181 upvotes – 92 comments

Microsoft abandon Metro name due to legal challenge

http://www.loopinsight.com/2012/08/02/microsoft-ditches-metro-now-using-windows-8-style-ui/

14 years ago

168 upvotes – 117 comments

Warsow 1.0 Released

http://www.warsow.net/forum/thread/14994

14 years ago

164 upvotes – 43 comments

B2B Is Unsexy, and I Know It

http://danshipper.com/b2b-is-unsexy-and-i-know-it

14 years ago

153 upvotes – 83 comments

Who 'likes' my Virtual Bagels?

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-18819338

14 years ago

149 upvotes – 83 comments

MySQL now includes memcached, and a plugin that allows fast NoSQL-style access

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/news-5-6-6.html

14 years ago

149 upvotes – 43 comments

Letter to John Carmack

http://www.phoboslab.org/log/2012/08/letter-to-john-carmack

14 years ago

149 upvotes – 133 comments

Ask PG: Is RFS3 "Things built on Twitter" still sensible to prioritise?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4332000

14 years ago

147 upvotes – 55 comments

Ten million users is the new one million users

http://cdixon.org/2012/08/03/ten-million-is-the-new-one-million/

14 years ago

123 upvotes – 35 comments

Everything in your life is just a list

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2012/08/workflowy_the_note_taking_app_that_changed_the_way_i_organize_my_life_.single.html

14 years ago

112 upvotes – 78 comments

Electronic Arts Sues Zynga, Says The Ville Is An “Unmistakable Copy” Of The Sims

http://techcrunch.com/2012/08/03/electronic-arts-sues-zynga-says-the-ville-is-an-unmistakable-copy-of-the-sims/

14 years ago

106 upvotes – 133 comments

Hacker School announces fall applications and residencies

https://www.hackerschool.com/blog/4-fall-2012-applications-open

14 years ago

90 upvotes – 30 comments

HP releases more Open webOS code, including System Manager and core apps

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/08/hp-releases-more-open-webos-code-including-system-manager-and-core-apps/

14 years ago

86 upvotes – 19 comments

Pixel art and the art of preserving pixel size

http://mrgan.tumblr.com/post/28589961638/

14 years ago

85 upvotes – 37 comments

Thinking Functionally with Haskell

http://pragprog.com/magazines/2012-08/thinking-functionally-with-haskell

14 years ago

84 upvotes – 34 comments

Draconian ‘Wi-Fi police' stalk Olympic Games

http://www.theage.com.au/technology/technology-news/draconian-wifi-police-stalk-olympic-games-20120803-23jdc.html

14 years ago

84 upvotes – 86 comments

Ember.js 1.0 Prerelease

http://emberjs.com/blog/2012/08/03/ember-1-0-prerelease/

14 years ago

80 upvotes – 36 comments

How Big Data Transformed the Dairy Industry

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/05/the-perfect-milk-machine-how-big-data-transformed-the-dairy-industry/256423/

14 years ago

79 upvotes – 45 comments

What college rankings really tell us

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/02/14/110214fa_fact_gladwell?currentPage=all

14 years ago

76 upvotes – 70 comments

RIM agrees to hand over its encryption keys to India

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/news-by-industry/telecom/blackberry-maker-research-in-motion-agrees-to-hand-over-its-encryption-keys-to-india/articleshow/15319701.cms

14 years ago

70 upvotes – 20 comments

Python 101: An Intro to logging

http://www.blog.pythonlibrary.org/2012/08/02/python-101-an-intro-to-logging/

14 years ago

68 upvotes – 16 comments

“Fetch as Googlebot” tool helps to debug hacked sites

http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/fetch-as-googlebot-tool-hacked-sites/

14 years ago

65 upvotes – 24 comments

The College-Cost Calamity

http://www.economist.com/node/21559936

14 years ago

61 upvotes – 80 comments

Show HN: HubChilla - Asynchronously Chat With Similar People Using SMS

http://www.hubchilla.com

14 years ago

61 upvotes – 77 comments

Legit: Git Workflow for Humans

http://www.git-legit.org/

14 years ago

59 upvotes – 25 comments

Freelancers and health insurance

http://jenamiller.com/notes-from-a-hired-pen/reader-q-what-do-you-do-about-health-insurance/

14 years ago

57 upvotes – 50 comments

Backbone.js: Hacker's Guide Part 3

http://dailyjs.com/2012/08/02/mvstar-4/

14 years ago

56 upvotes – 4 comments

France will cut funding to its piracy police

http://paidcontent.org/2012/08/03/france-will-cut-funding-to-its-piracy-police/

14 years ago

55 upvotes – 13 comments

Writing Kernel Exploits [pdf]

http://ugcs.net/~keegan/talks/kernel-exploit/talk.pdf

14 years ago

55 upvotes – 6 comments

NASA announces $1.1 billion for trio of spaceships

http://cosmiclog.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/08/03/13103192-nasa-announces-11-billion-in-support-for-a-trio-of-spaceships?lite

14 years ago

54 upvotes – 18 comments

Learn random facts while pulling code changes

http://coderwall.com/p/hvfvva

14 years ago

53 upvotes – 26 comments

Why to auto-answer video calls

http://blog.quicklychat.com/2012/08/03/why-auto-answer-video-calls/

14 years ago

52 upvotes – 24 comments

Processing photos on demand with Photon

http://blog.1000memories.com/169-photon

14 years ago

51 upvotes – 15 comments

Give your Commodore 64 new life with an SD card reader

http://stevehanov.ca/blog/index.php?id=133

14 years ago

51 upvotes – 4 comments

The myth of the “modern browser”

http://christianheilmann.com/2012/08/03/the-myth-of-the-modern-browser/

14 years ago

50 upvotes – 23 comments
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