top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-08-04

Yes, I was hacked. Hard.

http://www.emptyage.com/post/28679875595/yes-i-was-hacked-hard

14 years ago

446 upvotes – 295 comments

What I Hate About Git

https://steveko.wordpress.com/2012/02/24/10-things-i-hate-about-git/

14 years ago

417 upvotes – 301 comments

"The carpets are so clean, we don't need janitors"

http://machinesplusminds.blogspot.com/2012/08/the-carpets-are-so-clean-we-dont-need.html

14 years ago

311 upvotes – 113 comments

OS X Mountain Lion: Data Loss via 'Save As'

http://macperformanceguide.com/MountainLion-SaveAs-data-destruction.html

14 years ago

286 upvotes – 146 comments

In China, the rich and powerful can hire body doubles to do their prison time

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/foreigners/2012/08/china_s_wealthy_and_influential_sometimes_hire_body_doubles_to_serve_their_prison_sentences.html

14 years ago

197 upvotes – 94 comments

American TV Neglected the Saddest Story in the Olympics

http://1045theteam.com/american-tv-neglected-the-saddest-story-in-the-olympics/

14 years ago

152 upvotes – 52 comments

GHC's new cutting-edge dataflow-based code generator

http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/blog/newcg-update

14 years ago

151 upvotes – 36 comments

Trading Program Ran Amok, With No ‘Off’ Switch

http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2012/08/03/trading-program-ran-amok-with-no-off-switch/

14 years ago

143 upvotes – 92 comments

Rare Are GC Talks

http://furious-waterfall-55.heroku.com/ruby-guide/internals/gc.html

14 years ago

138 upvotes – 39 comments

Tindie: like Etsy for electronics

https://tindie.com/

14 years ago

126 upvotes – 37 comments

Custom UI Controls for iOS and Mac OS X

http://www.cocoacontrols.com/

14 years ago

116 upvotes – 24 comments

FarmLogs (YC W12) Letting the Cloud Watch Over the Farm

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/05/business/farm-software-tries-to-make-its-mark-digital-domain.html

14 years ago

113 upvotes – 40 comments

Show HN: Everyday.me - a mobile app to record your life and store it forever

http://everyday.me/

14 years ago

104 upvotes – 74 comments

Apple's Secrets Revealed During Trial

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390443687504577567421840745452.html?mod=WSJ_hps_LEFTTopStories

14 years ago

102 upvotes – 95 comments

NASA JPL C Coding Standard [pdf]

http://lars-lab.jpl.nasa.gov/JPL_Coding_Standard_C.pdf

14 years ago

101 upvotes – 60 comments

Facebook unfriended

http://www.economist.com/node/21559947?fsrc=scn/tw/te/pe/workinprogress

14 years ago

96 upvotes – 85 comments

Stop UEFI

http://kephra.de/blog/Stop_UEFI.html#en

14 years ago

91 upvotes – 81 comments

The Naked and the TED

http://www.tnr.com/article/books-and-arts/magazine/105703/the-naked-and-the-ted-khanna

14 years ago

88 upvotes – 33 comments

"It’s done in hardware so it’s cheap"

http://www.yosefk.com/blog/its-done-in-hardware-so-its-cheap.html

14 years ago

84 upvotes – 29 comments

Reversing the Decline in Big Ideas

http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2012/07/reversing_the_decline_in_big_i.html

14 years ago

71 upvotes – 45 comments

GetUserMedia API lands on Chrome

http://chrome.blogspot.se/2012/07/new-senses-for-web.html

14 years ago

63 upvotes – 37 comments

Quants and the crash

http://wired.com/business/2012/08/ff_wallstreet_trading/

14 years ago

62 upvotes – 40 comments

Fun with in-engine color grading

http://the-witness.net/news/2012/08/fun-with-in-engine-color-grading/

14 years ago

61 upvotes – 12 comments

Virtual memory overhead for trees

https://github.com/johnj/llds

14 years ago

★ 121 C
59 upvotes – 19 comments

The Linguistic Interface

http://lubutu.com/soso/the-linguistic-interface

14 years ago

58 upvotes – 6 comments

Switching from jQuery Mobile to Twitter Bootstrap

http://blog.pamelafox.org/2011/09/switching-from-jquery-mobile-to-twitter.html

14 years ago

58 upvotes – 18 comments

How big brother and big media can put the Internet genie back in the bottle.

http://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/digital-imprimatur/

14 years ago

54 upvotes – 32 comments

Neither the Will nor the Cash: Why India Wins So Few Olympic Medals

http://m.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/08/neither-the-will-nor-the-cash-why-india-wins-so-few-olympic-medals/260693/

14 years ago

51 upvotes – 98 comments

Fake leap seconds being announced by NTP servers, still causing linux crashes

http://lists.ntp.org/pipermail/questions/2012-August/033611.html

14 years ago

51 upvotes – 13 comments

3D slider jQuery plugin

http://www.philparsons.co.uk/demos/box-slider/

14 years ago

49 upvotes – 28 comments
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