top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-08-05

An Unexpected Ass Kicking

http://joelrunyon.com/two3/an-unexpected-ass-kicking

14 years ago

746 upvotes – 196 comments

Apple Support Allowed Hacker Access to Reporter's iCloud Account

http://www.macrumors.com/2012/08/05/apple-support-allowed-hacker-access-to-reporters-icloud-account/

14 years ago

314 upvotes – 177 comments

CopBlock.org Founder Faces 21 Years in Prison for Reporting Police Brutality

http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-824678

14 years ago

253 upvotes – 61 comments

Y Combinator's First Batch: Where Are They Now?

http://thenextweb.com/insider/2012/08/05/y-combinators-first-batch-where-are-they-now/?utm_campaign=social%20media&awesm=tnw.to_l2M5&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=Spreadus

14 years ago

246 upvotes – 13 comments

Principles of UI design

http://bokardo.com/principles-of-user-interface-design/

14 years ago

171 upvotes – 27 comments

Eugene Kaspersky: What Wired Is Not Telling You

http://eugene.kaspersky.com/2012/07/25/what-wired-is-not-telling-you-a-response-to-noah-shachtmans-article-in-wired-magazine/

14 years ago

160 upvotes – 80 comments

Prepaid Cellphones Are Cheaper. Why Aren't They Popular?

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/02/prepaid-phone-plans/

14 years ago

159 upvotes – 142 comments

First-Time Startup Entrepreneurs: Stop F*cking Around

http://techcrunch.com/2012/08/05/first-time-startup-entrepreneurs-stop-fucking-around/

14 years ago

156 upvotes – 62 comments

What's all this fuss about Erlang?

http://pragprog.com/articles/erlang

14 years ago

155 upvotes – 99 comments

How to Write a Malcolm Gladwell Book

http://www.theweinerworks.com/?p=1497

14 years ago

149 upvotes – 61 comments

The power of intermittent fasting

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-19112549

14 years ago

143 upvotes – 69 comments

Elsevier charges authors to make items "Open Access", then charges to read them.

http://blogs.ch.cam.ac.uk/pmr/2012/08/05/elsevier-replies-about-hybrid-openacess-i-am-appalled-about-their-practices-breaking-licences-and-having-to-pay-to-read-open-access/

14 years ago

141 upvotes – 11 comments

Tunneling Below Second Avenue (for New Subway)

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/05/magazine/tunneling-below-second-avenue.html

14 years ago

138 upvotes – 68 comments

Raising Successful Children

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/05/opinion/sunday/raising-successful-children.html

14 years ago

129 upvotes – 13 comments

Mars rover Curiosity lands today

http://www.space.com/16917-mars-rover-curiosity-lands-today.html

14 years ago

125 upvotes – 48 comments

Usability Hell: London 2012 Olympics Ticketing Fail

http://usabilityhell.com/post/28410304040/london2012-olympic-ticketing-fail

14 years ago

118 upvotes – 41 comments

Ask HN: How should I evaluate a startup as I job hunt?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4340196

14 years ago

102 upvotes – 56 comments

PCSX2 1.0 released

http://pcsx2.net/244-pcsx2-1-0-released.html

14 years ago

101 upvotes – 55 comments

Zyngapocalypse Now (And What Comes Next?)

http://techcrunch.com/2012/08/04/zyngapocalypse-now-and-what-comes-next/

14 years ago

91 upvotes – 53 comments

The GoPro Army

http://www.inc.com/magazine/201202/the-gopro-army.html?CID=SM05001GOPRO

14 years ago

84 upvotes – 39 comments

DARPA have created first solid state receiver with gain at 0.85THz

http://www.darpa.mil/NewsEvents/Releases/2012/07/31.aspx

14 years ago

83 upvotes – 33 comments

IFTTT Needs Webhooks, Stat

http://blog.jazzychad.net/2012/08/05/ifttt-needs-webhooks-stat.html

14 years ago

82 upvotes – 29 comments

Stateless and Proud in the Realtime World

http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2012/8/5/stateless-and-proud/

14 years ago

80 upvotes – 21 comments

Memory Access Patterns Are Important

http://mechanical-sympathy.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/memory-access-patterns-are-important.html

14 years ago

80 upvotes – 8 comments

Explained: The Shannon Limit (2010)

http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2010/explained-shannon-0115.html

14 years ago

79 upvotes – 15 comments

Hackers got access to Matt Honan's iCloud account by calling Apple Support

https://twitter.com/mat/status/231958263149764609

14 years ago

76 upvotes – 36 comments

Rails like framework for C++ with great speed

http://www.treefrogframework.org/

14 years ago

73 upvotes – 47 comments

Machine Learning - Introduction

http://jeremykun.wordpress.com/2012/08/04/machine-learning-introduction/

14 years ago

72 upvotes – 7 comments

Rural residents' DIY 1Gbps fibre project

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4341199

14 years ago

69 upvotes – 36 comments

Oracle: why 9 lines of rangeCheck code is copyright infringement

http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20120802030811156

14 years ago

68 upvotes – 42 comments

Darwin right: variations in useless organs unchecked by natural selection

http://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2012/08/05/darwin-right-again-the-inner-ears-of-sloths-are-highly-variable/

14 years ago

64 upvotes – 7 comments
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