top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-08-06

Mars Curiosity's first images

http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/multimedia/raw/

14 years ago

592 upvotes – 168 comments

Great work Visa, now I hate you

http://modern-products.tumblr.com/post/28855608626/great-work-visa-now-i-hate-you-london-olympics

14 years ago

551 upvotes – 261 comments

A Man Walks into a Bank

http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/93a47a62-daf0-11e1-8074-00144feab49a.html

14 years ago

479 upvotes – 175 comments

Stripe And A/B Testing Made Me A Small Fortune

http://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/08/06/stripe-and-ab-testing-made-me-a-small-fortune/

14 years ago

409 upvotes – 154 comments

NASA TV feed of 10:31 pm PDT Curiosity landing

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/ustream.html?curiosity

14 years ago

267 upvotes – 94 comments

One Thousand Dollars an Hour

http://samsoff.es/posts/one-thousand-dollars-an-hour

14 years ago

258 upvotes – 155 comments

Github: Notifications & Stars

https://github.com/blog/1204-notifications-stars

14 years ago

257 upvotes – 84 comments

Photo shows Mars rover descent

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19150849

14 years ago

187 upvotes – 59 comments

How the Curiosity Rover's Nuclear Battery Works

http://www.about-robots.com/curiosity-rover-nuclear-battery.html

14 years ago

174 upvotes – 96 comments

Demonoid Busted As A Gift To The United States Government

http://torrentfreak.com/demonoid-busted-as-a-gift-to-the-united-states-government-120806/

14 years ago

141 upvotes – 181 comments

Show HN: Statwing is statistical analysis, simplified

https://www.statwing.com/

14 years ago

135 upvotes – 50 comments

Advice I Wish I Could've Given Myself 5 Years Ago

http://viniciusvacanti.com/2012/08/06/advice-i-wish-i-could-have-given-myself-5-years-ago/

14 years ago

132 upvotes – 28 comments

Results of the 2012 State of Clojure survey

http://cemerick.com/2012/08/06/results-of-the-2012-state-of-clojure-survey/

14 years ago

125 upvotes – 40 comments

Huffshell: You probably type too much.

http://paulmckellar.com/huffshell/

14 years ago

119 upvotes – 54 comments

I didn't learn programming when I was 12

http://kennyletran.com/blog/

14 years ago

109 upvotes – 80 comments

Show HN: Pup, real-time app metrics with Statsd

http://www.datadoghq.com/2012/08/easy-app-metrics-with-pup/

14 years ago

107 upvotes – 50 comments

Curiosity Mars Rover Landing Timeline: What to Expect Tonight

http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/robotics-hardware/msl-what-to-expect-on-sunday-night#.UB8TWv-gwU8.hackernews

14 years ago

102 upvotes – 16 comments

What is the Mars Curiosity Rover's software built in?

http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/159637/what-is-the-mars-curiosity-rovers-software-built-in

14 years ago

99 upvotes – 28 comments

The Power of Negative Thinking

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/05/opinion/sunday/the-positive-power-of-negative-thinking.html?_r=1&emc=eta1

14 years ago

97 upvotes – 28 comments

Steve Wozniak: "I worry about everything going to the cloud"

http://www.france24.com/en/20120805-apple-co-founder-wozniak-sees-trouble-cloud

14 years ago

93 upvotes – 47 comments

MakeGamesWithUs (YC W12) Wants To Turn High School Kids Into iOS Game Developers

http://techcrunch.com/2012/08/06/y-combinator-makegameswithus/

14 years ago

93 upvotes – 44 comments

Mars Curiosity Operating System: VxWorks

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VxWorks

14 years ago

93 upvotes – 44 comments

X11 and the disturbing trend of Apple removing functionality from OS X

http://www.imore.com/x11-and-disturbing-trend-apple-removing-functionality-os-x

14 years ago

90 upvotes – 119 comments

Elevator Dispatch Algorithms

http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/pure-genius/intelligent-elevators-answer-vertical-challenges/8191

14 years ago

87 upvotes – 23 comments

The First Simple Symmetric 11-Venn Diagram found

http://webhome.cs.uvic.ca/~ruskey/Publications/Venn11/Venn11.html

14 years ago

86 upvotes – 19 comments

How to get an Internet connection to a field for a hacker camping festival

http://blog.emfcamp.org/post/27143646219/emf-camp-the-site-and-networking

14 years ago

85 upvotes – 13 comments

3D-printed exoskeleton helps young girl use her arms

http://futuretimeline.net/blog/2012/08/5.htm

14 years ago

82 upvotes – 17 comments

Space isn't ours.

http://carl.flax.ie/spaceisntours.html

14 years ago

82 upvotes – 75 comments

As Curiosity touches down on Mars, video is taken down from YouTube

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/08/as-curiosity-touches-down-on-mars-video-is-taken-down-from-youtube/

14 years ago

82 upvotes – 23 comments

War? YouTube app disappears from iOS 6 beta 4 as Apple breaks Google ties

http://9to5mac.com/2012/08/06/war-youtube-app-disappears-from-ios-6-beta-4/

14 years ago

79 upvotes – 69 comments

Curiosity rover writes Morse Code of JPL everywhere it goes

http://blog.jgc.org/2012/08/curiosity-rover-writes-morse-code-of.html

14 years ago

78 upvotes – 14 comments

The Distributed Graph Database Titan Provides Real-Time Big Graph Data

http://thinkaurelius.com/2012/08/06/titan-provides-real-time-big-graph-data/

14 years ago

73 upvotes – 19 comments

Is Stack Overflow “secure”? Kind of...

http://www.troyhunt.com/2012/08/is-stack-overflow-secure-kind-of.html

14 years ago

71 upvotes – 19 comments

Khronos Releases OpenGL 4.3 Specification with Major Enhancements

http://www.khronos.org/news/press/releases/khronos-releases-opengl-4.3-specification-with-major-enhancements

14 years ago

68 upvotes – 13 comments

DotCloud open-sources its websocket proxy

http://blog.dotcloud.com/announcing-hipache-dotclouds-open-source-webs

14 years ago

65 upvotes – 10 comments

Node and Express Tips

http://calv.info/node-and-express-tips/

14 years ago

65 upvotes – 20 comments

Firefox supports supports, gets my support

http://www.broken-links.com/2012/08/06/firefox-supports-supports-gets-my-support/

14 years ago

64 upvotes – 28 comments

Stop Applying to Startups

http://www.quintenfarmer.com/2012/08/06/stop-applying-to-startups/

14 years ago

61 upvotes – 50 comments

Redeye VC: Welcome FundersClub

http://redeye.firstround.com/2012/08/welcome-fundersclub.html

14 years ago

60 upvotes – 14 comments

Groklaw dissects Apple's trial brief on trade dress claims

http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20120805030730169

14 years ago

59 upvotes – 11 comments

How a Single Oxycontin Pill Nearly Ruined One Man's Life

http://reason.com/archives/2012/08/06/how-a-single-oxycontin-pill-nearly-ruine

14 years ago

55 upvotes – 112 comments

Curiosity Mount Sharp Photo

http://spaceindustrynews.com/curiosity-mount-sharp-photo/1015/

14 years ago

55 upvotes – 31 comments

Introducing Amazon Game Studios

http://games.amazon.com/

14 years ago

54 upvotes – 37 comments

Google and Facebook violate privacy rights - ordered to donate to EFF

http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2012/07/30/google-and-facebooks-new-tactic-in-the-tech-wars/

14 years ago

51 upvotes – 6 comments

NASA: Real-time Simulation of Curiosity Flight (Java required)

http://eyes.nasa.gov/launch2.html?document=$SERVERURL/content/documents/msl/edl.xml

14 years ago

50 upvotes – 5 comments

Samsung Launches Galaxy Note 10.1 With Impressive Features

http://techpp.com/2012/08/06/samsung-galaxy-note-10-1/

14 years ago

50 upvotes – 33 comments
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