top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-08-07

ToS;DR — TL;DR for Terms of Service and Privacy Policy

http://www.tos-dr.info

14 years ago

629 upvotes – 128 comments

Wikipedia Redefined

http://www.wikipediaredefined.com

14 years ago

550 upvotes – 288 comments

How Apple and Amazon Security Flaws Led to My Epic Hacking

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/08/apple-amazon-mat-honan-hacking/all/

14 years ago

446 upvotes – 253 comments

The weakest link by far is Apple

http://www.marco.org/2012/08/07/how-apple-and-amazon-security-flaws-led-to-my-epic-hacking

14 years ago

421 upvotes – 166 comments

HN statistics

http://labs.im/hnstat

14 years ago

313 upvotes – 63 comments

4chan: Beyond one billion

http://www.4chan.org/news?all#106

14 years ago

305 upvotes – 124 comments

Google's Autonomous cars complete 300,000 miles without an accident

http://techcrunch.com/2012/08/07/google-cars-300000-miles-without-accident

14 years ago

288 upvotes – 263 comments

Veteran NYTimes Photographer Arrested & Allegedly Beaten by NYPD

http://blog.chasejarvis.com/blog/2012/08/veteran-nytimes-photographer-arrested-allegedly-beaten-by-nypd-interview/

14 years ago

255 upvotes – 90 comments

Please turn on two-factor authentication

http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/google-two-step-authentication/

14 years ago

224 upvotes – 258 comments

This is what Curiosity saw as it landed on Mars

http://youtu.be/UcGMDXy-Y1I

14 years ago

221 upvotes – 45 comments

What I've Learned About Learning

http://raganwald.posterous.com/what-ive-learned-about-learning

14 years ago

149 upvotes – 30 comments

Decrypt.py: Act like a decrypting hacker on tv

https://github.com/jtwaleson/decrypt/#decrypt

14 years ago

★ 425 Python MIT
128 upvotes – 51 comments

Riak 1.2 Officially Released

http://basho.com/blog/technical/2012/08/07/Riak-1-2-released/

14 years ago

124 upvotes – 40 comments

What hackers don’t know about business

http://blog.filepicker.io/post/28881520162/what-hackers-dont-know-about-business

14 years ago

122 upvotes – 50 comments

Amazon Quietly Closes Security Hole After Journalist’s Devastating Hack

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/08/amazon-changes-policy-wont-add-new-credit-cards-to-accounts-over-the-phone/

14 years ago

120 upvotes – 38 comments

The Beauty of Bresenham's Algorithm

http://free.pages.at/easyfilter/bresenham.html

14 years ago

118 upvotes – 46 comments

Racket v5.3

http://blog.racket-lang.org/2012/08/racket-v53.html

14 years ago

115 upvotes – 50 comments

Synthetic biology is heading for the cloud

http://www.judegomila.com/2012/08/synthetic-biology-is-heading-for-cloud.html

14 years ago

111 upvotes – 66 comments

Curiosity was built with 2.5 million lines of C

http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/159637/what-is-the-mars-curiosity-rovers-software-built-in/159638#159638?

14 years ago

102 upvotes – 33 comments

The German Model

http://www.handelsblatt.com/politik/konjunktur/nachrichten/report-the-german-model-seite-all/6966662-all.html

14 years ago

99 upvotes – 102 comments

Picplum launches Photo Printing API

https://www.picplum.com/developer

14 years ago

92 upvotes – 25 comments

Parser combinator library in C

https://github.com/wbhart/Cesium3/tree/combinators

14 years ago

★ 164 C
91 upvotes – 28 comments

Judge Alsup orders Oracle, Google to disclose paid advocates

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/08/name-your-shills-judge-orders-oracle-google/

14 years ago

89 upvotes – 25 comments

SML: Scalable Machine Learning Class (with video lectures)

http://alex.smola.org/teaching/berkeley2012/

14 years ago

89 upvotes – 10 comments

The Best Recruiters – followup to The Recruiter Honeypot

http://www.ewherry.com/2012/08/the-best-recruiters-followup/

14 years ago

82 upvotes – 13 comments

Easel (YC S12) launches as an easier way to design for the web in your browser

http://techcrunch.com/2012/08/07/easel-a-web-app-for-web-design/

14 years ago

82 upvotes – 26 comments

Filepicker.io now supports Instagram, Flickr and Video Recording

http://www.filepicker.io/products/services/

14 years ago

82 upvotes – 26 comments

IPhone caused "crisis of design" at Samsung

http://allthingsd.com/20120806/iphone-caused-crisis-of-design-at-samsung-memo/

14 years ago

81 upvotes – 87 comments

Watch High-Speed Trading Bots Go Berserk

http://www.technologyreview.com/view/428756/watch-high-speed-trading-bots-go-berserk/?ref=rss

14 years ago

71 upvotes – 86 comments

The Psychology of Employee Retention

http://www.romymisra.com/the-psychology-of-employee-retention-all-about-stories/

14 years ago

71 upvotes – 30 comments

Preventing online payment fraud

http://binpress.com/blog/2012/07/31/fighting-online-fraud-pitfalls-and-solutions/

14 years ago

67 upvotes – 24 comments

Startups: Stop Trying To Hire Ninja-Rockstar Engineers

http://onstartups.com/tabid/3339/bid/87890/Startups-Stop-Trying-To-Hire-Ninja-Rockstar-Engineers.aspx?source=hn

14 years ago

66 upvotes – 81 comments

Job market for a 30+ person learning to code?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4350827

14 years ago

63 upvotes – 70 comments

Productivity tool - Twitter in Excel

http://mit.edu/~victorj/www/blog/2012/08/06/Twitter-reader-in-Excel-with-Python-and-DataNitro/

14 years ago

62 upvotes – 18 comments

Do It Yourself Porsche

http://911nation.com/2011/01/stories-do-it-yourself-porsche/

14 years ago

59 upvotes – 12 comments

Want to be more secure? Build two-factor authentication into your webapp

http://blog.alainmeier.com/post/28914464388/want-to-be-more-secure-build-two-factor-authentication

14 years ago

59 upvotes – 40 comments

The surprising, stealth rebirth of the American arcade

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2012/08/the-surprising-stealth-rebirth-of-the-american-arcade/

14 years ago

59 upvotes – 38 comments

Go out, talk to your users

http://blog.kippt.com/2012/08/07/go-out-talk-to-your-users/

14 years ago

59 upvotes – 13 comments

Tardis--Haskell package for sending state backwards and forwards through time

https://github.com/DanBurton/tardis

14 years ago

★ 113 Haskell
58 upvotes – 9 comments

With great sadness we announce the closing of Fluent.io

http://fluentmail.tumblr.com/post/28767857337/fluent-is-closing

14 years ago

57 upvotes – 47 comments

Chrome extension lets you read Quora without logging in

https://github.com/benvinegar/Spectacles/blob/master/README.md

14 years ago

★ 39 JavaScript
55 upvotes – 50 comments

Pwdr - an open source powder 3d printer

http://pwdr.github.com/

14 years ago

54 upvotes – 35 comments

Slick: a modern database query and access library for Scala

http://slick.typesafe.com/

14 years ago

53 upvotes – 16 comments

Getting Going with Go

http://www.drdobbs.com/open-source/getting-going-with-go/240004971

14 years ago

53 upvotes – 12 comments
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