top 20 hacker news stories for 2012-08-08

Design Tip: Never Use Black

http://ianstormtaylor.com/design-tip-never-use-black/

14 years ago

761 upvotes – 210 comments

Jack Dorsey: Today Starbucks Signed up for Square

https://squareup.com/letters/onward

14 years ago

435 upvotes – 188 comments

First full-resolution images of the Martian surface

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/msl/multimedia/pia16013.html

14 years ago

435 upvotes – 139 comments

Some performance tweaks

https://github.com/bitly/dablooms/pull/19

14 years ago

★ 967 C MIT
349 upvotes – 88 comments

Responding to Wired's ad hominem hatchet job

http://paranoia.dubfire.net/2012/08/responding-to-wireds-ad-hominem-hatchet.html

14 years ago

344 upvotes – 158 comments

Germany's laws on github, machine-readable and ready to be forked

https://github.com/bundestag/gesetze#german-federal-laws-and-regulations

14 years ago

★ 1.8k Unlicense
325 upvotes – 73 comments

Show HN: Burner, for temporary phone numbers

http://blog.burnerapp.com/introducing-burner-temporary-phone-numbers-fo

14 years ago

323 upvotes – 180 comments

Internet Archive Starts Seeding 1,398,875 Torrents

http://torrentfreak.com/internet-archive-starts-seeding-1398635-torrents-120807/

14 years ago

203 upvotes – 40 comments

Show HN: We Use That. What startups use to get stuff done

http://weusethat.com/

14 years ago

201 upvotes – 43 comments

Grid (YC S12) Reinvents The Spreadsheet For The Tablet Age

http://techcrunch.com/2012/08/08/grid-launch/

14 years ago

190 upvotes – 99 comments

Debian Now Defaults To Xfce Desktop

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTE1NTk

14 years ago

184 upvotes – 117 comments

Starbucks Chooses Square for Payments

https://squareup.com//news/releases/2012/square-starbucks

14 years ago

180 upvotes – 63 comments

How Advertisers Convinced Americans They Smelled Bad

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/How-Advertisers-Convinced-Americans-They-Smelled-Bad-164779646.html?c=y&story=fullstory

14 years ago

180 upvotes – 143 comments

Steam Expands Beyond Games

http://store.steampowered.com/news/8584/

14 years ago

172 upvotes – 107 comments

Ask HN: Where is the Hostility on HN Coming From?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4354635

14 years ago

171 upvotes – 151 comments

Released footage of the police raid on the Kim Dotcom mansion

http://www.3news.co.nz/VIDEO-What-really-happened-in-the-Dotcom-raid/tabid/367/articleID/264651/Default.aspx

14 years ago

167 upvotes – 92 comments

Panorama picture of Mars

http://www.panoramas.dk/mars/greeley-haven.html

14 years ago

159 upvotes – 35 comments

My TEDx Talk about Entrepreneurial Depression / Happiness

https://elasticsales.com/blog/2012/08/03/entrepreneurial-depression-happiness/

14 years ago

150 upvotes – 27 comments

Dalton Caldwell: App.net is not Vaporware

http://daltoncaldwell.com/appnet-is-not-vaporware

14 years ago

131 upvotes – 118 comments

Apple Suspends Over-the-Phone AppleID Password Resets

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/08/apple-icloud-password-freeze/

14 years ago

130 upvotes – 55 comments
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