top 50% 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

Microsoft sticks to its guns, keeps Do Not Track on by default in IE10

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/08/microsoft-sticks-to-its-guns-keeps-do-not-track-on-by-default-in-ie10/

14 years ago

128 upvotes – 107 comments

Trello Android App Available for Download

http://blog.trello.com/trello-android-app-available-for-download/

14 years ago

128 upvotes – 41 comments

How ZFS continues to be better than Btrfs.

http://rudd-o.com/linux-and-free-software/ways-in-which-zfs-is-better-than-btrfs

14 years ago

122 upvotes – 102 comments

Elon Musk Wants to Put Man on Mars in '12 to 15 Years'

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/elon-musk-put-man-mars-roughly-12-15/story?id=16940287

14 years ago

122 upvotes – 166 comments

Android and iOS continue to carve up the world

http://www.engadget.com/2012/08/08/idc-android-and-ios-continue-to-carve-up-the-world-another-rec/

14 years ago

116 upvotes – 90 comments

Instacart (YC S12) aims to be the Amazon Prime of grocery delivery

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57489629-93/instacart-aims-to-be-the-amazon-prime-of-grocery-delivery/

14 years ago

109 upvotes – 58 comments

How YouTube lets content companies "claim" NASA Mars videos

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/08/how-youtube-lets-content-companies-claim-nasa-mars-videos/

14 years ago

106 upvotes – 32 comments

John Schappert, Zynga COO, Resigns

http://edgar.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1439404/000119312512344267/d393776d8k.htm

14 years ago

88 upvotes – 23 comments

Lon Seidman gets YouTube takedown notice for public domain video from NASA

https://plus.google.com/103031681861783472058/posts/aQDqgTaHMFe

14 years ago

87 upvotes – 56 comments

BufferBox: Amazon Lockers? We Had That Idea First

http://blogs.wsj.com/canadarealtime/2012/08/08/digits-bufferbox-amazon-lockers-we-had-that-idea-first/

14 years ago

84 upvotes – 46 comments

Elnode, the EmacsLisp webserver, nears release

http://nic.ferrier.me.uk/blog/2012_08/elnode-nears-1-point-0

14 years ago

82 upvotes – 30 comments

Android Game Development Tutorials

http://www.javacodegeeks.com//2011/06/android-game-development-tutorials.html

14 years ago

80 upvotes – 10 comments

TapIn.tv (YC S12) Brings Instantaneous Live Video Streaming To The iPhone

http://techcrunch.com/2012/08/08/yc-backed-tapin-tv-launches-to-bring-instantaneous-live-video-streaming-to-the-iphone/

14 years ago

79 upvotes – 37 comments

Airtel, an Indian ISP, penalized for blocking a torrent site

http://www.medianama.com/2012/08/223-consumer-forum-airtel-torrent/

14 years ago

78 upvotes – 5 comments

Wikileaks has been under DDoS attack for the last five days

http://www.zdnet.com/wikileaks-has-been-under-ddos-attack-for-the-last-five-days-7000002213/

14 years ago

71 upvotes – 16 comments

Samsung internal doc: 125 iphone pic competitive analysis

http://www.scribd.com/fullscreen/102317767?access_key=key-o1nfmlft8am5nw1qlpr

14 years ago

70 upvotes – 61 comments

Gmail in personal search results

https://www.google.com/experimental/gmailfieldtrial

14 years ago

69 upvotes – 62 comments

Mean Variance Optimization

https://www.datanitro.com/blog/2012/08/07/Mean-Variance-Optimization/

14 years ago

66 upvotes – 20 comments

Valve brings non-game software to Steam

http://www.neowin.net/news/steam-to-challenge-windows-store-by-offering-non-gaming-software

14 years ago

64 upvotes – 68 comments

"Computer Science" is Not Science and "Software Engineering" is Not Engineering

http://www.geocities.com/tablizer/science.htm

14 years ago

63 upvotes – 85 comments

Google Now is awesome; merge them with the iGoogle team and make it amazing.

http://blog.michaelmassie.com/post/28809963761/google-now-is-awesome-merge-them-with-the-igoogle

14 years ago

60 upvotes – 10 comments

GNOME Workstation OS

http://blog.monotonous.org/2012/08/07/gnome-workstation-os/

14 years ago

59 upvotes – 63 comments

9th Circuit Dismisses Al Haramain (Warantless Wiretapping) Case

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/08/9th-circuit-dismisses-al-haramain-case

14 years ago

58 upvotes – 9 comments

Raspberry Pi book by The Pragmatic Programmers

http://pragprog.com/book/msraspi/raspberry-pi

14 years ago

57 upvotes – 8 comments

Samsung internal document evaluating the iPhone (translated)

http://www.scribd.com/mobile/doc/102317767

14 years ago

56 upvotes – 36 comments

Leak Finder: a new tool for JavaScript

http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2012/08/leak-finder-new-tool-for-javascript.html

14 years ago

52 upvotes – 3 comments
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