top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-08-09

Textmate2 Goes Open Source

https://github.com/textmate/textmate

14 years ago

★ 14.5k Objective-C++ GPL-3.0
780 upvotes – 300 comments

Coding Horror: I Was a Teenage Hacker

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/08/i-was-a-teenage-hacker.html

14 years ago

460 upvotes – 119 comments

Google Keeps Paying Deceased Employees' Families for a Decade

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/08/google-keeps-paying-deceased-employees-families-for-a-decade/260897/

14 years ago

289 upvotes – 124 comments

Soviet Venus Images

http://www.mentallandscape.com/C_CatalogVenus.htm

14 years ago

284 upvotes – 51 comments

Nokia sells Qt to Digia

http://www.digia.com/en/Home/Company/Press/2012/Digia-to-acquire-Qt-from-Nokia/

14 years ago

272 upvotes – 66 comments

The effect of typefaces on credibility

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/08/hear-all-ye-people-hearken-o-earth/

14 years ago

252 upvotes – 93 comments

Textmate 2 on Github

http://blog.macromates.com/2012/textmate-2-at-github/

14 years ago

247 upvotes – 8 comments

Yesterday, I Went to the American Idol for Startups. It Made Me Want to Die.

http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2012/08/09/yesterday-i-went-to-the-american-idol-for-startups-it-made-me-want-to-die

14 years ago

244 upvotes – 88 comments

JQuery 1.8 Released

http://blog.jquery.com/2012/08/09/jquery-1-8-released/

14 years ago

220 upvotes – 40 comments

Show HN: App creates a meal plan that satisfies your nutrition constraints

http://eatthismuch.com

14 years ago

185 upvotes – 105 comments

Mars rover camera project manager explains 2MP camera choice

http://www.dpreview.com/news/2012/08/08/Curiosity-interview-with-Malin-Space-Science-Systems-Mike-Ravine

14 years ago

179 upvotes – 86 comments

Bitey: Import LLVM bitcode directly into Python

https://github.com/dabeaz/bitey

14 years ago

★ 607 Python
177 upvotes – 34 comments

Blizzard Network Breached; Change Your Battle.Net Passwords

http://kotaku.com/5933454/blizzard-network-breached-change-your-passwords

14 years ago

164 upvotes – 156 comments

Instant splash pages for iOS apps

http://www.smore.com/for-apps

14 years ago

158 upvotes – 40 comments

Daring Fireball: App.net

http://daringfireball.net/linked/2012/08/08/app-net

14 years ago

150 upvotes – 96 comments

MIT's Infinite Size CNC Router

http://www.alecrivers.com/positioncorrectingtools/

14 years ago

144 upvotes – 38 comments

Good News: Craigslist drops exclusive license to your posts

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/08/good-news-craigslist-drops-exclusive-license-your-posts

14 years ago

132 upvotes – 49 comments

A living "brain" of cultured rat cells can control an F-22 flight simulator

http://news.discovery.com/tech/brain-dish-flies-plane-041022.html

14 years ago

127 upvotes – 70 comments

Show HN: Choose Photo. Make Ascii

http://dchang.mit.edu/artwork/

14 years ago

116 upvotes – 32 comments

You Either Die A Hero Or You Become The Villain

http://massivegreatness.com/walter-white

14 years ago

113 upvotes – 78 comments

Goodfilms Goes Mobile

http://goodfil.ms/blog/posts/2012/09/09/goodfilms-goes-mobile/

14 years ago

108 upvotes – 38 comments

Amazon forces Unglue.it to Suspend Crowdfunding for Creative Commons eBooks

http://blog.unglue.it/2012/08/09/open-thread-amazon-forces-unglue-it-to-suspend-crowdfunding-for-creative-commons-ebooks/

14 years ago

107 upvotes – 71 comments

The Launch Pad: Inside Y Combinator

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1591845297/?tag=referly-20

14 years ago

106 upvotes – 33 comments

Kaspersky Lab Discovers 'Gauss'

http://www.kaspersky.com/about/news/virus/2012/Kaspersky_Lab_and_ITU_Discover_Gauss_A_New_Complex_Cyber_Threat_Designed_to_Monitor_Online_Banking_Accounts

14 years ago

104 upvotes – 24 comments

Anonymous donors bring Hollywood production values to anti-MPAA video

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/08/anonymous-donors-bring-hollywood-production-values-to-anti-mpaa-video/

14 years ago

104 upvotes – 23 comments

Show HN: DailyCred: User Accounts as a Service

https://www.dailycred.com/

14 years ago

101 upvotes – 62 comments

LibreOffice 3.6.0: behind the scenes

http://people.gnome.org/~michael/blog/2012-08-08-libreoffice-3-6-0.html

14 years ago

98 upvotes – 21 comments

Why I Quit My Job, Killed a Company in Six Weeks, And Still Feel Great

http://www.drtomallen.com/1/post/2012/08/why-i-quit-my-job-killed-a-company-in-six-weeks-and-still-feel-great.html

14 years ago

95 upvotes – 49 comments

What happened to LendInk? The owner responds.

http://www.digitalmediamachine.com/2012/08/what-happened-to-lendink-owner-explains.html

14 years ago

93 upvotes – 78 comments

Congratulations: You Killed LendInk And Denied Fellow Authors Lend Royalties

http://aprillhamilton.blogspot.com/2012/08/congratulations-you-killed-lendink-and.html

14 years ago

93 upvotes – 72 comments

Was Godaddy Caught Registering Domains Names After Availability Lookup?

http://www.billhartzer.com/pages/godaddy-caught-registering-domains-after-availability-lookup/

14 years ago

92 upvotes – 93 comments

Meteor 0.3.9 adds search engine optimization

http://www.meteor.com/blog/2012/08/08/search-engine-optimization

14 years ago

87 upvotes – 42 comments

Lay off W3Schools

http://www.sagegerard.com/index.php?cID=152

14 years ago

85 upvotes – 98 comments

How To Write Good Log Messages

http://www.trottercashion.com/2012/08/12/how-to-write-good-log-messages.html

14 years ago

85 upvotes – 54 comments

PyPy Status Blog: Multicore Programming in PyPy and CPython

http://morepypy.blogspot.de/2012/08/multicore-programming-in-pypy-and.html

14 years ago

83 upvotes – 12 comments

Ex-Goldman Programmer Is Arrested Again

http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2012/08/09/ex-goldman-programmer-is-arrested-again/

14 years ago

80 upvotes – 54 comments

How do you completely de-personalize Google results? - Gabriel Weinberg's Blog

http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/2012/08/how-do-you-completely-de-personalize-google-results.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+yegg+%28Gabriel+Weinberg%27s+Blog%29

14 years ago

78 upvotes – 18 comments

Peter Thiel's College Dropouts: How's That Working Out?

http://www.inc.com/jillian-donfro/peter-thiels-college-dropouts-one-year-checkup.html

14 years ago

77 upvotes – 66 comments

Show HN: Olympics Ranking Adjusted by Population (Evening Project)

http://moshayedi.net/london2012/

14 years ago

74 upvotes – 73 comments

SCO is finally “Dead Parrot” dead

http://www.zdnet.com/sco-is-finally-dead-parrot-dead-7000002357/

14 years ago

73 upvotes – 45 comments

Ouya tops $8.5 million as Kickstarter campaign comes to a close

http://www.joystiq.com/2012/08/09/ouya-kickstarter-end/

14 years ago

66 upvotes – 77 comments

Scaling node.js to 100k concurrent connections

http://blog.caustik.com/2012/04/08/scaling-node-js-to-100k-concurrent-connections/

14 years ago

64 upvotes – 63 comments

ReelSurfer (YC S12) Lets You Clip And Share Video From Any Website

http://techcrunch.com/2012/08/09/reelsurfer-launch/

14 years ago

63 upvotes – 22 comments

Stack Exchange is not a forum: the role of “niceness” on a Q&A site

http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2012/08/stack-exchange-is-not-a-forum-the-role-of-niceness-on-a-qa-site/

14 years ago

60 upvotes – 84 comments

The end of the road for OEMs

http://www.extremetech.com/computing/134203-the-end-of-the-road-for-oems?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-end-of-the-road-for-oems

14 years ago

59 upvotes – 60 comments

Show HN: CloudPlay - A music player for YouTube, SoundCloud, and more

http://cloudplay.fm/

14 years ago

54 upvotes – 30 comments

Vastrm (YC S12) Promises The Perfect Fitting Polo

http://techcrunch.com/2012/08/09/y-combinators-vastrm-promises-the-perfect-fitting-polo/

14 years ago

53 upvotes – 72 comments

Tom Duff on Duff's Device (1988)

http://www.lysator.liu.se/c/duffs-device.html

14 years ago

50 upvotes – 20 comments

Canadian hacker dupes Walmart to win Defcon prize

http://www.thestar.com/printarticle/1239150

14 years ago

49 upvotes – 16 comments
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