top 20 hacker news stories for 2012-08-11

White House Deletes TSA Petition

http://epic.org/2012/08/white-house-pulls-down-tsa-pet.html

14 years ago

281 upvotes – 103 comments

A New Species Discovered ... On Flickr

http://www.npr.org/blogs/pictureshow/2012/08/11/158570034/a-new-species-discovered-on-flickr

14 years ago

236 upvotes – 59 comments

Creepy Spying System Revealed by Wikileaks, Which Then Gets Hit by DDOS Attack

http://reason.com/blog/2012/08/10/creepy-spying-system-revealed-by-wikilea

14 years ago

224 upvotes – 63 comments

Obesity and Fitness Are Revolutionized By Reddit, Not Doctors

http://greatist.com/health/dick-talens-reddit-healthcare-obesity/

14 years ago

212 upvotes – 197 comments

Pricing Experiments

http://conversionxl.com/pricing-experiments-you-might-not-know-but-can-learn-from

14 years ago

202 upvotes – 29 comments

Quake Video Game Industry Legend Paul Steed Has Passed Away

http://www.jacehallshow.com/blog/friend-jace-hall-show-paul-steed-passes/

14 years ago

174 upvotes – 18 comments

Show HN: A fix for the .bash_profile .bashrc .profile madness

https://gist.github.com/3320963

14 years ago

173 upvotes – 42 comments

Steve Yegge and Grok

http://bsumm.net/2012/08/11/steve-yegge-and-grok.html

14 years ago

163 upvotes – 47 comments

Vim as you IDE

http://haridas.in/vim-as-your-ide.html

14 years ago

162 upvotes – 106 comments

Mining of Massive Datasets

http://i.stanford.edu/~ullman/mmds.html

14 years ago

160 upvotes – 6 comments

Next generation Unix pipe by Alex Larsson

http://blogs.gnome.org/alexl/2012/08/10/rethinking-the-shell-pipeline/

14 years ago

156 upvotes – 82 comments

Malaria is no excuse for patent trolling, Mr. Myhrvold

http://gigaom.com/2012/08/11/malaria-is-no-excuse-for-patent-trolling-mr-myhrvold/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+OmMalik+(GigaOM:+Tech)

14 years ago

154 upvotes – 32 comments

Income inequality, as seen from space

http://persquaremile.com/2012/05/24/income-inequality-seen-from-space/

14 years ago

138 upvotes – 51 comments

The End of Indie Game Development on Android

http://polyclefsoftware.blogspot.com/2012/07/end-of-indie-game-development-on.html?m=1

14 years ago

126 upvotes – 67 comments

A Physics Lesson: Why Cats Land on Their Feet

http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/136804

14 years ago

126 upvotes – 28 comments

Bash Initialisation Files

http://www.solipsys.co.uk/new/BashInitialisationFiles.html?HN0811

14 years ago

118 upvotes – 17 comments

Does one have to be a genius to do maths?

http://terrytao.wordpress.com/career-advice/does-one-have-to-be-a-genius-to-do-maths/

14 years ago

113 upvotes – 56 comments

How India's favorite TV show uses data to change the world

http://gigaom.com/cloud/how-indias-favorite-tv-show-uses-data-to-change-the-world/

14 years ago

110 upvotes – 14 comments

Google's Opaque New Policy Lets Rightsholders Dictate Search Results

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/08/googles-opaque-new-policy-lets-rightsholders-dictate-search-results

14 years ago

95 upvotes – 49 comments

Gertboard expands the Raspberry Pi’s GPIO pins

http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/1734

14 years ago

88 upvotes – 41 comments
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