281
103
White House Deletes TSA Petition
http://epic.org/2012/08/white-house-pulls-down-tsa-pet.html
14 years ago
236
59
A New Species Discovered ... On Flickr
http://www.npr.org/blogs/pictureshow/2012/08/11/158570034/a-new-species-discovered-on-flickr
224
63
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
212
197
Obesity and Fitness Are Revolutionized By Reddit, Not Doctors
http://greatist.com/health/dick-talens-reddit-healthcare-obesity/
202
29
Pricing Experiments
http://conversionxl.com/pricing-experiments-you-might-not-know-but-can-learn-from
174
18
Quake Video Game Industry Legend Paul Steed Has Passed Away
http://www.jacehallshow.com/blog/friend-jace-hall-show-paul-steed-passes/
173
42
Show HN: A fix for the .bash_profile .bashrc .profile madness
https://gist.github.com/3320963
163
47
Steve Yegge and Grok
http://bsumm.net/2012/08/11/steve-yegge-and-grok.html
162
106
Vim as you IDE
http://haridas.in/vim-as-your-ide.html
160
6
Mining of Massive Datasets
http://i.stanford.edu/~ullman/mmds.html
156
82
Next generation Unix pipe by Alex Larsson
http://blogs.gnome.org/alexl/2012/08/10/rethinking-the-shell-pipeline/
154
32
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)
138
51
Income inequality, as seen from space
http://persquaremile.com/2012/05/24/income-inequality-seen-from-space/
126
28
A Physics Lesson: Why Cats Land on Their Feet
http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/136804
67
The End of Indie Game Development on Android
http://polyclefsoftware.blogspot.com/2012/07/end-of-indie-game-development-on.html?m=1
118
17
Bash Initialisation Files
http://www.solipsys.co.uk/new/BashInitialisationFiles.html?HN0811
113
56
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/
110
14
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/
95
49
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
88
41
Gertboard expands the Raspberry Pi’s GPIO pins
http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/1734
81
33
The Twitter Underground Economy: A Blooming Business
http://www.barracudalabs.com/wordpress/?p=2989
76
50
Show HN: SendRail - Easy P2P File Transfer From The Desktop
http://www.sendrail.com/
73
44
Software Runs the World: How Scared Should We Be That So Much of It Is So Bad?
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/08/software-runs-the-world-how-scared-should-we-be-that-so-much-is-bad/260846/#
69
43
NASA Curiosity Mars Rover Will Spend First Weekend Installing New Software
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/msl/news/msl20120810.html
68
Man Tries to Live an Open Source Life for a Year
http://www.shareable.net/blog/kicking-off-a-year-of-open-source
Drone delivery service
http://www.indiegogo.com/project-blue-sky
60
19
Schneier on Security: Fun with Secret Questions
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2010/04/fun_with_secret.html
16
Codec Confusion in Python
http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2012/8/11/codec-confusion/
55
54
How to name your startup
http://joel.is/post/29186927028/how-to-name-your-startup
27
Ask HN: Good iOS Tutorials?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4371228
11
Show HN: Redirect stdout to EtherPad
https://github.com/o2Labs/etherpad-stream
