top 10 hacker news stories for 2012-08-12

App.net funded with $500,000.

https://join.app.net/?fully-funded

14 years ago

364 upvotes – 204 comments

Why Explore Space? A 1970 Letter to a Nun in Africa.

http://launiusr.wordpress.com/2012/02/08/why-explore-space-a-1970-letter-to-a-nun-in-africa/

14 years ago

360 upvotes – 159 comments

Leaving Github

http://bytbox.net/blog/2012/08/leaving-github.html

14 years ago

229 upvotes – 143 comments

Rootbeer GPU Compiler Lets Almost Any Java Code Run On the GPU

https://github.com/pcpratts/rootbeer1

14 years ago

223 upvotes – 79 comments

Essential C

http://cslibrary.stanford.edu/101/

14 years ago

222 upvotes – 53 comments

Erlang programmer’s view on Curiosity Rover software

http://jlouisramblings.blogspot.com/2012/08/getting-25-megalines-of-code-to-behave.html

14 years ago

196 upvotes – 78 comments

Dalton Caldwell: We Did It

http://daltoncaldwell.com/we-did-it

14 years ago

178 upvotes – 54 comments

The Most Important Writing Lesson I Ever Learned

http://www.stevenpressfield.com/2009/10/writing-wednesdays-2-the-most-important-writing-lession-i-ever-learned/

14 years ago

157 upvotes – 50 comments

Sorting and searching at the library

http://jorendorff.github.com/hackday/2012/library/

14 years ago

150 upvotes – 25 comments

What “Worse is Better vs The Right Thing” is really about

http://www.yosefk.com/blog/what-worse-is-better-vs-the-right-thing-is-really-about.html?

14 years ago

148 upvotes – 46 comments
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