top 50% 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

Terms of Service; Didn't Read

http://tos-dr.info/

14 years ago

138 upvotes – 14 comments

Chill out, listen to some rain

http://raining.fm/

14 years ago

131 upvotes – 79 comments

What is life like for PhDs in computer science who go into industry?

http://blog.vivekhaldar.com/post/29296581613/what-is-life-like-for-phds-in-computer-science-who-go

14 years ago

122 upvotes – 67 comments

Cling: Running C++ in an interpreter

http://blog.coldflake.com/posts/2012-08-09-On-the-fly-C%2B%2B.html

14 years ago

113 upvotes – 48 comments

The making of the Sony PlayStation

http://www.pushsquare.com/news/2012/08/feature_the_making_of_the_sony_playstation

14 years ago

89 upvotes – 6 comments

What has NASA done to make your life awesome?

http://wtfnasa.com/#

14 years ago

89 upvotes – 48 comments

Show HN: Convert online videos to .gif

http://studio.forgif.me

14 years ago

84 upvotes – 39 comments

First High-Resolution Color Mosaic of Curiosity's Mastcam Images

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_2334.html

14 years ago

75 upvotes – 46 comments

What Ouya Isn't

http://games.hazzens.com/blog/2012/08/12/what_ouya_isnt.html

14 years ago

74 upvotes – 46 comments

Wristwatch in only HTML/CSS

http://codepen.io/TheSisb/pen/eAHyJ

14 years ago

74 upvotes – 35 comments

uTorrent Becomes Ad-Supported to Rake in Millions

http://torrentfreak.com/utorrent-becomes-ad-supported-to-rake-in-millions-120810/

14 years ago

72 upvotes – 63 comments

Colour printing reaches its ultimate resolution

http://www.nature.com/news/colour-printing-reaches-its-ultimate-resolution-1.11159

14 years ago

68 upvotes – 18 comments

A comparison of C++11 language support in VS2012, g++ 4.7 and Clang 3.1

http://www.cpprocks.com/a-comparison-of-c11-language-support-in-vs2012-g-4-7-and-clang-3-1/

14 years ago

67 upvotes – 9 comments

Working at big software companies

http://blog.sacaluta.com/2012/08/working-at-big-software-companies.html

14 years ago

67 upvotes – 21 comments

Monner - Monitor CPU, memory and network whilst running a program

https://github.com/colinhowe/monner

14 years ago

★ 269 Python Apache-2.0
56 upvotes – 21 comments

HiMom (YC S12) Helps Your Parents Keep Up With Your Life

http://techcrunch.com/2012/08/12/yc-backed-himom-helps-your-parents-keep-up-with-your-life-one-postcard-at-a-time-and-without-facebook/

14 years ago

54 upvotes – 24 comments

How Big Data Became So Big

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/12/business/how-big-data-became-so-big-unboxed.html?_r=1&hpw&pagewanted=all

14 years ago

52 upvotes – 5 comments

Facebook Is The Ant; Zynga Is The Grasshopper

http://techcrunch.com/2012/08/11/facebook-is-the-ant-zynga-is-the-grasshopper/

14 years ago

51 upvotes – 22 comments

Does it make you win?

http://blog.kippt.com/2012/08/12/does-it-make-you-win/

14 years ago

51 upvotes – 10 comments
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