top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-08-13

This is a bit f'd, Quora

http://giantrobotlasers.com/post/29340797003/this-is-a-bit-fucked-quora

14 years ago

827 upvotes – 226 comments

How we screwed (almost) the whole Apple community

http://day4.se/how-we-screwed-almost-the-whole-apple-community

14 years ago

414 upvotes – 117 comments

Shit HN Says

https://twitter.com/shit_hn_says

14 years ago

240 upvotes – 82 comments

Push, push, push. Expanding your comfort zone

http://sivers.org/comfort

14 years ago

237 upvotes – 58 comments

Pixar open sources production animation code, patents

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/08/13/pixar_open_sources_open_subdiv/

14 years ago

237 upvotes – 38 comments

Doubling SaaS Revenue By Changing The Pricing Model

http://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/08/13/doubling-saas-revenue/

14 years ago

216 upvotes – 72 comments

Back up your precious files on ordinary paper

http://ollydbg.de/Paperbak/

14 years ago

193 upvotes – 91 comments

Twitter acquires Clutch.io

http://blog.clutch.io/post/29340796276/clutch-joins-the-flock

14 years ago

177 upvotes – 37 comments

Show HN: HackerNews reimagined without tables or center elements.

http://coderwall.com/p/-vqwfg

14 years ago

165 upvotes – 146 comments

Hate Java? Maybe you should hate the industries stuck in the 50's.

http://blog.jelastic.com/2012/08/13/hate-java/

14 years ago

155 upvotes – 172 comments

Tarsnap now takes credit cards (switching from Paypal to Stripe)

http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2012-08-13-tarsnap-credit-cards.html

14 years ago

152 upvotes – 34 comments

Stop teaching calculating; Start teaching math

http://www.computerbasedmath.org/resources/reforming-math-curriculum-with-computers.html

14 years ago

152 upvotes – 75 comments

WebRTC is almost here, and it will change the web

http://venturebeat.com/2012/08/13/webrtc-is-almost-here-and-it-will-change-the-web/

14 years ago

146 upvotes – 91 comments

Larry Wall on why he wrote Perl

http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/2070

14 years ago

144 upvotes – 67 comments

Kim Dotcom - Megabox, disruptive new music service

http://thenextweb.com/media/2012/08/13/kim-dotcom-promises-disruptive-new-music-service-megabox-will-launch-year/

14 years ago

140 upvotes – 41 comments

How statically linked programs run on Linux

http://eli.thegreenplace.net/2012/08/13/how-statically-linked-programs-run-on-linux/

14 years ago

137 upvotes – 23 comments

Greg Kouri, PayPal co-founder, dies at 51

http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/08/13/2949900/greg-kouri-paypal-co-founder-dies.html

14 years ago

132 upvotes – 38 comments

How AngularJS helped us ship our mobile site quicker - Part 1 (Directives)

http://goodfil.ms/blog/posts/2012/08/13/angularjs-and-the-goodfilms-mobile-site-part-1/

14 years ago

131 upvotes – 33 comments

India outsourcing back to USA

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/as-indian-companies-grow-in-the-us-outsourcing-comes-home/2011/05/17/AFZbrp7G_story.html

14 years ago

128 upvotes – 61 comments

Show HN: Ymacs - Emacs in the browser with Dropbox, GDrive, etc

http://tageorgiou.github.com/ymacs/

14 years ago

125 upvotes – 45 comments

Redesigning Wikipedia: The Athena Project

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-08-06/Op-ed

14 years ago

119 upvotes – 26 comments

Meet The Double (YC S12), A Teleconferencing Robot With An iPad For A Face

http://techcrunch.com/2012/08/13/meet-the-double-a-teleconferencing-robot-with-an-ipad-for-a-face/

14 years ago

107 upvotes – 66 comments

A Fee-Based Twitter Is No More Ideologically Pure Than An Ad-Supported Twitter

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120813/00081620002/fee-based-twitter-is-no-more-ideologically-pure-than-ad-supported-twitter.shtml

14 years ago

101 upvotes – 89 comments

BSD vs. Linux

http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/rants/bsd4linux/01

14 years ago

94 upvotes – 44 comments

Wattvision: The Smart Energy Sensor

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/wattvision/wattvision-the-smart-energy-sensor?ref=live

14 years ago

93 upvotes – 66 comments

T.js - A tiny templating framework in ~400 bytes

https://github.com/jasonmoo/t.js

14 years ago

★ 832 HTML MIT
91 upvotes – 51 comments

Fear of Money

http://influencehacks.com/fear-of-money

14 years ago

89 upvotes – 20 comments

Paying Users Are Your Nicest Users

http://agileleague.com/2012/08/paying-users-are-your-nicest-users/

14 years ago

86 upvotes – 59 comments

What makes Paris look like Paris?

http://graphics.cs.cmu.edu/projects/whatMakesParis/

14 years ago

86 upvotes – 18 comments

Debian to use Xfce as its standard desktop

http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Debian-to-use-Xfce-as-its-standard-desktop-1663868.html

14 years ago

84 upvotes – 30 comments

Robotic Airplane Flies In Tight Spaces

http://mashable.com/2012/08/12/robotic-airplane/

14 years ago

83 upvotes – 22 comments

Hacker Dojo's Katy Levinson interviewed

http://venturebeat.com/2012/08/10/hacker-dojo-interview/

14 years ago

81 upvotes – 7 comments

Show HN: Strapdown.js - Instant and elegant Markdown documents

http://strapdownjs.com

14 years ago

79 upvotes – 14 comments

PHP finally gets finally

https://wiki.php.net/rfc/finally?&#changelog

14 years ago

78 upvotes – 23 comments

H - The surprising truth about heroin and addiction

http://reason.com/archives/2003/06/01/h

14 years ago

78 upvotes – 88 comments

Google to buy Frommer's

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390444772404577587131075164366.html

14 years ago

76 upvotes – 31 comments

Options Pricing in Excel with QuantLib

https://datanitro.com/blog/2012/08/13/QuantLib/

14 years ago

73 upvotes – 22 comments

Yesod (Haskell) lead dev picked up by FPComplete

http://www.yesodweb.com/blog/2012/08/joining-forces-advance-haskell

14 years ago

71 upvotes – 8 comments

Motorola to Cut 20% of Work Force, Part of Sweeping Change

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/13/technology/motorola-to-cut-20-of-work-force-part-of-sweeping-change.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all

14 years ago

70 upvotes – 34 comments

Obvious Corp. backed Branch comes out of private beta

http://www.branch.com/

14 years ago

69 upvotes – 42 comments

Payment iframe - the easiest way to insert Stripe into your website

http://www.paymentiframe.com/

14 years ago

68 upvotes – 81 comments

Gameboy Color Emulator: A brilliant use of HTML5

http://gamecenter.grantgalitz.org/

14 years ago

68 upvotes – 25 comments

My Sister Paid Progressive Insurance to Defend Her Killer In Court

http://mattfisher.tumblr.com/post/29338478278/my-sister-paid-progressive-insurance-to-defend-her

14 years ago

66 upvotes – 3 comments

JQuery now runs on every second website

http://w3techs.com/blog/entry/jquery_now_runs_on_every_second_website

14 years ago

65 upvotes – 37 comments

QuicklyChat (YC S12) Brings Push-To-Talk Video To Small, Remote Teams

http://techcrunch.com/2012/08/13/quicklychat-brings-push-to-talk-video-to-small-remote-teams/

14 years ago

64 upvotes – 11 comments

Fuck it, ship it.

http://blog.opbeat.com/2012/08/09/fuck-it-ship-it/

14 years ago

57 upvotes – 27 comments

Making a Multiplayer 3rd-Person Shooter in HTML5

http://playcanvas.com/a-multiplayer-3rd-person-shooter-in-html5/

14 years ago

56 upvotes – 20 comments

Using Markov chains for HTTP benchmarking

http://blog.andrewvc.com/markov-http-benchmarking

14 years ago

55 upvotes – 4 comments

MapReduce Patterns, Algorithms, and Use Cases

http://highlyscalable.wordpress.com/2012/02/01/mapreduce-patterns/

14 years ago

55 upvotes – 0 comments

An Introduction to Graph Theory and Network Science

http://architects.dzone.com/articles/graph-theor-and-network?mz=111665-bigdata

14 years ago

55 upvotes – 9 comments

The Myth of the Super Programmer

http://simpleprogrammer.com/2012/08/12/the-myth-of-the-super-programmer/

14 years ago

54 upvotes – 52 comments

Python on Wheels

http://www.pythononwheels.org/

14 years ago

52 upvotes – 41 comments

Samsung copied Xcode?

http://forums.macrumors.com/showpost.php?p=15445800&postcount=1080

14 years ago

50 upvotes – 60 comments

Quantum teleportation achieved over record distances

http://www.nature.com/news/quantum-teleportation-achieved-over-record-distances-1.11163

14 years ago

49 upvotes – 40 comments

Manufacturing is returning to America

http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/opinion/perspectives/manufacturing-is-returning-to-america-648616/

14 years ago

49 upvotes – 25 comments

How App.net Can Change Everything

http://www.orianmarx.com/2012/08/13/how-app-net-can-change-everything/

14 years ago

47 upvotes – 33 comments

Election Infographic: Compare Your Income Tax Burden under Romney & Obama

http://www.smartasset.com/infographic/election

14 years ago

46 upvotes – 63 comments
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