top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-08-15

256 CSS Classes Can Override an #id

http://codepen.io/chriscoyier/pen/lzjqh

14 years ago

412 upvotes – 90 comments

Let's build a Tesla museum (The Oatmeal initiative)

http://www.Indiegogo.com/teslamuseum

14 years ago

326 upvotes – 81 comments

The first Django site to run on Python 3

http://myks.org/django-python3/

14 years ago

283 upvotes – 53 comments

What I Hate About Working At Facebook

http://worldofsu.com/philipsu/2012/08/ten-things-i-hate-about-working-at-facebook/

14 years ago

273 upvotes – 183 comments

Single Element MacBook Pro with CSS

http://codepen.io/joshnh/pen/JCGoF

14 years ago

243 upvotes – 65 comments

Fly to 6 Continents in Style

http://flightfox.com/rtw

14 years ago

240 upvotes – 81 comments

Mobile app startups are failing like it’s 1999

http://andrewchen.co/2012/08/15/mobile-app-startups-are-failing-like-its-1999

14 years ago

226 upvotes – 90 comments

The Making of Warcraft, Part 2

http://www.codeofhonor.com/blog/the-making-of-warcraft-part-2

14 years ago

213 upvotes – 14 comments

Germany: Facebook must destroy its facial recognition database

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/08/germany-facebook-must-destroy-facial-recognition-database/

14 years ago

196 upvotes – 132 comments

UK threaten to enter Ecuadorian embassy and arrest Julian Assange

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-19259623

14 years ago

188 upvotes – 267 comments

How an app with 200,000 downloads led to developer homelessness

http://penny-arcade.com/report/editorial-article/going-broke-with-success-how-an-app-with-200000-downloads-led-to-devel

14 years ago

184 upvotes – 124 comments

Git-annex assistant: Like DropBox, but with your own cloud

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/joeyh/git-annex-assistant-like-dropbox-but-with-your-own

14 years ago

174 upvotes – 51 comments

Sexual Harassment at DefCon (and Other Hacker Cons)

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2012/08/sexual_harassme.html

14 years ago

166 upvotes – 259 comments

MySQL vs PostgreSQL

http://www.wikivs.com/wiki/MySQL_vs_PostgreSQL#bodyContent

14 years ago

160 upvotes – 104 comments

Steve Wozniak: Internet should not have gatekeepers or regulators

http://rt.com/usa/news/wozniak-interview-dotcom-freedom-396/

14 years ago

156 upvotes – 82 comments

Kindle Edition of The Pragmatic Programmer for $2.99

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000SEGEKI/ref=as_li_ss_til?tag=httpwwwmatt0e-20&camp=0&creative=0&linkCode=as4&creativeASIN=B000SEGEKI&adid=1B4F8NR9K3WPK0X69RFK

14 years ago

155 upvotes – 103 comments

ViaCycle (YC S12) Is A Zipcar For Bikes, Coming To San Francisco Soon

http://techcrunch.com/2012/08/15/yc-viacycle-bikesharing/

14 years ago

150 upvotes – 134 comments

Normalize.css v1.0.0

http://necolas.github.com/normalize.css/#v1

14 years ago

146 upvotes – 30 comments

Visual Studio 2012 and .NET Framework 4.5 released

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/jasonz/archive/2012/08/15/visual-studio-2012-and-net-framework-4-5-released-to-the-web.aspx

14 years ago

143 upvotes – 78 comments

MPEG claims its new standard H.265 halves video bandwidth with no quality loss

http://www.itwire.com/business-it-news/technology/56199-new-mpeg-standard-halves-video-bandwidth-with-no-quality-loss

14 years ago

143 upvotes – 124 comments

GCC switches from C to C++

http://gcc.gnu.org/git/?p=gcc.git;a=commit;h=2b15d2ba7eb3a25dfb15a7300f4ee7a141ee8539

14 years ago

142 upvotes – 109 comments

Quora Feeds Will No Longer Show Data On What Other Users Have Viewed

http://techcrunch.com/2012/08/14/after-privacy-uproar-quora-backpedals-and-will-no-longer-show-data-on-what-other-users-have-viewed/

14 years ago

137 upvotes – 60 comments

Abuse of Youtube's copyright infringement claim process for doxxing purposes

http://owningyourshit.blogspot.ca/2012/08/abuse-of-youtubes-copyright.html

14 years ago

132 upvotes – 54 comments

Flash Player exits Android

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-19267140

14 years ago

132 upvotes – 72 comments

Thinking This iPad Mini Thing Even Througher

http://daringfireball.net/2012/08/ipad_mini_even_througher

14 years ago

123 upvotes – 91 comments

R.I.P. Harry Harrison, creator of the Stainless Steel Rat

http://io9.com/5934884/rip-harry-harrison-creator-of-the-stainless-steel-rat-bill-the-galactic-hero-and-soylent-green

14 years ago

118 upvotes – 18 comments

Uber allowed to continue operating in Boston

http://www.mass.gov/hed/undersecretary-barbara-anthony-statement-on-uber-technologies.pdf

14 years ago

114 upvotes – 23 comments

Why Facebook comments is a bad idea for your site

http://www.techfounder.net/2012/08/15/dont-mix-business-and-personal-why-facebook-comments-is-a-bad-idea-for-your-site/

14 years ago

98 upvotes – 86 comments

Avgrund: a modal concept, designed to show depth

http://lab.hakim.se/avgrund/

14 years ago

92 upvotes – 17 comments

Write LaTeX - browser-based collaborative editor

http://writelatex.com

14 years ago

92 upvotes – 43 comments

Humble Indie Bundle for Android 3

http://www.humblebundle.com/#3a

14 years ago

91 upvotes – 37 comments

Jsmn, a minimalistic JSON parser in C

http://zserge.bitbucket.org/jsmn.html

14 years ago

89 upvotes – 35 comments

India announces plans for a Mars mission in 2013

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/india-announces-plans-for-a-mars-mission-in-2013.aspx?pageID=238&nID=27844&NewsCatID=374#.UCtnBISQa1I.twitter

14 years ago

88 upvotes – 86 comments

PostgreSQL is Engine Yard's New Default

http://www.engineyard.com/blog/2012/postgresql-is-our-new-default/

14 years ago

82 upvotes – 19 comments

Google’s Self-Driving Cars Are Going to Change Everything

http://vancouverdata.blogspot.com/2012/08/googles-self-driving-cars-are-going-to.html

14 years ago

74 upvotes – 136 comments

The best approach for software development

http://craftedsw.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/the-best-approach-to-software.html

14 years ago

73 upvotes – 33 comments

Oracle proposes Java GPU support

http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/discuss/2012-August/002717.html

14 years ago

73 upvotes – 16 comments

Software design patterns for Machine Learning R&D

http://arkitus.com/PRML/

14 years ago

68 upvotes – 11 comments

Distributed Systems with ZeroMQ

http://java.dzone.com/articles/distributed-systems-zeromq

14 years ago

65 upvotes – 17 comments

'The Internet is for Porn' – Blackmail in 2033

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2012/08/the-internet-is-for-porn-black.html

14 years ago

64 upvotes – 56 comments

Why Do 26 Million Checked Bags Go Missing Every Year?

http://www.cntraveler.com/travel-tips/flying/2012/07/airlines-baggage-luggage-checked-fees-missing-bags

14 years ago

60 upvotes – 65 comments

Interviews with Y Combinator partners: Garry Tan

http://www.tapin.tv/#video/a4a77dcd254c423abd5c4d5d30438a06

14 years ago

60 upvotes – 11 comments

Google Maps now has schedules for 1 million public transit stops

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/08/google-maps-now-has-schedules-for-more.html

14 years ago

58 upvotes – 48 comments

App.net: The Country Club of the Internet?

http://tessrinearson.com/blog/?p=516

14 years ago

56 upvotes – 26 comments

Samsung's Bada OS growing faster than Windows Phone

http://www.techradar.com/news/phone-and-communications/mobile-phones/samsungs-bada-os-growing-faster-than-windows-phone-1092179

14 years ago

56 upvotes – 39 comments

Mars Rover Curiosity Survives 'Brain Surgery,' Set for 1st Drive

http://www.space.com/17104-mars-rover-curiosity-brain-surgery-driving.html

14 years ago

55 upvotes – 17 comments

Show HN: Hide Messages in Images with Steganography

http://mit.edu/~georgiou/www/steganography/

14 years ago

54 upvotes – 15 comments

Microsoft doesn't allow passwords greater than 16 characters in length

https://plus.google.com/112580269831077516723/posts/ebBe1ZnciH4

14 years ago

54 upvotes – 38 comments
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