top 20 hacker news stories for 2012-08-16

Ecuador grants Julian Assange asylum

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-19281492

14 years ago

515 upvotes – 499 comments

Rob Pike: The Best Programming Advice I Ever Got.

http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1941206

14 years ago

427 upvotes – 137 comments

Stop Using The Cup of Coffee vs. $0.99 Cent App Analogy

http://www.joshlehman.com/thoughts/stop-using-the-cup-of-coffee-vs-0-99-cent-app-analogy/

14 years ago

339 upvotes – 201 comments

Font that creates charts

https://www.fontfont.com/how-to-use-ff-chartwell

14 years ago

321 upvotes – 61 comments

Joyent ending "lifetime" hosting accounts

https://plus.google.com/u/0/112783391065033208484/posts/16WyAvu37wE

14 years ago

283 upvotes – 269 comments

Square introduces monthly pricing

https://squareup.com/pricing/per-month

14 years ago

258 upvotes – 141 comments

Twitter sets max user caps for 3rd party clients and limits rates

http://thenextweb.com/twitter/2012/08/17/twitter-4/

14 years ago

250 upvotes – 111 comments

Thanks for your patience about all the (YC S12)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4393795

14 years ago

208 upvotes – 72 comments

Happy birthday Debian

http://www.debian.org/News/2012/20120816

14 years ago

206 upvotes – 32 comments

How anti-competitive lawsuits by incumbents are killing early stage startups

http://blog.garrytan.com/infanticide-how-anti-competitive-lawsuits-by

14 years ago

166 upvotes – 39 comments

'; CREATE TABLE `Capture the Flag`; -- Stripe CTF Web Edition coming next week'

https://stripe.com/blog/create-table-capture-the-flag

14 years ago

154 upvotes – 17 comments

Why you can't be anything you want to be

http://www.sean-johnson.com/2012/08/16/why-you-cant-be-anything-you-want-to-be/

14 years ago

141 upvotes – 135 comments

N64js: an N64 emulator in JavaScript

http://hulkholden.github.com/n64js/

14 years ago

133 upvotes – 20 comments

Amazing CSS3 3D popup book

http://2012.beercamp.com/

14 years ago

133 upvotes – 48 comments

Show HN: Visual diff for 3D printable models

http://cubehero.com/physibles/iamwil/robokitty/files/0cecb53528a7be6eb6236e01f36b7e37dbb260c8/robokitty.stl

14 years ago

127 upvotes – 39 comments

Planetary Annihilation - A Next Generation RTS by Uber Entertainment Inc

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/659943965/planetary-annihilation-a-next-generation-rts

14 years ago

127 upvotes – 44 comments

Software Effort Estimation Considered Harmful

http://mattrogish.com/blog/2012/08/16/software-effort-estimation-considered-harmful/

14 years ago

122 upvotes – 78 comments

BufferBox (YC S12) Solves The Problem Of Missing Packages

http://techcrunch.com/2012/08/16/sorry-we-missed-you-yc-backed-bufferbox-solves-the-problem-of-missing-packages/

14 years ago

122 upvotes – 80 comments

Twitter needs to get their shit together

http://bruun.co/2012/08/17/twitter-needs-to-get-their-shit-together

14 years ago

112 upvotes – 12 comments

The 5-minute Guide to C Pointers

http://denniskubes.com/2012/08/16/the-5-minute-guide-to-c-pointers/

14 years ago

110 upvotes – 71 comments
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