top 50% 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

Amazing CSS3 3D popup book

http://2012.beercamp.com/

14 years ago

133 upvotes – 48 comments

N64js: an N64 emulator in JavaScript

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

14 years ago

133 upvotes – 20 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

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

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

Diaspora’s (YC S12) Next Act: Social Remixing Site Makr.io

http://allthingsd.com/20120816/diasporas-next-act-social-remixing-site-makr-io/

14 years ago

99 upvotes – 91 comments

Scientists Discover How Brains Keep Clean

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/08/brain-waste-cleaning/

14 years ago

94 upvotes – 24 comments

Braintree Buys Venmo for $26.2 Million

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/16/payments-start-up-braintree-buys-venmo-for-26-2-million/

14 years ago

93 upvotes – 22 comments

Pytrace - a fast python tracer

https://github.com/alonho/pytrace

14 years ago

★ 449 C
92 upvotes – 11 comments

Bitcoin-using Autonomous Agents

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Agents

14 years ago

92 upvotes – 17 comments

A Mutual Fund Master, Too Worried to Rest

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/12/business/john-bogle-vanguards-founder-is-too-worried-to-rest.html

14 years ago

89 upvotes – 43 comments

Show HN: Open Sourcing my HTML5 Multiplayer Game Engine

https://github.com/tlhunter/Cobalt-Calibur-3

14 years ago

★ 471 JavaScript BSD-2-Clause
87 upvotes – 27 comments

Comparing Standard ML and OCaml

http://adam.chlipala.net/mlcomp/

14 years ago

86 upvotes – 20 comments

Changes coming in Version 1.1 of the Twitter API

https://dev.twitter.com/blog/changes-coming-to-twitter-api

14 years ago

85 upvotes – 8 comments

Ridejoy for iPhone

http://ridejoy.com/mobile

14 years ago

82 upvotes – 17 comments

Show HN: Haiku Deck - A Simple iPad App for Making Beautiful Presentations

http://www.haikudeck.com

14 years ago

81 upvotes – 31 comments

Announcing Trigger.io Reload - iterate fast on mobile, inspired by Clutch.io

http://trigger.io/cross-platform-application-development-blog/2012/08/16/announcing-trigger-io-reload-iterate-fast-on-mobile/

14 years ago

79 upvotes – 13 comments

Twitter Gives Developers 6 Months To “Properly” Display Tweet

http://techcrunch.com/2012/08/16/twitter-gives-developers-6-months-to-properly-display-tweet-use-new-authentication-and-rate-limts/

14 years ago

78 upvotes – 29 comments

Improve [iOS] Usability with a Black Status Bar and Rounded Corners

http://blog.edwardmarks.com/post/9859783254/improve-usability-with-a-black-status-bar-and-rounded

14 years ago

77 upvotes – 25 comments

Facebook frees up 60% more shares today

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-08-16/facebook-freeing-60-percent-more-shares-seen-weighing-on-stock.html

14 years ago

77 upvotes – 67 comments

Wedding Startup RegistryLove (YC S12) Lets Couples Register For Anything

http://techcrunch.com/2012/08/16/yc-backed-wedding-startup-registrylove-lets-couples-register-for-anything/

14 years ago

72 upvotes – 38 comments

PyCon 2013 March 13-21, Santa Clara - Keynotes and more announced.

http://pycon.blogspot.com/2012/08/pycon-us-2013-keynotes-jobs-fair.html

14 years ago

69 upvotes – 6 comments

UEFI and Secure Boot: The Hell I Went Through

http://prismdragon.wordpress.com/2012/08/16/uefi-and-secure-boot/

14 years ago

69 upvotes – 36 comments

Raspberry Pi gets a Firefox OS port

http://www.geek.com/articles/chips/raspberry-pi-gets-a-firefox-os-port-20120816/

14 years ago

69 upvotes – 22 comments

Megaupload case: New Zealand court wants FBI evidence

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-19280898

14 years ago

69 upvotes – 22 comments

How Statwing (YC S12) Makes It Easier To Ask Questions About Data

http://techcrunch.com/2012/08/16/how-statwing-makes-it-easier-to-ask-questions-about-data-so-you-dont-have-to-hire-a-statistical-wizard/

14 years ago

67 upvotes – 14 comments

Bitcoins up another 42% since August 1st

http://bitcoincharts.com/charts/mtgoxUSD#rg30zigHourlyztgSza1gSMAzm1g300zm2g25zi1gAccDistzv

14 years ago

64 upvotes – 83 comments

Syntactic: A lexical categorizer with a pretty visualization

http://syntactic.omershapira.com/

14 years ago

61 upvotes – 11 comments

MicroEval (YC S12) Aims To Take The Pain Out Of Performance Reviews

http://techcrunch.com/2012/08/16/microeval-launch/

14 years ago

55 upvotes – 19 comments

Organizing Go code

http://blog.golang.org/2012/08/organizing-go-code.html

14 years ago

55 upvotes – 8 comments

Dojo JavaScript Toolkit 1.8 Released

http://dojotoolkit.org/blog/dojo-1-8-released

14 years ago

54 upvotes – 30 comments

VC Evolution: Physician, Scale Thyself - Dave McClure

http://500hats.com/VC-evolution-geeks-got-next

14 years ago

54 upvotes – 14 comments

Behind the scenes of a seed round

http://hippoland.tumblr.com/post/29555433091/part-1-behind-the-scenes-of-a-seed-round

14 years ago

54 upvotes – 26 comments

NASA Planetary Protection Policy

http://planetaryprotection.nasa.gov/about

14 years ago

54 upvotes – 54 comments

Show HN: Indoor Location you can try yourself

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.footprint.quickmap

14 years ago

52 upvotes – 46 comments

Building an app does not make you a startup

http://www.techfounder.net/2012/08/16/building-an-app-does-not-make-you-a-startup/

14 years ago

51 upvotes – 26 comments

A Starter Theme for WordPress by Automattic

http://underscores.me/

14 years ago

50 upvotes – 10 comments

Practical Foundations for Programming Languages

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1107029570

14 years ago

47 upvotes – 11 comments

Diffbot launches a web page classifier API: analyzes a day of Twitter

http://betakit.com/2012/08/16/diffbot-adds-page-classifier-api-to-help-developers-categorize-the-web

14 years ago

45 upvotes – 16 comments
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