top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-08-17

This is how Visa works

http://eduardo.intermeta.com.br/this-is-how-visa-works

14 years ago

931 upvotes – 97 comments

Why I now, unfortunately, hate Hacker News..

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4396747

14 years ago

871 upvotes – 431 comments

I Have 50 Dollars

http://ihave50dollars.com/

14 years ago

647 upvotes – 196 comments

Twitter to Client Developers: Drop Dead

http://daringfireball.net/linked/2012/08/16/twitter-drop-dead

14 years ago

471 upvotes – 173 comments

Vim and Vi Tips: Essential Vim and Vi Editor Skills, free on Amazon today only

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B004JF4NOQ

14 years ago

347 upvotes – 137 comments

Harvard cracks DNA storage, crams 700 terabytes of data into a single gram

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/134672-harvard-cracks-dna-storage-crams-700-terabytes-of-data-into-a-single-gram

14 years ago

346 upvotes – 129 comments

How We Nearly Lost the Discovery Shuttle

http://waynehale.wordpress.com/2012/04/18/how-we-nearly-lost-discovery/

14 years ago

313 upvotes – 61 comments

A Tor of the Dark Web

http://slifty.com/2012/08/a-tor-of-the-dark-web

14 years ago

310 upvotes – 204 comments

A Proposal To Improve Hacker News

http://sridattalabs.com/2012/08/17/a-modest-proposal/

14 years ago

304 upvotes – 174 comments

Light Table reaches 0.1.0

http://www.chris-granger.com/2012/08/17/light-table-reaches-010/

14 years ago

297 upvotes – 95 comments

Google Sues Apple, Seeks To Block iPhone, iPad & Mac Imports To U.S.

http://techcrunch.com/2012/08/17/google-files-new-patent-lawsuit-against-apple-seeks-to-block-iphone-ipad-mac-imports-to-u-s/

14 years ago

233 upvotes – 207 comments

Airbnb Releases Infinity.js: A Javascript Library for Smoother Scrolling

http://airbnb.github.com/infinity/

14 years ago

198 upvotes – 95 comments

Perl/Linux, a Linux distribution where all programs are written in Perl

http://perllinux.sourceforge.net/

14 years ago

134 upvotes – 89 comments

The Emerging Revolution in Game Theory

http://www.technologyreview.com/view/428920/the-emerging-revolution-in-game-theory/

14 years ago

133 upvotes – 28 comments

Interpreting some of Twitter’s API changes

http://www.marco.org/2012/08/16/twitter-api-changes

14 years ago

131 upvotes – 56 comments

Firefox 3D view

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Tools/Page_Inspector/3D_view

14 years ago

130 upvotes – 40 comments

The Tata AirPod: a car that runs on compressed air w/150-200km range

http://stoweboyd.com/post/29621528557/the-tata-airpod-is-a-city-car-running-on

14 years ago

126 upvotes – 77 comments

Blessings: a pythonic answer to curses

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/blessings/

14 years ago

125 upvotes – 23 comments

Private justice: How Hollywood money put a Brit behind bars

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/08/private-justice-how-hollywood-money-put-a-brit-behind-bars/

14 years ago

125 upvotes – 53 comments

Initial revision of "git", the information manager from hell

https://github.com/git/git/commit/e83c5163316f89bfbde7d9ab23ca2e25604af290

14 years ago

★ 60.5k C
120 upvotes – 67 comments

OnLive assets acquired by newly formed company

http://techcrunch.com/2012/08/17/source-onlive-found-a-buyer-cleaned-house-to-reduce-liability-prior-to-acquisition/

14 years ago

119 upvotes – 75 comments

Restaurant offers a 5% discount if you eat without your phone on the table

http://money.cnn.com/2012/08/16/technology/restaurant-cell-phone-discount/index.html

14 years ago

108 upvotes – 97 comments

Can't Code? Learn Design.

http://learncodethehardway.org/blog/AUG_17_2012.html

14 years ago

101 upvotes – 41 comments

At times not losing is as important as winning

http://steveblank.com/2012/08/17/at-times-not-losing-is-as-important-as-winning/

14 years ago

98 upvotes – 20 comments

Dear sw007

http://raganwald.posterous.com/dear-sw007

14 years ago

98 upvotes – 13 comments

Is MySQL becoming less open source? Test cases go internal now

http://blog.mariadb.org/disappearing-test-cases/

14 years ago

93 upvotes – 42 comments

Google’s Dremel Makes Big Data Look Small

http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/08/google-dremel-versus-hadoop/

14 years ago

90 upvotes – 48 comments

Elon Musk: Next Six Months Crucial to Tesla's future

http://www.technologyreview.com/view/428882/elon-musk-next-six-months-crucial-to-teslas/?ref=rss

14 years ago

89 upvotes – 80 comments

Prehistoric Human Brain Found Pickled in Bog

http://news.discovery.com/history/preserved-brain-bog-england-110406.html

14 years ago

84 upvotes – 24 comments

Reports: OnLive fires all staff, service’s future unclear

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2012/08/reports-onlive-fires-all-staff-services-future-unclear/

14 years ago

83 upvotes – 36 comments

What Twitter's Announcement could have said

http://dashes.com/anil/2012/08/what-twitters-api-announcement-could-have-said.html

14 years ago

79 upvotes – 18 comments

Steve Mann's unanswered letter to McDonalds' Head of Customer Services

http://eyetap.blogspot.com/2012/08/unanswered-letter-to-mcdonalds-head-of.html

14 years ago

76 upvotes – 27 comments

Tapbots: Don't Panic

http://tapbots.com/blog/news/dont-panic

14 years ago

75 upvotes – 18 comments

PHP 5.4.6 released

http://php.net/ChangeLog-5.php#5.4.6

14 years ago

67 upvotes – 15 comments

Backlift beta now open, featuring auth, validation and auto refresh

https://www.backlift.com/index.html

14 years ago

64 upvotes – 13 comments

How the Great Recession Proved the Value of a College Degree

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/08/how-the-great-recession-proved-beyond-a-doubt-the-value-of-a-college-degree/261225/

14 years ago

64 upvotes – 64 comments

Markupwand (YC S12) Takes The Pain Out Of Translating Photoshop Files To HTML

http://techcrunch.com/2012/08/17/markupwand/

14 years ago

64 upvotes – 17 comments

Onity's plan to mitigate hotel lock hack

http://daeken.com/onitys-plan-to-mitigate-hotel-lock-hack

14 years ago

62 upvotes – 16 comments

Basics of Memory Addresses in C

http://denniskubes.com/2012/08/17/basics-of-memory-addresses-in-c/

14 years ago

62 upvotes – 16 comments

Twitter Has the "Now Syndrome"

http://danshipper.com/the-now-syndrome

14 years ago

58 upvotes – 27 comments
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