top 20 hacker news stories for 2012-08-18

Sleepbox

http://sleepbox.com/

14 years ago

279 upvotes – 142 comments

Delegate or die: the self-employed trap

http://www.sivers.org/delegate/

14 years ago

262 upvotes – 61 comments

Garry Kasparov Arrested By Russian Police

http://en.rian.ru/russia/20120817/175282580.html

14 years ago

238 upvotes – 154 comments

How Instacart (YC S12) Hacked YC

http://techcrunch.com/2012/08/18/how-instacart-hacked-yc/

14 years ago

209 upvotes – 125 comments

RIP Open Source MySQL

http://developers.slashdot.org/story/12/08/18/0152237/is-mysql-slowly-turning-closed-source

14 years ago

169 upvotes – 99 comments

Ben Horowitz: A Good Place to Work

http://bhorowitz.com/2012/08/18/a-good-place-to-work/

14 years ago

152 upvotes – 156 comments

Github just hit 2 million users.

https://github.com/##

14 years ago

143 upvotes – 36 comments

NASA Pulls Off 160-Million-Mile Software Patch

http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/08/nasa-patch/

14 years ago

123 upvotes – 37 comments

Collection Of Puzzles For Programmers

http://blogs.lessthandot.com/index.php/All/?p=348

14 years ago

118 upvotes – 32 comments

The Cost of a Logo

http://www.huhmagazine.co.uk/view_article.php?id=4140&s=art&t=design

14 years ago

101 upvotes – 34 comments

Custom Sublime Text Build Systems For Popular Tools And Languages

http://addyosmani.com/blog/custom-sublime-text-build-systems-for-popular-tools-and-languages/

14 years ago

99 upvotes – 7 comments

Inside Facebook’s Oregon data center

http://gigaom.com/cleantech/a-rare-look-inside-facebooks-oregon-data-center-photos-video/

14 years ago

94 upvotes – 22 comments

The Panic Over Fukushima

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390444772404577589270444059332.html?mod=WSJ_hps_LEFTTopStories

14 years ago

92 upvotes – 106 comments

Buckminster Fuller - Everything I Know (42 hours of video)

http://archive.org/search.php?query=collection%3Abuckminsterfuller&sort=-publicdate

14 years ago

91 upvotes – 29 comments

To Make America Great Again, We Need to Leave the Country

http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/07/to-make-america-great-again-we-need-to-leave-the-country/259653/

14 years ago

86 upvotes – 105 comments

Video: At one trillion frames per second, you can see light move

http://kottke.org/12/08/extreme-slow-motion-photography

14 years ago

85 upvotes – 28 comments

India To Biometrically Identify All Of Its 1.2 Billion Citizens

http://singularityhub.com/2012/07/10/india-to-biometrically-identify-all-of-its-1-2-billion-citizens/

14 years ago

84 upvotes – 66 comments

Show HN: A multi-touch document manipulation system

http://liquidtext.net/demos/

14 years ago

82 upvotes – 29 comments

Motorola Launches “Unlock My Device” Site – Bootloader Freedom Has Come At Last

http://www.droid-life.com/2012/08/17/motorola-launches-unlock-my-device-site-bootloader-freedom-has-come-at-last/

14 years ago

81 upvotes – 14 comments

How a Tick Bite Made Me Allergic to Meat

http://discovermagazine.com/2012/jul-aug/09-how-a-tick-bite-made-me-allergic-to-meat

14 years ago

79 upvotes – 42 comments
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