top 50% 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

JavaScript for Cats - An introduction for new programmers

http://jsforcats.com/

14 years ago

73 upvotes – 24 comments

Madcap Recap

http://startupchumps.com/post/29573517169/madcap-recap

14 years ago

71 upvotes – 14 comments

Show HN: Voice feedback widget to hear from your users

http://developer.voicegem.com

14 years ago

68 upvotes – 20 comments

Thoughts on Acqui-hires & Soft Landings

http://daslee.me/quick-thoughts-on-acquihiressoft-landings

14 years ago

68 upvotes – 12 comments

GNU GDB 7.5 brings Go support, reverse debugging on ARM

http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-announce/2012/msg00004.html

14 years ago

66 upvotes – 6 comments

Playing with Thunderbolt under Linux on Apple hardware

http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/15948.html

14 years ago

66 upvotes – 1 comments

Linux is a lemon on the new retina Mac Book Pro

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=apple_mbpr_linux&num=1

14 years ago

64 upvotes – 81 comments

The category design pattern

http://www.haskellforall.com/2012/08/the-category-design-pattern.html

14 years ago

64 upvotes – 22 comments

Show HN: Pasteboard - HTML5 Web App for Quick & Easy Image Sharing (Open Source)

http://pasteboard.co/

14 years ago

64 upvotes – 42 comments

Maintaining CSS Style States using "Infinite" Transition Delays

http://joelb.me/blog/2012/maintaining-css-style-states-using-infinite-transition-delays/

14 years ago

62 upvotes – 17 comments

The Measured Man

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/07/the-measured-man/309018/

14 years ago

61 upvotes – 7 comments

Feast Your Ears On Fresh Jams From Musicians You Love At Hipset (YC S12)

http://techcrunch.com/2012/08/18/hipset/

14 years ago

58 upvotes – 34 comments

The Decline of MySQL?

http://www.geekgumbo.com/2010/11/06/the-decline-of-mysql/

14 years ago

58 upvotes – 57 comments

Virtual 3-D ‘knitting’ adds new stitch for graphic artists

http://www.cs.cornell.edu/projects/stitchmeshes/

14 years ago

56 upvotes – 6 comments

US Carbon Emissions Hit 20-Year Low

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jiAA4g1Rux_vlMhI1dxbazNbGneg?docId=da1399edab7b42ef9f0269ea5a3ca224

14 years ago

53 upvotes – 49 comments

Oracle and Google File Paid Writers List

http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20120817151150419

14 years ago

47 upvotes – 4 comments

One Small, Arbitrary Change and It's a Whole New World

http://prog21.dadgum.com/147.html

14 years ago

47 upvotes – 11 comments

Xcode 4.4 adds support for Obj-C literals

http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/xcode/id497799835?mt=12

14 years ago

46 upvotes – 15 comments

Zero-Determinant Strategies in the Iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma

http://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2012/07/zerodeterminant_strategies_in.html

14 years ago

45 upvotes – 6 comments

The (Odd) State of Node.JS and its Frameworks

http://blog.andrewmunsell.com/post/29659423342/the-odd-state-of-node-js-and-its-frameworks

14 years ago

45 upvotes – 22 comments
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