top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-08-20

A Generation Lost in the Bazaar

http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2349257&ref=fullrss

14 years ago

519 upvotes – 344 comments

Show HN: A date range picker for Twitter Bootstrap

http://www.dangrossman.info/2012/08/20/a-date-range-picker-for-twitter-bootstrap/

14 years ago

363 upvotes – 80 comments

Believe you can change

http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/dweck

14 years ago

294 upvotes – 68 comments

Why don't they just..?

http://blog.jgc.org/2012/08/why-dont-they-just.html

14 years ago

293 upvotes – 136 comments

Never again be thwarted by restrictive “guest” wifi (e.g. on buses or airplanes)

http://rogueleaderr.tumblr.com/post/29855576743/never-again-be-thwarted-by-restrictive-guest-wifi

14 years ago

256 upvotes – 101 comments

The Bozo Event Horizon

http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/waldo/2012/07/27/the-bozo-event-horizon/

14 years ago

204 upvotes – 101 comments

The morning mail is my enemy

http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012/08/the-morning-mail-is-my-enemy.html

14 years ago

193 upvotes – 38 comments

Tim Berners-Lee's Original Announcement (1991)

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.sys.next.announce/browse_thread/thread/6af5808c84a771fc/042c02b1b5992dd3?pli=1

14 years ago

184 upvotes – 35 comments

How Eduardo Saverin Sold Facebook Ads in 2004

http://www.digiday.com/platforms/how-eduardo-saverin-sold-facebook-ads-in-2004/

14 years ago

182 upvotes – 39 comments

Stranded Jet Skier Breaches Multimillion Dollar Security System At JFK Airport

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2012/08/14/158752675/stranded-jet-skier-breaches-multimillion-dollar-security-system-at-jfk-airport

14 years ago

169 upvotes – 115 comments

I Google everything

http://wernah.com/2012/03/i-fucking-google-everything/

14 years ago

154 upvotes – 120 comments

AWS Elastic Beanstalk now supports Python

http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2012/08/announcing-aws-elastic-beanstalk-support-for-python-and-seamless-database-integration.html

14 years ago

146 upvotes – 32 comments

Vagrant core no longer tied to VirtualBox

https://github.com/mitchellh/vagrant/commit/391dc392675c73518ebf04252d824fe916e8860b

14 years ago

★ 27.1k Ruby
145 upvotes – 60 comments

The "Work" Trap

http://notes.unwieldy.net/post/29050677758/the-work-trap/

14 years ago

143 upvotes – 29 comments

We consistently underestimate kids.

http://peebs.org/we-underestimate-kids

14 years ago

142 upvotes – 60 comments

Designing for A Retina Web

http://coding.smashingmagazine.com/2012/08/20/towards-retina-web/

14 years ago

128 upvotes – 66 comments

A Statistical Portrait of a Y Combinator Batch

http://blog.statwing.com/a-statistical-portrait-of-a-y-combinator-batch/

14 years ago

118 upvotes – 38 comments

T-mobile password reset does not allow you to type the letter "V"

http://support.t-mobile.com/message/163958#163958

14 years ago

118 upvotes – 73 comments

Legal myths about the Assange extradition

http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/david-allen-green/2012/08/legal-myths-about-assange-extradition

14 years ago

112 upvotes – 181 comments

6-8 Weeks Until Bitcoin Debit/Credit Card, says BitInstant

http://codinginmysleep.com/6-8-weeks-until-bitcoin-debitcredit-card-says-bitinstant/

14 years ago

108 upvotes – 75 comments

Peter Thiel Sells Majority Of His Facebook Shares In Deal Planned Pre-IPO

http://techcrunch.com/2012/08/20/peter-thiel-sells-majority-of-his-facebook-shares/

14 years ago

108 upvotes – 90 comments

Rejection

http://blog.latentflip.com/post/29820876915/rejection

14 years ago

94 upvotes – 26 comments

FreeBSD gets ported to the Raspberry Pi

http://kernelnomicon.org/?p=164

14 years ago

93 upvotes – 31 comments

First evidence for photosynthesis in insects

http://www.nature.com/news/first-evidence-for-photosynthesis-in-insects-1.11214

14 years ago

85 upvotes – 7 comments

Who cares if Samsung copied Apple?

http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2012/08/who_cares_if_samsung_copied_ap.html

14 years ago

79 upvotes – 67 comments

Ripping OAuth tokens out of Twitter apps

http://timetobleed.com/ripping-oauth-tokens-or-other-secrets-out-of-tweetdeck-twitter-app-and-other-apps/

14 years ago

78 upvotes – 30 comments

Inside FundersClub (YC S12) The Equity Crowdfunding Platform

http://techcrunch.com/2012/08/20/ipo-vc-angel-fundersclub/

14 years ago

75 upvotes – 15 comments

When Microsoft Threatened to Sue Us Over the Letter “E”

http://steveblank.com/2012/08/20/when-microsoft-sued-us-over-the-letter-e/

14 years ago

75 upvotes – 12 comments

University of Reddit

http://ureddit.com/

14 years ago

74 upvotes – 36 comments

Founder's Fund Transparent Term Sheet

http://www.foundersfund.com/termsheet/

14 years ago

74 upvotes – 14 comments

Profig (YC S12) Launches An Affordable, Feature-Rich Instant Phone System

http://techcrunch.com/2012/08/20/yc-profig-instant-virtual-phone-system/

14 years ago

73 upvotes – 38 comments

The Ugly Side of Learning to Code

http://www.crowdcademy.com/blog/#business-guy-to-programmer

14 years ago

73 upvotes – 58 comments

The Future is not Real-Time

http://notes.unwieldy.net/post/29796275100/the-future-is-not-real-time

14 years ago

70 upvotes – 30 comments

Why I released a crappy todo app that no-one will ever use

http://www.moreofless.co.uk/just-ship-it-like-yesterday/

14 years ago

69 upvotes – 33 comments

32 cores of fast ARM in half-depth 1U case

http://www.baserock.com/

14 years ago

65 upvotes – 39 comments

Survata (YC S12) replaces paywalls with "surveywalls"

http://techcrunch.com/2012/08/20/yc-backed-survata-wants-to-replace-paywalls-with-research-friendly-surveywalls/

14 years ago

64 upvotes – 42 comments

Pyjnius: Accessing Java classes from Python

http://txzone.net/2012/08/pyjnius-accessing-java-classes-from-python/

14 years ago

61 upvotes – 17 comments

Dreamforge (YC S12): Make your own superhero

http://toys.dreamforge.me/

14 years ago

59 upvotes – 49 comments

Ask HN: Why not Java?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4406224

14 years ago

52 upvotes – 109 comments

Why XSS is serious business (and why Tesco needs to pay attention)

http://www.troyhunt.com/2012/08/why-xss-is-serious-business-and-why.html

14 years ago

52 upvotes – 31 comments

Review: Pagani Huayra

http://blogs.wsj.com/drivers-seat/2012/08/11/review-pagani-huayra/

14 years ago

50 upvotes – 26 comments

Behold the data tsunami: IEEE begins work on 400Gbps and 1Tbps Ethernet

http://www.extremetech.com/computing/134757-behold-the-data-tsunami-ieee-begins-work-on-400gbps-and-1tbps-ethernet

14 years ago

50 upvotes – 34 comments

Books every developer should read

http://blog.iterate.no/2012/08/19/books-everybody-should-read/

14 years ago

49 upvotes – 23 comments

The Two Week Problem

https://openshift.redhat.com/community/blogs/solving-the-two-week-problem-by-developing-in-the-cloud

14 years ago

49 upvotes – 28 comments

Whammy: A Real Time Javascript WebM Encoder

http://antimatter15.com/wp/2012/08/whammy-a-real-time-javascript-webm-encoder/

14 years ago

47 upvotes – 11 comments

OnLive Sold To OnLive And Nothing Will Change

http://techcrunch.com/2012/08/19/onlive-sold-to-onlive-and-nothing-will-change-heartbreaking-transition-notwithstanding/

14 years ago

47 upvotes – 30 comments

Sometimes people do.

http://blog.wells.ee/sometimes-people-do

14 years ago

47 upvotes – 13 comments

How Gen Y is changing the corporate workplace

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/how-those-spoiled-millennials-will-make-the-workplace-better-for-everyone/2012/08/16/814af692-d5d8-11e1-a0cc-8954acd5f90c_story.html

14 years ago

46 upvotes – 49 comments
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