top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-08-21

Amazon Glacier

http://aws.amazon.com/glacier/

14 years ago

906 upvotes – 378 comments

Bootstrap 2.1 released

http://blog.getbootstrap.com/2012/08/20/bootstrap-2-1-0-released/

14 years ago

413 upvotes – 137 comments

Printers are spontaneously printing odd "SQL" strings

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4220060

14 years ago

398 upvotes – 142 comments

Your startup is not a startup, it’s just a website.

http://blog.crranky.com/startup/your-startup-is-not-a-startup-its-just-a-website/

14 years ago

383 upvotes – 117 comments

How I negotiated my startup compensation (with numbers)

http://blog.keen.io/post/29904565692/how-i-negotiated-my-startup-compensation

14 years ago

261 upvotes – 220 comments

What A Hacker Learns After A Year In Marketing

http://brooklynhacker.com/post/29901112213/what-a-hacker-learns-after-a-year-in-marketing

14 years ago

260 upvotes – 67 comments

Build Your Own Home Automation w/ Pusher, Twilio, and Arduino

http://www.twilio.com/blog/2012/08/diy-home-automation-using-twilio-powerswitch-arduino-and-pusher.html

14 years ago

252 upvotes – 32 comments

Tesla Museum Gets Funded

http://www.indiegogo.com/teslamuseum?c=home

14 years ago

238 upvotes – 51 comments

How to Get a Job as a Developer in Less Than Six Months

http://www.learnwithjeff.com/2012/08/21/how-to-get-a-job-as-a-developer-in-less-than-six-months/

14 years ago

220 upvotes – 174 comments

Show HN: I mixed selling t-shirts with a little bit of game theory

http://getnifty.com

14 years ago

171 upvotes – 82 comments

Ask PG: What made you change your mind about crowdfunding?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4412027

14 years ago

166 upvotes – 15 comments

Fixing Hacker News: A mathematical approach

http://gkosev.blogspot.com/2012/08/fixing-hacker-news-mathematical-approach.html

14 years ago

155 upvotes – 102 comments

4bit - Terminal Color Scheme Designer

https://ciembor.github.io/4bit/

14 years ago

147 upvotes – 33 comments

Stack Exchange Machine Learning Contest

http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2012/08/stack-exchange-machine-learning-contest/

14 years ago

143 upvotes – 61 comments

Minecraft experiment devolves into devastating resource war

http://www.pcgamer.com/2012/08/21/minecraft-experiment-devolves-into-devastating-resource-war/

14 years ago

143 upvotes – 48 comments

Task tracking for nerds

https://hollyapp.com

14 years ago

128 upvotes – 74 comments

I just left 200 fake parking tickets at YC Demo Day...

http://instagram.com/p/Omjwtpxm_O/

14 years ago

125 upvotes – 101 comments

Cdnjs - the missing cdn

http://cdnjs.com/

14 years ago

124 upvotes – 74 comments

Why passwords have never been weaker—and crackers have never been stronger

http://arstechnica.com/security/2012/08/passwords-under-assault/

14 years ago

115 upvotes – 74 comments

How I Taught Myself Python/Django in 8 Weekends

http://tech.yipit.com/2012/08/21/how-i-taught-myself-to-code-in-8-weeks/

14 years ago

113 upvotes – 17 comments

Apple Is Not The Most Valuable Company In The History Of The World — IBM Is

http://techcrunch.com/2012/08/20/apple-is-not-the-most-valuable-company-in-the-history-of-the-world-ibm-won-the-prize-in-1967-with-a-value-of-1-3-trillion/

14 years ago

113 upvotes – 76 comments

Behavior of young children in a situation simulating entrapment in refrigerators

http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/22/4/628.abstract

14 years ago

110 upvotes – 65 comments

Finding Unity in the Math Wars

http://betterexplained.com/articles/finding-unity-in-the-math-wars/

14 years ago

101 upvotes – 21 comments

PC obsolescence is obsolete

http://www.extremetech.com/computing/134760-pc-obsolescence-is-obsolete

14 years ago

101 upvotes – 121 comments

How Paperbacks Transformed the Way Americans Read

http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/137715

14 years ago

99 upvotes – 20 comments

Monads in pictures

http://newartisans.com/2012/08/monads-in-pictures/

14 years ago

98 upvotes – 24 comments

Windows 8 gets Personal Use License for anyone building their own PC

http://www.geek.com/articles/geek-pick/windows-8-gets-personal-use-license-for-anyone-building-their-own-pc-20120821/

14 years ago

96 upvotes – 74 comments

One Night With Clojure Makes a Scala Guy Humble | Agile Zone

http://agile.dzone.com/news/one-night-clojure-makes-scala

14 years ago

83 upvotes – 50 comments

Rails, callbacks, workers, and the race you never expected to lose

http://logicalfriday.com/2012/08/21/rails-callbacks-workers-and-the-race-you-never-expected-to-lose/

14 years ago

76 upvotes – 27 comments

YC Demo Day Bingo Welcome the newest YC batch

http://www.thedailymuse.com/entrepreneurship/dont-get-bored-at-demo-day/

14 years ago

74 upvotes – 13 comments

PopCap Update

http://blog.popcap.com/2012/08/21/popcap-update-from-john-vechey/

14 years ago

73 upvotes – 30 comments

Cleaning bad code

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/176218/Indepth_Cleaning_bad_code.php

14 years ago

65 upvotes – 21 comments

Healthy Labs (YC S12) Wants To Be Go-To Site For People With Chronic Illness

http://techcrunch.com/2012/08/20/yc-startup-healthy-labs-wants-to-be-the-go-to-site-for-people-living-with-chronic-illness/

14 years ago

65 upvotes – 11 comments

Silicon Valley != The Internet (The CEO of Yammer says the darndest things)

http://diegobasch.com/silicon-valley-the-internet-the-ceo-of-yammer-says-the-darndest-things

14 years ago

64 upvotes – 23 comments

Pictonic adds 1000 new font icons, including a free programming language set

http://pictonic.co

14 years ago

55 upvotes – 26 comments

Dev Bootcamp is the future of our industry

http://dickey.xxx/dev-bootcamp

14 years ago

51 upvotes – 19 comments

This Website Only Open During Business Hours

http://www.freakonomics.com/2012/08/20/this-website-only-open-during-business-hours/

14 years ago

51 upvotes – 35 comments

It's Official: Consciousness Is Not Unique to Humans

http://charbonniers.org/2012/08/20/it-is-official/

14 years ago

50 upvotes – 77 comments
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