top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-08-22

Introducing Tent - the decentralized social web

http://tent.io/blog/introducing-tent

14 years ago

469 upvotes – 221 comments

Typing Practice for Programmers

http://typing.io

14 years ago

311 upvotes – 219 comments

'; CREATE TABLE `Capture the Flag`;' -- Stripe's Web Security CTF is Live

https://stripe.com/blog/capture-the-flag-20

14 years ago

254 upvotes – 75 comments

Ghosts in the rom

http://www.nycresistor.com/2012/08/21/ghosts-in-the-rom/

14 years ago

246 upvotes – 22 comments

Show HN: SideProjects.com - 37 Bootstrapped Profitable Projects

http://www.sideprojects.com/

14 years ago

236 upvotes – 118 comments

Status Chart: Your Personal Status Dashboard

http://statuschart.com/

14 years ago

209 upvotes – 131 comments

Why Ratings Systems Don't Work

http://goodfil.ms/blog/posts/2012/08/22/why-ratings-systems-dont-work/

14 years ago

196 upvotes – 162 comments

I'm Not Japanese

http://sachagreif.com/im-not-japanese/

14 years ago

189 upvotes – 121 comments

Leap

http://leapmotion.com/

14 years ago

175 upvotes – 60 comments

Family trees: Tracing the world's ancestor

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-19331938

14 years ago

162 upvotes – 137 comments

Typesafe raises $14M to commercialize Scala

http://techcrunch.com/2012/08/22/typesafe-raises-14m-from-shasta-greylock-and-juniper-to-commercialize-scala/

14 years ago

157 upvotes – 101 comments

Dwm.vim : Tiled Window Management for Vim

http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=4186

14 years ago

146 upvotes – 83 comments

Emacs under Clojure

https://github.com/hraberg/deuce

14 years ago

★ 512 Clojure GPL-3.0
139 upvotes – 35 comments

Bill Thurston has died

http://terrytao.wordpress.com/2012/08/22/bill-thurston/

14 years ago

138 upvotes – 18 comments

Why Jason Fried gave his company a month off

http://www.inc.com/magazine/201209/jason-fried/why-company-a-month-off.html

14 years ago

117 upvotes – 46 comments

CSS Font Stack: A complete collection of web safe CSS font stacks

http://cssfontstack.com/

14 years ago

102 upvotes – 21 comments

AOL: still providing insanity after all these years

http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2012/08/22/huh/

14 years ago

99 upvotes – 13 comments

Bootstrap Based UI for Logstash (Open Source Splunk)

http://rashidkpc.github.com/Kibana/index.html

14 years ago

99 upvotes – 27 comments

FlipCode is back, after 7 years

http://www.flipcode.com/misc/fc3_announce/

14 years ago

98 upvotes – 12 comments

Seven Things I Hate About Agile

http://blog.assembla.com/Seven-Things-I-Hate-About-Agile/

14 years ago

94 upvotes – 115 comments

Y Combinator’s Young Startups Tout Revenue Over Users

http://go.bloomberg.com/tech-deals/2012-08-22-y-combinators-young-startups-tout-revenue-over-users/

14 years ago

92 upvotes – 51 comments

New nuclear fuel source would power human race until 5000AD

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/08/22/oceanic_uranium_mining_tech/

14 years ago

91 upvotes – 110 comments

Being Featured on the App Store

http://blog.anylistapp.com/2012/08/app-store/

14 years ago

91 upvotes – 25 comments

Parallel Programming for C and C++ Done Right

https://speakerdeck.com/u/multicoreworld/p/james-reinders-intel-united-states

14 years ago

90 upvotes – 25 comments

How To Share an iPhone Screen Live Across the Internet

http://mgalligan.com/post/29978268510/screen-share-iphone-live-on-internet

14 years ago

88 upvotes – 17 comments

The myth of doing “that one thing”

http://leostartsup.com/2012/08/the-myth-of-doing-%E2%80%9Cthat-one-thing%E2%80%9D/

14 years ago

84 upvotes – 18 comments

Father’s Age Is Linked to Risk of Autism and Schizophrenia

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/23/health/fathers-age-is-linked-to-risk-of-autism-and-schizophrenia.html?_r=1&hp

14 years ago

83 upvotes – 66 comments

Drug Cartels Now Using UAVs

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/08/ultralight/

14 years ago

81 upvotes – 59 comments

Arrays in Postgres

http://craigkerstiens.com/2012/08/20/arrays-in-postgres/

14 years ago

70 upvotes – 39 comments

First employee or co-founder?

http://jacquesmattheij.com/first-employee-or-cofounder

14 years ago

69 upvotes – 65 comments

Using mTurk to interview 100 customers (in 4 hours)

http://customerdevlabs.com/2012/08/21/using-mturk-to-interview-100-customers-in-4-hours/

14 years ago

67 upvotes – 25 comments

Research Blog: Machine Learning Book for Students and Researchers

http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2012/08/machine-learning-book-for-students-and.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2FgJZg+%28Official+Google+Research+Blog%29&utm_content=Google+Reader

14 years ago

67 upvotes – 21 comments

The 10 Best Startups From Y Combinator’s S12 Demo Day

http://techcrunch.com/2012/08/21/best-of-yc-demo-day/

14 years ago

66 upvotes – 65 comments

Man kicked off flight by pilot for wearing anti-TSA shirt

http://arijitvsdelta.blogspot.co.uk/

14 years ago

66 upvotes – 82 comments

Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1: An Embarrassing, Lazy, Arrogant Money Grab

http://www.androidpolice.com/2012/08/21/samsung-galaxy-note-10-1-review-an-embarrassing-lazy-arrogant-money-grab/

14 years ago

62 upvotes – 58 comments

How to tear down the walls of your echo chamber

http://cdevroe.com/notes/tear-down-that-wall/

14 years ago

60 upvotes – 33 comments

When Land Is History

http://pjmedia.com/victordavishanson/when-land-is-history/?singlepage=true

14 years ago

56 upvotes – 19 comments

Berliner: Sinatra like Framework written in 16 lines of CoffeeScript.

http://berliner.jcoglan.com/

14 years ago

55 upvotes – 34 comments

ImagePickerController with live filters

https://github.com/gobackspaces/DLCImagePickerController#readme

14 years ago

★ 1.5k Objective-C BSD-3-Clause
55 upvotes – 17 comments

Disney's 'Physical Face Cloning' produces the ultimate photo-realistic robots

http://www.digitaltrends.com/lifestyle/disney-clones-human-faces-onto-robots/

14 years ago

52 upvotes – 18 comments

Scientists create matter that can dent diamonds

http://phys.org/wire-news/106597047/scientists-create-new-form-of-matter-that-can-dent-diamonds.html

14 years ago

50 upvotes – 13 comments

How we open sourced Instagram

http://backspac.es/r/EtZtSJyJRB

14 years ago

49 upvotes – 21 comments

The new Hulu

http://new.hulu.com

14 years ago

47 upvotes – 63 comments

“Pirate Patch” Unblocks The Pirate Bay In a Blink

http://torrentfreak.com/pirate-patch-unblocks-the-pirate-bay-in-a-blink-120821/

14 years ago

46 upvotes – 8 comments

What Y Combinator Startups Actually Do, Based On Their (Unpronounceable) Names

http://betabeat.com/2012/08/what-y-combinator-startups-actually-do-based-on-their-unpronounceable-names/

14 years ago

44 upvotes – 5 comments
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