top 20 hacker news stories for 2012-08-23

Show HN - We just built a site that saves lives

http://watsi.org/

14 years ago

462 upvotes – 183 comments

Microsoft gets a new logo for the first time since 1987

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2018972097_microsoftlogo23.html

14 years ago

320 upvotes – 231 comments

The White House just open sourced their first Github repo

https://github.com/WhiteHouse/petition

14 years ago

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314 upvotes – 121 comments

How Hacker News Completely Changed My Life

http://stoicjesterstudios.com/2012/08/how-to-use-hacker-news-to-completely-change-your-life/

14 years ago

290 upvotes – 91 comments

A Faster Facebook for iOS

http://newsroom.fb.com/News/A-Faster-Facebook-for-iOS-1b4.aspx

14 years ago

273 upvotes – 177 comments

John Carmack discusses the art and science of software engineering

http://blogs.uw.edu/ajko/2012/08/22/john-carmack-discusses-the-art-and-science-of-software-engineering/

14 years ago

271 upvotes – 71 comments

Black Widow

http://dcurt.is/twitters-graph

14 years ago

216 upvotes – 51 comments

Why you should not be displaying relative dates.

http://aaronparecki.com/2012/236/article/1/you-should-not-be-displaying-relative-dates

14 years ago

213 upvotes – 155 comments

Twitter cuts off “find friends” access to Tumblr

http://www.marco.org/2012/08/22/twitter-cuts-off-tumblr-friend-finding

14 years ago

182 upvotes – 73 comments

JSON+UDP+DHT=Freedom

http://telehash.org/

14 years ago

174 upvotes – 39 comments

The innovations of Internet Explorer

http://www.nczonline.net/blog/2012/08/22/the-innovations-of-internet-explorer

14 years ago

174 upvotes – 74 comments

Under the hood: Rebuilding Facebook for iOS

https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-engineering/under-the-hood-rebuilding-facebook-for-ios/10151036091753920

14 years ago

158 upvotes – 65 comments

Fleksy - Awesome new predictive text input method

http://fleksy.com

14 years ago

150 upvotes – 101 comments

The Hidden Subversive Message in Gangnam Style

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/08/gangnam-style-dissected-the-subversive-message-within-south-koreas-music-video-sensation/261462/

14 years ago

148 upvotes – 44 comments

Hacker News is 44% 18-24 year olds, 77% male

http://royal.pingdom.com/2012/08/21/report-social-network-demographics-in-2012/

14 years ago

134 upvotes – 88 comments

Parrondo's Paradox: How two ugly parents can make a beautiful baby

http://www.datagenetics.com/blog/august22012/index.html

14 years ago

130 upvotes – 62 comments

IKEA's New Catalogs: Less Pine, More Pixels

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390444508504577595414031195148.html

14 years ago

117 upvotes – 49 comments

The Cheapest Generation

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/09/the-cheapest-generation/309060/

14 years ago

109 upvotes – 202 comments

An Interview with DuckDuckGo's founder, Gabriel Weinberg

http://www.techspot.com/article/559-gabriel-weinberg-interview/

14 years ago

108 upvotes – 38 comments

What Jamie Wong did at Khan Academy

http://jamie-wong.com/2012/08/22/what-i-did-at-khan-academy/

14 years ago

108 upvotes – 35 comments
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