top 50% 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

My Paleo Media Diet

http://radar.oreilly.com/2012/03/paleo-media-diet.html

14 years ago

103 upvotes – 72 comments

Silicon Valley Techies Fight to Save a Popular but Illegal Haven

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/23/technology/techies-fight-to-save-hacker-dojo-a-popular-silicon-valley-work-space.html?_r=1

14 years ago

92 upvotes – 104 comments

The Software Engineering of Mathematica

http://reference.wolfram.com/mathematica/tutorial/TheSoftwareEngineeringOfMathematica.html

14 years ago

90 upvotes – 21 comments

Prismatic for iPhone is now live in the App Store

http://getprismatic.com/iphone

14 years ago

84 upvotes – 48 comments

What HN Users Use (45% Mac, 63% Chrome)

http://www.dangrossman.info/2012/08/21/what-hacker-news-users-use/

14 years ago

83 upvotes – 43 comments

Selling $2,000+ Worth Of My Unfinished Book

http://planscope.io/blog/selling-2000-worth-of-my-unfinished-book/

14 years ago

77 upvotes – 92 comments

Free Living Arrangements Offered to Startup Founders in Kansas City

http://www.homesforhackers.com/

14 years ago

74 upvotes – 54 comments

Mac OS X 10.8.1 is out.

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5418

14 years ago

72 upvotes – 103 comments

US appeals court rules in favor of patenting genes

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/08/16/us-myriad-patent-idUSBRE87F12K20120816

14 years ago

71 upvotes – 71 comments

Pew Study: The Economy is lagging because the middle class is broke

http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/daily-ticker/middle-class-broke-pew-study-reveals-real-problem-155018682.html

14 years ago

67 upvotes – 78 comments

A Software Entrepreneur On The Madness Of Software Patents and Trolls

http://www.feld.com/wp/archives/2012/08/a-software-entrepreneur-on-the-madness-of-software-patents-and-trolls.html

14 years ago

65 upvotes – 32 comments

How YC S12 Companies Make Money

http://blog.imranghory.org/how-do-yc-s12-companies-make-money

14 years ago

64 upvotes – 19 comments

Principles for Applying Machine Learning Techniques

http://blog.factual.com/5-principles-for-applying-machine-learning-techniques

14 years ago

57 upvotes – 12 comments

There is one App blacklisted in Facebook's JS API

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4420456

14 years ago

56 upvotes – 4 comments

Researchers Hack Blood cells into Stem Cells

http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-blood-cells-stem-cell-state.html

14 years ago

55 upvotes – 8 comments

An industry commits suicide and blames us

http://gwolf.org/blog/industry-commits-suicide-and-blames-us

14 years ago

54 upvotes – 51 comments

On YC Demo Day, and those graphs

http://blog.noupsi.de/post/30000141259/on-yc-demo-day-and-those-graphs

14 years ago

53 upvotes – 26 comments

Who's afraid of Solar PV?

http://theconversation.edu.au/whos-afraid-of-solar-pv-8987

14 years ago

52 upvotes – 58 comments

Paralympic athletes who harm themselves to perform better

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19325756

14 years ago

47 upvotes – 28 comments

Hacking Instagram: release your photos under Creative Commons

http://i-am-cc.org/

14 years ago

46 upvotes – 20 comments

Scientific Communication As Sequential Art

http://worrydream.com/ScientificCommunicationAsSequentialArt/

14 years ago

46 upvotes – 15 comments

Daring Fireball: Sharing the Stage

http://daringfireball.net/2012/08/sharing_the_stage

14 years ago

45 upvotes – 26 comments
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