top 20 hacker news stories for 2012-08-24

A Linux dev who helped thousands needs help to fight cancer

http://linuxlock.blogspot.it/2012/08/this-is-where-we-are.html

14 years ago

433 upvotes – 127 comments

Fake Bus Stops For Alzheimer’s patients in Germany (2011)

http://www.theiacp.org/About/Governance/Divisions/StateAssociationsofChiefsofPoliceSACOP/CurrentSACOPProjects/MissingAlzheimersDiseasePatientInitiative/AlzheimersSuccessStory/tabid/1007/Default.aspx?id=1665

14 years ago

418 upvotes – 104 comments

Customize Twitter Bootstrap To Not Look Bootstrap-y

http://antjanus.com/blog/web-design-tips/user-interface-usability/customize-twitter-bootstrap-into-themes/

14 years ago

346 upvotes – 144 comments

Apple Wins Patent Ruling As Jury Finds Samsung Infringes

http://techcrunch.com/2012/08/24/apple-wins-patent-ruling-as-jury-finds-samsung-infringes/

14 years ago

319 upvotes – 354 comments

Evernote Smart Notebook by Moleskine

http://blog.evernote.com/2012/08/24/the-new-evernote-smart-notebook-by-moleskine/

14 years ago

283 upvotes – 143 comments

Some web development tips from a former Digg developer

http://duruk.net/some-web-development-tips/

14 years ago

208 upvotes – 64 comments

Windows 8 Tells Microsoft Everything You Install, Not Very Securely.

http://log.nadim.cc/?p=78

14 years ago

193 upvotes – 81 comments

Backbone has made me a better programmer

http://floatleft.com/notebook/backbone-has-made-me-a-better-programmer

14 years ago

169 upvotes – 86 comments

A worthy Ultrabook appears: the ThinkPad X1 Carbon reviewed

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2012/08/a-worthy-ultrabook-appears-the-thinkpad-x1-carbon-reviewed/

14 years ago

159 upvotes – 196 comments

Tomorrow, a 100 year old mysterious package will be opened in a museum in Norway

http://www.vg.no/nyheter/innenriks/artikkel.php?artid=10060184

14 years ago

142 upvotes – 98 comments

Perl gained a feature for fixing communication with the Magellan probe

http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/blobdiff/fd7895cf8ded27bc2c1cddf7c72c17d6bdc95df0..24f4b7da:/pod/perlfunc.pod

14 years ago

137 upvotes – 2 comments

Watch Out Mars: 1080 HD Video of Curiosity Descent

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/life-unbounded/2012/08/22/watch-out-mars-1080-hd-video-of-curiosity-descent/

14 years ago

137 upvotes – 25 comments

Chinese dev steals US HTML5 Game engine, US hosts won't close down the copy

http://www.techinasia.com/chinese-net-user-steals-game-engine-sells-price-hosts-silent/

14 years ago

132 upvotes – 123 comments

My Python Code for the Netflix Prize

https://github.com/alexbw/Netflix-Prize

14 years ago

★ 247 C
130 upvotes – 28 comments

Mountain Lion quietly includes app blacklist and security restrictions

http://www.red-sweater.com/blog/2765/exceptional-apps

14 years ago

125 upvotes – 44 comments

Once a somebody, now a nobody: Starcraft 2 has destroyed my life

http://www.olganon.org/?q=node/27012

14 years ago

122 upvotes – 120 comments

Show HN: GoScale Cloud Scaling in Milliseconds

http://goscale.com/servers

14 years ago

118 upvotes – 60 comments

Why I am tired of writing pull requests

http://gist.io/3444052

14 years ago

110 upvotes – 64 comments

Groklaw on the Apple v. Samsung jury verdict

http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20120824175815101

14 years ago

109 upvotes – 31 comments

The dark side of light: negative frequency photons

http://arstechnica.com/science/2012/08/the-dark-side-of-light-negative-frequency-photons/

14 years ago

102 upvotes – 52 comments
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