top 50% 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

Releasing Outside The App Store

http://mattgemmell.com/2012/08/24/releasing-outside-the-app-store/

14 years ago

97 upvotes – 49 comments

Be happy Bike to work.

http://csharpening.net/?p=1291

14 years ago

94 upvotes – 135 comments

How Hacker News motivated me to resign my job and launch my own startup (2011)

http://blog.freshdesk.com/the-freshdesk-story-how-a-simple-comment-on-h-0/#.UDeQC8GPV8E

14 years ago

90 upvotes – 24 comments

Asteroids in under 600 lines of Common Lisp (uses SBCL and SDL)

https://github.com/andyhd/asteroids/blob/master/asteroids.lisp

14 years ago

★ 119 Common Lisp
83 upvotes – 37 comments

Startup Stagnation

http://www.getfinch.com/2012/08/startup-stagnation/

14 years ago

82 upvotes – 57 comments

Paul Oakenfold crowdsources a beat on beatlab

http://www.beatlab.com/ComeTogether

14 years ago

81 upvotes – 38 comments

DragonFly BSD 2.6: towards a free clustering operating system

http://lwn.net/Articles/384200/

14 years ago

77 upvotes – 30 comments

PeerTalk: iOS and OS X Cocoa library for communicating over USB

http://rsms.me/peertalk/

14 years ago

76 upvotes – 13 comments

Why Self-Track? The Possibility of Hard-to-Explain Change

http://quantifiedself.com/2012/08/why-self-track-the-possibility-of-hard-to-explain-change

14 years ago

76 upvotes – 41 comments

SmartThings: Make Your World Smarter

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/smartthings/smartthings-make-your-world-smarter/backers

14 years ago

74 upvotes – 35 comments

Octane minus V8

http://blog.mozilla.org/nnethercote/2012/08/24/octane-minus-v8/

14 years ago

73 upvotes – 18 comments

Syracuse makes real lava in parking lot for kicks (and science)

http://arstechnica.com/science/2012/08/syracuse-makes-real-lava-in-parking-lot-for-kicks-and-science/

14 years ago

69 upvotes – 18 comments

The Boolean Graph

http://kevinrose.com/the-boolean-graph

14 years ago

68 upvotes – 29 comments

OS X 10.8 vs. Ubuntu On Apple Hardware, Benchmarked

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=apple_osx108_ubuntu

14 years ago

68 upvotes – 61 comments

No single benchmark for the web

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2012/08/no-single-benchmark-for-the-web/

14 years ago

67 upvotes – 11 comments

Show HN: ASCII Animals in Your Terminal

http://ivolo.me/ascii-animals-the-perfect-loading-indicator/

14 years ago

62 upvotes – 31 comments

Show HN - Github competitor with free private repo

http://gitlab.io/

14 years ago

61 upvotes – 58 comments

Why Bitcoin lives in a “legal gray area”

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/08/why-bitcoin-lives-in-a-legal-gray-area/

14 years ago

58 upvotes – 55 comments

Apple and Samsung Should Fight in the Marketplace, not the Courtroom

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/08/apple-samsung-should-fight-battle-in-marketplace

14 years ago

57 upvotes – 79 comments

The 10X Hustler

http://soundboy.tumblr.com/post/30041060298/the-10x-hustler

14 years ago

55 upvotes – 28 comments

Plugins in C

http://eli.thegreenplace.net/2012/08/24/plugins-in-c/

14 years ago

51 upvotes – 11 comments

Your Scientific Reasoning Is More Flawed Than You Think

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=your-scientific-reasoning-more-flawed-than-you-think

14 years ago

48 upvotes – 25 comments
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