top 20 hacker news stories for 2012-08-26

Why it's so hard to find a photo of Neil Armstrong on the moon

http://apple.copydesk.org/2012/08/25/keep-in-mind-as-you-put-together-your-neil-armstrong-packages-tonight/

14 years ago

494 upvotes – 120 comments

A device with a touchscreen and few buttons was obvious

http://www.osnews.com/story/26309/A_device_with_a_touchscreen_and_few_buttons_i_was_i_obvious

14 years ago

418 upvotes – 426 comments

The coming civil war over general purpose computing

http://boingboing.net/2012/08/23/civilwar.html

14 years ago

279 upvotes – 98 comments

Dropbox Introduces 2-Factor Authentication

https://www.dropbox.com/account/security

14 years ago

243 upvotes – 74 comments

Best Open Python Books

http://pythonbooks.revolunet.com

14 years ago

229 upvotes – 31 comments

Vanilla JS, fast, lightweight, cross-platform framework

http://vanilla-js.com/

14 years ago

208 upvotes – 125 comments

Design Tricks Facebook Uses To Affect Your Privacy Decisions

http://techcrunch.com/2012/08/25/5-design-tricks-facebook-uses-to-affect-your-privacy-decisions/

14 years ago

195 upvotes – 69 comments

My Evil Undead Credit Card

http://uncrunched.com/2012/08/26/my-undead-credit-card/

14 years ago

181 upvotes – 129 comments

TPP treaty (ACTA all over) provisions leaked.

http://boingboing.net/2012/08/25/leaked-tpp-the-son-of-acta-w.html

14 years ago

151 upvotes – 30 comments

An Immune Disorder at the Root of Autism

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/26/opinion/sunday/immune-disorders-and-autism.html

14 years ago

140 upvotes – 102 comments

Growth Hacking 101: Your First 500,000 Users

http://www.slideshare.net/yongfook/growth-hacking-101-your-first-500000-users

14 years ago

131 upvotes – 12 comments

Flat lens offers a perfect image

https://www.seas.harvard.edu/news-events/press-releases/flat-lens-offers-perfect-image

14 years ago

128 upvotes – 30 comments

Ask HN: How to learn Backbone

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4434553

14 years ago

125 upvotes – 33 comments

New Java 0-day exploit spotted in the wild.

http://blog.fireeye.com/research/2012/08/zero-day-season-is-not-over-yet.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+FE_research+%28FireEye+Malware+Intelligence+Lab%29

14 years ago

122 upvotes – 68 comments

Top Surprises When Starting Out as a Software Developer

http://henrikwarne.com/2012/08/22/top-5-surprises-when-starting-out-as-a-software-developer/

14 years ago

116 upvotes – 76 comments

Where the fuck is my Ari Gold?

http://www.youell.com/matt/writing/?p=8

14 years ago

109 upvotes – 67 comments

Dynamic Programming versus Memoization

http://blog.racket-lang.org/2012/08/dynamic-programming-versus-memoization.html

14 years ago

103 upvotes – 26 comments

When My Business Failed

http://blogs.hbr.org/pallotta/2012/08/when-my-business-failed.html

14 years ago

101 upvotes – 36 comments

Darpa Has Seen the Future of Computing ... And It's Analog

http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/08/upside/

14 years ago

96 upvotes – 59 comments

Buzz Aldrin’s Official Statement on the Passing of Neil Armstrong

http://buzzaldrin.com/buzz-aldrins-official-statement-on-the-passing-of-neil-armstrong/

14 years ago

96 upvotes – 5 comments
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