top 50% 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

Why Arrested Development on Netflix could change everything

http://gigaom.com/video/why-arrested-development-on-netflix-could-change-everything/

14 years ago

86 upvotes – 36 comments

Deadbook, the Long-term Facebook

http://www.jacquesmattheij.com/deadbook-the-long-term-facebook/

14 years ago

82 upvotes – 54 comments

How Long Do You Want to Live?

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/26/sunday-review/how-long-do-you-want-to-live.html

14 years ago

77 upvotes – 99 comments

School of Hard Knocks: ‘How Children Succeed,’ by Paul Tough

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/26/books/review/how-children-succeed-by-paul-tough.html?pagewanted=all

14 years ago

75 upvotes – 33 comments

Practicing Programming

https://sites.google.com/site/steveyegge2/practicing-programming

14 years ago

70 upvotes – 25 comments

Shell script Mac Apps

http://mathiasbynens.be/notes/shell-script-mac-apps

14 years ago

69 upvotes – 15 comments

Pricing Your Product: it Doesn’t Have to Be so Complicated

http://joel.is/post/30167827294/pricing-your-product-it-doesnt-have-to-be-so

14 years ago

68 upvotes – 25 comments

Do Plants Think?

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=do-plants-think-daniel-chamovitz

14 years ago

68 upvotes – 51 comments

Charter the Seasteader I

http://www.seasteading.org/lease-the-seasteader-i/

14 years ago

64 upvotes – 37 comments

The Oatmeal has raised over $1.1M for a Nikola Tesla museum

http://venturebeat.com/2012/08/26/oatmeal-tesla-tower/

14 years ago

64 upvotes – 17 comments

Pandora and Spotify Rake in the Money and Then Send It Off in Royalties

http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/24/pandora-and-spotify-rake-in-the-money-and-then-send-it-off-in-royalties/?ref=television&gwh=0E551F7612AEE5E7D138ABC9DBFC8F3F

14 years ago

63 upvotes – 44 comments

Emacs Screencasts: Customisation Part II

http://emacsmovies.org/blog/2012/08/25/customisation_part_2/

14 years ago

55 upvotes – 18 comments

Why Ant Foraging is like TCP

http://engineering.stanford.edu/news/stanford-biologist-computer-scientist-discover-anternet?v=1

14 years ago

54 upvotes – 8 comments

Codeacademy for competent programmers?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4434570

14 years ago

51 upvotes – 35 comments
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