top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-08-27

Learning C with gdb

https://www.hackerschool.com/blog/5-learning-c-with-gdb

14 years ago

397 upvotes – 95 comments

Move your feet

http://swanson.github.com/blog/2012/08/27/move-your-feet.html

14 years ago

350 upvotes – 79 comments

Look at yourself objectively

http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/semmelweis

14 years ago

294 upvotes – 77 comments

Show HN: Business.txt - Standard Proposal

https://github.com/fesja/businesstxt

14 years ago

★ 235
264 upvotes – 109 comments

The Hidden Truths about Calories

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/2012/08/27/the-hidden-truths-about-calories/

14 years ago

239 upvotes – 182 comments

Who inherits your iTunes library when you die?

http://articles.marketwatch.com/2012-08-23/finance/33336852_1_digital-content-digital-files-apple-and-amazon

14 years ago

181 upvotes – 124 comments

Twitter Removes 'Via' Stamp From Web Client

http://thenextweb.com/twitter/2012/08/28/twitter-longer-displays-client-tweet-posted-web-emphasizing-first-party-reading-experience/

14 years ago

171 upvotes – 73 comments

NASA to use consumer Android smartphones in new satellites

http://www.nasa.gov/offices/oct/crosscutting_capability/edison/phonesat.html

14 years ago

168 upvotes – 100 comments

Can'tada - Tracking the stuff you can't use in Canada

http://cantada.ca/

14 years ago

143 upvotes – 98 comments

Public Lab DIY Spectrometry Kit

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jywarren/public-lab-diy-spectrometry-kit

14 years ago

135 upvotes – 33 comments

Securing Stripe's Capture the Flag

https://blog.gregbrockman.com/2012/08/system-design-stripe-capture-the-flag/

14 years ago

135 upvotes – 36 comments

Where did the Tweetbot for Mac Alpha go?

http://tapbots.com/blog/news/where-did-the-tweetbot-for-mac-alpha-go

14 years ago

133 upvotes – 47 comments

Lisp-like html as a replacement to bbcode/markup/textile

http://94.249.190.129/

14 years ago

133 upvotes – 79 comments

Dark matter scaffolding of universe detected for the first time

http://ns.umich.edu/new/releases/20623-dark-matter-scaffolding-of-universe-detected-for-the-first-time

14 years ago

131 upvotes – 48 comments

Diaspora Will Now Be A Community Project

http://blog.diasporafoundation.org/2012/08/27/announcement-diaspora-will-now-be-a-community-project.html

14 years ago

119 upvotes – 124 comments

Tesla model S eliminates range anxiety

http://www.motortrend.com/roadtests/alternative/1208_2012_tesla_model_s_test_and_range_verification/viewall.html

14 years ago

115 upvotes – 127 comments

How to Sell Your Company

http://www.jacquesmattheij.com/How+To+Sell+Your+Company

14 years ago

114 upvotes – 19 comments

Pascal's Apology, or why computer science is complicated

http://carlos.bueno.org/2012/08/pascals-apology.html

14 years ago

112 upvotes – 29 comments

Go's unique approach to OO

http://www.drdobbs.com/article/print?articleId=240005949&siteSectionName=open-source

14 years ago

108 upvotes – 18 comments

How RESTful is Your API?

http://www.bitnative.com/2012/08/26/how-restful-is-your-api/

14 years ago

97 upvotes – 56 comments

Apple v. Samsung Verdict: Could Bill Gates Have Patented The iPhone in 1995?

http://www.litigationandtrial.com/2012/08/articles/attorney/patent-infringement/apple-v-samsung/

14 years ago

93 upvotes – 99 comments

Genes Now Tell Doctors Secrets They Can’t Utter

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/26/health/research/with-rise-of-gene-sequencing-ethical-puzzles.html?src=me&ref=general

14 years ago

90 upvotes – 34 comments

BigScreen — Javascript library for HTML5 Fullscreen API

http://brad.is/coding/BigScreen/

14 years ago

82 upvotes – 21 comments

Ask.com buys About.com for $300M

http://www.zdnet.com/ask-com-buys-about-com-for-300m-7000003195/

14 years ago

81 upvotes – 40 comments

Best of "Ask HN"

http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/submissions&q=%22Ask+HN%22&sortby=points+desc&start=0

14 years ago

80 upvotes – 7 comments

JFK's Application to Harvard

http://www.scribd.com/doc/46828819/JFK-s-Harvard-Application-Materials

14 years ago

73 upvotes – 84 comments

Gittip: Open Source Financing

http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2012/8/27/open-source-financing/

14 years ago

72 upvotes – 46 comments

Steve Blank: Vision versus Hallucination - Founders and Pivots

http://steveblank.com/2012/08/27/vision-versus-hallucination-founders-and-pivots/

14 years ago

71 upvotes – 23 comments

Show HN: pry-rescue — workflow-optimized debugging for ruby

http://cirw.in/blog/pry-to-the-rescue

14 years ago

69 upvotes – 30 comments

Mathematical Challenges

http://www.darpa.mil/Our_Work/DSO/Programs/23_Mathematical_Challenges.aspx

14 years ago

68 upvotes – 30 comments

The Exodus of Tech from Portugal

http://the.taoofmac.com/space/blog/2012/08/24/2240

14 years ago

68 upvotes – 134 comments

DMCA takedowns GitHub has received

https://github.com/github/dmca/

14 years ago

★ 6.2k DIGITAL Command Language
67 upvotes – 28 comments

Light Table (Kodowa) is hiring

http://kodowa.com/jobs

14 years ago

67 upvotes – 23 comments

Study finds hunter-gatherers' energy expenditure same as modern Westerners'

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/26/opinion/sunday/debunking-the-hunter-gatherer-workout.html?src=recg

14 years ago

65 upvotes – 30 comments

Method Combinators in CoffeeScript

https://github.com/raganwald/homoiconic/blob/master/2012/08/method-decorators-and-combinators-in-coffeescript.md

14 years ago

★ 1.8k Ruby
64 upvotes – 25 comments

Retina MacBook Pro review as a Mac Pro owner

http://www.marco.org/2012/08/26/retina-mbp-review

14 years ago

62 upvotes – 98 comments

Acqui-hire Is Just Another Way to Spell Failure

http://www.jacquesmattheij.com/acqui-hire-is-just-another-way-to-spell-failure

14 years ago

62 upvotes – 49 comments

Moscow Court Finds Kasparov Not Guilty of Illegal Protest

http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/24/moscow-court-finds-kasparov-not-guilty-of-illegal-protest-during-pussy-riot-trial/?src=recg

14 years ago

60 upvotes – 7 comments

Too Many Pivots, Too Little Passion?

http://hbr.org/2012/09/too-many-pivots-too-little-passion/ar/1

14 years ago

58 upvotes – 26 comments

Reddit Gets Two New Donation Options Powered By Crowdtilt And Dwolla

http://techcrunch.com/2012/08/27/reddit-gets-new-donation-options-powered-by-both-crowdtilt-and-dwolla/

14 years ago

57 upvotes – 12 comments

How TeX made it to the iOS App Store - running on DOS, inside an emulator

http://vallettaventures.com/2012/08/27/tex-notebook/

14 years ago

56 upvotes – 49 comments

Google reacts to Apple's US patent victory over Samsung

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-19389732

14 years ago

56 upvotes – 47 comments

Conway's Game Of Life in Clojure

http://programmablelife.blogspot.com/2012/08/conways-game-of-life-in-clojure.html

14 years ago

56 upvotes – 11 comments

A Developer I Admire — Walter Zorn

http://www.useragentman.com/blog/2012/08/26/a-developer-i-admire-walter-zorn/

14 years ago

49 upvotes – 4 comments

Python Module of the Week

http://www.doughellmann.com/PyMOTW/index.html

14 years ago

45 upvotes – 5 comments
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