top 20 hacker news stories for 2012-08-28

What Happens to Stolen Bicycles?

http://blog.priceonomics.com/post/30393216796/what-happens-to-stolen-bicycles

14 years ago

534 upvotes – 347 comments

What it’s like to work for Stripe

http://blog.alexmaccaw.com/stripes-culture

14 years ago

285 upvotes – 57 comments

Add two-factor authentication to your ssh in 30 seconds

http://blog.authy.com/add-two-factor-authentication-to-your-ssh-in-30-seconds/

14 years ago

240 upvotes – 106 comments

How I cracked my neighbor's WiFi password without breaking a sweat

http://arstechnica.com/security/2012/08/wireless-password-easily-cracked/

14 years ago

240 upvotes – 141 comments

Damn Cool Algorithms: Homomorphic Hashing

http://blog.notdot.net/2012/08/Damn-Cool-Algorithms-Homomorphic-Hashing

14 years ago

234 upvotes – 25 comments

Rich Hickey: Deconstructing the Database

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cym4TZwTCNU

14 years ago

229 upvotes – 90 comments

Apple's New Pinch-To-Zoom Monopoly is Bad News

http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2012/08/25/apple_v_samsung_verdict_creates_new_pinch_to_zoon_monopoly_that_s_bad_for_consumers.html

14 years ago

220 upvotes – 222 comments

The Worst Argument In The World

http://lesswrong.com/lw/e95/the_worst_argument_in_the_world/

14 years ago

212 upvotes – 143 comments

A tale of the supreme competence of Neil Armstrong

http://www.aei-ideas.org/2012/08/neil-armstrong-rip/

14 years ago

203 upvotes – 42 comments

PG: The Art of Funding a Startup is now free on Amazon

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005MEG11Q?ie=UTF8&camp=213733&creative=393177&creativeASIN=B005MEG11Q

14 years ago

197 upvotes – 85 comments

Don’t drink the startup Kool-Aid – just find a problem and try to solve it

http://venturevillage.eu/startup-kool-aid

14 years ago

195 upvotes – 50 comments

Firefox 15 available to download, finally fixes add-on memory leak

http://www.extremetech.com/computing/135156-firefox-15-available-to-download-finally-fixes-add-on-memory-leak

14 years ago

188 upvotes – 183 comments

HBO No Go

http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2012/08/hbo-no-go.html

14 years ago

181 upvotes – 96 comments

The Forgotten Yahoo Project That Inspired Two Recently Funded Startups

http://nickoneill.com/the-forgotten-yahoo-project-that-inspired-two-recently-funded-startups/

14 years ago

159 upvotes – 47 comments

Mailgun (YC W11) is being acquired by Rackspace

http://blog.mailgun.net/post/30381960476/mailgun-is-being-acquired-by-rackspace

14 years ago

153 upvotes – 62 comments

Jury foreman says Apple patents valid due to different processor architecture

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4446102

14 years ago

151 upvotes – 75 comments

Usenet – what have you become?

http://www.90percentofeverything.com/2012/08/28/usenet-what-have-you-become/

14 years ago

129 upvotes – 116 comments

Firefox 15 arrives, supports compressed textures for impressive 3D gaming

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/08/firefox-15-arrives-supports-compressed-textures-for-impressive-3d-gaming/

14 years ago

118 upvotes – 52 comments

Show HN: A versioned filesystem inspired by Git

http://github.com/artagnon/phoenixfs

14 years ago

★ 208 C MIT
115 upvotes – 46 comments

“Growth Hacking” is BS

http://layeredthoughts.com/startups/growth-hacking-is-bsits-all-just-marketing

14 years ago

105 upvotes – 53 comments
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