top 50% 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

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

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

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

Bootstrapped Wingify moves to a bigger office and hits 1600+ customers

http://visualwebsiteoptimizer.com/split-testing-blog/shiny-new-office/

14 years ago

104 upvotes – 42 comments

Poor man's IFTTT in 3 lines of code

http://blog.lagentz.com/general/automate-your-shell-scripts-using-inotify-and-inotifywait/

14 years ago

101 upvotes – 33 comments

Yes, India is a police state - Christopher Soghoian

http://blogs.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/WebWise/entry/is-india-a-police-state

14 years ago

93 upvotes – 93 comments

1 million accounts leaked in megahack on banks, websites

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/08/28/team_ghostshell_megahack/

14 years ago

89 upvotes – 35 comments

Break Apart Your Backbone.js Render Methods

http://ianstormtaylor.com/break-apart-your-backbonejs-render-methods/

14 years ago

87 upvotes – 17 comments

Major Labels Claim Copyright Over Public Domain Songs; YouTube Punishes Musician

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120827/22533320172/major-labels-claim-copyright-over-public-domain-songs-youtube-punishes-musician.shtml

14 years ago

87 upvotes – 38 comments

Norway Has Advice For Libya

http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2011/08/26/139972557/the-friday-podcast-norways-got-advice-for-libya

14 years ago

84 upvotes – 20 comments

This is not an image. It's an HTML table.

http://discountgeni.us/2012/08/27/pixeltable/

14 years ago

83 upvotes – 63 comments

PostgreSQL 9.2 RC1 released

http://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1410/

14 years ago

80 upvotes – 20 comments

IBM creating pocket-sized Watson in $16 billion sales push

http://www.kurzweilai.net/ibm-creating-pocket-sized-watson-in-16-billion-sales-push

14 years ago

78 upvotes – 35 comments

AMD reveals Steamroller CPU architecture details

http://techreport.com/articles.x/23485

14 years ago

77 upvotes – 29 comments

Javascript Tips for Non-Specialists

http://omniti.com/seeds/javascript-tips-for-non-specialists

14 years ago

76 upvotes – 31 comments

Rackspace acquires Mailgun (YC W11)

http://techcrunch.com/2012/08/28/rackspace-acquires-y-combinator-startup-mailgun-an-api-that-abstracts-creating-email-inboxes-for-apps-and-web-sites/

14 years ago

71 upvotes – 13 comments

Monads in Clojure

http://www.intensivesystems.net/tutorials/monads_101.html

14 years ago

71 upvotes – 17 comments

Craigslist is on board: OpenStreetMap soars to new heights

http://arstechnica.com/business/2012/08/craigslist-is-on-board-openstreetmap-continues-soaring-to-new-heights/

14 years ago

68 upvotes – 38 comments

BananaBread: 3D first person shooter game compiled to JS+WebGL

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/demos/detail/bananabread

14 years ago

66 upvotes – 22 comments

JQuery Gantt editor - how to

http://roberto.open-lab.com/2012/08/24/jquery-gantt-editor/

14 years ago

65 upvotes – 17 comments

The Sad State of the Startup Pitch

http://bryce.vc/post/30383589458/the-sad-state-of-the-startup-pitch

14 years ago

64 upvotes – 13 comments

I'm Doing It Wrong

http://wellbredgrapefruit.com/blog/2012/08/27/im-doing-it-wrong/

14 years ago

64 upvotes – 38 comments

The Andreessen Horowitz Effect

http://techonomy.com/2012/08/the-andreessen-horowitz-effect/

14 years ago

63 upvotes – 8 comments

BBC iPlayer for Kindle (Cool Hack)

http://www.frisnit.com/2011/07/07/iplayer-for-kindle/

14 years ago

63 upvotes – 14 comments

The Siege of Academe: Silicon Valley's fight to disrupt higher education

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/septemberoctober_2012/features/_its_three_oclock_in039373.php?page=all

14 years ago

63 upvotes – 46 comments

The 11th Principle of Good Design

http://blog.wells.ee/design-11

14 years ago

60 upvotes – 27 comments

American Houses Are Still Much, Much Bigger Than They Used To Be

http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2012/08/23/159835012/american-houses-are-still-much-much-bigger-than-they-used-to-be

14 years ago

57 upvotes – 48 comments

Takeaways from three years of angel investing

http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/2012/08/takeaways-from-three-years-of-angel-investing.html

14 years ago

55 upvotes – 13 comments

Still waking up at 5am to code?

http://www.mattgreer.org/post/3stillfiveam

14 years ago

53 upvotes – 28 comments

The Pixate Project: Bringing CSS to Native Apps

http://benzilla.galbraiths.org/2012/08/27/pixate/

14 years ago

52 upvotes – 34 comments

How Copyrights Ruined the Olympics and What You Can Learn From It

http://blog.kunvay.com/how-copyrights-ruined-the-olympics-and-what-you-can-learn-from-it/

14 years ago

52 upvotes – 26 comments

Airbnb Tech Talk: Jay Kreps on LinkedIn's realtime data pipeline using Kafka

http://www.airbnb.com/meetups/jznjzcsa9-tech-talk-jay-kreps

14 years ago

49 upvotes – 4 comments
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