top 20 hacker news stories for 2012-08-29

AMA with Barack Obama

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/z1c9z/i_am_barack_obama_president_of_the_united_states/

14 years ago

493 upvotes – 250 comments

37signals Earns Millions Each Year. Its CEO’s Model? His Cleaning Lady

http://www.fastcompany.com/3000852/37signals-earns-millions-each-year-its-ceo%E2%80%99s-model-his-cleaning-lady

14 years ago

468 upvotes – 228 comments

GIMP is Now a Self-Contained Native App for Mac OS X

http://www.petapixel.com/2012/08/29/gimp-is-now-a-self-contained-native-app-for-mac-os-x/

14 years ago

376 upvotes – 178 comments

What killed the Linux desktop

http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2012/Aug-29.html

14 years ago

344 upvotes – 378 comments

Walking out of an interview

http://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/3492/is-it-rude-to-leave-an-interview-early-if-you-have-already-made-your-decision

14 years ago

265 upvotes – 248 comments

Poor in India Starve as Politicians Steal $14.5 Billion of Food

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-08-28/poor-in-india-starve-as-politicians-steal-14-5-billion-of-food.html

14 years ago

234 upvotes – 185 comments

HTML5 Boilerplate v4.0.0

http://html5boilerplate.com/#v4.0.0

14 years ago

212 upvotes – 51 comments

Controversial programming opinions

http://programmers.blogoverflow.com/2012/08/20-controversial-programming-opinions/

14 years ago

200 upvotes – 171 comments

IBM unveils z-series with 5.5 GHz CPU and hardware transactional memory.

http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/38653.wss

14 years ago

192 upvotes – 82 comments

Deploying at GitHub

https://github.com/blog/1241-deploying-at-github

14 years ago

182 upvotes – 59 comments

Keep a programming journal

http://gist.github.com/3444793

14 years ago

171 upvotes – 101 comments

The truth about Goobuntu: Google's in-house desktop Ubuntu Linux

http://www.zdnet.com/the-truth-about-goobuntu-googles-in-house-desktop-ubuntu-linux-7000003462/

14 years ago

169 upvotes – 91 comments

Blit: a multitasking, windowed Unix GUI from 1982

http://techchannel.att.com/play-video.cfm/2012/8/27/AT&T-Archives-BLIT-UNIX-GUI

14 years ago

157 upvotes – 76 comments

American law is patent nonsense

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/ea9503c2-f0f9-11e1-89b2-00144feabdc0.html

14 years ago

130 upvotes – 51 comments

MongoDB 2.2.0 Released

http://www.mongodb.org/downloads

14 years ago

129 upvotes – 60 comments

Advice On & Instruction in The Use of Ember.js

http://trek.github.com/

14 years ago

127 upvotes – 68 comments

Bill Buxton: Multi-Touch Systems that I Have Known (1982)

http://www.billbuxton.com/multitouchOverview.html

14 years ago

115 upvotes – 23 comments

New Default WordPress Theme: Twenty Twelve

http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2012/08/28/new-theme-twenty-twelve/

14 years ago

109 upvotes – 29 comments

What 10gen nailed with MongoDB

http://calv.info/what-10gen-nailed-with-mongodb/

14 years ago

109 upvotes – 84 comments

Tabasco Sort: a super-optimal merge sort

http://www.pvk.ca/Blog/2012/08/27/tabasco-sort-super-optimal-merge-sort

14 years ago

109 upvotes – 5 comments
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