top 50% 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

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

What 10gen nailed with MongoDB

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

14 years ago

109 upvotes – 84 comments

How Reddit Got Obama

https://allthingsd.com/20120829/how-reddit-got-obama-there-are-quite-a-few-redditors-at-1600-pennsylvania-ave/

14 years ago

103 upvotes – 100 comments

The Talented Ms. Hornstein: How Shirls Fooled The Valley

http://techcrunch.com/2012/08/28/talented-shirley-hornstein/

14 years ago

99 upvotes – 49 comments

Linux Commands for Developers

http://blog.jayfields.com/2012/08/8-linux-commands-every-developer-should.html

14 years ago

98 upvotes – 64 comments

How To Cheat On Facebook Apps Permissions

http://homakov.blogspot.com/2012/08/how-to-cheat-on-facebook-apps.html

14 years ago

96 upvotes – 32 comments

Doctor Who goes back in time to beat TV pirates

http://paidcontent.org/2012/08/29/doctor-who-goes-back-in-time-to-beat-tv-pirates/

14 years ago

94 upvotes – 57 comments

The email boilerplate for sending out nicely formatted messages

https://github.com/seanpowell/Email-Boilerplate

14 years ago

★ 3.7k HTML
88 upvotes – 23 comments

Show HN: Coding.fm - Raining.fm for coders

http://coding.fm/

14 years ago

81 upvotes – 68 comments

Craigslist Quietly Begins Testing The Feature It Sued PadMapper For Adding

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120828/17414020198/craigslist-quietly-begins-testing-feature-it-sued-padmapper-adding.shtml

14 years ago

77 upvotes – 41 comments

Bringing Google+ to work

http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2012/08/bringing-google-to-work.html

14 years ago

75 upvotes – 80 comments

Updated: We’ve Deleted Our Facebook Page

http://blog.limitedrun.com/post/28341629174/updated-weve-deleted-our-facebook-page

14 years ago

74 upvotes – 39 comments

Teaching Kids to Love Math

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390444914904577615690632669590.html?mod=lifestyle_newsreel

14 years ago

72 upvotes – 46 comments

New Actionscript compiler from Adobe

http://www.bytearray.org/?p=4789

14 years ago

70 upvotes – 27 comments

Ask President Barack Obama anything on Reddit (seriously)

http://venturebeat.com/2012/08/29/ask-president-barack-obama-anything-on-reddit-seriously/

14 years ago

70 upvotes – 28 comments

Is it rude to leave an interview early if you have already made your decision?

http://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/3492/2624

14 years ago

69 upvotes – 51 comments

TrustEgg (YC W11) Allows Anyone To Set Up A Trust For Their Kids

http://techcrunch.com/2012/08/29/trustegg-allows-anyone-to-set-up-a-trust-for-their-kids/

14 years ago

68 upvotes – 75 comments

Google Enters The Social Enterprise With Public Debut Of Google+ For Businesses

http://techcrunch.com/2012/08/29/google-enters-the-social-enterprise-with-public-debut-of-google-for-businesses-free-through-2013/

14 years ago

65 upvotes – 22 comments

Nodester acquired by AppFog

http://blog.nodester.com/post/30434216604/nodester-joins-appfog

14 years ago

65 upvotes – 26 comments

Zynga creative chief quits

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390444506004577618133483225566.html?mod=WSJ_hpsMIDDLENexttoWhatsNewsSecond

14 years ago

63 upvotes – 43 comments

AppFog acquires Nodester

http://blog.appfog.com/appfog-acquires-nodester-shares-love-for-node-devs/

14 years ago

62 upvotes – 3 comments

Big 3D printing machine prints metal objects

http://www.theage.com.au/technology/sci-tech/just-the-laser-printer-to-reshape-local-industry-20120827-24wox.html

14 years ago

58 upvotes – 45 comments

Low-Calorie Diet Doesn’t Prolong Life, Study of Monkeys Finds

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/30/science/low-calorie-diet-doesnt-prolong-life-study-of-monkeys-finds.html

14 years ago

57 upvotes – 68 comments

Harvard creates cyborg flesh that’s half man, half machine

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/135207-harvard-creates-cyborg-flesh-thats-half-man-half-machine

14 years ago

55 upvotes – 17 comments

The Money/Time fallacy

http://thoughts.maayank.com/2012/08/the-moneytime-fallacy-or-guide-to-very.html

14 years ago

52 upvotes – 39 comments

Haxx.ly - remix any website with your own css/js to share with friends

http://www.haxx.ly

14 years ago

52 upvotes – 41 comments

Sauce Labs launches support for highly-secure OSX & iOS automated testing

http://techcrunch.com/2012/08/28/enterprise-app-testing-platform-sauce-labs-raises-3m-from-salesforce-and-triage-ventures/

14 years ago

49 upvotes – 11 comments

Twitter Launches “Twitter Certified Products”

http://techcrunch.com/2012/08/29/twitter-launches-twitter-certified-products-partners-with-datasift-gnip-hootsuite-others/

14 years ago

48 upvotes – 39 comments

RubyMotion Apps Styled with CSS

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/pixate/beautiful-native-mobile-apps/posts/298226

14 years ago

48 upvotes – 10 comments
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