top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-08-30

John Hunter [matplotlib.sourceforge.net] has died.

http://mail.scipy.org/pipermail/ipython-dev/2012-August/010135.html

14 years ago

324 upvotes – 32 comments

Wolfram Alpha Personal Analytics for Facebook

http://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2012/08/wolframalpha-personal-analytics-for-facebook/

14 years ago

306 upvotes – 103 comments

Lobsters

https://lobste.rs/

14 years ago

297 upvotes – 209 comments

New Firefox Command Line helps you develop faster

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2012/08/new-firefox-command-line-helps-you-develop-faster/

14 years ago

291 upvotes – 67 comments

PonyDebugger: Chrome Developer Tools for Native iOS Apps

http://corner.squareup.com/2012/08/ponydebugger-remote-debugging.html

14 years ago

278 upvotes – 44 comments

Apple Rejects App That Tracks U.S. Drone Strikes

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/08/drone-app/

14 years ago

273 upvotes – 221 comments

Robot cars on public roads? California says yes

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/08/robot-cars-on-public-roads-california-says-yes/

14 years ago

267 upvotes – 152 comments

No Email

http://blog.harjtaggar.com/time

14 years ago

213 upvotes – 123 comments

TechCrunch is a bully

http://www.lanewood.me/post/30435294794/techcrunch-is-a-bully

14 years ago

202 upvotes – 110 comments

HBO cuts the cord, brings streaming-only service to Europe

http://arstechnica.com/business/2012/08/hbo-cuts-the-cord-brings-streaming-only-service-to-europe/

14 years ago

197 upvotes – 99 comments

Amit’s Thoughts on Grids

http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~amitp/game-programming/grids/

14 years ago

194 upvotes – 12 comments

Oracle knew about critical Java flaws since April

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/08/30/oracle_knew_about_flaws/

14 years ago

179 upvotes – 88 comments

Why Johnny can't stream: How video copyright went insane

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/08/why-johnny-cant-stream-how-video-copyright-went-insane/

14 years ago

170 upvotes – 48 comments

Teaching my 10 year old niece how to program.

http://orangethirty.blogspot.com/2012/08/teaching-my-10-yeard-old-niece-how-to.html

14 years ago

153 upvotes – 86 comments

Silicon Valley Is Filled With Liars

http://nickoneill.com/silicon-valley-is-filled-with-liars/

14 years ago

148 upvotes – 85 comments

Why should I have written ZeroMQ in C, not C++ (part II)

http://www.250bpm.com/blog:8

14 years ago

128 upvotes – 156 comments

Stripe CTF Writeup

http://blog.ioactive.com/2012/08/stripe-ctf-20-write-up.html

14 years ago

126 upvotes – 89 comments

The Cooper Journal: The best interface is no interface

http://www.cooper.com/journal/2012/08/the-best-interface-is-no-interface.html/

14 years ago

121 upvotes – 34 comments

Heroku Isn't for Idiots

http://rdegges.com/heroku-isnt-for-idiots

14 years ago

114 upvotes – 58 comments

BlaBlaMeter detects how much bullshit is in your text

http://www.blablameter.com/

14 years ago

108 upvotes – 92 comments

Researchers Believe They Have Found a Single Dose Cure for Malaria

http://newswatch.nationalgeographic.com/2012/08/29/university-of-cape-town-researchers-believe-they-have-found-a-single-dose-cure-for-malaria/

14 years ago

107 upvotes – 42 comments

Hopefully more controversial programming opinions

http://prog21.dadgum.com/149.html

14 years ago

103 upvotes – 98 comments

Patents considered evil

http://www.ipocracy.org/article:1

14 years ago

95 upvotes – 28 comments

What It's Like for a Deaf Person to Hear Music for the First Time

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/12/08/what-its-like-for-a-deaf-person-to-hear-music-for-the-first-time/260890/

14 years ago

93 upvotes – 36 comments

Qt 5 Beta has been released

http://labs.qt.nokia.com/2012/08/30/qt-5-beta-is-here/

14 years ago

88 upvotes – 12 comments

$21,243 in 8 Days: Why AppSumo is Going to Keep Crushing It

http://www.clickminded.com/why-appsumo-is-going-to-keep-crushing-it/

14 years ago

83 upvotes – 48 comments

Parsing with Haskell and Attoparsec

http://newartisans.com/2012/08/parsing-with-haskell-and-attoparsec/

14 years ago

77 upvotes – 8 comments

What Successful People Do With The First Hour Of Their Work Day

http://www.fastcompany.com/3000619/what-successful-people-do-first-hour-their-work-day?goback=.gde_37888_member_154739793

14 years ago

72 upvotes – 27 comments

What Americans Actually Do All Day Long

http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2012/08/29/160244277/what-americans-actually-do-all-day-long-in-2-graphics

14 years ago

67 upvotes – 48 comments

Show HN: I'm building a webapp for serious cyclists

http://www.cyclinganalytics.com/

14 years ago

66 upvotes – 78 comments

There’s a Lift for that

http://blog.lift.do/post/30458629307/theres-a-lift-for-that

14 years ago

66 upvotes – 46 comments

Harvard investigates 125 students for cheating on final exam

http://bostonglobe.com/metro/2012/08/30/harvard-investigates-students-for-cheating-final-exam/RIb6915NqHQ73nQQxoZOpO/story.html

14 years ago

64 upvotes – 81 comments

D3 - Languages and Color

http://blog.crowdflower.com/2012/08/what-color-is-this-in-9-languages/

14 years ago

64 upvotes – 14 comments

Lessons Learned: The First Hire

http://reefpoints.dockyard.com/opinion/2012/08/30/lessons-learned-the-first-hire.html

14 years ago

61 upvotes – 11 comments

Putative class action against PayPal for holding sellers' money

http://www.complexlitgroup.com/PayPal-Holding-Money.shtml

14 years ago

58 upvotes – 25 comments

Building The Linux Kernel With LLVM/Clang Continues

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTE3MTc

14 years ago

56 upvotes – 9 comments

Everything you know about China is wrong

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/08/29/everything_you_think_you_know_about_china_is_wrong

14 years ago

56 upvotes – 54 comments

Facebook: Updates to the Graph API

https://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/2012/08/30/updates-to-the-graph-api/

14 years ago

55 upvotes – 8 comments

Ask HN: Apple closed our entire app store

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4456493

14 years ago

49 upvotes – 40 comments
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