top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-08-31

The Woman Who Needed to Be Upside-Down

http://discovermagazine.com/2012/jul-aug/06-vital-signs-woman-needed-upside-down

14 years ago

301 upvotes – 60 comments

"100% of our production system is now running Go"

https://groups.google.com/d/topic/golang-nuts/hC0aJ8IASi4/discussion

14 years ago

297 upvotes – 182 comments

Show HN: Most Wikipedia articles lead to the same loop

http://wikiloopr.com/

14 years ago

295 upvotes – 161 comments

Just Scroll

http://www2.nissan.co.jp/SP/NOTE/SPECIAL/

14 years ago

277 upvotes – 102 comments

Flynn’s IQ

http://www.bryanappleyard.com/flynns-iq/

14 years ago

197 upvotes – 135 comments

Surprise: People hate being forced to use Facebook

http://dailycred.tumblr.com/post/30602034530/surprise-people-hate-being-forced-to-use-facebook

14 years ago

193 upvotes – 95 comments

Probabilistic Many-to-Many Relationships (with Bloom Filters)

http://blog.zacharyvoase.com/2012/08/31/m2mbloom/

14 years ago

180 upvotes – 39 comments

What powers Etsy

http://codeascraft.etsy.com/2012/08/31/what-hardware-powers-etsy-com/

14 years ago

166 upvotes – 44 comments

Amazon S3 - Cross Origin Resource Sharing Support

http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2012/08/amazon-s3-cross-origin-resource-sharing.html

14 years ago

164 upvotes – 44 comments

It's More Important to Be Kind Than Clever

http://www.dailygood.org/view.php?sid=306

14 years ago

161 upvotes – 72 comments

Selling Yourself

http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2012/08/the_surprising_secret_to_selli.html

14 years ago

145 upvotes – 34 comments

Apple loses patent claim against Samsung in Tokyo court

http://ibnlive.in.com/news/apple-loses-to-samsung-in-japan-patent-case/287057-11.html

14 years ago

140 upvotes – 70 comments

Open webOS Beta Officially Released

http://blog.openwebosproject.org/post/30593510898/open-webos-august-edition

14 years ago

137 upvotes – 25 comments

Samsung/Apple Jury Foreman Shows He Doesn't Understand Prior Art

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120830/02063020214/samsungapple-jury-foremans-explanation-verdict-shows-he-doesnt-understand-prior-art.shtml

14 years ago

136 upvotes – 92 comments

Valve Finds Value In Open-Source Drivers

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=intel_valve_linux&num=1

14 years ago

132 upvotes – 52 comments

Show HN: We built a voice to music AI app in 54 hours at a hackathon

http://blog.beatmaticapp.com/

14 years ago

130 upvotes – 58 comments

Why Did I Choose Perl When Building Crowdtilt?

http://dsog.info/blog/Perl/Hacking/Technology/2012/08/31/why-did-i-choose-perl-for-crowdtilt/

14 years ago

120 upvotes – 138 comments

How Tracking Down My Stolen Computer Triggered a Drug Bust

http://blog.makezine.com/2012/08/31/how-tracking-down-my-stolen-computer-triggered-a-drug-bust/

14 years ago

110 upvotes – 62 comments

The humans who outrun horses

http://www.smh.com.au/world/science/the-humans-who-outrun-horses-20120606-1zv96.html

14 years ago

110 upvotes – 72 comments

I've finally implemented the command I keep typing all day: gti

http://r-wos.org/hacks/gti

14 years ago

108 upvotes – 60 comments

Learn how to code a Facebook app in 20 minutes with PythonAnywhere

http://blog.pythonanywhere.com/35/

14 years ago

108 upvotes – 11 comments

Ask HN: Is Google still a cool place to work?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4459412

14 years ago

107 upvotes – 122 comments

Stop producing shit

http://mariusandra.com/blog/2012/08/stop-producing-shit/

14 years ago

107 upvotes – 67 comments

Microsoft updates their Terms of Service to an easily readable Q&A format

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-live/microsoft-services-agreement

14 years ago

106 upvotes – 24 comments

An Introduction to Condition Handling for Non-Lispers

http://lubutu.com/soso/condition-handling-for-non-lispers

14 years ago

104 upvotes – 65 comments

Introducing human.io

http://joshua.schachter.org/2012/08/introducing-humanio.html

14 years ago

103 upvotes – 102 comments

The Switch from Heroku to Hardware

http://justcramer.com/2012/08/30/how-noops-works-for-sentry/

14 years ago

100 upvotes – 51 comments

Ex-Google hiring committee member about job interviewing

http://extroverteddeveloper.com/podcast/2012/8/30/extroverted-developer-18-gayle-laakmann-mcdowell.html

14 years ago

92 upvotes – 65 comments

Building Atari With CreateJS

http://atari.com/arcade/developers/building-atari-createjs

14 years ago

86 upvotes – 11 comments

Please Stop Working on Ads

http://diegobasch.com/please-stop-working-on-ads

14 years ago

83 upvotes – 75 comments

Mailrox - a web app to quickly build bulletproof HTML emails

https://www.mailrox.com/

14 years ago

83 upvotes – 48 comments

Apple Worked A Broken Patent System

http://www.informationweek.com/mobility/smart-phones/apple-worked-a-broken-patent-system/240006568

14 years ago

82 upvotes – 52 comments

Predicting Churn: When Do Veterans Quit?

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/176747/predicting_churn_when_do_veterans_.php?print=1&utm_source=buffer&buffer_share=cb737

14 years ago

67 upvotes – 32 comments

Woman recieves world's first bionic eye

http://www.theage.com.au/technology/sci-tech/bionic-eye-goes-live-in-world-first-by-australian-researchers-20120830-251nu.html

14 years ago

66 upvotes – 12 comments

Nutjob attempts to extort $35 computer from non-profit foundation

http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/1901

14 years ago

66 upvotes – 25 comments

Elli: Performance oriented web server written in Erlang

http://www.wooga.com/2012/08/woogatech_elli/

14 years ago

65 upvotes – 20 comments

Open Letter to Leo Burnett UK

http://asylumfilms.co.uk/open-letter/

14 years ago

64 upvotes – 33 comments

iOS Design Resources

http://nathanbarry.com/25-free-ios-design-resources

14 years ago

63 upvotes – 7 comments

The Top TED talks for startups

http://venturebeat.com/2012/08/30/the-riskiest-thing-you-can-do-now-is-be-safe-the-top-10-ted-talks-for-startups/

14 years ago

63 upvotes – 10 comments

Google Dublin Employees at Street View

https://maps.google.com/maps?q=google+dublin&hl=en&ll=53.339979,-6.236504&spn=0.017936,0.038581&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=48.374125,79.013672&hq=google&hnear=Dublin,+County+Dublin,+Ireland&t=m&z=15&layer=c&cbll=53.339979,-6.236504&panoid=bjWUK7yRI-y9t5_ovbljAA&cbp=12,126.04,,0,14.52

14 years ago

63 upvotes – 32 comments

Predicting the “iPad Mini” internals

http://www.marco.org/2012/08/30/ipad-mini-internals

14 years ago

62 upvotes – 36 comments

Meteor 0.4.0: Introducing Spark

http://www.meteor.com/blog/2012/08/31/introducing-spark-a-new-live-page-update-engine

14 years ago

62 upvotes – 23 comments

Inbox Pause - A pause button for incoming mail in Gmail [Chrome extension]

http://inboxpause.com/

14 years ago

56 upvotes – 34 comments

The Machine That Changed The World

http://waxy.org/2008/06/the_machine_that_changed_the_world/

14 years ago

55 upvotes – 12 comments

Workfu is shutting down.

https://workfu.com/the-end

14 years ago

54 upvotes – 41 comments

BYTE Interview With Richard Stallman (1986)

http://www.gnu.org/gnu/byte-interview.html

14 years ago

48 upvotes – 39 comments

HP Launches The Beta Release Of Open WebOS

http://techcrunch.com/2012/08/31/hp-launches-the-beta-release-of-open-webos/

14 years ago

45 upvotes – 7 comments
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