top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-09-05

How we keep GitHub fast

https://github.com/blog/1252-how-we-keep-github-fast

14 years ago

398 upvotes – 120 comments

Unix Commands I Abuse Every Day

http://everythingsysadmin.com/2012/09/unorthodoxunix.html

14 years ago

392 upvotes – 103 comments

Neat

http://thoughtbot.com/neat/

14 years ago

375 upvotes – 36 comments

How Tesla is Circumventing Dealerships

http://autos.yahoo.com/blogs/motoramic/tesla-plans-short-circuit-car-dealers-194619627.html

14 years ago

295 upvotes – 143 comments

Pirate Bay Founder Arrest Followed By $59m Swedish Aid Package For Cambodia

http://torrentfreak.com/pirate-bay-founder-arrest-followed-by-59m-swedish-aid-package-for-cambodia-120905/

14 years ago

270 upvotes – 79 comments

Realtime Three.js Coding

http://mrdoob.com/projects/code-editor/

14 years ago

261 upvotes – 37 comments

World wide wasteland

http://www.zemanta.com/blog/world-wide-wasteland/

14 years ago

232 upvotes – 77 comments

Introducing the 4chan API

http://www.4chan.org/news#108

14 years ago

188 upvotes – 79 comments

Dear ICO, Sue Us

http://nocookielaw.com/

14 years ago

171 upvotes – 97 comments

Galaxy S III beats out iPhone 4S as top selling device in US

http://androidandme.com/2012/09/smartphones-2/galaxy-s-iii-beats-out-iphone-4s-as-top-selling-device-in-us/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=galaxy-s-iii-beats-out-iphone-4s-as-top-selling-device-in-us

14 years ago

158 upvotes – 144 comments

WhatsApp is using your IMEI number as password

http://samgranger.com/whatsapp-is-using-imei-numbers-as-passwords/

14 years ago

156 upvotes – 77 comments

AngelList Docs - Close your round online

https://angel.co/docs

14 years ago

149 upvotes – 24 comments

Lord Camden on NSA Surveillance

http://www.juliansanchez.com/2012/09/05/lord-camden-on-nsa-surveillance/

14 years ago

148 upvotes – 26 comments

Game AI vs Traditional AI

http://www.altdevblogaday.com/2011/07/11/students-game-ai-vs-traditional-ai/

14 years ago

143 upvotes – 48 comments

Whatthekeycode.com - quickly find a js keycode for any key

http://whatthekeycode.com/

14 years ago

141 upvotes – 32 comments

Cubieboard: A small, high-performance ARM box

http://cubieboard.org/

14 years ago

136 upvotes – 110 comments

Oracle Must Pay Google $1,130,350 in Costs

http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20120904211545683

14 years ago

135 upvotes – 36 comments

How a bedroom developer's 'ugly little game' became an App Store hit

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-09/04/luca-redwood

14 years ago

131 upvotes – 36 comments

Hacker holds alleged Romney tax returns ransom for $1M in Bitcoins

http://venturebeat.com/2012/09/05/romney-tax-returns-hacked/

14 years ago

131 upvotes – 137 comments

Ask PG: Is There A Startup You Regret Not Funding? (Like Fred and AirBnB)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4477867

14 years ago

127 upvotes – 37 comments

Gmail as a Facade

http://jackg.org/gmail-as-a-facade

14 years ago

122 upvotes – 77 comments

Apple v Samsung Foreman Gets More Things Wrong

http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20120904190933195

14 years ago

116 upvotes – 51 comments

Google Cloud SQL (MySQL)

https://developers.google.com/cloud-sql/

14 years ago

114 upvotes – 21 comments

Your Goals Are Holding You Back

http://danshipper.com/159185755#

14 years ago

104 upvotes – 36 comments

A programmer’s guide to healing RSI

http://blog.evanweaver.com/2012/09/05/a-programmers-guide-to-healing-rsi/

14 years ago

103 upvotes – 67 comments

Startup Culture

http://paulstamatiou.com/startup-culture

14 years ago

101 upvotes – 17 comments

How to run your own open source Skype replacement

http://www.sipwise.com/news/technical/byov-skype-replacement/

14 years ago

98 upvotes – 27 comments

Rails in Realtime - How LayerVault updates every page in a second

http://layervault.tumblr.com/post/30932219739/rails-in-realtime

14 years ago

94 upvotes – 24 comments

$6,000+ of app design ebook sales today

http://nathanbarry.com/learned-selling-6000-ebook-today/

14 years ago

91 upvotes – 43 comments

Grunt.js

http://gruntjs.com/

14 years ago

90 upvotes – 24 comments

Why we Die

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=longevity-why-we-die-global-life-expectancy

14 years ago

86 upvotes – 71 comments

JSON Patch, a proposed standard for synchronizing JSON structures

http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-appsawg-json-patch-03

14 years ago

82 upvotes – 26 comments

Python Development on Linux and Why You Should Too

http://thelinuxexperiment.com/guinea-pigs/jon-f/python-development-on-linux-and-why-you-should-too/

14 years ago

80 upvotes – 33 comments

Anonymous allegedly hacked Romney tax records

http://nashvillecitypaper.com/content/city-news/anonymous-group-allegedly-hacked-romney-tax-records-franklin-firm

14 years ago

78 upvotes – 111 comments

Nokia’s Visionary Wants to Out-Design Apple

http://www.wired.com/business/2012/09/nokias-visionary-wants-to-out-design-apple/

14 years ago

76 upvotes – 65 comments

Modern Vim

http://modernvim.com

14 years ago

72 upvotes – 34 comments

YouTube Flags Democrats’ Convention Video on Copyright Grounds

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/09/youtube-flags-democrats-convention-video-on-copyright-grounds/

14 years ago

70 upvotes – 32 comments

Valve's solution for Steam Greenlight's noise: A $100 donation to Child's Play

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/177123/Valves_solution_for_Steam_Greenlights_noise_A_100_fee.php#.UEavrLWe52B

14 years ago

68 upvotes – 37 comments

Skeuomorphism is the easy way out

http://blog.wells.ee/skeuomorphism

14 years ago

65 upvotes – 46 comments

Apple At Its Worst: It's Time to Stop Censoring Apps

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/apple-should-reinstate-drone-stop-censoring-apps.php

14 years ago

63 upvotes – 59 comments

Recurly billing down -- some customer data lost

http://blog.recurly.com/2012/09/status-update-ii-hardware-outage/

14 years ago

62 upvotes – 39 comments

Running a Business With Staff Scattered Around the World

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/06/business/smallbusiness/running-a-business-with-employees-around-the-world.html?src=dayp&pagewanted=all

14 years ago

60 upvotes – 15 comments

Police seizure of text messages violated 4th Amendment, judge rules

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/09/police-seizure-of-text-messages-violated-4th-amendment-judge-rules/

14 years ago

60 upvotes – 41 comments

NewsBlur (YC S12) launches iPad app, aims to compete with Google Reader

http://venturebeat.com/2012/09/05/newsblur-ipad/

14 years ago

57 upvotes – 11 comments

Top 35 Startups In Tech that TechCrunch missed out on – August 2012

http://www.startupplays.com/blog/top-35-startups-in-tech-that-techcrunch-missed-out-on-%E2%80%93-august-2012/

14 years ago

55 upvotes – 42 comments

Benefits of basing your startup in Scotland

http://www.rookieoven.com/2012/09/05/5-benefits-of-basing-your-startup-in-scotland/

14 years ago

55 upvotes – 76 comments

That UDID script I wrote - 350K hits... (w/source)

http://blog.maclawran.ca/udid-it-350k-hits-on-a-little-server-in-less

14 years ago

53 upvotes – 32 comments

A Word About CSS4

http://www.xanthir.com/b4Ko0

14 years ago

53 upvotes – 33 comments

Apple will no longer license aftermarket power adapters for iPhone 5

http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/12/09/05/apple_adapters_for_new_9_pin_dock_to_cost_10_cables_will_be_19___report.html

14 years ago

52 upvotes – 54 comments

NReduce online demo day: live and public

http://www.nreduce.com/d

14 years ago

51 upvotes – 27 comments

Distraction Free Writing with Vim

http://laktek.com/2012/09/05/distraction-free-writing-with-vim

14 years ago

50 upvotes – 13 comments

Raspberry Pi - Upcoming board revision

http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/1929

14 years ago

50 upvotes – 43 comments

PyCon 2013: Only 24 days left to submit talk and tutorial proposals

http://pycon.blogspot.com/2012/09/pycon-us-only-24-days-left-to-submit.html

14 years ago

49 upvotes – 1 comments

Oscilloscope clock

http://www.nycresistor.com/2012/09/03/vector-display/

14 years ago

48 upvotes – 5 comments

$165 Billion: Food Thrown Away By Americans Every Year

http://statspotting.com/2012/09/165-billion-food-thrown-away-by-americans-every-year/

14 years ago

48 upvotes – 57 comments

Email Will Never Die - The Man Who Invented It Reveals Why

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/email-will-never-die-the-man-who-invented-it-reveals-why.php

14 years ago

47 upvotes – 24 comments

As Uber Comes to New York, Its Legality Is Questioned

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/05/nyregion/as-ubers-taxi-hailing-app-comes-to-new-york-its-legality-is-questioned.html?_r=1&ref=nyregion

14 years ago

46 upvotes – 25 comments

Now that's a nice way to get more Facebook likes

http://like.animade.tv/

14 years ago

46 upvotes – 15 comments
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