top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-09-06

Good riddance, PayPal

http://elliotjaystocks.com/blog/good-riddance-paypal/

14 years ago

713 upvotes – 261 comments

Nokia faked the still photos too

http://sefsar.com/nokia-faked-the-still-photos-too

14 years ago

295 upvotes – 116 comments

The Linux Graphics Stack

http://blog.mecheye.net/2012/06/the-linux-graphics-stack/

14 years ago

284 upvotes – 38 comments

How Google Builds Its Maps

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/09/how-google-builds-its-maps-and-what-it-means-for-the-future-of-everything/261913/

14 years ago

281 upvotes – 109 comments

Amazon Officially Announces The New Kindle Paperwhite

http://www.techcrunch.com/2012/09/06/amazon-officially-announces-the-new-kindle-paperwhite-paperwhite-display-frontlighting-and-212-ppi/

14 years ago

231 upvotes – 175 comments

Why You Should Start Using a VPN

http://lifehacker.com/5940565/why-you-should-start-using-a-vpn-and-how-to-choose-the-best-one-for-your-needs

14 years ago

216 upvotes – 126 comments

No app store? No problem: Grooveshark rolls out full HTML5 site for all devices

http://venturebeat.com/2012/09/05/screw-app-stores-grooveshark-rolls-out-full-html5-site-for-all-devices/

14 years ago

212 upvotes – 129 comments

Raspberry Pi moves manufacturing to the UK

http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/1925

14 years ago

202 upvotes – 67 comments

Y Combinator Founder Paul Graham Issues New Warning to Start-ups

http://www.inc.com/kathleen-kim/y-combinator-advisor-sends-seed-funding-warning.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+inc%2Fheadlines+%28Inc.com+Headlines%29&utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher

14 years ago

188 upvotes – 56 comments

Ask PG: If Viaweb hadn't worked out, what would you have likely done next?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4486463

14 years ago

187 upvotes – 43 comments

Stop validating email addresses with your complex regex

http://davidcelis.com/blog/2012/09/06/stop-validating-email-addresses-with-regex/

14 years ago

184 upvotes – 148 comments

Faced with a Five-Page Limit, Lawyer Files Cartoon Amicus Brief

http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/faced_with_a_five-page_limit_lawyer_files_cartoon_amicus_brief_with_proper_/

14 years ago

172 upvotes – 59 comments

After 35 years, Voyager nears edge of solar system

http://www.npr.org/2012/09/05/160609488/after-35-years-voyager-nears-edge-of-solar-system

14 years ago

161 upvotes – 48 comments

DeveloperAuction gets developers paid what they're worth

http://techcrunch.com/2012/09/06/quora-airbnb-others-made-30m-in-job-offers-to-engineers-in-first-2-weeks-of-developerauction?hn=true

14 years ago

155 upvotes – 138 comments

Why Don’t Americans Elect Scientists?

http://campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/13/why-dont-americans-elect-scientists/

14 years ago

128 upvotes – 143 comments

TSA Moves On From Your Underwear to Your Starbucks

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/09/tsa-moves-on-from-your-underwear-to-your-starbucks/

14 years ago

114 upvotes – 109 comments

Best Practices for c# async/await

http://code.jonwagner.com/2012/09/06/best-practices-for-c-asyncawait/

14 years ago

106 upvotes – 9 comments

Bing vs. Google

http://www.bingiton.com/Landingpage.aspx?form=MBIOST&publ=TWITTER&crea=TEXT_MBIOST_September_Com_TBIO_1X1

14 years ago

100 upvotes – 162 comments

Jimmy Wales threatens to encrypt Wikipedia if UK passes snooping bill

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/09/jimmy-wales-threatens-to-encrypt-wikipedia-if-uk-passes-snooping-bill/

14 years ago

100 upvotes – 38 comments

Ubuntu announces 12.10 (Quantal Quetzal) Beta 1

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QuantalQuetzal/TechnicalOverview/Beta1

14 years ago

97 upvotes – 64 comments

What Raising Money Means To Me

http://www.quirky.com/blog/post/2012/09/what-raising-money-means-to-me/

14 years ago

91 upvotes – 8 comments

Why Postgres

http://www.craigkerstiens.com/2012/04/30/why-postgres/

14 years ago

91 upvotes – 83 comments

Ebay Acquires Svpply

http://ebayinkblog.com/2012/09/06/ebay-inc-acquires-svpply-com/

14 years ago

90 upvotes – 42 comments

Tools to get started in machine learning

http://k2company.com/blog/2012/09/06/toolbox-for-learning-machine-learning-and-data-science/

14 years ago

89 upvotes – 35 comments

Being honest with myself: my journey to learning how to code

http://zackshapiro.com/post/31002274175/being-honest-with-myself-my-journey-to-learning-how-to

14 years ago

84 upvotes – 29 comments

</CaptureTheFlag>

https://stripe.com/blog/capturetheflag

14 years ago

84 upvotes – 20 comments

Amazon’s new Kindle Paperwhite e-reader comes with frontlit screen

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2012/09/amazons-new-kindle-paperwhite-e-reader-comes-with-frontlit-screen/

14 years ago

84 upvotes – 32 comments

The Introvert's Networking Survival Guide: Large Events

http://samuelmullen.com/2012/08/the-introverts-networking-survival-guide/

14 years ago

82 upvotes – 14 comments

Zenbox: Bushido Pivots From Cloud Platforms To Customer Data

http://techcrunch.com/2012/09/06/y-combinator-backed-bushido-pivots-from-cloud-platforms-to-customer-data/

14 years ago

73 upvotes – 25 comments

Steam Linux Beta Build Surfaces In Steam’s Database

http://www.thepowerbase.com/2012/09/steam-linux-beta-build-surfaces-in-steams-database/

14 years ago

73 upvotes – 14 comments

Nokia apologises for 'faked' Lumia smartphone advert

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-19499879

14 years ago

71 upvotes – 33 comments

Another theory on the “FBI” UDID leak

http://www.marco.org/2012/09/06/udid-theory

14 years ago

71 upvotes – 29 comments

Reasons to Start a Startup In Canada

http://mashable.com/2012/09/06/startup-canada/

14 years ago

71 upvotes – 66 comments

The Truth About Convertible Debt and The Hidden Terms You Didn’t Understand

http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2012/09/05/the-truth-about-convertible-debt-at-startups-and-the-hidden-terms-you-didnt-understand/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+BothSidesOfTheTable+%28Both+Sides+of+the+Table%29

14 years ago

70 upvotes – 8 comments

New Twitter API Drops Support for RSS, Puts Limits on Third-Party Clients

http://mashable.com/2012/09/05/twitter-api-rss/

14 years ago

67 upvotes – 22 comments

How I Quit My Job and Bootstrapped My Startup with Tutorspree

http://blog.tutorspree.com/post/30993318622/funding-a-startup-with-tutoring

14 years ago

65 upvotes – 8 comments

Ethiopian Multiplication

http://threesixty360.wordpress.com/2009/06/09/ethiopian-multiplication/

14 years ago

65 upvotes – 21 comments

Laptop fingerprint reader destroys 'entire security model of Windows accounts'

https://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/laptop-fingerprint-reader-destroys-entire-security-model-windows-accounts

14 years ago

62 upvotes – 18 comments

Goldman Sachs: GS Collections source code released

https://github.com/goldmansachs/gs-collections

14 years ago

★ 1.8k Java
59 upvotes – 23 comments

Copyright protectionism - The award for irony goes to...

http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2012/09/copyright-protectionism

14 years ago

57 upvotes – 24 comments

Amazon shows off new 7-inch and 8.9 inch Kindle Fires

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2012/09/amazon-shows-off-new-kindle-fire-shipping-sept-14-for-159/

14 years ago

56 upvotes – 70 comments

Why Java Developers Should Check Out Scala

http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/programming-and-development/why-java-developers-should-check-out-scala/5753

14 years ago

54 upvotes – 80 comments

Rails 3.2 feature: unreadable production logs

https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/04ef93dae6d9cec616973c1110a33894ad4ba6ed

14 years ago

★ 58.3k Ruby MIT
54 upvotes – 34 comments

Arduino Cell phone

http://hackaday.com/2012/09/03/make-cell-phone-calls-with-your-arduino/

14 years ago

53 upvotes – 8 comments

The Lean Launchpad Online

http://steveblank.com/2012/09/06/the-lean-launchpad-online/

14 years ago

52 upvotes – 2 comments

Fixing Unix Filenames: Control Characters, Leading Dashes, and Other Problems

http://www.dwheeler.com/essays/fixing-unix-linux-filenames.html

14 years ago

52 upvotes – 43 comments

_Why Documentary at Rubyconf 2012, Denver

http://www.akitaonrails.com/2012/09/03/why-documentary-at-rubyconf-2012-denver

14 years ago

48 upvotes – 25 comments

Bug 344618 - Implement input type="range"

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=344618

14 years ago

46 upvotes – 25 comments
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