top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-09-07

A proposal for improving HN : it should cost a user Karma to post

http://slidetocode.com/2012/09/07/cost-karma-to-post/

14 years ago

365 upvotes – 268 comments

Tough times on the road to Starcraft

http://www.codeofhonor.com/blog/tough-times-on-the-road-to-starcraft

14 years ago

360 upvotes – 68 comments

Dan Weinreb passed away

http://www.xconomy.com/boston/2012/09/07/dan-weinreb-boston-computer-geek-community-figure-dies-of-cancer/

14 years ago

258 upvotes – 24 comments

Damn Cool Algorithms: Cardinality Estimation

http://blog.notdot.net/2012/09/Dam-Cool-Algorithms-Cardinality-Estimation

14 years ago

233 upvotes – 30 comments

Rich Hickey: extensible data notation

https://github.com/richhickey/edn

14 years ago

★ 10
219 upvotes – 81 comments

Twitter is the Benjamin Button of startups.

https://plus.google.com/109834643338395014064/posts/A9Fk7bsCA1B

14 years ago

218 upvotes – 89 comments

Things I, as a designer, wish more tech startups knew

http://the-pastry-box-project.net/stephen-anderson/2012-september-7/

14 years ago

212 upvotes – 122 comments

Chinese company uses leaked photos to copy, patent iPhone 5 design

http://www.bgr.com/2012/09/05/iphone-5-design-copied-patented-goophone-i5/

14 years ago

195 upvotes – 177 comments

Show HN: My first Mac app, Foreman, free and on Github. Would love feedback

http://www.flyingmachinestudios.com/foreman/

14 years ago

153 upvotes – 86 comments

Kevin Rose Interviews Elon Musk

http://allthingsd.com/20120907/kevin-rose-interviews-elon-musk/

14 years ago

151 upvotes – 54 comments

Welcome to Linux From Scratch

http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/

14 years ago

148 upvotes – 71 comments

The 2 Biggest Mistakes I Made When Learning to Code

http://www.suneelius.com/2012/09/07/the-2-biggest-mistakes-i-made-when-learning-to-code/

14 years ago

147 upvotes – 86 comments

GHC 7.6 is now live: poly kinds, dynamic use of cores, numeric type literals...

http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/7.6.1/html/users_guide/release-7-6-1.html?7.6.1

14 years ago

145 upvotes – 26 comments

Disks lie. And the controllers that run them are partners in crime.

http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2367378

14 years ago

141 upvotes – 42 comments

Former “Seasteaders” Come Ashore To Start Libertarian Utopias In Honduran Jungle

http://www.fastcoexist.com/1678720/former-seasteaders-come-ashore-to-start-libertarian-utopias-in-honduran-jungle

14 years ago

139 upvotes – 135 comments

فلسطين. top-level domain representing the Occupied Palestinian Territory

http://www.iana.org/reports/2010/falasteen-report-16jul2010.html

14 years ago

138 upvotes – 69 comments

Stripe moves to JSONP; adds CORS support

https://stripe.com/blog/stripejs-and-jsonp

14 years ago

122 upvotes – 38 comments

FBI launches $1 billion face recognition project

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21528804.200-fbi-launches-1-billion-face-recognition-project.html

14 years ago

115 upvotes – 102 comments

Bitcoin Mining in Plain English

http://codinginmysleep.com/bitcoin-mining-in-plain-english/

14 years ago

110 upvotes – 35 comments

Show HN: my personal news reader, now public - SkimFeed.com

http://skimfeed.com/

14 years ago

108 upvotes – 78 comments

Show HN: MongoDB + open source e-commerce = Forward

http://getfwd.com

14 years ago

107 upvotes – 70 comments

Get Disciplined, Not Motivated

http://joelrunyon.com/two3/get-disciplined-not-motivated

14 years ago

107 upvotes – 25 comments

APIs for Manufacturing

http://amandapeyton.com/blog/2012/09/apis-for-manufacturing/

14 years ago

102 upvotes – 35 comments

Don't hire only self-described awesome developers

http://blog.hirelite.com/dont-hire-just-self-described-awesome-develop

14 years ago

94 upvotes – 80 comments

Why I wear the same shirt every day

http://waxman.me/why-to-wear-the-same-clothes-every-day

14 years ago

86 upvotes – 105 comments

Show HN: escape from meetings, etc with a prearranged phone call: GetOutCall.com

http://www.getoutcall.com/

14 years ago

83 upvotes – 42 comments

16 days since last ruby drama

http://rubydramas.com/

14 years ago

83 upvotes – 36 comments

Kansas City subsidises Google Fiber

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/09/how-kansas-city-taxpayers-support-google-fiber/

14 years ago

70 upvotes – 33 comments

CC-NC considered harmful

http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=4559

14 years ago

69 upvotes – 47 comments

Show HN: A command-line utility-belt for hacking JSON and Javascript

https://github.com/ddopson/underscore-cli?ref=hn

14 years ago

★ 1.7k JavaScript
68 upvotes – 21 comments

Twitter effectively killing JSONP too

http://blog.dansingerman.com/post/31052497029/twitter-effectively-killing-jsonp-too

14 years ago

66 upvotes – 27 comments

How can I convince my boss that ANSI C is inadequate for our new project?

http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/164017/how-can-i-convince-my-boss-that-ansi-c-is-inadequate-for-our-new-project

14 years ago

63 upvotes – 86 comments

An introduction to libuv

http://nikhilm.github.com/uvbook/

14 years ago

62 upvotes – 16 comments

Why 0.1 Does Not Exist In Floating-Point

http://www.exploringbinary.com/why-0-point-1-does-not-exist-in-floating-point/

14 years ago

60 upvotes – 33 comments

First Month on app.net – Charts and Stats

http://diegobasch.com/first-month-on-app-net-charts-and-stats

14 years ago

57 upvotes – 26 comments

The Wisdom of Crowds: Using Ensembles for Machine Learning

http://blog.factual.com/the-wisdom-of-crowds

14 years ago

56 upvotes – 5 comments

Privacy restrictions on Facebook posts are visible to users

https://plus.google.com/110402443423554417660/posts/YgQGEZPWvPk

14 years ago

56 upvotes – 32 comments

Paul Graham’s ‘lowball’ accusation of Google Ventures

http://venturebeat.com/2012/09/07/lowball/

14 years ago

55 upvotes – 23 comments

The to-do list problem

http://www.funkykaraoke.com/2012/09/the-to-do-list-problem.html

14 years ago

55 upvotes – 48 comments

Violation of Heisenberg’s Measurement-Disturbance Relationship

http://prl.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v109/i10/e100404

14 years ago

54 upvotes – 11 comments

Google beefs up its security by acquiring online virus scanner VirusTotal

http://thenextweb.com/google/2012/09/07/google-just-acquired-free-online-virus-scanner-utility-virustotal/

14 years ago

53 upvotes – 11 comments

Labrador: A web-based, database agnostic client for Rails development databases

http://chrismccord.github.com/labrador/

14 years ago

53 upvotes – 8 comments

Datomic gets a REST API

http://blog.datomic.com/2012/09/rest-api.html

14 years ago

52 upvotes – 1 comments

New Rails workshops to bring more women into the Boston software scene

http://www.railsbridgeboston.org/blog/2012_aug_recap

14 years ago

50 upvotes – 51 comments

Amazon's New Kindle Fire Tablets Are All Ad-Supported

http://www.ign.com/articles/2012/09/06/amazons-new-kindle-fire-tablets-are-all-ad-supported

14 years ago

49 upvotes – 51 comments

Sniffing open WiFi networks is not wiretapping, judge says

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/09/sniffing-open-wifi-networks-is-not-wiretapping-judge-says/

14 years ago

48 upvotes – 51 comments

Google Acquires VirusTotal

http://blog.virustotal.com/2012/09/an-update-from-virustotal.html

14 years ago

47 upvotes – 2 comments
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