top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-09-10

Show HN: We got tired of asking 'What browser are you using?' and created this

https://aboutmybrowser.com

14 years ago

521 upvotes – 175 comments

Proof Claimed for Deep Connection between Prime Numbers

http://www.nature.com/news/proof-claimed-for-deep-connection-between-primes-1.11378

14 years ago

394 upvotes – 89 comments

GoDaddy's DNS Service is Down

http://www.godaddy.com

14 years ago

392 upvotes – 288 comments

How I Learned to Defrag My Brain

http://alexhillman.com/defrag-your-brain-with-a-sparkfile

14 years ago

271 upvotes – 83 comments

PostgreSQL 9.2 released

http://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1415/

14 years ago

271 upvotes – 77 comments

I feel I am building a new Google Wave

http://pivory.com/#topic/1/0

14 years ago

270 upvotes – 98 comments

Skeuomorphism

http://skeu.it/

14 years ago

260 upvotes – 101 comments

Lessons for uncultured web developers

http://www.troyhunt.com/2012/09/10-lessons-for-uncultured-web-developers.html

14 years ago

244 upvotes – 112 comments

Obama Admin Pursuing Executive Order to Enact CISPA-Like Cybersecurity Language

http://www.opencongress.org/articles/view/2511-Obama-Admin-Pursuing-Executive-Order-to-Enact-CISPA-Like-Cybersecurity-Language

14 years ago

201 upvotes – 166 comments

HP introduces new Apple iMac

http://thenextweb.com/apple/2012/09/10/notefile/

14 years ago

201 upvotes – 247 comments

The real source of Apple device IDs leaked by Anonymous last week

http://redtape.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/09/10/13781440-exclusive-the-real-source-of-apple-device-ids-leaked-by-anonymous-last-week

14 years ago

192 upvotes – 64 comments

Revel, high-productivity Go web framework modeled on Play Framework

http://robfig.github.com/revel/

14 years ago

191 upvotes – 38 comments

Valve is bringing Steam to your TV Today

http://kotaku.com/5941793/valve-is-bringing-steam-to-your-tv-today-watch-out-consoles

14 years ago

165 upvotes – 79 comments

The KindleBerry Pi

http://www.ponnuki.net/2012/09/kindleberry-pi/

14 years ago

156 upvotes – 22 comments

What it was like shooting the movie Sneakers

http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2012/09/robert_redford_sidney_poitier_ben_kingsley_dan_aykroyd_what_it_was_like_shooting_the_movie_sneakers_.html

14 years ago

148 upvotes – 46 comments

Google Networking Device Appears in Small-Town Iowa

http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/09/pluto-switch/all/

14 years ago

148 upvotes – 35 comments

The Heroku Hacker's Guide

http://rdegges.com/my-heroku-book-is-finished

14 years ago

137 upvotes – 43 comments

Yeoman: Modern workflows for modern webapps

http://yeoman.io/#

14 years ago

135 upvotes – 73 comments

Avoiding game crashes related to linked lists

http://www.codeofhonor.com/blog/avoiding-game-crashes-related-to-linked-lists

14 years ago

133 upvotes – 58 comments

Coding skill vs. employee skill

http://mikecr.it/ramblings/coding-skill-vs-employee-skill

14 years ago

127 upvotes – 96 comments

jQuery Fundamentals: A major revamp for the online jQuery guide

http://jqfundamentals.com

14 years ago

126 upvotes – 11 comments

Github is down

https://status.github.com

14 years ago

123 upvotes – 43 comments

Bower: A package manager for the web, from Twitter

http://twitter.github.com/bower/#

14 years ago

123 upvotes – 42 comments

Why wood pulp is world's new wonder material

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21528786.100-why-wood-pulp-is-worlds-new-wonder-material.html

14 years ago

123 upvotes – 52 comments

Why you can’t read 9to5Mac on Instapaper

http://9to5mac.com/2012/09/10/dont-call-it-instascraper-why-you-cant-read-9to5mac-on-instapaper/

14 years ago

118 upvotes – 73 comments

GoDaddy Outage: How to Migrate to AWS Route 53

http://davewasmer.tumblr.com/post/31283249223/migrating-from-godaddy-dns-to-amazon-route-53

14 years ago

115 upvotes – 32 comments

Cindy Gallop’s Online Effort to Promote ‘Real,’ Not Porn-Fed, Sex

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/09/fashion/cindy-gallops-online-effort-to-promote-real-not-porn-fed-sex.html

14 years ago

108 upvotes – 69 comments

PHP Built-in web server

http://php.net/manual/en/features.commandline.webserver.php

14 years ago

105 upvotes – 52 comments

What Happens When You Taunt 4Chan: Story of Lacey Vicich

http://betabeat.com/2012/09/what-happens-when-you-taunt-4chan-the-story-of-lacey-vicich/

14 years ago

98 upvotes – 125 comments

Go native, HTML5 is going to lag for a while

http://blog.suthakamal.com/2012/08/go-native-html5-is-going-to-lag-for.html

14 years ago

98 upvotes – 94 comments

Bash redirections cheat sheet

http://www.catonmat.net/blog/bash-redirections-cheat-sheet/

14 years ago

93 upvotes – 32 comments

Integrity and bullies with blogs

http://joshuatopolsky.com/post/31285353423/integrity-and-bullies-with-blogs

14 years ago

85 upvotes – 38 comments

Hubble Has Spotted An Ancient Galaxy That Shouldn't Exist

http://io9.com/5927315/hubble-has-spotted-an-ancient-galaxy-that-shouldnt-exist

14 years ago

84 upvotes – 23 comments

Unpublished Photos of Steve Jobs and Silicon Valley’s Early Days

http://www.wired.com/rawfile/2012/09/unpublished-photos-of-steve-jobs-and-silicon-valleys-early-days/?pid=3625

14 years ago

83 upvotes – 29 comments

The web is still the place

http://raganwald.posterous.com/the-web-is-still-the-place

14 years ago

77 upvotes – 35 comments

Stripe Apps

https://stripe.com/docs/apps

14 years ago

73 upvotes – 24 comments

Confront reality

http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/anders

14 years ago

71 upvotes – 13 comments

GoDaddy Moves DNS to Competitor VeriSign

http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/09/godaddy-moves-to-verisign/

14 years ago

71 upvotes – 23 comments

HTC's patents could lead to an ban on the next iPhone & iPad

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/biz/archives/2012/09/08/2003542211

14 years ago

68 upvotes – 44 comments

An Apology of Sorts: Functional Languages Are (Still) Overrated

http://www.benrady.com/2012/09/functional-languages-are-still-overrated.html

14 years ago

68 upvotes – 54 comments

Airbnb Tech Talk: Spike Brehm on Backbone, Node.js, and Single-Page Apps

http://www.airbnb.com/meetups/2d5sndfza-tech-talk-spike-brehm

14 years ago

64 upvotes – 3 comments

Photo uploading is broken

http://blog.filepicker.io/post/31287543532/photos-are-a-b-tch-photo-uploading-is-broken

14 years ago

61 upvotes – 36 comments

Internet Brands sues for forking under CC-by-SA

http://davidgerard.co.uk/notes/2012/09/06/internet-brands-sues-people-for-forking-under-cc-by-sa/

14 years ago

61 upvotes – 14 comments

Clarity over brevity in variable and method names

http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3250-clarity-over-brevity-in-variable-and-method-names

14 years ago

58 upvotes – 54 comments

Show HN: Properties to rent - No agent fees, no dead listings, no risk

http://www.openrent.co.uk/properties-to-rent/london?term=London&lngn=-0.127683100000013&latn=51.5073346&within=24

14 years ago

58 upvotes – 78 comments

Dealing with engineers that frequently leave their jobs

http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/43409/dealing-with-engineers-that-frequently-leave-their-jobs

14 years ago

53 upvotes – 70 comments

Introduction to Architecting Systems for Scale

http://lethain.com/introduction-to-architecting-systems-for-scale/

14 years ago

53 upvotes – 3 comments

Heterogeneous Parallel Programming

https://www.coursera.org/course/hetero

14 years ago

52 upvotes – 9 comments
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