top 20 hacker news stories for 2012-09-11

Blizzard is secretly watermarking WOW screenshots

http://www.ownedcore.com/forums/world-of-warcraft/world-of-warcraft-general/375573-looking-inside-your-screenshots.html

14 years ago

380 upvotes – 93 comments

Dear Programmer, I have an idea

http://blog.mkrecny.com/entry/23/

14 years ago

325 upvotes – 134 comments

Boosted Boards (YC S12) Unveils Its Magical Electric Skateboard

http://techcrunch.com/2012/09/11/boosted-boards/

14 years ago

313 upvotes – 167 comments

The World's Lightest Electric Vehicle

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/170315130/boosted-boards-the-worlds-lightest-electric-vehicl

14 years ago

279 upvotes – 164 comments

The XX shared their new album with only 1 fan to see how it goes viral.

http://coexist.thexx.info/?referrer=0c5fc7c8-f178-45a5-b34f-ed841150356d

14 years ago

274 upvotes – 80 comments

Mark Zuckerberg: Our Biggest Mistake Was Was Betting Too Much On HTML5

http://techcrunch.com/2012/09/11/mark-zuckerberg-our-biggest-mistake-with-mobile-was-betting-too-much-on-html5/

14 years ago

225 upvotes – 142 comments

Java's Cover (April 2001)

http://www.paulgraham.com/javacover.html

14 years ago

185 upvotes – 180 comments

Cosmo, the God who fell to Earth

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/09/cosmo-the-god-who-fell-to-earth/all/

14 years ago

173 upvotes – 40 comments

It’s Opus, it rocks and now it’s an audio codec standard

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2012/09/its-opus-it-rocks-and-now-its-an-audio-codec-standard/

14 years ago

167 upvotes – 65 comments

9to5

http://blog.instapaper.com/post/31303984531

14 years ago

167 upvotes – 62 comments

"Life Expectancy" Doesn't Measure How Long You're Expected To Live

http://blog.edwardmarks.com/post/31337304505/life-expectancy-doesnt-measure-how-long-youre

14 years ago

155 upvotes – 88 comments

"Six strikes" Internet warning system will come to US this year

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/09/six-strikes-internet-warning-system-really-truly-coming-to-us-this-year/

14 years ago

150 upvotes – 96 comments

Parse Launches Cloud Code to Run Custom Code for Your App

http://blog.parse.com/2012/09/11/welcoming-cloud-code-to-the-parse-family/

14 years ago

144 upvotes – 40 comments

Seriesly - a document-oriented time-series database written in Go

http://dustin.github.com/2012/09/09/seriesly.html

14 years ago

142 upvotes – 34 comments

2012 MacBook Pro Powers on By Itself on Rough Roads

http://macperformanceguide.com/blog/2012/20120911_1-MacBookPro-wakes-up-on-bumpy-roads.html

14 years ago

137 upvotes – 95 comments

9/11 tragedy pager intercepts

http://911.wikileaks.org/files/index.html

14 years ago

135 upvotes – 144 comments

App Academy is an intensive web development course in San Francisco

http://appacademy.io

14 years ago

131 upvotes – 69 comments

Apple sues Polish grocery store over the letter A

http://thenextweb.com/apple/2012/09/10/apple-reportedly-suing-polish-online-supermarket-trademarking-name-a-pl/

14 years ago

126 upvotes – 114 comments

Stripe's New Recurring Billing Features

https://stripe.com/blog/new-recurring-billing-features

14 years ago

112 upvotes – 53 comments

Canada designs new visa for immigrant entrepreneurs

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/small-business/starting-out/canada-designs-new-visa-for-immigrant-entrepreneurs/article4537339

14 years ago

110 upvotes – 42 comments
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