top 50% 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

9to5

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

14 years ago

167 upvotes – 62 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

"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

It's a London underground map and a working circuit board.

http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/16/view/23445/yuri-suzuki-london-underground-circuit-map-radio.html

14 years ago

107 upvotes – 8 comments

Why developers are allergic to job opportunities

http://coderwall.com/p/devsal

14 years ago

106 upvotes – 99 comments

Inside the Startup-Generating Secrets of Y Combinator

http://www.vanityfair.com/business/2012/10/y-combinator-start-up-think-tank

14 years ago

100 upvotes – 12 comments

GoDaddy outage caused by corrupted router tables

http://www.godaddy.com/newscenter/release-view.aspx?news_item_id=410

14 years ago

100 upvotes – 90 comments

We Are Now One Year Away From Global Riots, Complex Systems Theorists Say

http://motherboard.vice.com/2012/9/10/we-are-now-one-year-away-from-global-riots-complex-systems-theorists-say

14 years ago

95 upvotes – 58 comments

Show HN: Sleepio - how I cured my insomnia, turned into software.

http://www.sleepio.com/

14 years ago

94 upvotes – 69 comments

Migrating from Mongo to Riak at Shareaholic

http://basho.com/blog/technical/2012/09/11/Riak-at-Shareaholic/

14 years ago

90 upvotes – 5 comments

Torque 3D to be Released on Github under the MIT license

http://garagegames.com/community/blogs/view/21876

14 years ago

90 upvotes – 34 comments

Space Infographic - Keep scrolling & reach 13 billion miles from earth

http://www.bbc.com/future/bespoke/space_infographic.html

14 years ago

83 upvotes – 23 comments

Helveticards - 100% CSS playing cards

http://zachwaugh.com/helveticards/index.html

14 years ago

76 upvotes – 42 comments

MIT overtakes Cambridge and Harvard to top spot in QS world university rankings

http://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/world-university-rankings/2012

14 years ago

70 upvotes – 51 comments

The cookie law is dead, you’re welcome

http://blog.silktide.com/2012/09/the-cookie-law-is-dead-youre-welcome/

14 years ago

69 upvotes – 50 comments

Things Overheard at TechCrunch Disrupt

http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2012/09/techcrunch-jargon.html

14 years ago

66 upvotes – 18 comments

Javascript the right way

http://jstherightway.com/

14 years ago

66 upvotes – 42 comments

Fiddler has joined the Telerik family

http://www.fiddler2.com/fiddler/LetterFromEric.asp

14 years ago

66 upvotes – 27 comments

Performing Linear Regression Using Ruby

http://www.sharethrough.com/2012/09/linear-regression-using-ruby/

14 years ago

64 upvotes – 40 comments

Magic: the Gathering is Turing Complete

http://www.toothycat.net/~hologram/Turing/HowItWorks.html

14 years ago

64 upvotes – 1 comments

Linux on the (consumer) Desktop

http://people.gnome.org/~michael/blog/2012-09-10-desktop-linux.html

14 years ago

62 upvotes – 75 comments

Why China still can’t create the next Texas Instruments

http://www.eetimes.com/electronics-news/4395702/7-reasons-why-China-can-t-make-a-TI---yet

14 years ago

60 upvotes – 15 comments

YourMechanic (YC W12) launches in South Bay (at TC Disrupt)

https://www.yourmechanic.com

14 years ago

58 upvotes – 50 comments

We Are Now One Year Away From Global Riots, Complex Systems Theorists Say

http://motherboard.vice.com/2012/9/10/we-are-now-one-year-and-counting-from-global-riots-complex-systems-theorists-say--2

14 years ago

58 upvotes – 89 comments

Show HN: DubJS: A New Way to Build Web Apps

http://dubjs.org/blog/intro

14 years ago

57 upvotes – 22 comments

Mail in 2012 from an admin's perspective

http://blog.phusion.nl/2012/09/10/mail-in-2012-from-an-admins-perspective

14 years ago

57 upvotes – 13 comments

Canada Creates New Class of Visa to Attract Tech Entrepreneurs

http://www.techvibes.com/blog/canada-creates-new-class-of-visa-to-attract-tech-entrepreneurs-to-launch-startups-here-2012-09-11

14 years ago

52 upvotes – 19 comments

Show HN: Chrome Extension to automatically block the annoying Quora login prompt

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/fkbnfnaikpdihahjljbigedkangbieih

14 years ago

51 upvotes – 40 comments

Why the Berlin startup scene is still in a bubble of hype

http://venturevillage.eu/berlin-startup-hype

14 years ago

51 upvotes – 15 comments

Lessons Learned After Teaching 88 Struggling Entrepreneurs For 6 Months

http://under30ceo.com/10-sobering-lessons-learned-after-teaching-88-struggling-entrepreneurs-for-6-months/

14 years ago

49 upvotes – 10 comments

YouTube launches their iPhone app

http://techcrunch.com/2012/09/11/youtube-iphone-app-ads-exclamation-point/

14 years ago

49 upvotes – 26 comments

Backlift now supports handlebars, less and coffeescript

https://blog.backlift.com/entry/coffeescript-and-more

14 years ago

48 upvotes – 10 comments

Nodester: Side-Project to Acquisition in 18 Months

http://blog.geekli.st/post/31303088029/nodester-side-project-to-acquisition-in-18-months

14 years ago

48 upvotes – 11 comments

Show HN: Making of the Breaking Bad logo (CSS/SVG/JavaScript) as a Codecast

http://cssdeck.com/labs/breaking-bad-codecast

14 years ago

46 upvotes – 14 comments

« Stack Exchange Security Blog

http://security.blogoverflow.com/2012/09/how-can-you-protect-yourself-from-crime-beasts-successor/

14 years ago

45 upvotes – 3 comments

Show HN: We built a better solution for customer analysis and support

http://lessneglect.com/customer-analytics

14 years ago

45 upvotes – 34 comments
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