top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-09-12

RIP Vile Rat, EVE Online Diplomat, IRL State Dept Rep Killed In Benghazi

http://themittani.com/news/rip-vile-rat

14 years ago

539 upvotes – 261 comments

Depression lies

http://wilwheaton.net/2012/09/depression-lies/

14 years ago

496 upvotes – 229 comments

Ask PG: What Is The Most Frighteningly Ambitious Idea You Have Been Pitched On?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4509934

14 years ago

407 upvotes – 189 comments

Xiki: A shell console with GUI features.

http://xiki.org/

14 years ago

366 upvotes – 118 comments

Full quote of what Mark Zuckerberg actually said about HTML5

http://blog.tobie.me/post/31366970040/when-im-introspective-about-the-last-few-years-i

14 years ago

304 upvotes – 113 comments

iPhone 5

http://www.apple.com/iphone/

14 years ago

264 upvotes – 482 comments

Google disables compression for OpenSSL in Chrome - SSL exploit coming?

https://chromiumcodereview.appspot.com/10825183

14 years ago

250 upvotes – 132 comments

Applications Open for Winter 2013 YC Funding

http://ycombinator.com/apply.html

14 years ago

246 upvotes – 140 comments

Amazon's Play

http://daringfireball.net/2012/09/amazons_play

14 years ago

226 upvotes – 114 comments

Journalist goes undercover making the iPhone 5 at Foxconn

http://www.geek.com/articles/mobile/journalist-goes-undercover-making-the-iphone-5-at-foxconn-20120912/

14 years ago

204 upvotes – 145 comments

Why I'm done with Scrum

http://lostechies.com/jimmybogard/2012/09/12/why-im-done-with-scrum/

14 years ago

194 upvotes – 157 comments

Understanding C by learning assembly

https://www.hackerschool.com/blog/7-understanding-c-by-learning-assembly

14 years ago

188 upvotes – 66 comments

Screw the Black Swans: Ichiro is our role model, not Barry Bonds.

http://500hats.com/screw-the-black-swans

14 years ago

183 upvotes – 76 comments

Zynga: forget games, let’s just do viruses

http://flirtatiouslabs.com/post/31401127751/zynga-game-virus-farmville-2

14 years ago

175 upvotes – 61 comments

The new Secure Password Hashing API in PHP 5.5

https://gist.github.com/3707231

14 years ago

159 upvotes – 84 comments

Top 12 TED Talks for Entrepreneurs

http://www.shopify.com/blog/6553665-12-must-watch-ted-talks-for-entrepreneurs

14 years ago

159 upvotes – 26 comments

Chrome Killed UserScripts.org

http://browserfame.com/807/userscripts-org-chrome-disabled

14 years ago

158 upvotes – 65 comments

Google Launches Free Tool To Let You Run Your Own Online Courses

http://edudemic.com/2012/09/google-course-builder/

14 years ago

153 upvotes – 34 comments

Good people behaving badly on the Internet

http://raganwald.posterous.com/good-people-behaving-badly-on-the-internet

14 years ago

145 upvotes – 54 comments

Building a supercomputer from 64 Raspberry Pis and Lego

http://www.southampton.ac.uk/mediacentre/features/raspberry_pi_supercomputer.shtml

14 years ago

138 upvotes – 49 comments

Milwaukee Police News

http://www.milwaukeepolicenews.com/

14 years ago

121 upvotes – 111 comments

Using /usr/local

http://hivelogic.com/articles/using_usr_local/

14 years ago

120 upvotes – 80 comments

Ubuntu Reaches 220,000 PCs in Schools in Spain

http://www.thevarguy.com/2012/09/10/ubuntu-reaches-220000-pcs-in-schools-in-spain/

14 years ago

115 upvotes – 40 comments

What Is Seen and What Is Unseen: The Hidden Price of Immoral Acts

http://www.skepticblog.org/2012/09/11/the-hidden-price-of-immoral-acts/

14 years ago

110 upvotes – 53 comments

Apple Officially Reveals The iPhone 5

http://techcrunch.com/2012/09/12/apple-iphone-5-official/

14 years ago

107 upvotes – 187 comments

What skeuomorphism is (and isn't)

http://sachagreif.com/what-skeuomorphism-is-and-isnt/

14 years ago

103 upvotes – 42 comments

Strange phone number: asks for Agent Code, gives encoded coordinates.

http://pastebin.com/tP9ym0af

14 years ago

99 upvotes – 30 comments

Sample iOS 6 Passbook Web Service in Rails

https://github.com/mattt/passbook_rails_example

14 years ago

98 upvotes – 25 comments

Fresco - A Beautiful Responsive Lightbox

http://www.frescojs.com

14 years ago

96 upvotes – 43 comments

Not all programmers are alike (a rant on Clojure).

http://scottlocklin.wordpress.com/2012/09/12/not-all-programmers-alike/

14 years ago

92 upvotes – 84 comments

Vinod Khosla: “I Feel Sad Sometimes For YC Companies That Get So Much Hype”

http://techcrunch.com/2012/09/12/vinod-khosla-y-combinator/

14 years ago

89 upvotes – 35 comments

Tmpfs considered harmful

https://rwmj.wordpress.com/2012/09/12/tmpfs-considered-harmful/#content

14 years ago

89 upvotes – 81 comments

Go At Conformal

https://www.cyphertite.com/blog.php?/archives/7-Go-at-Conformal.html

14 years ago

86 upvotes – 42 comments

Computer Crime, Then and Now

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/09/computer-crime-then-and-now.html

14 years ago

85 upvotes – 14 comments

Mozilla juices Firefox's JavaScript with IonMonkey

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57511013-93/mozilla-juices-firefoxs-javascript-with-ionmonkey/

14 years ago

81 upvotes – 31 comments

"Watchmen" As a Primer on Mental Disorder

http://codinginmysleep.com/watchmen-as-a-primer-on-mental-disorder/

14 years ago

80 upvotes – 53 comments

Quora Co-Founder Charlie Cheever Steps Back From Day-To-Day Role At The Company

http://techcrunch.com/2012/09/11/quora-cheever/

14 years ago

77 upvotes – 41 comments

Fast integer compression: decoding billions of integers per second

http://lemire.me/blog/archives/2012/09/12/fast-integer-compression-decoding-billions-of-integers-per-second/

14 years ago

71 upvotes – 10 comments

Web Fonts Performance: Making Pretty, Fast

http://www.igvita.com/2012/09/12/web-fonts-performance-making-pretty-fast/

14 years ago

68 upvotes – 51 comments

Creative Web Typography Styles

http://tympanus.net/codrops/2012/09/12/creative-web-typography-styles/

14 years ago

63 upvotes – 3 comments

EC2 Reserved Instance Marketplace

http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2012/09/amazon-ec2-reserved-instance-marketplace.html

14 years ago

62 upvotes – 36 comments

PayPal Rewards Some Users by Promising It Won't Hold Their Funds

http://thenextweb.com/insider/2012/09/12/paypal-emails-users-change-policy-will-longer-temporarily-hold-funds/

14 years ago

58 upvotes – 34 comments

500 Million Android devices activated globally

https://plus.google.com/u/0/110023707389740934545/posts/R5YdRRyeTHM

14 years ago

55 upvotes – 16 comments
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