top 20 hacker news stories for 2012-09-13

There is something magical about Firefox OS

http://rawkes.com/articles/there-is-something-magical-about-firefox-os

14 years ago

445 upvotes – 258 comments

Give people an iPhone 4S, tell them it's an iPhone 5

http://thenextweb.com/shareables/2012/09/13/what-happens-give-people-iphone-4s-tell-its-iphone-5-video/

14 years ago

398 upvotes – 252 comments

Anonymous Donor Pays for College of Every Student in Kalamazoo

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/16/magazine/kalamazoo-mich-the-city-that-pays-for-college.html

14 years ago

320 upvotes – 120 comments

Dropbox dives into CoffeeScript

https://tech.dropbox.com/?p=361

14 years ago

290 upvotes – 193 comments

OSX password script for everyone to know

http://blog.songz.me/print-out-all-your-saved-passwords-osx/

14 years ago

227 upvotes – 90 comments

Steve Wozniak on Samsung patent verdict: ‘I hate it and I don’t agree with it’

http://thenextweb.com/apps/2012/09/13/apple-co-founder-steve-wozniak-samsung-patent-verdict-i-hate-i-dont-agree-it/?utm_campaign=social%20media&utm_medium=Spreadus&awesm=tnw.to_o4EZ&utm_source=Twitter

14 years ago

220 upvotes – 102 comments

Ancient flower lives only on two Spanish cliffs, and uses ants to survive

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2012/09/12/ancient-flower-lives-only-on-two-spanish-cliffs-and-uses-ants-to-survive/

14 years ago

220 upvotes – 10 comments

Google's "Bacon number" search

https://www.google.com/search?q=Bacon+number+Simon+Pegg

14 years ago

200 upvotes – 82 comments

Nootropics – The Facts About “Smart Drugs”

http://www.unfinishedman.com/nootropics-facts-about-smart-drugs/

14 years ago

191 upvotes – 145 comments

Why critics of Rails have it all wrong (and Ruby's bright multicore future)

http://www.unlimitednovelty.com/2012/03/why-critics-of-rails-have-it-all-wrong.html

14 years ago

189 upvotes – 125 comments

Crack in Internet's foundation of trust allows HTTPS session hijacking

http://arstechnica.com/security/2012/09/crime-hijacks-https-sessions/

14 years ago

162 upvotes – 32 comments

The iPhone “Icon Ceiling” has been broken: is this the beginning of the end?

http://justinhileman.info/article/the-iphone-icon-ceiling/

14 years ago

160 upvotes – 92 comments

Stop sending template engines to the browser. How to make 6-10x faster templates

http://andyet.net/blog/2012/sep/13/stop-sending-template-engines-to-the-browser-a-ret/

14 years ago

152 upvotes – 87 comments

Will Go be the new go-to programming language?

http://gigaom.com/cloud/will-go-be-the-new-go-to-programming-language/

14 years ago

137 upvotes – 183 comments

Show HN: A Handcrafted Web

http://www.scrollkit.com/s/O7MsYbD

14 years ago

131 upvotes – 82 comments

Your Mechanic (YC W12) Wins TC Disrupt

http://www.techcrunch.com/2012/09/12/techcrunch-disrupt-sf-2012-winner/?icid=tc_home_art&

14 years ago

129 upvotes – 78 comments

Why Quora Won't Scale

http://socialtimes.com/why-quora-wont-scale_b104711

14 years ago

129 upvotes – 77 comments

J2objc - A Java to iOS Objective-C translation tool and runtime

http://code.google.com/p/j2objc/

14 years ago

108 upvotes – 41 comments

Balsamiq 2.2 is here

http://blogs.balsamiq.com/product/2012/09/09/balsamiq2-2/

14 years ago

105 upvotes – 37 comments

Manoj Bhargava, richest Indian in US commits 90% earnings to charity

http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2012-04-10/news/31318781_1_charity-work-manoj-bhargava-rs-5k-crore

14 years ago

96 upvotes – 17 comments
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