top 50% 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

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

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

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

Show HN: Matches.js -- Powerful Pattern Matching for Javascript

https://github.com/natefaubion/matches.js

14 years ago

★ 771 JavaScript MIT
96 upvotes – 20 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

Hotel-room hacks: Picking the lock

http://www.economist.com/blogs/gulliver/2012/08/hotel-room-hacks

14 years ago

96 upvotes – 69 comments

How Much Is a Fun Job Worth?

http://ask.slashdot.org/story/12/09/12/2120229/ask-slashdot-how-much-is-a-fun-job-worth

14 years ago

90 upvotes – 50 comments

How to price: Lessons learned from our first attempt

http://blog.filepicker.io/post/31472601361/how-to-price-lessons-learned-from-our-first-attempt

14 years ago

85 upvotes – 30 comments

Django Best Practices — Updated for 1.4

http://lincolnloop.com/django-best-practices/

14 years ago

80 upvotes – 19 comments

My Madison Ruby Story

http://marginaldialogue.blogspot.com/2012/09/my-madison-ruby-story.html

14 years ago

79 upvotes – 28 comments

The Creation of the Unix Operating System

http://www.bell-labs.com/history/unix/

14 years ago

77 upvotes – 9 comments

I Haven't Quit Twitter - Twitter Quit Me

http://shkspr.mobi/blog/index.php/2012/09/i-didnt-quit-twitter-twitter-quit-me/

14 years ago

75 upvotes – 42 comments

Google Glass and the Future of Technology

http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/13/google-glass-and-the-future-of-technology/?ref=personaltechemail&nl=technology&emc=edit_ct_20120913

14 years ago

72 upvotes – 50 comments

Ebay's new logo

http://pages.ebay.com/announcements/new/index.html

14 years ago

69 upvotes – 53 comments

Google threatened Acer with Android excommunication

http://www.slashgear.com/google-threatened-acer-with-android-excommunication-claims-alibaba-13247461/

14 years ago

68 upvotes – 62 comments

Unlimited music from youtube videos (very alpha'ish)

http://youtube-related-music.appspot.com

14 years ago

68 upvotes – 46 comments

Alex Payne, Peter Seibel, Jessica McKellar, more are Hacker School Residents

https://www.hackerschool.com/blog/8-alex-payne-peter-seibel-jessica-mckellar-david-nolen-and-stefan-karpinsky-are-hacker-school-residents

14 years ago

68 upvotes – 21 comments

500 Startups is now accepting applications on AngelList

https://angel.co/500startups

14 years ago

65 upvotes – 19 comments

PayPal Set to Suspend Domestic Transactions in Argentina

http://thenextweb.com/la/2012/09/13/paypal-set-suspend-domestic-transactions-argentina/

14 years ago

64 upvotes – 40 comments

Intel predicts ubiquitous, almost-zero-energy computing by 2020

http://www.extremetech.com/computing/136043-intel-predicts-ubiquitous-almost-zero-energy-computing-by-2020

14 years ago

62 upvotes – 32 comments

Cache across domains with a file hash

http://alexchamberlain.co.uk/opinion/2012/09/13/cache-across-domains.html

14 years ago

62 upvotes – 36 comments

Show HN: Setup a fancy development environment ... on a linux system console

http://klaig.blogspot.be/2012/09/setup-fancy-development-environment-on.html

14 years ago

61 upvotes – 22 comments

WD Builds High-Capacity, Helium-Filled HDDs

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9231220/Helium_filled_WD_drives_promise_huge_boost_in_capacity?taxonomyId=19&pageNumber=2

14 years ago

52 upvotes – 30 comments

Artist Takes Every Drug Known to Man, Draws Self Portraits After Each Use

http://cultso.com/artist-takes-every-drug-known-to-man-draws-self-portraits-after-each-use/

14 years ago

50 upvotes – 20 comments
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