top 20 hacker news stories for 2012-09-17

Everything's broken and nobody's upset

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/EverythingsBrokenAndNobodysUpset.aspx

14 years ago

658 upvotes – 401 comments

Sh.py

http://amoffat.github.com/sh/index.html

14 years ago

493 upvotes – 64 comments

Introducing the Command Bar

https://github.com/blog/1264-introducing-the-command-bar

14 years ago

419 upvotes – 98 comments

Android can be beautiful

http://androidniceties.tumblr.com/

14 years ago

384 upvotes – 157 comments

Odd Things Happen When You Chop Up Cities and Stack Them Sideways

http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2012/09/12/160996525/odd-things-happen-when-you-chop-up-cities-and-stack-them-sideways?sc=tw&cc=share&utm_source=buffer&buffer_share=f34b7

14 years ago

353 upvotes – 66 comments

CoffeeScript: less typing, bad readability

http://ceronman.com/2012/09/17/coffeescript-less-typing-bad-readability/

14 years ago

349 upvotes – 218 comments

iPhone 5 web teardown: How Apple compresses video using JPEG, JSON, and canvas

https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1GWTMLjqQsQS45FWwqNG9ztQTdGF48hQYpjQHR_d1WsI

14 years ago

321 upvotes – 115 comments

Analysis of bank PIN numbers

http://www.datagenetics.com/blog/september32012/index.html

14 years ago

255 upvotes – 111 comments

Hardware is dead

http://venturebeat.com/2012/09/15/hardware-is-dead/

14 years ago

251 upvotes – 145 comments

How to Launch a 65Gbps DDoS, and How to Stop One

http://blog.cloudflare.com/65gbps-ddos-no-problem

14 years ago

246 upvotes – 92 comments

Warp Drive May Be More Feasible Than Thought, Scientists Say

http://news.yahoo.com/warp-drive-may-more-feasible-thought-scientists-161301109.html

14 years ago

239 upvotes – 179 comments

52 Hertz: The Loneliest Whale in the World

http://blogs.discovery.com/animal_news/2012/05/52-hertz-the-loneliest-whale-in-the-world.html

14 years ago

237 upvotes – 57 comments

Why I Migrated Away From MongoDB

http://svs.io/post/31724990463/why-i-migrated-away-from-mongodb

14 years ago

203 upvotes – 200 comments

Animated GIFs the Hard Way

http://www.sublimetext.com/~jps/animated_gifs_the_hard_way.html

14 years ago

190 upvotes – 49 comments

Ramit Sethi and Patrick McKenzie on Getting Your First Consulting Client

http://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/09/17/ramit-sethi-and-patrick-mckenzie-on-getting-your-first-consulting-client/

14 years ago

173 upvotes – 45 comments

A Tour of the Acme Editor

http://research.swtch.com/acme

14 years ago

164 upvotes – 86 comments

7 sets Venn Diagram: interactive 128 color combinations from mixing 7 colors

http://moebio.com/research/sevensets/

14 years ago

157 upvotes – 13 comments

New Metasploit 0-day exploit for IE 7, 8 & 9 on Windows XP, Vista, and 7

https://community.rapid7.com/community/metasploit/blog/2012/09/17/lets-start-the-week-with-a-new-internet-explorer-0-day-in-metasploit

14 years ago

138 upvotes – 51 comments

Russia reveals secret diamond field containing "trillions of carats"

http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Global-News/2012/0917/Russia-reveals-shiny-state-secret-It-s-awash-in-diamonds

14 years ago

128 upvotes – 34 comments

Just Cause 2 Multiplayer: Behind the scenes with gaming's greatest hack

http://www.redbull.co.uk/cs/Satellite/en_UK/Article/Just-Cause-2-Multiplayer-Behind-the-scenes-with-021243257915642

14 years ago

127 upvotes – 39 comments
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