top 50% 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

Amazon Maps API

http://www.amazonappstoredev.com/2012/09/amazon-maps-api.html

14 years ago

125 upvotes – 45 comments

Want to learn Django? Start here.

http://elweb.co/programacion/want-to-learn-django-start-here/

14 years ago

119 upvotes – 22 comments

Recruiter Disruption Rant

http://lists.lrug.org/pipermail/chat-lrug.org/2012-September/008072.html

14 years ago

116 upvotes – 113 comments

Doctorow & Stross's "The Rapture of the Nerds" creative commons edition released

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2012/09/rapturous-nerds.html

14 years ago

116 upvotes – 25 comments

Actually, you don't understand lexical scope

https://github.com/raganwald/homoiconic/blob/master/2012/09/actually-YOU-dont-understand-lexical-scope.md#actually-you-dont-understand-lexical-scope

14 years ago

★ 1.8k Ruby
107 upvotes – 68 comments

Web site launch toolkit

http://whattouse.com/toolkit/web-site-launch-toolkit

14 years ago

106 upvotes – 33 comments

TinyToCS — computer science research of 140 characters or less

http://tinytocs.org/

14 years ago

103 upvotes – 18 comments

Living Without Time

http://stevecorona.com/living-without-time

14 years ago

93 upvotes – 50 comments

I love TripIt, but I hate their iPhone app, so I redesigned it.

http://drewmackenzie.com/tripit.html

14 years ago

89 upvotes – 53 comments

PlainTasks - opinionated todo-list plugin for Sublime Text 2

https://github.com/aziz/PlainTasks

14 years ago

★ 3.2k Python MIT
84 upvotes – 17 comments

Show HN: Virtual tabletop gaming

http://roll20.net/

14 years ago

74 upvotes – 16 comments

Color Film of London From 1902 Now Fully Restored

http://exp.lore.com/post/31664092832/researchers-at-the-uks-national-media-museum

14 years ago

73 upvotes – 28 comments

Manchester (England) Airport's body scanners scrapped

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-19620981

14 years ago

71 upvotes – 45 comments

Legit Teams: Private git repository hosting tailored for small teams

https://legitteams.com/

14 years ago

70 upvotes – 32 comments

You're Not Listening

http://www.randsinrepose.com/archives/2012/08/28/youre_not_listening.html

14 years ago

68 upvotes – 42 comments

A/B Testing vs MAB algorithms - It's complicated

http://bentilly.blogspot.com/2012/09/ab-testing-vs-mab-algorithms-its.html

14 years ago

68 upvotes – 24 comments

Google+: 400 Million Registrations, 100 Million Monthly Active Users

http://thenextweb.com/google/2012/09/17/as-predicted-google-passes-400m-registered-users-now-100m-monthly-active-users/

14 years ago

66 upvotes – 48 comments

Sorry state of dynamic libraries on Linux

http://www.macieira.org/blog/2012/01/sorry-state-of-dynamic-libraries-on-linux/

14 years ago

65 upvotes – 29 comments

Vic Gundotra reports Google+ passing 100,000,000 monthly active users

https://plus.google.com/u/0/107117483540235115863/posts/2YWhK1K3FA5

14 years ago

63 upvotes – 91 comments

SubtlePatterns.com has been hijacked.

http://subtlepatterns.com.s151819.gridserver.com/

14 years ago

62 upvotes – 38 comments

History Uncut: Bill Gates unveils Microsoft Excel (1987)

http://www.history.com/videos/history-uncut-bill-gates-unveils-microsoft-excel-1987

14 years ago

62 upvotes – 67 comments

CSS3 patterned buttons

http://www.red-team-design.com/css3-patterned-buttons

14 years ago

58 upvotes – 19 comments

Google Acquires Nik Software

http://education.niksoftware.com/2012/09/17/google-acquires-nik-software/

14 years ago

58 upvotes – 23 comments
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