top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-09-18

Stock Android Isn't Perfect: Things I Can't Stand About Jelly Bean

http://www.androidpolice.com/2012/09/18/ux-things-i-hate-about-android

14 years ago

310 upvotes – 194 comments

The Apple Reaper

http://coovtech.com/posts/the-apple-reaper/

14 years ago

288 upvotes – 104 comments

Have You Ever Tried to Sell a Diamond? (1982)

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1982/02/have-you-ever-tried-to-sell-a-diamond/304575/

14 years ago

279 upvotes – 225 comments

Yahoo Removes Registered Trademark (R) From Logo

http://instagram.com/p/Psvy_8EME6/

14 years ago

230 upvotes – 118 comments

Patent Trolls: Make Them Pay

http://www.rackspace.com/blog/patent-trolls-make-them-pay/

14 years ago

230 upvotes – 81 comments

Kickstarter vaporware of the day, Lifx edition

http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2012/09/18/kickstarter-vaporware-of-the-day-lifx-edition/

14 years ago

226 upvotes – 178 comments

German government urges public to stop using Internet Explorer

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:www.reuters.com/article/2012/09/18/us-microsoft-browser-idUSBRE88G1CA20120918

14 years ago

220 upvotes – 52 comments

Rackspace accused of patent infringement for hosting Github

http://www.scribd.com/doc/106190890/PersonalWeb-Technologies-et-al-v-Rackspace-et-al

14 years ago

213 upvotes – 177 comments

Divshot

http://divshot.com/

14 years ago

207 upvotes – 111 comments

Slashdot and SourceForge sold to Dice Holdings

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/dice-holdings-buys-geeknet-websites-125531940.html

14 years ago

170 upvotes – 152 comments

A real fMRI high: My ecstasy brain scan

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn22280-a-real-fmri-high-my-ecstasy-brain-scan.html

14 years ago

167 upvotes – 43 comments

Startup idea list

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4537834

14 years ago

161 upvotes – 267 comments

Show HN: EasyPost - the Stripe for postage

http://easypost.co

14 years ago

157 upvotes – 83 comments

Virgin Mobile leaves six million subscriber accounts wide open

http://kev.inburke.com/kevin/open-season-on-virgin-mobile-customer-data/?

14 years ago

156 upvotes – 79 comments

Teller on theft in magic

http://www.esquire.com/features/teller-honor-system-1012

14 years ago

156 upvotes – 77 comments

The Most Difficult CEO Skill? Managing Your Own Psychology (2011)

http://bhorowitz.com/2011/04/01/what%E2%80%99s-the-most-difficult-ceo-skill-managing-your-own-psychology/

14 years ago

155 upvotes – 33 comments

GitHub Launch Page

https://github.com/blog/1267-github-launch-page

14 years ago

142 upvotes – 37 comments

How To Die With No Regrets

http://blog.amirkhella.com/2012/09/18/how-to-die-with-no-regrets/

14 years ago

136 upvotes – 81 comments

App Store Bit Rot

http://www.undsoversum.de/2012/09/18/app-store-bit-rot/

14 years ago

127 upvotes – 53 comments

Functional Programming Principles in Scala starts today

https://class.coursera.org/progfun-2012-001?

14 years ago

124 upvotes – 55 comments

Hey Yahoo, You’re Optimizing the Wrong Thing

http://www.hilarymason.com/blog/hey-yahoo-youre-optimizing-the-wrong-thing/

14 years ago

113 upvotes – 99 comments

This Site Pays Developers When It Finds Them a Job

http://mashable.com/2012/09/18/developer-auction/

14 years ago

110 upvotes – 67 comments

Say Hello to Realtime Collaboration

http://cssdeck.com/post/62/say-hello-to-realtime-collaboration

14 years ago

107 upvotes – 44 comments

PJSON: pretty, colorful json output formatting for terminal

http://igorgue.com/pjson/

14 years ago

105 upvotes – 34 comments

Introducing the Humble Indie Bundle 6

http://www.humblebundle.com

14 years ago

101 upvotes – 70 comments

Red Herring awards: a scam?

http://www.techinasia.com/red-herring-awards-scam/

14 years ago

84 upvotes – 27 comments

How Much Should Startup Employees Earn? Wealthfront Tells Us With A Clever Tool

http://pandodaily.com/2012/09/18/how-much-should-startup-employees-earn-wealthfront-tells-us-with-a-clever-tool/

14 years ago

78 upvotes – 53 comments

Editing text is the opposite of handling exceptions

http://bosker.wordpress.com/2012/05/10/on-editing-text/

14 years ago

72 upvotes – 13 comments

Rod Brooks Reveals Baxter, Programmable Industrial Robot for the Masses

http://www.xconomy.com/boston/2012/09/18/rod-brooks-and-rethink-reveal-an-industrial-robot-for-the-masses/

14 years ago

72 upvotes – 25 comments

Dry-run experiments verify key aspect of Sandia nuclear fusion concept

https://share.sandia.gov/news/resources/news_releases/nuclear_fusion/

14 years ago

72 upvotes – 44 comments

Comparing Go and Java, Part 2 – Performance

http://boundary.com/blog/2012/09/17/comparing-go-and-java-part-2-performance/

14 years ago

70 upvotes – 82 comments

Tax Cuts Don't Lead to Economic Growth, a New 65-Year Study Finds

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/09/tax-cuts-dont-lead-to-economic-growth-a-new-65-year-study-finds/262438/

14 years ago

66 upvotes – 67 comments

700+ hp electric Honda S2000 built by high school senior

http://hackaday.com/2012/09/16/700-hp-electric-honda-s2000-built-by-high-school-senior/

14 years ago

65 upvotes – 53 comments

Using Behavioral Economics, Psychology, and Neuroeconomics to Maximize Sales

http://www.shopify.com/blog/6563013-using-behavioral-economics-psychology-and-neuroeconomics-to-maximize-sales

14 years ago

61 upvotes – 13 comments

Exotic Transaction Types with Bitcoin

http://codinginmysleep.com/exotic-transaction-types-with-bitcoin/

14 years ago

61 upvotes – 13 comments

Startup Economics

http://www.smartasset.com/infographic/startup

14 years ago

58 upvotes – 13 comments

Archiving in the trash: The Instapaper UI

http://www.virtualpants.com/post/31802630265/archiving-in-the-trash-the-instapaper-ui

14 years ago

58 upvotes – 39 comments

How Ruby Borrowed a Decades Old Idea From Lisp

http://patshaughnessy.net/2012/9/18/how-ruby-borrowed-a-decades-old-idea-from-lisp

14 years ago

57 upvotes – 62 comments

Google Bans Online Anonymity While Patenting It

http://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/09/18/1839230/google-bans-online-anonymity-while-patenting-it?utm_source=slashdot&utm_medium=facebook

14 years ago

54 upvotes – 50 comments

Show HN: A Monthly Tee from your favorite YC startup

http://hntees.com

14 years ago

53 upvotes – 57 comments

Why You Should Apply to TechStars Cloud

http://www.techstars.com/why-you-should-apply-to-techstars-cloud/

14 years ago

52 upvotes – 13 comments

What Start-ups Should Know About Hiring a Lawyer

http://www.thedailymuse.com/entrepreneurship/what-start-ups-should-know-about-hiring-a-lawyer/

14 years ago

49 upvotes – 43 comments

Prominent Mexican anti-corruption blogger goes missing

http://www.dailydot.com/news/el-5antaurio-blogger-missing/

14 years ago

49 upvotes – 7 comments

JetBlue to offer free inflight wifi in 2013

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-501465_162-57514905-501465/jetblue-to-offer-free-in-flight-wi-fi-in-2013/

14 years ago

49 upvotes – 12 comments

The secret to hiring a designer

http://waxman.me/the-secret-to-hiring-a-designer

14 years ago

48 upvotes – 25 comments

Show HN: instafilter.io, a cloud API for applying filters to images

http://www.instafilter.io/

14 years ago

47 upvotes – 26 comments
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