top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-09-19

Xkcd "Click and Drag" in a "map" interface

http://xkcd-map.rent-a-geek.de/

14 years ago

844 upvotes – 86 comments

Xkcd: Click and Drag

http://xkcd.com/1110/

14 years ago

418 upvotes – 89 comments

The Lost Chapter

http://www.aarongreenspan.com/writing/essay.html?id=80

14 years ago

375 upvotes – 236 comments

Stripe in Canada

https://stripe.com/blog/stripe-in-canada

14 years ago

361 upvotes – 81 comments

John Carmack on Static Code Analysis

http://www.altdevblogaday.com/2011/12/24/static-code-analysis/

14 years ago

286 upvotes – 122 comments

Makerbot announces new 3D printer: Replicator 2

http://makerbot.com/

14 years ago

266 upvotes – 147 comments

iPad and Linode: 1 Year Later

http://yieldthought.com/post/31857050698/ipad-linode-1-year-later

14 years ago

262 upvotes – 117 comments

Web Design is 95% Typography

http://informationarchitects.net/blog/the-web-is-all-about-typography-period/

14 years ago

234 upvotes – 82 comments

Xkcd's world - pieced together with AngularJS (warning: big images)

http://embed.plnkr.co/IfpBH4

14 years ago

220 upvotes – 47 comments

Data Scientist: The Sexiest Job of the 21st Century

http://hbr.org/2012/10/data-scientist-the-sexiest-job-of-the-21st-century/

14 years ago

166 upvotes – 70 comments

The TTY Demystified (2008)

http://www.linusakesson.net/programming/tty/

14 years ago

157 upvotes – 46 comments

Corruption in Wikiland? Paid PR scandal erupts at Wikipedia

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57514677-93/corruption-in-wikiland-paid-pr-scandal-erupts-at-wikipedia/

14 years ago

144 upvotes – 53 comments

$15,000 In Income From An EBook, How I Did It

http://www.saturnflyer.com/blog/jim/2012/09/19/15000-in-income-from-an-ebook-how-i-did-it/

14 years ago

132 upvotes – 51 comments

Kaspersky researcher cracks Flame malware password

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2012/091812-kaspersky-flame-262531.html

14 years ago

132 upvotes – 63 comments

The iPhone 5

http://daringfireball.net/2012/09/iphone_5

14 years ago

131 upvotes – 205 comments

The only two ways to build a $100m business

http://versiononeventures.com/the-only-2-ways-to-build-a-100-million-business/

14 years ago

124 upvotes – 70 comments

Storm's first birthday

http://nathanmarz.com/blog/storms-1st-birthday.html

14 years ago

115 upvotes – 24 comments

Lawsuit Against NSA Warrantless Wiretapping Heads to Supreme Court

http://dissenter.firedoglake.com/2012/09/18/lawsuit-against-nsa-warrantless-wiretapping-headed-to-supreme-court/

14 years ago

109 upvotes – 11 comments

How we ported LaTeX to the iPad

http://texpadapp.com/2012/09/19/latex-ported-to-ipad/

14 years ago

100 upvotes – 36 comments

Coursera: 33 Universities, 200 Courses, 1.3 Million Students

http://thenextweb.com/insider/2012/09/19/coursera-doubles-university-count-33-now-hosts-200-courses-reaches-1-3-million-students-worldwide/

14 years ago

97 upvotes – 32 comments

Browsing C++ Source Code on the Web

http://woboq.com/blog/codebrowser-introduction.html

14 years ago

95 upvotes – 15 comments

Be Nice to Those Who Serve You

http://www.jacquesmattheij.com/be-nice-to-those-that-serve-you

14 years ago

95 upvotes – 51 comments

Facebook and Google launch lobbying group, The Internet Association

http://www.dailydot.com/news/internet-association-lobbying-group/

14 years ago

93 upvotes – 44 comments

F-35's biggest problems: software and bad relationships

http://killerapps.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2012/09/17/f_35s_biggest_problems_software_and_bad_relationships

14 years ago

93 upvotes – 87 comments

LinkedIn referrals to Facebook pages up 1000% while Twitter’s plummet

http://thenextweb.com/socialmedia/2012/09/19/linkedin-referrals-facebook-pages-spike-1000-twitter-referrals-fall/

14 years ago

90 upvotes – 30 comments

A look at the J language: the fine line between genius and insanity

http://scottlocklin.wordpress.com/2012/09/18/a-look-at-the-j-language-the-fine-line-between-genius-and-insanity/

14 years ago

89 upvotes – 35 comments

Moving to Go

http://blog.toggl.com/2012/09/moving-to-go/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=moving-to-go

14 years ago

82 upvotes – 31 comments

GPS equipped shoes that will lead you home with LED signals

http://www.dominicwilcox.com/gpsshoes.htm

14 years ago

76 upvotes – 20 comments

Aaron Swartz hit with 9 more felony charges in MIT hacking case

http://www.dailydot.com/news/aaron-swartz-mit-jstor-hack-charges/

14 years ago

76 upvotes – 100 comments

Updated iOS 6 devices don't connect to WIFI

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1446596

14 years ago

74 upvotes – 57 comments

Simple steps to better typography

http://www.markboulton.co.uk/journal/comments/five-simple-steps-to-better-typography

14 years ago

66 upvotes – 21 comments

Open Dyslexic - Dyslexia Fonts

http://dyslexicfonts.com/

14 years ago

65 upvotes – 44 comments

California launches online voter registration

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/09/california-launches-online-voter-registration/

14 years ago

65 upvotes – 28 comments

Announcing Heroku Enterprise for Java

http://blog.heroku.com/archives/2012/9/19/announcing_heroku_enterprise_for_java/

14 years ago

64 upvotes – 13 comments

Meet YC partners and alums at MIT Wednesday 5:30PM

http://ycombinator.posterous.com/come-meet-yc-partners-and-alums-in-cambridge

14 years ago

64 upvotes – 11 comments

iOS 6 and OS X 10.8.2 Now Available

http://www.apple.com/support/

14 years ago

63 upvotes – 96 comments

HTML5 webcam to canvas stream (Demo + annotated code)

http://cbrandolino.github.com/camvas

14 years ago

60 upvotes – 24 comments

Show HN: Screenleap launches simple API for adding screen sharing to your site

http://www.screenleap.com/api

14 years ago

59 upvotes – 8 comments

Hacker Dojo Meets Fund-Raising Goal

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/19/hacker-dojo-meets-fundraising-goal/

14 years ago

58 upvotes – 8 comments

Makerbot's new 3D printer prints at 100 microns

http://store.makerbot.com/replicator2.html

14 years ago

56 upvotes – 20 comments

Steve Blank's Lean LaunchPad Course is Live

http://blog.udacity.com/2012/09/steve-blanks-lean-launchpad-course.html

14 years ago

54 upvotes – 16 comments

7 John McCarthy Papers in 7 Weeks

http://gigasquidsoftware.com/wordpress/?p=466

14 years ago

54 upvotes – 5 comments

With More Than 20M Gamers Tuning In, Twitch Raises $15M

http://techcrunch.com/2012/09/19/twitch-15m-bessemer-venture-partners/

14 years ago

53 upvotes – 49 comments
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