top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-09-20

The Amazing iOS 6 Maps

http://theamazingios6maps.tumblr.com/

14 years ago

837 upvotes – 371 comments

Kickstarter is Not a Store

http://www.kickstarter.com/blog/kickstarter-is-not-a-store

14 years ago

428 upvotes – 170 comments

AskPatents.com: A Stack Exchange To Prevent Bad Patents

http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2012/09/askpatents-com-a-stack-exchange-to-prevent-bad-patents/

14 years ago

397 upvotes – 78 comments

New Apple maps app under fire from users

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-19659736

14 years ago

305 upvotes – 276 comments

IFTTT forced to remove Twitter triggers to comply with new API policies

http://thenextweb.com/apps/2012/09/20/ifttt-removes-twitter-triggers-comply-new-api-policies/

14 years ago

277 upvotes – 85 comments

iOS 6 Breaks the App Store

http://www.pixiteapps.com/blog/the-app-store-is-broken/

14 years ago

272 upvotes – 123 comments

Abusing Emoji in iOS and Your Mac

http://zachholman.com/posts/abusing-emoji/

14 years ago

271 upvotes – 58 comments

Google has an iOS 6 Maps app awaiting approval

http://9to5mac.com/2012/09/20/google-has-an-ios-6-maps-app-awaiting-approval-it-is-solely-up-to-apple-to-approve/

14 years ago

221 upvotes – 160 comments

Pandora doesn't hash their passwords

https://plus.google.com/116797686750161798768/posts/NGV5xQwJywf

14 years ago

209 upvotes – 150 comments

Everything that's wrong with Java in a single class

https://plus.google.com/105201233571140699617/posts/1QhcnQizuPc

14 years ago

180 upvotes – 155 comments

Thanks Mr. Jobs, But it Seems I Can Use a Linux Laptop Now

http://blog.hypergeometric.com/2012/09/20/thanks-mr-jobs-but-it-seems-i-can-use-linux-laptop-now/

14 years ago

170 upvotes – 165 comments

Github redesigns Profiles

https://github.com/defunkt

14 years ago

169 upvotes – 83 comments

Apple Botches China and Japan Maps in iOS 6

http://www.techinasia.com/apple-ios-6-maps-china-japan/

14 years ago

158 upvotes – 73 comments

Kickstarter suspends project 10 hours from successful funding

http://vintedgoods.com/pr

14 years ago

150 upvotes – 79 comments

Don't like iOS6's (lack of) transit directions? You need this.

https://github.com/simonmaddox/GoogleTransit-iOS6

14 years ago

★ 299 Objective-C
136 upvotes – 88 comments

GoldieBlox: The Engineering Toy for Girls

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/16029337/goldieblox-the-engineering-toy-for-girls?ref=friends_backed

14 years ago

135 upvotes – 107 comments

VirtualBox broken on Ivy Bridge Macbooks after 10.8.2 and Firmware Update

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4311118?start=15&tstart=0

14 years ago

122 upvotes – 50 comments

A growing respect for the Samwer brothers

http://posts.richoakley.com/post/rocket-internet-respect

14 years ago

117 upvotes – 57 comments

iPhone 5 Teardown

http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/iPhone-5-Teardown/10525/1

14 years ago

113 upvotes – 41 comments

IFTTT.com forced to pull Twitter triggers

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4550601

14 years ago

110 upvotes – 28 comments

Want to Block Common Passwords? Sorry, That is Patented

https://xato.net/passwords/want-to-block-common-passwords-sorry-that-is-patented/

14 years ago

110 upvotes – 65 comments

Free Online MongoDB Training by 10gen

http://education.10gen.com/

14 years ago

108 upvotes – 28 comments

NFL opens Pandora's Box by offering All-22 tape to public

http://www.nfl.com/news/story/09000d5d82a0b2d8/article/nfl-opens-pandoras-box-by-offering-all22-tape-to-public

14 years ago

107 upvotes – 105 comments

Google's Go Programming Language Grows Up: Now What?

http://www.readwriteweb.com/cloud/2012/03/googles-go-programming-languag.php

14 years ago

102 upvotes – 134 comments

Making Progress on Star Trek Physics

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/589200967/book-making-progress-on-star-trek-physics?

14 years ago

100 upvotes – 23 comments

Minimum Viable Movie: How I Made a Feature-Length Film for $0

http://www.kadavy.net/blog/posts/minimum-viable-movie-joe-avella/

14 years ago

98 upvotes – 57 comments

Forget self improvement

http://www.deliberatism.com/editorial/forget-self-improvement/

14 years ago

96 upvotes – 59 comments

How to confuse a moral compass: Survey 'magic trick' causes attitude reversal

http://www.nature.com/news/how-to-confuse-a-moral-compass-1.11447

14 years ago

94 upvotes – 66 comments

A Return to Linux on the Workstation

http://cuddletech.com/blog/?p=770

14 years ago

93 upvotes – 37 comments

Is Facebook dying?

http://www.itworld.com/it-managementstrategy/295959/facebook-dying

14 years ago

90 upvotes – 73 comments

Show HN: My first try at a WordPress plugin

http://codecanyon.net/item/wp-simple-social-/3048359?sso?WT.ac=category_item&WT.seg_1=category_item&WT.z_author=Thisisdallas

14 years ago

75 upvotes – 31 comments

Group dating site Grouper (YC W12) launches to 10 cities

http://techcrunch.com/2012/09/20/yc-alum-grouper-launches-in-10-cities-to-bring-you-a-better-way-to-meet-new-people/

14 years ago

75 upvotes – 41 comments

RubyMotion gets iOS 6, iPhone 5, debugger

http://blog.rubymotion.com/post/31917526853/rubymotion-gets-ios-6-iphone-5-debugger

14 years ago

72 upvotes – 6 comments

Barman backup and recovery manager for PostgreSQL

http://www.pgbarman.org/

14 years ago

70 upvotes – 9 comments

Antivirus software deletes itself

http://thenextweb.com/insider/2012/09/20/sophos-antimalware-software-detects-malware-deletes-critical-binaries/

14 years ago

66 upvotes – 29 comments

Web Cryptography API posted as W3C working draft

http://www.w3.org/TR/WebCryptoAPI/

14 years ago

64 upvotes – 47 comments

If I Were Google, I Wouldn’t Release A Native iOS 6 Maps App For Six Months

http://techcrunch.com/2012/09/19/if-i-were-google-i-wouldnt-release-a-native-ios-6-maps-app-for-six-months/

14 years ago

61 upvotes – 105 comments

How long will there be computer science departments?

http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2012/09/20/how-long-will-there-be-computer-science-departments/

14 years ago

60 upvotes – 42 comments

Android Hacked via NFC on the Samsung Galaxy S3

http://thenextweb.com/google/2012/09/19/security-researchers-hack-android-via-nfc-samsung-galaxy-s-iii/

14 years ago

58 upvotes – 21 comments

Show HN: Simple BitTorrent Magnet Link search

http://www.moviemagnet.net

14 years ago

57 upvotes – 31 comments

Irish Minister for Justice considers Apple’s iOS 6 Maps dangerous

http://sociable.co/meme/thats-not-an-airport-its-a-farm-irish-minister-for-justice-is-not-happy-with-ios6s-apple-maps/

14 years ago

57 upvotes – 52 comments

America's Problem: The World is Beating Us in a Battle We Don't Want to Win

http://www.undeferredliving.com/americas-problem-how-the-world-is-beating-us-in-a-battle-we-dont-necessarily-want-to-win/

14 years ago

56 upvotes – 57 comments
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