top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-09-21

Apple accused of ripping off famous Swiss clock design

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-57517054-37/apple-accused-of-ripping-off-famous-swiss-clock-design/

14 years ago

388 upvotes – 243 comments

Tent v0.1

http://tent.io/blog/tent-v01

14 years ago

293 upvotes – 194 comments

Google Maps' advantage over Apple Maps

http://blog.telemapics.com/?p=399

14 years ago

239 upvotes – 148 comments

Why Your Customers Would Be Happier If You Charged More

http://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/09/21/ramit-sethi-and-patrick-mckenzie-on-why-your-customers-would-be-happier-if-you-charged-more/

14 years ago

234 upvotes – 86 comments

Large Investment in OpenStreetMap from Knight Foundation

http://mapbox.com/blog/knight-invests-openstreetmap/

14 years ago

229 upvotes – 73 comments

What Business is Wall Street In?

http://blogmaverick.com/2012/09/21/what-business-is-wall-street-in-3/

14 years ago

221 upvotes – 185 comments

My Brush With a Patent Troll

http://jacquesmattheij.com/my-brush-with-a-patent-troll

14 years ago

221 upvotes – 65 comments

What are imaginary numbers?

http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/199676/what-are-imaginary-numbers

14 years ago

217 upvotes – 134 comments

Show HN: Learned Objective C as a high schooler and made this iPhone game

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/the-deeps/id532041586?mt=8

14 years ago

158 upvotes – 48 comments

iOS6 breaks long polling

http://www.realsoftwareblog.com/2012/09/ios-6-mobile-safari-web-applications.html

14 years ago

152 upvotes – 59 comments

Show HN: 5000 best movies

http://5000best.com/movies/

14 years ago

150 upvotes – 125 comments

VirtualBox hotfix now available for OS X 10.8.2 problem

https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/10965#comment:21

14 years ago

134 upvotes – 13 comments

Licensing of Titanium chaotic and unclear

http://developer.appcelerator.com/question/142516/warning-licensing-of-titanium-chaotic-and-unclear-how-to-avoid-extortionate-fees

14 years ago

134 upvotes – 46 comments

New study affirms that fewer copyright restrictions benefit the economy

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/09/copyright-and-campaign-misinformation-new-study-affirms-less-copyright

14 years ago

133 upvotes – 50 comments

Show HN: Quantblocks - Backtest your trading strategies

http://www.quantblocks.com

14 years ago

99 upvotes – 86 comments

Apple’s Free Ride: Why Journalists Treat Product Launches Like News

http://observer.com/2012/09/apples-free-ride-why-journalists-treat-product-launches-like-news/

14 years ago

94 upvotes – 52 comments

How easy it is to set up untraceable companies

http://www.economist.com/node/21563286

14 years ago

92 upvotes – 33 comments

Deployd: Create RESTful JSON APIs using a GUI interface

http://deployd.com/

14 years ago

88 upvotes – 45 comments

Hotmail: Your password was too long, so we fixed it for you

http://www.securelist.com/en/blog/208193844/Hotmail_Your_password_was_too_long_so_we_fixed_it_for_you

14 years ago

84 upvotes – 51 comments

The Difficulties of Self Publicising

https://www.scirra.com/blog/96/the-difficulties-of-self-publicising

14 years ago

81 upvotes – 63 comments

Twitter responds to IFFFT

http://techcrunch.com/2012/09/21/twitter-api-dick-costolo/

14 years ago

80 upvotes – 42 comments

Making Instant C# Viable - Vizualization

http://ermau.com/making-instant-csharp-viable-visualization/

14 years ago

80 upvotes – 22 comments

LispyScript: A JavaScript With Lispy Syntax And Macros

http://lispyscript.com

14 years ago

79 upvotes – 52 comments

Shake: Every Program Can Be a Clojure Function

http://sunng.info/blog/2012/09/shake-every-program-can-be-a-clojure-function/

14 years ago

79 upvotes – 25 comments

Pandorhack: Stealing Pandora Passwords

http://pandorhack.zorinaq.com/

14 years ago

77 upvotes – 20 comments

Apple posted 6 Maps developer jobs in the last 10 days (search maps)

http://jobs.apple.com/index.ajs?Language=en&CountryId=3

14 years ago

76 upvotes – 64 comments

JQuery 1.8.2 released

http://blog.jquery.com/2012/09/20/jquery-1-8-2-released/

14 years ago

73 upvotes – 7 comments

Why too many startups suck

http://steveblank.com/2012/09/21/why-too-many-startups-er-suck/

14 years ago

72 upvotes – 35 comments

iOS6 Safari Caching $.ajax Results

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12506897/ios6-safari-caching-ajax-results/

14 years ago

70 upvotes – 25 comments

The right way to deal with frozen processes on Unix

http://blog.phusion.nl/2012/09/21/the-right-way-to-deal-with-frozen-processes-on-unix/

14 years ago

69 upvotes – 18 comments

Create your own local Dropbox with AeroFS

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/09/create-your-own-local-dropbox-with-aerofs/

14 years ago

66 upvotes – 33 comments

Immigration Issues for a Canadian working for Microsoft

http://blog.garyroumanis.com/immigration-issues

14 years ago

61 upvotes – 64 comments

Fifty Years of the Jetsons

http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/paleofuture/2012/09/50-years-of-the-jetsons-why-the-show-still-matters

14 years ago

60 upvotes – 18 comments

How To Disrupt Technical Recruiting - Hire an Agent

http://www.javacodegeeks.com/2012/09/how-to-disrupt-technical-recruiting.html

14 years ago

59 upvotes – 63 comments

Users of The Well buy The Well from Salon

http://www.well.com/media.html

14 years ago

56 upvotes – 8 comments

How to hire a sales person

http://blog.filepicker.io/post/32008758408/how-to-hire-a-sales-person

14 years ago

55 upvotes – 29 comments

Help fund Read the Docs

http://ericholscher.com/blog/2012/sep/20/help-fund-read-docs/

14 years ago

53 upvotes – 13 comments

Show HN: WordCount.is

http://wordcount.is

14 years ago

48 upvotes – 55 comments
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