top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-09-24

Meeting A Troll

http://www.traynorseye.com/2012/09/meeting-troll.html

14 years ago

673 upvotes – 201 comments

Myspace previews complete redesign

https://new.myspace.com/

14 years ago

333 upvotes – 264 comments

Adobe Edge Web Fonts

http://html.adobe.com/edge/webfonts/

14 years ago

308 upvotes – 82 comments

Websockets 101

http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2012/9/24/websockets-101/

14 years ago

289 upvotes – 50 comments

The Pendulum Swings, Again

http://jacquesmattheij.com/the-pendulum-swings-again

14 years ago

284 upvotes – 122 comments

Google Spanner's Most Surprising Revelation: NoSQL is Out and NewSQL is In

http://highscalability.com/blog/2012/9/24/google-spanners-most-surprising-revelation-nosql-is-out-and.html

14 years ago

248 upvotes – 79 comments

Why American Phone, Cable and Internet Bills are so High

http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/daily-ticker/why-phone-cable-internet-bills-cost-much-130914030.html

14 years ago

244 upvotes – 254 comments

SHA-3 to Be Announced

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2012/09/sha-3_will_be_a.html

14 years ago

243 upvotes – 53 comments

I Am Worried About The Future Of Python

http://www.ironfroggy.com/software/i-am-worried-about-the-future-of-python

14 years ago

218 upvotes – 203 comments

Nigerian scammer gets a laptop from me

http://www.notla.com/archives/2010/07/nigerian-scammer-gets-a-laptop-from-me/comment-page-2/

14 years ago

210 upvotes – 139 comments

Leak shows EU's plans for large scale surveillance of all communications

http://www.edri.org/cleanIT

14 years ago

206 upvotes – 33 comments

How Corning Created the Ultrathin, Ultrastrong Material of the Future

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/09/ff-corning-gorilla-glass/

14 years ago

199 upvotes – 33 comments

New Zealand PM requests inquiry into illegal Megaupload wire tapping

http://www.beehive.govt.nz/release/prime-minister-requests-inquiry

14 years ago

181 upvotes – 37 comments

How Apple's Obsession with Google Is Hurting Apple

http://www.cultofmac.com/192350/how-apples-obsession-with-google-is-hurting-apple/

14 years ago

177 upvotes – 138 comments

SeenBefore: A search engine for what you have seen before

https://www.seenbefore.com/

14 years ago

175 upvotes – 95 comments

Google for Entrepreneurs

http://www.google.com/entrepreneurs/

14 years ago

169 upvotes – 23 comments

Bank of America Giving Access to Random Accounts

https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2012/09/warning-bank-of-america-giving-access-to-random-accounts/

14 years ago

159 upvotes – 44 comments

Quit My Job For Consulting: Two Months Later

http://www.stevekle.in/quit-my-job-for-consulting-two-months-later

14 years ago

157 upvotes – 137 comments

I’ll Give MongoDB Another Try In Ten Years

http://diegobasch.com/ill-give-mongodb-another-try-in-ten-years

14 years ago

140 upvotes – 189 comments

The Joy of Quiet

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/01/opinion/sunday/the-joy-of-quiet.html?_r=2&pagewanted=all

14 years ago

135 upvotes – 45 comments

The GitHub hiring experience

https://github.com/blog/1269-the-github-hiring-experience

14 years ago

130 upvotes – 38 comments

Do Web Developers Ever Learn?

http://bitroar.posterous.com/does-web-development-really-progress

14 years ago

130 upvotes – 91 comments

Facebook Users Report Seeing Old Private Messages Showing Up On Timelines

http://techcrunch.com/2012/09/24/reports-facebook-users-seeing-private-messages-pre-2009-showing-up-on-timelines-as-posted-by-friends/

14 years ago

108 upvotes – 144 comments

Eating for Health, Not Weight

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/23/opinion/sunday/the-optimal-diet.html?ref=opinion&_r=0moc.semityn.www

14 years ago

108 upvotes – 85 comments

Learning to Learn

http://simpleprogrammer.com/2012/09/23/learning-to-learn/

14 years ago

104 upvotes – 32 comments

Filepicker.io launches Django, Rails, PHP, Phonegap libraries

https://www.filepicker.io/products/libraries/

14 years ago

99 upvotes – 40 comments

Dear Canonical: please let me pay for Ubuntu

http://www.webstylr.com/2012/09/24/dear-canonical-please-let-me-pay-for-ubuntu/

14 years ago

97 upvotes – 88 comments

Dear Internet: please move the share buttons from the web page to the browser

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4563653

14 years ago

93 upvotes – 90 comments

How we ship GitHub for Windows

https://github.com/blog/1271-how-we-ship-github-for-windows

14 years ago

91 upvotes – 22 comments

Breakdown of Apple lightning port

http://brockerhoff.net/blog/2012/09/23/boom-pins/

14 years ago

88 upvotes – 66 comments

Breakthrough silicon scanning discovers backdoor in military chip

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~sps32/ches2012-backdoor.pdf

14 years ago

84 upvotes – 10 comments

Coca-cola nails social media by releasing personalized bottles

http://owened.co.nz/cocacola-gets-social-media

14 years ago

82 upvotes – 52 comments

Ask HN: How to deal with losing interest in your passion?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4564273

14 years ago

80 upvotes – 69 comments

Tesla's Big Gamble: Can The Electric Car Go Mainstream?

http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2012/09/24/161700525/teslas-big-gamble-can-the-electric-car-go-mainstream?ft=1&f=1001

14 years ago

77 upvotes – 65 comments

Airbnb Tech Talk: Brad Fitzpatrick on Go

https://www.airbnb.com/meetups/zy2max9kt-tech-talk-brad-fitzpatrick

14 years ago

71 upvotes – 16 comments

Appcelerator: extortion is just part of the job

http://weblog.masukomi.org/2012/09/22/appcelerator-extortion-is-just-part-of-the-job-dot-dot-dot

14 years ago

70 upvotes – 33 comments

Apple loses German patent court case

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-19699632

14 years ago

68 upvotes – 51 comments

Google Translate in Android: Point, tap, brush, listen

http://googletranslate.blogspot.in/2012/08/point-tap-brush-and-listen.html

14 years ago

68 upvotes – 27 comments

The physics of skipping stones

http://splashlab.byu.edu/2012/09/18/balls-that-walk-on-water-pub-physics-of-fluids/

14 years ago

67 upvotes – 10 comments

How a Teacher Made $1 Million Selling Lesson Plans

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-09-24/how-a-teacher-made-1-million-selling-lesson-plans

14 years ago

66 upvotes – 24 comments

Gaming AirBnB in San Francisco courtesy of Rent Control

http://doubledbl.tumblr.com/post/32179239260/gaming-airbnb-in-san-francisco-courtesy-of-rent-control

14 years ago

65 upvotes – 24 comments

iPhone 5 First Weekend Sales Top Five Million

http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2012/09/24iPhone-5-First-Weekend-Sales-Top-Five-Million.html

14 years ago

65 upvotes – 112 comments

ServiceStack: new REST API for .NET/Mono

https://github.com/ServiceStack/ServiceStack/wiki/New-Api

14 years ago

★ 5.4k C#
65 upvotes – 17 comments

China in Revolt

http://jacobinmag.com/2012/08/china-in-revolt/

14 years ago

64 upvotes – 17 comments

Lighter-than-air craft rise again

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20120921-lighter-than-air-craft-rises

14 years ago

63 upvotes – 59 comments

Apple v. Samsung Voir Dire Reveals Broken Promises

http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20120923233451725

14 years ago

63 upvotes – 24 comments

Error codes vs exceptions: critical code vs typical code

http://www.yosefk.com/blog/error-codes-vs-exceptions-critical-code-vs-typical-code.html

14 years ago

62 upvotes – 26 comments

Chinese families' worldly goods in Huang Qinqjun's pictures

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-19648095

14 years ago

62 upvotes – 22 comments

Please stop with the video tutorials

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4565615

14 years ago

61 upvotes – 42 comments

Show HN: I got tired of missing new music releases, so I built this

http://beathound.com

14 years ago

58 upvotes – 73 comments

Sarah Lawrence with Guns

http://jacobinmag.com/2012/08/sarah-lawrence-with-guns/

14 years ago

57 upvotes – 16 comments
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