top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-12-10

Search, Mad Men style: A complete IBM 362 Google interface in the browser

http://www.masswerk.at/google60/

14 years ago

395 upvotes – 73 comments

Police concerned with Apple iOS 6 mapping system

http://www.vicpolicenews.com.au/more-news/11081-police-concerned-with-apple-ios-6-mapping-system.html

14 years ago

361 upvotes – 220 comments

Gmail.com was down

https://mail.google.com/

14 years ago

307 upvotes – 300 comments

What I Learned Building Twitter Bootstrap

https://medium.com/what-i-learned-building/b95033c270af

14 years ago

233 upvotes – 69 comments

An office with "library rules"

https://37signals.com/svn/posts/3357-an-office-with-library-rules

14 years ago

231 upvotes – 175 comments

The Pirate Bay Is The World’s Most Efficient Public Library

http://falkvinge.net/2012/12/07/the-pirate-bay-is-the-worlds-most-efficient-public-library/

14 years ago

216 upvotes – 215 comments

Mining a 1993 game design for innovative game mechanics

http://lunar.lostgarden.com/game_HardVacuum.htm

14 years ago

211 upvotes – 84 comments

Facebook, Google, Zynga Ask Courts To Reject Patents On Abstract Ideas

http://techcrunch.com/2012/12/09/reject-abstract-patents/

14 years ago

210 upvotes – 52 comments

Show HN: Clojure DSL for pattern-matching, parsing and generic programming

http://scattered-thoughts.net/blog/2012/12/04/strucjure-motivation/

14 years ago

204 upvotes – 16 comments

New board in the Arduino Family: Esplora

http://arduino.cc/en/Main/ArduinoBoardEsplora

14 years ago

200 upvotes – 45 comments

Switch Your Databases To Flash Storage

http://highscalability.com/blog/2012/12/10/switch-your-databases-to-flash-storage-now-or-youre-doing-it.html

14 years ago

187 upvotes – 77 comments

Get a review of your website. Launched today.

http://www.criticue.com

14 years ago

180 upvotes – 156 comments

A collector is selling every Super Nintendo game for $24,999

http://www.polygon.com/2012/12/10/3749792/a-collector-is-selling-every-super-nintendo-game-for-24999

14 years ago

175 upvotes – 70 comments

Impact of Major on Career Path for 15600 Williams College Alums

http://web.williams.edu/Mathematics/devadoss/careerpath.html

14 years ago

166 upvotes – 60 comments

Make a Donation to the Internet Archive

http://archive.org/donate/

14 years ago

165 upvotes – 31 comments

Jun Fukuyama's P≠NP Page

http://junfukuyama.wordpress.com/

14 years ago

156 upvotes – 81 comments

Startup ideas spreadsheet

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ag-R_ZlGO21NdE9HSWRkbjNyUGRxS2JIV3NxYVdiaXc

14 years ago

145 upvotes – 81 comments

Google Revenues Sheltered in No-Tax Bermuda Soar to $10 Billion

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-12-10/google-revenues-sheltered-in-no-tax-bermuda-soar-to-10-billion.html

14 years ago

119 upvotes – 170 comments

Lovelace – The Origin

http://sydneypadua.com/2dgoggles/lovelace-the-origin-2/

14 years ago

115 upvotes – 10 comments

Haskell Snap Framework templating 3000x faster with new release

http://snapframework.com/blog/2012/12/9/heist-0.10-released

14 years ago

114 upvotes – 32 comments

25-GPU cluster cracks every standard Windows password in less than 6 hours

http://arstechnica.com/security/2012/12/25-gpu-cluster-cracks-every-standard-windows-password-in-6-hours/

14 years ago

113 upvotes – 70 comments

Local police post mugshots on Pinterest, leading to a 57% boost in arrests

http://thenextweb.com/socialmedia/2012/12/07/local-police-post-mugshots-on-pinterest-leading-to-a-57-boost-in-arrests/

14 years ago

109 upvotes – 65 comments

The Power of Negative Thinking

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324705104578147333270637790.html

14 years ago

108 upvotes – 29 comments

Elm: declarative language that compiles to HTML, CSS and JS

http://elm-lang.org/

14 years ago

107 upvotes – 30 comments

Catfish hunt pigeons in France

http://www.tgdaily.com/general-sciences-features/67959-catfish-hunt-pigeons-in-france

14 years ago

98 upvotes – 28 comments

Codemirror v3 released

http://codemirror.net/

14 years ago

94 upvotes – 18 comments

Google wreaks havoc on our company’s calendars: lost data and security breaches

http://www.elezea.com/2012/12/google-calendar-lost-data-security-breach/

14 years ago

93 upvotes – 22 comments

iPhone App Review sites to email when you’re about to launch

http://mytangibles.tumblr.com/

14 years ago

92 upvotes – 16 comments

Things we did wrong as a startup

http://neiljoglekar.com/3-things-we-did-wrong

14 years ago

90 upvotes – 15 comments

North Korea: On the net in world's most secretive nation

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-20445632

14 years ago

83 upvotes – 51 comments

Show HN: A web-based Excel/Database hybrid

http://www.ragic.com/intl/en/home

14 years ago

82 upvotes – 41 comments

Clojure eXchange 2012: David Nolen on The Refined Clojurist [video]

http://skillsmatter.com/podcast/scala/the-refined-clojurist

14 years ago

82 upvotes – 11 comments

Apple really needs two passwords, not one for everything

http://martijnpannevis.nl/blog/2012/12/10/apple-really-needs-two-passwords/

14 years ago

80 upvotes – 65 comments

How to allow direct file uploads from JavaScript to Amazon S3 signed by Python

http://philfreo.com/blog/how-to-allow-direct-file-uploads-from-javascript-to-amazon-s3-signed-by-python/

14 years ago

78 upvotes – 12 comments

VLC for the new Windows 8 User Experience ("Metro")

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1061646928/vlc-for-the-new-windows-8-user-experience-metro/posts/366106?ref=email&show_token=dd67c6b0e2aa990e

14 years ago

77 upvotes – 29 comments

Watch 5 Hours of Airplane Takeoffs in 30 Seconds

http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/airplane-balet-5-hours-of-takeoffs-in-30-seconds

14 years ago

75 upvotes – 20 comments

Happy birthday, Ada Lovelace — the first computer programmer

http://blog.vox.io/post/37645656884/happy-birthday-ada-lovelace-the-first-computer

14 years ago

73 upvotes – 15 comments

Is Facebook down?

http://www.facebook.com

14 years ago

72 upvotes – 90 comments

SUSE Linux says Btrfs is ready for production use, now officially supported

http://www.linux.com/news/enterprise/systems-management/677226-suse-linux-says-btrfs-is-ready-to-rock

14 years ago

70 upvotes – 45 comments

Let's Build NSMutableArray

http://www.mikeash.com/pyblog/friday-qa-2012-03-09-lets-build-nsmutablearray.html

14 years ago

68 upvotes – 20 comments

Ron Conway steps back as Y Combinator cuts team funding

http://news.cnet.com/8301-32973_3-57554351-296/ron-conway-steps-back-as-y-combinator-cuts-team-funding/

14 years ago

68 upvotes – 38 comments

Sequoia’s Leone: In Venture, Big is the Enemy of Great

http://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2012/12/10/sequoia-capitals-leone-in-venture-big-is-the-enemy-of-great/?mod=WSJBlog

14 years ago

66 upvotes – 19 comments

An Evaluation of the Application Verification Service in Android 4.2

http://www.cs.ncsu.edu/faculty/jiang/appverify/

14 years ago

66 upvotes – 9 comments

Are Butterflies Two Different Animals in One?

http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2012/08/01/157718428/are-butterflies-two-different-animals-in-one-the-death-and-resurrection-theory

14 years ago

64 upvotes – 33 comments

Introducing Trifecta, the first iPhone game to come out of the App Academy

http://krisallenfields.tumblr.com/post/37597373847/trifecta-blocks-challenge

14 years ago

63 upvotes – 36 comments

How deep are your unit tests?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/153234/how-deep-are-your-unit-tests/153565#153565

14 years ago

62 upvotes – 64 comments

Can HP’s webOS Rise from the Ashes?

http://www.technologyreview.com/news/508251/can-hps-webos-rise-from-the-ashes/

14 years ago

61 upvotes – 27 comments

Swiftype for Mobile: Full-text search for iOS and mobile Web

http://swiftype.com/mobile

14 years ago

59 upvotes – 18 comments

MoMath: Manhattan's Museum of Mathematics

http://newscientist.com/blogs/culturelab/2012/12/momath-manhattan-museum-of-mathematics.html

14 years ago

57 upvotes – 6 comments

Intelligence Council Predicts 3D Printed Organs, Megacities, Brain Chips by 2030

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/12/superhumans-instant-cities/

14 years ago

56 upvotes – 48 comments

Go Data Structures: Interfaces (2009)

http://research.swtch.com/interfaces

14 years ago

53 upvotes – 3 comments

The Wii U web browser's HTML5 gaming capabilities

http://www.lostdecadegames.com/wii-u-browser/

14 years ago

50 upvotes – 13 comments

The importance of being unrealistic

http://alyssaaldersley.com/the-importance-of-being-unrealistic/

14 years ago

50 upvotes – 14 comments

Editorial: If Barrett Brown's Guilty, Then So Am I

http://www.technewsdaily.com/15852-barrett-brown-indictment-editorial.html

14 years ago

48 upvotes – 0 comments

An iOS user migrates to Android

http://storify.com/joestump/an-ios-user-migrates-to-android

14 years ago

45 upvotes – 44 comments

Ubuntu Community Manager: RMS's Post Seems a Bit Childish To Me and spreads FUD

http://news.slashdot.org/story/12/12/09/1910228/ubuntu-community-manager-rmss-post-seems-a-bit-childish-to-me

14 years ago

44 upvotes – 66 comments

How to attend a hackathon

http://dickey.xxx/hackathons

14 years ago

43 upvotes – 42 comments

GCC 4.8 Has Automatic Return Type Deduction

http://yapb-soc.blogspot.ru/2012/12/gcc-48-has-automatic-return-type.html

14 years ago

41 upvotes – 48 comments
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