top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-08-28

New Zealand bans some software patents

http://www.zdnet.com/new-zealand-bans-software-patents-7000019955/

13 years ago

902 upvotes – 221 comments

He got 1%, we can't hire him

http://www.codingjohnson.com/he-got-1-percent-we-cant-hire-him

13 years ago

835 upvotes – 576 comments

Google has lowered the price of the Nexus 4 by $100

https://play.google.com/store/devices/details/Nexus_4_16GB?id=nexus_4_16gb

13 years ago

402 upvotes – 318 comments

Let me tell you about a game I made with the sole intention of watching it die

http://dominikjohann.tumblr.com/post/59611971605

13 years ago

387 upvotes – 72 comments

What happens when you sit at a desk for 13 years and also exercise

http://deanproxy.com/blog/posts/2013/08/13-what-happens-when-you-sit-at-a-desk-for-13-years---and-actually-exercise-.html

13 years ago

348 upvotes – 206 comments

How one man turns annoying cold calls into cash

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-23869462

13 years ago

331 upvotes – 184 comments

Docker: Git for deployment

http://blog.scoutapp.com/articles/2013/08/28/docker-git-for-deployment

13 years ago

318 upvotes – 115 comments

Isaac Asimov's predictions for what the world will be like in 2014

http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/03/23/lifetimes/asi-v-fair.html

13 years ago

272 upvotes – 172 comments

Shopify POS

http://www.shopify.com/pos

13 years ago

265 upvotes – 120 comments

Why am I being endorsed for skills and expertise I do not claim on my profile?

http://community.linkedin.com/questions/16624/why-am-i-being-endorsed-for-skills-and-expertise-i.html?page=1&pageSize=10&sort=votes

13 years ago

218 upvotes – 160 comments

Humor: Interview with an Ex-Microsoftie Who Used to Name OS Folders

http://secretgeek.net/ex_ms.asp

13 years ago

183 upvotes – 125 comments

Design, Composition and Performance [video]

http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Design-Composition-Performance

13 years ago

182 upvotes – 29 comments

For Sale: Soviet Military Ferrite Core Memory Stack Cube and Manual

http://www.ebay.com/itm/USSR-Soviet-Russian-Military-Ferrite-Core-Memory-Stack-Cube-MANUAL-QUITE-RARE-/150928595047?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item23240b9867

13 years ago

154 upvotes – 101 comments

Show HN: Highlighting Efforts of Creation from Hacker News

https://medium.com/design-startups/e394f6d917d3

13 years ago

149 upvotes – 41 comments

What Programming a Game in 48 Hours Taught Me About Programming Games

http://www.jeffwofford.com/?p=1495

13 years ago

146 upvotes – 71 comments

Details Behind Today's Internet Hacks

http://blog.cloudflare.com/details-behind-todays-internet-hacks

13 years ago

140 upvotes – 45 comments

Google Hangouts goes HD

https://plus.google.com/+VicGundotra/posts/XY9GGhBCPKP

13 years ago

137 upvotes – 75 comments

Humble Comedy Bundle

https://www.humblebundle.com/?comedy

13 years ago

126 upvotes – 59 comments

An attempt to create the highest resolution real-time map of global temperature

http://blog.forecast.io/project-quicksilver/

13 years ago

123 upvotes – 39 comments

Building a Software Company in Rwanda, 3 Years Later

http://blog.textit.in/building-a-software-company-in-rwanda-3-years-later

13 years ago

123 upvotes – 78 comments

The Journey of Launching My First Product, “To Do Cal”

http://www.chrisnorstrom.com/2013/08/the-journey-of-launching-my-first-product-to-do-cal/####

13 years ago

123 upvotes – 24 comments

Show HN: UIBox – A Curated HTML, CSS, JS UI Component Library

http://www.uibox.in

13 years ago

118 upvotes – 28 comments

Why I'm saying goodbye to Dropbox and hello to SpiderOak Hive

http://dougbelshaw.com/blog/2013/08/28/why-im-saying-goodbye-to-dropbox-and-hello-to-spideroak-hive/

13 years ago

116 upvotes – 117 comments

Periodic Table of the HTML Elements

http://joshduck.com/periodic-table.html

13 years ago

105 upvotes – 27 comments

Tin Can: WebRTC that uses Persona to authenticate the callers to each other

http://tincan.im/

13 years ago

102 upvotes – 25 comments

CSS Sprites vs. Data URIs: Which is faster on mobile?

http://www.mobify.com/blog/css-sprites-vs-data-uris-which-is-faster-on-mobile/

13 years ago

101 upvotes – 23 comments

Apple attempts to trademark the word 'startup'

http://zd.net/19YnKMR

13 years ago

99 upvotes – 41 comments

Marissa Mayer Has “Many Enemies”

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2013/08/marissa_mayer_controversy_what_the_negative_coverage_gets_wrong.html

13 years ago

98 upvotes – 79 comments

Emacs As Operating System

http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?EmacsAsOperatingSystem

13 years ago

91 upvotes – 86 comments

Youtube retires video responses

http://youtubecreator.blogspot.com/2013/08/so-long-video-responsesnext-up-better.html

13 years ago

89 upvotes – 67 comments

Boarding Pass Redesign

https://medium.com/design-ux/c72084d7793e

13 years ago

86 upvotes – 100 comments

First impressions using Julia

http://acooke.org/cute/Firstimpre0.html

13 years ago

85 upvotes – 26 comments

Insights we discovered when we scraped and analyzed all of Indiegogo’s campaigns

https://medium.com/p/2a48bc6ffd57

13 years ago

83 upvotes – 35 comments

Free online resume creator based on LaTeX

https://www.cvsintellect.com

13 years ago

82 upvotes – 95 comments

Linux Trojan “Hand of Thief”

https://blog.avast.com/2013/08/27/linux-trojan-hand-of-thief-ungloved/

13 years ago

76 upvotes – 61 comments

Electrons and Atoms

http://blog.samaltman.com/electrons-and-atoms

13 years ago

73 upvotes – 28 comments

MongoDB Days

http://gaiustech.wordpress.com/2013/04/13/mongodb-days/

13 years ago

70 upvotes – 52 comments

Show HN: Mobile feedback your users will love

http://audobox.com

13 years ago

70 upvotes – 19 comments

Bitcoin offers privacy as long as you don't cash out or spend it

http://www.itworld.com/security/370750/bitcoin-offers-privacy-long-you-dont-cash-out-or-spend-it

13 years ago

68 upvotes – 33 comments

You Are Your Own Worst Enemy - thoughts on ego protection and self-sabotage

http://zachobront.com/you-are-your-own-worst-enemy/

13 years ago

67 upvotes – 17 comments

Map Vectorizer – Map polygon and feature extractor

https://github.com/NYPL/map-vectorizer

13 years ago

★ 658 Python MIT
64 upvotes – 19 comments
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