0.480 How browsers work comments
0.267 A new search engine. comments
Sunday, September 30, 2012
Hacker News stories for 7 PM on Sunday Sep 30, 2012
0.896 Copyright Act explicitly states disruptive innovation should be blocked comments
0.691 Search.xxx Porn Search Engine Launches comments
0.391 MariaDB Cassandra Storage Engine comments
0.349 Tell HN: Startup school 2012 invites are out comments
0.189 PlaceRaider: Virtual Theft in Physical Spaces with Smartphones comments
0.179 Most Reported Genetic Associations With Intelligence Are Likely False Positives comments
0.165 Mobile Playbook by Google comments
0.148 Show HN: PRLibs, madlibs to create press releases for startups comments
0.064 HTML5 Google Authenticator comments
0.001 Ask HN: Why do HN users still obscure their e-mail addresses? comments
Hacker News stories for 4 PM on Sunday Sep 30, 2012
0.930 Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA) Tutorial comments
0.876 How a rogue appeals court wrecked the patent system comments
0.641 OMG, Test Driven Development Actually Works comments
0.608 Parse Procfiles in Go comments
0.504 I got sued for $3 Million by a religious cult comments
0.463 Using Adwords to Earn Uber Referral Credit comments
0.439 To Encourage Biking, Cities Lose the Helmets comments
0.433 You Don’t Need A Prototype To Raise A Seed Round comments
0.346 HIV ‘made’ new deadly Salmonella - study comments
0.233 Bootstrap Toggle Buttons comments
0.057 Facebook users don’t give a heck about apps notifications anymore. comments
0.047 Ask HN: An online ‘doers’ community for bootstrapping developers? comments
0.038 The iPad 1 comments
Hacker News stories for 11 AM on Sunday Sep 30, 2012
0.738 Letters: A tiny debugging library for Ruby comments
0.666 Telling people to leave finance comments
0.064 Ask HN: Where can I find salespeople to market to? comments
0.058 Flying at No Mechanical Energy Cost: The Secret of Wandering Albatrosses comments
0.011 Ask HN: What are the use cases for NFC outside of payments comments
0.007 Ask HN: what is a good spot to work in New York? comments
Hacker News stories for 10 AM on Sunday Sep 30, 2012
0.956 Pirate Bay Founder Remains Locked Up Without Charges comments
0.931 New Content-Delivery Tech Should Be Presumed Illegal, Says Former Copyright Boss comments
0.846 Things That Turbo Pascal is Smaller Than comments
0.500 A Crash Course in Information and Visual Design comments
0.045 WorkFlowy for iPhone comments
Hacker News stories for 4 AM on Sunday Sep 30, 2012
0.417 21st IOCCC winners announced comments
0.329 Marc Benioff: Future Software Will Look Like Facebook comments
0.303 We are a French startup and we make pixel art stickers comments
0.294 Publish interactive 3D content online comments
0.049 Microsoft: ‘To fill 6,000 jobs, we’ll pay $10K per visa’ comments
Saturday, September 29, 2012
Hacker News stories for 8 PM on Saturday Sep 29, 2012
0.635 Fizzbuzz isn’t a coding test comments
0.602 Could we use open-source tools to improve politics? comments
0.318 Amazon now loaning capital to sellers comments
0.068 The physics of making an iPad into an accurate aviation instrument comments
0.008 Big Changes In iOS 6 App Store (And What Developers Should Do) comments
Hacker News stories for 5 PM on Saturday Sep 29, 2012
0.830 The Case for Abolishing Patents (Yes, All of Them) comments
0.670 This white powder will kill me one day comments
0.493 Firefox 18 Gets Support for Retina Display comments
0.400 ‘Babylon 5’ star Michael O’Hare dies at 60 comments
0.365 The Lowest Fare? Ask the Crowd comments
0.338 Google’s Answer to Siri Thinks Ahead comments
Hacker News stories for 2 PM on Saturday Sep 29, 2012
0.933 Is a resume relevant in the age of online courses and open source projects? comments
0.769 How does SSL work? comments
0.579 The Next Big E-Commerce Wave comments
0.285 Apple only built Google Maps for the original iPhone weeks before unveiling. comments
0.147 The Fog of War in strategy games now in the real world comments
Hacker News stories for 10 AM on Saturday Sep 29, 2012
0.912 Incorporate your startup only when you’re forced to comments
0.691 Lessons From The Dramatic Slow-Motion Death Of Wikitravel comments
0.541 Open webOS 1.0 On An Asus Transformer Prime Tablet comments
0.316 Why I got Fired from Facebook (a $100 Million dollar lesson) comments
0.190 Setting up an Android Tablet for use by a Handicapped Child comments
0.080 How to put all your data on the Web—without storing it in the cloud comments
Hacker News stories for 9 AM on Saturday Sep 29, 2012
0.538 Apple’s Safari Tech Evangelist you’ve never heard of comments
0.509 Twitter is a tragic tale comments
0.506 Male DNA Commonly Found in Women’s Brains comments
0.408 Modern Web Application Development with Perl comments
0.233 Persona - Mozilla’s decentralized and secure authentication system comments
Hacker News stories for 8 AM on Saturday Sep 29, 2012
0.949 Python 3.3.0 released comments
0.696 Attack of the Fifty-Foot NIMBY’s comments
0.524 Japanese tech companies in free fall… comments
0.391 Pre-flight cracks in Dreamliner engine comments
0.365 Flowplayer 5.0.0 comments
0.333 Someone forgot to renew NodeJS.org (ugh) comments
0.317 Windows 8 ‘Metro’ Apps Can Only Be Distributed Through Store comments
0.084 Manufacturer Tells Customers to Print Replacement Parts with 3D Printers comments
0.033 An open hardware platform for the best microcontroller in the world comments
0.025 Weekend hack: A little tiled window manager for OS X comments
Friday, September 28, 2012
Hacker News stories for 5 PM on Friday Sep 28, 2012
0.561 Service Oriented Side Effects comments
0.407 The Mail Pilot Public Beta comments
0.384 Bootstrap Maintainers Leave Twitter comments
0.326 Hacking WinRAR for fun and profit comments
0.286 To Stripe or not to Stripe in Canadaom-canada/) comments
0.255 5 Minutes to Social Android Apps with Singly comments
0.212 Re: Hakin9’s new Nmap Guide comments
0.041 Apple Has a New Cook comments
Hacker News stories for 11 AM on Friday Sep 28, 2012
0.899 Grove isn’t dead, it’s only resting comments
0.576 Go by Example: Timers and Tickers comments
0.551 How much can I sell my startup for? comments
0.467 Alligator Eggs comments
0.467 Grove is here to stay comments
0.380 Patio11 launches his Lifecycle Emails course comments
0.300 Microsoft: Shortage of tech workers in the US becoming ‘genuine crisis’ comments
0.172 The Ludum Dare October Challenge: Finish a game, Take it to market, Earn $1 comments
Hacker News stories for 9 AM on Friday Sep 28, 2012
0.510 Small but significant usability sins that websites should never commit comments
0.463 No, really. Use Zsh. comments
0.463 How Do You Grade Yourself? comments
0.405 Custom “bots” for Unreal Tournament 2004 pass Turing test comments
0.269 Telephony APIs are taking over the world comments
0.130 Introducing the Geckoboard Widget Editor comments
0.043 Show HN: a weekly email about what’s hot in your favourite languages comments
Hacker News stories for 8 AM on Friday Sep 28, 2012
0.867 Stanford CS240h, Functional Systems in Haskell comments
0.840 If you thought software patents were stupid, have a look at patent 6368227 comments
0.810 W.T.F.M. - Write The Freakin’ Manual comments
0.709 Amazon seeks to throw out Apple ‘app store’ claim comments
0.490 Even Windows 8 early adopters prefer Windows 7 by two to one comments
0.447 Could A Lunar Supercomputer Work? Moon-based “cold storage” for planetary data comments
0.445 Array Languages Rock comments
0.363 Shiny WebGL Car Viewer comments
0.236 Apple Apologizes for Its Maps Problem comments
0.079 Apple issues A Letter to Our Customers Regarding Maps comments
0.068 Google disables AdSense account of user for sharing free book via torrent comments
0.045 Major banks hit with biggest cyberattacks in history comments
0.040 AMD deal brings Android apps to Windows 8 comments
0.031 Ask HN: How does an experienced freelancer get work? comments
Hacker News stories for 3 AM on Friday Sep 28, 2012
Thursday, September 27, 2012
Hacker News stories for 8 PM on Thursday Sep 27, 2012
0.913 Marissa Mayer : Yahoo Products Must Ship In 6 Months, Or Don’t Bother comments
0.814 SOPA is not dead — now it is an Executive Order comments
0.680 Adaptive Resampling in D3.js comments
0.437 Notch: ”I’d rather have minecraft not run on win 8 at all than to play along.” comments
0.114 ABC News uses iCloud to track a stolen iPad to TSA officer’s home comments
0.113 Employers Banned From Asking For Social Media Passwords In California comments
Hacker News stories for 5 PM on Thursday Sep 27, 2012
0.495 Founder Failure Insurance: Pooling equity comments
0.431 Parallella: Raspberry Pi-like open parallel computing hardware comments
0.368 Search the Enron archive using Searchify’s Gotank, a new IndexTank client in Go comments
0.348 Health Premiums Up $3,000; Obama Vowed $2,500 Cut comments
0.089 Generating 16384 Bit SSH Keys comments
0.042 IE9 is better at blocking malware than Chrome, Safari, and Firefox combined comments
0.006 Trigger.io supports custom url schemes - open your app from the web comments
Hacker News stories for 4 PM on Thursday Sep 27, 2012
0.500 NASA Rover Finds Old Streambed on Martian Surface comments
0.476 Keypress: A JavaScript input capture library comments
0.467 How to Reinforce Impostor Syndrome comments
0.256 Live Chat on the web is broken (well, mostly) comments
0.171 How to be Creative in 7 Steps (my first eBook) comments
0.014 Facebook Users See Private Messages Show Up on Their Timelines comments
Hacker News stories for 2 PM on Thursday Sep 27, 2012
0.835 The Launch Pad: Inside YC, Silicon Valley’s Most Exclusive School for Startups comments
0.626 For crisp edges, use anything but crispEdges comments
0.605 US Military Classifies Wikileaks As ‘Enemy Of The United States’ comments
0.529 Did That Rent-To-Own Computer Spy on You? comments
0.473 StarCraft: Orcs in space go down in flames comments
0.405 Why Smart Entrepreneurs Aren’t Eyeing the First World comments
0.393 Twitch Broadcasting SDK comments
0.363 Sons’ DNA remains in mothers’ brains comments
0.314 MMO xkcd WebSockets fixed by PubNub comments
0.264 Show HN: Interactive Visualization of Influence in Programming Languages comments
0.263 App.net developer incentive programme comments
0.195 Google releases ‘Field Trip’ app, a location-aware guidebook comments
0.134 Linux TCP/IP Tuning comments
0.108 Bitcoin Foundation Launches to ‘Standardize, Protect and Promote’ Bitcoin comments
0.007 IOS6 and iPhone 5 App Store Discoverability: What changed? comments
Hacker News stories for 9 AM on Thursday Sep 27, 2012
0.790 Understanding the Value Cycle: Create, Communicate, Deliver, Capture comments
0.600 What happens to our brains when we exercise and how it makes us happier comments
0.092 Moo.com launch NFC enabled business cards comments
0.091 Announcing Mozilla Persona Beta 1 (Login system without per-site passwords) comments
0.016 Show HN: Spar - Single Page Application Rocketship comments
0.006 Show HN: Docverter: Convert your text content to PDF/HTML/EPUB with one REST API comments
Hacker News stories for 8 AM on Thursday Sep 27, 2012
0.835 Program above and beyond your actual ability by using FreeMind comments
0.605 Is Three Founders One Too Many? comments
0.476 Richard Buckland’s UNSW Computing 1 - learn with games, puzzles and friends comments
0.242 Photos emerge from inside North Korean Ryugyong Hotel comments
0.225 DDR4 memory: Twice the speed, less power comments
0.093 Clean and powerful Cobra Language gets major update comments
Hacker News stories for 7 AM on Thursday Sep 27, 2012
0.927 We’ve Already Passed the Tipping Point for Orbital Debris comments
0.741 Why I want to see Gittip succeed comments
0.575 It Takes 275 Water Molecules To Make Ice comments
0.556 The Britishisation of American English comments
0.474 Hacking Kids - Part 1 comments
0.379 Font of Last Resort - Unicode placeholder to identify unsupported characters comments
0.307 Did NSA Put a Secret Backdoor in New Encryption Standard? 2007 comments
0.179 Scratchpad: Rapid prototyping from UI elements you clip/collect from the web comments
0.142 Google set to blow open the tablet market later this year with $99 Nexus tablet comments
Hacker News stories for 6 AM on Thursday Sep 27, 2012
0.894 Go Daddy patents “announcing a domain name registration on a social website” comments
0.659 New Zealand admits illegally spying on Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom comments
0.403 Let’s write better software comments
0.309 7 Problems Raytracing Doesn’t Solve comments
0.154 Crowd Sourcing Sucked, So I Put Instagram API to Work Instead comments
Wednesday, September 26, 2012
Hacker News stories for 7 PM on Wednesday Sep 26, 2012
0.309 Snapjoy Adds Brilliant “Copy” Feature comments
0.028 Microsoft: Hey, Apple Maps haters Use Bing for iPhone instead comments
0.016 Show HN: Viewer for Khan Academy (Win8 App + Source Code) comments
0.008 IOS 6 App Store is a disaster for developers comments
0.005 Survey: iOS 6 Leads To Decrease In Device Satisfaction Among iPhone Users comments
Hacker News stories for 6 PM on Wednesday Sep 26, 2012
0.816 The Veritable Guide To E-Commerce Newsletters comments
0.276 Myspace’s iLike Rises From The Dead To Block An Apple Trademark Request comments
0.276 Why Codecademy is overrated and missing its target audience comments
0.028 Airbnb Is Raising A Big Third Round, Aiming For A Valuation North Of $2B comments
Hacker News stories for 4 PM on Wednesday Sep 26, 2012
0.662 As We May Think (1945) comments
0.626 Longtime tech recruiter shatters the engineering shortage myth comments
0.496 Most of What You Know About Interviews is Wrong comments
0.359 Is Alzheimer’s Type 3 Diabetes? comments
0.181 GitHub’s Culture - Bigger Than Any One Person comments
0.121 Wordpress.com serves 70k requests/second using Nginx comments
0.056 Google Docs Ditching Old Microsoft Export Formats(.doc, .xls, .ppt) on October 1 comments
0.023 Coinbase (YC S12), First Crowd Funded Bitcoin Company, Raises Over $600K comments
Hacker News stories for 1 PM on Wednesday Sep 26, 2012
0.704 Appeals Court Caves to TSA Over Nude Body Scanners comments
0.579 Unholy Rails: External Scripts, jQuery Plugins, & Page-Specific JavaScript comments
0.333 Light Table - Embracing Abstraction comments
0.233 SupportBee launches web tool for headache-free email support comments
0.222 Realizations that helped me write regularly comments
0.182 Jeannie, an API for building Siri-like apps comments
0.070 Lumia 920 low-light shootout with iPhone 5, HTC One X and Galaxy S III comments
Hacker News stories for 12 PM on Wednesday Sep 26, 2012
0.944 Why I think Rust is the “language of the future” for systems programming comments
0.771 Bret Victor: Learnable Programming comments
0.515 Turbolinks for Rails (like pjax) comments
0.443 Google’s self-driving cars will be available to ‘ordinary people’ within 5 years comments
0.417 Get the Fainting Chair comments
0.143 20 Hours of Tent.is comments
0.125 The Windows Store… why did I sign up with this mess again? comments
Hacker News stories for 11 AM on Wednesday Sep 26, 2012
0.602 Five-Cent Diabetes Pill From 1958 May Be New Cancer Drug comments
0.583 Saving Android From a Second-Rate Future comments
0.250 Megabox will replace 15% of ads on websites with Mega’s own ads comments
0.235 Google Drive SDK comments
0.037 Share stuff from Dropbox in your Facebook Groups comments
0.014 Twilio’s Biggest Partnership: AT&T Will Resell Its Cloud Telecom Apps And API comments
Hacker News stories for 10 AM on Wednesday Sep 26, 2012
Hacker News stories for 9 AM on Wednesday Sep 26, 2012
0.740 German state parliament bans laptops - Pirate party show up with typewriters comments
0.731 The Smart Phone Patent Wars comments
0.721 Kim Dotcom Teases Megabox, Reveals Exclusive Artists? comments
0.312 MMO in loving tribute to xckd-1110 comments
0.093 Embark Plans 1.3M Transit Trips Since Apple’s Release Of iOS 6 comments
Hacker News stories for 8 AM on Wednesday Sep 26, 2012
0.788 LOOM 4k short film by Ridley Scott & son goes online comments
0.609 Mathematics at Google comments
0.525 The science behind what motivates us to get up for work every day comments
0.467 The Hustler’s MBA comments
0.304 More renewable energy for our data centers comments
0.250 Building software for Raspberry Pi in Windows: Cross-Compiler Howto comments
0.086 Actual OIS performance: Lumia 920 against iPhone 5, Galaxy S III, HTC One X comments
0.017 Kim Dotcom teases details of music service Megabox with preview video comments
Hacker News stories for 7 AM on Wednesday Sep 26, 2012
0.630 Version your RESTful API responses comments
0.438 Apple responds to iPhone 5 scuffs, says scratches and chips are ‘normal’ comments
0.223 GoogleWithoutGoogle.com - weekend project for a simple startpage and some tricks comments
0.111 Formlabs launch new low cost, high resolution 3D printer on Kickstarter comments
Hacker News stories for 5 AM on Wednesday Sep 26, 2012
0.859 French Government To Use PostgreSQL, LibreOffice In Free Software Adoption Push comments
0.738 RIM CEO: We want to be the number three platform on the market comments
0.737 Intel CEO slams Windows 8, says it’s not ready comments
0.511 Scientists: ‘Castration is the key to a longer life’ comments
0.474 OStatus: like Twitter, but open comments
0.178 Samsung Plugs Remote Wipe Flaw, Urges Galaxy SIII Owners To Update comments
0.103 Filepicker and Aviary - Image uploading on steroids comments
0.004 Show HN: the6pct : a tool to help you track weekly growth based on PG’s essay comments
Tuesday, September 25, 2012
Hacker News stories for 9 PM on Tuesday Sep 25, 2012
0.667 Relic of an Era, Revitalized comments
0.205 Rent-to-Own Laptops Secretly Photographed Users Having Sex, FTC Says comments
0.162 Create a CSS Flipping Animation comments
0.124 Great Barrier Reef with the first underwater panoramas in Google Maps comments
0.077 Wizard for Mac - a powerful tool for statistics and data analysis comments
0.023 Show HN: goodbre.ws, a fully open source recommendation engine for beer comments
Hacker News stories for 4 PM on Tuesday Sep 25, 2012
0.935 Runaway complexity in Big Data… and a plan to stop it comments
0.771 How would you use an accurate Natural Language Understanding (NLU) API? comments
0.608 Driverless Cars Get Green Light in California comments
0.540 Never Underestimate a User’s Feature Request comments
0.418 Yet another Java flaw allows “complete” bypass of security sandbox comments