Friday, November 30, 2012
Hacker News stories for 8 PM on Friday Nov 30, 2012
0.970 American Higher Education: Not what it used to be comments
0.890 HackPad is expanding its reach, maybe even to the White House comments
0.566 From H.P., a Blunder That Seems to Beat All comments
0.435 Marissa Mayer’s life as a working mom has nothing to do with you comments
0.261 Show HN: Sandbox.js - Run user code in a sandboxed environment comments
Hacker News stories for 2 PM on Friday Nov 30, 2012
0.946 The future of GPS comments
0.794 You Can Have a Sales Team and Still Do Inbound Marketing comments
0.544 A Warning for Airbnb Hosts comments
0.407 Call for comments - RethinkDB wire protocol comments
0.240 Evernote raises another $85M comments
0.170 Dwolla Launches Guest Checkout – Ability To Pay Without Dwolla Account comments
Hacker News stories for 9 AM on Friday Nov 30, 2012
0.754 Is software eating the world, or vice versa? comments
0.711 Why did Git become so popular? comments
0.543 High Profile UK VC Stefan Glaenzer Faces Jail After Sexual Assault Conviction comments
0.517 How four Microsoft engineers proved copy protection would fail comments
0.504 HTTP 2.0 First Draft Published comments
0.470 Making Database Maintenance Fun: mysql_role_swap comments
0.448 24 Pull Requests - Giving little gifts of code for xmas comments
0.440 A non-programmer’s solution to “Fizz Buzz” comments
Hacker News stories for 8 AM on Friday Nov 30, 2012
0.769 Why I Sold My Startup Instead Of Taking VC Money comments
0.713 Lessons from the Groupon Disaster comments
0.422 The Useless Web comments
0.307 Econ vs Human Nature: Selling Results and Regret comments
0.197 BlackBerry 10: Awesome. comments
0.176 World’s First Kitchen-Free, Robot-Run Fast-Food Restaurant comments
Hacker News stories for 6 AM on Friday Nov 30, 2012
0.882 Learning Python the pragmatic way comments
0.715 GNU Guile 2.0.7 released comments
0.456 The Cleanweb Manifesto: “We will work on projects with true meaning” comments
0.365 Bradley Manning finally gets hearing after two years in prison comments
0.233 Facebook and Zynga to end close relationship comments
0.046 Google Play revenue grew 17%, iOS revenue contracted 0.7% in Nov 2012 comments
Thursday, November 29, 2012
Hacker News stories for 8 PM on Thursday Nov 29, 2012
0.792 The Obama Start-ups comments
0.782 What’s the next product that will disrupt the smartphone industry? comments
0.759 Canadian scientists create a functioning, virtual brain comments
0.467 SPDY Protocol comments
0.467 Skrillex Quest comments
0.400 AngelPad Debuts 12 New Startups At Its Fall 2012 Demo Day comments
Hacker News stories for 4 PM on Thursday Nov 29, 2012
0.714 Miscellaneous Thoughts and Observations on iTunes 11 comments
0.268 Versal - HTML5 education platform comments
0.120 Show HN: wikiUp - Wikipedia on Tooltips comments
0.088 Moj.io: Connect your car to the world around you comments
0.053 Not All Apps Can Be Instagrams, But Someone Might Be Willing to Buy Them comments
Hacker News stories for 12 PM on Thursday Nov 29, 2012
0.823 “I decided not to introduce full refinement for Ruby 2.0.” comments
0.576 Apple releases iTunes 11 comments
0.543 Nasa Discovery Announces “Water Ice” on Mercury comments
0.486 Curiosity has “not detected any definitive evidence of Martian organics” comments
0.352 Designing Workplaces For Creativity (June 2012) comments
0.349 The Hidden Values of Advertising comments
0.302 Chart shows Syria’s Internet blackout comments
0.193 Microsoft will ‘crush’ Google, ‘muscle-out’ Apple in smartphone/tablet markets comments
0.110 Staples Announces In-Store 3D Printing Service comments
Hacker News stories for 11 AM on Thursday Nov 29, 2012
0.500 What storytelling does to our brains comments
0.483 Farewell Foursquare comments
0.461 WebRTC Demo Day comments
0.451 How to hack your way into a hot startup with no experience comments
0.407 Math Envy and CoffeeScript’s Foibles comments
0.369 A Step Toward a Universal Cancer Blood Test comments
0.167 Surface with Windows 8 Pro – Pricing comments
0.154 Human Evolution Enters an Exciting New Phase comments
Hacker News stories for 9 AM on Thursday Nov 29, 2012
0.562 Advent Locker: an Amazon Locker Christmas treasure hunt comments
0.502 System infrastructure tweaks Shopify made to handle the load of cyber monday. comments
0.500 Banking in Berlin comments
0.373 VLC for Windows 8 fundraiser on Kickstarter (press statement) comments
0.323 Eric Lippert left Microsoft/ C# team. comments
0.289 CodeHuddle: Easily create, remix, & deliver tech curriculum. comments
Hacker News stories for 8 AM on Thursday Nov 29, 2012
0.769 Lessons Learnt Building Mongoengine comments
0.648 Why Not To Use My Library clj-record comments
0.534 The Secret to Iranian Drone Technology? Just Add Photoshop comments
0.334 Hack could let browsers use cloud to carry out big attacks on the cheap comments
0.225 Why So Secretive? The Trans-Pacific Partnership as Global Corporate Coup comments
0.034 Hunter Moore’s Revenge Porn Site Will Map Submitted Photos to People’s Addresses comments
Hacker News stories for 7 AM on Thursday Nov 29, 2012
0.677 Tor exit node operator raided in Austria comments
0.653 Syria has disconnected from the Internet. comments
0.569 Microsoft just cut in half its orders to suppliers for the Surface RT tablet comments
0.395 Post mortem of a failed HackerNews launch comments
0.347 Dell releases powerful, well-supported Linux Ultrabook comments
0.165 Need The Lord Of The Rings Timeline? It’s On Your Mac comments
Hacker News stories for 6 AM on Thursday Nov 29, 2012
0.569 Free DNS management service for everyone created by Geeks comments
0.138 XSS + “Save your password” = pwned comments
0.031 Bezos needed 60 asks to raise $1mln from 22 investors comments
0.022 Show HN: Real-time application performance monitoring comments
0.003 Show HN: My side project CreateMyInvoice.com creates PDF invoices from email comments
Hacker News stories for 4 AM on Thursday Nov 29, 2012
0.796 When Worse Is Better (Kent Beck) comments
0.685 Tony Fadell: From iPod father to thermostat start-up comments
0.588 The Myth of American Meritocracy comments
0.585 Realtime top hashtags on Twitter with Storm + JRuby + CoffeeScript + D3.js comments
0.383 Really Test Your Website for different browsers and devices comments
0.328 How and Why for My 100 Days of Rejection Therapy comments
Hacker News stories for 2 AM on Thursday Nov 29, 2012
0.535 Using Trello as a Scrum sprint board comments
0.114 Swedish Exchange paralyzed by buy order for “-6 stocks” comments
0.094 ITunes 11 Download Will Be Available Tomorrow comments
0.079 France-based Mailjet raises $3.3 million for its cloud-based emailing platform comments
0.052 The Kickstarter Game Successes: Where Are They Now? comments
Hacker News stories for 1 AM on Thursday Nov 29, 2012
0.592 B&N Decides That Purchased Ebooks Are Only Yours Until Your Credit Card Expires comments
0.224 World’s narrowest house by Jakub Szczesny comments
0.222 Kung Fu Typing - Keyboard Finger Movement Diagrams comments
0.204 How Reddit was created: ‘I wanted to make the world suck less’ comments
0.175 Twitter’s Response To PeopleBrowsr Lawsuit: ‘This Is Contracts 101′ comments
0.172 New York City celebrates day without violent crime comments
Wednesday, November 28, 2012
Hacker News stories for 3 PM on Wednesday Nov 28, 2012
0.701 LivingSocial expected to lay off 400 in U.S. comments
0.533 The EC2 firewall is broken comments
0.363 How Teespring recovered from a 50% post-launch revenue crash comments
0.323 WebTCP: Making TCP Connections From Browser comments
0.017 Heyzap Expands Its Mobile Gaming Platform With Leaderboards (YC W09) comments
Hacker News stories for 2 PM on Wednesday Nov 28, 2012
0.981 In Silicon Valley, Technology Talent Gap Threatens G.O.P. Campaigns comments
0.972 Simple Node.js/Express.js API for Twitters 1.1 OAuth API comments
0.395 Play Strength, a Rdio Feature Concept comments
0.334 Linguist Makes Sensational Claim: English Is a Scandinavian Language comments
0.290 The Series A crunch is hitting now. Have we even noticed? comments
0.256 Facebook Makes It Official: You Have No Say comments
0.159 APIs that will transform the Web in 2013 comments
0.099 Results are in: Teaser emails + blog posts. Are they worth doing? comments
Hacker News stories for 12 PM on Wednesday Nov 28, 2012
0.802 Would the economy be better off without MBA students? comments
0.651 Astronomers puzzled over huge black hole in the middle of small galaxy comments
0.612 Alertify.js comments
0.358 Simple: Announcing Photo Check Deposit comments
0.097 Amazon Web Services Drops S3 Storage Service Pricing About 25% comments
Hacker News stories for 10 AM on Wednesday Nov 28, 2012
0.740 Gator.js - simple event delegation in ~800 bytes comments
0.563 CloudFlare partners with Authy to implement two-factor authentication comments
0.488 Announcing HashiCorp (a Company for Vagrant) comments
0.308 Cloudflare introduces two-factor authentication comments
0.248 List of Twitter Bootstrap Resources comments
0.130 500px Arrives On iPhone comments
0.081 Broken iPhone? Call iCracked (YC W12), the aspiring AAA of smartphones comments
Hacker News stories for 9 AM on Wednesday Nov 28, 2012
0.996 Ramp - Rapid Machine Learning prototyping in Python comments
0.426 PHP-Queue - A unified front-end for different queuing backends. comments
0.359 A look inside The Cross Browser Handbook comments
0.266 Bitcoin Block Reward Halving Successful comments
0.100 Bootstrap your electronics projects on circuits.io comments
0.048 Syncable comes out of beta as Morse, an easy way to store email contact info comments
0.037 RubyMine now supports debugging for RubyMotion apps comments
0.004 Show HN: We built a simple way to accept payments through Stripe (YC S11) comments
Hacker News stories for 8 AM on Wednesday Nov 28, 2012
0.902 ShowHN: I learned to code and got a job in less than a year. Here is my ebook. comments
0.779 Tell Congress: Don’t Let Our Right To Privacy Expire comments
0.511 Measuring the shared RAM usage of a process comments
0.461 NYU - 40,000 students realize they can ‘reply all’ to EVERYONE #Replyallcalypse comments
0.407 Pattern vision comments
0.377 British Aerospace Company Claims Biggest Breakthrough Since The Jet comments
0.332 Bitcoin Block #210 000 mined - reward halving comments
0.313 Ancient poo gives clues to human impact on environment comments
0.063 Oculus Rift - Update on dev kits, new display, new sensor (shipping in March) comments
Hacker News stories for 7 AM on Wednesday Nov 28, 2012
0.832 Nexus 4′s Glass Back, the Worst Idea Since the Last Phone With a Glass Back comments
0.576 Can a Jellyfish Unlock the Secret of Immortality? comments
0.508 Meet the Obama campaign’s $250 million fundraising platform comments
0.492 Your Objects, the Unix Way — Applying the Unix Philosophy to Object Design comments
0.429 C++ pitfalls comments
0.097 Bike light that projects the symbol of a bike down onto the road comments
0.003 Five Chrome extensions to get the most out of Hacker News comments
Hacker News stories for 5 AM on Wednesday Nov 28, 2012
0.954 C# to go Native comments
0.820 The Great Python.org Redesign comments
0.810 TV Shack owner strikes deal to avoid extradition comments
0.691 Jeff Bezos’ Original Job Ad: It’s 1994, You’re a Unix Programmer. comments
0.339 20 Year Usenet Timeline (2001) comments
0.319 Geek Researcher Spends Three Years Living With Hackers comments
0.306 Signal-blocking wallpaper stops Wi-Fi stealing comments
0.303 NASA director: Curiosity has found organic molecules comments
0.085 Set Up a Raspberry Pi as a Personal Web Server comments
0.034 Outlook.com breaks the 25 million active user mark, releases an Android comments
0.014 Show HN: I built a mockup/prototype/wireframe editor in ten weeks comments
Tuesday, November 27, 2012
Hacker News stories for 11 PM on Tuesday Nov 27, 2012
0.914 California Finds Economic Gloom Starting to Lift comments
0.652 jStat - A JavaScript Statistical Library By John Resig comments
0.643 Quant Hedge Funds 101 comments
0.400 Ceasefires Don’t End Cyberwars comments
0.327 Samsung Printer firmware contains a backdoor administrator account comments
0.294 Amazon Maps API comments
0.001 Show HN: UpShot, Open Source Screenshot Sharing via Dropbox on OS X comments
0.000 Show HN: 6 Months in, first iPhone app into app store today comments
Hacker News stories for 12 PM on Tuesday Nov 27, 2012
0.727 Why We’re Pivoting from Mobile-first to Web-first comments
0.723 Voting is a Sham Mathematically Speaking comments
0.501 Silicon Valley’s dirty secret - age bias comments
0.390 Nexus 4 available for purchase again today at 12pm PST comments
0.381 A map of all Rolling Stones tours done with reveal.js and cartodb.js comments
0.208 Show HN: “Kestrels, Quirky Birds, and Hopeless Egocentricity,” free online comments
0.047 Apple Reportedly Fires The Manager Directly In Charge Of The iOS 6 Maps Team comments
Hacker News stories for 11 AM on Tuesday Nov 27, 2012
0.830 Bash One-Liners Explained, Part V: Navigating around comments
0.617 How to make CS courses better comments
0.615 What Vehicle Should Startups Use For Seed Stage Fundraising? comments
0.522 Ninja IDE: written in Python for Pythonists comments
0.127 SEOs are Growth Hackers comments
0.105 Apple Said to Fire Maps Manager After Flaws Hurt iPhone 5 comments
0.039 Open-source App IDE. Make Apps. Fast. comments
0.031 Gmail and Drive - a new way to send files comments
0.014 Ask HN: What is the highest trafficked website run by an individual? comments
Hacker News stories for 10 AM on Tuesday Nov 27, 2012
0.751 My eBook build process and some PDF, EPUB and MOBI tips comments
0.423 Unexpected data from the Large Hadron Collider suggest a new type of matter comments
0.417 Announcing OpenShift Enterprise – an On-Premise PaaS from Red Hat comments
0.404 Html-pipeline: Chainable Content Filters comments
0.001 Show HN: Extensionizr - Start a chrome extension in 15 seconds comments
Hacker News stories for 6 AM on Tuesday Nov 27, 2012
0.890 Do Women Avoid Salary Negotiations? (Nov 2012) pdf comments
0.865 Redis crashes - a small rant about software reliability comments
0.741 ALERT: Backdoor placed in Piwik comments
0.633 RubyConf 2012 recap (part 2) comments
0.467 Beavers On Parachutes comments
0.463 New York City Police Amassing a Trove of Cellphone Logs comments
Monday, November 26, 2012
Hacker News stories for 6 PM on Monday Nov 26, 2012
0.667 The Troubling Dean-to-Professor Ratio comments
0.129 Pentagon: A Human Will Always Decide When a Robot Kills You comments
0.120 Einstein’s list of conditions for staying together with his wife comments
0.010 $49 Personal Genome at 23andme (incognito windows until you get the best price) comments
Hacker News stories for 5 PM on Monday Nov 26, 2012
0.859 Classic Sega Rally Arcade machine meets RC cars using arduinos (detailed post) comments
0.648 Leaping Brain’s “Virtually Uncrackable” DRM is just an XOR with “RANDOM_STRING” comments
0.521 Bones: Simplify the Process of Creating a Wordpress Theme comments
0.157 LinkedIn quietly discontinues GitHub app to ‘better invest’ resources) comments
0.001 San Francisco Hacker News meetup happening this Thursday comments
Hacker News stories for 12 PM on Monday Nov 26, 2012
0.972 Don’t Be Pushy: 10 Useful Tips for Awesome Push Notifications comments
0.916 Testing for Beginners comments
0.564 Bank of America Telephone Access Security Hole comments
0.383 Open Source and Constraints comments
0.206 Dimsum is like head or tail, but pulls randomly from the entire file or stream comments
Hacker News stories for 11 AM on Monday Nov 26, 2012
0.960 Using Erlang, C And Lisp To Fight The Tsunami Of Mobile Data comments
0.544 The YC VC Program comments
0.523 SpaceX founder Elon Musk wants to start a Mars colony comments
0.419 Federal officials take down 132 websites in ‘Cyber Monday’ crackdown comments
0.003 Show HN: Dubjoy makes it easy to voice translate any video comments
Hacker News stories for 10 AM on Monday Nov 26, 2012
0.774 On “Hacking” Y Combinator Interviews and Successful Startups comments
0.386 ICOA Wasn’t Acquired by Google, Executive Says comments
0.097 Wheelcrowd: is the world around you wheelchair accessible? comments
0.030 Why play when you can code? MakeGamesWithUs helps the new generation make games comments
Hacker News stories for 8 AM on Monday Nov 26, 2012
0.784 A simpler and faster way to install an Amazon EC2 host from a kickstart comments
0.626 The Realtime Conference Europe. Call of speakers comments
0.516 Want to create a new habit? Get ready to break it. comments
0.471 The Airport Extreme “Wireless Options” screen is a performance deathtrap comments
0.467 Subcompact Publishing comments
0.467 Israel Successfully Test-Fires Magic Wand, Successor to Iron Dome Interceptor comments
0.264 Get ready for the YC interviews: make sure you know the partners. comments
0.237 A Get Shit Done script comments
0.190 Async loading of Github’s gists without jQuery comments
Hacker News stories for 7 AM on Monday Nov 26, 2012
0.559 Cosmo: A free Metro-inspired theme for Bootstrap comments
0.556 Codersumo - Challenge your inner sumo coder. comments
0.537 When It Comes to Security, We’re Back to Feudalism comments
0.500 Philly Area Meetup Thu. 11/29 6PM comments
0.324 Viewport Resizer - Responsive Design Testing Tool comments
0.114 The $25 Raspberry Pi: The cheapest way to play Minecraft comments
0.043 Google acquires wireless Internet network provider ICOA for $400m comments
0.007 Show HN: Generate icon fonts from the command line comments