Friday, August 31, 2012
Hacker News stories for 4 PM on Friday Aug 31, 2012
Hacker News stories for 12 PM on Friday Aug 31, 2012
0.806 Code For Twilio’s Free Fantasy Football Draft Room App (Node.js + Redis) comments
0.652 Is a science PhD a Waste of Time? comments
0.578 Valve Finds Value In Open-Source Drivers comments
0.407 Flynn’s IQ comments
0.375 Ex-Google hiring committee member about job interviewing comments
0.323 We need a longer school year comments
0.178 Please Stop Working on Ads comments
0.013 Inbox Pause - A pause button for incoming mail in Gmail Chrome extension comments
Hacker News stories for 10 AM on Friday Aug 31, 2012
0.544 It’s More Important to Be Kind Than Clever comments
0.523 Samsung/Apple Jury Foreman Shows He Doesn’t Understand Prior Art comments
0.308 What powers Etsy comments
0.085 FB new low (18.23), down 52% from 38 IPO price comments
0.011 Show HN: We built a voice to music AI app in 54 hours at a hackathon comments
Hacker News stories for 9 AM on Friday Aug 31, 2012
0.647 Apple Worked A Broken Patent System comments
0.496 Understanding Algebra: Why do we factor equations? comments
0.256 Alumna makes $1 million gift to help liberal arts students find jobs comments
0.164 iOS Design Resources comments
0.137 That was quick: Grooveshark disappears from the Google Play Store (again) comments
0.111 Microsoft updates their Terms of Service to an easily readable Q&A format comments
0.057 Show HN: Most Wikipedia articles lead to the same loop comments
Hacker News stories for 7 AM on Friday Aug 31, 2012
0.591 The Surprising Secret to Selling Yourself comments
0.307 Open Letter to Leo Burnett UK comments
0.123 Google Dublin Employees at Street View comments
0.047 Ask HN: Is Google still a cool place to work? comments
0.030 “Proper” Image Delivery on the Web comments
0.016 60% of the apps in the App Store have never been downloaded comments
Hacker News stories for 5 AM on Friday Aug 31, 2012
0.897 An Introduction to Condition Handling for Non-Lispers comments
0.856 Open Letter to Flipkart - Doing eBooks Better Than Amazon comments
0.750 Maria Montessori comments
0.552 Startups Shouldn’t Follow Trends comments
0.545 The Machine That Changed The World comments
0.533 Probabilistic Many-to-Many Relationships (w/ Bloom Filters) comments
0.425 Bethesda admits they can’t get Skyrim Dawnguard running on PS3 comments
0.363 Microsoft fails to pacify PC vendors about Surface tablets comments
Thursday, August 30, 2012
Hacker News stories for 4 PM on Thursday Aug 30, 2012
Hacker News stories for 3 PM on Thursday Aug 30, 2012
0.998 Data mining local radio with Node.js comments
0.778 Mobile Testing Summit: Rise of the Machines comments
0.536 Apple, Google reportedly in patent truce talks comments
0.445 Bootstrapping a Software Company comments
0.349 HBO cuts the cord, brings streaming-only service to Europe comments
0.343 Rules for shared working spaces comments
0.314 D3 - Languages and Color comments
0.273 C++11: A generic singleton comments
0.110 New Firefox Command Line helps you develop faster comments
Hacker News stories for 12 PM on Thursday Aug 30, 2012
0.961 Why I dropped out of school for Y Combinator comments
0.851 REST – Epic Semantic Fail comments
0.835 Evaluate Scheme in Ruby’s virtual machine comments
0.802 $21,243 in 8 Days: Why AppSumo is Going to Keep Crushing It comments
0.727 TextDrive is Back comments
0.467 D-style Mixins in C# comments
0.262 Spend the 3 day weekend hacking big data - win $1000 cash + other prizes comments
0.124 Records Point to Credit Card Fraud By Silicon Swindler Shirley Hornstein comments
Hacker News stories for 8 AM on Thursday Aug 30, 2012
0.818 Amit’s Thoughts on Grids comments
0.578 Everything you know about China is wrong comments
0.467 Why Johnny can’t stream: How video copyright went insane comments
0.393 Kindle Fire is sold out forever, Kindle Fire 2 expected next week comments
0.377 RubyMotion Success Story: Cabify comments
0.318 Here come the Windows 8 hybrid all-in-one ultrabook tablet transformers comments
0.053 Sebastian Thrun and Google’s Driverless Car (video) comments
Hacker News stories for 7 AM on Thursday Aug 30, 2012
0.967 Patents considered evil comments
0.891 Teaching my 10 year old niece how to program. comments
0.337 Areion: The 3D printed racer which reaches 88mph comments
0.110 Researchers Believe They Have Found a Single Dose Cure for Malaria comments
0.064 Facebook co-founder Moskovitz scrambles to offload his shares comments
Hacker News stories for 6 AM on Thursday Aug 30, 2012
0.885 ReactiveMongo for Scala: Unleashing MongoDB Streaming power for Realtime Web comments
0.696 Parsing with Haskell and Attoparsec comments
0.550 Oracle knew about critical Java flaws since April comments
0.500 Strace - The Sysadmin’s Microscope (2010) comments
0.453 Qt 5 Beta has been released comments
0.410 The Cooper Journal: The best interface is no interface comments
0.344 Setting up SPDY to speed up your Rails App on Nginx comments
0.288 BlaBlaMeter detects how much bullsht is in your text](http://www.blablameter.com/) comments
0.249 Building The Linux Kernel With LLVM/Clang Continues comments
0.247 Protecting sshd using spiped comments
0.206 Apple Rejects App That Tracks U.S. Drone Strikes comments
0.149 Show HN: I’m building a webapp for serious cyclists comments
0.088 This year’s iPhone design trend: Side navigation comments
0.044 Show HN: JamPad comments
0.012 Vim is now a more popular topic than emacs on HN comments
Wednesday, August 29, 2012
Hacker News stories for 3 PM on Wednesday Aug 29, 2012
Hacker News stories for 11 AM on Wednesday Aug 29, 2012
0.848 Craigslist Quietly Begins Testing The Feature It Sued PadMapper For Adding comments
0.765 Twitter Launches “Twitter Certified Products” comments
0.637 The Importance of Custom Code in an Ever-Changing Market (Part 3 of 5) comments
0.191 37signals Earns Millions Each Year. Its CEO’s Model? His Cleaning Lady comments
0.087 How I hacked Gogo inflight wireless Internet with Chrome comments
Hacker News stories for 8 AM on Wednesday Aug 29, 2012
0.830 Is it rude to leave an interview early if you have already made your decision? comments
0.796 Big 3D printing machine prints metal objects comments
0.769 Walking out of an interview comments
0.701 20 controversial programming opinions comments
0.500 Munich Detonates WWII Bomb comments
0.465 The Money/Time fallacy comments
0.402 Google Enters The Social Enterprise With Public Debut Of Google+ For Businesses comments
0.332 Historical tribute and accurate remake of the original Pac-Man in Javascript comments
Hacker News stories for 7 AM on Wednesday Aug 29, 2012
0.988 MongoDB 2.2.0 Released comments
0.964 Visual programming means anyone can be a coder comments
0.936 MongoDB 2.2 Delivers Improved Analytics and Faster Performance comments
0.930 Why is Clean Code suggesting avoiding protected variables? comments
0.925 Keep a programming journal comments
0.893 Harvard creates cyborg flesh that’s half man, half machine comments
0.734 Building A Factory vs. Discovering A Goldmine comments
0.439 Controlled detonation for WWII bomb found in Munich comments
0.343 Blit: a multitasking, windowed Unix GUI from 1982 comments
0.122 Bringing Google+ to work comments
0.071 Haxx.ly - remix any website with your own css/js to share with friends comments
0.056 Updated: We’ve Deleted Our Facebook Page comments
Hacker News stories for 5 AM on Wednesday Aug 29, 2012
0.467 Kim Dotcom: More assets freed-up comments
0.341 ‘Lulzsec hacker’ latest to be arrested in US comments
0.236 Digital Music Option Spotify Thrives in Shadow of Competitors comments
0.208 Customer Support the Stripe way but without Managing Mailing Lists or Filters comments
0.072 The email boilerplate for sending out nicely formatted messages comments
Tuesday, August 28, 2012
Hacker News stories for 10 PM on Tuesday Aug 28, 2012
0.500 How to Reinvigorate and Refocus Your Business comments
0.375 AppFog acquires Nodester comments
0.375 Nodester acquired by AppFog comments
0.341 What Facebook’s New Campus Design Tells Us About the Company comments
0.198 US sanctions lock Iranian gamers out of World of Warcraft comments
0.076 How Long Will You Need to Save to Buy a Home In Your City? comments
Hacker News stories for 3 PM on Tuesday Aug 28, 2012
0.600 Tom Knight, Godfather Of Synthetic Biology, On How To Learn Something New comments
0.432 AMD reveals Steamroller CPU architecture details comments
0.405 Google Consumer Surveys Election Center comments
0.372 Craigslist is on board: OpenStreetMap soars to new heights comments
0.288 12 Interesting C Interview Questions and Answers comments
0.021 Azure Mobile Services launched: A Cloud Backend For Mobile Apps comments
Hacker News stories for 11 AM on Tuesday Aug 28, 2012
0.987 The Siege of Academe: Silicon Valley’s fight to disrupt higher education comments
0.704 The Untouchable Economy: Why Americans Are Turning Against ‘Stuff’ comments
0.652 What Happens to Stolen Bicycles? comments
0.500 The Andreessen Horowitz Effect comments
0.401 Rich Hickey: Deconstructing the Database comments
0.171 Add two-factor authentication to your ssh in 30 seconds comments
0.145 Firefox 15 arrives, supports compressed textures for impressive 3D gaming comments
Hacker News stories for 8 AM on Tuesday Aug 28, 2012
0.881 Takeaways from three years of angel investing comments
0.659 The Sad State of the Startup Pitch comments
0.481 Can Technology Redefine Detroit? comments
0.043 Show HN: Klaviyo - a new kind of CRM (not just for sales) comments
0.014 Firefox 15 available to download, finally fixes add-on memory leak comments
Hacker News stories for 7 AM on Tuesday Aug 28, 2012
0.548 IBM patents runtime code replacement in web applications comments
0.407 Mailgun is being acquired by Rackspace comments
0.246 A TCP Port Scanner in Bash comments
0.133 Mindscape pre-sells Windows 8 controls with unique pricing promotion comments
0.026 Patterns In App Store Reviews comments
0.021 Show HN: A versioned filesystem inspired by Git comments
Hacker News stories for 6 AM on Tuesday Aug 28, 2012
Hacker News stories for 5 AM on Tuesday Aug 28, 2012
0.984 How Copyrights Ruined the Olympics and What You Can Learn From It comments
0.521 Yes, India is a police state - Christopher Soghoian comments
0.500 A tale of the supreme competence of Neil Armstrong comments
0.376 Windows 8 Secure Boot May turn tables on Microsoft Says Developer comments
0.255 Apple-Samsung case is ‘far from over’ comments
0.095 PG: The Art of Funding a Startup is now free on Amazon comments
Hacker News stories for 4 AM on Tuesday Aug 28, 2012
0.841 European startups and US software patents: Threat or Opportunity? comments
0.789 The Internet startup model is broken and how to fix it comments
0.711 PostgreSQL 9.2 RC1 released comments
0.592 Poor man’s IFTTT in 3 lines of code comments
0.463 Usenet – what have you become? comments
0.461 JQuery Confirm plugin comments
0.383 Bootstrapped Wingify moves to a bigger office and hits 1600+ customers comments
Monday, August 27, 2012
Hacker News stories for 10 PM on Monday Aug 27, 2012
0.882 The Internet is Killing Storytelling, but Photos are Bringing it Back comments
0.815 Hipvite, quick and easy way to organize meetups - Plea for TechCrunch coverage comments
0.778 The Forgotten Yahoo Project That Inspired Two Recently Funded Startups comments
0.720 I’m Doing It Wrong comments
0.454 Still waking up at 5am to code? comments
0.427 Apple changes retail focus from Satisfaction to Profits comments
0.422 Marissa Mayer’s Email Promising To Make Yahoo ‘The Absolute Best Place To Work’ comments
0.333 “Growth Hacking” is BS comments
Hacker News stories for 1 PM on Monday Aug 27, 2012
Hacker News stories for 12 PM on Monday Aug 27, 2012
0.897 Legality is no defense: UKNova shuttered despite respect for copyright holders comments
0.401 Can’tada - Tracking the stuff you can’t use in Canada comments
0.375 Securing Stripe’s Capture the Flag comments
0.095 DMCA takedowns GitHub has received comments
0.078 Another layer of security for your Dropbox account (two-step verification) comments
Hacker News stories for 11 AM on Monday Aug 27, 2012
0.895 The Concepts Get Harder (Python in 30 Days - Day 12) comments
0.757 “A Doable Sacrifice:” Y Combinator as a Married Man comments
0.668 Using Streak to Find an Apartment comments
0.583 Learning C with gdb comments
0.467 Jakob Nielsen:Tunnel Vision and Selective Attention comments
0.416 Revenue Effect of Putting your App on Sale comments
0.322 Diaspora Will Now Be A Community Project comments
0.063 Show HN: pry-rescue — workflow-optimized debugging for ruby comments
0.028 Show HN: Simple SaaS Metrics Dashboard for Stripe comments