Hacker News new | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit | 2012-09-17 login
Stories from September 17, 2012
Go back a day, month, or year. Go forward a day, month, or year.
1. Sh.py (amoffat.github.com)
493 points by daenz on Sept 17, 2012 | 64 comments
2. Introducing the Command Bar (github.com/blog)
419 points by dko on Sept 17, 2012 | 98 comments
3. Android can be beautiful (androidniceties.tumblr.com)
384 points by mephju on Sept 17, 2012 | 157 comments
4. Odd Things Happen When You Chop Up Cities and Stack Them Sideways (npr.org)
353 points by missechokit on Sept 17, 2012 | 66 comments
5. CoffeeScript: less typing, bad readability (ceronman.com)
349 points by dcu on Sept 17, 2012 | 218 comments
6. iPhone 5 web teardown: How Apple compresses video using JPEG, JSON, and canvas (docs.google.com)
321 points by dbloom on Sept 17, 2012 | 115 comments
7. Analysis of bank PIN numbers (datagenetics.com)
255 points by dangoldin on Sept 17, 2012 | 111 comments
8. Hardware is dead (venturebeat.com)
251 points by swombat on Sept 17, 2012 | 145 comments
9. How to Launch a 65Gbps DDoS, and How to Stop One (cloudflare.com)
246 points by spahl on Sept 17, 2012 | 92 comments
10. Warp Drive May Be More Feasible Than Thought, Scientists Say (yahoo.com)
239 points by mtgx on Sept 17, 2012 | 179 comments
11. 52 Hertz: The Loneliest Whale in the World (discovery.com)
237 points by antimora on Sept 17, 2012 | 57 comments
12. Why I Migrated Away From MongoDB (svs.io)
203 points by svs on Sept 17, 2012 | 200 comments
13. Animated GIFs the Hard Way (sublimetext.com)
190 points by jskinner on Sept 17, 2012 | 49 comments
14. Ramit Sethi and Patrick McKenzie on Getting Your First Consulting Client (kalzumeus.com)
173 points by ananthrk on Sept 17, 2012 | 45 comments
15. A Tour of the Acme Editor (swtch.com)
164 points by lnmx on Sept 17, 2012 | 86 comments
16. 7 sets Venn Diagram: interactive 128 color combinations from mixing 7 colors (moebio.com)
157 points by chedar on Sept 17, 2012 | 13 comments
17. New Metasploit 0-day exploit for IE 7, 8 & 9 on Windows XP, Vista, and 7 (rapid7.com)
138 points by turnersr on Sept 17, 2012 | 51 comments
18. Russia reveals secret diamond field containing "trillions of carats" (csmonitor.com)
128 points by pavel_lishin on Sept 17, 2012 | 34 comments
19. Just Cause 2 Multiplayer: Behind the scenes with gaming's greatest hack (redbull.co.uk)
127 points by bensillis on Sept 17, 2012 | 39 comments
20. Amazon Maps API (amazonappstoredev.com)
125 points by ryandvm on Sept 17, 2012 | 45 comments
21. Want to learn Django? Start here. (elweb.co)
119 points by flexterra on Sept 17, 2012 | 22 comments
22. Recruiter Disruption Rant (lrug.org)
116 points by jimeh on Sept 17, 2012 | 113 comments
23. Doctorow & Stross's "The Rapture of the Nerds" creative commons edition released (antipope.org)
116 points by cstross on Sept 17, 2012 | 25 comments
24. Actually, you don't understand lexical scope (github.com/raganwald)
107 points by fogus on Sept 17, 2012 | 68 comments
25. Web site launch toolkit (whattouse.com)
106 points by suavepenguin on Sept 17, 2012 | 33 comments
26. TinyToCS — computer science research of 140 characters or less (tinytocs.org)
103 points by dhotson on Sept 17, 2012 | 18 comments
27. Living Without Time (stevecorona.com)
93 points by iSimone on Sept 17, 2012 | 50 comments
28. I love TripIt, but I hate their iPhone app, so I redesigned it. (drewmackenzie.com)
89 points by andrewmackenzie on Sept 17, 2012 | 53 comments
29. PlainTasks - opinionated todo-list plugin for Sublime Text 2 (github.com/aziz)
84 points by allenb on Sept 17, 2012 | 17 comments
30. Color Film of London From 1902 Now Fully Restored (lore.com)
73 points by McKittrick on Sept 17, 2012 | 28 comments

Consider applying for YC's W25 batch! Applications are open till Nov 12.

Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: