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Stories from August 22, 2012
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1. Introducing Tent - the decentralized social web (tent.io)
469 points by Titanous on Aug 22, 2012 | 221 comments
2. Typing Practice for Programmers (typing.io)
311 points by mofeeta on Aug 22, 2012 | 219 comments
3. '; CREATE TABLE `Capture the Flag`;' -- Stripe's Web Security CTF is Live (stripe.com)
254 points by CD1212 on Aug 22, 2012 | 75 comments
4. Ghosts in the rom (nycresistor.com)
246 points by z2amiller on Aug 22, 2012 | 22 comments
5. Show HN: SideProjects.com - 37 Bootstrapped Profitable Projects (sideprojects.com)
236 points by sideprojectbook on Aug 22, 2012 | 118 comments
6. Status Chart: Your Personal Status Dashboard (statuschart.com)
209 points by kennedysgarage on Aug 22, 2012 | 131 comments
7. Why Ratings Systems Don't Work (goodfil.ms)
196 points by geelen on Aug 22, 2012 | 162 comments
8. I'm Not Japanese (sachagreif.com)
189 points by sgdesign on Aug 22, 2012 | 121 comments
9. Leap (leapmotion.com)
175 points by aes on Aug 22, 2012 | 60 comments
10. Family trees: Tracing the world's ancestor (bbc.co.uk)
162 points by selvan on Aug 22, 2012 | 137 comments
11. Typesafe raises $14M to commercialize Scala (techcrunch.com)
157 points by mrspeaker on Aug 22, 2012 | 101 comments
12. Dwm.vim : Tiled Window Management for Vim (vim.org)
146 points by sciurus on Aug 22, 2012 | 83 comments
13. Emacs under Clojure (github.com/hraberg)
139 points by artagnon on Aug 22, 2012 | 35 comments
14. Bill Thurston has died (terrytao.wordpress.com)
138 points by gruseom on Aug 22, 2012 | 18 comments
15. Why Jason Fried gave his company a month off (inc.com)
117 points by timjahn on Aug 22, 2012 | 46 comments
16. CSS Font Stack: A complete collection of web safe CSS font stacks (cssfontstack.com)
102 points by kreutz on Aug 22, 2012 | 21 comments
17. AOL: still providing insanity after all these years (rachelbythebay.com)
99 points by protomyth on Aug 22, 2012 | 13 comments
18. FlipCode is back, after 7 years (flipcode.com)
98 points by gavanwoolery on Aug 22, 2012 | 12 comments
19. Bootstrap Based UI for Logstash (Open Source Splunk) (rashidkpc.github.com)
99 points by kordless on Aug 22, 2012 | 27 comments
20. Y Combinator’s Young Startups Tout Revenue Over Users (bloomberg.com)
92 points by JumpCrisscross on Aug 22, 2012 | 51 comments
21. Being Featured on the App Store (anylistapp.com)
91 points by dirtae on Aug 22, 2012 | 25 comments
22. Seven Things I Hate About Agile (assembla.com)
94 points by mpchlets on Aug 22, 2012 | 115 comments
23. New nuclear fuel source would power human race until 5000AD (theregister.co.uk)
91 points by xhrpost on Aug 22, 2012 | 110 comments
24. Parallel Programming for C and C++ Done Right (speakerdeck.com)
90 points by timClicks on Aug 22, 2012 | 25 comments
25. How To Share an iPhone Screen Live Across the Internet (mgalligan.com)
88 points by indiekid on Aug 22, 2012 | 17 comments
26. The myth of doing “that one thing” (leostartsup.com)
84 points by joeyespo on Aug 22, 2012 | 18 comments
27. Drug Cartels Now Using UAVs (wired.com)
81 points by electic on Aug 22, 2012 | 59 comments
28. Father’s Age Is Linked to Risk of Autism and Schizophrenia (nytimes.com)
83 points by evidenceofllama on Aug 22, 2012 | 66 comments
29. First employee or co-founder? (jacquesmattheij.com)
69 points by ColinWright on Aug 22, 2012 | 65 comments
30. Arrays in Postgres (craigkerstiens.com)
70 points by paratrooper on Aug 22, 2012 | 39 comments

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