The Best Hacker News Posts of June 2012

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It all began with a strange email blogs.valvesoftware.com · julioc · 15 Jun 2012

874 pts 124 comments

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R.I.P. Ray Bradbury, Author of Fahrenheit 451 and The Martian Chronicles io9.com · danso · 6 Jun 2012

821 pts 95 comments

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Sublime Text 2.0 Released sublimetext.com · dave1010uk · 26 Jun 2012

813 pts 352 comments

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A VC-funded startup called WhosHere is trying to steal my social network brianhama.com · pclark · 1 Jun 2012

787 pts 219 comments

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The Silencing of Maya niederfamily.blogspot.be · kngl · 12 Jun 2012

785 pts 321 comments

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The Recruiter Honeypot ewherry.com · male_salmon · 26 Jun 2012

655 pts 156 comments

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US and Israel created Stuxnet, lost control of it arstechnica.com · fpp · 1 Jun 2012

650 pts 310 comments

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Paul Graham's Letter to YC Companies emilepetrone · 5 Jun 2012

645 pts 185 comments

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A day in the life of a startup founder jgrahamc · 27 Jun 2012

633 pts 126 comments

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Microsoft Introduces New "Surface" Tablet microsoft.com · yottabyte47 · 18 Jun 2012

611 pts 660 comments

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Famous judge spikes Apple-Google case, calls patent system “dysfunctional” gigaom.com · bokchoi · 8 Jun 2012

601 pts 121 comments

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Mihai Pătraşcu 1982–2012 rjlipton.wordpress.com · mathgenius · 21 Jun 2012

599 pts 29 comments

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Bye Bye Craigslist blog.padmapper.com · ericd · 22 Jun 2012

586 pts 297 comments

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Why three prongs? amasci.com · xd · 2 Jun 2012

581 pts 146 comments

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Moderators of HN: please stop changing post titles there · 12 Jun 2012

572 pts 46 comments

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Kid Automates Work, Is Fired, Hired Back, Automates Business reddit.com · andrewcooke · 27 Jun 2012

566 pts 198 comments

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Eulerian Video Magnification for Revealing Subtle Changes in the World people.csail.mit.edu · clockwork_189 · 4 Jun 2012

566 pts 129 comments

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6.5 Million LinkedIn Password Hashes Leaked translate.google.com · ssclafani · 6 Jun 2012

561 pts 511 comments

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Michael Lewis: Don't Eat Fortune's Cookie princeton.edu · gregdetre · 4 Jun 2012

552 pts 180 comments

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Show HN: movies.io — torrent search like it should be movies.io · nddrylliog · 1 Jun 2012

550 pts 487 comments

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Vim clutch github.com · fuzzix · 21 Jun 2012

546 pts 219 comments

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To Elon Musk and the Model S: Congratulations blogs.wsj.com · suprgeek · 30 Jun 2012

538 pts 162 comments

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Kids should be building rockets and robots, not taking standardized tests slate.com · krschultz · 5 Jun 2012

526 pts 196 comments

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I introduced my 5yo and 2yo to startx and xmonad. They’re delighted. changelog.complete.org · emillon · 21 Jun 2012

520 pts 193 comments

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Make Better Select Boxes with Chosen harvesthq.github.com · tomschlick · 6 Jun 2012

514 pts 83 comments

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Why Your McD's Burger Doesn't Look Like the One in the Ad adage.com · cremnob · 20 Jun 2012

505 pts 181 comments

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I analyzed the chords to 1300 popular songs for patterns. This is what I found. blog.hooktheory.com · davec · 12 Jun 2012

497 pts 183 comments

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Neal Stephenson wants to revolutionize sword fighting video games kickstarter.com · SoapSeller · 9 Jun 2012

485 pts 183 comments

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The $4 Million Complaint Call inc.com · mirceagoia · 7 Jun 2012

474 pts 89 comments

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Civ II game a decade old reddit.com · jchrisa · 12 Jun 2012

471 pts 133 comments

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5 Million Farmers Sue Monsanto for $7.7 Billion readersupportednews.org · captainsinclair · 7 Jun 2012

461 pts 213 comments

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Facebook forces all users over to Facebook.com e-mail addresses arstechnica.com · evo_9 · 25 Jun 2012

455 pts 191 comments

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How a Mexican Drug Cartel Makes Its Billions nytimes.com · jlees · 15 Jun 2012

452 pts 232 comments

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Google launches Compute Engine cloud.google.com · velodrome · 28 Jun 2012

448 pts 178 comments

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Where has all the money in the world gone? reddit.com · stevenj · 23 Jun 2012

448 pts 176 comments

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Fish: Finally, a command line shell for the 90s ridiculousfish.com · rjshade · 6 Jun 2012

442 pts 146 comments

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JQuery 2.0 Drops Support for IE6/7/8; API-Compatible with jQuery 1.9. blog.jquery.com · wycats · 28 Jun 2012

430 pts 229 comments

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Take my money, HBO takemymoneyhbo.com · krogsgard · 6 Jun 2012

425 pts 306 comments

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Things I Should Have Known at 20 inoveryourhead.net · pkapur86 · 1 Jun 2012

418 pts 156 comments

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Mega-victory: Kim Dotcom search warrants “invalid,” mansion raid “illegal” arstechnica.com · evo_9 · 28 Jun 2012

416 pts 127 comments

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A standing desk for $22 iamnotaprogrammer.com · onecreativenerd · 19 Jun 2012

412 pts 178 comments

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Why Privacy Matters Even if You Have 'Nothing to Hide' chronicle.com · mtgx · 13 Jun 2012

409 pts 147 comments

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We know what you're doing weknowwhatyouredoing.com · Kenan · 26 Jun 2012

408 pts 114 comments

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Facebook e-mail mess: Address books altered, e-mail lost news.cnet.com · iProject · 30 Jun 2012

389 pts 183 comments

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It's Playtime - Light Table Playground released chris-granger.com · ibdknox · 25 Jun 2012

384 pts 124 comments

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We will try to stop fixing bugs in PHP bugs.php.net · robbiet480 · 22 Jun 2012

382 pts 300 comments

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MacBook Pro gets Retina Display; MacBook Air updated with Ivy Bridge arstechnica.com · sciurus · 11 Jun 2012

378 pts 525 comments

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Google Now google.com · dirtyaura · 28 Jun 2012

371 pts 211 comments

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You're not the CEO - You're the Fucking Janitor zachbruhnke.com · zbruhnke · 27 Jun 2012

371 pts 132 comments

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Aalto Talk with Linus Torvalds youtu.be · flabbergasted · 16 Jun 2012

370 pts 141 comments

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Select2 - A better way to make select boxes (with jQuery) github.com · binarydreams · 7 Jun 2012

369 pts 57 comments

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PointerPointer: points to your cursor pointerpointer.com · nthitz · 11 Jun 2012

367 pts 65 comments

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Falsehoods Programmers believe about Time infiniteundo.com · mcfunley · 18 Jun 2012

364 pts 213 comments

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The Oatmeal Fights Legal Threat, Raises $20,000 in an Hour mashable.com · Liu · 11 Jun 2012

364 pts 109 comments

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Kogan imposes a tax on IE7 shoppers lifehacker.com.au · nathanhoad · 14 Jun 2012

360 pts 146 comments

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Anonymous Austria leaks 2.8 GB Scientology Emails pastebin.com · bmaeser · 10 Jun 2012

354 pts 143 comments

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The New MacBook Pro: Unfixable, Unhackable, Untenable ifixit.org · PedroCandeias · 15 Jun 2012

353 pts 341 comments

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Show HN: Easel, web design in the browser alpha.easel.io · mrbogle · 14 Jun 2012

346 pts 120 comments

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9-Year-Old Who Changed School Lunches Silenced By Politicians wired.com · bcl · 15 Jun 2012

341 pts 115 comments

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MySQL is bazillion times faster than MemSQL dom.as · spudlyo · 26 Jun 2012

339 pts 138 comments