The Best Hacker News Posts of July 2012

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Company withdrawing from Facebook as analytics show 80% of ad clicks from bots facebook.com · petercooper · 30 Jul 2012

1.3k pts 356 comments

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The Next Microsoft minimallyminimal.com · exogen · 3 Jul 2012

1.2k pts 329 comments

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Google Fiber Plans & Pricing fiber.google.com · stevewilhelm · 26 Jul 2012

1.1k pts 466 comments

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Physical assault by McDonald's for wearing Digital Eye Glass eyetap.org · balnaphone · 16 Jul 2012

1.1k pts 446 comments

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Google’s Marissa Mayer Tapped as Yahoo’s Chief dealbook.nytimes.com · sahillavingia · 16 Jul 2012

1k pts 343 comments

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The Challenge of Making Friends as an Adult nytimes.com · MRonney · 15 Jul 2012

697 pts 304 comments

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Higgs Boson Explained by Cartoon apod.nasa.gov · ColinWright · 3 Jul 2012

646 pts 127 comments

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The Marco.org Review of John Siracusa’s Review of OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion marco.org · iSimone · 25 Jul 2012

641 pts 118 comments

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A Dust Over India postmasculine.com · Arun2009 · 8 Jul 2012

633 pts 304 comments

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Late bloomer, not a loser. (I hope) 500hats.com · moses1400 · 8 Jul 2012

604 pts 191 comments

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Github Raises $100 Million online.wsj.com · jakebellacera · 9 Jul 2012

547 pts 222 comments

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A file that's both an acceptable HTML page and a JPEG (view source on it) lcamtuf.coredump.cx · mcfunley · 6 Jul 2012

536 pts 128 comments

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Got 15 minutes and want to learn Git? try.github.com · motowilliams · 4 Jul 2012

510 pts 171 comments

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How Amazon’s ambitious new push for same-day delivery will destroy local retail slate.com · rmason · 11 Jul 2012

509 pts 309 comments

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PostgreSQL Rising wekeroad.com · petercooper · 19 Jul 2012

506 pts 194 comments

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Sparrow acquired by Google sprw.me · scilro · 20 Jul 2012

502 pts 380 comments

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John Siracusa's OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion Review arstechnica.com · thisisblurry · 25 Jul 2012

497 pts 135 comments

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ACTA killed in EU parliament: 478 votes to 39 falkvinge.net · haileys · 4 Jul 2012

495 pts 86 comments

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Show HN: fontBomb - Stylishly destroy the web fontbomb.ilex.ca · plehoux · 6 Jul 2012

489 pts 85 comments

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MVC is dead, it's time to MOVE on cirw.in · cirwin · 2 Jul 2012

487 pts 222 comments

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Vim Creep rudism.com · DavidChouinard · 12 Jul 2012

482 pts 232 comments

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Advice for Marissa Mayer from an ex-Yahoo sriramk.com · sriramk · 17 Jul 2012

474 pts 253 comments

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Lying on your resume steveblank.com · ridruejo · 30 Jul 2012

460 pts 232 comments

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What are the most intellectually stimulating websites you know of? reddit.com · ColinWright · 13 Jul 2012

453 pts 222 comments

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Build muscle memory with your favorite editor shortcutfoo.com · swalberg · 16 Jul 2012

443 pts 119 comments

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Blind man shocks researchers with what he sees. seedmagazine.com · felipellrocha · 31 Jul 2012

429 pts 144 comments

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EFF, Reddit, Mozilla, others launch Internet Defense League and Cat Signal internetdefenseleague.org · mtgx · 19 Jul 2012

429 pts 140 comments

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Introducing Outlook.com - Modern Email for the Next Billion Mailboxes blogs.office.com · kaelspencer · 31 Jul 2012

426 pts 321 comments

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#BoycottApple trending on Google plus due to Galaxy Nexus ban plus.google.com · saket123 · 1 Jul 2012

425 pts 344 comments

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Scaling lessons learned at Dropbox, part 1 eranki.tumblr.com · eranki · 12 Jul 2012

418 pts 84 comments

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Let my Wi-Fi go: FCC rules Verizon can't charge for Wi-Fi tethering zdnet.com · tanglesome · 31 Jul 2012

410 pts 136 comments

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A Hole in Mars apod.nasa.gov · jamesbritt · 18 Jul 2012

400 pts 110 comments

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The real reason we’re upset about Sparrow’s acquisition elezea.com · pascal07 · 21 Jul 2012

396 pts 196 comments

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Mousetrap: Keyboard shortcuts in Javascript craig.is · jasonmoo · 5 Jul 2012

395 pts 74 comments

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PHP: The Right Way phptherightway.com · bencevans · 7 Jul 2012

393 pts 219 comments

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Paid Vacation? That’s Not Cool. You Know What’s Cool? Paid, Paid Vacation. fullcontact.com · lorangb · 11 Jul 2012

388 pts 308 comments

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Being a Developer Makes You Valuable. Learning How to Market Makes You Dangerous talsraviv.com · talsraviv · 26 Jul 2012

374 pts 83 comments

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What Twitter could have been daltoncaldwell.com · dalton · 1 Jul 2012

372 pts 122 comments

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I'm an American and I want to watch the Olympics. What do I do? iamnotaprogrammer.com · sudonim · 28 Jul 2012

371 pts 182 comments

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Lenovo CEO Gives His $3 Million Bonus to 10,000 Employees dailytech.com · sharkweek · 20 Jul 2012

369 pts 140 comments

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What I Learned From Increasing My Prices extendslogic.com · kanamekun · 26 Jul 2012

369 pts 41 comments

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Talent Acquisitions marco.org · davisml · 20 Jul 2012

367 pts 139 comments

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Gabe Newell Wants to Support Linux, Because Windows 8 is a 'Catastrophe' kotaku.com · checoivan · 25 Jul 2012

364 pts 191 comments

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Still running strong after 1,532 days without a code change. ryandetzel.com · ryandetzel · 13 Jul 2012

361 pts 130 comments

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Aaron Winborn: Special Needs Trust aaronwinborn.com · famoreira · 11 Jul 2012

361 pts 87 comments

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Wikileaks credit card donation is back shop.wikileaks.org · Timshel · 18 Jul 2012

360 pts 79 comments

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Prime number patterns jasondavies.com · dmarinoc · 17 Jul 2012

359 pts 100 comments

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UK anti-encryption law falkvinge.net · timf · 12 Jul 2012

356 pts 191 comments

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How the Norwegians Reacted to Terrorism schneier.com · netmau5 · 23 Jul 2012

354 pts 138 comments

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Step by step from jQuery to Backbone open.bekk.no · kjbekkelund · 23 Jul 2012

353 pts 75 comments

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Lessons in website security anti-patterns by Tesco troyhunt.com · troyhunt · 30 Jul 2012

352 pts 118 comments

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The Mac App Store’s future of irrelevance marco.org · rrreese · 26 Jul 2012

349 pts 234 comments

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Super-resolution from a single image wisdom.weizmann.ac.il · nkoren · 13 Jul 2012

348 pts 101 comments

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Microsoft’s Downfall: Inside the Cannibalistic Culture That Felled a Tech Giant vanityfair.com · 127001brewer · 3 Jul 2012

347 pts 355 comments

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Google Fiber fiber.google.com · benackles · 25 Jul 2012

344 pts 210 comments

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Show HN: Markupwand, magically convert your photoshop files to HTML & CSS markupwand.com · alagu · 24 Jul 2012

342 pts 127 comments

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Whistleblower Binney says the NSA has dossiers on nearly every US citizen networkworld.com · gasull · 18 Jul 2012

340 pts 223 comments

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On Patents notch.tumblr.com · Divinite · 22 Jul 2012

340 pts 179 comments

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Judge Posner: U.S. patent system out of sync chicagotribune.com · sutro · 5 Jul 2012

339 pts 120 comments

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Why Apple's new ads look like Microsoft made them. seanoliver.me · seanoliver · 30 Jul 2012

337 pts 227 comments