The Best Hacker News Posts of August 2012

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Neil Armstrong has died at 82 Today heraldsun.com.au · Grovara123 · 25 Aug 2012

980 pts 92 comments

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This is how Visa works eduardo.intermeta.com.br · eduardordm · 17 Aug 2012

931 pts 97 comments

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Amazon Glacier aws.amazon.com · sqnguyen · 21 Aug 2012

906 pts 378 comments

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Why I now, unfortunately, hate Hacker News.. sw007 · 17 Aug 2012

871 pts 431 comments

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This is a bit f'd, Quora giantrobotlasers.com · webwright · 13 Aug 2012

827 pts 226 comments

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Textmate2 Goes Open Source github.com · evilduck · 9 Aug 2012

780 pts 300 comments

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Design Tip: Never Use Black ianstormtaylor.com · ivolo · 8 Aug 2012

761 pts 210 comments

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An Unexpected Ass Kicking joelrunyon.com · zdw · 5 Aug 2012

746 pts 196 comments

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Dear Mark Zuckerberg daltoncaldwell.com · johns · 1 Aug 2012

743 pts 261 comments

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I Have 50 Dollars ihave50dollars.com · thehodge · 17 Aug 2012

647 pts 196 comments

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ToS;DR — TL;DR for Terms of Service and Privacy Policy tos-dr.info · hugoroy · 7 Aug 2012

629 pts 128 comments

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Valve Source Engine Running Faster on Linux than Windows blogs.valvesoftware.com · sarchertech · 2 Aug 2012

611 pts 238 comments

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Mars Curiosity's first images mars.jpl.nasa.gov · suprgeek · 6 Aug 2012

592 pts 168 comments

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SpaceX wins $440M contract with NASA to develop Space Shuttle successor spaceflightnow.com · natep · 3 Aug 2012

564 pts 180 comments

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Great work Visa, now I hate you modern-products.tumblr.com · roee · 6 Aug 2012

551 pts 261 comments

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Wikipedia Redefined wikipediaredefined.com · troethom · 7 Aug 2012

550 pts 288 comments

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What Happens to Stolen Bicycles? blog.priceonomics.com · rohin · 28 Aug 2012

534 pts 347 comments

18

A Generation Lost in the Bazaar queue.acm.org · mahmud · 20 Aug 2012

519 pts 344 comments

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Ecuador grants Julian Assange asylum bbc.co.uk · anons2011 · 16 Aug 2012

515 pts 499 comments

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Why it's so hard to find a photo of Neil Armstrong on the moon apple.copydesk.org · damohasi · 26 Aug 2012

494 pts 120 comments

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AMA with Barack Obama reddit.com · duck · 29 Aug 2012

493 pts 250 comments

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John Resig: Redefining the Introduction to Computer Science at Khan Academy ejohn.org · spicyj · 14 Aug 2012

480 pts 119 comments

23

A Man Walks into a Bank ft.com · jkharness87 · 6 Aug 2012

479 pts 175 comments

24

Twitter to Client Developers: Drop Dead daringfireball.net · joshus · 17 Aug 2012

471 pts 173 comments

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Rob Pike: the origin of dotfiles plus.google.com · keyist · 3 Aug 2012

470 pts 153 comments

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Introducing Tent - the decentralized social web tent.io · Titanous · 22 Aug 2012

469 pts 221 comments

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37signals Earns Millions Each Year. Its CEO’s Model? His Cleaning Lady fastcompany.com · endtwist · 29 Aug 2012

468 pts 228 comments

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Show HN - We just built a site that saves lives watsi.org · chaseadam17 · 23 Aug 2012

462 pts 183 comments

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Coding Horror: I Was a Teenage Hacker codinghorror.com · Anon84 · 9 Aug 2012

460 pts 119 comments

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Yes, I was hacked. Hard. emptyage.com · thibaut_barrere · 4 Aug 2012

446 pts 295 comments

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How Apple and Amazon Security Flaws Led to My Epic Hacking wired.com · malachismith · 7 Aug 2012

446 pts 253 comments

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Matasano Security acquired for £8.4m ($13m) - Congrats tptacek nccgroup.com · ontoillogical · 2 Aug 2012

439 pts 111 comments

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Jack Dorsey: Today Starbucks Signed up for Square squareup.com · mynameisraj · 8 Aug 2012

435 pts 188 comments

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First full-resolution images of the Martian surface nasa.gov · ed209 · 8 Aug 2012

435 pts 139 comments

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A Linux dev who helped thousands needs help to fight cancer linuxlock.blogspot.it · FiloSottile · 24 Aug 2012

433 pts 127 comments

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Do you have a secret? doyouhaveasecret.org · chuckharmston · 1 Aug 2012

432 pts 105 comments

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Rob Pike: The Best Programming Advice I Ever Got. informit.com · chanux · 16 Aug 2012

427 pts 137 comments

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The weakest link by far is Apple marco.org · rsobers · 7 Aug 2012

421 pts 166 comments

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A device with a touchscreen and few buttons was obvious osnews.com · thomholwerda · 26 Aug 2012

418 pts 426 comments

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Fake Bus Stops For Alzheimer’s patients in Germany (2011) theiacp.org · iamwil · 24 Aug 2012

418 pts 104 comments

41

What I Hate About Git steveko.wordpress.com · gammarator · 4 Aug 2012

417 pts 301 comments

42

How we screwed (almost) the whole Apple community day4.se · pohl · 13 Aug 2012

414 pts 117 comments

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Bootstrap 2.1 released blog.getbootstrap.com · patrickaljord · 21 Aug 2012

413 pts 137 comments

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256 CSS Classes Can Override an #id codepen.io · alpb · 15 Aug 2012

412 pts 90 comments

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Stripe And A/B Testing Made Me A Small Fortune kalzumeus.com · craigkerstiens · 6 Aug 2012

409 pts 154 comments

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Printers are spontaneously printing odd "SQL" strings discussions.apple.com · jpswade · 21 Aug 2012

398 pts 142 comments

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Learning C with gdb hackerschool.com · happy4crazy · 27 Aug 2012

397 pts 95 comments

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Source Sans Pro: Adobe’s first open source font family blogs.adobe.com · robinhouston · 2 Aug 2012

386 pts 67 comments

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Your startup is not a startup, it’s just a website. blog.crranky.com · zipop · 21 Aug 2012

383 pts 117 comments

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The No Excuse List: The Best Place On The Web To Learn Anything noexcuselist.com · joelrunyon · 2 Aug 2012

378 pts 91 comments

51

GIMP is Now a Self-Contained Native App for Mac OS X petapixel.com · maciej · 29 Aug 2012

376 pts 178 comments

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Steve Yegge: Notes from the Mystery Machine Bus plus.google.com · kungfudoi · 10 Aug 2012

365 pts 180 comments

53

App.net funded with $500,000. join.app.net · aculver · 12 Aug 2012

364 pts 204 comments

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Show HN: A date range picker for Twitter Bootstrap dangrossman.info · dangrossman · 20 Aug 2012

363 pts 80 comments

55

Why Explore Space? A 1970 Letter to a Nun in Africa. launiusr.wordpress.com · mike_esspe · 12 Aug 2012

360 pts 159 comments

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Move your feet swanson.github.com · swanson · 27 Aug 2012

350 pts 79 comments

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Some performance tweaks github.com · espeed · 8 Aug 2012

349 pts 88 comments

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Vim and Vi Tips: Essential Vim and Vi Editor Skills, free on Amazon today only amazon.com · whalesalad · 17 Aug 2012

347 pts 137 comments

59

Customize Twitter Bootstrap To Not Look Bootstrap-y antjanus.com · antjanus · 24 Aug 2012

346 pts 144 comments

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Harvard cracks DNA storage, crams 700 terabytes of data into a single gram extremetech.com · evo_9 · 17 Aug 2012

346 pts 129 comments