The Best Hacker News Posts of August 2012
We track 629 stories from August 2012, averaging 204 points each. techcrunch.com was the most linked source, with 19 stories. Together they drew 57,838 comments, 92 per story on average.
1
Neil Armstrong has died at 82 Today
heraldsun.com.au · Grovara123 · 25 Aug 2012
980 pts
92 comments
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2
This is how Visa works
eduardo.intermeta.com.br · eduardordm · 17 Aug 2012
931 pts
97 comments
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4
Why I now, unfortunately, hate Hacker News..
sw007 · 17 Aug 2012
871 pts
431 comments
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5
This is a bit f'd, Quora
giantrobotlasers.com · webwright · 13 Aug 2012
827 pts
226 comments
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7
Design Tip: Never Use Black
ianstormtaylor.com · ivolo · 8 Aug 2012
761 pts
210 comments
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11
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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12
Valve Source Engine Running Faster on Linux than Windows
blogs.valvesoftware.com · sarchertech · 2 Aug 2012
611 pts
238 comments
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13
Mars Curiosity's first images
mars.jpl.nasa.gov · suprgeek · 6 Aug 2012
592 pts
168 comments
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14
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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15
Great work Visa, now I hate you
modern-products.tumblr.com · roee · 6 Aug 2012
551 pts
261 comments
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16
Wikipedia Redefined
wikipediaredefined.com · troethom · 7 Aug 2012
550 pts
288 comments
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17
What Happens to Stolen Bicycles?
blog.priceonomics.com · rohin · 28 Aug 2012
534 pts
347 comments
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18
A Generation Lost in the Bazaar
queue.acm.org · mahmud · 20 Aug 2012
519 pts
344 comments
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19
Ecuador grants Julian Assange asylum
bbc.co.uk · anons2011 · 16 Aug 2012
515 pts
499 comments
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20
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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22
John Resig: Redefining the Introduction to Computer Science at Khan Academy
ejohn.org · spicyj · 14 Aug 2012
480 pts
119 comments
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24
Twitter to Client Developers: Drop Dead
daringfireball.net · joshus · 17 Aug 2012
471 pts
173 comments
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25
Rob Pike: the origin of dotfiles
plus.google.com · keyist · 3 Aug 2012
470 pts
153 comments
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26
Introducing Tent - the decentralized social web
tent.io · Titanous · 22 Aug 2012
469 pts
221 comments
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27
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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28
Show HN - We just built a site that saves lives
watsi.org · chaseadam17 · 23 Aug 2012
462 pts
183 comments
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29
Coding Horror: I Was a Teenage Hacker
codinghorror.com · Anon84 · 9 Aug 2012
460 pts
119 comments
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30
Yes, I was hacked. Hard.
emptyage.com · thibaut_barrere · 4 Aug 2012
446 pts
295 comments
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31
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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32
Matasano Security acquired for £8.4m ($13m) - Congrats tptacek
nccgroup.com · ontoillogical · 2 Aug 2012
439 pts
111 comments
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33
Jack Dorsey: Today Starbucks Signed up for Square
squareup.com · mynameisraj · 8 Aug 2012
435 pts
188 comments
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34
First full-resolution images of the Martian surface
nasa.gov · ed209 · 8 Aug 2012
435 pts
139 comments
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35
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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36
Do you have a secret?
doyouhaveasecret.org · chuckharmston · 1 Aug 2012
432 pts
105 comments
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37
Rob Pike: The Best Programming Advice I Ever Got.
informit.com · chanux · 16 Aug 2012
427 pts
137 comments
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38
The weakest link by far is Apple
marco.org · rsobers · 7 Aug 2012
421 pts
166 comments
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39
A device with a touchscreen and few buttons was obvious
osnews.com · thomholwerda · 26 Aug 2012
418 pts
426 comments
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40
Fake Bus Stops For Alzheimer’s patients in Germany (2011)
theiacp.org · iamwil · 24 Aug 2012
418 pts
104 comments
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41
What I Hate About Git
steveko.wordpress.com · gammarator · 4 Aug 2012
417 pts
301 comments
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42
How we screwed (almost) the whole Apple community
day4.se · pohl · 13 Aug 2012
414 pts
117 comments
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43
Bootstrap 2.1 released
blog.getbootstrap.com · patrickaljord · 21 Aug 2012
413 pts
137 comments
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44
256 CSS Classes Can Override an #id
codepen.io · alpb · 15 Aug 2012
412 pts
90 comments
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45
Stripe And A/B Testing Made Me A Small Fortune
kalzumeus.com · craigkerstiens · 6 Aug 2012
409 pts
154 comments
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46
Printers are spontaneously printing odd "SQL" strings
discussions.apple.com · jpswade · 21 Aug 2012
398 pts
142 comments
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47
Learning C with gdb
hackerschool.com · happy4crazy · 27 Aug 2012
397 pts
95 comments
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48
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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49
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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50
The No Excuse List: The Best Place On The Web To Learn Anything
noexcuselist.com · joelrunyon · 2 Aug 2012
378 pts
91 comments
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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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52
Steve Yegge: Notes from the Mystery Machine Bus
plus.google.com · kungfudoi · 10 Aug 2012
365 pts
180 comments
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53
App.net funded with $500,000.
join.app.net · aculver · 12 Aug 2012
364 pts
204 comments
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54
Show HN: A date range picker for Twitter Bootstrap
dangrossman.info · dangrossman · 20 Aug 2012
363 pts
80 comments
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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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58
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
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59
Customize Twitter Bootstrap To Not Look Bootstrap-y
antjanus.com · antjanus · 24 Aug 2012
346 pts
144 comments
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60
Harvard cracks DNA storage, crams 700 terabytes of data into a single gram
extremetech.com · evo_9 · 17 Aug 2012
346 pts
129 comments
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