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August 2012 Archive
61.
What killed the Linux desktop (tirania.org)
344 points by foolano on Aug 29, 2012 | 378 comments
62.
Responding to Wired's ad hominem hatchet job (paranoia.dubfire.net)
344 points by wglb on Aug 8, 2012 | 158 comments
63.
You'll never be Chinese (haohaoreport.com)
340 points by ilamont on Aug 10, 2012 | 177 comments
64.
Stop Using The Cup of Coffee vs. $0.99 Cent App Analogy (joshlehman.com)
339 points by joshlehman on Aug 16, 2012 | 201 comments
65.
Khan Academy: Computer Science (khanacademy.org)
336 points by johns on Aug 14, 2012 | 54 comments
66.
Things I do to be consistently happy (joel.is)
335 points by Katelyn on Aug 19, 2012 | 109 comments
67.
The Tim Cook memo: line by line (jacquesmattheij.com)
334 points by plinkplonk on Aug 25, 2012 | 300 comments
68.
Why Valve? Or, what do we need corporations for.. (blogs.valvesoftware.com)
331 points by liquid_x on Aug 3, 2012 | 159 comments
69.
I can't make this stuff up (plus.google.com)
329 points by vibrunazo on Aug 25, 2012 | 182 comments
70.
Let's build a Tesla museum (The Oatmeal initiative) (Indiegogo.com)
326 points by SanderMak on Aug 15, 2012 | 81 comments
71.
Germany's laws on github, machine-readable and ready to be forked (github.com)
325 points by jaseg on Aug 8, 2012 | 73 comments
72.
John Hunter [matplotlib.sourceforge.net] has died. (mail.scipy.org)
324 points by archgoon on Aug 30, 2012 | 32 comments
73.
Show HN: Burner, for temporary phone numbers (blog.burnerapp.com)
323 points by gregcohn on Aug 8, 2012 | 180 comments
74.
How to crawl a quarter billion webpages in 40 hours (michaelnielsen.org)
323 points by cing on Aug 10, 2012 | 67 comments
75.
Font that creates charts (fontfont.com)
321 points by gbvb on Aug 16, 2012 | 61 comments
76.
Microsoft gets a new logo for the first time since 1987 (seattletimes.nwsource.com)
320 points by cleverjake on Aug 23, 2012 | 231 comments
77.
Apple Wins Patent Ruling As Jury Finds Samsung Infringes (techcrunch.com)
319 points by irunbackwards on Aug 24, 2012 | 354 comments
78.
The fall of Angry Birds (treysmithblog.com)
316 points by bootload on Aug 25, 2012 | 183 comments
79.
Apple Support Allowed Hacker Access to Reporter's iCloud Account (macrumors.com)
314 points by antr on Aug 5, 2012 | 177 comments
80.
The White House just open sourced their first Github repo (github.com)
314 points by maxogden on Aug 23, 2012 | 121 comments
81.
HN statistics (labs.im)
313 points by nhoss2 on Aug 7, 2012 | 63 comments
82.
How We Nearly Lost the Discovery Shuttle (waynehale.wordpress.com)
313 points by kibwen on Aug 17, 2012 | 61 comments
83.
Typing Practice for Programmers (typing.io)
311 points by mofeeta on Aug 22, 2012 | 219 comments
84.
"The carpets are so clean, we don't need janitors" (machinesplusminds.blogspot.com)
311 points by zdw on Aug 4, 2012 | 113 comments
85.
A Tor of the Dark Web (slifty.com)
310 points by slifty on Aug 17, 2012 | 204 comments
86.
Browserver: a node.js HTTP server, in your browser (browserver.org)
308 points by jedschmidt on Aug 10, 2012 | 63 comments
87.
Wolfram Alpha Personal Analytics for Facebook (blog.stephenwolfram.com)
306 points by ecmendenhall on Aug 30, 2012 | 103 comments
88.
4chan: Beyond one billion (4chan.org)
305 points by dmarinoc on Aug 7, 2012 | 124 comments
89.
A Proposal To Improve Hacker News (sridattalabs.com)
304 points by sthatipamala on Aug 17, 2012 | 174 comments
90.
The Woman Who Needed to Be Upside-Down (discovermagazine.com)
301 points by danso on Aug 31, 2012 | 60 comments