Hacker News new | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit | 2012-08-05 login
Stories from August 5, 2012
Go back a day, month, or year. Go forward a day, month, or year.
31. Darwin right: variations in useless organs unchecked by natural selection (whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com)
64 points by tokenadult on Aug 5, 2012 | 7 comments
32. Visual Studio 2012 and .NET 4.5 are ready to go (infoq.com)
56 points by jaynate on Aug 5, 2012 | 10 comments
33. EBay Is Launching A Same-Day Shipping Service Called eBay Now (techcrunch.com)
50 points by zengr on Aug 5, 2012 | 12 comments
34. Mezzanine 1.2 and Cartridge 0.6 (Django CMS and Ecommerce platforms) released (groups.google.com)
45 points by stephen_mcd on Aug 5, 2012 | 8 comments
35. Swiss sheep to warn shepherds of wolf attacks by SMS (phys.org)
43 points by PaulMcCartney on Aug 5, 2012 | 21 comments
36. Solving Different Problems (adobe.com)
42 points by pmarin on Aug 5, 2012 | 49 comments
37. $10k bet that bitcoin will outperform gold/silver/stock by 100x over two years (longbets.org)
42 points by eof on Aug 5, 2012 | 28 comments
38. The Problem With Kickstarter And Software (clayallsopp.com)
39 points by 10char on Aug 5, 2012 | 12 comments
39. Managing Email Realistically (mattgemmell.com)
41 points by admp on Aug 5, 2012 | 25 comments
40. SPDY on Rails (bugsnag.com)
41 points by beastmcbeast on Aug 5, 2012 | 16 comments
41. Fixing your own laptop, and the importance of do-it-yourself to society (justindunham.net)
39 points by riboflavin on Aug 5, 2012 | 33 comments
42. Using Node.js and JQuery to Crawl Public Tweets (github.com/bcoe)
35 points by BenjaminCoe on Aug 5, 2012 | 13 comments
43. Ask HN: Building a large webapp today - what language for the backend, and why?
31 points by swix on Aug 5, 2012 | 61 comments
44. Turbocharging web sites with new PageSpeed Service optimizations (googledevelopers.blogspot.com)
29 points by xur17 on Aug 5, 2012 | 5 comments
45. What I Learned From My Internship at a YC Startup (smitpatel.com)
26 points by gatsby on Aug 5, 2012 | 1 comment
46. Woz Buys $2 Bills in Sheets from the Treasury (hackaday.com)
25 points by mikek on Aug 5, 2012 | 12 comments
47. Learn hubot the hard way (github.com/tombell)
25 points by ColinWright on Aug 5, 2012 | 18 comments
48. Hippie physics student saved Apollo 13, cut out of history cos he had long hair (reddit.com)
24 points by ColinWright on Aug 5, 2012 | 6 comments
49. A remake of the very first website (w3.org)
24 points by p4bl0 on Aug 5, 2012 | 19 comments
50. Grand central dispatch vs OpenMP benchmark (idryman.org)
22 points by dryman on Aug 5, 2012 | 4 comments
51. The portable 3D printer that fits in a briefcase (arstechnica.com)
18 points by evo_9 on Aug 5, 2012
52. SSL is not about encryption (troyhunt.com)
16 points by wglb on Aug 5, 2012 | 8 comments
53. Always Online v.2: How CloudFlare Keeps Sites Online (cloudflare.com)
15 points by dknecht on Aug 5, 2012 | 5 comments
54. Internet Pirates Will Always Win (nytimes.com)
15 points by Nikkki on Aug 5, 2012 | 2 comments
55. Facebook-like documentation for your startup made with Kirby (christianreber.com)
14 points by CReber on Aug 5, 2012 | 2 comments
56. The Real Tech Wives of Entrepreneurs (Audio) (techzinglive.com)
13 points by jv22222 on Aug 5, 2012 | 1 comment
57. An IDE as a packaged Chrome app (samrat.me)
13 points by samrat on Aug 5, 2012 | 6 comments
58. Ask HN: Alternatives to a password manager?
13 points by jkeesh on Aug 5, 2012 | 7 comments
59. Android development for beginners; where to start?
13 points by tagabek on Aug 5, 2012 | 10 comments
60. Android Jelly bean Activity Animation (code4reference.com)
12 points by rakeshcusat on Aug 5, 2012

Consider applying for YC's Summer 2025 batch! Applications are open till May 13

Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: