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Top of Month - Jun 2012

1. It all began with a strange email
   (15 Jun 2012 | 874 points | Comments)

2. R.I.P. Ray Bradbury, Author of Fahrenheit 451 and The Martian Chronicles
   (6 Jun 2012 | 821 points | Comments)

3. Sublime Text 2.0 Released
   (26 Jun 2012 | 813 points | Comments)

4. A VC-funded startup called WhosHere is trying to steal my social network
   (1 Jun 2012 | 787 points | Comments)

5. The Silencing of Maya
   (12 Jun 2012 | 785 points | Comments)

6. The Recruiter Honeypot
   (26 Jun 2012 | 655 points | Comments)

7. US and Israel created Stuxnet, lost control of it
   (1 Jun 2012 | 650 points | Comments)

8. Paul Graham's Letter to YC Companies
   (5 Jun 2012 | 645 points | Comments)

9. A day in the life of a startup founder
   (27 Jun 2012 | 633 points | Comments)

10. Microsoft Introduces New "Surface" Tablet
    (18 Jun 2012 | 611 points | Comments)

11. Famous judge spikes Apple-Google case, calls patent system “dysfunctional”
    (8 Jun 2012 | 601 points | Comments)

12. Mihai Pătraşcu 1982–2012
    (21 Jun 2012 | 599 points | Comments)

13. Bye Bye Craigslist
    (22 Jun 2012 | 586 points | Comments)

14. Why three prongs?
    (2 Jun 2012 | 581 points | Comments)

15. Moderators of HN: please stop changing post titles
    (12 Jun 2012 | 572 points | Comments)

16. Eulerian Video Magnification for Revealing Subtle Changes in the World
    (4 Jun 2012 | 566 points | Comments)

17. Kid Automates Work, Is Fired, Hired Back, Automates Business
    (27 Jun 2012 | 566 points | Comments)

18. 6.5 Million LinkedIn Password Hashes Leaked
    (6 Jun 2012 | 561 points | Comments)

19. Michael Lewis: Don't Eat Fortune's Cookie
    (4 Jun 2012 | 552 points | Comments)

20. Show HN: movies.io — torrent search like it should be
    (1 Jun 2012 | 550 points | Comments)

21. Vim clutch
    (21 Jun 2012 | 546 points | Comments)

22. To Elon Musk and the Model S: Congratulations
    (30 Jun 2012 | 538 points | Comments)

23. Kids should be building rockets and robots, not taking standardized tests
    (5 Jun 2012 | 526 points | Comments)

24. I introduced my 5yo and 2yo to startx and xmonad. They’re delighted.
    (21 Jun 2012 | 520 points | Comments)

25. Make Better Select Boxes with Chosen
    (6 Jun 2012 | 514 points | Comments)

26. Why Your McD's Burger Doesn't Look Like the One in the Ad
    (20 Jun 2012 | 505 points | Comments)

27. I analyzed the chords to 1300 popular songs for patterns. This is what I found.
    (12 Jun 2012 | 497 points | Comments)

28. Neal Stephenson wants to revolutionize sword fighting video games
    (9 Jun 2012 | 485 points | Comments)

29. The $4 Million Complaint Call
    (7 Jun 2012 | 474 points | Comments)

30. Civ II game a decade old
    (12 Jun 2012 | 471 points | Comments)

31. 5 Million Farmers Sue Monsanto for $7.7 Billion
    (7 Jun 2012 | 461 points | Comments)

32. Facebook forces all users over to Facebook.com e-mail addresses
    (25 Jun 2012 | 455 points | Comments)

33. How a Mexican Drug Cartel Makes Its Billions
    (15 Jun 2012 | 452 points | Comments)

34. Where has all the money in the world gone?
    (23 Jun 2012 | 448 points | Comments)

35. Google launches Compute Engine
    (28 Jun 2012 | 448 points | Comments)

36. Fish: Finally, a command line shell for the 90s
    (6 Jun 2012 | 442 points | Comments)

37. JQuery 2.0 Drops Support for IE6/7/8; API-Compatible with jQuery 1.9.
    (28 Jun 2012 | 430 points | Comments)

38. Take my money, HBO
    (6 Jun 2012 | 425 points | Comments)

39. Things I Should Have Known at 20
    (1 Jun 2012 | 418 points | Comments)

40. Mega-victory: Kim Dotcom search warrants “invalid,” mansion raid “illegal”
    (28 Jun 2012 | 416 points | Comments)

41. A standing desk for $22
    (19 Jun 2012 | 412 points | Comments)

42. Why Privacy Matters Even if You Have 'Nothing to Hide'
    (13 Jun 2012 | 409 points | Comments)

43. We know what you're doing
    (26 Jun 2012 | 408 points | Comments)

44. Facebook e-mail mess: Address books altered, e-mail lost
    (30 Jun 2012 | 389 points | Comments)

45. It's Playtime - Light Table Playground released
    (25 Jun 2012 | 384 points | Comments)

46. We will try to stop fixing bugs in PHP
    (22 Jun 2012 | 382 points | Comments)

47. MacBook Pro gets Retina Display; MacBook Air updated with Ivy Bridge
    (11 Jun 2012 | 378 points | Comments)

48. You're not the CEO - You're the Fucking Janitor
    (27 Jun 2012 | 371 points | Comments)

49. Google Now
    (28 Jun 2012 | 371 points | Comments)

50. Aalto Talk with Linus Torvalds
    (16 Jun 2012 | 370 points | Comments)

51. Select2 - A better way to make select boxes (with jQuery)
    (7 Jun 2012 | 369 points | Comments)

52. PointerPointer: points to your cursor
    (11 Jun 2012 | 367 points | Comments)

53. The Oatmeal Fights Legal Threat, Raises $20,000 in an Hour
    (11 Jun 2012 | 364 points | Comments)

54. Falsehoods Programmers believe about Time
    (18 Jun 2012 | 364 points | Comments)

55. Kogan imposes a tax on IE7 shoppers
    (14 Jun 2012 | 360 points | Comments)

56. Anonymous Austria leaks 2.8 GB Scientology Emails
    (10 Jun 2012 | 354 points | Comments)

57. The New MacBook Pro: Unfixable, Unhackable, Untenable
    (15 Jun 2012 | 353 points | Comments)

58. Show HN: Easel, web design in the browser
    (14 Jun 2012 | 346 points | Comments)

59. 9-Year-Old Who Changed School Lunches Silenced By Politicians
    (15 Jun 2012 | 341 points | Comments)

60. MySQL is bazillion times faster than MemSQL
    (26 Jun 2012 | 339 points | Comments)

61. A better git log
    (19 Jun 2012 | 337 points | Comments)

62. Why are Europeans White?
    (24 Jun 2012 | 337 points | Comments)

63. How we reduced our cancellation rate by 87.5%
    (17 Jun 2012 | 331 points | Comments)

64. Magenta - "It is fully binary compatible with iPhone OS 5.0"
    (9 Jun 2012 | 326 points | Comments)

65. GNU Emacs 24.1 released
    (10 Jun 2012 | 325 points | Comments)

66. Why do you think people are poor?
    (21 Jun 2012 | 323 points | Comments)

67. Introducing Syte, An open sourced personal site that has social integrations
    (12 Jun 2012 | 322 points | Comments)

68. The DOD had two "better-than-Hubble" space telescopes just sitting around.
    (4 Jun 2012 | 319 points | Comments)

69. YC S12 company refuses to pay for my design. "Send your claim to our legal team"
    (26 Jun 2012 | 318 points | Comments)

70. I don't "get" art
    (18 Jun 2012 | 316 points | Comments)

71. If you were involved in the OpenGL ES specification, you are an idiot
    (19 Jun 2012 | 316 points | Comments)

72. FuckItJS: Runs your javascript code whether your compiler likes it or not.
    (25 Jun 2012 | 315 points | Comments)

73. Salt, We Misjudged You
    (5 Jun 2012 | 314 points | Comments)

74. Sergey Brin Demos Google Glass At I/O
    (27 Jun 2012 | 313 points | Comments)

75. Xip.io - a magic domain name that provides wildcard DNS for any IP address
    (7 Jun 2012 | 312 points | Comments)

76. Have you ever chatted with a hacker within a virus?
    (19 Jun 2012 | 312 points | Comments)

77. PHP Addiction
    (29 Jun 2012 | 308 points | Comments)

78. Why Smart People Are Stupid
    (12 Jun 2012 | 302 points | Comments)

79. Why Your Links Should Never Say “Click Here”
    (24 Jun 2012 | 301 points | Comments)

80. Introducing ccv, a modern computer vision library
    (30 Jun 2012 | 301 points | Comments)

81. Why you need your own company
    (18 Jun 2012 | 299 points | Comments)

82. Barack Obama Directs All Federal Agencies to Have an API
    (1 Jun 2012 | 298 points | Comments)

83. June 30th 2012 will be 1 second longer: 23:59:60
    (14 Jun 2012 | 297 points | Comments)

84. Loading half a billion rows into MySQL
    (5 Jun 2012 | 295 points | Comments)

85. Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (June 2012)
    (1 Jun 2012 | 294 points | Comments)

86. Google buys Meebo
    (4 Jun 2012 | 294 points | Comments)

87. I’m Done Developing for Twitter
    (29 Jun 2012 | 294 points | Comments)

88. Valve Releases Source Filmmaker Beta
    (27 Jun 2012 | 292 points | Comments)

89. Coinbase (YC S12) seeks to bring Bitcoin to the masses
    (29 Jun 2012 | 291 points | Comments)

90. Oh, the Places You'll Go
    (3 Jun 2012 | 289 points | Comments)

91. DragonBox: Algebra beats Angry birds
    (13 Jun 2012 | 289 points | Comments)

92. Dotcom search warrants declared illegal
    (28 Jun 2012 | 288 points | Comments)

93. Obama Order Sped Up Wave of Cyberattacks Against Iran
    (1 Jun 2012 | 287 points | Comments)

94. Crypto breakthrough shows Flame was designed by world-class scientists
    (7 Jun 2012 | 286 points | Comments)

95. Node.js v0.8.0 [stable] is out
    (25 Jun 2012 | 286 points | Comments)

96. The Ph.D Grind: A Ph.D Student Memoir
    (30 Jun 2012 | 285 points | Comments)

97. Exploiting Silicon Valley For Profit (and Maybe Fun)
    (21 Jun 2012 | 283 points | Comments)

98. I Up Vote Every 'Show HN' Post and You Should Too
    (1 Jun 2012 | 282 points | Comments)

99. EU Commissioner Will Simply Ignore Any Rejection Of ACTA By EU Parliament
    (26 Jun 2012 | 282 points | Comments)

100. Youtube claims I don't own my own film
     (17 Jun 2012 | 281 points | Comments)