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Top of Month - Jul 2012

1. Company withdrawing from Facebook as analytics show 80% of ad clicks from bots
   (30 Jul 2012 | 1347 points | Comments)

2. The Next Microsoft
   (3 Jul 2012 | 1183 points | Comments)

3. Google Fiber Plans & Pricing
   (26 Jul 2012 | 1139 points | Comments)

4. Physical assault by McDonald's for wearing Digital Eye Glass
   (16 Jul 2012 | 1056 points | Comments)

5. Google’s Marissa Mayer Tapped as Yahoo’s Chief
   (16 Jul 2012 | 1016 points | Comments)

6. The Challenge of Making Friends as an Adult
   (15 Jul 2012 | 697 points | Comments)

7. Higgs Boson Explained by Cartoon
   (3 Jul 2012 | 646 points | Comments)

8. The Marco.org Review of John Siracusa’s Review of OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion
   (25 Jul 2012 | 641 points | Comments)

9. A Dust Over India
   (8 Jul 2012 | 633 points | Comments)

10. Late bloomer, not a loser. (I hope)
    (8 Jul 2012 | 604 points | Comments)

11. Github Raises $100 Million
    (9 Jul 2012 | 547 points | Comments)

12. A file that's both an acceptable HTML page and a JPEG (view source on it)
    (6 Jul 2012 | 536 points | Comments)

13. Got 15 minutes and want to learn Git?
    (4 Jul 2012 | 510 points | Comments)

14. How Amazon’s ambitious new push for same-day delivery will destroy local retail
    (11 Jul 2012 | 509 points | Comments)

15. PostgreSQL Rising
    (19 Jul 2012 | 506 points | Comments)

16. Sparrow acquired by Google
    (20 Jul 2012 | 502 points | Comments)

17. John Siracusa's OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion Review
    (25 Jul 2012 | 497 points | Comments)

18. ACTA killed in EU parliament: 478 votes to 39
    (4 Jul 2012 | 495 points | Comments)

19. Show HN: fontBomb - Stylishly destroy the web
    (6 Jul 2012 | 489 points | Comments)

20. MVC is dead, it's time to MOVE on
    (2 Jul 2012 | 487 points | Comments)

21. Vim Creep
    (12 Jul 2012 | 482 points | Comments)

22. Advice for Marissa Mayer from an ex-Yahoo
    (17 Jul 2012 | 474 points | Comments)

23. Lying on your resume
    (30 Jul 2012 | 460 points | Comments)

24. What are the most intellectually stimulating websites you know of?
    (13 Jul 2012 | 453 points | Comments)

25. Build muscle memory with your favorite editor
    (16 Jul 2012 | 443 points | Comments)

26. EFF, Reddit, Mozilla, others launch Internet Defense League and Cat Signal
    (19 Jul 2012 | 429 points | Comments)

27. Blind man shocks researchers with what he sees.
    (31 Jul 2012 | 429 points | Comments)

28. Introducing Outlook.com - Modern Email for the Next Billion Mailboxes
    (31 Jul 2012 | 426 points | Comments)

29. #BoycottApple trending on Google plus due to Galaxy Nexus ban
    (1 Jul 2012 | 425 points | Comments)

30. Scaling lessons learned at Dropbox, part 1
    (12 Jul 2012 | 418 points | Comments)

31. Let my Wi-Fi go: FCC rules Verizon can't charge for Wi-Fi tethering
    (31 Jul 2012 | 410 points | Comments)

32. A Hole in Mars
    (18 Jul 2012 | 400 points | Comments)

33. The real reason we’re upset about Sparrow’s acquisition
    (21 Jul 2012 | 396 points | Comments)

34. Mousetrap: Keyboard shortcuts in Javascript
    (5 Jul 2012 | 395 points | Comments)

35. PHP: The Right Way
    (7 Jul 2012 | 393 points | Comments)

36. Paid Vacation? That’s Not Cool. You Know What’s Cool? Paid, Paid Vacation.
    (11 Jul 2012 | 388 points | Comments)

37. Being a Developer Makes You Valuable. Learning How to Market Makes You Dangerous
    (26 Jul 2012 | 374 points | Comments)

38. What Twitter could have been
    (1 Jul 2012 | 372 points | Comments)

39. I'm an American and I want to watch the Olympics. What do I do?
    (28 Jul 2012 | 371 points | Comments)

40. Lenovo CEO Gives His $3 Million Bonus to 10,000 Employees
    (20 Jul 2012 | 369 points | Comments)

41. What I Learned From Increasing My Prices
    (26 Jul 2012 | 369 points | Comments)

42. Talent Acquisitions
    (20 Jul 2012 | 367 points | Comments)

43. Gabe Newell Wants to Support Linux, Because Windows 8 is a 'Catastrophe'
    (25 Jul 2012 | 364 points | Comments)

44. Aaron Winborn: Special Needs Trust
    (11 Jul 2012 | 361 points | Comments)

45. Still running strong after 1,532 days without a code change.
    (13 Jul 2012 | 361 points | Comments)

46. Wikileaks credit card donation is back
    (18 Jul 2012 | 360 points | Comments)

47. Prime number patterns
    (17 Jul 2012 | 359 points | Comments)

48. UK anti-encryption law
    (12 Jul 2012 | 356 points | Comments)

49. How the Norwegians Reacted to Terrorism
    (23 Jul 2012 | 354 points | Comments)

50. Step by step from jQuery to Backbone
    (23 Jul 2012 | 353 points | Comments)

51. Lessons in website security anti-patterns by Tesco
    (30 Jul 2012 | 352 points | Comments)

52. The Mac App Store’s future of irrelevance
    (26 Jul 2012 | 349 points | Comments)

53. Super-resolution from a single image
    (13 Jul 2012 | 348 points | Comments)

54. Microsoft’s Downfall: Inside the Cannibalistic Culture That Felled a Tech Giant
    (3 Jul 2012 | 347 points | Comments)

55. Google Fiber
    (25 Jul 2012 | 344 points | Comments)

56. Show HN: Markupwand, magically convert your photoshop files to HTML & CSS
    (24 Jul 2012 | 342 points | Comments)

57. Whistleblower Binney says the NSA has dossiers on nearly every US citizen
    (18 Jul 2012 | 340 points | Comments)

58. On Patents
    (22 Jul 2012 | 340 points | Comments)

59. Judge Posner: U.S. patent system out of sync
    (5 Jul 2012 | 339 points | Comments)

60. A note I sent to YCombinator
    (21 Jul 2012 | 337 points | Comments)

61. Why Apple's new ads look like Microsoft made them.
    (30 Jul 2012 | 337 points | Comments)

62. What Powers Instagram: Hundreds of Instances, Dozens of Technologies
    (10 Jul 2012 | 335 points | Comments)

63. Steam'd Penguins
    (17 Jul 2012 | 333 points | Comments)

64. Fluid: A UI Prototyping Tool
    (18 Jul 2012 | 332 points | Comments)

65. Louis C.K. sees ticket scalping drop over 96% by selling tickets himself
    (3 Jul 2012 | 330 points | Comments)

66. How not using Internet Explorer put me out of touch and cost me dearly
    (13 Jul 2012 | 330 points | Comments)

67. A global decentralized encrypted datastore with anonymous publishing
    (31 Jul 2012 | 329 points | Comments)

68. Watch what you store on SkyDrive–you may lose your Microsoft life
    (19 Jul 2012 | 326 points | Comments)

69. Living with HTTPS
    (19 Jul 2012 | 326 points | Comments)

70. WikiLeaks wins case against Visa
    (15 Jul 2012 | 325 points | Comments)

71. Goldman Sachs and the $580 Million Black Hole
    (15 Jul 2012 | 320 points | Comments)

72. Apple ignores bug report
    (3 Jul 2012 | 318 points | Comments)

73. Craigslist Suing Padmapper
    (24 Jul 2012 | 317 points | Comments)

74. Ubisoft "Uplay" DRM exposed as rootkit
    (30 Jul 2012 | 317 points | Comments)

75. Mozilla Gains Global Support For a Firefox Mobile OS
    (2 Jul 2012 | 313 points | Comments)

76. HTTPie: A cURL-like tool for humans
    (18 Jul 2012 | 312 points | Comments)

77. Show HN: Moqups - Vectorial mockups with HTML5 and SVG
    (10 Jul 2012 | 310 points | Comments)

78. The Sparrow Problem
    (23 Jul 2012 | 310 points | Comments)

79. Bringing Craigslist Back
    (9 Jul 2012 | 309 points | Comments)

80. OAuth 2.0 and the Road to Hell
    (26 Jul 2012 | 305 points | Comments)

81. Captchas Are Becoming Ridiculous
    (29 Jul 2012 | 301 points | Comments)

82. Software Inventory by Joel Spolsky
    (9 Jul 2012 | 297 points | Comments)

83. Congress Must Act After US Government Admits To Warrantless Wiretapping
    (24 Jul 2012 | 297 points | Comments)

84. Destined To Fail
    (23 Jul 2012 | 296 points | Comments)

85. DC "Uber Amendment" would force sedans to charge 5x more than taxis
    (10 Jul 2012 | 292 points | Comments)

86. Gnome: Staring into the abyss
    (27 Jul 2012 | 292 points | Comments)

87. Sal Khan responds to critic
    (27 Jul 2012 | 292 points | Comments)

88. Those budget 27" IPS displays from Korea are for real
    (25 Jul 2012 | 289 points | Comments)

89. Show HN: gist.io, blogless writing for hackers
    (18 Jul 2012 | 286 points | Comments)

90. 15-Year-Old Maker Astronomically Improves Pancreatic Cancer Test
    (19 Jul 2012 | 285 points | Comments)

91. Re-Designing the classic email client
    (10 Jul 2012 | 284 points | Comments)

92. Show HN: BrainTripping - language model comedy
    (13 Jul 2012 | 283 points | Comments)

93. Live CERN Higgs Announcement in 20 Mins
    (4 Jul 2012 | 278 points | Comments)

94. Varnish author criticizing HTTP/2.0 proposals
    (17 Jul 2012 | 277 points | Comments)

95. Open-Source High-quality PDF of SICP
    (26 Jul 2012 | 277 points | Comments)

96. Show HN: Iorad - the tutorial builder
    (5 Jul 2012 | 276 points | Comments)

97. MPAA/RIAA lose big as US backs copyright "limitations"
    (8 Jul 2012 | 276 points | Comments)

98. Why Do Startups Do This?
    (26 Jul 2012 | 276 points | Comments)

99. ACLU launches phone app to help motorists secretly record police stops
    (5 Jul 2012 | 275 points | Comments)

100. The Silent Majority of Experts
     (14 Jul 2012 | 274 points | Comments)