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Top of Month - Sep 2012

1. Bret Victor: Learnable Programming
   (26 Sep 2012 | 1080 points | Comments)

2. Xkcd "Click and Drag" in a "map" interface
   (19 Sep 2012 | 844 points | Comments)

3. The Amazing iOS 6 Maps
   (20 Sep 2012 | 837 points | Comments)

4. Good riddance, PayPal
   (6 Sep 2012 | 713 points | Comments)

5. Black Swan Farming
   (9 Sep 2012 | 703 points | Comments)

6. Meeting A Troll
   (24 Sep 2012 | 673 points | Comments)

7. Why was a scam company able to raise $76 Million Series B?
   (30 Sep 2012 | 660 points | Comments)

8. Everything's broken and nobody's upset
   (17 Sep 2012 | 658 points | Comments)

9. AntiSec leaks 1,000,001 Apple UDIDs, Device Names/Types
   (4 Sep 2012 | 648 points | Comments)

10. A Letter from Tim Cook on Maps
    (28 Sep 2012 | 620 points | Comments)

11. PayPal CEO writes personal response
    (8 Sep 2012 | 619 points | Comments)

12. Startup = Growth
    (22 Sep 2012 | 586 points | Comments)

13. Realtime Web Messaging over Animated Gifs
    (14 Sep 2012 | 576 points | Comments)

14. RIP Vile Rat, EVE Online Diplomat, IRL State Dept Rep Killed In Benghazi
    (12 Sep 2012 | 539 points | Comments)

15. Show HN: We got tired of asking 'What browser are you using?' and created this
    (10 Sep 2012 | 521 points | Comments)

16. A 4G LTE base station running entirely in software on a standard PC
    (3 Sep 2012 | 502 points | Comments)

17. Depression lies
    (12 Sep 2012 | 496 points | Comments)

18. Sh.py
    (17 Sep 2012 | 493 points | Comments)

19. Tomorrow Theme
    (4 Sep 2012 | 483 points | Comments)

20. The man who singlehandedly carved a road through a mountain
    (22 Sep 2012 | 483 points | Comments)

21. Announcing the First Beta Release of Persona
    (27 Sep 2012 | 474 points | Comments)

22. Russia in color, a century ago
    (8 Sep 2012 | 469 points | Comments)

23. Tesla reveals Supercharger network, Free Fill Ups
    (25 Sep 2012 | 457 points | Comments)

24. There is something magical about Firefox OS
    (13 Sep 2012 | 445 points | Comments)

25. StarCraft: Orcs in space go down in flames
    (27 Sep 2012 | 435 points | Comments)

26. Kickstarter is Not a Store
    (20 Sep 2012 | 428 points | Comments)

27. Introducing the Command Bar
    (17 Sep 2012 | 419 points | Comments)

28. Xkcd: Click and Drag
    (19 Sep 2012 | 418 points | Comments)

29. Jetstrap for Bootstrap
    (25 Sep 2012 | 412 points | Comments)

30. Bootstrap Maintainers Leave Twitter
    (28 Sep 2012 | 412 points | Comments)

31. Subtle Patterns
    (26 Sep 2012 | 408 points | Comments)

32. Ask PG: What Is The Most Frighteningly Ambitious Idea You Have Been Pitched On?
    (12 Sep 2012 | 407 points | Comments)

33. Live air traffic of the world
    (2 Sep 2012 | 404 points | Comments)

34. How we keep GitHub fast
    (5 Sep 2012 | 398 points | Comments)

35. Give people an iPhone 4S, tell them it's an iPhone 5
    (13 Sep 2012 | 398 points | Comments)

36. AskPatents.com: A Stack Exchange To Prevent Bad Patents
    (20 Sep 2012 | 397 points | Comments)

37. Proof Claimed for Deep Connection between Prime Numbers
    (10 Sep 2012 | 394 points | Comments)

38. Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (September 2012)
    (1 Sep 2012 | 393 points | Comments)

39. Does everyone hate MongoDB?
    (25 Sep 2012 | 393 points | Comments)

40. Unix Commands I Abuse Every Day
    (5 Sep 2012 | 392 points | Comments)

41. GoDaddy's DNS Service is Down
    (10 Sep 2012 | 392 points | Comments)

42. Apple accused of ripping off famous Swiss clock design
    (21 Sep 2012 | 388 points | Comments)

43. Android can be beautiful
    (17 Sep 2012 | 384 points | Comments)

44. Blizzard is secretly watermarking WOW screenshots
    (11 Sep 2012 | 380 points | Comments)

45. Neat
    (5 Sep 2012 | 375 points | Comments)

46. The Lost Chapter
    (19 Sep 2012 | 375 points | Comments)

47. NASA Rover Finds Old Streambed on Martian Surface
    (27 Sep 2012 | 373 points | Comments)

48. Pdf.js: PDF Reader in JavaScript
    (14 Sep 2012 | 371 points | Comments)

49. Xiki: A shell console with GUI features.
    (12 Sep 2012 | 366 points | Comments)

50. A proposal for improving HN : it should cost a user Karma to post
    (7 Sep 2012 | 365 points | Comments)

51. Stripe in Canada
    (19 Sep 2012 | 361 points | Comments)

52. Tough times on the road to Starcraft
    (7 Sep 2012 | 360 points | Comments)

53. Turn your 404s into lost children alerts
    (25 Sep 2012 | 357 points | Comments)

54. Odd Things Happen When You Chop Up Cities and Stack Them Sideways
    (17 Sep 2012 | 353 points | Comments)

55. CoffeeScript: less typing, bad readability
    (17 Sep 2012 | 349 points | Comments)

56. Gallery of free HTML snippets for Twitter Bootstrap
    (14 Sep 2012 | 348 points | Comments)

57. Python 3.3.0 released
    (29 Sep 2012 | 346 points | Comments)

58. Rick Falkvinge: Why free speech is harmed by the ban on child porn
    (9 Sep 2012 | 344 points | Comments)

59. Samsung flew bloggers to Berlin, then threatened to leave them there
    (2 Sep 2012 | 337 points | Comments)

60. Myspace previews complete redesign
    (24 Sep 2012 | 333 points | Comments)

61. Beta Late Than Never (Steam Linux Beta)
    (27 Sep 2012 | 328 points | Comments)

62. Dear Programmer, I have an idea
    (11 Sep 2012 | 325 points | Comments)

63. “grep -R doesn't automatically search amazon”
    (25 Sep 2012 | 325 points | Comments)

64. iPhone 5 web teardown: How Apple compresses video using JPEG, JSON, and canvas
    (17 Sep 2012 | 321 points | Comments)

65. Anonymous Donor Pays for College of Every Student in Kalamazoo
    (13 Sep 2012 | 320 points | Comments)

66. Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate, and from what?
    (2 Sep 2012 | 313 points | Comments)

67. Boosted Boards (YC S12) Unveils Its Magical Electric Skateboard
    (11 Sep 2012 | 313 points | Comments)

68. Tell HN: Login to unsubscribe is against Federal Law
    (9 Sep 2012 | 310 points | Comments)

69. Stock Android Isn't Perfect: Things I Can't Stand About Jelly Bean
    (18 Sep 2012 | 310 points | Comments)

70. Adobe Edge Web Fonts
    (24 Sep 2012 | 308 points | Comments)

71. New Apple maps app under fire from users
    (20 Sep 2012 | 305 points | Comments)

72. Full quote of what Mark Zuckerberg actually said about HTML5
    (12 Sep 2012 | 304 points | Comments)

73. Show HN: My Github résumé
    (2 Sep 2012 | 301 points | Comments)

74. Ubuntu Will Now Have Amazon Ads Pre-Installed
    (22 Sep 2012 | 301 points | Comments)

75. How to build a windmill
    (27 Sep 2012 | 300 points | Comments)

76. Free Book: An Introduction to Programming in Go
    (4 Sep 2012 | 297 points | Comments)

77. Reddit's database has only two tables
    (2 Sep 2012 | 296 points | Comments)

78. How Tesla is Circumventing Dealerships
    (5 Sep 2012 | 295 points | Comments)

79. Nokia faked the still photos too
    (6 Sep 2012 | 295 points | Comments)

80. USSD code to factory data reset a Galaxy S3 can be trigged from a HTML page
    (25 Sep 2012 | 295 points | Comments)

81. Tent v0.1
    (21 Sep 2012 | 293 points | Comments)

82. Dropbox dives into CoffeeScript
    (13 Sep 2012 | 290 points | Comments)

83. Websockets 101
    (24 Sep 2012 | 289 points | Comments)

84. The Apple Reaper
    (18 Sep 2012 | 288 points | Comments)

85. A Conversation With Randall Munroe, the Creator of XKCD
    (26 Sep 2012 | 288 points | Comments)

86. John Carmack on Static Code Analysis
    (19 Sep 2012 | 286 points | Comments)

87. The Linux Graphics Stack
    (6 Sep 2012 | 284 points | Comments)

88. The Pendulum Swings, Again
    (24 Sep 2012 | 284 points | Comments)

89. Elon Musk: "I would like to die on Mars"
    (14 Sep 2012 | 283 points | Comments)

90. California passes groundbreaking open textbook legislation
    (28 Sep 2012 | 283 points | Comments)

91. How Google Builds Its Maps
    (6 Sep 2012 | 281 points | Comments)

92. Why I went from Python to Go (and not node.js)
    (14 Sep 2012 | 280 points | Comments)

93. The World's Lightest Electric Vehicle
    (11 Sep 2012 | 279 points | Comments)

94. Have You Ever Tried to Sell a Diamond? (1982)
    (18 Sep 2012 | 279 points | Comments)

95. Stanford announces 16 free online courses for fall quarter
    (9 Sep 2012 | 277 points | Comments)

96. Things I've quit doing at my desk
    (16 Sep 2012 | 277 points | Comments)

97. IFTTT forced to remove Twitter triggers to comply with new API policies
    (20 Sep 2012 | 277 points | Comments)

98. The XX shared their new album with only 1 fan to see how it goes viral.
    (11 Sep 2012 | 274 points | Comments)

99. Fog of World
    (29 Sep 2012 | 274 points | Comments)

100. iOS 6 Breaks the App Store
     (20 Sep 2012 | 272 points | Comments)