top 20 hacker news stories for 2010-10-29

The quest for freedom and safety: Why I donated $100,000 to YesOn19

http://paulbuchheit.blogspot.com/2010/10/quest-for-freedom-and-safety-why-i.html

16 years ago

311 upvotes – 228 comments

How Do You Stop Sea Captains From Killing Their Passengers?

http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2010/09/09/129757852/pop-quiz-how-do-you-stop-sea-captains-from-killing-their-passengers

16 years ago

292 upvotes – 151 comments

For the First Time, the TSA Meets Resistance

http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2010/10/for-the-first-time-the-tsa-meets-resistance/65390/

16 years ago

259 upvotes – 226 comments

Microsoft picks HTML5 over Silverlight for Internet apps

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsoft-our-strategy-with-silverlight-has-shifted/7834

16 years ago

179 upvotes – 146 comments

Damn you, Arduino...I have no free time for this.

http://ryanwaggoner.com/2010/10/damn-you-arduino-i-have-no-free-time-for-this/

16 years ago

169 upvotes – 62 comments

Gmail Creator Joins Facebook Co-Founder, Donates 100K To Legalize Marijuana

http://techcrunch.com/2010/10/29/marijuana/

16 years ago

168 upvotes – 95 comments

Facebook Acquires Drop.io

http://blog.drop.io/2010/10/29/an-important-update-on-the-future-of-drop-io/

16 years ago

151 upvotes – 49 comments

The Mac App Store isn’t for today’s Mac developers

http://www.marco.org/1432156914

16 years ago

146 upvotes – 52 comments

HTTP cookies, or how not to design protocols

http://lcamtuf.blogspot.com/2010/10/http-cookies-or-how-not-to-design.html

16 years ago

142 upvotes – 48 comments

How I'm Bootstrapping a Startup While Raising Three Kids

http://www.codusoperandi.com/posts/bootstrapping-with-kids

16 years ago

134 upvotes – 37 comments

Herding Firesheep in a NYC Starbucks: Do Users Care?

http://technologysufficientlyadvanced.blogspot.com/2010/10/herding-firesheep-in-new-york-city.html

16 years ago

131 upvotes – 145 comments

MIT Student-designed CNC mill you can build for less than $100

http://makeyourbot.org/

16 years ago

118 upvotes – 12 comments

Ask HN: Anyone been acquired by Google who can talk about it?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1848227

16 years ago

114 upvotes – 29 comments

Building a single page app with Backbone.js, underscore.js and jQuery

http://andyet.net/blog/2010/oct/29/building-a-single-page-app-with-backbonejs-undersc/

16 years ago

103 upvotes – 19 comments

mrjob: Yelp open sources its Elastic MapReduce framework for Python

http://engineeringblog.yelp.com/2010/10/mrjob-distributed-computing-for-everybody.html

16 years ago

101 upvotes – 13 comments

Using the Cython Compiler to write fast Python code

http://www.behnel.de/cython200910/talk.html

16 years ago

99 upvotes – 47 comments

Dev Diary: John Carmack on RAGE for iOS

http://bethblog.com/index.php/2010/10/29/john-carmack-discusses-rage-on-iphoneipadipod-touch/

16 years ago

94 upvotes – 38 comments

Disneyland with the Death Penalty

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/1.04/gibson_pr.html?1

16 years ago

94 upvotes – 66 comments

0.30000000000000004

http://www.google.com/search?q=0.30000000000000004

16 years ago

91 upvotes – 128 comments

National Rail Have Killed My UK Train Times App

http://mocko.org.uk/b/2010/10/29/national-rail-have-killed-my-train-times-app/

16 years ago

86 upvotes – 26 comments
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