top 50% 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

16 years ago

Facebook Acquires Drop.io

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

16 years ago

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

http://www.marco.org/1432156914

16 years ago

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

How I'm Bootstrapping a Startup While Raising Three Kids

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

16 years ago

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

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

http://makeyourbot.org/

16 years ago

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

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

16 years ago

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

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

Using the Cython Compiler to write fast Python code

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

16 years ago

Disneyland with the Death Penalty

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

16 years ago

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

0.30000000000000004

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

16 years ago

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

Ask HN: What charts javascript library to use?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1847515

16 years ago

Stack Overflow results now included in MSDN Search

http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/10/stack-overflow-results-featured-in-msdn-search/

16 years ago

Real Men Use Android: Special Forces Favor Google Phone

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/10/special-forces-want-android-apps-for-warzone-john-maddens/

16 years ago

NoSQL Took Away The Relational Model And Gave Nothing Back

http://highscalability.com/blog/2010/10/28/nosql-took-away-the-relational-model-and-gave-nothing-back.html

16 years ago

Introduction to tmux (alternative to GNU screen)

http://blog.hawkhost.com/2010/06/28/tmux-the-terminal-multiplexer/

16 years ago

Paper Toss dev makes $500k per month with ads

http://www.develop-online.net/news/36155/Paper-Toss-dev-makes-500k-per-month-with-ads

16 years ago

Twitter Users Most Followed by Readers of Hacker News: Updated & Expanded

http://jeffmiller.github.com/2010/07/28/twitter-users-most-followed-by-readers-of-hacker-news

16 years ago

eBay Tosses MCM to the Curb Like a Bad Sofa

http://stewf.tumblr.com/post/1426742164/ebay-affiliate-program-partner-network

16 years ago

The Fallacy Of Bimodal Returns

http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2010/10/the-fallacy-of-bimodal-returns.html

16 years ago

Paul Graham is right (using AVC’s data)

http://zachaysan.tumblr.com/post/1431828646/paul-graham-is-right-using-avcs-data

16 years ago

A Facebook without walls: Appleseed opens to the public.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1847288

16 years ago

I have a baby and I’m doing a startup. Whoopie

http://tarathetiger.com/2010/10/29/i-have-a-baby-and-im-doing-a-startup-whoopie/

16 years ago

Superfast SSDs are coming, but will they be used the right way?

http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2010/10/super-fast-ssds-are-coming-but-will-they-be-used-the-right-way.ars

16 years ago

Designing For Jedi

http://theferrett.livejournal.com/1534590.html

16 years ago

Melbourne Hackernews Meetup, Wed 3 Nov

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1846042

16 years ago

Why are high-dimensional spheres "Spikey"?

http://www.penzba.co.uk/cgi-bin/PvsNP.py?SpikeySpheres

16 years ago

Is Goo.gl really the fastest URL shortener? (chart)

http://royal.pingdom.com/2010/10/29/is-goo-gl-really-the-fastest-url-shortener-chart/

16 years ago

Minecraft server built in Node.js

http://github.com/welterde/nodecraft

16 years ago

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