top 20 hacker news stories for 2010-10-30

My dalliance with smart drugs - and the lesson I learned

http://www.johannhari.com/2009/06/21/my-dalliance-with-smart-drugs-and-the-lesson-i-learned

16 years ago

Just fucking figure it out

http://www.scriptmag.com/2010/10/29/primetime-juggling-writing-and-a-job-figure-it-out/

16 years ago

Stephen King tells everything you need to know about writing in 10 minutes

http://www.greatwriting.co.uk/content/view/312/74/

16 years ago

"Dead Drops" is an anonymous, offline, p2p file-sharing network in public space

http://datenform.de/blog/dead-drops-preview/

16 years ago

U.S. Says Genes Should Not Be Eligible for Patents

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/30/business/30drug.html

16 years ago

Things Economists Agree On

http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/2009/02/news-flash-economists-agree.html

16 years ago

Github has won

http://jmoiron.net/blog/github-has-won/

16 years ago

How the pantheon has lasted 2000 years without steel in its concrete

http://www.romanconcrete.com/docs/chapt01/chapt01.htm

16 years ago

Lars Rasmussen, Father Of Google Maps And Google Wave, Heads To Facebook

http://techcrunch.com/2010/10/29/rasmussen-facebook-google/

16 years ago

Intuition has no transfer encoding

http://www.yes-no-cancel.co.uk/2010/10/30/intuition-has-no-transfer-encoding/

16 years ago

GNU/Linux distro timeline (svg)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9a/Gldt1009.svg

16 years ago

Ask HN: Your Non-Glorious Startup Success

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1851908

16 years ago

Overclocking SSL

http://www.imperialviolet.org/2010/06/25/overclocking-ssl.html

16 years ago

Cracking 14 Character Complex Passwords in 5 Seconds

http://www.ciozone.com/index.php/Security/Cracking-14-Character-Complex-Passwords-in-5-Seconds.html

16 years ago

Programming languages have to break free from the tyranny of ASCII

http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1871406

16 years ago

Clang/LLVM using the built in assembler builds all of FreeBSD

http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/pipermail/cfe-dev/2010-October/011813.html

16 years ago

Why Twitter’s C.E.O. Demoted Himself

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/31/technology/31ev.html?pagewanted=all

16 years ago

1 in 5 Facebook Employees Worked at Google

http://blog.redfin.com/blog/2010/10/one_in_five_facebook_employees_has_no_imagination_whatsoever.html

16 years ago

Hacking an ATM: How to Make an ATM Spew out Money

http://www.technologyreview.com/video/?vid=628

16 years ago

What I’ve Learned From Traveling Around the World for Three Years

http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2010/10/30/20-things-ive-learned-from-traveling-around-the-world-for-three-years/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+timferriss+%28The+Blog+of+Author+Tim+Ferriss%29&utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher

16 years ago