top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-10-02

Facebook claims it does not track users, but files patent to do same

http://uncrunched.com/2011/10/01/brutal-dishonesty

15 years ago

409 upvotes – 79 comments

Algorithmic symphonies from one line of code

http://countercomplex.blogspot.com/2011/10/algorithmic-symphonies-from-one-line-of.html

15 years ago

204 upvotes – 36 comments

Markdown Editor for web developers, on Mac OS X

http://mouapp.com

15 years ago

190 upvotes – 79 comments

Node.js is Cancer

http://teddziuba.com/2011/10/node-js-is-cancer.html

15 years ago

189 upvotes – 34 comments

Meet the New Super People

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/02/opinion/sunday/meet-the-new-super-people.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all

15 years ago

178 upvotes – 125 comments

Seven Minutes in Ubuntu: A Mac user's first impressions

http://thomaspark.me/2011/10/seven-minutes-in-ubuntu/

15 years ago

170 upvotes – 81 comments

Massive data stealing vulnerability found in many HTC Android phones

http://www.androidpolice.com/2011/10/01/massive-security-vulnerability-in-htc-android-devices-evo-3d-4g-thunderbolt-others-exposes-phone-numbers-gps-sms-emails-addresses-much-more/

15 years ago

169 upvotes – 44 comments

The Little Book on CoffeeScript

http://arcturo.github.com/library/coffeescript/

15 years ago

161 upvotes – 38 comments

The Latest Crime Wave: Sending Your Child to a Better School

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111903285704576557610352019804.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop

15 years ago

151 upvotes – 139 comments

Overview of Text Editors for Programming on the Mac

http://smyck.net/2011/10/02/text-editors-for-programmers-on-the-mac/

15 years ago

142 upvotes – 107 comments

Increasing Your Luck Surface Area and Yes, the Big Dogs Read Hacker News

https://plus.google.com/116160612483689327039/posts/b3FPV13dvHh

15 years ago

137 upvotes – 14 comments

How I Overcame Bipolar II (and Saved My Own Life)

http://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelellsberg/2011/07/18/how-i-overcame-bipolar-ii/

15 years ago

128 upvotes – 44 comments

SublimeCodeIntel - code intelligence and autocomplete for Sublime Text 2

https://github.com/Kronuz/SublimeCodeIntel

15 years ago

★ 18 Python MIT
126 upvotes – 20 comments

Google now has its own Beer

http://www.pcworld.com/article/240952/google_tries_its_hand_at_beer.html

15 years ago

109 upvotes – 28 comments

Ask HN: What Android apps do you use?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3062517

15 years ago

109 upvotes – 94 comments

Clojure's Webframework "Noir" hits 1.2.0

https://github.com/ibdknox/noir/blob/master/history.md

15 years ago

★ 47 Clojure
104 upvotes – 24 comments

Show HN: Hackerhub.org

http://hackerhub.org/

15 years ago

101 upvotes – 51 comments

New Ubuntu in 9 days, 18 hours, 51 minutes and 29 seconds

http://thisisthecountdown.com/

15 years ago

100 upvotes – 71 comments

Federal Reserve Bank API

http://api.stlouisfed.org/docs/fred/

15 years ago

78 upvotes – 18 comments

Google Joins Apple in Push for Tax Holiday

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-09-29/google-joins-apple-mobilizing-lobbyists-to-push-for-tax-holiday-on-profits.html

15 years ago

73 upvotes – 93 comments

How do you use a computer that's 30 years old, has no monitor, and no keyboard?

http://www.reenigne.org/blog/i-bought-an-xt/

15 years ago

71 upvotes – 21 comments

Education Hacks: Schools kill creativity - Sir Ken Robinson

http://fabumed.net/medicina/education-hacks-schools-kill-creativity-sir-ken-robinson/

15 years ago

63 upvotes – 9 comments

It shouldn't take 64 lines of code to do something really simple

http://onlinelabor.blogspot.com/2011/10/all-public-government-data-should-be.html

15 years ago

63 upvotes – 23 comments

Why I decided to take the money and sell my startup

http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/220375

15 years ago

63 upvotes – 25 comments

Color.com Pivots to Live Personal Broadcasting

http://www.color.com/

15 years ago

62 upvotes – 72 comments

Ryan Dahl addresses comments on his recent rant

https://plus.google.com/115094562986465477143/posts/VZJbdwwfiAD

15 years ago

60 upvotes – 32 comments

The Metamovement

http://umairhaque.blogspot.com/2011/10/metamovement.html

15 years ago

58 upvotes – 28 comments

Plan 9 from User Space (aka plan9port)

http://swtch.com/plan9port/#

15 years ago

47 upvotes – 2 comments

Denmark introduces fat-related food tax

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-15137948

15 years ago

45 upvotes – 36 comments

Investors Spooked by China

http://allthingsd.com/20111002/investors-spooked-by-china

15 years ago

44 upvotes – 11 comments

Cool New Google Maps Feature Lets You 'Helicopter' Preview Routes

http://www.pcworld.com/article/240953/cool_new_google_maps_feature_lets_you_helicopter_preview_routes.html

15 years ago

44 upvotes – 10 comments

P(we hire you) =~ 0.0016

http://davidlynch.org/blog/2011/07/hiring-developers/

15 years ago

42 upvotes – 69 comments

Curta calculator - hand-held, mechanical arithmetic

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curta_calculator

15 years ago

42 upvotes – 16 comments

Thank you to Mike Shaver for 6 years at Mozilla

http://john.jubjubs.net/2011/09/15/mike-shaver-thanks/

15 years ago

41 upvotes – 6 comments
show: top 10top 20top 50%
go to date: prev next
sort by: datescorecomments