top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-10-07

Hacker News Front Page Snapshot from Last Night

http://hhn.domador.net/2011/10/05/23/

15 years ago

530 upvotes – 157 comments

Colbert tribute to Steve Jobs

http://techcrunch.com/2011/10/07/steve-jobs-2

15 years ago

482 upvotes – 53 comments

Tell HN: I just open-sourced the e-mail client I spent 2 years of my life on

https://github.com/waseems/inbox2_desktop

15 years ago

★ 429 C#
475 upvotes – 130 comments

Photojojo, Jelly founder needs bone marrow match to save his life

http://tumblr.amitgupta.com/post/11102689089/two-weeks-ago-i-got-a-call-from-my-doctor-who-id

15 years ago

454 upvotes – 74 comments

16 pixels For Body Copy. Anything Less Is A Costly Mistake

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2011/10/07/16-pixels-body-copy-anything-less-costly-mistake/

15 years ago

386 upvotes – 142 comments

Computer virus hits US Predator and Reaper drone fleet

http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2011/10/exclusive-computer-virus-hits-drone-fleet.ars

15 years ago

369 upvotes – 192 comments

3.5 Inches

http://dcurt.is/2011/10/03/3-point-5-inches

15 years ago

302 upvotes – 158 comments

Show HN: KernType, a typography game made with Raphaël

http://type.method.ac

15 years ago

268 upvotes – 53 comments

Why Education Companies Do Not Succeed

http://www.avichal.com/2011/10/07/why-education-startups-do-not-succeed/

15 years ago

230 upvotes – 62 comments

Programming languages worth checking out

http://www.h3rald.com/articles/10-programming-languages/

15 years ago

197 upvotes – 50 comments

With Time Running Short, Jobs Managed His Farewells

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/07/technology/with-time-running-short-steve-jobs-managed-his-farewells.html?pagewanted=all

15 years ago

191 upvotes – 25 comments

Turn Your Smartphone Into A Robot

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/peterseid/romo-the-smartphone-robot

15 years ago

179 upvotes – 48 comments

Breaking a MacBook in memory of Steve Jobs

http://www.b3ta.com/board/10563417/

15 years ago

176 upvotes – 14 comments

Enslaving your interns for evil and profit

http://bitquabit.com/post/enslaving-your-interns-for-evil-and-profit/

15 years ago

151 upvotes – 81 comments

Against Nostalgia - Mike Daisey on Steve Jobs

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/06/opinion/jobs-looked-to-the-future.html

15 years ago

146 upvotes – 47 comments

Pixar's comment on the passing of Steve Jobs.

http://www.pixar.com/

15 years ago

137 upvotes – 22 comments

Introduction to sed

http://www.catonmat.net/blog/worlds-best-introduction-to-sed/

15 years ago

125 upvotes – 31 comments

LLVM IR is a compiler IR

http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/pipermail/llvmdev/2011-October/043719.html

15 years ago

118 upvotes – 41 comments

Why FSF Founder Richard Stallman is Wrong on Steve Jobs

http://www.readwriteweb.com/enterprise/2011/10/why-fsf-founder-richard-stallm.php?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+readwriteweb+%28ReadWriteWeb%29

15 years ago

116 upvotes – 215 comments

Merging In The GNU D Language Compiler To GCC

http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2011-10/msg00037.html

15 years ago

111 upvotes – 42 comments

Richard Stallman on Steve Jobs

http://stallman.org/archives/2011-jul-oct.html#06_October_2011_(Steve_Jobs)

15 years ago

102 upvotes – 118 comments

VirtualBox is garbage

https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/10/6/317

15 years ago

101 upvotes – 96 comments

Go version 1 proposal

https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1ny8uI-_BHrDCZv_zNBSthNKAMX_fR_0dc6epA6lztRE&pli=1

15 years ago

100 upvotes – 23 comments

Six ways to never get lost in a city without GPS or Sat Nav

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-15125287

15 years ago

100 upvotes – 59 comments

Graphene creates electricity when struck by light

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/98941-graphene-creates-electricity-when-struck-by-light

15 years ago

91 upvotes – 16 comments

Reducing runtime memory in Windows 8

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2011/10/07/reducing-runtime-memory-in-windows-8.aspx

15 years ago

89 upvotes – 28 comments

Review: The 2011 $79 Kindle with ads and buttons

http://www.marco.org/2011/10/07/review-79-kindle-with-ads-and-buttons

15 years ago

87 upvotes – 96 comments

Kickstarter being sued for patent infringment.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/241160/kickstarter_faces_patent_suit_over_funding_idea.html

15 years ago

83 upvotes – 43 comments

World's leading patent troll sues Motorola over Android phones

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/10/worlds-leading-patent-troll-sues-motorola.ars

15 years ago

83 upvotes – 30 comments

Long S

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

15 years ago

81 upvotes – 26 comments

A better way to rate films

http://blog.goodfil.ms/blog/2011/10/07/a-better-way-to-rate-films/

15 years ago

79 upvotes – 40 comments

Ada Lovelace Day

http://findingada.com/

15 years ago

77 upvotes – 8 comments

Samsung and Google pull Nexus Prime, Ice Cream Sandwich launch

http://www.techradar.com/news/phone-and-communications/mobile-phones/samsung-and-google-pull-nexus-prime-ice-cream-sandwich-launch-1032490

15 years ago

74 upvotes – 35 comments

Linus Torvalds on Android, the Linux fork

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/linus-torvalds-on-android-the-linux-fork/9426

15 years ago

72 upvotes – 18 comments

High Priority Free Software Projects

http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/priority-projects

15 years ago

67 upvotes – 51 comments

Charging for things on the web

http://dcurtis.me/2011/10/06/charging-for-things-on-the-web/

15 years ago

67 upvotes – 24 comments

A rewrite of the Django tutorial with Test Driven Development

https://github.com/hjwp/Test-Driven-Django-Tutorial

15 years ago

★ 377 Python
67 upvotes – 15 comments

Homeland Security moves forward with 'pre-crime' detection

http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-20117058-281/homeland-security-moves-forward-with-pre-crime-detection/

15 years ago

65 upvotes – 40 comments

Infringement Damages Increased After CEO Complains About Patent System

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20111005/11133116225/judge-makes-company-pay-more-infringement-because-ceo-complained-publicly-about-patent-system.shtml?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

15 years ago

57 upvotes – 25 comments
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