top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-10-16

How I retired in 9 years on a corporate programmer salary

http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2011/09/15/a-brief-history-of-the-stash-how-we-saved-from-zero-to-retirement-in-ten-years/

15 years ago

There is only one Cloud Icon in the Entire Universe

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/ThereIsOnlyOneCloudIconInTheEntireUniverse.aspx

15 years ago

Why Finland’s schools are great (by doing what we don’t).

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/post/ravitch-why-finlands-schools-are-great-by-doing-what-we-dont/2011/10/12/gIQAmTyLgL_blog.html?wprss=answer-sheet

15 years ago

Show HN: The users behind Hacker News

http://hnwho.com/

15 years ago

Prince of Persia for Commodore 64/128 released

http://popc64.blogspot.com/2011/10/prince-of-persia-for-commodore-64128.html

15 years ago

Ubuntu and GNOME jump the shark

http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=3822

15 years ago

Fibonacci Flim-Flam.

http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/pseudo/fibonacc.htm

15 years ago

OpenOffice.org is now officially part of the Apache family

https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/entry/the_apache_software_foundation_statement

15 years ago

Repairing a dented tuba with magnets

http://www.supermagnete.de/eng/project8

15 years ago

Thoughts on porting NumPy to PyPy

http://technicaldiscovery.blogspot.com/2011/10/thoughts-on-porting-numpy-to-pypy.html

15 years ago

The Shen programming language

http://shenlanguage.org

15 years ago

I want to solve the uploads problem

http://unfoldthat.com/2011/10/16/the-uploads-problem.html

15 years ago

I'll Probably Never Hire Another Pure SysAdmin

http://peebs.org/ill-probably-never-hire-another-pure-sysadmin

15 years ago

The Invisible Side of Design

http://speakerdeck.com/u/smashingmag/p/the-invisible-side-of-design

15 years ago

Time zone database has new home after lawsuit

http://www.ajc.com/business/time-zone-database-has-1202359.html

15 years ago

Ask HN : Where Does VC Money Really Go?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3118075

15 years ago

How much do Apple's factories cost?

http://www.asymco.com/2011/10/16/how-much-do-apples-factories-cost/

15 years ago

PNG Masking: How to Dynamically Shape Any Image on Your Website

http://wegraphics.net/blog/articles/png-masking-how-to-dynamically-shape-any-image-on-your-website/

15 years ago

GitHaven, an open source clone of GitHub

https://github.com/icefox/GitHaven/

15 years ago

Notation as a Tool of Thought

http://www.jsoftware.com/papers/tot1.htm

15 years ago

Haskell : polymorphism at value level, not method parameter level

http://chrisdone.com/posts/2011-10-16-value-polymorphism.html

15 years ago

The Occupy Economy

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204002304576631084250433462.html

15 years ago

Why Chef?

http://devopsanywhere.blogspot.com/2011/10/why-chef.html

15 years ago

What is Wealth in America?

http://www.forbes.com/global/2011/1010/opinions-innovation-rules-wealth-america-rich-karlgaard.html

15 years ago

Tell PG: Thanks for the change to the "title" on each page

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3117069

15 years ago

Fix TCP slow-start without a kernel patch (for faster page load times)

http://blog.habets.pp.se/2011/10/Optimizing-TCP-slow-start

15 years ago

Harry Porter's Relay Computer

http://web.cecs.pdx.edu/~harry/Relay

15 years ago