top 20 hacker news stories for 2011-10-18

24 year old student lights match: Europe versus Facebook

http://www.identityblog.com/?p=1201

15 years ago

579 upvotes – 214 comments

Video: Quantum Levitation

http://jasonadriaan.com/post/11595319387/the-future

15 years ago

572 upvotes – 95 comments

TakeThisLollipop - really clever/creepy use of the Facebook API

http://www.takethislollipop.com/

15 years ago

440 upvotes – 133 comments

Dropbox: The Inside Story Of Tech's Hottest Startup

http://www.forbes.com/sites/victoriabarret/2011/10/18/dropbox-the-inside-story-of-techs-hottest-startup/

15 years ago

384 upvotes – 103 comments

4chan's Chris Poole: Facebook & Google Are Doing It Wrong

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/4chans_chris_poole_facebook_google_are_doing_it_wr.php#.TpzDbGX8do0.hackernews

15 years ago

320 upvotes – 151 comments

So you think you know C: the Ksplice Pointer Challenge

http://blogs.oracle.com/ksplice/entry/the_ksplice_pointer_challenge

15 years ago

285 upvotes – 99 comments

No TV for children under 2, urge doctors

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/19/health/19babies.html

15 years ago

253 upvotes – 135 comments

How 1 HN post compelled me to leave Intuit and create a new startup for startups

http://www.copyhackers.com/2011/10/18/how-1-hn-post-compelled-me-to-leave-intuit-create-new-startup-for-startups/

15 years ago

252 upvotes – 96 comments

FSF: Campaign against windows 8 "secure boot"

http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/secure-boot-vs-restricted-boot/

15 years ago

238 upvotes – 61 comments

Google to default to SSL version for logged in users

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/10/making-search-more-secure.html

15 years ago

236 upvotes – 78 comments

RubyMonk - ruby lessons right in your browser

http://rubymonk.com

15 years ago

227 upvotes – 43 comments

Dropbox Said No To “Nine-Digit” Acquisition Offer From Steve Jobs

http://techcrunch.com/2011/10/18/dropbox-said-no-to-nine-digits-acquisition-offer-from-apple-steve-jobs/

15 years ago

220 upvotes – 92 comments

Python For The Web

http://gun.io/blog/python-for-the-web/

15 years ago

213 upvotes – 98 comments

Stanford Open Classroom - Ruby on Rails Web Apps

http://openclassroom.stanford.edu/MainFolder/CoursePage.php?course=WebApplications

15 years ago

160 upvotes – 15 comments

Abu Dhabi Traffic Accidents Dropped 40% During the BlackBerry Outage

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/technology/2011/10/abu-dhabi-traffic-accidents-dropped-40-during-blackberry-outage/43784/

15 years ago

151 upvotes – 55 comments

Mojang win right to use the name "Scrolls" for their upcoming game

http://www.minecraftforum.net/news/274-scrolls-shall-stay-scrolls/

15 years ago

149 upvotes – 29 comments

(An ((Even Better) Lisp) Interpreter (in Python))

http://norvig.com/lispy2.html

15 years ago

140 upvotes – 17 comments

Dropbox Raises $250M In Funding, Boasts 45 Million Users

http://techcrunch.com/2011/10/18/dropbox-raises-250m-in-funding-boasts-45-million-users/

15 years ago

118 upvotes – 43 comments

Mailgun API 2.0: forget MIME

http://blog.mailgun.net/post/11622797058/mailgun-api-2-0-forget-mime

15 years ago

114 upvotes – 49 comments

Japan: We're losing to Apple, and here's why

http://globalvoicesonline.org/2011/10/18/japan-were-losing-to-apple-and-heres-why/

15 years ago

112 upvotes – 77 comments
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