top 50% 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

The Missed Red Flags on Groupon

http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2011/10/17/the-missed-red-flags-on-groupon/

15 years ago

105 upvotes – 47 comments

Maxing out your Dropbox referrals (how I got 16GB for less than $10)

http://vladik.rikhter.org/2011/09/22/maxing-out-your-dropbox-referrals-how-i-got-16gb-for-less-than-10/

15 years ago

104 upvotes – 132 comments

Show HN: TouchBase (re-imagining the iPhone calendar)

http://www.touchbasecal.com/

15 years ago

102 upvotes – 43 comments

Son of Stuxnet Found in the Wild on Systems in Europe

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/10/son-of-stuxnet-in-the-wild/

15 years ago

102 upvotes – 13 comments

First State set police on man who showed them how accounts could be ripped off

http://www.smh.com.au/it-pro/security-it/super-bad-first-state-set-police-on-man-who-showed-them-how--770000-accounts-could-be-ripped-off-20111018-1lvx1.html

15 years ago

99 upvotes – 74 comments

MIT can now see through concrete walls

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/100395-mit-can-now-see-through-concrete-walls

15 years ago

96 upvotes – 37 comments

Andreessen Horowitz, CrunchFund Back Social Address Book Everyme (YC S11)

http://techcrunch.com/2011/10/18/andreessen-horowitz-crunchfund-tencent-back-intelligent-social-address-book-everyme/

15 years ago

88 upvotes – 12 comments

Samsung Galaxy Nexus Leaked: Image, Specs And Launch Date

http://techcrunch.com/2011/10/18/samsung-galaxy-nexus-leaked-image-specs-and-launch-date/

15 years ago

86 upvotes – 82 comments

WebOS 3.0.4 released

http://jaaksi.blogspot.com/2011/10/no-strings-attached-enjoy.html

15 years ago

76 upvotes – 31 comments

Please review my startup. Safe text messaging for teachers

http://classparrot.com

15 years ago

76 upvotes – 76 comments

Review our startup: Instantly create a blog theme that matches your website

http://www.blogic.com

15 years ago

75 upvotes – 46 comments

Facebook introducing HTML5 Resource Center

https://developers.facebook.com/html5/

15 years ago

71 upvotes – 11 comments

Apache Cassandra 1.0 released.

http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.db.cassandra.user/21142

15 years ago

68 upvotes – 6 comments

Macros in Perl6

http://strangelyconsistent.org/blog/macros-what-are-they-really

15 years ago

64 upvotes – 12 comments

The Deadly Microsoft Embrace

http://www.tehelka.com/story_main50.asp?filename=Ws101011MICROSOFT.asp

15 years ago

61 upvotes – 36 comments

Goldman Sachs loses $428 million in third quarter

http://online.wsj.com/article/AP52bb9071b0854bac85714ae4138d3445.html

15 years ago

60 upvotes – 49 comments

Personality in Design

http://www.alistapart.com/articles/personality-in-design/

15 years ago

60 upvotes – 3 comments

Dart to JVM bytecode compiler

http://code.google.com/p/jdart/

15 years ago

58 upvotes – 7 comments

Mark Zuckerberg to speak at Startup School 2011

http://startupschool.org/speakers.html

15 years ago

57 upvotes – 22 comments

Teenagers Will, Like, Totally Abandon Facebook for Google+

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/teenagers_like_totally_dislike_the_new_facebook.php

15 years ago

56 upvotes – 50 comments

A music synth in 140 bytes of JavaScript

http://www.p01.org/releases/140bytes_music_softSynth/

15 years ago

54 upvotes – 4 comments

What we don't know about elections

http://blog.thescoop.org/archives/2011/10/17/what-we-dont-know-about-elections/

15 years ago

54 upvotes – 14 comments

Canon announces EOS-1D X: full-frame 18MP, 14 fps, 204,800 top ISO, $6,800

http://www.engadget.com/2011/10/18/canon-announces-eos-1d-x-full-frame-18mp-sensor-14-fps-204-80/

15 years ago

53 upvotes – 54 comments

Reweighting a graph for faster shortest paths

http://11011110.livejournal.com/135302.html

15 years ago

52 upvotes – 5 comments

On Political Belief

http://nbashaw.tumblr.com/post/11598657577/on-political-belief

15 years ago

51 upvotes – 20 comments
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