top 20 hacker news stories for 2011-10-22

Code Like a Pythonista: Idiomatic Python

http://python.net/~goodger/projects/pycon/2007/idiomatic/handout.html

15 years ago

237 upvotes – 56 comments

"Anonymous" Hackers Take Down Child Porn Websites, Leak Users' Names

http://www.securitynewsdaily.com/anonymous-hackers-child-porn-sites-1260/

15 years ago

201 upvotes – 93 comments

How Russian Tycoon Yuri Milner Bought His Way Into Silicon Valley

http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/10/mf_milner/all/1

15 years ago

197 upvotes – 101 comments

Will Dropouts Save America?

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/23/opinion/sunday/will-dropouts-save-america.html?smid=fb-share&pagewanted=all

15 years ago

187 upvotes – 112 comments

An analysis of Steve Jobs tribute messages displayed by Apple

http://www.neilkodner.com/2011/10/an-analysis-of-steve-jobs-tribute-messages-displayed-by-apple/

15 years ago

184 upvotes – 29 comments

Canadian researcher traces AIDS to single bush hunter from 1921

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health/new-health/health-news/canadian-researcher-traces-aids-to-single-bush-hunter-from-1921/article2210046/

15 years ago

183 upvotes – 55 comments

The Setup: Zed Shaw

http://zed.shaw.usesthis.com/

15 years ago

153 upvotes – 69 comments

Is Tumblr a bot fest?

http://svenduplic.com/post/11777048272/is-tumblr-a-bot-fest

15 years ago

131 upvotes – 33 comments

"Patent trolls could be the end of Silicon Valley" says Tim O'Reilly

http://thenextweb.com/video/2011/10/21/tim-oreilly-says-patent-trolls-could-be-the-end-of-silicon-valley/

15 years ago

121 upvotes – 24 comments

Richard Hamming: You and Your Research

http://www.paulgraham.com/hamming.html

15 years ago

114 upvotes – 7 comments

Jobs Told Google's Page to Cut Bloat to Avoid Becoming Microsoft

http://news.businessweek.com/article.asp?documentKey=1376-LTFP6U0YHQ0X01-3MTMRFEDTG0SB4L0HQ03662H25

15 years ago

112 upvotes – 64 comments

Dennis Ritchie, High School Guidance Counselor

http://www.codypowell.com/taods/2011/10/dennis-ritchie-high-school-guidance-counselor.html

15 years ago

112 upvotes – 5 comments

3D Cube World Level Generation

http://accidentalnoise.sourceforge.net/minecraftworlds.html

15 years ago

109 upvotes – 5 comments

Facebook: Are You Interfacing with the Russian Mafia & KGB? (2010)

http://thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/4346-facebook-are-you-interfacing-with-the-russian-mafia-a-kgb

15 years ago

106 upvotes – 43 comments

WebGL X-Wing

http://oos.moxiecode.com/js_webgl/xwing/index.html

15 years ago

100 upvotes – 54 comments

Dmr: Odd Comments and Strange Doings in Unix

http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/odd.html

15 years ago

93 upvotes – 6 comments

Ubuntu 11.10, Introduce new top-level directory /run

http://wiki.debian.org/ReleaseGoals/RunDirectory

15 years ago

90 upvotes – 30 comments

Why do pilots still die from not knowing which end is up?

http://www.airspacemag.com/military-aviation/The_Disorient_Express.html

15 years ago

83 upvotes – 79 comments

Rails is not your application

http://blog.firsthand.ca/2011/10/rails-is-not-your-application.html

15 years ago

83 upvotes – 29 comments

A Cultural Thought Experiment

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2011/10/a-cultural-experiment.html#more

15 years ago

82 upvotes – 32 comments
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