top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-10-25

Nest - The Learning Thermostat

http://www.nest.com/

15 years ago

430 upvotes – 200 comments

GitHub open sources Hubot (chat bot)

https://github.com/blog/968-say-hello-to-hubot

15 years ago

420 upvotes – 49 comments

Show HN: A storebuilder contained in a single text area

http://listofthingsforsale.com

15 years ago

389 upvotes – 113 comments

Lead Bullets

http://techcrunch.com/2011/10/25/lead-bullets/

15 years ago

362 upvotes – 45 comments

Dropping out is probably not for you

http://jacquesmattheij.com/Dropping+out+is+probably+not+for+you

15 years ago

326 upvotes – 150 comments

Valve: Piracy Is More About Convenience Than Price

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/38082/Valve_Piracy_Is_More_About_Convenience_Than_Price.php

15 years ago

277 upvotes – 131 comments

It’s the founding CEO’s job to personally email the first 1000 users

http://blog.thestartuptoolkit.com/2011/10/its-the-ceos-job-to-email-the-first-1000-signups/

15 years ago

259 upvotes – 63 comments

Siri meets Eliza

http://jordanmechner.com/blog/2011/10/siri/

15 years ago

254 upvotes – 29 comments

Recruiters are, by and large, a waste of your time

http://blog.tutorspree.com/post/11909570564/recruiters-and-startups

15 years ago

245 upvotes – 154 comments

Jonathan Ive on Steve Jobs and the fragility of ideas

http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2011/10/24/jonathan-ive-on-steve-jobs-and-the-fragility-of-ideas/

15 years ago

208 upvotes – 27 comments

What it's like to skydive through a thunderstorm

http://www.damninteresting.com/rider-on-the-storm/?

15 years ago

197 upvotes – 23 comments

iPod godfather and ex-iPhone team launch previously stealth startup

http://techcrunch.com/2011/10/24/ipod-godfather-tony-fadell-finally-reveals-his-new-product-a-thermostat-no-really/

15 years ago

172 upvotes – 69 comments

Steve Jobs: A Genius, Yes; A Role Model for the Rest of Us, No Way

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2011/10/24/steve-jobs-a-genius-yes-a-role-model-for-the-rest-of-us-no-way/

15 years ago

154 upvotes – 103 comments

LightningJS: safe, fast, and asynchronous third-party Javascript

http://www.olark.com/spw/2011/10/lightningjs-safe-fast-and-asynchronous-third-party-javascript/

15 years ago

151 upvotes – 10 comments

GUI vs CLI: Operation vs Expression

http://blog.vivekhaldar.com/post/8950163616/gui-vs-cli-operation-vs-expression

15 years ago

129 upvotes – 82 comments

A Python Optimization Anecdote

http://tech.dropbox.com/?p=89#disqus_thread

15 years ago

120 upvotes – 51 comments

StackOverflow for your Intranet

http://www.coordino.com/

15 years ago

116 upvotes – 39 comments

Amazon's Profit Plunges 73%

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204644504576653520195533138.html?mod=WSJ_hp_LEFTTopStories

15 years ago

113 upvotes – 104 comments

John McCarthy's website where you can find all of his papers

http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/

15 years ago

105 upvotes – 0 comments

Galaxy Nexus: 1080p Video

https://plus.google.com/111962077049890418486/posts/EJxn8T21H5o

15 years ago

99 upvotes – 45 comments

Rumors of Tor's compromise are greatly exaggerated

https://blog.torproject.org/blog/rumors-tors-compromise-are-greatly-exaggerated

15 years ago

93 upvotes – 10 comments

What is Symfony2?

http://fabien.potencier.org/article/49/what-is-symfony2

15 years ago

92 upvotes – 25 comments

Be On Fire

http://www.feld.com/wp/archives/2011/10/be-on-fire.html

15 years ago

91 upvotes – 17 comments

JSON.sh: a JSON parser written in bash

https://github.com/dominictarr/JSON.sh

15 years ago

★ 2k Shell
88 upvotes – 13 comments

The Node Toolbox

http://toolbox.no.de/

15 years ago

81 upvotes – 12 comments

Chrome Web Store have a new look

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/category/home?newlook

15 years ago

81 upvotes – 33 comments

Robot walks like a human, no power required

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/101525-bluebiped-a-human-like-walking-robot-that-requires-no-power-source

15 years ago

76 upvotes – 27 comments

Animating quasicrystals in parallel Haskell

http://mainisusuallyafunction.blogspot.com/2011/10/quasicrystals-as-sums-of-waves-in-plane.html

15 years ago

73 upvotes – 13 comments

Android Overtakes Apple with 44% Worldwide Share of Mobile App Downloads

http://www.abiresearch.com/press/3799-Android+Overtakes+Apple+with+44%25+Worldwide+Share+of+Mobile+App+Downloads

15 years ago

65 upvotes – 22 comments

Need advice: A company just offered to buy my project for $6M

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3156304

15 years ago

64 upvotes – 83 comments

Ten years of Windows XP: how longevity became a curse

http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2011/10/ten-years-of-windows-xp-how-longevity-became-a-curse.ars

15 years ago

61 upvotes – 60 comments

FBI to launch nationwide facial recognition service

http://www.nextgov.com/nextgov/ng_20111007_6100.php?oref=topstory

15 years ago

60 upvotes – 63 comments

Visa, MasterCard Looking Into Online Targeted Advertising Using Credit-Card Data

http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB10001424052970204002304576627030651339352-lMyQjAxMTAxMDIwNDEyNDQyWj.html

15 years ago

60 upvotes – 24 comments

Earth Officially Home To 7 Billion Humans

http://science.slashdot.org/story/11/10/24/207259/earth-officially-home-to-7-billion-humans

15 years ago

60 upvotes – 42 comments

AFNetworking: A Delightful Networking Library for iOS and Mac OS X

http://engineering.gowalla.com/2011/10/24/afnetworking/

15 years ago

59 upvotes – 13 comments

IBM has a new CEO: Virginia Rometty

http://allthingsd.com/20111025/ibm-has-a-new-ceo-meet-virginia-rometty/

15 years ago

59 upvotes – 20 comments

"Startup rollercoaster" isn't even the half of it

http://swizec.com/blog/startup-rollercoaster-isnt-even-the-half-of-it/swizec/2712

15 years ago

59 upvotes – 11 comments

Google Chrome v15 Released

http://chrome.blogspot.com/2011/10/making-chrome-even-more-app-ealing.html

15 years ago

59 upvotes – 26 comments

Rank at HN: Stop saying "This."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3153377

15 years ago

58 upvotes – 34 comments

Distributed Open House the day after Startup School

http://ycombinator.com/aoh11.html

15 years ago

56 upvotes – 14 comments

JRuby 1.6.5 Released

http://www.jruby.org/2011/10/25/jruby-1-6-5

15 years ago

55 upvotes – 14 comments

Melbourne opens new tech incubator

http://www.zdnet.com.au/york-butter-factory-to-churn-out-start-ups-339324926.htm

15 years ago

54 upvotes – 32 comments

"By the end of the summer, I optimized dropbox.com’s pages to render 5X faster."

http://tech.dropbox.com/?p=89

15 years ago

53 upvotes – 3 comments

Show HN: Kippt.com - Bookmarking made simple

http://kippt.com

15 years ago

52 upvotes – 30 comments
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