top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-10-27

Android Orphans: Visualizing a Sad History of Support

http://theunderstatement.com/post/11982112928/android-orphans-visualizing-a-sad-history-of-support

15 years ago

450 upvotes – 225 comments

Apple Lossless Audio Codec is now open source (Apache license)

http://alac.macosforge.org/

15 years ago

395 upvotes – 177 comments

Starcraft 2 Automated Player

http://graphics.stanford.edu/~mdfisher/GameAIs.html

15 years ago

381 upvotes – 43 comments

Richard Stallman on Steve Jobs: correction

http://stallman.org/archives/2011-jul-oct.html?ohai#27_October_2011_%28Steve_Jobs%29

15 years ago

356 upvotes – 391 comments

Why We Moved Off The Cloud

http://code.mixpanel.com/2011/10/27/why-we-moved-off-the-cloud/

15 years ago

341 upvotes – 151 comments

Rent a Mac in the cloud for development

http://www.macincloud.com/

15 years ago

322 upvotes – 171 comments

Google Denies Requests To Remove Videos of Police Brutality

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_denies_takedown_requests_this_time.php#.TqnuLZnzTGk.hackernews

15 years ago

322 upvotes – 44 comments

RSS Rant

http://feliciaday.com/blog/rss-rant

15 years ago

278 upvotes – 101 comments

Disastrous IP Legislation Is Back – And It’s Worse than Ever

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/10/disastrous-ip-legislation-back-%E2%80%93-and-it%E2%80%99s-worse-ever

15 years ago

237 upvotes – 20 comments

Google+ is now available with Google Apps

http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2011/10/google-is-now-available-with-google.html

15 years ago

200 upvotes – 48 comments

Female FOSS dev quits tech industry due to harassment

http://www.itwire.com/opinion-and-analysis/open-sauce/50641-female-foss-dev-quits-tech-industry-due-to-harassment

15 years ago

198 upvotes – 326 comments

Gerald Sussman: "We Really Don't Know How To Compute"

http://www.infoq.com/presentations/We-Really-Dont-Know-How-To-Compute

15 years ago

181 upvotes – 30 comments

The answer is 2011. The question can be brute force.

http://qbonnard.github.com/2011/10/25/The_answer_is_2011_the_question_can_be_brute_force.html

15 years ago

156 upvotes – 20 comments

Hell freezes over: Forrester urges IT to support the Mac

http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2011/10/27/hell-freezes-over-forrester-urges-it-to-support-the-mac/

15 years ago

155 upvotes – 109 comments

Your DNA may carry a ‘memory’ of your living conditions in childhood

http://scienceblog.com/48584/your-dna-may-carry-a-%E2%80%98memory%E2%80%99-of-your-living-conditions-in-childhood/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+scienceblogrssfeed+%28ScienceBlog.com%29

15 years ago

143 upvotes – 54 comments

You are the nth person alive on earth

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-15391515

15 years ago

134 upvotes – 57 comments

Dropbox for Teams

https://www.dropbox.com/teams

15 years ago

120 upvotes – 64 comments

Google+ launches ‘Ripples’ visualisation

http://www.visualisingdata.com/index.php/2011/10/google-launches-ripples-visualisation/

15 years ago

117 upvotes – 18 comments

ARM adopts 64-bit architecture

http://www.tgdaily.com/hardware-features/59302-arm-adopts-64-bit-architecture

15 years ago

113 upvotes – 48 comments

Punchd - A Loyalty Program (from Google)

http://getpunchd.com/

15 years ago

103 upvotes – 50 comments

DARPA: reconstruct shredded documents, win $50,000

http://www.shredderchallenge.com/

15 years ago

103 upvotes – 49 comments

Google warns that rate limits, overage fees are coming to Maps API

http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2011/10/google-warns-that-rate-limits-overage-fees-are-coming-to-maps-api.ars

15 years ago

101 upvotes – 83 comments

Data centers are too reliable

http://dmerr.tumblr.com/post/12004195663/data-centers-are-too-reliable-sort-of

15 years ago

93 upvotes – 25 comments

The Underground Guide to Press Coverage for Startups

http://www.giftrocket.com/blog/underground-guide-to-pr

15 years ago

92 upvotes – 14 comments

Google maps usage fees

http://blog.programmableweb.com/2011/10/27/google-maps-usage-fees-how-many-developers-will-have-to-pay/

15 years ago

83 upvotes – 46 comments

All your Bayes are belong to us: fun Bayes's Theorem problems.

http://allendowney.blogspot.com/2011/10/all-your-bayes-are-belong-to-us.html

15 years ago

80 upvotes – 5 comments

Easy To Cancel makes it Easier to Sign Up

http://www.gettingmoreawesome.com/2011/10/26/easy-to-cancel/

15 years ago

75 upvotes – 13 comments

Allegations of past and present Internet crime haunt Airbnb co-founder

http://venturebeat.com/2011/10/27/airbnb-spam-allegations/

15 years ago

75 upvotes – 55 comments

Lifestyle Startups Stigma

http://appicurious.com/2011/10/27/lifestyle-startups-stigma/

15 years ago

74 upvotes – 50 comments

The Jobs book

http://scripting.com/stories/2011/10/27/theJobsBook.html

15 years ago

71 upvotes – 71 comments

The best way to learn anything in Vim is by accident

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1269603/to-switch-from-vertical-split-to-horizontal-split-fast-in-vim

15 years ago

71 upvotes – 6 comments

Did Android Really Look Like BlackBerry Before the iPhone?

http://www.osnews.com/story/25264/Did_Android_Really_Look_Like_BlackBerry_Before_the_iPhone_

15 years ago

70 upvotes – 40 comments

Vimeo bans game videos

http://tideart.com/?id=4ea99385

15 years ago

70 upvotes – 33 comments

What's new in CSS4

http://www.webmonkey.com/2011/10/discover-whats-new-in-css-4/

15 years ago

64 upvotes – 31 comments

HP to Keep PC Division

http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/newsroom/press/2011/111027xa.html

15 years ago

63 upvotes – 35 comments

An Introduction to Programming in Emacs Lisp

http://www.rattlesnake.com/emacs-lisp-intro.html

15 years ago

61 upvotes – 8 comments

Using Node.js in an ASP.NET MVC application with iisnode

http://weblogs.asp.net/jgalloway/archive/2011/10/26/using-node-js-in-an-asp-net-mvc-application-with-iisnode.aspx

15 years ago

60 upvotes – 14 comments

Asking for a letter of recommendation

http://matt.might.net/articles/how-to-recommendation-letter/

15 years ago

59 upvotes – 24 comments

Keeping It Realtime - conference for realtime tech

http://krtconf.com

15 years ago

57 upvotes – 7 comments

Facebook confirms first data center outside US on edge of Arctic Circle

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/report-facebook-planning-to-build-5-acre-server-farm-in-northern-sweden/2011/10/26/gIQA0v3IJM_story.html

15 years ago

57 upvotes – 23 comments

Hackers could have taken over AWS

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/10/27/cloud_security/

15 years ago

56 upvotes – 19 comments

European Union leaders announced a write down of Greek bonds by 50%

http://money.cnn.com/2011/10/26/news/international/european_union_crisis_summit/index.htm?hpt=hp_t1

15 years ago

56 upvotes – 46 comments

Exposing Social Gaming's Hidden Lever

http://blog.betable.com/exposing-social-gamings-hidden-lever

15 years ago

55 upvotes – 25 comments

Max's privacy war brings Facebook to heel

http://www.theage.com.au/technology/technology-news/maxs-privacy-war-brings-facebook-to-heel-20111027-1mksg.html

15 years ago

53 upvotes – 18 comments

Google+ Ripples for Dalai Lama hangout

https://plus.google.com/ripples/details?activityid=JavTTDqMMUh

15 years ago

51 upvotes – 4 comments

An API for startups in education

http://dev.oneschool.com

15 years ago

51 upvotes – 12 comments

Factor language disassembly

http://re-factor.blogspot.com/2011/10/disassemble.html

15 years ago

47 upvotes – 0 comments

Software Craftsmanship: What it's all about.

http://cleancoder.posterous.com/software-craftsmanship-things-wars-commandmen

15 years ago

46 upvotes – 18 comments
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