top 20 hacker news stories for 2011-10-30

A Sister’s Eulogy for Steve Jobs

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/30/opinion/mona-simpsons-eulogy-for-steve-jobs.html?pagewanted=all

15 years ago

1736 upvotes – 121 comments

Things That Turbo Pascal is Smaller Than

http://prog21.dadgum.com/116.html

15 years ago

367 upvotes – 114 comments

Awesome web development productivity tools

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2011/10/28/useful-coding-workflow-tools-for-web-designers-developers/

15 years ago

236 upvotes – 21 comments

Zuckerberg: If I Were Starting A Company Now, I Would Have Stayed In Boston

http://techcrunch.com/2011/10/30/facebooks-zuckerberg-if-i-were-starting-a-company-now-i-would-have-stayed-in-boston/

15 years ago

225 upvotes – 90 comments

The LMAX Architecture - 100K TPS at Less than 1ms Latency

http://martinfowler.com/articles/lmax.html?t=1319912579

15 years ago

210 upvotes – 53 comments

You Are the Average of Your Five Closest Friends

http://bufr.tumblr.com/post/12126279275/you-are-the-average-of-your-five-closest-friends

15 years ago

198 upvotes – 92 comments

Klout Is Odious

http://www.somebits.com/weblog/culture/klout-is-odious.html

15 years ago

192 upvotes – 84 comments

Easter Island heads have bodies

http://seeker401.wordpress.com/2011/10/29/easter-island-heads-have-bodies/

15 years ago

186 upvotes – 88 comments

Ruby 1.9.3 released

http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-core/40527

15 years ago

183 upvotes – 43 comments

All Maps in China are Transformed

http://home.wangjianshuo.com/archives/20081109_all_maps_in_china_are_transformed.htm

15 years ago

175 upvotes – 115 comments

Online hackers threaten to expose cartel's secrets

http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Online-hackers-threaten-to-expose-cartel-s-secrets-2242068.php

15 years ago

171 upvotes – 40 comments

I Make Dreams Come True

https://github.com/raganwald/homoiconic/blob/master/2011/10/i_make_dreams_come_true.md#readme

15 years ago

★ 1.8k Ruby
169 upvotes – 37 comments

Giving the F.B.I. What It Wants

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/30/opinion/sunday/giving-the-fbi-what-it-wants.html?src=twr&pagewanted=all

15 years ago

164 upvotes – 58 comments

Experts often end up where they started as beginners

http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2011/01/25/coming-full-circle/

15 years ago

159 upvotes – 44 comments

In honor of Dennis Ritchie, 50% off all C/C++ ebooks

http://shop.oreilly.com/category/deals/honor-ritchie.do

15 years ago

102 upvotes – 39 comments

For HN: Open access to scientific papers, a summary of the state of play

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3174407

15 years ago

102 upvotes – 29 comments

Arduino Controlled Dishwasher

http://www.neonsquirt.com/dishwasher.html

15 years ago

100 upvotes – 18 comments

Raspberry Pi: An ARM GNU/Linux box for $25. Take a byte

http://www.raspberrypi.org/

15 years ago

99 upvotes – 38 comments

Common Lisp is the best language to learn programming

http://carcaddar.blogspot.com/2011/10/common-lisp-is-best-language-to-learn.html

15 years ago

98 upvotes – 57 comments

What I learned hanging out at the vascular surgery conference

http://petdance.com/2011/09/hanging-out-at-the-vascular-surgery-conference/

15 years ago

97 upvotes – 13 comments
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