top 20 hacker news stories for 2011-10-31

Dave Winer: Why I stand up for Stallman

http://scripting.com/stories/2011/10/31/whyIStandUpForStallman.html

15 years ago

423 upvotes – 259 comments

How One Missing `var` Ruined our Launch

http://blog.meloncard.com/post/12175941935/how-one-missing-var-ruined-our-launch

15 years ago

317 upvotes – 209 comments

Steve Jobs' memo to startups

http://omis.me/2011/10/31/steve-jobs-memo-to-startups/

15 years ago

308 upvotes – 126 comments

The Book That Every Programmer Should Read

http://onlinehut.org/2011/10/the-book-that-every-programmer-should-read/

15 years ago

247 upvotes – 70 comments

I also stand up for Stallman

http://raganwald.posterous.com/i-also-stand-up-for-stallman

15 years ago

191 upvotes – 59 comments

Why Palantir Makes My Head Hurt

http://kellblog.com/2011/06/27/why-palantir-makes-my-head-hurt/

15 years ago

180 upvotes – 18 comments

The (logarithmic) calendar I want

http://abstractfactory.blogspot.com/2011/01/logarithmic-calendar-i-want.html

15 years ago

173 upvotes – 33 comments

Do Not Start A Startup: Or, What I Learned At Startup School 2011

http://andybrett.com/startup-school-2011

15 years ago

167 upvotes – 40 comments

Slider.js: Slideshows with jQuery, CSS Transitions and Canvas

http://greweb.fr/slider/

15 years ago

160 upvotes – 17 comments

The ¬NED pin goes low on detection of a nuclear detonation [pdf]

http://www.maxwell.com/products/microelectronics/docs/HSN1000_REV3.PDF

15 years ago

146 upvotes – 77 comments

New in Reader: a fresh design, and Google+ sharing

http://googlereader.blogspot.com/2011/10/new-in-reader-fresh-design-and-google.html

15 years ago

138 upvotes – 122 comments

Good books for hackers interested in quant finance?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3177815

15 years ago

137 upvotes – 59 comments

Ruby is beautiful (but I'm moving to Python)

http://wit.io/posts/ruby-is-beautiful-but-im-moving-to-python

15 years ago

122 upvotes – 64 comments

Running a Startup on Haskell

http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Running-a-Startup-on-Haskell

15 years ago

121 upvotes – 37 comments

EA's Origin may be glorified spyware, causes mass upset

http://www.destructoid.com/ea-s-origin-may-be-glorified-spyware-causes-mass-upset-209745.phtml

15 years ago

115 upvotes – 63 comments

People paid us $10,000 last week to learn how to program. Lessons learned...

http://niroka.posterous.com/people-paid-us-10000-last-week-to-learn-how-t

15 years ago

114 upvotes – 39 comments

SimpleGeo To Be Acquired By Urban Airship

http://uncrunched.com/2011/10/31/simplegeo-to-be-acquired-by-urban-airship/

15 years ago

110 upvotes – 43 comments

The Demon Machine

http://blog.jgc.org/2011/10/demon-machine.html

15 years ago

101 upvotes – 11 comments

The right to dual-boot: Linux groups plead case prior to Windows 8 launch

http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2011/10/the-right-to-dual-boot-linux-groups-plead-case-prior-to-windows-8-launch.ars

15 years ago

92 upvotes – 62 comments

Stuff Harvard people Like

http://blog.echen.me/tag/mit/

15 years ago

87 upvotes – 10 comments
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