top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-09-08

PayPal CEO writes personal response

http://ndy.gd/JJgB

14 years ago

619 upvotes – 159 comments

Russia in color, a century ago

http://archive.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/08/comments_russia_in_color_a_century_ago.html

14 years ago

469 upvotes – 187 comments

So I Made A Mashup, And Then…

http://stevestreza.com/2012/09/08/so-i-made-a-mashup/

14 years ago

257 upvotes – 98 comments

How Dangerous Is Your Couch?

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/09/magazine/arlene-blums-crusade-against-household-toxins.html?pagewanted=all

14 years ago

233 upvotes – 154 comments

A love letter to MIT

http://tech.mit.edu/V132/N35/loveletter.html

14 years ago

207 upvotes – 40 comments

The "Wash my Ferrari" Problem: A Meditation on Risk

http://theothereight.wordpress.com/2012/09/08/the-wash-my-ferrari-problem-a-meditation-on-risk/

14 years ago

198 upvotes – 50 comments

Stackoverflow Is A Difficult Community to Participate In

http://theexceptioncatcher.com/blog/2012/09/stackoverflow-is-a-difficult-community-to-participate-in/#.UEu2l1DNwcU.hackernews

14 years ago

147 upvotes – 81 comments

Learn How to make a Single Element iPhone in CSS3

http://cssdeck.com/labs/creating-single-element-iphone-using-css3

14 years ago

144 upvotes – 43 comments

4 geeky laws that rule our world

http://www.neatorama.com/2012/09/05/Four-Geeky-Laws-That-Rule-Our-World/

14 years ago

138 upvotes – 28 comments

CoffeeScript source maps

http://ryanflorence.com/2012/coffeescript-source-maps/

14 years ago

122 upvotes – 10 comments

App-UI

http://triceam.github.com/app-UI/

14 years ago

101 upvotes – 23 comments

Google Donates $20,000 to Eclipse Foundation

http://www.thepowerbase.com/2012/09/google-donates-20000-to-eclipse-foundation/

14 years ago

99 upvotes – 36 comments

The music classifying nightmare

http://blog.pkh.me/p/15-the-music-classifying-nightmare.html

14 years ago

98 upvotes – 75 comments

Brain Parasites, California’s Hidden Health Problem

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/2012/09/06/tapeworm-in-her-brain/

14 years ago

95 upvotes – 54 comments

In deep with Tesla CEO Elon Musk

http://www.autoblog.com/2012/09/07/tesla-ceo-elon-musk-q-and-a/

14 years ago

93 upvotes – 64 comments

The Disturbing, Unchecked Rise of the Administrative Subpoena

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/08/administrative-subpoenas/all/

14 years ago

92 upvotes – 44 comments

Modeling Physics in Javascript: Gravity and Drag

http://burakkanber.com/blog/modeling-physics-javascript-gravity-and-drag/?

14 years ago

91 upvotes – 38 comments

Rebol's future

http://www.rebol.com/article/0510.html

14 years ago

89 upvotes – 16 comments

Ruby, PHP, MySQL, Perl, Free Hosting for geeks

http://1.ai/

14 years ago

81 upvotes – 70 comments

Q&A With Nine Great Programmers

http://www.dodgycoder.net/2012/09/q-with-nine-great-programmers.html

14 years ago

81 upvotes – 21 comments

What are the drawbacks of Python?

http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/15468/what-are-the-drawbacks-of-python

14 years ago

77 upvotes – 171 comments

An introduction to cross compilation with Go

http://dave.cheney.net/2012/09/08/an-introduction-to-cross-compilation-with-go

14 years ago

72 upvotes – 10 comments

Util-linux cheat sheet

http://www.catonmat.net/blog/util-linux-cheat-sheet/

14 years ago

71 upvotes – 16 comments

OCR and Neural Nets in JavaScript

http://ejohn.org/blog/ocr-and-neural-nets-in-javascript/

14 years ago

66 upvotes – 18 comments

Mike Arrington: Turning the drama down on Y Combinator v. Google Ventures

http://uncrunched.com/2012/09/07/turning-the-drama-down-on-y-combinator-v-google-ventures/

14 years ago

64 upvotes – 23 comments

Lessons learned and misconceptions regarding encryption and cryptology

http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/2202/lessons-learned-and-misconceptions-regarding-encryption-and-cryptology

14 years ago

63 upvotes – 1 comments

"brew install pass" -- the simple unix password manager now released for mac

http://zx2c4.com/projects/password-store/#macintosh

14 years ago

61 upvotes – 80 comments

Quantum teleportation over 143 kilometres using active feed-forward

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature11472.html

14 years ago

61 upvotes – 64 comments
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