top 20 hacker news stories for 2012-09-27

Announcing the First Beta Release of Persona

http://identity.mozilla.com/post/32395255498/announcing-the-first-beta-release-of-persona

14 years ago

474 upvotes – 187 comments

StarCraft: Orcs in space go down in flames

http://www.codeofhonor.com/blog/starcraft-orcs-in-space-go-down-in-flames

14 years ago

435 upvotes – 87 comments

NASA Rover Finds Old Streambed on Martian Surface

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2012-305

14 years ago

373 upvotes – 81 comments

Beta Late Than Never (Steam Linux Beta)

http://blogs.valvesoftware.com/linux/beta-late-than-never-3/

14 years ago

328 upvotes – 147 comments

How to build a windmill

http://jacquesmattheij.com/how-to-build-a-windmill

14 years ago

300 upvotes – 53 comments

“iCloud Backup”

http://www.marco.org/2012/09/26/icloud-backup

14 years ago

203 upvotes – 82 comments

What happens to our brains when we exercise and how it makes us happier

http://blog.bufferapp.com/why-exercising-makes-us-happier

14 years ago

189 upvotes – 80 comments

How a random bug in Deep Blue may ultimately have led to Kasparov's defeat

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/wp/2012/09/26/nate-silvers-the-signal-and-the-noise/

14 years ago

185 upvotes – 50 comments

Did NSA Put a Secret Backdoor in New Encryption Standard? (2007)

http://www.schneier.com/essay-198.html

14 years ago

174 upvotes – 93 comments

Linux TCP/IP Tuning

http://www.lognormal.com/blog/2012/09/27/linux-tcpip-tuning/

14 years ago

162 upvotes – 31 comments

Google Search Referrers Disappear In iOS 6

http://searchengineland.com/ios-6-removes-all-google-search-referer-data-134560

14 years ago

153 upvotes – 48 comments

Facebook Gifts

https://www.facebook.com/about/gifts

14 years ago

151 upvotes – 112 comments

US Military Classifies Wikileaks As 'Enemy Of The United States'

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120926/23522220526/us-military-classifies-wikileaks-as-enemy-united-states.shtml

14 years ago

147 upvotes – 168 comments

Program above and beyond your actual ability by using FreeMind

http://alexkrupp.typepad.com/sensemaking/2012/09/program-above-and-beyond-your-actual-ability-by-using-freemind.html

14 years ago

134 upvotes – 67 comments

Download any ebook free from Packt Publishing (through the end of the month)

http://www.packtpub.com/

14 years ago

133 upvotes – 44 comments

Go Daddy patents “announcing a domain name registration on a social website”

http://domainnamewire.com/2012/09/25/go-daddy-patents-announcing-a-domain-name-registration-on-a-social-website/

14 years ago

131 upvotes – 73 comments

How can I submit prior art to the Patent Office?

http://meta.patents.stackexchange.com/questions/105/i-want-to-make-a-difference-how-can-i-submit-prior-art-to-the-patent-office?cb=1

14 years ago

131 upvotes – 13 comments

MMO xkcd WebSockets fixed by PubNub

http://www.pubnub.com/static/pubnub-xkcd/index.html

14 years ago

123 upvotes – 52 comments

Hackerface: Rapportive for HN

http://hackerface.com/

14 years ago

122 upvotes – 63 comments

PostgreSQL Database Modeler

http://pgmodeler.com.br/?

14 years ago

121 upvotes – 38 comments
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