top 50% 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

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

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

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

Parallella: Raspberry Pi-like open parallel computing hardware

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/adapteva/parallella-a-supercomputer-for-everyone

14 years ago

110 upvotes – 38 comments

Microsoft: Hey, Apple Maps haters, Use Bing for iPhone instead

http://venturebeat.com/2012/09/26/apple-maps-haters-use-bing-instead/

14 years ago

105 upvotes – 56 comments

NFC enabled business cards

http://www.moo.com/blog/2012/09/27/the-business-cards-of-the-future-nfc/

14 years ago

103 upvotes – 56 comments

iOS 6 App Store is a disaster for developers

http://www.develop-online.net/news/42065/The-iOS-6-App-Store-is-a-disaster-for-developers

14 years ago

102 upvotes – 58 comments

App.net developer incentive programme

http://blog.app.net/blog/2012/09/27/announcing-the-app-net-developer-incentive-program/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=announcing-the-app-net-developer-incentive-program

14 years ago

97 upvotes – 45 comments

Bitcoin Foundation Launches to ‘Standardize, Protect and Promote’ Bitcoin

http://betabeat.com/2012/09/gavin-andresen-launches-non-profit-bitcoin-foundation-to-standardize-protect-and-promote-bitcoin/

14 years ago

89 upvotes – 27 comments

Inappropriate Use of Adobe Code Signing Certificate

http://blogs.adobe.com/asset/2012/09/inappropriate-use-of-adobe-code-signing-certificate.html

14 years ago

84 upvotes – 13 comments

How the Internet ruined San Francisco (1999)

http://www.salon.com/1999/10/28/internet_2/

14 years ago

84 upvotes – 128 comments

We’ve Already Passed the Tipping Point for Orbital Debris

http://spectrum.ieee.org/aerospace/satellites/weve-already-passed-the-tipping-point-for-orbital-debris?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+IeeeSpectrumFullText+%28IEEE+Spectrum+Full+Text%29

14 years ago

80 upvotes – 80 comments

New Zealand admits illegally spying on Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom

http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/09/27/14120478-new-zealand-admits-illegally-spying-on-megaupload-founder-kim-dotcom?lite

14 years ago

75 upvotes – 21 comments

How to Reinforce Impostor Syndrome

http://tessrinearson.com/blog/?p=564

14 years ago

72 upvotes – 76 comments

Why I want to see Gittip succeed

http://peak5390.wordpress.com/2012/09/27/why-i-want-to-see-gittip-succeed/

14 years ago

70 upvotes – 41 comments

Google set to blow open the tablet market later this year with $99 Nexus tablet

http://www.bgr.com/2012/09/27/google-nexus-tablet-price-99/

14 years ago

69 upvotes – 92 comments

It Takes 275 Water Molecules To Make Ice

http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode.cfm?id=it-takes-275-water-molecules-to-mak-12-09-26

14 years ago

67 upvotes – 13 comments

DDR4 memory: Twice the speed, less power

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/09/27/jedec_ddr4_spec/

14 years ago

65 upvotes – 17 comments

Some Lesser Known Truths About Programming

http://dotmac.rationalmind.net/2010/08/17/some-lesser-known-truths-about-programming/

14 years ago

63 upvotes – 30 comments

Freelance Programmer Survival Manual

http://luaz.blogspot.com/2012/09/freelance-programmer-survival-manual.html

14 years ago

58 upvotes – 32 comments

Show HN: Docverter: Convert your text content to PDF/HTML/EPUB with one REST API

http://www.docverter.com

14 years ago

58 upvotes – 27 comments

Sons' DNA remains in mothers' brains

http://www.latimes.com/health/boostershots/la-heb-women-brain-microchimerism-20120926,0,6446716.story

14 years ago

57 upvotes – 7 comments

I only got that job because I’m a girl

http://www.technologywoman.com/2012/09/27/i-only-got-that-job-because-im-a-girl/

14 years ago

55 upvotes – 86 comments

Crowd Sourcing Sucked, So I Put Instagram API to Work Instead

http://shaharsol.com/2012/09/27/crowd-sourcing-sucked-so-i-put-instagram-api-to-work-instead/

14 years ago

53 upvotes – 20 comments

Scratchpad: Rapid prototyping from UI elements you clip/collect from the web

http://scratchpad.co

14 years ago

52 upvotes – 34 comments

Generating 16384 Bit SSH Keys

http://www.aeg0.com/2012/09/27/generating-16384-bit-ssh-keys/

14 years ago

51 upvotes – 20 comments

Show HN: Interactive Visualization of Influence in Programming Languages

http://exploringdata.github.com/vis/programming-languages-influence-network/

14 years ago

51 upvotes – 15 comments

Survey: iOS 6 Leads To Decrease In Device Satisfaction Among iPhone Users

http://techcrunch.com/2012/09/26/survey-ios-6-leads-to-decrease-in-device-satisfaction-among-iphone-users/

14 years ago

50 upvotes – 30 comments
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