top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-09-28

A Letter from Tim Cook on Maps

http://www.apple.com/letter-from-tim-cook-on-maps/

14 years ago

620 upvotes – 486 comments

Bootstrap Maintainers Leave Twitter

http://blog.getbootstrap.com/2012/09/29/onward/

14 years ago

412 upvotes – 86 comments

California passes groundbreaking open textbook legislation

https://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/34288

14 years ago

283 upvotes – 73 comments

Patent US6368227 - Method of swinging on a swing

http://www.google.co.uk/patents/US6368227

14 years ago

229 upvotes – 111 comments

Notch: "I'd rather have minecraft not run on win 8 at all than to play along."

http://kotaku.com/5947162/notch-id-rather-have-minecraft-not-run-on-win-8-at-all-than-to-play-along

14 years ago

201 upvotes – 123 comments

Want To Disrupt An Industry? Try Actually Working In It First

http://www.fastcompany.com/3001334/want-disrupt-industry-try-actually-working-it-first#full

14 years ago

195 upvotes – 61 comments

Patio11 launches his lifecycle emails course

https://training.kalzumeus.com/lifecycle-emails

14 years ago

193 upvotes – 128 comments

Show HN: Bubbles - my unfinished HTML5 Particle Game

http://www.fullstackoptimization.com/bubbles/

14 years ago

188 upvotes – 87 comments

Alligator Eggs

http://worrydream.com/AlligatorEggs/

14 years ago

186 upvotes – 23 comments

Stripe partners with Chilling Effects

https://stripe.com/blog/towards-transparency

14 years ago

186 upvotes – 30 comments

Employers Banned From Asking For Social Media Passwords In California

http://techcrunch.com/2012/09/27/employers-banned-from-asking-for-social-media-passwords-in-california/

14 years ago

181 upvotes – 82 comments

Google disables AdSense account of user for sharing free book via torrent

http://www.geekosystem.com/google-aggressive-ads/

14 years ago

170 upvotes – 75 comments

WTFM - Write The Freaking Manual

http://www.floopsy.com/post/32453280184/w-t-f-m-write-the-freaking-manual

14 years ago

169 upvotes – 80 comments

Use Zsh

http://fendrich.se/blog/2012/09/28/no/

14 years ago

164 upvotes – 114 comments

WebGL Car Viewer

http://carvisualizer.plus360degrees.com/threejs/

14 years ago

150 upvotes – 43 comments

Chrome 22 breaks things

http://chrisvalleskey.com/chrome-22-breaks-everything/

14 years ago

147 upvotes – 103 comments

Ask HN: How does an experienced freelancer get work?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4585435

14 years ago

139 upvotes – 74 comments

Hacking WinRAR for fun and profit

https://github.com/taviso/rarvmtools

14 years ago

★ 236 C GPL-2.0
137 upvotes – 47 comments

Re: Hakin9's new Nmap Guide

http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/2012/q3/1050

14 years ago

136 upvotes – 22 comments

Microsoft’s cloud service SkyDrive is great, and no one has noticed

http://venturebeat.com/2012/09/23/microsofts-cloud-service-skydrive-is-great-and-no-one-has-noticed/

14 years ago

128 upvotes – 128 comments

We need more PyCon US 2013 submissions

http://pydanny.com/we-need-more-pycon-us-2013-submissions.html

14 years ago

117 upvotes – 43 comments

Color CEO Bill Nguyen Checks Out Of Day-To-Day Operations

http://techcrunch.com/2012/09/28/color-ceo-nguyen-is-out/

14 years ago

107 upvotes – 60 comments

Marissa Mayer: Yahoo Products Must Ship In 6 Months, Or Don't Bother

http://www.sfgate.com/technology/businessinsider/article/Marissa-Mayer-Tells-Yahoo-Employees-Products-Must-3898967.php

14 years ago

103 upvotes – 64 comments

The Ludum Dare October Challenge: Finish a game, Take it to market, Earn $1

http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/2012/09/27/announcing-october-challenge-2012/

14 years ago

98 upvotes – 27 comments

Open webOS 1.0 is here

http://www.webosnation.com/open-webos-10-lands

14 years ago

95 upvotes – 30 comments

Grove is here to stay

https://grove.io/blog/grove-here-stay

14 years ago

93 upvotes – 51 comments

How to Build a Windmill, Part 2: Parts, Nuts, Bolts and Blades

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

14 years ago

89 upvotes – 10 comments

Stanford CS240h, Functional Systems in Haskell

https://github.com/bos/stanford-cs240h

14 years ago

★ 647 Haskell
81 upvotes – 40 comments

Face detection for cats in JavaScript

http://harthur.github.com/kittydar

14 years ago

80 upvotes – 36 comments

Adaptive Resampling in D3.js

http://bl.ocks.org/3795544

14 years ago

79 upvotes – 14 comments

How we handle deploys and failover without disrupting user experience

http://code.mixpanel.com/2012/09/28/how-we-handle-deploys-and-failover-without-disrupting-user-experience/

14 years ago

72 upvotes – 14 comments

Custom bots for Unreal Tournament 2004 pass Turing test

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-09/uota-aig092612.php

14 years ago

67 upvotes – 31 comments

Go by Example: Timers and Tickers

http://mmcgrana.github.com/2012/09/go-by-example-timers-and-tickers.html

14 years ago

65 upvotes – 17 comments

The Programmers Before Us Were Better

http://www.jeremymorgan.com/blog/programming/the-programmers-before-us-were-better/

14 years ago

63 upvotes – 58 comments

Does Adobe finally understand developers?

http://designshack.net/articles/software/adobe-edge-does-adobe-finally-understand-developers/

14 years ago

60 upvotes – 27 comments

How Patio11 made me thousands of dollars

http://blog.reemer.com/how-patrick-mackenzie-made-me-thousands-of-dollars

14 years ago

60 upvotes – 5 comments

$99 Raspberry Pi-sized “supercomputer” touted in Kickstarter project

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/09/99-raspberry-pi-sized-supercomputer-touted-in-kickstarter-project/

14 years ago

59 upvotes – 61 comments

It was easier to learn to program in several languages than in one

http://www.joaquinllaneza.com/2012/09/it-was-easier-to-learn-to-program-in.html

14 years ago

54 upvotes – 26 comments

ABC News uses iCloud to track a stolen iPad to TSA officer's home

http://appleinsider.com/articles/12/09/27/abc-news-uses-icloud-to-track-a-stolen-ipad-to-tsa-officers-home

14 years ago

54 upvotes – 24 comments

MyVR (YC W12) raises $1.4M to attack the vacation rental industry

http://techcrunch.com/2012/09/28/myvr-raises-1-4m-from-sv-angel-chris-dixon-to-attack-the-85b-vacation-rental-industry/

14 years ago

53 upvotes – 13 comments

Small but significant usability sins that websites should never commit

http://www.elezea.com/2012/09/usability-sins/

14 years ago

50 upvotes – 52 comments

Our Adsense account was abruptly shut down

http://innovationmedian.blogspot.com/2012/09/google-does-not-want-newspapers-to-make.html

14 years ago

49 upvotes – 26 comments
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