top 20 hacker news stories for 2012-09-29

Python 3.3.0 released

http://python.org/download/releases/3.3.0/

14 years ago

346 upvotes – 110 comments

Fog of World

http://fogofworld.com

14 years ago

274 upvotes – 157 comments

The Case for Abolishing Patents (Yes, All of Them)

http://m.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/09/the-case-for-abolishing-patents-yes-all-of-them/262913/

14 years ago

235 upvotes – 121 comments

Persona - Mozilla's decentralized and secure authentication system

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Persona

14 years ago

194 upvotes – 51 comments

Slate: Tiling window management for OS X

https://github.com/jigish/slate

14 years ago

★ 7.8k Objective-C GPL-3.0
170 upvotes – 26 comments

Why I got Fired from Facebook (a $100 Million dollar lesson)

http://okdork.com/2012/09/29/why-i-got-fired-from-facebook-a-100-million-dollar-lesson/

14 years ago

159 upvotes – 92 comments

Flowplayer 5.0.0

http://flowplayer.org/

14 years ago

155 upvotes – 65 comments

Selfspy - Tool for Personal Data Analytics

https://github.com/gurgeh/selfspy

14 years ago

★ 2.4k Python GPL-3.0
154 upvotes – 25 comments

How does SSL work?

http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/20803/how-does-ssl-work/20833

14 years ago

152 upvotes – 44 comments

Does Apple have a Scott Forstall problem?

http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2012/09/29/does-apple-have-a-scott-forstall-problem

14 years ago

134 upvotes – 124 comments

European entrepreneurs: Les misérables

http://www.economist.com/node/21559618

14 years ago

123 upvotes – 91 comments

Markets are efficient if and only if P = NP

http://arxiv.org/abs/1002.2284v2

14 years ago

107 upvotes – 123 comments

Attack of the Fifty-Foot NIMBYs

http://i.stanford.edu/~ullman/pub/nimby.html

14 years ago

106 upvotes – 93 comments

Google's Answer to Siri Thinks Ahead

http://www.technologyreview.com/news/429345/googles-answer-to-siri-thinks-ahead/

14 years ago

106 upvotes – 74 comments

This white powder will kill me one day

http://jacquesmattheij.com/this-white-powder-will-kill-me-one-day

14 years ago

105 upvotes – 178 comments

A group of Finnish math teachers write an open textbook in a weekend hackathon

http://linja-aho.blogspot.fi/2012/09/a-group-of-finnish-math-teachers-write.html

14 years ago

101 upvotes – 18 comments

Aircraft Carriers in Space

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/09/28/aircraft_carriers_in_space?page=full

14 years ago

101 upvotes – 71 comments

Someone forgot to renew NodeJS.org

http://nodejs.org/

14 years ago

100 upvotes – 71 comments

Letting Employees Work Remotely Pays Off

http://www.inc.com/magazine/201210/adam-bluestein/letting-employees-work-remotely-pays-off.html

14 years ago

91 upvotes – 35 comments

'Babylon 5' star Michael O'Hare dies at 60

http://www.11alive.com/news/article/258725/40/Babylon-5-star-Michael-OHare-dies-at-60

14 years ago

88 upvotes – 14 comments
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