top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-09-29

Python 3.3.0 released

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

14 years ago

Fog of World

http://fogofworld.com

14 years ago

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

Persona - Mozilla's decentralized and secure authentication system

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

14 years ago

Slate: Tiling window management for OS X

https://github.com/jigish/slate

14 years ago

★ 7.8k Objective-C GPL-3.0

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

Flowplayer 5.0.0

http://flowplayer.org/

14 years ago

Selfspy - Tool for Personal Data Analytics

https://github.com/gurgeh/selfspy

14 years ago

★ 2.4k Python GPL-3.0

How does SSL work?

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

14 years ago

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

European entrepreneurs: Les misérables

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

14 years ago

Markets are efficient if and only if P = NP

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

14 years ago

Attack of the Fifty-Foot NIMBYs

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

14 years ago

Google's Answer to Siri Thinks Ahead

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

14 years ago

This white powder will kill me one day

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

14 years ago

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

Aircraft Carriers in Space

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

14 years ago

Someone forgot to renew NodeJS.org

http://nodejs.org/

14 years ago

Letting Employees Work Remotely Pays Off

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

14 years ago

'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

freeSoC and freeSoC Mini

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/18182218/freesoc-and-freesoc-mini

14 years ago

Hacker's Delight, 2nd Edition

http://www.informit.com/store/product.aspx?isbn=0321842685

14 years ago

Weekend hack: A little tiled window manager for OS X

http://github.com/fjolnir/Spectacle

14 years ago

★ 170 Objective-C

As Apple and Samsung dominate, Japan’s tech giants are in a free fall

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/as-apple-and-samsung-dominate-japans-tech-giants-are-in-a-free-fall/2012/09/28/04c6eb36-0944-11e2-afff-d6c7f20a83bf_story.html?hpid=z2

14 years ago

Making Jet Fuel From Seawater While at Sea

http://www.nrl.navy.mil/media/news-releases/2012/fueling-the-fleet-navy-looks-to-the-seas

14 years ago

Metro Apps Can Only Be Distributed Through Windows Store

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_8-windows_store/will-windows-8-allow-developers-to-post-metro-apps/9f28242b-4943-4ca2-bf63-d6f9b3a5b35f

14 years ago

The Lowest Fare? Ask the Crowd

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/30/technology/flightfox-lets-the-crowd-find-the-best-airfares.html?_r=0

14 years ago

Lessons From The Dramatic Slow-Motion Death Of Wikitravel

http://techcrunch.com/2012/09/29/lessons-from-the-dramatic-slow-motion-death-of-wikitravel/

14 years ago

Twitter is a tragic tale

http://threads2.scripting.com/2012/september/twittersEpitaph

14 years ago

Slackware 14.0 released

http://www.slackware.com/announce/14.0.php

14 years ago

Firefox 18 Gets Support for Retina Display

http://browserfame.com/857/firefox-retina-display

14 years ago

Pre-flight cracks in 787 engine

http://www.ntsb.gov/news/2012/120927.html

14 years ago

Old Maps vs. New Maps

http://vore.cc/post/32503374905/old-maps-vs-new-maps

14 years ago