top 20 hacker news stories for 2012-09-30

Why was a scam company able to raise $76 Million Series B?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4592778

14 years ago

660 upvotes – 174 comments

To Encourage Biking, Cities Lose the Helmets

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/30/sunday-review/to-encourage-biking-cities-forget-about-helmets.html?_r=1

14 years ago

199 upvotes – 205 comments

Dave The Incredible Mindreader – How Does He Do It?

http://singularityhub.com/2012/09/28/dave-the-uncannily-accurate-mindreader-how-does-he-do-it/

14 years ago

198 upvotes – 137 comments

Bootstrap Toggle Buttons

https://github.com/nostalgiaz/bootstrap-toggle-buttons

14 years ago

★ 1k JavaScript Apache-2.0
181 upvotes – 50 comments

How a rogue appeals court wrecked the patent system

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/09/how-a-rogue-appeals-court-wrecked-the-patent-system/

14 years ago

163 upvotes – 40 comments

Amazon now loaning capital to sellers

http://www.amazonstrategies.com/2012/09/amazon-lending-amazon-starts-loaning-capital-to-sellers-to-help-them-scale.html

14 years ago

137 upvotes – 44 comments

Space colony art from the 1970s

http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/23/space-colony-art-from-the-1970s/

14 years ago

125 upvotes – 49 comments

Things That Turbo Pascal is Smaller Than (2011)

http://prog21.dadgum.com/116.html?0

14 years ago

121 upvotes – 58 comments

Telling people to leave finance

http://mathbabe.org/2012/09/30/telling-people-to-leave-finance/

14 years ago

115 upvotes – 101 comments

Letters: A tiny debugging library for Ruby

http://lettersrb.com

14 years ago

105 upvotes – 22 comments

Multicore Programming in PyPy and CPython

http://morepypy.blogspot.dk/2012/08/multicore-programming-in-pypy-and.html

14 years ago

99 upvotes – 51 comments

Flying at No Mechanical Energy Cost: The Secret of Wandering Albatrosses

http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0041449

14 years ago

94 upvotes – 32 comments

Pixel art stickers

http://www.stickaz.com/en/17-invader

14 years ago

89 upvotes – 49 comments

Ask HN: what is a good spot to work in New York?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4593134

14 years ago

80 upvotes – 62 comments

Code Janitor: nobody's dream, everyone's job

http://ferd.ca/code-janitor-nobody-s-dream-everyone-s-job-and-how-erlang-can-help.html

14 years ago

75 upvotes – 27 comments

Fast Algorithms for the Maximum Clique Problem on Massive Sparse Graphs

http://arxiv.org/abs/1209.5818

14 years ago

74 upvotes – 5 comments

Graham's Number

http://myscienceacademy.org/2012/09/30/grahams-number-numberphile/

14 years ago

72 upvotes – 23 comments

HTML5 Google Authenticator

https://github.com/gbraad/html5-google-authenticator

14 years ago

★ 1k JavaScript
69 upvotes – 19 comments

I got sued for $3 Million by a religious cult

http://www.skeptical-science.com/religion/sued-3-million-religious-cult/

14 years ago

66 upvotes – 15 comments

The iPad 1

http://www.marco.org/2012/09/30/ipad-1

14 years ago

64 upvotes – 101 comments
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