top 50% 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

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

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

Bootstrap Toggle Buttons

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

14 years ago

★ 1k JavaScript Apache-2.0

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

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

Space colony art from the 1970s

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

14 years ago

Things That Turbo Pascal is Smaller Than (2011)

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

14 years ago

Telling people to leave finance

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

14 years ago

Letters: A tiny debugging library for Ruby

http://lettersrb.com

14 years ago

Multicore Programming in PyPy and CPython

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

14 years ago

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

Pixel art stickers

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

14 years ago

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

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

14 years ago

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

Fast Algorithms for the Maximum Clique Problem on Massive Sparse Graphs

http://arxiv.org/abs/1209.5818

14 years ago

Graham's Number

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

14 years ago

HTML5 Google Authenticator

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

14 years ago

★ 1k JavaScript

I got sued for $3 Million by a religious cult

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

14 years ago

The iPad 1

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

14 years ago

Pirate Bay Founder Remains In Custody

http://torrentfreak.com/pirate-bay-founder-remains-locked-up-without-charges-120930/

14 years ago

Latent Semantic Analysis Tutorial

http://www.puffinwarellc.com/index.php/news-and-articles/articles/33.html?showall=1

14 years ago

The 21st IOCCC Winners

http://www.ioccc.org/2012/whowon.html

14 years ago

Ask HN: An online 'doers' community for bootstrapping developers?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4594004

14 years ago

Test Driven Development Actually Works

http://blog.jphpsf.com/2012/09/30/OMG-test-driven-development-actually-works/

14 years ago

Show HN: What's Your Browser's Age?

http://browserage.com

14 years ago

New Content-Delivery Tech Should Be Presumed Illegal, Says Former Copyright Boss

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/09/29/228228/new-content-delivery-tech-should-be-presumed-illegal-says-former-copyright-boss

14 years ago

Scala NLP

http://www.scalanlp.org/

14 years ago

A Crash Course in Information and Visual Design

http://throwww.com/a/1q3

14 years ago

Don't Fall Asleep at the Wheel: Successful Entrepreneurs Have Lives

http://www.good.is/posts/don-t-fall-asleep-at-the-wheel-successful-entrepreneurs-have-lives/

14 years ago

MariaDB Cassandra Storage Engine

http://kb.askmonty.org/en/cassandra-storage-engine/

14 years ago

Publish interactive 3D content online

http://sketchfab.com

14 years ago

Disk drive shipments rebound from Thai floods

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9231799/Disk_drive_shipments_rebound_from_Thai_floods_

14 years ago

Getting started with CSS custom filters

http://alteredqualia.com/css-shaders/article/

14 years ago