top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-10-01

Xkcd style graphs

http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/11350/xkcd-style-graphs

14 years ago

585 upvotes – 51 comments

TypeScript: a language for application-scale JavaScript development

http://www.typescriptlang.org/

14 years ago

474 upvotes – 298 comments

Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (October 2012)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4596375

14 years ago

256 upvotes – 294 comments

Why Mozilla Persona is the right answer to the question of Identity

http://labs.newsint.co.uk/blog/2012/10/why-mozilla-persona-is-the-right-answer-to-the-question-of-identity/

14 years ago

232 upvotes – 122 comments

The Homely Mutt

http://stevelosh.com/blog/2012/10/the-homely-mutt/

14 years ago

223 upvotes – 110 comments

Thanks For Reading: 15 Years of News For Nerds

http://meta.slashdot.org/story/12/10/01/0631219/thanks-for-reading-15-years-of-news-for-nerds

14 years ago

211 upvotes – 90 comments

Donut math: How donut.c works

http://www.a1k0n.net/2011/07/20/donut-math.html

14 years ago

204 upvotes – 11 comments

Why does iTunes 10.7 try to contact the domain bogusapple.com?

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4380270?tstart=0

14 years ago

192 upvotes – 92 comments

All Rational Approximations of Pi Are Useless

http://blog.wolfram.com/2011/06/30/all-rational-approximations-of-pi-are-useless/

14 years ago

185 upvotes – 110 comments

Linux 3.6 released

https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/9/30/152

14 years ago

177 upvotes – 45 comments

To understand the command line...

http://geekblog.oneandoneis2.org/index.php/2012/09/30/to-understand-the-command-line

14 years ago

156 upvotes – 62 comments

Rethinking caching in web apps

http://martin.kleppmann.com/2012/10/01/rethinking-caching-in-web-apps.html

14 years ago

151 upvotes – 39 comments

Real time map of trains in Japan

http://www.demap.info/tetsudonow/

14 years ago

146 upvotes – 61 comments

Twilio's first support hire joins engineering

http://www.twilio.com/engineering/2012/10/01/becoming-an-engineer

14 years ago

142 upvotes – 27 comments

Mobile Playbook by Google

http://www.themobileplaybook.com/

14 years ago

129 upvotes – 69 comments

ShowHN: GetURL - A CLI tool to get a public link for any file

https://github.com/uams/geturl

14 years ago

★ 384 Python
119 upvotes – 49 comments

New Apple Developer Guideline Bans Apps That Promote Other Apps

http://techcrunch.com/2012/10/01/how-a-new-apple-developer-guideline-could-be-curtains-for-apps-that-promote-other-apps/

14 years ago

114 upvotes – 53 comments

Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (October 2012)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4596379

14 years ago

114 upvotes – 153 comments

Don’t Use Automatic Image Sliders or Carousels

http://conversionxl.com/dont-use-automatic-image-sliders-or-carousels-ignore-the-fad/

14 years ago

110 upvotes – 34 comments

Myths about Hash Tables

http://hughewilliams.com/2012/10/01/five-myths-about-hash-tables/

14 years ago

101 upvotes – 100 comments

Ask Steve Wozniak Anything

http://apple.slashdot.org/story/12/10/01/1527257/ask-steve-wozniak-anything

14 years ago

100 upvotes – 17 comments

RailwayJS

http://railwayjs.com/

14 years ago

99 upvotes – 49 comments

How browsers work

http://taligarsiel.com/Projects/howbrowserswork1.htm

14 years ago

97 upvotes – 6 comments

App.net pricing changes

http://blog.app.net/blog/2012/10/01/app-net-pricing-changes/

14 years ago

96 upvotes – 91 comments

Google Passes Microsoft’s Market Value as PC Loses to Web

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-10-01/google-passes-microsoft-s-market-value-as-pc-loses-to-web

14 years ago

90 upvotes – 62 comments

Japan introduces piracy penalties for illegal downloads

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-19767970

14 years ago

85 upvotes – 30 comments

Oil Espionage: Traders Spy on Hub With Satellites, Sensors and Infrared Cameras

http://stateimpact.npr.org/oklahoma/2012/09/28/oil-espionage-traders-spy-on-oklahoma-hub-with-satellites-sensors-and-infrared-cameras/

14 years ago

83 upvotes – 55 comments

Maily: Your Kids' First Email

http://www.maily.com/

14 years ago

82 upvotes – 51 comments

Server Porn

http://porn.serverbear.com

14 years ago

78 upvotes – 15 comments

Tell HN: Startup school 2012 invites are out

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4594853

14 years ago

77 upvotes – 76 comments

Planetary Resources wants you to be an asteroid mining intern

http://venturebeat.com/2012/10/01/plantetary-resources-asteroid-mining-internships/

14 years ago

74 upvotes – 12 comments

The Pigeon Movement – A rallying cry for French startups

http://www.rudebaguette.com/2012/10/01/the-pigeon-movement-frances-last-hope-for-startups/

14 years ago

74 upvotes – 106 comments

Google Tag Manager

http://www.google.com/tagmanager/

14 years ago

72 upvotes – 39 comments

Yandex Browser

http://browser.yandex.com/

14 years ago

71 upvotes – 81 comments

Reforming the Patent System Toward a Minimalist System

http://www.becker-posner-blog.com/2012/09/reforming-the-patent-system-toward-a-minimalist-system-becker.html

14 years ago

71 upvotes – 42 comments

Microsoft Previews New JavaScript-Like Programming Language TypeScript

http://techcrunch.com/2012/10/01/microsoft-previews-new-javascript-like-programming-language-typescript/

14 years ago

70 upvotes – 22 comments

Braintree launches instant underwriting

http://pandodaily.com/2012/10/01/a-new-twist-in-the-three-way-payment-wars-braintree-finally-offers-instant-underwriting/

14 years ago

67 upvotes – 29 comments

This is Not ok

http://blog.jessitron.com/2012/09/this-is-not-ok.html

14 years ago

66 upvotes – 153 comments

The PC is Over

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/10/the-pc-is-over.html

14 years ago

63 upvotes – 119 comments

Copyright Act explicitly states disruptive innovation should be blocked

http://www.techdirt.com/blog/innovation/articles/20120913/23530420381/copyright-act-explicitly-says-disruptive-innovation-should-be-blocked.shtml

14 years ago

60 upvotes – 18 comments

3D printing: The PC all over again?

http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2012/09/3d-printing?fsrc=scn/tw_ec/difference_engine_the_pc_all_over_again_

14 years ago

60 upvotes – 91 comments

How to use interfaces in Go

http://orel.li/SxBSxe

14 years ago

59 upvotes – 14 comments

Python's Future: A Global Perspective

http://www.boredomandlaziness.org/2012/10/pythons-future-global-perspective.html

14 years ago

57 upvotes – 20 comments

libimobiledevice - Teaching Penguins to Talk to Fruit

http://www.libimobiledevice.org

14 years ago

52 upvotes – 13 comments
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