top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-10-02

Racism at a gaming company

http://qu33riousity.tumblr.com/post/32659337104/racist-moments-of-2012-pt-1-the-workplace

14 years ago

368 upvotes – 414 comments

Lockitron: Keyless entry using your phone

https://lockitron.com/preorder

14 years ago

329 upvotes – 211 comments

Online Python Tutor: Learn programming by visualizing code execution

http://pythontutor.com/

14 years ago

325 upvotes – 41 comments

The Sudden, Mysterious Exit Of A Quora Cofounder Has Silicon Valley Baffled

http://www.sfgate.com/technology/businessinsider/article/The-Sudden-Mysterious-Exit-Of-A-Quora-Cofounder-3912160.php

14 years ago

247 upvotes – 138 comments

Show HN: Meet your cardboard buddy.

http://foldable.me

14 years ago

240 upvotes – 107 comments

You are getting sleeeeeeepy ...

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2012/10/01/you-are-getting-sleeeeeeepy/

14 years ago

230 upvotes – 41 comments

Social Login Buttons Aren’t Worth It

https://blog.mailchimp.com/social-login-buttons-arent-worth-it/

14 years ago

213 upvotes – 109 comments

Keccak wins the SHA-3 competition

http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/ST/hash/sha-3/winner_sha-3.html

14 years ago

196 upvotes – 41 comments

Judge Posner decries "excessive" copyright and software patent protections

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/10/judge-decries-excessive-copyright-and-software-patent-protections/

14 years ago

196 upvotes – 31 comments

The Story of the New Microsoft.com

http://rainypixels.com/words/the-story-of-the-new-microsoft-com/

14 years ago

191 upvotes – 81 comments

Software on Steam

http://store.steampowered.com/software

14 years ago

191 upvotes – 106 comments

Drupal's Golden Handcuffs

http://mikecr.it/ramblings/drupals-golden-handcuffs

14 years ago

187 upvotes – 136 comments

Show HN: I built a stock market game based on the top 50,000 websites

http://linkdaq.net

14 years ago

184 upvotes – 85 comments

NIST Selects Winner of Secure Hash Algorithm (SHA-3) Competition

http://www.nist.gov/itl/csd/sha-100212.cfm

14 years ago

168 upvotes – 40 comments

The $1 billion mission to reach the Earth's mantle

http://edition.cnn.com/2012/10/01/tech/mantle-earth-drill-mission/index.html?c=&page=1

14 years ago

165 upvotes – 78 comments

Understanding Postgres Performance

http://craigkerstiens.com/2012/10/01/understanding-postgres-performance/

14 years ago

165 upvotes – 33 comments

You won't believe how nice Notch's office is

http://kotaku.com/5948142/you-wont-believe-how-nice-notchs-office-is

14 years ago

159 upvotes – 112 comments

Show HN: Summaries of interesting content, written by people

http://tldr.io

14 years ago

131 upvotes – 103 comments

Seriously?

http://bitquabit.com/post/seriously/

14 years ago

124 upvotes – 144 comments

How To Build A Blog Readership

http://danshipper.com/how-to-build-a-blog-readership#

14 years ago

121 upvotes – 29 comments

Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 sales ban lifted in the US

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-19796178

14 years ago

115 upvotes – 27 comments

Lenovo Computers, Soon To Be Made In America

http://techcrunch.com/2012/10/02/lenovo-computers-soon-to-be-made-in-america/

14 years ago

114 upvotes – 89 comments

Kivy - Open source cross-platform library for rapid development

http://kivy.org/

14 years ago

107 upvotes – 23 comments

How We Doubled Our Android Install Rate in One Hour

http://www.dwellable.com/blog/How-We-Doubled-Our-Android-Install-Rate-in-One-Hour

14 years ago

105 upvotes – 23 comments

Why does TypeScript have be the answer to anything?

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/WhyDoesTypeScriptHaveBeTheAnswerToAnything.aspx

14 years ago

94 upvotes – 80 comments

Steve Wozniak gives jailbreaking the thumbs up, wishes iTunes supported Android

http://thenextweb.com/apple/2012/10/02/apple-co-founder-steve-wozniak-supports-jailbreak-community-wishes-itunes-worked-android/

14 years ago

92 upvotes – 62 comments

How Sacha Greif and Nathan Barry sold $39k worth of eBooks

http://sachagreif.com/how-nathan-barry-and-i-sold-39k-worth-of-ebooks/

14 years ago

81 upvotes – 28 comments

BAQL: Reading Hacker News as a non-CS liberal arts graduate

http://bayareaquarterlife.tumblr.com/post/29540504926/reading-hacker-news-as-a-non-cs-liberal-arts

14 years ago

76 upvotes – 27 comments

Discovery Channel's Inside a Jet Crash

http://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/flights/2012/10/01/inside-a-doomed-jetliner-tv-show-stages-727-crash/1606749/

14 years ago

70 upvotes – 22 comments

UI/UX and Subjectivity

http://gazit.me/2012/10/01/ui-ux-subjectivity.html

14 years ago

68 upvotes – 30 comments

An Interview with Brian Kernighan on C and The C Programming Language

http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1960359

14 years ago

64 upvotes – 20 comments

PHP, the web’s most popular programming language, is coming to mobile

http://venturebeat.com/2012/10/02/php-andi-gutmans-future-mobile/

14 years ago

63 upvotes – 74 comments

Bitcoin Non-Technical FAQ

http://blog.oleganza.com/post/32725987418/bitcoin-non-technical-faq

14 years ago

60 upvotes – 33 comments

More whiteboard coding won’t build you a better team

http://blog.hackerhires.com/2012/09/more-whiteboard-coding-wont-build-you-a-better-team/

14 years ago

59 upvotes – 42 comments

Why voice calls on 4g may suck at first

http://www.reghardware.com/2012/10/02/feature_wtf_is_voice_over_lte_4g/

14 years ago

58 upvotes – 51 comments

How to Model Viral Growth: The Hybrid Model

http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20121002124206-18876785-how-to-model-viral-growth-the-hybrid-model

14 years ago

57 upvotes – 7 comments

Why Leo Traynor’s troll story may be a lie

http://www.resistradio.com/news/questioning-the-trollocaust-did-leotraynor-really-suffer-vile-hate-campaign

14 years ago

56 upvotes – 61 comments

Copenhagen Suborbitals Release Snowmix, an Open Source Video Mixer

http://www.thepowerbase.com/2012/10/copenhagen-suborbitals-release-snowmix-an-open-source-video-mixer/

14 years ago

54 upvotes – 2 comments

Anders Hejlsberg, Steve Lucco, and Luke Hoban: Inside TypeScript

http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Anders-Hejlsberg-Steve-Lucco-and-Luke-Hoban-Inside-TypeScript

14 years ago

54 upvotes – 19 comments

Microsoft has their own Windows Phone in the works

http://www.wpcentral.com/microsoft-does-indeed-have-their-own-windows-phone

14 years ago

54 upvotes – 58 comments

Zenbox Omniwrite: Powerful customer admin panel works with your existing SaaS

http://blog.zenboxapp.com/zenbox-omniwrite-a-supercharged-customer-admi

14 years ago

51 upvotes – 6 comments

A year on, Ultrabooks are a worse disaster than most expected

http://semiaccurate.com/2012/10/02/a-year-on-ultrabooks-are-a-worse-disaster-than-most-expected/

14 years ago

49 upvotes – 53 comments

Justice Department to defend warrantless cell phone tracking

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57524109-38/justice-dept-to-defend-warrantless-cell-phone-tracking/

14 years ago

49 upvotes – 22 comments

The Spy Who Lived it Up

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/23/us/edwin-p-wilson-cia-operative-with-cloak-and-dagger-life-dies-at-84.html?smid=fb-share

14 years ago

49 upvotes – 5 comments

Show HN: WebcamSwiper - a JS library that watches for hand swipes in the air

https://github.com/iambrandonn/WebcamSwiper

14 years ago

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47 upvotes – 35 comments

Sumatra's GPU harnessing now official OpenJDK project

http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Sumatra-s-GPU-harnessing-now-official-OpenJDK-project-1721759.html

14 years ago

47 upvotes – 3 comments
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