top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-10-03

Are Those Spidery Black Things On Mars Dangerous?

http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2012/10/02/162147810/are-those-spidery-black-things-on-mars-dangerous-yup

14 years ago

491 upvotes – 118 comments

15 Years after the First Slashdot Post

http://cmdrtaco.net/2012/10/15-years-after-the-first-post/

14 years ago

227 upvotes – 55 comments

If Hemingway wrote JavaScript

http://byfat.xxx/if-hemingway-wrote-javascript

14 years ago

218 upvotes – 84 comments

America to immigrants: keep your entrepreneurs

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/on-innovations/americas-to-immigrantsgive-me-your-tired-your-poor-but-not-your-entrepreneurs/2012/10/02/938cb15c-0cb9-11e2-bd1a-b868e65d57eb_story.html

14 years ago

209 upvotes – 123 comments

Andreessen Horowitz Invests $15M In Text Annotation Startup Rap Genius

http://techcrunch.com/2012/10/03/andreessen-horowitz-iinvests-15-million-in-rap-genius/

14 years ago

200 upvotes – 63 comments

Stop Pagination Now

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2012/10/website_pagination_stories_should_load_into_a_single_page_every_time_.html

14 years ago

189 upvotes – 90 comments

What strips vocals from audio when a 1/8' audio jack is partially unplugged?

http://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/42623/what-is-it-that-strips-vocals-from-audio-when-a-1-8-audio-jack-is-partially-unp

14 years ago

183 upvotes – 44 comments

Understanding Javascript OOP

http://killdream.github.com/blog/2011/10/understanding-javascript-oop/

14 years ago

154 upvotes – 19 comments

Samsung claims Apple patent verdict tainted by jury foreman

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-57524935-37/samsung-claims-apple-patent-verdict-tainted-by-jury-foreman/

14 years ago

147 upvotes – 79 comments

How we increased landing page conversion from 5% to 55%

http://quicksprints.com/

14 years ago

144 upvotes – 32 comments

After a spectacular crash, Bitcoin makes a surprising comeback

http://www.economist.com/node/21563752?fsrc=scn/tw/te/pe/monetaristsanonymous

14 years ago

143 upvotes – 103 comments

First SpaceX launch to supply Space Station is next Sunday

http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2012/sep/HQ_M12-194_NASA_SpaceX_CRS-1_Coverage.html

14 years ago

141 upvotes – 13 comments

Google Maps API - More Than A Map

http://www.morethanamap.com/

14 years ago

138 upvotes – 42 comments

The Z3 theorem prover is now open source

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/leonardo/blog/2012/10/02/open-z3.html

14 years ago

137 upvotes – 74 comments

Why Startups Die

http://www.pixelmonkey.org/2012/10/03/why-startups-die

14 years ago

122 upvotes – 31 comments

Neural Networks for Machine Learning

https://www.coursera.org/course/neuralnets

14 years ago

121 upvotes – 56 comments

Lockitron: $500K of Reservations in One Day

http://blog.lockitron.com/post/32821082973/thank-you-500k-of-reservations-in-one-day

14 years ago

121 upvotes – 86 comments

Another Way Apple's Fight With Google Is Hurting Users

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/another-way-apples-fight-with-google-is-hurting-users.php

14 years ago

117 upvotes – 139 comments

RSpec Best Practices

http://betterspecs.org/

14 years ago

107 upvotes – 24 comments

Paypal policy update: No class-action suits

https://cms.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/?cmd=_render-content&content_ID=ua/upcoming_policies_full

14 years ago

107 upvotes – 71 comments

The dot enter mixtape: d3.js tutorial videos

http://enjalot.github.com/dot-enter/

14 years ago

107 upvotes – 14 comments

The “Lost” Steve Jobs Speech from 1983: Foreshadowing Wireless Networking & iPad

http://lifelibertytech.com/2012/10/02/the-lost-steve-jobs-speech-from-1983-foreshadowing-wireless-networking-the-ipad-and-the-app-store

14 years ago

98 upvotes – 64 comments

Netbot: An App.net Client from Tweetbot Creators

http://thenextweb.com/apps/2012/10/03/tweetbot-creator-launches-netbot-a-mature-and-polished-app-net-client-for-iphone-and-ipad/

14 years ago

96 upvotes – 58 comments

Sphinxtr: Creating a Portable PhD Thesis

http://jterrace.github.com/sphinxtr/singlehtml/index.html

14 years ago

93 upvotes – 73 comments

A Modern Space Cadet

http://stevelosh.com/blog/2012/10/a-modern-space-cadet/

14 years ago

89 upvotes – 54 comments

Doppio: A Java Virtual Machine, Compiler and Disassembler in JavaScript

http://badassjs.com/post/32812527381/doppio-a-java-virtual-machine-compiler-and

14 years ago

87 upvotes – 31 comments

Huxley vs. Orwell: Infinite Distraction Or Government Oppression

http://www.prosebeforehos.com/image-of-the-day/08/24/huxley-vs-orwell-infinite-distraction-or-government-oppression/

14 years ago

82 upvotes – 79 comments

Population Pyramids of All Countries (1950-2100)

http://populationpyramid.net/United+States+of+America/2010/

14 years ago

80 upvotes – 36 comments

DoubleDollarJS.com

http://doubledollarjs.com/

14 years ago

76 upvotes – 50 comments

Entertainment Weekly puts smartphone in 1000 magazines

http://mashable.com/2012/10/02/ew-has-smartphone-inside/#92845Holding-the-EW-and-CW-Phone-Up-Close

14 years ago

74 upvotes – 34 comments

A New Tech Generation Defies the Odds in Japan

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/04/technology/a-new-tech-generation-defies-the-odds-in-japan.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all

14 years ago

70 upvotes – 27 comments

Ancestry.com Acquires 1000memories (YC S10)

http://blog.1000memories.com/170-ancestry-acquires-1000memories

14 years ago

64 upvotes – 21 comments

Andreessen Horowitz invests $15 million in Rap Genius

http://rapgenius.com/Marc-andreessen-why-andreessen-horowitz-is-investing-in-rap-genius-lyrics

14 years ago

62 upvotes – 6 comments

Crowd Patronage: How A 400 Year Old Model Can Save The Music Industry

http://bryank.im/crowd-patronage-how-a-400-year-old-idea-model-can-save-the-music-industry

14 years ago

62 upvotes – 58 comments

Investing "Gangnam Style"

http://www.economist.com/blogs/banyan/2012/10/investing-gangnam-style?fsrc=scn/fb/wl/bl/bubblypop

14 years ago

58 upvotes – 20 comments

The Lesser Known Contributors Who Are Trying To Make PHP Good Again

http://www.danielnill.com/blog/the-lesser-known-contributors-who-are-trying-to-ma/

14 years ago

56 upvotes – 50 comments

NReduce Demo Day on Now

http://www.nreduce.com/d/1

14 years ago

54 upvotes – 4 comments

The Pull Request for Designers

http://layervault.tumblr.com/post/32816352689/design-feedback-delivery

14 years ago

53 upvotes – 12 comments

Computer Glitch brings Melbourne traffic to a standstill

http://www.news.com.au/national/traffic-chaos-deeps-as-citylink-admits-major-melbourne-tunnels-may-stay-closed-all-day-due-to-technical-malfunction/story-fndo4cq1-1226486984920

14 years ago

53 upvotes – 38 comments

Men with shaved heads are perceived to be more masculine

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390443862604578032541863652264.html

14 years ago

52 upvotes – 44 comments

The Pirate Bay Returns After 2 Days Downtime

http://torrentfreak.com/the-pirate-bay-returns-after-2-days-downtime-121003/

14 years ago

51 upvotes – 45 comments

[Ask HN] Applying to Y Combinator from outside the US - Some Questions

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4606730

14 years ago

50 upvotes – 20 comments

Russian team develops x86 emulator on ARM

http://cdn.eetimes.com/electronics-news/4397620/Russian-software-runs-x86-code-on-ARM

14 years ago

50 upvotes – 33 comments

Postmortem: Team Meat's Super Meat Boy

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/134717/postmortem_team_meats_super_meat_.php?page=1

14 years ago

49 upvotes – 14 comments

I hired my friends and family, and I’d do it again.

http://www.meetingburner.com/blog/2012/10/03/i-hired-my-friends-and-family-and-id-do-it-again/

14 years ago

48 upvotes – 24 comments

Ellen Pao Says Kleiner Perkins Has Now Fired Her

https://allthingsd.com/20121002/breaking-ellen-pao-says-kleiner-perkins-has-now-fired-her/

14 years ago

47 upvotes – 37 comments

4 inches

http://dcurt.is/4-inches

14 years ago

47 upvotes – 70 comments

Backbone and Cloudant

https://cloudant.com/blog/backbone-and-cloudant/

14 years ago

46 upvotes – 4 comments

Ask HN: Selling my profitable side business. Interest/Advice?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4608731

14 years ago

45 upvotes – 50 comments

Ruby vs. Python

http://bitboxer.de/2012/10/03/ruby-vs-python/

14 years ago

45 upvotes – 56 comments

German government answers questions about contracts to build monitoring software

http://annalist.noblogs.org/post/2012/10/03/german-police-monitors-skype-googlemail-and-facebook-chat/

14 years ago

45 upvotes – 8 comments

Doctest.js: a humane Javascript test framework

http://doctestjs.org/

14 years ago

45 upvotes – 11 comments

Dissecting the Massively Over-Subscribed Lockitron Launch

http://danielodio.com/dissecting-the-massively-over-subscribed-lockitron-launch

14 years ago

44 upvotes – 22 comments
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