top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-10-04

The Most Revealing Job Interview Question

http://refer.ly/blog/most-revealing-interview-question/

14 years ago

578 upvotes – 235 comments

Chrome DevTools could do that?

http://www.igvita.com/slides/2012/devtools-tips-and-tricks/

14 years ago

514 upvotes – 74 comments

Do You Really Want to be Doing this When You're 50?

http://prog21.dadgum.com/154.html

14 years ago

414 upvotes – 242 comments

An Update from Elon Musk

http://www.teslamotors.com/blog/update-elon-musk

14 years ago

380 upvotes – 116 comments

Software architecture cheat sheet

http://gorban.org/post/32873465932/software-architecture-cheat-sheet

14 years ago

287 upvotes – 35 comments

“I am calling you from Windows”: A tech support scammer

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/10/i-am-calling-you-from-windows-a-tech-support-scammer-dials-ars-technica/

14 years ago

242 upvotes – 130 comments

Mona Lisa in pure CSS

http://codepen.io/jaysalvat/pen/HaqBf

14 years ago

240 upvotes – 88 comments

Linus on keeping a clean git history (2009)

http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg39091.html

14 years ago

233 upvotes – 83 comments

LinkedIn Mobile Moved from Rails to Node: 27 Servers Cut and Up to 20x Faster

http://highscalability.com/blog/2012/10/4/linkedin-moved-from-rails-to-node-27-servers-cut-and-up-to-2.html

14 years ago

204 upvotes – 136 comments

The Windows ecosystem reboot is bad news if you plan to move country

http://owened.co.nz/how-microsoft-might-sink-its-own-ecosystem

14 years ago

174 upvotes – 90 comments

Facebook has 1 billion monthly active users

https://www.facebook.com/zuck/posts/10100518568346671

14 years ago

158 upvotes – 138 comments

Todon't

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/10/todont.html

14 years ago

157 upvotes – 80 comments

Show HN: Powderkeg, a realtime, synchronous, multiplayer HTML5 action game

http://powderkeg.artillery.com/

14 years ago

153 upvotes – 71 comments

Please Don't Kill Feedburner

http://pleasedontkillfeedburner.com/

14 years ago

129 upvotes – 54 comments

Fizzbuzz, Interviews, And Overthinking

http://dave.fayr.am/posts/2012-10-4-finding-fizzbuzz.html

14 years ago

126 upvotes – 110 comments

Facebook confirms it is scanning your private messages to increase Likes

http://thenextweb.com/facebook/2012/10/04/facebook-confirms-it-is-scanning-your-private-messages-for-links-so-it-can-increase-like-counters/

14 years ago

123 upvotes – 77 comments

Mitt Romney Calls Tesla a 'Loser'

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/10/romney-tesla-loser/

14 years ago

120 upvotes – 86 comments

The Code Side Of Color

http://coding.smashingmagazine.com/2012/10/04/the-code-side-of-color/

14 years ago

115 upvotes – 39 comments

Homomorphic encryption: Compute with data you cannot read

http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/pub/2012/5/alice-and-bob-in-cipherspace/1

14 years ago

105 upvotes – 16 comments

The CIA and Jeff Bezos Bet on Quantum Computing

http://www.technologyreview.com/news/429429/the-cia-and-jeff-bezos-bet-on-quantum-computing/

14 years ago

103 upvotes – 61 comments

In India, engineering students outsource their academic projects

http://www.expressindia.com/latest-news/future-engineers-take-easy-way-out-outsource-projects/1011221/

14 years ago

103 upvotes – 83 comments

How to Sniff Out Online Fakers

http://gigaom.com/cloud/5-ways-to-sniff-out-online-fakers/

14 years ago

101 upvotes – 47 comments

Nokia Has Better Maps Than Apple and Maybe Even Google

http://m.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/10/the-forgotten-mapmaker-nokia-has-better-maps-than-apple-and-maybe-even-google/263150/

14 years ago

91 upvotes – 56 comments

Comtypes: How Dropbox learned to stop worrying and love the COM

https://tech.dropbox.com/?p=393

14 years ago

91 upvotes – 34 comments

Rust 0.4 call for testing

https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/rust-dev/2012-October/002397.html

14 years ago

88 upvotes – 14 comments

Amazon Orders More than 10,000 Nvidia Tesla cards

http://vr-zone.com/articles/amazon-orders-more-than-10-000-nvidia-tesla-k10-cards-k20s-to-follow-/17340.html

14 years ago

86 upvotes – 15 comments

Simple Helper to Extract Values from a String

http://laktek.com/2012/10/04/extract-values-from-a-string/

14 years ago

83 upvotes – 48 comments

Visualizing Tolkien

http://5013.es/p/1/

14 years ago

70 upvotes – 54 comments

Perfect Audience (YC S11) Makes Facebook Retargeting Easy, Raises $1.1M

http://techcrunch.com/2012/10/04/perfect-audience-launch/

14 years ago

70 upvotes – 23 comments

HP CEO: We’re screwed (for the next few years)

http://arstechnica.com/business/2012/10/hp-ceo-were-screwed-for-the-next-few-years/

14 years ago

66 upvotes – 30 comments

So, You Don’t Have Any Disabled Users?

http://www.21times.org/archives/so-you-dont-have-any-disabled-users/

14 years ago

66 upvotes – 54 comments

Kixeye fires four after investigation into allegations of racism

http://venturebeat.com/2012/10/04/kixeye-fires-four-after-investigation-into-allegations-of-racism/

14 years ago

65 upvotes – 71 comments

Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge 2011 - Results

http://vision.stanford.edu/imagenet/ilsvrc2012/results_prelim.html

14 years ago

63 upvotes – 35 comments

What happened in the early days of oDesk?

http://www.storylane.com/stories/show/1100544969/what-happened-in-the-early-days-of-odesk

14 years ago

61 upvotes – 32 comments

Teaching My 5 Year Old Daughter To Code

http://www.in-the-attic.co.uk/2012/10/04/teaching-my-5-year-old-daughter-to-code/

14 years ago

61 upvotes – 50 comments

YouTube Alters Copyright Algorithms, Will ‘Manually’ Review Some Claims

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/10/youtube-copyright-algorithm/

14 years ago

60 upvotes – 12 comments

The art of getting stuff done without bossing around

http://blog.idonethis.com/post/32871546788/getting-stuff-done-without-any-bossing-around

14 years ago

58 upvotes – 14 comments

When Facebook Disables Your Fan Page

http://www.thecoolhunter.net/article/detail/2126/when-facebook-disables-your-fan-page

14 years ago

54 upvotes – 20 comments

My Favorite Start-up Chile Companies

http://naysawn.com/my-favorite-start-up-chile-companies/

14 years ago

54 upvotes – 11 comments

2012 World University Rankings

http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/world-university-rankings/2012-13/world-ranking

14 years ago

54 upvotes – 57 comments

PandaBot: A friendly, affordable 3D printer

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/pandarobotics/pandabot-a-friendly-affordable-3d-printer

14 years ago

51 upvotes – 44 comments

How and why we switched to Amazon EC2

http://blog.railsonfire.com/2012/10/04/Switching-to-Amazon-EC2.html

14 years ago

51 upvotes – 49 comments
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