top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-10-05

Apple's tribute to Steve Jobs, one year on.

http://www.apple.com/?hn

14 years ago

588 upvotes – 194 comments

Steve Jobs passed away one year ago - HN Frontpage

http://www.waybackletter.com/archive/20111005.html

14 years ago

345 upvotes – 96 comments

Zip Bomb

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zip_bomb

14 years ago

342 upvotes – 108 comments

This picture is worth a thousand pictures

http://www.slate.com/blogs/behold/2012/10/04/hyper_photos_jean_fran_ois_rauzier_attempts_to_create_the_most_detailed_images_in_the_world_.html

14 years ago

240 upvotes – 38 comments

Yale scientists explain how ketamine vanquishes depression within hours

http://news.yale.edu/2012/10/04/yale-scientists-explain-how-ketamine-vanquishes-depression-within-hours

14 years ago

216 upvotes – 128 comments

The best interface is no interface

http://www.cooper.com/journal/2012/08/the-best-interface-is-no-interface.html/

14 years ago

214 upvotes – 87 comments

Yes I Still Want To Be Doing This at 56

http://thecodist.com/article/yes_i_still_want_to_be_doing_this_at_56

14 years ago

214 upvotes – 56 comments

Living in a Van

http://blog.priceonomics.com/post/32944888191/living-in-a-van

14 years ago

210 upvotes – 165 comments

How To Set Up Your Linode For Maximum Awesomeness

http://feross.org/how-to-setup-your-linode/

14 years ago

208 upvotes – 112 comments

Clearing up some things about LinkedIn mobile’s move from Rails to node.js

http://ikaisays.com/2012/10/04/clearing-up-some-things-about-linkedin-mobiles-move-from-rails-to-node-js/

14 years ago

205 upvotes – 32 comments

Things you didn't know about Python

https://speakerdeck.com/u/mitsuhiko/p/didntknow

14 years ago

181 upvotes – 41 comments

How SQLite is tested

http://www.sqlite.org/testing.html

14 years ago

176 upvotes – 40 comments

When Will We See Collisions for SHA-1?

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2012/10/when_will_we_se.html

14 years ago

168 upvotes – 51 comments

How to Write a Spelling Corrector

http://norvig.com/spell-correct.html?

14 years ago

160 upvotes – 24 comments

Ice Box Pro: The best of Dropbox and Amazon Glacier combined

http://www.iceboxpro.com/

14 years ago

157 upvotes – 128 comments

Facebook the Devourer

http://awardwinningfjords.com/2012/10/04/facebook-the-devourer.html

14 years ago

138 upvotes – 98 comments

Zurb Foundation vs. Twitter Bootstrap

http://designshack.net/articles/css/framework-fight-zurb-foundation-vs-twitter-bootstrap/

14 years ago

137 upvotes – 50 comments

How do they make money?

http://rcs.seerinteractive.com/money/

14 years ago

137 upvotes – 72 comments

New comet might blaze brighter than the full Moon

http://www.astronomynow.com/news/n1209/25comet/

14 years ago

134 upvotes – 50 comments

Happy 20th Birthday, IBM/Lenovo ThinkPad

http://www.reghardware.com/2012/10/05/ibm_lenovo_thinkpad_laptop_turns_20/

14 years ago

122 upvotes – 68 comments

Twitter, PayPal reveal database performance

http://www.itnews.com.au/News/317811,twitter-paypal-reveal-database-performance.aspx

14 years ago

119 upvotes – 48 comments

What is static program analysis?

http://matt.might.net/articles/intro-static-analysis/

14 years ago

110 upvotes – 33 comments

The $5000 Compression Challenge

http://www.patrickcraig.co.uk/other/compression.htm

14 years ago

104 upvotes – 119 comments

Automating xkcd Diagrams: Transforming Serious to Funny

http://blog.wolfram.com/2012/10/05/automating-xkcd-diagrams-transforming-serious-to-funny/

14 years ago

102 upvotes – 7 comments

Cloud Haskell: work-stealing, master-slave and work-pushing

http://www.well-typed.com/blog/71

14 years ago

84 upvotes – 6 comments

How airbnb lost me as a customer

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4617947

14 years ago

78 upvotes – 67 comments

All ideas are old ideas

http://www.chris-granger.com/2012/10/05/all-ideas-are-old-ideas/

14 years ago

76 upvotes – 30 comments

Dennis Ritchie passes away at 70 (2011)

http://techcrunch.com/2011/10/13/father-of-c-and-unix-dennis-ritchie-passes-away-at-age-70/

14 years ago

75 upvotes – 12 comments

Conflagration: Zynga’s OMGPOP acquisition torched nearly $500,000 a day

http://thenextweb.com/insider/2012/10/05/conflagration-zyngas-omgpop-acquisition-torched-nearly-500000-a-day/?utm_source=HackerNews&utm_medium=share%2Bbutton&utm_content=Conflagration%3A%20Zynga%E2%80%99s%20OMGPOP%20acquisition%20torched%20nearly%20%24500%2C000%20a%20day&utm_campaign=social%2Bmedia

14 years ago

71 upvotes – 65 comments

Pulse jet tea kettle

http://hackaday.com/2012/09/21/pulse-jet-tea-kettle/

14 years ago

68 upvotes – 26 comments

Automatically Check In To (get an awesome seat on) Your Next Southwest Flight

http://checkintomyflight.com/

14 years ago

66 upvotes – 70 comments

The Best Way to Find Aliens: Look for Their Solar Power Plants

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/10/the-best-way-to-find-aliens-look-for-their-solar-power-plants/263217/

14 years ago

62 upvotes – 59 comments

Employees of kixeye accused of racist remarks fired

http://www.develop-online.net/news/42157/Four-Kixeye-employees-sacked-for-racism?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+developmag%2Fifbh+%28Develop%29

14 years ago

61 upvotes – 91 comments

Intel's Haswell Architecture Analyzed: Building a New PC and a New Intel

http://www.anandtech.com/show/6355/intels-haswell-architecture

14 years ago

60 upvotes – 17 comments

Steve Jobs came within a song of going to the Moon

http://www.cringely.com/2012/10/03/steve-jobs-came-within-a-song-of-going-to-the-moon/

14 years ago

58 upvotes – 19 comments
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