top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-10-08

Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft and others launch webplatform.org

http://thenextweb.com/insider/2012/10/08/apple-facebook-google-microsoft-and-others-join-forces-to-launch-new-web-standards-resource

14 years ago

526 upvotes – 159 comments

Programmer Competency Matrix

http://www.starling-software.com/employment/programmer-competency-matrix.html

14 years ago

360 upvotes – 122 comments

SpaceX update: The engine did not explode

http://www.spacex.com/press.php?page=20121008

14 years ago

325 upvotes – 122 comments

US Air Force’s 1950s supersonic flying saucer declassified

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/137505-us-air-forces-1950s-supersonic-flying-saucer-declassified

14 years ago

291 upvotes – 83 comments

RIP Hans Camenzind, Inventor Of The 555 Timer

http://www.retrothing.com/2012/08/rip-hans-camenzind-inventor-of-the-555-timer-chip.html

14 years ago

280 upvotes – 64 comments

The software development final exam: Algorithms and Data Structures

http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2012-10-08-software-development-final-exam-part-1.html

14 years ago

221 upvotes – 198 comments

Ask HN: What did the really successful programmers do differently?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4626201

14 years ago

219 upvotes – 168 comments

What number is halfway between 1 and 9?

http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2012/thinking-logarithmically-1005.html

14 years ago

189 upvotes – 74 comments

The Patent, Used as a Sword

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/08/technology/patent-wars-among-tech-giants-can-stifle-competition.html

14 years ago

179 upvotes – 75 comments

How not to launch your company

http://blog.mutlicorp.com/post/33123223025

14 years ago

156 upvotes – 41 comments

Google Consumer Survey

http://www.google.com/insights/consumersurveys/home

14 years ago

149 upvotes – 45 comments

Advanced Linux Programming

http://www.advancedlinuxprogramming.com/alp-folder/

14 years ago

136 upvotes – 14 comments

Show HN: A place to buy and sell services directly from each other

https://www.work.io

14 years ago

135 upvotes – 82 comments

What Happened to the Facebook Killer? It's Complicated

http://motherboard.vice.com/2012/10/2/what-happened-to-the-facebook-killer-it-s-complicated

14 years ago

131 upvotes – 82 comments

One of the SpaceX engines came apart during launch

http://arstechnica.com/science/2012/10/that-smooth-spacex-launch-turns-out-one-of-the-engines-exploded/

14 years ago

127 upvotes – 64 comments

SpaceX Falcon 9 Statement on First Stage Engine Anomaly

http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=42263

14 years ago

119 upvotes – 37 comments

Mysterious Algorithm Was 4% of Trading Activity Last Week

http://www.cnbc.com/id/49333454

14 years ago

114 upvotes – 135 comments

Oatmeal fundraiser for Tesla museum is a triumph

http://boingboing.net/2012/10/07/oatmeal-fundraiser-for-tesla-m.html

14 years ago

101 upvotes – 6 comments

Why We No Longer Accept PayPal

http://www.binkd.com/general/why-we-no-longer-accept-paypal/

14 years ago

95 upvotes – 50 comments

The Pinterest Layout Will Not Save You

http://jfornear.co/the-pinterest-layout-will-not-save-you/

14 years ago

87 upvotes – 44 comments

Art.sy, a Genome Project for the World of Art

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/09/arts/design/artsy-is-mapping-the-world-of-art-on-the-web.html

14 years ago

86 upvotes – 26 comments

How Flightfox doubled their remarketing email conversions

http://blog.getvero.com/how-flightfox-doubled-their-remarketing-email-conversions/

14 years ago

80 upvotes – 16 comments

Emacs for Xcode+ios Development

http://roupam.github.com/

14 years ago

78 upvotes – 13 comments

Show HN: Crowdsourced Object Recognition

http://www.crowdsend.com/

14 years ago

77 upvotes – 32 comments

Twitter's mandatory link shortener, t.co, was down

http://thenextweb.com/twitter/2012/10/08/twitters-t-co-is-currently-down-meaning-all-links-shortened-by-the-social-network-are-not-working/?utm_medium=Spreadus&utm_campaign=social%20media&awesm=tnw.to_l5M0&utm_source=Twitter

14 years ago

77 upvotes – 48 comments

The Story Of Lockitron: Crowdfunding Without Kickstarter

http://techcrunch.com/2012/10/07/the-story-of-lockitron-crowdfunding-without-kickstarter/

14 years ago

73 upvotes – 26 comments

Hidden Gem of iOS6: File Uploads in Mobile Safari

http://agileleague.com/2012/10/hidden-gem-of-ios6-file-uploads-in-mobile-safari/

14 years ago

70 upvotes – 53 comments

Language learning makes the brain grow, Swedish study suggests

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/10/121008082953.htm

14 years ago

69 upvotes – 33 comments

Today's XKCD: Microsoft

http://xkcd.com/1118

14 years ago

69 upvotes – 61 comments

US congress rules Huawei a 'security threat'

http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/business/world-business/us-congress-rules-huawei-a-security-threat-20121008-278h9.html

14 years ago

67 upvotes – 54 comments

Facebook's Release Engineer

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-10-08/the-only-earthling-with-a-facebook-dislike-button

14 years ago

67 upvotes – 15 comments

Richard Hamming: You and Your Research (1986)

http://www.paulgraham.com/hamming.html

14 years ago

66 upvotes – 27 comments

Microsoft, Facebook, Google and others launch web technology reference website

http://webplatform.org

14 years ago

66 upvotes – 11 comments

Tesla Model S Service Contract: $600/Year, Or Warranty Voided

http://www.greencarreports.com/news/1079637_tesla-model-s-service-contract-600-year-or-warranty-voided

14 years ago

66 upvotes – 91 comments

Secondhand Clothing Marketplace Twice Is Putting Up $1M To Acquire YC Companies

http://techcrunch.com/2012/10/08/secondhand-clothing-marketplace-twice-is-putting-up-1m-to-acquire-yc-techstars-or-500-startups-backed-companies/

14 years ago

63 upvotes – 21 comments

Daniel Kahneman calls for ‘daisy chain’ of psychology replications

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2012/10/04/daniel-kahneman-daisy-chain-replications-priming-psychology/

14 years ago

59 upvotes – 44 comments

Crocodoc's HTML5 page flip

http://web.crocodoc.com/experiments/html5-page-flip/

14 years ago

59 upvotes – 31 comments

Kinect for Windows SDK v1.6 Enables Seeing in the Dark

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/kinectforwindows/develop/new.aspx

14 years ago

58 upvotes – 27 comments

Why does it take so long to learn mathematics?

http://tonysmaths.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/why-does-it-take-so-long-to-learn.html

14 years ago

58 upvotes – 16 comments

Airbnb Tech Talk: Evan Priestley of Facebook - Move Fast and Break Things

https://www.airbnb.com/meetups/25z4mzn4a-tech-talk-evan-priestley

14 years ago

54 upvotes – 26 comments

Twice as Many Mobile News Readers Prefer Browsers to Apps

http://news.yahoo.com/twice-many-mobile-news-readers-prefer-browsers-apps-000021527.html

14 years ago

51 upvotes – 28 comments

Samsung might not have tried to copy the iPhone

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-57527568-71/so-it-looks-like-samsung-might-not-have-tried-to-copy-the-iphone/

14 years ago

51 upvotes – 54 comments

One Linux for all ARM systems

http://www.zdnet.com/one-linux-for-all-arm-systems-7000005348/

14 years ago

50 upvotes – 7 comments

Intelligence and the Stereotype Threat

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/07/opinion/sunday/intelligence-and-the-stereotype-threat.html

14 years ago

49 upvotes – 25 comments
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