top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-10-11

Conway's Game of Life, using floating point values instead of integers

http://www.jwz.org/blog/2012/10/smoothlifel/

14 years ago

688 upvotes – 96 comments

Show HN: We open sourced Lockitron's crowdfunding app

http://selfstarter.us/

14 years ago

463 upvotes – 74 comments

The Magazine

http://www.marco.org/2012/10/11/the-magazine

14 years ago

317 upvotes – 231 comments

Building websites in Python with Flask

http://maximebf.com/blog/2012/10/building-websites-in-python-with-flask/#.UHc5pLTc3w4

14 years ago

276 upvotes – 56 comments

Ask HN: Your best passive income sources?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4639271

14 years ago

237 upvotes – 221 comments

Linus Torvalds Answers Your Questions

http://meta.slashdot.org/story/12/10/11/0030249/linus-torvalds-answers-your-questions

14 years ago

228 upvotes – 131 comments

How Linux 3.6 Nearly Broke PostgreSQL

http://lwn.net/Articles/518329/

14 years ago

221 upvotes – 51 comments

Introducing Go by Example

http://mmcgrana.github.com/2012/10/introducing-go-by-example.html

14 years ago

213 upvotes – 35 comments

A circuit and PCB editor in the browser

http://www.circuits.io

14 years ago

201 upvotes – 81 comments

Google's Common Lisp style-guide

https://google-styleguide.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/lispguide.xml

14 years ago

178 upvotes – 57 comments

AWS Costs Cheat Sheet

http://dmin.es/aws-cheatsheet

14 years ago

174 upvotes – 34 comments

Court rules book scanning is fair use, suggesting Google Books victory

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/10/court-rules-book-scanning-is-fair-use-suggesting-google-books-victory/

14 years ago

167 upvotes – 27 comments

Colon cleaning company sues WordPress

http://insulaindoielii.wordpress.com/2012/10/11/colon-help-sues-wordpress/

14 years ago

158 upvotes – 36 comments

Skyscraper built in the Firefox inspector's 3D View

http://shaneriley.com/firefox_skyscraper/

14 years ago

155 upvotes – 30 comments

US federal appeals court reverses Galaxy Nexus sales ban

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/10/us-federal-appeals-court-reverses-galaxy-nexus-sales-ban/

14 years ago

124 upvotes – 34 comments

Browserver: A web server inside your web browser

http://browserver.org/

14 years ago

123 upvotes – 17 comments

Login Screen – behind the scenes

https://www.gosquared.com/blog/archives/3359

14 years ago

121 upvotes – 74 comments

CSS3 Microsoft Modern Buttons

http://ace-subido.github.com/css3-microsoft-metro-buttons/index.html

14 years ago

118 upvotes – 54 comments

MongoHQ launches new tools for monitoring and managing databases

http://blog.mongohq.com/blog/2012/10/10/new-mongohq/?hn

14 years ago

114 upvotes – 22 comments

Lenticular.js - tilt-controlled images

http://lenticular.attasi.com/#

14 years ago

110 upvotes – 50 comments

Prismatic's "Graph" at Strange Loop

http://blog.getprismatic.com/blog/2012/10/1/prismatics-graph-at-strange-loop.html

14 years ago

106 upvotes – 45 comments

New Zealand PM apologizes to Kim Dotcom (video)

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/national/news/video.cfm?c_id=1503075&gal_cid=1503075&gallery_id=128168

14 years ago

105 upvotes – 13 comments

Show HN: LearnStreet - The Best Place to Learn How to Code

http://www.learnstreet.com

14 years ago

101 upvotes – 61 comments

One sentence per line, please

http://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2012/one-sentence-per-line/

14 years ago

101 upvotes – 34 comments

IE10 won't run Flash unless website is whitelisted by Microsoft

http://blog.rabidgremlin.com/2012/10/11/did-microsoft-just-kill-flash-ie10-wont-run-flash-unless-your-site-is-on-a-microsoft-whitelist

14 years ago

100 upvotes – 87 comments

A Spellchecker Used to Be a Major Feat of Software Engineering

http://prog21.dadgum.com/29.html?repost

14 years ago

94 upvotes – 70 comments

Demystifying Garbage Collectors

http://xtzgzorex.wordpress.com/2012/10/11/demystifying-garbage-collectors/

14 years ago

90 upvotes – 28 comments

An experiment: Can desperation drive success?

http://vutran.me/blog/desperation.html

14 years ago

89 upvotes – 65 comments

Stripe and Wufoo Join Forces to Power Payments in Online Forms

http://www.wufoo.com/2012/10/11/wufoo-and-stripe-join-forces-to-power-payments-in-online-forms/

14 years ago

89 upvotes – 10 comments

Welcome to the new eBay

http://www.ebay.com/new#

14 years ago

88 upvotes – 66 comments

London Hacker News meetup: Thursday, 18 Oct

http://www.meetup.com/HNLondon/events/86021202/

14 years ago

86 upvotes – 41 comments

The Lie Factory: How politics became a business

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/09/24/120924fa_fact_lepore?currentPage=all

14 years ago

85 upvotes – 15 comments

The Magazine: For geeks like us. By Marco Arment

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/magazine-for-geeks-like-us./id557744510?mt=8

14 years ago

84 upvotes – 59 comments

Kalzumeus Podcast 3: Growing Consulting Practices, with Brennan Dunn

http://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/10/10/kalzumeus-podcast-3-growing-consulting-practices-with-brennan-dunn/

14 years ago

75 upvotes – 47 comments

CourseTalk: Reviews for Udacity, Coursera, and edX

http://coursetalk.org/

14 years ago

70 upvotes – 25 comments

Multi-core and multi-threading performance

http://scalibq.wordpress.com/2012/06/01/multi-core-and-multi-threading/

14 years ago

67 upvotes – 52 comments

Twitter Open-Sources Clutch.IO, Mobile A/B Testing Service

http://techcrunch.com/2012/10/11/twitter-open-sources-clutch-io-the-mobile-ab-testing-service-it-recently-acquired/

14 years ago

65 upvotes – 6 comments

The Lure of Chilecon Valley

http://www.economist.com/node/21564589

14 years ago

61 upvotes – 30 comments

Exploiting filepicker.io

http://digitalmisinformation.posterous.com/exploiting-filepickerio

14 years ago

59 upvotes – 20 comments

Heyzap (YC W09) launches "play with friends" for mobile games

http://venturebeat.com/2012/10/11/heyzap-launches-a-play-with-friends-feature-for-multiplayer-mobile-games/

14 years ago

58 upvotes – 2 comments

How to Model Viral Growth: Deriving the Viral Carrying Capacity

http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20121011190820-18876785-how-to-model-viral-growth-simple-loss

14 years ago

57 upvotes – 3 comments

Infographic: US campaign finances revealed

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/interactive/2012/10/201210995526117912.html

14 years ago

53 upvotes – 29 comments

Eric Brewer on Advancing Distributed Systems

http://basho.com/community/ricon2012_live/#live-content

14 years ago

52 upvotes – 3 comments
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