top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-10-12

Googling for "conway's game of life" gives a simulation in the results page

https://www.google.com/search?q=conways+game+of+life

14 years ago

399 upvotes – 78 comments

If You're Too Busy to Meditate, Read This

http://blogs.hbr.org/bregman/2012/10/if-youre-too-busy-to-meditate.html

14 years ago

356 upvotes – 216 comments

The game of life emulated in the game of life

http://www.jwz.org/blog/2012/05/turtles-all-the-way-down-or-gliders-or-glider-turtles/

14 years ago

300 upvotes – 79 comments

The Product is the Byproduct

http://zachholman.com/talk/product-is-the-byproduct

14 years ago

203 upvotes – 50 comments

Satellite burns up following SpaceX rocket glitch

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/10/12/us-space-spacex-idUSBRE89B18M20121012

14 years ago

168 upvotes – 103 comments

On sexism in the tech industry - rebuttal

http://laurasanders.net/a-primer-on-sexism-in-the-tech-industry-by-an-actual-girl/

14 years ago

168 upvotes – 199 comments

Sugar, acid and teeth (2009)

http://www.dbskeptic.com/2009/04/05/sugar-acid-and-teeth/

14 years ago

165 upvotes – 102 comments

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win

http://blog.optimizely.com/2012/10/12/first-they-ignore-you-then-they-laugh-at-you-then-they-fight-you-then-you-win/

14 years ago

156 upvotes – 44 comments

A Proposal For A System To Replace Ordinary Record Merchandising (1983)

http://www.zappa.com/whatsnew/news/FZ-Proposal/index.html

14 years ago

150 upvotes – 27 comments

Dark Social: We Have the Whole History of the Web Wrong

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/10/dark-social-we-have-the-whole-history-of-the-web-wrong/263523/

14 years ago

142 upvotes – 48 comments

GET /browser.exe

http://blog.ezyang.com/2012/10/get-browser-exe/

14 years ago

139 upvotes – 89 comments

Why does pinging 192.168.072 return a response from 192.168.0.58?

http://superuser.com/q/486788/4377

14 years ago

136 upvotes – 40 comments

What’s really so bad about bubble sort?

http://nicknash.me/2012/10/12/knuths-wisdom/

14 years ago

133 upvotes – 58 comments

How to beat comment spam

http://dendory.net/blog.php?id=5078058e

14 years ago

130 upvotes – 104 comments

Apache releases Lucene Core 4.0 and Solr 4.0

http://lucene.apache.org/

14 years ago

126 upvotes – 25 comments

Parachute use to prevent death and major trauma due to gravitational challenge

http://www.bmj.com/content/327/7429/1459

14 years ago

110 upvotes – 57 comments

Why the First Laptop Had Such a Hard Time Catching On

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/09/why-the-first-laptop-had-such-a-hard-time-catching-on-hint-sexism/262220/

14 years ago

109 upvotes – 70 comments

The Making of Doom: Id's shooter masterpiece

http://www.pcgamesn.com/article/making-doom-ids-shooter-masterpiece

14 years ago

105 upvotes – 37 comments

Ask HN: Can I visit your startup in SF?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4646022

14 years ago

94 upvotes – 83 comments

Scripted: A JavaScript editor from VMware

https://github.com/scripted-editor/scripted

14 years ago

★ 1.5k JavaScript EPL-1.0
89 upvotes – 25 comments

Why is Linux more popular than BSD?

http://serverfault.com/questions/36359/why-is-linux-more-popular-than-bsd

14 years ago

88 upvotes – 109 comments

AndroidKickstartR: Start your next Android app in 10 seconds

http://www.androidkickstartr.com/

14 years ago

87 upvotes – 31 comments

Why I Two-Space

http://stevelosh.com/blog/2012/10/why-i-two-space/

14 years ago

77 upvotes – 102 comments

Your Company Needs A Chief Dissent Officer

http://www.fastcompany.com/3001956/why-your-company-needs-full-time-idea-killing-chief-dissent-officer

14 years ago

75 upvotes – 46 comments

Lone packet cripples telco networks

http://www.scmagazine.com.au/News/318935,lone-packet-cripples-telco-networks.aspx

14 years ago

72 upvotes – 16 comments

Designing for iOS: Taming UIButton

http://robots.thoughtbot.com/post/33427366406/designing-for-ios-taming-uibutton

14 years ago

59 upvotes – 29 comments

Show HN: Docverter: convert plaintext to PDF, Docx, or ePub. Now in open beta.

http://www.docverter.com/learn.html

14 years ago

58 upvotes – 42 comments

Airplanes can't get much more efficient

http://www.empiricalzeal.com/2012/10/12/can-we-build-a-more-efficient-airplane-not-really-says-physics/

14 years ago

58 upvotes – 35 comments

Silicon Valley Prefers Obama 2 to 1

http://paulgraham.com/ovr.html

14 years ago

58 upvotes – 24 comments

Rejected by Kickstarter? 'Roll your own' with Selfstarter instead

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2011744/rejected-by-kickstarter-roll-your-own-with-selfstarter-instead.html

14 years ago

56 upvotes – 32 comments

Heroku vs. AWS Revisited

http://www.smashingboxes.com/heroku-vs-aws-revisited/

14 years ago

52 upvotes – 28 comments

Replacing Work/Life Balance with Work/Life Harmony

http://bubs.co/replacing-worklife-balance-with-worklife-harmony

14 years ago

50 upvotes – 3 comments

Performance Tips for JavaScript in V8

http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/speed/v8/

14 years ago

50 upvotes – 6 comments

Panetta Warns of Dire Threat of Cyberattack on U.S.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/12/world/panetta-warns-of-dire-threat-of-cyberattack.html

14 years ago

49 upvotes – 40 comments

Open Sourcing May Be Worth the Risk

http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2012/10/open_sourcing_may_be_worth.html

14 years ago

49 upvotes – 6 comments

Hulu Struggles To Survive The Influence Of Its Parent Companies

http://www.fastcompany.com/3001736/hulu-struggles-survive-influence-its-parent-companies?utm_source

14 years ago

49 upvotes – 52 comments

Linux Foundation to offer signed solution for UEFI Secure Boot conundrum

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/10/linux-foundation-to-offer-signed-solution-for-uefi-secure-boot-conundrum/

14 years ago

47 upvotes – 18 comments

The fast, reliable way to make localhost part of the Web

http://pagekite.net

14 years ago

47 upvotes – 30 comments

I created a little tool for presenting website mockups/designs to your clients

http://bartsitek.com/projector/

14 years ago

47 upvotes – 23 comments

Academia.edu Overhauls Profiles As Researchers Grow Their Personal Brands

http://techcrunch.com/2012/10/12/academia-edu-profiles/

14 years ago

42 upvotes – 13 comments
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