Top 50% Hacker News Stories for 2012-10-13

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How I’m Making Five-Figures A Month Off Bootstrapped Products

http://planscope.io/blog/how-im-making-five-figures-a-month-off-bootstrapped-products/

14 years ago

317 upvotes – 210 comments

199

Hacking ls -l

http://www.lemis.com/grog/diary-oct2012.php?topics=c#D-20121012-233520

14 years ago

199 upvotes – 88 comments

166

Sun Goes Down. Up Comes A Mystery

http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2012/10/10/162630285/sun-goes-down-up-comes-a-mystery

14 years ago

166 upvotes – 78 comments

160

0x10c (Notch's new game)

http://0x10c.com/story/

14 years ago

160 upvotes – 87 comments

150

More people should write

http://jsomers.net/blog/more-people-should-write

14 years ago

150 upvotes – 49 comments

150

Facebook “Promoted Posts” have primarily foreign “Likes”: Why?

http://www.fetzervalves.com/post/33503162498/facebook-promoted-posts-foreign-likes

14 years ago

150 upvotes – 57 comments

142

Cuban missile crisis: The other, secret one

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-19930260

14 years ago

142 upvotes – 17 comments

137

Guido van Rossum's Performance tips for Python

https://plus.google.com/u/0/115212051037621986145/posts/HajXHPGN752

14 years ago

137 upvotes – 65 comments

126

Google Homepage Size Over Time

http://measuredmass.wordpress.com/2012/10/06/google-homepage-size/

14 years ago

126 upvotes – 53 comments

124

Suicide is Cheaper

http://geo-geek.blogspot.com.au/2012/10/suicide-is-cheaper.html

14 years ago

124 upvotes – 75 comments

102

Asshole Driven Development

http://scottberkun.com/2007/asshole-driven-development/

14 years ago

102 upvotes – 25 comments

102

Solving the Multicore Dilemma

http://www.flowlang.net/p/solving-multicore-dilemma.html?m=1

14 years ago

102 upvotes – 49 comments

101

The Three Pillars of Nokia's Strategy Have All Failed

http://communities-dominate.blogs.com/brands/2012/10/the-there-pillars-of-nokia-strategy-have-all-failed-why-nokia-must-fire-ceo-elop-now.html

14 years ago

101 upvotes – 84 comments

101

How I Became One of the Most Successful Art Smugglers in the World

http://www.vice.com/read/how-i-became-one-of-the-most-successful-art-smugglers-in-the-world

14 years ago

101 upvotes – 14 comments

Helping you select a JS MV* framework

http://www.todomvc.com/

14 years ago

97 upvotes – 38 comments

Git over FTP

https://github.com/resmo/git-ftp

14 years ago

94 upvotes – 39 comments

Symbian, a post-mortem

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1r04yjaQoL1c_vuwQr-CdbDQ8EjGVGOL_1V6BNVWaR1c/preview?sle=true

14 years ago

89 upvotes – 23 comments

PayPal Said to Cut as Many as 400 Jobs

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-10-12/paypal-said-to-be-cutting-as-many-as-400-jobs.html

14 years ago

85 upvotes – 51 comments

The Marshmallow Test Revisited

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/wp/2012/10/13/the-marshmallow-test-revisited/

14 years ago

82 upvotes – 33 comments

When Academic Disagreement Becomes Harassment and Persecution

http://www.stanford.edu/~joboaler/

14 years ago

79 upvotes – 35 comments

AMD’s layoffs target engineering; Board incompetence dooms the company

http://semiaccurate.com/2012/10/12/amds-layoffs-target-engineering/

14 years ago

78 upvotes – 41 comments

Show HN: GBA.js, a Game Boy Advance emulator written in JavaScript

http://jpfau.github.com/gbajs/

14 years ago

76 upvotes – 25 comments

Reasons not to buy from Amazon

http://stallman.org/amazon.html

14 years ago

73 upvotes – 77 comments

Cause and Effect Fallacy: The By-product Does Not Make The Product

http://times.jayliew.com/2012/10/12/cause-and-effect-fallacy-the-by-product-does-not-make-the-product/#.UHjkEWk-uYU

14 years ago

66 upvotes – 9 comments

Why hasn't PyPy been merged into the Python trunk?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12867263/why-hasnt-pypy-been-merged-into-the-python-trunk

14 years ago

60 upvotes – 20 comments

What The Swedish Pirate Party Wants With Patents, Trademarks, And Copyright

http://falkvinge.net/2012/10/13/what-the-swedish-pirate-party-wants-with-patents-trademarks-and-copyright/

14 years ago

60 upvotes – 34 comments

Sleep on it, but only if it is difficult: Effects of sleep on problem solving

http://www.springerlink.com/content/7802xn5815616nwl/

14 years ago

59 upvotes – 8 comments

In over my head. How can I work with more advanced programmers?

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/10/in-over-my-head-how-can-i-work-with-more-advanced-programmers/

14 years ago

59 upvotes – 23 comments

Dancing Baby Video Battle Back in Court Tuesday

https://www.eff.org/press/releases/dancing-baby-video-battle-back-court-tuesday

14 years ago

55 upvotes – 27 comments

What the Heck Is CSS Specificity?

http://designshack.net/articles/css/what-the-heck-is-css-specificity/

14 years ago

55 upvotes – 20 comments

OAuth 2.0 finalized

http://dickhardt.org/2012/10/oauth-2-0/

14 years ago

55 upvotes – 16 comments

Show HN: flipgrid.js, an experimental minimalist photo gallery

http://t3hprogrammer.github.com/flipgrid.js/

14 years ago

55 upvotes – 20 comments

How to safely determine if JavaScript is running in Node.js or the browser

http://timetler.com/2012/10/13/environment-detection-in-javascript/

14 years ago

54 upvotes – 13 comments

AWS Start-Up Challenge

http://aws.amazon.com/es/startupchallenge/

14 years ago

53 upvotes – 5 comments

Fatherpreneurship: Tips on how to be a successful father and entrepreneur

http://thenextweb.com/lifehacks/2012/10/13/how-to-be-a-fatherpreneur/?utm_source=HackerNews&utm_medium=share%2Bbutton&utm_content=Fatherpreneurship%3A%20Tips%20on%20how%20to%20be%20a%20successful%20father%20and%20entrepreneur&utm_campaign=social%2Bmedia

14 years ago

52 upvotes – 17 comments

US ambassador: Internet fee proposal gaining momentum