top 10 hacker news stories for 2012-10-14

Skydiver shatters world record with 24-mile leap

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2012/10/14/skydiver-sound-barrier-baumgartner/1632329/

14 years ago

320 upvotes – 202 comments

Surprisingly undervalued books

http://blog.nabeelqu.com/post/33557680375/surprisingly-undervalued-books

14 years ago

285 upvotes – 95 comments

Surviving in-flight breakup of an SR-71 Blackbird at Mach 3.18

http://books.google.com/books?id=rvT4HJkpfM4C&lpg=PA43&ots=c4VsxDU5z1&dq=Jim%20Zwayer%2C%20a%20Lockheed%20flight-test%20specialist%2C%20and%20I%20were%20evaluating%20systems&pg=PA43#v=onepage&q=Jim%20Zwayer,%20a%20Lockheed%20flight-test%20specialist,%20and%20I%20were%20evaluating%20systems&f=false

14 years ago

270 upvotes – 27 comments

Red Bull Stratos Skydive Rescheduled for today

http://www.redbullstratos.com/the-mission/launch-progress/

14 years ago

262 upvotes – 138 comments

Exotic data structures

http://concatenative.org/wiki/view/Exotic%20Data%20Structures

14 years ago

248 upvotes – 25 comments

Redactor - WYSIWYG editor on jQuery

http://imperavi.com/redactor

14 years ago

183 upvotes – 82 comments

Pattern - Web Mining Python lib

https://github.com/clips/pattern

14 years ago

★ 8.8k Python BSD-3-Clause
183 upvotes – 14 comments

The Self-Destruction of the 1 Percent

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/14/opinion/sunday/the-self-destruction-of-the-1-percent.html?hp&_r=0

14 years ago

143 upvotes – 185 comments

EA “Gives Away” 1000s Of Free Games Due To No Server-Side Validation

http://minimaxir.com/2012/10/client-side-validation-is-hard-mode/

14 years ago

135 upvotes – 103 comments

Open Data Structures: an open content textbook

http://opendatastructures.org/

14 years ago

124 upvotes – 6 comments
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