top 20 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

YouTube's top 1,000 channels average $23K each month in ad revenue

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/infographic-youtubes-top-1-000-channels-reveal-emerging-power-of-social-video.php

14 years ago

111 upvotes – 40 comments

Sweet.js - Sweeten your Javascript (by Mozilla)

http://github.com/mozilla/sweet.js

14 years ago

★ 4.5k JavaScript BSD-2-Clause
107 upvotes – 26 comments

Game Over

http://antirez.com/post/game-over.html

14 years ago

105 upvotes – 94 comments

Massive data leak in New Zealand government servers

http://publicaddress.net/onpoint/msds-leaky-servers/

14 years ago

97 upvotes – 38 comments

Kathy Sierra On The Primer On Sexism Discussion

http://farukat.es/journal/2012/10/669-kathy-sierra-primer-sexism-discussion

14 years ago

91 upvotes – 134 comments

SciCombinator - scientific news aggregator and discussion

http://bitwise.r12.railsrumble.com/

14 years ago

91 upvotes – 29 comments

Suddenly everyone wants New Yorker style content. Who is going to write it?

http://pandodaily.com/2012/10/12/suddenly-everyone-wants-new-yorker-style-content-only-one-catch-who-is-going-to-write-it/

14 years ago

86 upvotes – 72 comments

Homemade thermal camera

http://spectrum.ieee.org/geek-life/hands-on/ir-eye/0

14 years ago

86 upvotes – 16 comments

Little Nemo in Google-land

http://www.google.co.jp

14 years ago

81 upvotes – 22 comments

James Joyce's "Ulysses": Why you should read this book

http://www.economist.com/blogs/prospero/2012/06/james-joyces-ulysses?fb_action_ids=521770817577&fb_action_types=og.likes&fb_ref=scn%2Ffb_ec%2Fwhy_you_should_read_this_book&fb_source=aggregation&fb_aggregation_id=288381481237582

14 years ago

81 upvotes – 71 comments
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