top 50% 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

Surprisingly undervalued books

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

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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

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Red Bull Stratos Skydive Rescheduled for today

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

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Exotic data structures

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

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Pattern - Web Mining Python lib

https://github.com/clips/pattern

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★ 8.8k Python BSD-3-Clause

Redactor - WYSIWYG editor on jQuery

http://imperavi.com/redactor

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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

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

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

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Open Data Structures: an open content textbook

http://opendatastructures.org/

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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

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Sweet.js - Sweeten your Javascript (by Mozilla)

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

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★ 4.5k JavaScript BSD-2-Clause

Game Over

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

14 years ago

Massive data leak in New Zealand government servers

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

14 years ago

SciCombinator - scientific news aggregator and discussion

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

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Kathy Sierra On The Primer On Sexism Discussion

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

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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

Homemade thermal camera

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

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Little Nemo in Google-land

http://www.google.co.jp

14 years ago

Show HN: idea for the future of document editing

http://doc-edit.herokuapp.com/

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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

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Linux TCP/IP Tuning for Scalability

http://www.engineyard.com/blog/2012/linux-scalability/

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The tech behind Felix Baumgartner’s stratospheric skydive

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/137521-the-tech-behind-felix-baumgartners-stratospheric-skydive

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Half Of Great Barrier Reef Lost Over Past 27 Years

http://singularityhub.com/2012/10/13/half-of-great-barrier-reef-lost-over-past-27-years-more-to-come/

14 years ago

An Intimate Portrait Of Innovation, Risk, And Failure Through Hipstamatic's Lens

http://www.fastcompany.com/3002103/intimate-portrait-innovation-risk-and-failure-through-hipstamatics-lens?src=longreads

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Kube - CSS framework

http://imperavi.com/kube/

14 years ago

Roy Bates, Founder of Sealand, Dies at 91

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/14/world/europe/roy-bates-founder-of-sealand-dies-at-91.html

14 years ago

Raspberry Pi runs XBMC; reliably decodes 1080p (January)

http://hackaday.com/2012/01/24/raspberry-pi-runs-xbmc-reliably-decodes-1080p/

14 years ago

Observations on what's getting downvoted, with some dissected specimens

http://arstechnica.com/staff/2012/10/observations-on-whats-getting-downvoted-with-some-dissected-specimens/

14 years ago

Commit Logs From Last Night

http://www.commitlogsfromlastnight.com/

14 years ago

Tech Journalism is Broken

http://stupidiswinning.tumblr.com/post/33563734252/journalism

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