top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-10-15

A Very Unusual Camera That Emphasizes Time Over Space

http://www.slate.com/blogs/behold/2012/10/15/jay_mark_johnson_s_very_unusual_camera_emphasizes_time_over_space.html

14 years ago

402 upvotes – 58 comments

Is it OK to hold credit card numbers in cookies, Santander?

http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2012/Oct/101

14 years ago

364 upvotes – 189 comments

Shut up and play nice: How the Western world is limiting free speech

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-four-arguments-the-western-world-uses-to-limit-free-speech/2012/10/12/e0573bd4-116d-11e2-a16b-2c110031514a_print.html

14 years ago

279 upvotes – 274 comments

Sol — a sunny little homemade virtual machine

http://rsms.me/2012/10/14/sol-a-sunny-little-virtual-machine.html

14 years ago

277 upvotes – 54 comments

Raspberry Pi now with 512MB RAM

http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/2180

14 years ago

272 upvotes – 112 comments

Syte: Simple but powerful packaged personal site

https://github.com/rigoneri/syte

14 years ago

★ 2.7k JavaScript
200 upvotes – 51 comments

Your Startup Is Spam

http://blog.metamorphium.com/2012/10/14/your-startup-is-spam/

14 years ago

193 upvotes – 64 comments

Pearson takes down 1.5 million teacher/student blogs with a single DMCA notice

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20121013/18332220701/textbook-publisher-pearson-takes-down-15-million-teacher-student-blogs-with-single-dmca-notice.shtml

14 years ago

192 upvotes – 91 comments

A science committee that doesn’t get science

http://arstechnica.com/staff/2012/10/editorial-meet-a-science-committee-that-doesnt-get-science/

14 years ago

184 upvotes – 116 comments

R.I.P. Phil Bagwell

http://blog.typesafe.com/rip-phil-bagwell

14 years ago

182 upvotes – 17 comments

Ask HN - Where do you look for jobs?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4655144

14 years ago

176 upvotes – 94 comments

Master Keys

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2012/10/master_keys.html

14 years ago

173 upvotes – 54 comments

Rescue.js

http://rescuejs.com/

14 years ago

164 upvotes – 42 comments

(l)uriel has passed away

http://9fans.net/archive/2012/10/29

14 years ago

143 upvotes – 98 comments

Filepicker.io JS V1 - Full filesystem API in Javascript

https://www.filepicker.io/products/javascript_v1/

14 years ago

138 upvotes – 22 comments

MIT Lectures on Advanced Data Structures (6.851)

http://courses.csail.mit.edu/6.851/spring12/lectures/

14 years ago

134 upvotes – 10 comments

Rust 0.4 released

https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/rust-dev/2012-October/002489.html

14 years ago

133 upvotes – 62 comments

So You Want To Optimize Ruby

http://blog.headius.com/2012/10/so-you-want-to-optimize-ruby.html

14 years ago

126 upvotes – 39 comments

Show HN: create, share, explore database patterns

https://web.archive.org/web/20160408103107/http://dbpatterns.com/

14 years ago

125 upvotes – 29 comments

Why Marissa Mayer should acquire IFTTT and go all in on Yahoo Pipes

http://jfornear.co/why-marissa-mayer-should-acquire-ifttt-and-go-all-in-on-yahoo-pipes/

14 years ago

121 upvotes – 63 comments

Amateur astronomers discover a planet with four suns

http://io9.com/5951865/unprecedented-amateur-astronomers-discover-a-planet-with-four-suns?utm_source=lifehacker.com&utm_medium=recirculation&utm_campaign=recirculation

14 years ago

116 upvotes – 37 comments

Git is cheap

http://coderwall.com/p/wxowig

14 years ago

113 upvotes – 53 comments

Felix Baumgartner: The best photos and videos from the edge of space

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/137867-the-best-photos-and-videos-of-felix-baumgartners-record-breaking-skydive?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-best-photos-and-videos-of-felix-baumgartners-record-breaking-skydive

14 years ago

110 upvotes – 51 comments

Show HN: What would Paul Graham do?

http://wwpgd.com

14 years ago

109 upvotes – 59 comments

Honour for overlooked Poles who were first to crack Enigma code

http://www.smh.com.au/world/honour-for-overlooked-poles-who-were-first-to-crack-enigma-code-20121009-27b9y.html

14 years ago

106 upvotes – 17 comments

Alexis Ohanian interviewed after talk at Waterloo

https://www.communitech.ca/alexis-ohanian-praises-waterloo-startup-community-at-techtoberfest/

14 years ago

105 upvotes – 38 comments

The Great Dropbox Space Race

https://www.dropbox.com/spacerace

14 years ago

99 upvotes – 100 comments

Facebook’s Wonky Privacy Controls Now Outing LGBT Youth Without Their Consent

http://betabeat.com/2012/10/facebooks-wonky-privacy-controls-now-outing-lgbt-youth-without-their-consent/

14 years ago

87 upvotes – 102 comments

Building Servers for Fun and Prof... OK, Maybe Just for Fun

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/10/building-servers-for-fun-and-prof-ok-maybe-just-for-fun.html

14 years ago

86 upvotes – 83 comments

Can code that is valid in both C and C++ produce different behavior?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12887700/can-code-that-is-valid-in-both-c-and-c-produce-different-behavior-when-compile

14 years ago

83 upvotes – 9 comments

Flightfox + AirBnb + Vayable

http://flightfox.com/blog/crowd-sourced-vacation

14 years ago

80 upvotes – 24 comments

DeployButton is the simplest and fastest way to get code on your server

http://deploybutton.com/

14 years ago

79 upvotes – 56 comments

Postgres 9.2 highlight: JSON data type

http://michael.otacoo.com/postgresql-2/postgres-9-2-highlight-json-data-type/

14 years ago

73 upvotes – 24 comments

Catalyst: a new front-end developer training program

http://catalystclass.com/?ref=hn

14 years ago

70 upvotes – 54 comments

Amazon looks to acquire TI mobile chip business, report says

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-57532251-94/amazon-looks-to-acquire-ti-mobile-chip-business-report-says/

14 years ago

68 upvotes – 24 comments

Streak (YC S11) raises $1.9M and launches API

http://techcrunch.com/2012/10/15/streak-raises-1-9-million-for-gmail-based-crm-app

14 years ago

68 upvotes – 9 comments

Snappy Dashboards with Redis

http://blog.togo.io/how-to/snappy-dashboards-with-redis/

14 years ago

66 upvotes – 44 comments

Referly (YC S12) Raises $1M To Bring Affiliate Commerce To Everyone

http://techcrunch.com/2012/10/15/referly-1m/

14 years ago

64 upvotes – 49 comments

Microsoft Bans Halo 4 Pirates, and Some Idiots Absolutely Deserved It

http://torrentfreak.com/microsoft-bans-halo-4-pirates-and-some-idiots-absolutely-deserved-it-121015/

14 years ago

63 upvotes – 53 comments

Big-O Misconceptions

http://ssp.impulsetrain.com/2012/10/15/big-o-misconceptions/

14 years ago

62 upvotes – 47 comments

Apple Turns on iPhone Tracking in iOS6

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2012/10/apple_turns_on.html

14 years ago

62 upvotes – 55 comments

Show HN: Responsivator - View/Share Responsive Sites

http://dfcb.github.com/Responsivator/

14 years ago

61 upvotes – 18 comments

Becoming a data scientist might be easier than you think

http://gigaom.com/data/why-becoming-a-data-scientist-might-be-easier-than-you-think/

14 years ago

57 upvotes – 47 comments

AWS: Network Connectivity issues affecting EC2 in US-EAST-1

http://status.aws.amazon.com/?HNURLFix

14 years ago

55 upvotes – 31 comments

File-Sharers Buy 30% More Music Than Non-P2P Peers

http://torrentfreak.com/file-sharers-buy-30-more-music-than-non-p2p-peers-121015/

14 years ago

54 upvotes – 30 comments

Visualising the Ruby Global VM Lock

http://johnleach.co.uk/words/1245/visualising-the-ruby-global-vm-lock

14 years ago

50 upvotes – 1 comments

Rails Rumble is Complete - Judge the Entries

http://railsrumble.com/entries/all

14 years ago

49 upvotes – 22 comments
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