top 20 hacker news stories for 2012-10-18

How cork is made

http://www.wineanorak.com/corks/howcorkismade.htm

14 years ago

514 upvotes – 120 comments

Is the use of “utf8=✓” preferable to “utf8=true”?

http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/168751/is-the-use-of-utf8-preferable-to-utf8-true

14 years ago

459 upvotes – 87 comments

New $250 Chromebook

http://chrome.blogspot.com/2012/10/the-new-chromebook-for-everyone.html

14 years ago

423 upvotes – 329 comments

Free Flag Icons

https://www.gosquared.com/resources/2400-flags

14 years ago

304 upvotes – 76 comments

Ubuntu 12.10 Now Available

http://www.ubuntu.com/#12.10

14 years ago

234 upvotes – 163 comments

Jon Stewart: Lower entrepreneurial risk

http://boss.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/18/jon-stewart-proposes-an-entrepreneurial-policy-dont-laugh/

14 years ago

211 upvotes – 187 comments

Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal released

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/10/ubuntu-12-10-quantal-quetzal-takes-flight-with-a-bag-full-of-juju/

14 years ago

189 upvotes – 120 comments

Such a Little Thing: The Semicolon in Rust

http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2012/10/18/such-a-little-thing/

14 years ago

172 upvotes – 74 comments

Interview with creator of Nginx, Igor Sysoev

http://www.webhostingskills.com/open_source/articles/interview_with_creator_of_nginx_igor_sysoev

14 years ago

158 upvotes – 43 comments

Rails 4.0 Whirlwind Tour Presentation

http://highgroove.com/articles/2012/10/16/rails-4.0-whirlwind-tour.html

14 years ago

155 upvotes – 20 comments

Apple Said to Acquire Color

http://thenextweb.com/insider/2012/10/18/color-gets-acquired-by-apple-rumor/?utm_medium=Spreadus&awesm=tnw.to_a68g&utm_source=Twitter&utm_campaign=social%20media

14 years ago

153 upvotes – 138 comments

Someone is jamming BBC broadcasts in the Middle East

http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/statements/transmission-interference.html

14 years ago

135 upvotes – 47 comments

Show HN: A simple lightweight CSS grid, not a bloated framework

http://thisisdallas.github.com/Simple-Grid/

14 years ago

134 upvotes – 61 comments

Google Earnings Come Early; Shares Drop

http://blogs.wsj.com/marketbeat/2012/10/18/google-earnings-come-early-shares-drop/

14 years ago

131 upvotes – 133 comments

New "Surveillance-Proof" App To Secure Communications Has Governments Nervous

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2012/10/silent_circle_mike_janke_s_iphone_app_makes_encryption_easy_governments.single.html

14 years ago

127 upvotes – 83 comments

Show HN: Sift through recently dropped .com's in order of pronounceability, etc.

http://www.swola.com

14 years ago

111 upvotes – 35 comments

Life hacks to make things easier

http://mintfish.tumblr.com/post/33739276329/99-life-hacks-to-make-your-life-easier

14 years ago

110 upvotes – 33 comments

Apple loses UK tablet design appeal versus Samsung

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-19989750

14 years ago

106 upvotes – 54 comments

Github: Major Service Outage

https://status.github.com/?a

14 years ago

104 upvotes – 73 comments

Minnesota Gives Coursera the Boot, Citing a Decades-Old Law

http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/minnesota-gives-coursera-the-boot-citing-a-decades-old-law/40542

14 years ago

104 upvotes – 88 comments
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