top 20 hacker news stories for 2012-10-19

Anatomy of a Hoax (Sony Nexus phone)

http://anatomyofahoax.tumblr.com/

14 years ago

451 upvotes – 60 comments

Some advice from Jeff Bezos

http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3289-some-advice-from-jeff-bezos

14 years ago

449 upvotes – 137 comments

Small

http://blog.alexmaccaw.com/small

14 years ago

351 upvotes – 49 comments

XKCD-style charts with D3

http://dan.iel.fm/xkcd/

14 years ago

307 upvotes – 32 comments

Free Online Education Is Now Illegal in Minnesota

http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2012/10/18/minnesota_bans_coursera_state_takes_bold_stand_against_free_education.html

14 years ago

291 upvotes – 150 comments

TSA Removes X-Ray Body Scanners From Major Airports

http://www.propublica.org/article/tsa-removes-x-ray-body-scanners-from-major-airports

14 years ago

257 upvotes – 151 comments

This Is Why They Call It a Weakly-Ordered CPU

http://preshing.com/20121019/this-is-why-they-call-it-a-weakly-ordered-cpu

14 years ago

239 upvotes – 39 comments

How A $19 Million Movie Makes $150 Million - And Still Isn't Profitable

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20121018/01054720744/hollywood-accounting-how-19-million-movie-makes-150-million-still-isnt-profitable.shtml

14 years ago

196 upvotes – 106 comments

Free Textbooks on Machine Learning

http://metaoptimize.com/qa/questions/186/good-freely-available-textbooks-on-machine-learning

14 years ago

179 upvotes – 12 comments

PayPal Bug Bounty - a lesson in not being a fuckup

http://l8security.com/post/33876600904/paypal-bug-bounty-a-lesson-in-not-being-a-fuckup

14 years ago

168 upvotes – 25 comments

Ask HN: Learning to write good JavaScript

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4673106

14 years ago

163 upvotes – 49 comments

How I made Stripe as easy to use as Paypal in 5 days

http://theindustry.cc/2012/10/19/space-box-behind-the-scenes/

14 years ago

153 upvotes – 45 comments

Build a Business, Not an Exit Strategy

http://melanie.io/2012/10/18/build-a-business-not-an-exit-strategy/

14 years ago

142 upvotes – 81 comments

Kim Jong Il's Grandson Gives an Interview

http://blogs.wsj.com/korearealtime/2012/10/18/kim-jong-ils-grandson-gives-tv-interview/

14 years ago

136 upvotes – 55 comments

Free Online Book: Bayesian Reasoning and Machine Learning

http://web4.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/D.Barber/pmwiki/pmwiki.php?n=Brml.HomePage?from=Main.Textbook

14 years ago

134 upvotes – 11 comments

Opal - Ruby to Javascript compiler

http://opalrb.org

14 years ago

130 upvotes – 49 comments

JavaScript: Function Invocation Patterns

http://doctrina.org/Javascript-Function-Invocation-Patterns.html

14 years ago

123 upvotes – 47 comments

Apple says no Java for you, removes plugin from browsers on OS X 10.7 and up

http://www.engadget.com/2012/10/18/apple-removes-java-from-osx/

14 years ago

116 upvotes – 106 comments

Does Functional Programming Replace GoF Design Patterns?

http://stackoverflow.com/q/327955/503826

14 years ago

114 upvotes – 68 comments

Show HN: Instant CMS as a Service on any element (with contenteditable)

https://copybar.io

14 years ago

113 upvotes – 58 comments
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