top 50% 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

Extend Twitter Bootstrap with these Bootstrap Form Helpers

http://vlamanna.github.com/BootstrapFormHelpers/

14 years ago

96 upvotes – 43 comments

Ideas aren't worthless

http://bernardi.me/2012/10/ideas-arent-worthless/

14 years ago

91 upvotes – 60 comments

Tesla's First 6 Superchargers Open to Public Today

http://www.treehugger.com/cars/first-6-tesla-superchargers-open-public-today.html

14 years ago

91 upvotes – 63 comments

Hacker News London meetup was excellent

http://alanhollis.com/hacker-news-london-was-excellent/

14 years ago

89 upvotes – 28 comments

Minnesota clarifies: Free online ed is OK

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/college-inc/post/minnesota-clarifies-free-online-ed-is-ok/2012/10/19/456a0a3e-1a37-11e2-aa6f-3b636fecb829_blog.html

14 years ago

86 upvotes – 46 comments

Show HN: StatMilk - Football Stats Visualized

http://statmilk.com/NCAAF

14 years ago

85 upvotes – 47 comments

Show HN: Built my resume as an interactive website, version-controlled on Github

https://github.com/philipithomas/cv-philipithomas

14 years ago

★ 162 PHP
82 upvotes – 84 comments

Commanding your text editor

http://blog.peepcode.com/blog/2012/commanding-your-text-editor

14 years ago

82 upvotes – 61 comments

One Company Dared Compete With IBM And Macintosh Computers In 1984

http://singularityhub.com/2012/10/11/one-company-dared-to-compete-with-ibm-and-macintosh-computers-in-1984-check-these-awesome-retro-commercials/

14 years ago

80 upvotes – 21 comments

Anatomy of a Solid-state Drive

http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2385276

14 years ago

76 upvotes – 25 comments

Spammers start using short .gov URLs to trick their victims

http://thenextweb.com/insider/2012/10/19/spammers-start-using-short-gov-urls-to-trick-their-victims/

14 years ago

69 upvotes – 36 comments

Google Is Tops for Software Engineer Salaries

http://mashable.com/2012/10/18/google-tops-software-engineer-salaries/

14 years ago

68 upvotes – 116 comments

Mathematics: Came across the following gag. Is it true?

http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/216343/came-across-the-following-gag-is-it-true

14 years ago

68 upvotes – 80 comments

To Turn The Crowd Into Venture Capitalists, FundersClub Raises $6M Seed Round

http://techcrunch.com/2012/10/19/fundersclub-seed-round/

14 years ago

67 upvotes – 28 comments

One big cluster: How CloudFlare launched 10 data centers in 30 days

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/10/one-big-cluster-how-cloudflare-launched-10-data-centers-in-30-days/?

14 years ago

67 upvotes – 14 comments

Toba catastrophe theory

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toba_catastrophe_theory

14 years ago

66 upvotes – 17 comments

Rails Rumble 2012 - Winners Announced

http://railsrumble.com/entries/winners

14 years ago

63 upvotes – 24 comments

The development of Ubuntu Tweak is stopped.

http://blog.ubuntu-tweak.com/2012/10/19/the-development-of-ubuntu-tweak-is-stopped.html

14 years ago

61 upvotes – 38 comments

No Microbes In First Sample From Lake Vostok

http://blogs.nature.com/news/2012/10/vostoks-microbes-elusive-in-first-measurements-of-surface-water.html

14 years ago

60 upvotes – 1 comments

Non-programming skills every programmer should have

http://www.singhrahul.com/2012/10/non-programming-skills-every-programmer.html

14 years ago

57 upvotes – 47 comments
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