top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-10-20

Simplify your life with an SSH config file

http://nerderati.com/2011/03/simplify-your-life-with-an-ssh-config-file/

14 years ago

330 upvotes – 83 comments

Billion laughs

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

14 years ago

276 upvotes – 63 comments

Google Voice lost my business number. How I got it back, and what I learned.

http://www.sultansolutions.com/google-voice-lost-number/

14 years ago

201 upvotes – 115 comments

Pirate Bay Founder Held In Solitary Confinement

http://torrentfreak.com/pirate-bay-founder-held-in-solitary-confinement-write-him-a-letter-today-121020/

14 years ago

161 upvotes – 59 comments

The Django Book is getting updated

https://github.com/jacobian/djangobook.com/

14 years ago

★ 1k Python
158 upvotes – 27 comments

Single page apps in depth (new free book)

http://singlepageappbook.com/

14 years ago

151 upvotes – 22 comments

Watch YC Startup School 2012 Live

http://startupschool.org/?video

14 years ago

146 upvotes – 87 comments

FBI Hack news on Hackernews is Fake

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4678064

14 years ago

136 upvotes – 9 comments

Ubuntu ported to the Nexus 7

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTIxMTA

14 years ago

121 upvotes – 66 comments

SiteChat: a postmortem. Or, the rise and fall of a society.

http://burakkanber.com/blog/sitechat-a-postmortem-or-the-rise-and-fall-of-a-society/

14 years ago

120 upvotes – 21 comments

Why things fail

http://www.wired.com/design/2012/10/ff-why-products-fail/all/

14 years ago

114 upvotes – 18 comments

Confusing Crypto Blobs

http://daeken.com/confusing-crypto-blobs

14 years ago

102 upvotes – 40 comments

Pastry: A distributed hash table in Go

http://secondbit.org/blog/introducing-pastry/

14 years ago

97 upvotes – 70 comments

A Private Bus Company Debuts in Detroit

http://www.popularmechanics.com/cars/alternative-fuel/biofuels/a-private-bus-company-debuts-in-detroit-8657656

14 years ago

93 upvotes – 69 comments

Python on Android? First impressions of Kivy

http://archlinux.me/dusty/2012/10/16/python-on-android-first-impressions-of-kivy/

14 years ago

90 upvotes – 10 comments

I am a statistician and I buy lottery tickets

http://simplexify.net/blog/2012/5/6/i-am-a-statistician-and-i-buy-lottery-tickets.html

14 years ago

87 upvotes – 106 comments

Who is DDOSing GitHub and why?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4677258

14 years ago

86 upvotes – 66 comments

New Arduino released: the 32bit Due

http://www.wired.com/design/2012/10/arduino-due/

14 years ago

81 upvotes – 22 comments

Texter: Drawing with text using JavaScript and Canvas

http://tholman.com/experiments/html5/texter/

14 years ago

77 upvotes – 14 comments

Uiji.js is jQuery in reverse

http://aakilfernandes.com/uiji.html

14 years ago

71 upvotes – 33 comments

Drowning Good Ideas with Bloat. The tale of pkg.m4.

http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2012/Oct-20.html

14 years ago

51 upvotes – 16 comments

Inside the Mansion—and Mind—of Kim Dotcom

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/10/ff-kim-dotcom/all/

14 years ago

50 upvotes – 7 comments

In origin-of-life experiment, cooperative molecules win out

http://arstechnica.com/science/2012/10/in-origin-of-life-experiment-cooperative-molecules-win-out/

14 years ago

50 upvotes – 12 comments

Carbon: high level programming language that compiles to plain C

http://home.kpn.nl/pt.kleinhaneveld/carbon/about.html

14 years ago

48 upvotes – 39 comments
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