top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-10-21

Guerrilla guide to CNC machining, mold making, and resin casting

http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/gcnc/

14 years ago

433 upvotes – 37 comments

Restoration of defocused and blurred images

http://yuzhikov.com/articles/BlurredImagesRestoration1.htm

14 years ago

354 upvotes – 28 comments

When A Daughter Dies

http://www.freakonomics.com/2012/10/16/when-a-daughter-dies/

14 years ago

324 upvotes – 178 comments

Missing the Point of Promises

https://gist.github.com/3889970

14 years ago

161 upvotes – 46 comments

How the CIA Used a Fake Sci-Fi Flick to Rescue Americans From Tehran (2007)

http://www.wired.com/magazine/2007/04/feat_cia/

14 years ago

149 upvotes – 65 comments

Sorting 1 million 8-digit decimal numbers in 1MB of RAM

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12748246/sorting-numbers-in-ram

14 years ago

144 upvotes – 81 comments

Jq - a lightweight and flexible command-line JSON processor

http://stedolan.github.com/jq/

14 years ago

143 upvotes – 36 comments

Salesforce will hire 40-50 Postgres people

http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-jobs/2012-10/msg00003.php

14 years ago

117 upvotes – 64 comments

Shepard tone

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

14 years ago

99 upvotes – 34 comments

I went to the mall, and a little girl called me a terrorist.

http://imperfectwriting.tumblr.com/post/33933007179/i-went-to-the-mall-and-a-little-girl-called-me-a

14 years ago

96 upvotes – 125 comments

How I Simplified My Life

http://www.ridinginshoppingcarts.com/post/33988718367/how-i-simplified-my-life

14 years ago

95 upvotes – 109 comments

Hacking the Dropbox Space Race

http://blog.burtonthird.com/?p=81

14 years ago

80 upvotes – 23 comments

The Unreasonable Ineffectiveness of Mathematics Education

http://www.refsmmat.com/articles/unreasonable-math.html

14 years ago

79 upvotes – 91 comments

Ways to Learn to Program Online

http://thenextweb.com/dd/2012/10/21/so-you-want-to-be-a-programmer-huh-heres-25-ways-to-learn-online/

14 years ago

71 upvotes – 17 comments

Sculpture Made On A MakerBot

http://www.makerbot.com/blog/2012/10/20/cosmo-wenmans-mind-blowing-sculpture-made-on-a-makerbot/

14 years ago

68 upvotes – 29 comments

Kane Kramer is credited with inventing the digital audio player in 1979

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

14 years ago

68 upvotes – 27 comments

Interspecies Pair (Purr) Programming

http://www.polyglotprogramminginc.com/purr-programming-2-0/

14 years ago

67 upvotes – 12 comments

NIST may not have you in mind

http://www.imperialviolet.org/2012/10/21/nist.html

14 years ago

67 upvotes – 34 comments

Mobile Apps: HTML5 vs Native

http://www.ericsink.com/entries/html5_vs_native_apps.html

14 years ago

67 upvotes – 47 comments

Don't Worry About Your Productivity, Worry About You

http://nathanael.hevenet.com/dont-worry-about-your-productivity-worry-about-you/

14 years ago

61 upvotes – 16 comments

Living a double life: being a parent at an early stage startup

http://alyssaaldersley.com/living-a-double-life-being-a-parent-at-an-early-stage-startup/

14 years ago

59 upvotes – 16 comments

Can I download a video of the YC Startup School 2012 anywhere?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4681119

14 years ago

59 upvotes – 7 comments

Meet the Company Hijacking New York Times Ad Revenue

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/technology/2012/10/meet-company-hijacking-new-york-times-ad-revenue/58147/

14 years ago

59 upvotes – 49 comments

Moby: Share your location in real time

http://mo.by

14 years ago

57 upvotes – 60 comments

The future of .NET

http://haacked.com/archive/2012/10/21/monkeyspace-dotnet-oss.aspx

14 years ago

54 upvotes – 79 comments

Hacking the Dropbox Space Race

http://blog.burtonthird.com/?p=81

14 years ago

54 upvotes – 40 comments

CssConsole - easily make terminal-styled forms

https://github.com/michalkow/cssConsole

14 years ago

★ 283 JavaScript
50 upvotes – 18 comments

Don’t believe the Silicon Valley hype

http://venturebeat.com/2012/10/20/dont-believe-the-hype-silicon-valley-is-not-the-be-all-end-all-for-tech-companies/

14 years ago

47 upvotes – 17 comments

EBay 'pays £1.2m in UK tax' on sales of £800m

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-20022365

14 years ago

47 upvotes – 54 comments
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