top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-10-22

Outlawed by Amazon DRM

http://www.bekkelund.net/2012/10/22/outlawed-by-amazon-drm/

14 years ago

1445 upvotes – 479 comments

Amazon EC2 currently down. Affecting Heroku, Reddit, Others

http://status.aws.amazon.com/?t

14 years ago

602 upvotes – 295 comments

Show HN: I spent two years working on an HTML5 game. I finally released it

http://ektomarch.com/blog/?p=48

14 years ago

515 upvotes – 145 comments

L'Aquila quake: Italy scientists found guilty of manslaughter

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-20025626

14 years ago

237 upvotes – 106 comments

The physics of baseball as illustrated by Fox's new 5000 fps camera

http://webusers.npl.illinois.edu/~a-nathan/pob/HighSpeedClips.html

14 years ago

213 upvotes – 36 comments

The Tesla Approach to Distributing and Servicing Cars

http://www.teslamotors.com/blog/tesla-approach-distributing-and-servicing-cars

14 years ago

198 upvotes – 133 comments

Early pictures from the days when PayPal was a startup

http://www.levchin.com/paypal-slideshow/1.html

14 years ago

194 upvotes – 44 comments

Mono 3.0 is out

http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2012/Oct-22.html

14 years ago

194 upvotes – 67 comments

Makisu - CSS 3D dropdown concept

http://soulwire.github.com/Makisu/

14 years ago

187 upvotes – 54 comments

Marijuana Majority Website Highlights Celebs And Tech Leaders Who Support Pot

http://techcrunch.com/2012/10/22/marijuana-majority/?icid=trending7&grcc2=f734c88c056142a7be254f0c33e64f01~1350947329375~fca4fa8af1286d8a77f26033fdeed202~93b0d23eb4b7d686953a708194c12196~1350947329374~98~0~0~0~1~0~0~0~9~6~6~14~-1~5593392943429573887~~

14 years ago

180 upvotes – 80 comments

Automatic Generation of Regular Expressions from Examples

http://regex.inginf.units.it/

14 years ago

170 upvotes – 59 comments

Introducing the USB Stick of Death

http://j00ru.vexillium.org/?p=1272

14 years ago

165 upvotes – 31 comments

Git 1.8.0

https://raw.github.com/git/git/master/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.0.txt

14 years ago

159 upvotes – 53 comments

Ancestry.com Acquired for $1.6 Billion

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/technology/2012/10/ancestrycom-was-just-acquired-16-billion/58184/

14 years ago

153 upvotes – 120 comments

Show HN: my weekend project, Quotably

http://quotab.ly

14 years ago

142 upvotes – 75 comments

Project Cybersyn, a 1971-73 Chilean Experiment in Computer-Assisted Economy

http://www.damninteresting.com/nineteen-seventy-three/

14 years ago

129 upvotes – 65 comments

Turning to the past to power Windows' future: An in-depth look at WinRT

http://arstechnica.com/features/2012/10/windows-8-and-winrt-everything-old-is-new-again/

14 years ago

129 upvotes – 27 comments

Google bot delays executing JavaScript for days

http://itbrokeand.ifixit.com/2012/10/21/google-bot-delays-javascript.html

14 years ago

128 upvotes – 37 comments

AWS issues, affecting Heroku and others

https://status.heroku.com/#2012-10-22

14 years ago

128 upvotes – 117 comments

E-Ink Android phone promises a week long battery life

http://androidos.in/2012/10/e-ink-android-phone-promises-a-week-long-battery-life/

14 years ago

127 upvotes – 88 comments

My key takeaways from Y Combinator’s Startup School 2012

http://nowaternomoon.com/post/34062996874/my-key-takeaways-from-y-combinators-startup-school

14 years ago

124 upvotes – 21 comments

JRuby 1.7.0. Released

http://www.jruby.org/2012/10/22/jruby-1-7-0.html

14 years ago

124 upvotes – 50 comments

Running Ubuntu off an SDCard on the new ARM Chromebook

https://plus.google.com/109993695638569781190/posts/b2fazijJppZ

14 years ago

114 upvotes – 22 comments

Upload files using torrents to your personal space with Put.io

http://put.io/

14 years ago

102 upvotes – 70 comments

How to Name your Company

http://www.judegomila.com/2012/10/how-to-name-your-company.html

14 years ago

98 upvotes – 73 comments

I Just Paid Facebook $7

http://johnnystartup.com/i-just-paid-facebook-7

14 years ago

93 upvotes – 55 comments

Startup School And Survivor Bias

http://jfornear.co/startup-school-and-survivor-bias/

14 years ago

92 upvotes – 43 comments

Engage by Mixpanel

https://mixpanel.com/engage/

14 years ago

91 upvotes – 23 comments

The Most Memorable Quotes (I Could Capture) From Startup School 2012

http://www.jasonshen.com/2012/the-most-memorable-quotes-from-startup-school-2012/

14 years ago

82 upvotes – 15 comments

Icelanders vote to base new constitution on crowdsourced draft

http://gigaom.com/europe/icelanders-approve-their-crowdsourced-constitution/

14 years ago

78 upvotes – 31 comments

Clever (YC S12) Lands $3M, Now In 2000 Schools

http://techcrunch.com/2012/10/22/clever-seed/

14 years ago

75 upvotes – 34 comments

Sending a Weather Balloon to Space

http://blog.hartleybrody.com/in-space/

14 years ago

74 upvotes – 27 comments

Dwolla launches MassPay - Free Bulk Payments

http://blog.dwolla.com/masspay-launces-with-10-new-partners/

14 years ago

73 upvotes – 23 comments

If Smart Is the Norm, Stupidity Gets More Interesting

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/23/health/if-intelligence-is-the-norm-stupidity-gets-more-interesting.html

14 years ago

67 upvotes – 25 comments

Nokia’s price for exclusivity

http://www.asymco.com/2012/10/22/nokias-price-for-exclusivity/

14 years ago

65 upvotes – 50 comments

Race-condition-free deployment with the "symlink replacement" trick

https://gist.github.com/3807742#file_symlink_replacement.md

14 years ago

63 upvotes – 37 comments

Dear Ed Bott: No, Windows 8 is not the new XP

http://www.roughlydrafted.com/2012/10/22/dear-ed-bott-no-windows-8-is-not-the-new-xp/

14 years ago

63 upvotes – 68 comments

Hackathon Hacks for Organizers

http://alexeymk.com/2012/10/12/hackathon-organizers-hacks.html

14 years ago

62 upvotes – 25 comments

Mantle: a Model Framework for Objective-C

https://github.com/blog/1299-mantle-a-model-framework-for-objective-c

14 years ago

57 upvotes – 5 comments

Creating SVG vector graphics for maximum browser compatibility

http://voormedia.com/blog/2012/10/creating-svg-vector-graphics-for-maximum-browser-compatibility

14 years ago

57 upvotes – 35 comments
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