top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-10-23

Zynga May Have Just Laid Off 100+ Employees From Its Austin Office

http://techcrunch.com/2012/10/23/zynga-layoffs/

14 years ago

464 upvotes – 212 comments

The Hardware Renaissance

http://paulgraham.com/hw.html

14 years ago

455 upvotes – 206 comments

The rise of the “successful” unsustainable company

http://blog.asmartbear.com/unsustainable-companies.html

14 years ago

360 upvotes – 129 comments

GitLab, open source github clone, reaches 3.0

http://blog.gitlabhq.com/gitlab-3-dot-0-released/

14 years ago

328 upvotes – 100 comments

How To Strip DRM from Kindle E-Books and Others

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/01/how-to-strip-drm-from-kindle-e-books-and-others/

14 years ago

317 upvotes – 103 comments

Amazon reopen wiped Kindle account

http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=no&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=no&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nrk.no%2Fkultur-og-underholdning%2F1.8368487&act=url

14 years ago

293 upvotes – 150 comments

If I was your cloud provider, I'd never let you down

http://joyent.com/blog/if-i-was-your-cloud-provider-i-d-never-let-you-down

14 years ago

289 upvotes – 164 comments

Under the hood of Windows 8, or why desktop users should upgrade from Windows 7

http://www.extremetech.com/computing/138177-under-the-hood-of-windows-8-or-why-desktop-users-should-upgrade-from-windows-7

14 years ago

274 upvotes – 179 comments

iPad mini

http://www.apple.com/ipad-mini/overview/

14 years ago

262 upvotes – 343 comments

USPTO invalidates Apple's "rubber-banding" patent asserted against Samsung

http://appleinsider.com/articles/12/10/23/uspto-invalidates-apples-rubber-banding-patent-asserted-against-samsung

14 years ago

216 upvotes – 85 comments

Mozilla blogger bought 1 million Facebook entries (full name, e-mail) for $5

http://talkweb.eu/openweb/1819

14 years ago

182 upvotes – 106 comments

Wayland (X11 replacement) 1.0 Officially Released

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

14 years ago

176 upvotes – 91 comments

Redis 2.6.0 Released

http://redis.io/download#2.6.0

14 years ago

174 upvotes – 24 comments

Marc Andreessen’s Productivity Trick to Feeling Marvelously Efficient

http://blog.idonethis.com/post/34170232603/marc-andreessens-productivity-trick-to-feeling

14 years ago

161 upvotes – 42 comments

Rubular - a Ruby regular expression editor

http://rubular.com/r/xfQHocREGj

14 years ago

161 upvotes – 36 comments

Increasing wireless network speed by 1000%, by replacing packets with algebra

http://www.extremetech.com/computing/138424-increasing-wireless-network-speed-by-1000-by-replacing-packets-with-algebra

14 years ago

153 upvotes – 42 comments

Six-Strikes “Independent Expert” Is RIAA’s Former Lobbying Firm

http://torrentfreak.com/six-strikes-independent-expert-is-riaas-former-lobbying-firm-121022/

14 years ago

141 upvotes – 34 comments

New theory may explain the notorious cold fusion experiment from two decades ago

http://discovermagazine.com/2012/nov/27-big-idea-bring-back-the-cold-fusion-dream/

14 years ago

136 upvotes – 33 comments

Don’t mess with IBM

http://www.cringely.com/2012/10/22/dont-mess-with-ibm-one-downside-of-suing-a-tech-company-that-thinks-like-a-law-firm/

14 years ago

135 upvotes – 96 comments

On facing two years for protesting Stop-and-Frisk

http://www.theneoprogressive.com/2012/10/on-facing-two-years-for-protesting-stop-and-frisk/

14 years ago

102 upvotes – 15 comments

Google Drive desktop client requests login credentials only once

http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/Google-Drive-opens-backdoor-to-Google-accounts-1735069.html

14 years ago

100 upvotes – 23 comments

Ceefax Final Broadcast: 'Goodbye, cruel world.'

http://h4ck.in/g/a/14/Ceefax-Final-Broadcast%3A-%27Goodbye%2C-cruel-world.%27#.UIcBm60drmg.hackernews

14 years ago

96 upvotes – 36 comments

The maths that made Voyager possible

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-20033940

14 years ago

96 upvotes – 27 comments

Memoto Lifelogging Camera

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/martinkallstrom/memoto-lifelogging-camera

14 years ago

83 upvotes – 86 comments

Italy Orders Jail Terms for 7 Who Didn’t Warn of Deadly Earthquake

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/23/world/europe/italy-convicts-7-for-failure-to-warn-of-quake.html

14 years ago

81 upvotes – 18 comments

Brazil enacts new forest code

http://www.greenwood-management.com/news/article/brazil-enacts-new-forest-code-186686.html#.UIa8W29wnyy.hackernews

14 years ago

80 upvotes – 9 comments

Bandwidth breakthrough promises to boost bandwidth tenfold

http://www.technologyreview.com/news/429722/a-bandwidth-breakthrough/

14 years ago

79 upvotes – 17 comments

Cloud Block Storage Now In Unlimited Availability

http://www.rackspace.com/blog/cloud-block-storage/

14 years ago

77 upvotes – 33 comments

Michael Arrington and MG Siegler Return to TechCrunch

http://techcrunch.com/2012/10/23/getting-the-band-back-together/

14 years ago

77 upvotes – 51 comments

Live video stream of the Apple special event online starting at 10:00 a.m. PDT.

http://www.apple.com/apple-events/october-2012/

14 years ago

77 upvotes – 52 comments

Rails Rumble Winners - Gem Teardown

http://www.dwellable.com/blog/Rails-Rumble-Winners-Gem-Teardown

14 years ago

74 upvotes – 29 comments

Has AMD's Clock Run Out?

http://blog.thirdyearmba.com/has-amds-clock-run-out

14 years ago

72 upvotes – 59 comments

Every Step Costs You 20% of Users

http://blog.gaborcselle.com/2012/10/every-step-costs-you-20-of-users.html

14 years ago

71 upvotes – 32 comments

Zynga CEO Mark Pincus Confirms Layoffs: 5% of Workforce

http://techcrunch.com/2012/10/23/zynga-ceo-mark-pincus-confirms-layoffs-5-of-workforce-potential-closures-for-u-k-japan-offices/

14 years ago

70 upvotes – 15 comments

Mozilla Plans H.264 Video for Desktop Firefox

http://www.webmonkey.com/2012/10/mozilla-plans-h-264-video-for-desktop-firefox/

14 years ago

67 upvotes – 49 comments

TED Talk: Ryan Merkley demos Popcorn

https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2012/10/19/ted_popcorn/

14 years ago

64 upvotes – 28 comments

Shortcuts to Move Faster in Bash Command Line

http://teohm.github.com/blog/2012/01/04/shortcuts-to-move-faster-in-bash-command-line/

14 years ago

63 upvotes – 25 comments

Bifocals.js - asynchronous, nested view rendering

http://bifocalsjs.com/

14 years ago

63 upvotes – 12 comments

Apple announces iPad Mini with a 7.9-inch, 1,024 x 768 display - $329

http://www.engadget.com/2012/10/23/apple-ipad-mini/

14 years ago

58 upvotes – 110 comments
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