top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-10-24

How a Google Headhunter’s E-Mail Unraveled a Massive Net Security Hole

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/10/dkim-vulnerability-widespread/

14 years ago

477 upvotes – 101 comments

UsesThis: Rob Pike

http://rob.pike.usesthis.com/

14 years ago

411 upvotes – 184 comments

The most dangerous code in the world

https://crypto.stanford.edu/~dabo/pubs/abstracts/ssl-client-bugs.html

14 years ago

406 upvotes – 130 comments

My experience with WPEngine

http://chester.id.au/2012/10/24/my-experience-with-wpengine/

14 years ago

373 upvotes – 240 comments

The island where people forget to die

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/28/magazine/the-island-where-people-forget-to-die.html?hp&_r=0

14 years ago

332 upvotes – 150 comments

How I automated the boring parts of life

http://stevecorona.com/how-i-automated-the-boring-parts-of-life

14 years ago

294 upvotes – 210 comments

Facebook, I want my friends back

http://dangerousminds.net/comments/facebook_i_want_my_friends_back

14 years ago

279 upvotes – 186 comments

Open Source ARM userland

http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/2221

14 years ago

219 upvotes – 58 comments

Ruby 2.0.0 feature freeze

http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-dev/46258

14 years ago

213 upvotes – 33 comments

AnandTech: Microsoft Surface Review

http://www.anandtech.com/show/6385/microsoft-surface-review

14 years ago

197 upvotes – 103 comments

Using python and k-means to find dominant colors in images

http://charlesleifer.com/blog/using-python-and-k-means-to-find-the-dominant-colors-in-images/

14 years ago

189 upvotes – 31 comments

US Territorial Expansion: 200 years mapped with d3/HTML5

http://michaelporath.com/projects/manifest-destiny/

14 years ago

149 upvotes – 68 comments

Arduino-based, urban aquaponics in Oakland

http://faircompanies.com/videos/view/internet-food-arduino-based-urban-aquaponics-in-oakland/

14 years ago

143 upvotes – 44 comments

How to get to YC interview - Insider's Guide to YC W13 Application

http://www.acunote.com/blog/2012/10/y-combinator-application-insiders-guide.html

14 years ago

121 upvotes – 31 comments

Square Arrives in Canada

https://squareup.com/news/releases/2012/square-arrives-in-canada?a=1

14 years ago

101 upvotes – 85 comments

Kim Dotcom

http://kim.com/

14 years ago

101 upvotes – 86 comments

How we got a Y Combinator interview but blew it

http://www.keacher.com/1113/how-we-got-a-y-combinator-interview-but-blew-it/

14 years ago

97 upvotes – 58 comments

Wired's Review of the Microsoft Surface

http://www.wired.com/reviews/2012/10/microsoft-surface/all/

14 years ago

96 upvotes – 56 comments

Show HN: Taurus.io - Create a product tour for your web app in 15 minutes

http://taurus.io/

14 years ago

87 upvotes – 55 comments

FBI releases documents that confirm they proactively spy on anarchists

https://rt.com/usa/news/fbi-plante-anarchists-jury-983/

14 years ago

83 upvotes – 77 comments

How fast is apple.com?

http://zoompf.com/2012/10/how-fast-is-apple-com

14 years ago

81 upvotes – 71 comments

The 5$ SaaS

http://alpblog.heroku.com/blog/the-5-saas/

14 years ago

80 upvotes – 37 comments

Show HN: Weekend project, D3.js Globe of Recent Earthquakes

http://boydgreenfield.com/quakes

14 years ago

79 upvotes – 29 comments

Do you want to be programming at 50?

http://pindancing.blogspot.com/2012/10/on-do-you-want-to-be-programming-at.html

14 years ago

79 upvotes – 108 comments

Create your own XKCD-style Graphs

http://imkevinxu.com/xkcd/

14 years ago

76 upvotes – 19 comments

The Biggest Problem in App Discovery

http://blog.gaborcselle.com/2012/10/the-biggest-problem-in-app-discovery.html

14 years ago

74 upvotes – 32 comments

The Sorry State of C++ Portability

http://www.jeffwofford.com/?p=1102

14 years ago

72 upvotes – 100 comments

Metamarkets Open Sources Druid, A Real-Time Analytics Data Store

http://metamarkets.com/2012/metamarkets-open-sources-druid/

14 years ago

71 upvotes – 12 comments

Pi Crust: Connect things to your Rasperry Pi

http://picru.st/

14 years ago

68 upvotes – 15 comments

Why we buy into ideas: how to convince others of our thoughts

http://blog.bufferapp.com/why-we-buy-into-ideas-how-to-convince-others-of-our-thoughts

14 years ago

61 upvotes – 11 comments

Star Wars 3D Scrolling Text in CSS3

http://www.sitepoint.com/css3-starwars-scrolling-text/

14 years ago

61 upvotes – 17 comments

Phusion Passenger 4.0 beta 1 is here

http://blog.phusion.nl/2012/10/24/phusion-passenger-4-0-beta-1-is-here/

14 years ago

60 upvotes – 31 comments

Billionaire wants Michigan to reject free bridge to Canada & use his bridge

http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/10/23/greedy-u-s-billionaire-urges-michigan-voters-to-reject-free-bridge-to-canada/

14 years ago

58 upvotes – 29 comments

Cloudera announces real-time query engine for Hadoop

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/cloudera-announces-game-changing-real-time-query-on-hadoop-and-leads-a-new-era-of-data-management-2012-10-24

14 years ago

56 upvotes – 17 comments

Thieves "bug" debit card PIN pads in 63 Barnes & Noble stores

http://news.yahoo.com/barnes-noble-reports-breach-u-customer-credit-card-032430509--finance.html

14 years ago

52 upvotes – 37 comments

FloJack: Bringing NFC to iPhone/iPad (kickstarter)

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/flomio/flojack-nfc-for-ipad-and-iphone

14 years ago

52 upvotes – 49 comments

Letterpress by Loren Brichter of Atebits

http://www.atebits.com/letterpress/

14 years ago

51 upvotes – 25 comments

Teaching Computer Programming to Underserved Kids

http://www.indiegogo.com/ScriptEd

14 years ago

49 upvotes – 13 comments

Don’t Call The New Microsoft Surface RT A Tablet, This Is A PC

http://techcrunch.com/2012/10/23/microsoft-surface-rt-review/

14 years ago

48 upvotes – 43 comments

Things To Stop Doing In Your 20s

http://thoughtcatalog.com/2012/19-things-you-should-stop-doing-in-your-20s/

14 years ago

47 upvotes – 19 comments

RabbitMQ Highly Available Queues and Clustering using Amazon EC2

http://karlgrz.blogspot.com/2012/10/rabbitmq-highly-available-queues-and.html

14 years ago

47 upvotes – 6 comments

The PC isn't dead

http://dendory.net/blog.php?id=5087558c

14 years ago

47 upvotes – 41 comments
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