top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-10-25

The Future of Markdown

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/10/the-future-of-markdown.html

14 years ago

877 upvotes – 328 comments

Jessica Livingston: What Goes Wrong

http://www.foundersatwork.com/1/post/2012/10/what-goes-wrong.html

14 years ago

518 upvotes – 88 comments

Startup School 2012 Videos

http://startupschool.org/2012/

14 years ago

284 upvotes – 59 comments

Followup to "I bought more than 1 million Facebook data entries for $5"

http://talkweb.eu/openweb/1842

14 years ago

277 upvotes – 95 comments

Career Day - A parent introduces programming at her son's school

http://therealkatie.net/blog/2012/oct/24/career-day/

14 years ago

264 upvotes – 60 comments

Windows 8 Arrives

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/Press/2012/Oct12/10-25Windows8GAPR.aspx

14 years ago

255 upvotes – 213 comments

Electronic demon costume is surprisingly unnerving

http://hackaday.com/2012/10/25/electronic-demon-costume-is-surprisingly-unnerving/

14 years ago

223 upvotes – 23 comments

BootMetro: Metro style web framework

http://aozora.github.com/bootmetro/

14 years ago

211 upvotes – 85 comments

GitHub Game Off

https://github.com/blog/1303-github-game-off

14 years ago

199 upvotes – 40 comments

How We Got into Y Combinator

http://lloyd.tc/how-we-hacked-the-y-combinator-application-process/

14 years ago

166 upvotes – 81 comments

A Practical Optional Type System for Clojure

http://cloud.github.com/downloads/frenchy64/papers/paper.pdf

14 years ago

164 upvotes – 51 comments

A Rails 3.2 application with recurring billing using Stripe

http://railsapps.github.com/rails-stripe-membership-saas/

14 years ago

152 upvotes – 22 comments

"Ruby developers need to stop using EventMachine. It's the wrong direction."

http://www.slideshare.net/KyleDrake/hybrid-concurrency-patterns

14 years ago

149 upvotes – 70 comments

Why We Can't Solve Big Problems

http://www.technologyreview.com/featuredstory/429690/why-we-cant-solve-big-problems/

14 years ago

147 upvotes – 120 comments

Raspberry PI alternative: Cubieboard 1Ghz 1GB RAM

http://www.indiegogo.com/cubieboard?a=1662441

14 years ago

132 upvotes – 79 comments

Ask HN: What is this? 158268a350000000

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4697400

14 years ago

128 upvotes – 67 comments

Startup pack gives away $10k worth of tools to new businesses

http://startuppack.org

14 years ago

122 upvotes – 50 comments

Jailbreaking now legal under DMCA for smartphones, but not tablets

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/10/jailbreaking-now-legal-under-dmca-for-smartphones-but-not-tablets/

14 years ago

122 upvotes – 55 comments

Travis Shrugged

http://pandodaily.com/2012/10/24/travis-shrugged/

14 years ago

121 upvotes – 63 comments

Python for Data Analysis

http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2012/10/24/python-for-data-analysis/

14 years ago

120 upvotes – 28 comments

Raspberry Pi GPU Driver Turns Out To Be a Shim

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

14 years ago

115 upvotes – 29 comments

Lockitron exceeds $2,000,000 in reservations

https://lockitron.com/preorder?hn=true

14 years ago

112 upvotes – 107 comments

How To Develop A Basic Operating System On The Raspberry Pi

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/freshers/raspberrypi/tutorials/os/?test=true

14 years ago

105 upvotes – 18 comments

New PlayStation 3 Hack May Be One That Sony Can’t Stop

http://kotaku.com/5954675/new-playstation-3-hack-may-be-one-that-sony-cant-stop

14 years ago

104 upvotes – 84 comments

Siracusa on Microsoft

http://arstechnica.com/staff/2005/11/1816/

14 years ago

103 upvotes – 58 comments

SSH key and passwordless login basics for developers

http://opensourcehacker.com/2012/10/24/ssh-key-and-passwordless-login-basics-for-developers/

14 years ago

102 upvotes – 41 comments

Enterprise Piet

https://leanpub.com/piet

14 years ago

99 upvotes – 39 comments

Introducing the Parse Windows 8 SDK

http://blog.parse.com/2012/10/25/introducing-the-parse-windows-8-sdk/

14 years ago

97 upvotes – 15 comments

Amazon Reports First Quarterly Loss in 4 Years

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/26/technology/amazon-reports-its-first-quarterly-loss-in-four-years.html?_r=0

14 years ago

88 upvotes – 86 comments

The yuan is displacing the dollar as a key currency

http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21564880-yuan-displacing-dollar-key-currency

14 years ago

81 upvotes – 86 comments

The math of faster-than-sound freefall

http://blog.wolfram.com/2012/10/24/falling-faster-than-the-speed-of-sound/

14 years ago

78 upvotes – 27 comments

Marissa Mayer Makes First Yahoo Acquisition: Stamped

http://mashable.com/2012/10/25/yahoo-acquires-stamped/

14 years ago

72 upvotes – 57 comments

There's only one exchange rate

http://transferwise.com/blog/2012-10/one-real-exchange-rate

14 years ago

72 upvotes – 47 comments

The one million tweet map

http://onemilliontweetmap.com

14 years ago

71 upvotes – 34 comments

Meetup.com kills Vim London without warning

http://vimcasts.org/blog/2012/10/vim-london-still-alive-in-spite-of-meetup-com/

14 years ago

70 upvotes – 41 comments

Ext4 data corruption trouble

https://lwn.net/Articles/521022/

14 years ago

67 upvotes – 32 comments

Udacity Raises Funds From Andreessen Horowitz

http://allthingsd.com/20121025/education-start-up-udacity-raises-funds-from-andreessen-horowitz/

14 years ago

66 upvotes – 13 comments

The 3n+1 problem

http://blog.racket-lang.org/2012/10/the-3n1-problem_4990.html

14 years ago

66 upvotes – 25 comments

X86/ARM Emulator

http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/478527/X86-ARM-Emulator

14 years ago

64 upvotes – 8 comments

PayPal Policy Update is bad for users. Opt out while you can.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4695849

14 years ago

64 upvotes – 39 comments

Hotspots for Obama (or Romney)

http://hotspotsforobama.com/hn

14 years ago

61 upvotes – 48 comments

Could someone jump from the international space station and live?

http://physics.stackexchange.com/q/40886

14 years ago

61 upvotes – 41 comments

Online Analytics Firm Settles Suit Over Unstoppable User Tracking

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/10/kissmetrics-tracking/

14 years ago

60 upvotes – 25 comments

Heroku releases Followers into General Availability

https://postgres.heroku.com/blog/past/2012/10/25/announcing_follow/

14 years ago

50 upvotes – 19 comments

Windows 8 (soon) available for download

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows/buy?ocid=GA8_O_WOL_Hero_Home_FPP_Null

14 years ago

50 upvotes – 64 comments
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