top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-10-26

Mastering Linear Algebra in 10 Days: Astounding Experiments in Ultra-Learning

http://calnewport.com/blog/2012/10/26/mastering-linear-algebra-in-10-days-astounding-experiments-in-ultra-learning/

14 years ago

280 upvotes – 76 comments

Is it better to turn up the volume in the software or on the speakers?

http://superuser.com/questions/492281/from-a-quality-perspective-what-is-better-turning-volume-up-in-the-software-i

14 years ago

276 upvotes – 95 comments

Steam for Linux Beta

http://steamcommunity.com/games/221410

14 years ago

236 upvotes – 62 comments

China Blocks Web Access to The New York Times After Article

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/26/world/asia/china-blocks-web-access-to-new-york-times.html

14 years ago

232 upvotes – 120 comments

The Internet is experiencing severe outages across North American and Asia

http://internettrafficreport.com/namerica.htm

14 years ago

211 upvotes – 95 comments

dl.google.com now served by Go

https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/golang-nuts/BNUNbKSypE0

14 years ago

196 upvotes – 123 comments

Dropbox Bug Can Permanently Lose Your Files

http://konklone.com/post/dropbox-bug-can-permanently-lose-your-files

14 years ago

193 upvotes – 146 comments

Put Alan Turing on the next £10 note

http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/31659

14 years ago

187 upvotes – 54 comments

Windows 8 Doesn’t Want Your App. Try Again Later

http://themissingbit.blogspot.be/2012/10/windows-8-doesnt-want-your-app-try.html

14 years ago

173 upvotes – 70 comments

Apple's no internal client syndrome

http://rant.monkeydom.de/apples-no-internal-client-syndrome

14 years ago

160 upvotes – 42 comments

App Engine down

http://code.google.com/status/appengine

14 years ago

152 upvotes – 128 comments

U.S. Arrests Paul Ceglia for Multi-Billion Dollar Scheme to Defraud Facebook

http://betabeat.com/2012/10/dont-mess-with-the-postal-service-u-s-attorney-arrests-paul-ceglia-for-multi-billion-dollar-scheme-to-defraud-facebook/

14 years ago

149 upvotes – 72 comments

Hidden Fortunes of Chinese Leaders

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/26/business/global/family-of-wen-jiabao-holds-a-hidden-fortune-in-china.html?_r=0&pagewanted=all

14 years ago

139 upvotes – 81 comments

10,000,000,000,000,000 bytes archived

http://blog.archive.org/2012/10/26/10000000000000000-bytes-archived/

14 years ago

129 upvotes – 39 comments

Beware the Alan Turing fetish

http://blog.jgc.org/2011/11/beware-alan-turing-fetish.html

14 years ago

117 upvotes – 63 comments

How to Crack the Toughest Coding Interviews

http://gklst.tumblr.com/post/34361344887/how-to-crack-the-toughest-coding-interviews-by-gayle

14 years ago

113 upvotes – 136 comments

Kickstarter's new team page

http://www.kickstarter.com/team?hn

14 years ago

111 upvotes – 75 comments

Parallella: A Supercomputer For Everyone is Dying

http://kickstarter.com/projects/adapteva/parallella-a-supercomputer-for-everyone

14 years ago

102 upvotes – 64 comments

Apple posts its UK apology to Samsung

http://www.apple.com/uk/legal-judgement/

14 years ago

96 upvotes – 110 comments

Libtorrent experience - the poor state of async disk IO

http://www.rasterbar.com/libtorrent_blog/2012/10/asynchronous-disk-io/

14 years ago

95 upvotes – 25 comments

Buy Or Sell Bitcoin By Connecting Any U.S. Bank Account

http://blog.coinbase.com/post/34357253898/you-can-now-buy-and-sell-bitcoin-by-connecting-any-u-s

14 years ago

89 upvotes – 81 comments

Our Magic

http://instacart.com/blog

14 years ago

86 upvotes – 42 comments

How To Meet Anyone

http://www.virool.com/blog/how-to-meet-anyone-from-steve-wozniak-to-president/

14 years ago

85 upvotes – 34 comments

Yahoo to ignore IE10's "Do Not Track"

http://www.ypolicyblog.com/policyblog/2012/10/26/dnt/

14 years ago

80 upvotes – 91 comments

80 terabytes of archived web crawl data available for research

http://blog.archive.org/2012/10/26/80-terabytes-of-archived-web-crawl-data-available-for-research/

14 years ago

79 upvotes – 30 comments

Ubuntu Core On The Nexus 7

http://www.jonobacon.org/2012/10/26/ubuntu-core-on-the-nexus-7/

14 years ago

77 upvotes – 25 comments

Show HN: Host your 3D printable projects with version control

https://cubehero.com/

14 years ago

74 upvotes – 17 comments

Developer Auction Racks Up $78 Million More Bids, Expands To LA

http://techcrunch.com/2012/10/26/developer-auction-racks-up-78-million-more-bids-expands-to-la/

14 years ago

74 upvotes – 22 comments

Show HN: We just launched the redesigned Quantified Mind

http://quantified-mind.com

14 years ago

70 upvotes – 21 comments

64+2 core Parallella board offered for pledges above $750 on Kickstarter

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/adapteva/parallella-a-supercomputer-for-everyone/posts/336213

14 years ago

70 upvotes – 30 comments

Cucu: a compiler you can understand

http://zserge.com/blog/cucu-part2.html

14 years ago

67 upvotes – 11 comments

United States Copyright Office: Ripping is Illegal

http://publicknowledge.org/blog/united-states-copyright-office-ripping-illega

14 years ago

63 upvotes – 59 comments

Github Notifications API

https://github.com/blog/1306-notifications-api

14 years ago

62 upvotes – 11 comments

BufferBox (YC S12) launches deal with transit system

http://business.financialpost.com/2012/10/26/startup-roundup-bufferbox-deploys-in-go-stations-builddirects-4m-funding-and-a-doc-on-startups/

14 years ago

61 upvotes – 15 comments

Are You a Grumpy Developer?

http://blog.rickyrobinett.com/2012/10/are-you-a-grumpy-developer/

14 years ago

60 upvotes – 58 comments

Samsung posts $7.4 billion profit as handsets mask weak chip sales

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/10/25/us-samsung-earnings-idUSBRE89O1RO20121025

14 years ago

59 upvotes – 43 comments

PenFM: Fall back in love with writing via your terrible friends

http://www.indiegogo.com/penfm?a=1665689

14 years ago

59 upvotes – 40 comments

My (almost) perfect setup to stay focused

http://www.lengrand.fr/2012/10/my-almost-perfect-setup-to-stay-focused/

14 years ago

58 upvotes – 42 comments
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