top 20 hacker news stories for 2012-10-27

Tell HN: Let's Be Civil

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4707475

14 years ago

671 upvotes – 138 comments

Why I'm returning my Microsoft Surface RT

http://ozar.me/2012/10/why-im-returning-my-microsoft-surface-rt/

14 years ago

361 upvotes – 283 comments

Rob Pike: Go at Google

http://talks.golang.org/2012/splash.slide

14 years ago

268 upvotes – 235 comments

A dozen USB chargers in the lab: Apple is very good, but not quite the best

http://www.arcfn.com/2012/10/a-dozen-usb-chargers-in-lab-apple-is.html

14 years ago

254 upvotes – 86 comments

Congratulations on IE10: from Mozilla with cake

http://limpet.net/mbrubeck/2012/10/26/mozilla-ie10-cake.html

14 years ago

246 upvotes – 51 comments

An Alternate Universe (Microsoft Surface)

http://www.marco.org/2012/10/26/an-alternate-universe

14 years ago

242 upvotes – 240 comments

Valve Linux Steam Client Beta Application

http://www.valvesoftware.com/linuxsurvey.php?

14 years ago

214 upvotes – 44 comments

AWS outage summary

https://aws.amazon.com/message/680342/

14 years ago

161 upvotes – 65 comments

Facebook Tries To Silence Blogger To Cover Up User Data Scandal

http://readwrite.com/2012/10/26/facebook-asked-blogger-who-purchased-user-data-to-keep-quiet

14 years ago

139 upvotes – 27 comments

Give A Damn

http://clayallsopp.com/posts/give-a-damn/

14 years ago

132 upvotes – 37 comments

General Failure: How the American military rewards failure at the highest ranks

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/11/general-failure/309148/?single_page=true

14 years ago

131 upvotes – 51 comments

Blaze: Next Generation NumPy

https://speakerdeck.com/sdiehl/blaze-next-generation-numpy

14 years ago

118 upvotes – 28 comments

An Ancient Piece of Computer Lore in a Place You’d Never Expect

http://porkrind.org/missives/dungeon-zork-map-in-duplicity/

14 years ago

115 upvotes – 26 comments

How Long Will Programmers Be So Well-Paid?

http://techcrunch.com/2012/10/27/write-code-get-paid/

14 years ago

109 upvotes – 162 comments

SAT: Getting the lowest score possible

http://www.colinfahey.com/sat/sat.html

14 years ago

109 upvotes – 90 comments

Scientists Recover Oldest Playable American Recording

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/10/scientists-recover-the-sounds-of-19th-century-music-and-laughter-from-the-oldest-playable-american-recording/264147/

14 years ago

108 upvotes – 25 comments

Sweden imports waste from European neighbors to fuel waste-to-energy program

http://www.pri.org/stories/science/environment/swedes-import-trash-to-power-the-nation-10428.html

14 years ago

106 upvotes – 22 comments

Show HN: Instrumenting and visualizing JavaScript with d3.js

http://latentflip.github.com/violin

14 years ago

105 upvotes – 22 comments

Supreme Court to hear arguments in case of student who resold books

http://edition.cnn.com/2012/10/26/justice/court-student-copyright/index.html?hpt=hp_t4

14 years ago

98 upvotes – 55 comments

$.url() - A simple, lightweight url parser for jQuery

https://github.com/websanova/jquery-url#url

14 years ago

98 upvotes – 40 comments
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