top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-10-29

Nexus: The best of Google, now in three sizes

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/10/nexus-best-of-google-now-in-three-sizes.html

14 years ago

603 upvotes – 456 comments

Scott Forstall leaves Apple

http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2012/10/29Apple-Announces-Changes-to-Increase-Collaboration-Across-Hardware-Software-Services.html

14 years ago

470 upvotes – 313 comments

No, I still don't want to work for Google

http://infotrope.net/2012/10/29/no-i-still-dont-want-to-work-for-google/

14 years ago

460 upvotes – 396 comments

North Carolina teacher's resignation letter

http://dianeravitch.net/2012/10/27/nc-teacher-i-quit/

14 years ago

367 upvotes – 302 comments

The lactose-tolerance mutation

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/human_evolution/2012/10/evolution_of_lactose_tolerance_why_do_humans_keep_drinking_milk.single.html

14 years ago

319 upvotes – 169 comments

Forstall Out; Ive Up

http://daringfireball.net/2012/10/forstall_out

14 years ago

245 upvotes – 124 comments

Mozilla UX: Save For Later (why bookmarks are broken and how to fix it)

https://blog.mozilla.org/ux/2012/10/save-for-later/

14 years ago

243 upvotes – 107 comments

Always “hover” before you click? Wrong.

http://www.frameloss.org/2012/10/28/hover-fail/

14 years ago

220 upvotes – 101 comments

Amazon.com criticising new iPad on homepage

http://www.amazon.com/?iPad

14 years ago

205 upvotes – 202 comments

Hacking language learning

http://blog.rinik.net/hacking-language

14 years ago

188 upvotes – 52 comments

I Don't Have Time

http://swanson.github.com/blog/2012/10/28/i-dont-have-time.html

14 years ago

178 upvotes – 33 comments

Stack Overflow's Original 99designs Logo Contest

http://99designs.com/logo-design/contests/logo-stackoverflow-6774/entries?filter=allactive&sorting=rating

14 years ago

160 upvotes – 129 comments

Valve: Linux More Open Than Windows 8 for Gaming

http://www.ubuntuvibes.com/2012/10/valve-linux-more-viable-than-windows-8.html

14 years ago

149 upvotes – 93 comments

Wind Map

http://hint.fm/wind/#

14 years ago

141 upvotes – 23 comments

Show HN: Propeller - Create native mobile apps, just drag and drop

http://usepropeller.com/

14 years ago

126 upvotes – 37 comments

Show HN: we open sourced our Django drip email app

https://github.com/zapier/django-drip

14 years ago

★ 639 Python MIT
126 upvotes – 33 comments

High Scalability - All Time Favorites

http://highscalability.com/all-time-favorites/

14 years ago

125 upvotes – 11 comments

RIAA Failed To Disclose Expert’s Lobbying History to “Six-Strikes” Partners

http://torrentfreak.com/riaa-failed-to-disclose-experts-lobbying-history-to-six-strikes-partners-121026/

14 years ago

124 upvotes – 4 comments

AMD Will Build 64-bit ARM based Opteron CPUs for Servers, Production in 2014

http://www.anandtech.com/show/6418/amd-will-build-64bit-arm-based-opteron-cpus-for-servers-production-in-2014

14 years ago

124 upvotes – 35 comments

Ruby Under a Microscope: Learning Ruby Internals through Experiment

http://patshaughnessy.net/ruby-under-a-microscope

14 years ago

124 upvotes – 37 comments

How a Supreme Court ruling may stop you from reselling just about anything

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/10/a-supreme-court-clash-could-change-what-ownership-means/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+arstechnica%2Findex+%28Ars+Technica+-+All+content%29

14 years ago

115 upvotes – 62 comments

Kort - a thumbnail preview concept

http://lab.hakim.se/kort/

14 years ago

107 upvotes – 34 comments

Netflix: Post-mortem of 22 Oct AWS degradation

http://techblog.netflix.com/2012/10/post-mortem-of-october-222012-aws.html

14 years ago

105 upvotes – 20 comments

Bootstrap Live Editor

http://wrapbootstrap.com/preview/WB0DFT966

14 years ago

101 upvotes – 21 comments

Show HN: Userfox (YC S11) — Better Welcome Emails

http://userfox.com

14 years ago

100 upvotes – 52 comments

WSJ Ignores 5 other Square co-founders

http://philipithomas.com/2012/10/wall-street-journal-demonstrates-inanity-in-jack-dorsey-article/?

14 years ago

79 upvotes – 40 comments

Ask HN: Where do you (programmers) find freelancing gigs?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4710470

14 years ago

68 upvotes – 28 comments

RISC OS for the Raspberry Pi released

https://www.riscosopen.org/news/articles/2012/10/26/risc-os-pi-released-risc-os-for-the-raspberry-pi

14 years ago

65 upvotes – 28 comments

Show HN: Fun, simple feature tours for your website or app

http://tommoor.github.com/crumble

14 years ago

64 upvotes – 25 comments

The Let's-Sell-Our-House-And-See-the-World Retirement

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390443720204578004131575356160.html

14 years ago

59 upvotes – 39 comments

PayPal to lay off 325 employees and 120 contractors

http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20121029005442/en/eBay-Plans-Q4-Restructuring-Charge-Related-PayPal

14 years ago

58 upvotes – 23 comments

Zero and forget -- caveats of zeroing memory in C

http://www.eliteraspberries.com/blog/2012/10/zero-and-forget--caveats-of-zeroing-memory-in-c.html

14 years ago

56 upvotes – 43 comments

Windows Phone 8 live event (10 AM PT)

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/presskits/windowsphone/liveevent.aspx

14 years ago

53 upvotes – 38 comments

Tech Education Doesn't Happen In the Classroom

http://blog.studentrnd.org/post/34556989032/tech-education-doesnt-happen-in-the-classroom

14 years ago

51 upvotes – 13 comments
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