top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-10-30

Disney to Acquire Lucasfilm Ltd.

http://thewaltdisneycompany.com/disney-news/press-releases/2012/10/disney-acquire-lucasfilm-ltd

14 years ago

470 upvotes – 290 comments

Google’s most advanced voice search has arrived on iOS

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/10/googles-most-advanced-voice-search-has.html

14 years ago

304 upvotes – 184 comments

Introducing the new compose in Gmail

http://gmailblog.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/introducing-new-compose-in-gmail.html

14 years ago

288 upvotes – 191 comments

The Horrible Future of Social

http://ted.io/the-horrible-future-of-social.html

14 years ago

285 upvotes – 149 comments

Bootstrap 2.2.0 released

http://blog.getbootstrap.com/2012/10/29/bootstrap-2-2-0-released/

14 years ago

267 upvotes – 138 comments

WebScript.io: Just choose a URL and type in a script. No servers, no deployment

https://www.webscript.io/?

14 years ago

252 upvotes – 107 comments

Because of the storm we're pushing the YC application deadline back to Friday

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4718447

14 years ago

230 upvotes – 50 comments

Why I Program in Erlang

http://www.evanmiller.org/why-i-program-in-erlang.html

14 years ago

215 upvotes – 93 comments

Markdown: The Spec - it's coming and it's full of personalities

http://www.rumproarious.com/2012/10/29/markdown-the-spec/

14 years ago

168 upvotes – 96 comments

How Zappos' User Agreement Failed In Court and Left Zappos Legally Naked

http://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2012/10/how_zappos_user.htm

14 years ago

168 upvotes – 61 comments

Quantum entanglement shows that reality can't be local

http://arstechnica.com/science/2012/10/quantum-entanglement-shows-that-reality-cant-be-local/

14 years ago

158 upvotes – 166 comments

Apple Software Chief Refused to Sign Maps Apology

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204840504578087192497916304.html?mod=WSJ_hp_LEFTWhatsNewsCollection

14 years ago

155 upvotes – 100 comments

REST framework 2 released: Simple, beautiful, browsable Web APIs for Django

http://django-rest-framework.org/topics/rest-framework-2-announcement.html

14 years ago

153 upvotes – 58 comments

Fog Creek is about to go down

http://fogcreekstatus.typepad.com/

14 years ago

137 upvotes – 180 comments

Empathy represses analytic thought and vice versa

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/10/121030161416.htm

14 years ago

105 upvotes – 28 comments

Is there evidence that drugs can help programmers produce “better” code?

http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/171618/is-there-any-evidence-that-drugs-can-actually-help-programmers-produce-better

14 years ago

103 upvotes – 69 comments

Heroku Sandy Situation Room

https://status.heroku.com/incidents/460

14 years ago

100 upvotes – 32 comments

Hacking on Side Projects: The Pool Ball Tracker

http://blog.gocardless.com/post/34568593614/hacking-on-side-projects-the-pool-ball-tracker

14 years ago

98 upvotes – 31 comments

We bring 3D to the web

http://sketchfab.com/browse/faved

14 years ago

96 upvotes – 35 comments

Popular sites with Apache server-status enabled (leaking internal details)

http://blog.sucuri.net/2012/10/popular-sites-with-apache-server-status-enabled.html

14 years ago

95 upvotes – 46 comments

Puppet or Chef?

http://philsturgeon.co.uk/blog/2012/10/puppet-or-chef

14 years ago

94 upvotes – 59 comments

3 Dudes from Missouri Built a Product, Found Paying Customers, and Got Into YC

https://zapier.com/blog/2012/10/30/3-dudes-missouri-built-product-found-paying-customers-and-got-yc/

14 years ago

91 upvotes – 21 comments

The Web Is A Mess

http://mkronline.com/2012/10/30/you-arent-imagining-it-the-web-is-a-mess/

14 years ago

91 upvotes – 59 comments

Deep Inside a DNS Amplification DDoS Attack

http://blog.cloudflare.com/deep-inside-a-dns-amplification-ddos-attack

14 years ago

90 upvotes – 49 comments

Show HN: In memory of Bob Ross, a simple painting generator, Gogh

http://ngokevin.github.com/gogh/

14 years ago

90 upvotes – 28 comments

My life as a Git

https://github.com/Gawen/life

14 years ago

87 upvotes – 49 comments

ARM's Cortex A57 and Cortex A53: The First 64-bit ARMv8 CPU Cores

http://www.anandtech.com/show/6420/arms-cortex-a57-and-cortex-a53-the-first-64bit-armv8-cpu-cores

14 years ago

85 upvotes – 44 comments

We wrote a solid application, made a silly video, and got into YC (hack-free?)

http://blog.makegameswith.us/post/34608527485/how-we-wrote-a-solid-application-made-a-silly-video

14 years ago

79 upvotes – 37 comments

Building a Riak Cluster on Raspberry Pi

http://basho.com/blog/technical/2012/11/01/rasp-pi-cluster/

14 years ago

77 upvotes – 8 comments

Steve Huffman - Teaching thousands of students to program on Udacity

http://googleappengine.blogspot.com/2012/10/teaching-thousands-of-students-to.html

14 years ago

75 upvotes – 16 comments

Crowdfunded research into how amphetamines work

http://www.rockethub.com/projects/11106-crowdsourcing-discovery

14 years ago

72 upvotes – 39 comments

Internap evacuates LGA datacenter

http://pastebin.com/9Fr2eW6U

14 years ago

71 upvotes – 37 comments

Your Employee Is an Online Celebrity. Now What Do You Do?

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390443995604578003082273743230.html

14 years ago

65 upvotes – 38 comments

Unrest in China's cities: Middle-class blues

http://www.economist.com/blogs/analects/2012/10/unrest-cities

14 years ago

65 upvotes – 4 comments

IdTech 4, 15% frame rate increase through semiautomatic paralellization

http://www.vectorfabrics.com/blog/item/vector_fabrics_accelerates_idtech_4_game_engine

14 years ago

64 upvotes – 42 comments

This is how we work with clients

http://elweb.co/stuff/this-is-how-we-work-with-clients/

14 years ago

64 upvotes – 37 comments

Announcing the new Windows Phone 8 Developer Platform

http://blogs.windows.com/windows_phone/b/wpdev/archive/2012/10/30/announcing-the-new-windows-phone-8-developer-platform.aspx

14 years ago

63 upvotes – 50 comments

Trello is running on a diesel generator and may go down at anytime

http://status.fogcreek.com/2012/10/fog-creek-services-update2.html

14 years ago

59 upvotes – 65 comments

Anatomy of the Linux virtual file system switch

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-virtual-filesystem-switch/

14 years ago

59 upvotes – 0 comments

Why Android 4.2′s Multiple User Account Switching Is Tablet-Only (Hint: Patents)

http://techcrunch.com/2012/10/29/why-android-jelly-bean-4-2s-multiple-user-account-switching-is-tablet-only-hint-nokia-patented-it-for-phones/

14 years ago

55 upvotes – 28 comments

Preview FirefoxOS with R2D2B2G

http://davidwalsh.name/r2d2b2g

14 years ago

54 upvotes – 19 comments

Analyzing Big Data Is Returning an Edge to Microsoft

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/30/technology/microsoft-renews-relevance-with-machine-learning-technology.html?hpw&_r=0

14 years ago

52 upvotes – 11 comments

What’s New in Evernote 5

http://evernote.com/evernote/whats_new/mac/

14 years ago

50 upvotes – 34 comments

Wikipedia Zero grows readership in Africa and Asia

http://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/10/29/wikipedia-zero-grows-readership-in-africa-and-asia/

14 years ago

50 upvotes – 8 comments

Exec launches professional cleaning service

http://techcrunch.com/2012/10/30/exec-cleaning/

14 years ago

49 upvotes – 38 comments

How much does it cost to be an audiophile?

http://priceonomics.com/speakers/#audiophile

14 years ago

48 upvotes – 65 comments

How High School English Class Ruined Your Proposals

http://www.mimiran.com/proposals/how-your-high-school-english-class-is-ruining-your-proposals/

14 years ago

48 upvotes – 28 comments

Meraki Is Giving Startups $15K In Free Wi-Fi Gear

http://techcrunch.com/2012/10/30/you-get-a-router-and-you-get-a-router-meraki-is-giving-startups-15k-in-free-wi-fi-gear/

14 years ago

48 upvotes – 18 comments

Ubuntu Looks To An SDK, Improved App Development

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

14 years ago

45 upvotes – 35 comments

Can You Stop a Hurricane by Nuking It?

http://www.livescience.com/24383-can-you-stop-a-hurricane-by-nuking-it.html

14 years ago

45 upvotes – 55 comments

Steve Blank launches Startup Weekend Next program

http://steveblank.com/2012/10/30/10000-startups-startup-weekend-next/

14 years ago

44 upvotes – 5 comments
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