top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-10-31

Linus Torvalds: Make 2560x1600 the new standard laptop resolution

https://plus.google.com/+LinusTorvalds/posts/ByVPmsSeSEG

14 years ago

633 upvotes – 327 comments

Joey Hess' minimal approach

http://joey.hess.usesthis.com/

14 years ago

269 upvotes – 120 comments

Given Tablets but No Teachers, Ethiopian Children Teach Themselves

http://www.technologyreview.com/news/506466/given-tablets-but-no-teachers-ethiopian-children-teach-themselves/

14 years ago

229 upvotes – 72 comments

My entire entrepreneurship story in 10 minutes

http://justinkan.com/my-interview-with-interloper-films

14 years ago

216 upvotes – 32 comments

The Next 1,000 Start-Ups

https://www.braintreepayments.com/blog/next_thousand_startups

14 years ago

210 upvotes – 79 comments

C++11 and Boost - Succinct like Python

http://fendrich.se/blog/2012/10/31/c-plus-plus-11-and-boost-succinct-like-python/

14 years ago

201 upvotes – 164 comments

12-year-old uses Dungeons and Dragons to help scientist dad with his research

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2012/10/30/12-year-old-uses-dungeons-and-dragons-to-help-scientist-dad-with-his-research/

14 years ago

164 upvotes – 12 comments

Show HN: Circular, an open source clone of Buffer

http://circular.io/

14 years ago

160 upvotes – 104 comments

The Startup’s Guide to Budget Design

http://blog.folyo.me/the-startups-guide-to-budget-design/

14 years ago

154 upvotes – 35 comments

Show HN: Introducting C+

https://github.com/orangeduck/CPlus

14 years ago

148 upvotes – 47 comments

Show HN: Python Tools for Visual Studio

http://pytools.codeplex.com

14 years ago

139 upvotes – 54 comments

9 Gigapixel Image of the Milky Way

http://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1242a/

14 years ago

129 upvotes – 32 comments

Time Spent Waiting for an Answer in StackOverflow (by language)

http://blog.guillermowinkler.com/blog/2012/10/30/how-long-waiting-for-an-answer-in-stackoverflow/

14 years ago

128 upvotes – 58 comments

Trello has moved to AWS

http://status.fogcreek.com/2012/10/fogbugz-kiln-and-copilot-continue-to-run-on-backup-power-trello-moving-to-amazon-aws.html

14 years ago

124 upvotes – 67 comments

The Mixergy Guide to Building a Recurring Revenue Business From Scratch

http://hackthesystem.com/blog/the-mixergy-guide-to-building-a-recurring-revenue-business-from-scratch/

14 years ago

124 upvotes – 51 comments

Asus says Nexus 7 sales are close to 1 million per month

http://www.slashgear.com/asus-says-nexus-7-sales-are-close-to-1-million-per-month-31254997/

14 years ago

124 upvotes – 110 comments

Haskell in Production: The good, the bad, and the ugly

http://mwotton.github.com/hs_gbu/

14 years ago

115 upvotes – 142 comments

Diffusion Curves: A Vector Representation for Smooth-Shaded Images

http://maverick.inria.fr/Publications/2008/OBWBTS08/index.php

14 years ago

110 upvotes – 31 comments

Fusion drive on older Macs? Yes

http://jollyjinx.tumblr.com/post/34638496292/fusion-drive-on-older-macs-yes-since-apple-has

14 years ago

106 upvotes – 52 comments

The Highs and Lows of Side Projects

http://andrewdumont.me/side-projects

14 years ago

106 upvotes – 32 comments

Gmail was down

http://gmail.com/

14 years ago

102 upvotes – 83 comments

Buddhist monk's brain produces highest reported level of gamma waves

http://india.nydailynews.com/newsarticle/7b470adb0a9b6c32e19e16a08df13f3d/buddhist-monk-is-the-worlds-happiest-man

14 years ago

100 upvotes – 56 comments

Dropbox-as-a-Database

http://blog.opalang.org/2012/10/dropbox-as-database.html

14 years ago

84 upvotes – 32 comments

Show HN: Freelance Hacker Network

http://hackerlist.net

14 years ago

83 upvotes – 39 comments

Zapier (YC S12) Raises $1.2M Seed Round

http://techcrunch.com/2012/10/31/zapier-raises-1-2m-seed-round/

14 years ago

82 upvotes – 29 comments

Halloween Bash Profile Generator

http://xta.github.com/HalloweenBash/

14 years ago

79 upvotes – 26 comments

Discover the best Electronic Dance Music you probably have never heard of

http://turnchannel.com/a

14 years ago

79 upvotes – 76 comments

Inside the Titan Supercomputer: 299K AMD x86 Cores and 18.6K Nvidia GPU Cores

http://www.anandtech.com/show/6421/inside-the-titan-supercomputer-299k-amd-x86-cores-and-186k-nvidia-gpu-cores

14 years ago

78 upvotes – 26 comments

Is Facebook becoming the next MySpace?

http://www.grobmeier.de/is-facebook-becoming-the-next-myspace-31102012.html

14 years ago

77 upvotes – 61 comments

Show HN: An interactive graph of film ratings built with D3 and AngularJS

http://goodfil.ms

14 years ago

77 upvotes – 16 comments

Interview with Robert Houdart, author of the world's strongest chess engine

http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=8591

14 years ago

74 upvotes – 11 comments

French Government Seeks To Charge Google 1 Billion Euros in Taxes

http://www.nasdaq.com/article/french-government-seeks-to-charge-google-eur1-billion-in-taxes---report-20121031-00120#.UJEf87Td6-I

14 years ago

70 upvotes – 54 comments

Kickstarter launched in the UK

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-20145764

14 years ago

68 upvotes – 24 comments

Zenbox Acquires Wishery

http://blog.zenboxapp.com/zenbox-acquires-wishery

14 years ago

66 upvotes – 10 comments

Bucket Brigade Hauls Diesel Fuel up 17 Stories to Keep NYC Data Center Online

http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2012/10/31/peer-1-mobilizes-diesel-bucket-brigade-at-75-broad/

14 years ago

65 upvotes – 79 comments

A dialog on quantum gravity (2003)

http://arxiv.org/pdf/hep-th/0310077.pdf

14 years ago

65 upvotes – 19 comments

Mozilla Mozaic: visualizing the future of bookmarks

https://blog.mozilla.org/ux/2012/10/visualizing-the-future-of-bookmarks/

14 years ago

65 upvotes – 34 comments

‘The Fractalist,’ Benoit B. Mandelbrot’s Math Memoir

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/31/books/the-fractalist-benoit-b-mandelbrots-math-memoir.html

14 years ago

64 upvotes – 17 comments

Picade: The arcade cabinet kit for your Raspberry Pi

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/pimoroni/picade-the-arcade-cabinet-kit-for-your-raspberry-p

14 years ago

58 upvotes – 18 comments

Firefox: browser ballot glitch cost us 9m downloads

http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/377878/firefox-browser-ballot-glitch-cost-us-9m-downloads

14 years ago

57 upvotes – 24 comments

The iPad Mini

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

14 years ago

56 upvotes – 59 comments

Imagine a world where dozens of open networks are available at your fingertips

https://openwireless.org/

14 years ago

54 upvotes – 38 comments

Scientists build the first all-carbon solar cell

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/10/121031125037.htm#.UJFwqaaa9Mw.twitter

14 years ago

51 upvotes – 23 comments

Patent troll claims it invented the Windows 8 and Windows Phone “tiles”

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/10/patent-troll-claims-it-invented-the-windows-8-and-windows-phone-tiles/

14 years ago

48 upvotes – 68 comments

Proust Wasn’t a Neuroscientist. Neither was Jonah Lehrer

http://nymag.com/news/features/jonah-lehrer-2012-11/index1.html#print

14 years ago

47 upvotes – 50 comments

Google loses Australia 'gangland' defamation lawsuit

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-20153309

14 years ago

47 upvotes – 37 comments

PenFM: Returning as an Engineer

http://www.pen.fm/read/Returning-as-an-Engineer-PN1368383b7cd66bfc

14 years ago

47 upvotes – 35 comments

Video Mashup of Advice from the World's Best Entrepreneurs

http://reelsurfer.com/watch/share/19794

14 years ago

45 upvotes – 21 comments

Key Takeaways from "Simplify" book of minimalism

http://alpblog.heroku.com/key-takeaways-from-simplify-book-of-minimalism/

14 years ago

44 upvotes – 28 comments
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