top 20 hacker news stories for 2013-02-03

Creator Of The X-Plane Flight Simulator Seeks Help Fighting A Patent Troll

http://techcrunch.com/2013/02/02/creator-of-the-x-plane-flight-simulator-seeks-help-fighting-a-patent-troll/

13 years ago

300 upvotes – 93 comments

The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius

http://classics.mit.edu/Antoninus/meditations.html

13 years ago

237 upvotes – 129 comments

C++ containers that save memory and time

http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2013/01/c-containers-that-save-memory-and-time.html

13 years ago

231 upvotes – 111 comments

AT&T Will Force Your Data Plan For Your Unlocked Out-of-Contract "Smart" Phone

http://clickboom.me/att-will-not-let-you-not-have-a-data-plan-wit

13 years ago

200 upvotes – 152 comments

Why police lie under oath

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/03/opinion/sunday/why-police-officers-lie-under-oath.html

13 years ago

190 upvotes – 124 comments

Hacker News Karma Tracker

http://hn-karma-tracker.herokuapp.com/

13 years ago

179 upvotes – 98 comments

On Python security amidst recent Rails/YAML vulnerabilities

http://nedbatchelder.com/blog/201302/war_is_peace.html?

13 years ago

161 upvotes – 44 comments

PushBullet: From 0 to 15,000 users in 2 weeks

http://blog.pushbullet.com/2013/02/03/from-0-to-15000-users-in-2-weeks/

13 years ago

151 upvotes – 55 comments

DC-area schools consider copyright policy that takes ownership of students’ work

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/prince-georges-considers-copyright-policy-that-takes-ownership-of-students-work/2013/02/02/dc592dea-6b08-11e2-ada3-d86a4806d5ee_story.html?hpid=z1

13 years ago

151 upvotes – 87 comments

Postel’s Principle is a Bad Idea

http://programmingisterrible.com/post/42215715657/postels-principle-is-a-bad-idea

13 years ago

147 upvotes – 60 comments

A look inside the Final Fantasy 7 Game Engine [pdf]

http://q-gears.sourceforge.net/gears.pdf

13 years ago

139 upvotes – 22 comments

The Mechanical Transmission of Power – Jerker Line Systems

http://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2013/02/the-mechanical-transmission-of-power-jerker-line-systems.html

13 years ago

129 upvotes – 30 comments

Periodis Web – A Historical Atlas and Gazetteer of Europe from Year 1 to 2000

http://www.euratlas.net/history/europe/index.html

13 years ago

124 upvotes – 48 comments

A Simplified Modern Approach to Stoicism

http://philosophy-of-cbt.com/2013/02/03/a-simplified-modern-approach-to-stoicism/

13 years ago

118 upvotes – 48 comments

Life found deep below Antarctic ice

http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/348007/description/Life_found_deep_below_Antarctic_ice

13 years ago

113 upvotes – 30 comments

Neil DeGrasse Tyson’s Eight Books Everyone Should Read

http://www.giantfreakinrobot.com/sci/neil-degrasse-tyson-suggests-books-intelligent-person-read.html

13 years ago

113 upvotes – 95 comments

Freely available programming books

http://stackoverflow.com/a/392926/127880

13 years ago

110 upvotes – 29 comments

The 19th Century Painting That Most Blockbuster Movie Posters Are Based On

http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/01/the-19th-century-painting-that-most-blockbuster-movie-posters-are-based-on

13 years ago

95 upvotes – 29 comments

Worse Than Useless: Personal Security Images

http://www.worsethanuseless.com/post/42126289484/worse-than-useless-personal-security-images

13 years ago

93 upvotes – 79 comments

Wine On Android Is Coming For Running Windows Apps

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTI5MjA

13 years ago

93 upvotes – 41 comments
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